Young Fresh Fellows

The Seattle greats are also reissuing their debut LP for its 40th anniversary.

Solid Sound 2024 happens June 28-30 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA and the lineup also includes Wednesday, Nick Lowe, Ratboys, Iris Dement, Hailu Mergia and more.

Members of The Seeds, The Chocolate Watchband, Love, R.E.M., The Cars & more are all playing this 50th anniversary tribute to Kaye’s classic psych comp ‘Nuggets‘

Wilco and Sleater-Kinney’s co-headlining tour begins in August.

Fugazi, Drive-by Truckers, Thurston Moore, Atmosphere, The Hold Steady, The Jayhawks, Jeff Tweedy, Dessa, Soul Asylum, Har Mar Superstar and more are contributing rare recordings to help raise money for iconic Minneapolis club First Avenue to help keep it afloat during COVID.

Seattle legends Young Fresh Fellows just released ‘Toxic Youth,’ their first album in eight years.

Today’s Bandcamp fundraiser includes new special/exclusive releases by Marissa Nadler, Animal Collective, Cloud Nothings, PUP, boygenius, Jason Isbell, Sonic Youth, Ride’s Andy Bell, Frankie Cosmos, and more…

Record Store Day 2020 in April 18 and they’ve just announced the list of exclusive titles that will be available at independent records stores that day…

This week: reviews of new albums from Sonny & The Sunsets, Unlikely Friends and Holiday Ghosts, plus new Slumberland band Jeanines, more Wannadies reissues, and a British synthpop comp.

Lots of R.E.M. songs were played, Colin Meloy, James Mercer and Scott himself (who’s on the road to recovery after a stroke in November).