Simon Joyner

UK festival End of the Road happens August 31 – September 3 at Larmer Tree Gardens in Dorset and the 2023 lineup also includes Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Future Islands, High Vis, Overmono, and more.

‘Join the Ritual’ celebrates indie label Jagjaguwar’s 25th anniversary and also features Angel Olsen covering Smog, The Besnard Lakes covering Slint, Pink Mountaintops covering Teenage Fanclub and more.

From Elliott Smith to Thin Lizzy, and John Prine to Lucinda Williams, here are fifteen times Bright Eyes took on songs by legendary musicians.

Dennis Callaci, of band Refrigerator and Shrimper Records, will release his third solo album, The Dead of the Day, on February 14…

Dennis Callaci has run Shrimper Records since 1990, releasing records over the last 27 years by the likes of The Folk Implosion, The Mountain Goats, Herman Dune, Simon Joyner, God is My Co-Pilot, Nothing Painted Blue and more. He has also fronted the band Refrigerator for most of that time who are set to release their 11th album, High Desert Lows…

Conor Oberst is touring in support of his recent stripped-down solo album

The initial list of 2016 Cassette Store Day releases also include an Elliott Smith tribute, a Sire Records compilation on Burger Records, Xiu Xiu’s ‘Plays the Music of Twin Peaks’ and more.

Nebraska’s annual music festival Lincoln Calling has announced its 2016 lineup. The festival is October 6-8, and headliners include Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires, Real Estate, Kali Uchis and Cloud Nothings. Other artists performing at the festival are Twin Peaks, Ceremony, and Screaming Females. Along with music, the festival has comedy performances from Adam Cayton-Holland, Timmy […]

There’s already insane demand for the three Chicago shows that surviving Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann are reuniting for, so perhaps some of that excitement will carry over into this Jerry Garcia tribute happening two months earlier in Maryl…

A folk contemporary of John Darnielle, Will Oldham, and Smog, and seen by some as the forefather of the Omaha scene that spawned Bright Eyes and others, Simon Joyner has been making records since the early ’90s…