Dean Wareham

This new single also marks the first time Dean Wareham has worked with Kramer since Galaxie 500.

The Other Music documentary is streaming this weekend (April 17-20) to help support independent record stores and movie theaters hurt by COVID-19 closures.

Plus: Luna have West Coast dates in February.

The tribute also includes Silver Jews/Purple Mountains covers by Pete Astor (The Loft), Robert Scott (The Bats), Jad Fair, Business of Dreams, Kyle Forster (who played on the Purple Mountains album), Jeremy Jay, Diane Cluck, Daisies, Holy Wave, Caged Animals, Bill Baird, and more.

Bob Stanley (Saint Etienne), Wendy Smith (Prefab Sprout), Cosey Fanni Tutti, Midge Ure, Holly Herndon, Kelly Lee Owens, Zola jesus & more have also paid tribute.

Plus: watch the video for "The Bend in the River" from the Luna frontman's collaborative album with Cheval Sombre.

It's in celebration of The Velvet Underground Experience exhibition which opens October 10 in NYC. There are also playlists by Julian Casablancas, Robyn Hitchcock, Dean Wareham, and more.

Our September 2018 playlist includes new tracks by Brockhampton, Yves Tumor, Low, Julia Holter, Robyn, Noname, Joey Purp, Lana Del Rey, Cat Power, Yaeji, Little Simz, IDLES, Adrianne Lenker, Sandro Perri, and more.

Dean and Cheval's cover of Blaze Foley's "If I Could Only Fly" is one of the "western dreampop" covers on their new collaborative album.

This week: another Fall reissue, Luna's Dean Wareham teams with Cheval Sombre for an album of "western dreampop," JEFF the Brotherhood entirely reinvent themselves on their new LP, plus new singles from Swiss duo Klaus Johann Grobe and L.A. punks Flat Worms.