Jeremy Gara

The Vermont edition includes Real Estate, Dan Deacon, !!! (Chk Chk Chk), Pond, Frankie Cosmos, Big Thief and more; Detroit's Waking Windows has Car Seat Headrest, Whitney, Priests, Mount Eerie, Julie Byrne, Deradoorian and more.

Norwegian improvisational-free-jazz-electronic heavy hitters Supersilent have been defying expectations for 20 years of radical experimentation.

So far Arcade Fire only have European spring/summer festivals announced, but drummer Jeremy Gara says a world tour may start in April and the new album "should be out this year."

Knoxville, TN's unique Big Ears Festival returns March 23-26, and today the fest is revealing new additions to the lineup. Wilco were already announced, but also frontman Jeff Tweedy will do an improv set with Chikamorachi (aka Chris Corsano and Darin Gray)...

Basia Bulat and Arcade Fire drummer Jeremy Gara also play on the LP which is out in February.

"This unseen sparrow kept following me around the day I fell into working on this one - it kept singing the same three notes of a chord over everything that was happening so it eventually haunted the song."

As you may know, Arcade Fire members have been focusing on side projects lately and drummer Jeremy Gara has two. One is backing Arcade Fire's Tim Kingsbury (also with Basia Bulat in the band), though most details on that one are still TBA, and he also put out his self-produced solo debut album …

Another week, another batch of records to grace our ears. The 1975 aren't on this list (and they wouldn't have been regardless), but you can head HERE if you want to read my thoughts on their record...

photo: Gara w/ Arcade Fire at Barclays Center, 2014 (more by Dana Yavin)

Arcade Fire violinist Sarah Neufeld announced that her second solo album, The Ridge, will be released on February 26 via Paper Bag and shared the album's title track, which features her Arcade Fire bandmate Jeremy Gara...