The Shaggs

This year's lineup features Television, Kurt Vile, The Shaggs, Big Thief, Robert Glasper and, of course Wilco. And much more.

This year's lineup includes Kurt Vile, Television, Robert Glasper, The Shaggs (!!!), and more.

The outsider art cult classic will be out on vinyl and CD with liner notes by Lenny Kaye.

This year's RSD exclusives include David Bowie picture discs, a vinyl pressing of the famed 'C-86' comp, the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack, and lots, lots, lots, more.

Cult / outsider art legends The Shaggs, who were together from 1968 - 1975, rarely played outside of their hometown of Freemont, New Hampshire, and those shows were attended mostly (totally) by locals...

The Shaggs' sole album, Philosophy of the World, is perhaps the quintessential outsider art record with a backstory as interesting as the music itself (which spawned a stage musical ten years ago)...

Via Buzzfeed & Laughing Squid, comes this handwritten list Kurt Cobain made, as published in Journals in 2002. Read the whole thing typed, below...

Jeffrey Lewis @ Space Ducks party (more by Greg Cristman)

Jeffrey Lewis, who is on tour and opened for Pulp on April 11th, was added as the special guest to the Gary Lucas show happening at Joe's Pub on April 17...

"The band is primarily notable today for their perceived ineptitude at playing conventional rock music; the band was described in one Rolling Stone article as "...