American Football

This week's stacked Notable Releases include Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Phoebe Bridgers, Owen, Teyana Taylor, Bad Cop/Bad Cop, Protest The Hero, and still more. Some of these albums help support Bandcamp's Juneteenth fundraiser...

Mike Kinsella's first Owen album in four years comes out in June.

The American Football frontman has announced his first Owen album in four years, and like his last one, it was produced by Bon Iver's S. Carey.

Tributes have also come in from Jean Michel Jarre, Midge Ure (Ultravox), the Safdie Brothers, Orbital, The Orb, Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet), Lloyd Cole, Geoff Rickly (Thursday), Kid Congo Powers, Junior Boys, JD Samson, and many more.

It just launched and also features Matty talking to Conor Oberst, Steve Reich, Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie...

American Football's ”Stay Home” continues to be an anthem for the mass quarantine, and the band have now done a socially distanced 2020 reprise of the classic 1999 song.

With physical spaces closed at the moment due to the coronavirus pandemic, the time of virtual events that you can attend from your home is officially upon is, including festivals inside sandbox game Minecraft.

We've been asking artists to make playlists of the music they've been listening to in isolation, so of course we had to ask American Football, whose ”Stay Home” has sort of become an anthem for the mass quarantine...

This week on BrooklynVegan Blog Radio: our year-end edition.

Our picks for the 50 best albums of the year, including Sharon Van Etten, Weyes Blood, Nick Cave, Thom Yorke, Danny Brown, Blood Incantation, Little Simz, and more...