Chris Funk

Stephen Malkmus & Trad Tech, his psych-folk band with The Decemberists’ Chris Funk and others, made their live debut in Portland just ahead of Wilco’s Sky Blue Sky festival...

Plus Jason Isbell, Bright Eyes, Kathleen Hanna, Angel Olsen, Animal Collective, Puscifer, The Lemonheads, H.E.R., Bartees Strange, Japanese Breakfast, Phoebe Bridgers, Nothing, Teenage Halloween, and more livestreams you can watch this week since there are no live concerts to attend.

"We figured now, with a constitutional crisis looming, a viral pandemic spreading, and a global climate rapidly becoming uninhabitable, this would be a perfect time to wade through those recordings and pick the very best ones to release upon an unsuspecting world." - Colin Meloy.

plus Billy Bragg, Coldplay, Pussy Riot, Touche Amore, Wilco, The Beths, Beach Slang, and more livestreams you can watch today since there are no live concerts to attend.

Stephen Malkmus' new "stoner folk" album Traditional Techniques is out this week.

Malkmus' new "folkie" LP Traditional Techniques is out in March and you can get tickets early for the NYC stop on the tour with the BrooklynVegan presale that runs from noon Wednesday through 10 PM Thursday.

”We're messing with these kind of boomery, '60s tropes - all acoustic guitars, almost all dudes with moustaches.” - Malkmus on the new album ’Traditional Techniques.’

Pro-shot video released of Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes), Eric D. Johnson (Fruit Bats), James Mercer (The Shins), Chris Funk (The Decemberists), Jason Isbell, John Stirratt (Wilco), Benmont Tench (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), and Janet Weiss (Quasi, ex-Sleater-Kinney) covering the song at Newport Folk Fest with ”Judy Blue Eyes” herself.

Lots of R.E.M. songs were played, Colin Meloy, James Mercer and Scott himself (who's on the road to recovery after a stroke in November).

Offa Rex's tour continues at NJ's XPoNential Fest on Friday (7/28) and Newport Folk Fest on Saturday. Before they leave the East Coast, Olivia plays a solo show at NYC's Joe's Pub in August.