the microphones

Plus Willie Nelson, serpentwithfeet, Waxahatchee, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wardruna, and more livestreams you can watch this week since there are no live concerts to attend.

”The record happened in a little dream, consisting of traveling half a day to meet your friends, catch a handful of waves, set up recording equipment, show them the songs, press record, jam, go for a midnight skate,” Lee said.

Plus Charli XCX, CHAI, Whitney, Devendra Banhart, Buck Meek, serpentwithfeet, Dam-Funk, Nathaniel Rateliff, Arlo Parks, and more.

Laura is performing the album in full on a BrooklynVegan-presented livestream this Saturday.

From Run The Jewels to Fiona Apple to Hum to Bartees Strange to Napalm Death to Mary Lattimore, here are our favorite albums of this whirlwind year...

”IT'S NOT ALL GONNA FIT ONTO THIS LIST... TEENAGE HALLOWEEN? CLASSICS OF LOVE?! THAT FUCKING GULCH RECORD?!?!?!?!?!!?”

One day after Pitchfork published their list of the top 100 songs of 2020, they've shared their list of the 50 best albums of the year...

”It can work in conjunction with the album, a libretto, and it can also work as just a book of images with no story, an abundance of beautiful light, an 'art book,'“ Phil says.

From legendary lifers like Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Bill Fay to great newer artists like Phoebe Bridgers, Waxahatchee, Jason Isbell, and Bonny Light Horseman, here are 20 folk albums we love from this year so far...

With concerts as we know them still cancelled, relive this awesome early/mid 2000s footage of Arcade Fire, The National, Bloc Party, The Shins, Modest Mouse, Death Cab, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and more...