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The Folk Implosion, the storied duo of Dinosaur Jr./Sebadoh indie legend Lou Barlow and his penpal John Davis, effectively broke up in 2000, though Barlow kept it going as a solo thing for a few years. Barlow and Davis got back together in the pandemic days of 2021. In 2022,  » Read More

Dan Wriggins leads the band Friendship — their most recent album Love The Stranger, was our Album Of The Week when it came out — and he puts out music on his own. He’s also a poet, and he recently got an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers Workshop.  » Read More

For a while now, the Oakland-based musician Taylor Vick has put out music as Boy Scouts. Her most recent album, Wayfinder, came out in 2021. Today, Vick has switched to using her own name for her releases, and she’s sharing a new single, “Place That I Believe From.”  » Read More

Morgan Wallen is opening a bar in Nashville over Memorial Day Weekend, but his name will not be up in lights as is typical for musician-owned bars downtown. As local news station ABC 9 reports, the Nashville Metro Council denied Wallen’s proposed sign outside of his establishment in a meeting on Tuesday night.  » Read More

In retrospect, the entire idea of a Sufjan Stevens Broadway musical feels both far-fetched and inevitable. Last year, director/choreographer Justin Peck and playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Illinoise, an adaptation of Stevens’ 2005 classic Illinois, opened in Chicago. Last month, Illinoise came to New York.  » Read More

The Austin folk-rocker Carson McHone has a new covers EP on the way. ODES arrives in July via Merge with renditions of McHone favorites by Margo Guryan, Conway Twitty, and MC5, as well as today’s lead single “I Couldn’t Say It To Your Face,” an Arthur Russell selection that McHone has done wondrous things with.  » Read More

Last month, Chris Keating, former co-leader of the much-loved Brooklyn band Yeasayer, did a Stereogum interview and announced his first proper solo release. Keating recorded the new EP PolyDukes with producer Elias Abid, who’s previously worked with people like CHAI and Smino. The EP only has two tracks.  » Read More

The single, featuring Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman and MJ Lenderman, leads the Boston band’s fourth full-length LP  » Read More

An anonymous woman claimed that Neil Portnow assaulted her in 2018. She asked for her lawsuit to be dismissed due to concerns about her privacy, safety, and well-being.  » Read More