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Bill Fay, the cult British singer-songwriter whose music was later championed by artists like Jeff Tweedy and Nick Cave, leading to a late-career resurgence, has died at the age of 81.

Dead Oceans — the record label that released Fay’s three most albums, which arrived decades after inactivity — confirmed the folk artist’s death on social media Saturday. No cause of death was provided.

“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Bill Fay, who died peacefully this morning in London, aged 81. Bill was a gentle man and a gentleman,...

Waxahatchee has shared a rousing new song, “Mud,” an outtake from the sessions for her stellar 2024 album, Tigers Blood. Stream it below.

Though the folksy instrumentation of “Mud” is lively, the lyrics dive into the difficulties of a complex relationship. “So if I call you up tomorrow,” she sings. “Screaming ‘I’m not the one’/ To be privy to your fiction/ Help you get your shit together/ I’m a fool in angel’s clothing.”

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Released in March 2024, Tigers Blood was named one of Consequence’s best albums of the year. This past December, Waxahatchee performed a handful of tracks from the LP during her second NPR Tiny Desk concert — including “Right Back to It,” one of the 200 best songs of 2024.

Waxahatchee will kick off more extensive touring behind Tigers Blood later this month, including a spring tour with Wilco and several dates on Willie Nelson...

FireAid, the double-venue concert event to raise funds for Los Angeles wildfire recovery efforts, will take place Thursday, January 30, 2025 at the Intuit Dome and Kia Forum in Inglewood, CA, capping a whirlwind effort to mount a response to the devastation caused by the Palisades and Eaton fires.

The concerts will feature performances by the likes of Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Olivia Rodrigo, Stevie Wonder, Peso Pluma, Dave Matthews, John Mayer, Joni Mitchell, No Doubt, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day and more.

The shows will be available via more than 25 broadcast partners worldwide. You can also stream it on Deadline below:

FireAid was originally announced January 16 and tickets went on sale less than a week later, with the Forum added as a venue due to response from both artists and fans. Tickets started at $99, with venue and service fees waived for the event as all proceeds go to FireAid relief efforts.

Hayley Williams, Finneas and St. Vincent and more stars are set to perform at an upcoming wildfire relief benefit concert,

G*ve A F*ck L.A., a benefit concert and auction for L.A. fire relief, is slated for Hollywood Palladium on Feb. 5. Hosted by John C. Reilly, the full list of artists and comedians includes Christopher Owens, Courtney Barnett, Finneas, Fred Armisen, Hayley Williams, Jenny Lewis, Juliette Lewis, Kevin Morby, Lucy Dacus, Muna, Perfume Genius, Phantom Planet, Reggie Watts, Rostam & Sasami, Scout Willis, St. Vincent, Symone, The Linda Lindas, along with special guests. Fat Tony and Harmony Tividad will open the show with DJ sets.

The show will be donating 100 percent net ticket proceeds to L.A. local organizations supporting those impacted by the fires, including Altadena Girls, Friends in Deed, One Voice and Pasadena Humane Society. All venue and ticketing service fees will be waived for the event,...

The music community is truly coming together for those affected by the Los Angeles fires. On Monday, Give a Fuck LA announced a star-studded lineup for “Benefit and Auction for LA Wildfire Relief” on Feb. 5, featuring performances by Hayley Williams, Lucy Dacus, Muna, and Finneas.

The Hollywood Palladium show is also set to feature appearances from Jenny Lewis, Christopher Owens, Fred Armisen, Courtney Barnett, St. Vincent, Kevin Morby, Reggie Watts, and Scout Willis. Symone, the Linda Lindas, and Rostam and Sasami are also featured on the lineup for the show,...

Kristen Stewart makes her recorded music debut with “Who Laughs Last?” a new collaboration with the L.A.-based band, Lord Huron.

Stewart drives the song with a spoken-word monologue delivered across several verses, her noir-ish tale of a long, searching, late-night drive floating over a propulsive groove. Stewart’s vocals are interrupted only when Lord Huron frontman Ben Schneider jumps in to deliver the wailing chorus, “I’m gonna leave that city far behind and get a long, long way from there/I’ve got a burning feeling deep...

Lord Huron have returned with their first new music since 2023: “Who Laughs Last?” a new song featuring Kristen Stewart. Additionally, the band has announced new 2025 tour dates.

Marking Stewart’s very first contribution to a musical recording, “Who Laughs Last?” opens with a dark, driving indie rock beat, followed by spoken-word lines delivered by the Twilight actor herself, building tension for the first two minutes of the song. Then, the arrangement erupts as frontman Ben Schneider enters on the chorus, singing about leaving a city far behind and wrestling with a “burning feeling deep inside.”

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The single arrives along with a music video starring Stewart as the song’s road-worn narrator, traversing a dark, surreal wasteland. Watch the video below.

Speaking about working with Stewart, Schneider said it was “the kind of collaboration you dream of, honestly.” Though he didn’t know Kristen personally prior,...

Green River Festival is returning to the Franklin County Fairgrounds in Greenfield, Massachusetts, from June 20th through June 22nd. After previously announcing a portion of the lineup — including headliners Mt. Joy, Courtney Barnett, and Waxahatchee — the music festival has now unveiled their full slate of artists.

In addition to the headliners listed above, Green River Festival will also feature indie rock favorites like Julien Baker and Torres, Mj Lenderman and the Wind, Kevin Morby, Illuminati Hotties, Merce Lemon, and more. Check out the full lineup for Green River Festival 2025, as well as the day-by-day breakdown, below.

Weekend passes for Green River Festival 2025 are on sale now via Tixr. Also available are camping and VIP add-ons, as well as parking passes. Single-day and two-day tickets go on sale Friday, January 17th.

This year’s edition will mark Green River Festival’s 39th year. As it nears four decades of existence, it...

Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams, and many other musicians will recreate Bob Dylan’s 1975 masterpiece Blood on the Tracks onstage at a 50th anniversary concert next month, joined by three of the album’s original musicians. The Jan. 24 tribute concert, Shelter From the Storm, is organized by the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and will take place in that city’s Cain’s Ballroom.

Actor Luke Wilson is set to host the evening, which will feature a complete performance of the album, plus other selections from Dylan’s catalog. The...

In the wake of Hurricane Helene, many musicians have used their platforms to try to deliver some much-needed relief. Some have donated money, others have announced benefit concerts — now, joining those efforts is a massive compilation album featuring 135 previously-unreleased tracks from artists like R.E.M., Jeff Tweedy & Karly Hartzman, Jason Isbell, Fleet Foxes, Waxahatchee, Sylvan Esso, and many more.

Titled Cardinals at the Window, the compilation was officially released today, and is now available to purchase on Bandcamp. Curated by three North Carolina natives — musician and community organizer Libby Rodenbough, New Commute founder David Walker, and music journalist Grayson Haver Currin — the album will raise funds for three organizations: Rural Organizing and Resilience, BeLoved Asheville, and the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina.

Across its 135 tracks, Cardinals at the Window features a combination of new recordings and previously-unreleased live tracks. In addition to the aforementioned artists, the compilation’s stacked lineup includes Mj Lenderman,...

Unreleased recordings by R.E.M., Mj Lenderman, the War on Drugs, Feist, Waxahatchee, and more than 100 other artists make up a newly released benefit compilation, Cardinals at the Window. Proceeds from the megacomp, available on Bandcamp, will help provide aid to victims of Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina.

Other artists who contributed tracks to Cardinals at the Window include Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Angel Olsen, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Sharon Van Etten, Jeff Tweedy and Karly Hartzman, Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, Sylvan Esso, Fleet Foxes, Little Brother,...

Sound Mind Music Festival for Mental Health returns to the streets of Brooklyn on May 18th, and Consequence is proud to be the event’s official media partner. The free fest, presented by music and mental health non-profit Sound Mind Live, will feature headlining performances from Kevin Morby and MisterWives, sets from Bailen and Shaed, and an afterparty with DJ White Shadow.

Taking over Jefferson Street (between Irving Ave and Wyckoff Ave) in Bushwick, the event kicks off at noon and will be much more than just a concert. Between indulging in food and drink provided by New York institution Smorgasburg, attendees will be able to partake in Sound Sessions focused on holistic mental health programming like yoga, mindfulness, and breathwork sessions.

Between sets, there will also be a series of mental health-focused panel discussions, including Mental Health in Communities of Color, Mental Health in the Music Industry, Mental Health...

Katie Crutchfield’s indie folk project Waxahatchee has announced a new album, Tigers Blood, out March 22nd via her new label home Anti-. Along with the news comes lead single “Right Back to It,” as well as a run of US tour dates in 2024.

Crutchfield wrote most of the songs on Tigers Blood during what she calls a “hot hand spell,” while on tour near the end of 2022. She reunited with producer Brad Cook, who also produced her 2020 album Saint Cloud, and welcomed onboard some new collaborators including Mj Lenderman and Spencer Tweedy. Pre-orders are ongoing.

“Right Back to It” sees Crutchfield lean into her country side, singing alongside an arpeggiated banjo jangle courtesy of Phil Cook as Lenderman joins her in harmony on the choruses. On it, Crutchfield reflects on maintaining a long-term romantic relationship, and the bittersweet beauty of building a partnership that can outlast your worries:...

Earlier this year, The National superfan, David Letterman, said that there is “nobody cooler” than the band’s frontman, Matt Berninger. Now, the two have come together for a 27-minute-long conversation, in which they discuss The National’s latest albums, Berninger’s creative process, shared experiences of depression, and more.

Arriving as both a podcast and a YouTube video, the chat begins with Letterman interviewing Berninger, but soon develops into a full-fledged conversation, with both men sharing stories from their respective time in the spotlight. Letterman talks a bit about seeing The National live this past year, and praises the band’s tightness. Then, the two discuss the band’s 2023 releases: First Two Pages of Frankenstein and Laugh Track.

Touching on the creative origin of those records, Berninger steered the conversation towards the depression he experienced during the pandemic, which has informed his recent writing. Relating to the experiences, Letterman...

Atlanta’s Shaky Knees Music Festival has revealed its 2024 lineup, featuring Foo Fighters, Noah Kahan, Weezer, and Queens of the Stone Age as headliners.

Other notable acts confirmed to play include Billy Idol, Interpol, The Offspring, Girl in Red, Dinosaur Jr., Portugal. the Man, Sunny Day Real Estate, Young the Giant, Yves Tumor, Metric, Miike Snow, Blondshell, Waxahatchee, Matt and Kim, The Revivalists, Men I Trust, Kevin Morby, Pond, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Holly Humberstone, Nova Twins, Del Water Gap, All Them Witches, Royel Otis, and more.

Single-day and three-day Ga and VIP passes to Shaky Knees 2024 go on sale beginning Thursday, November 30th at 10:00 a.m. local time via the festival’s website.

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Music lovers in South Carolina have High Water Festival to look forward to next spring. On Tuesday, the festival announced that Noah Kahan and Hozier will headline the festival hosted in Riverfront Park in North Charleston on April 20 and 21.

Among the artists set to perform are Fleet Foxes and Shovel & Rope on Saturday before Kahan’s closing set, and Grace Potter and the Flaming Lips prior to Hozier on Sunday. The Flaming Lips are set to perform their album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

The bill also includes Courtney Barnett,...

High Water Festival has revealed the lineup for its 2024 installment, including headliners Noah Kahan, Hozier, and The Flaming Lips at the top of the bill. The fest returns to Riverfront Park in North Charleston, South Carolina on April 20th and 21st.

Notably, The Flaming Lips’ High Water set will be a complete performance of their 2002 album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. Alongside event curators Shovels & Rope, other confirmed acts include Fleet Foxes, Grace Potter, Courtney Barnett, The Walkmen, Houndmouth, The Dip, Leyla McCalla, Olivia Jean, Al Olender, The Wallflowers, Briston Maroney, The Linda Lindas, Kevin Morby, The Heavy Heavy, Cut Worms, and Babe Club.

One-day and two-day passes to High Water Festival 2024 are available in General Admission, Ga+, VIP, and Platinum packages. Tickets open to the public on Thursday, October 26th at 12:00 p.m. Et via the festival website.

Earlier this month, Noah Kahan tapped Kacey Musgraves for a...

Talkhouse, a Webby-Award-winning first-person media company and outlet for musicians, actors, filmmakers, and others in their respective fields is thrilled to announce the expansion of its ongoing partnership with Backyard Ventures, a dynamic advertising company specializing in podcast marketing and partnerships. Building on their successful collaboration, Talkhouse and Backyard Ventures proudly introduce a new podcast from Brooklyn-based cook, writer, and author Alison Roman, titled Solicited Advice. The podcast is launching with distribution and revenue support from Talkhouse and Backyard Venture handling sales and brand partnerships.

Solicited Advice is set to join Talkhouse’s esteemed lineup of shows, offering a platform for genuine conversations on various topics. With Backyard Ventures leading the advertising efforts, this addition to the Talkhouse family is assured to resonate deeply with both creators and listeners.

The extension of the partnership with Backyard Ventures highlights Talkhouse’s dedication to providing high-quality content and innovative advertising solutions. Backyard...

Have you ever caught yourself wishing the pandemic never happened, and that all the amazing tours slated for 2020 were never canceled? Well, you might not be able to reverse time, but Nathaniel Rateliff will help make up for everything we missed out on. On Monday, August 7th, he announced that his “And It’s Still Alright Tour” — originally scheduled for 2020, but then canceled — is back on. Check out the full list of dates below, and grab your tickets here.

Rateliff originally announced the “And It’s Still Alright Tour” in 2019, in support of his acclaimed solo album, And It’s Still Alright. The tour was slated for nine-months and kicked off in Minneapolis on track, but nine days in, the pandemic forced Rateliff to call off the remainder of the dates. Now, Rateliff is set to relaunch the tour, this time with the help of opener Kevin Morby. Starting on November 1st,...

Nation of Language share new single ‘Too Much, Enough’ – the centrepiece of new album Strange Disciple out 15th September via [Pias], named as one of the most anticipated albums of the summer by Pitchfork.

In this new track, the band takes aim at the angering, addictive and anxiety-inducing TV news cycles that have so many viewers hopelessly devoted. ‘Too Much, Enough’ looks outward with an effect that is both immediate and irresistible. The chorus explodes like the revelation of a third eye opening, combining a ricocheting pattern of synths with an uninhibited bassline, leaping vocal melodies and an empathic call-and-response.

Simultaneously surreal and hyper present, ‘Too Much, Enough’ arrives with a music video starring Emmy-nominated actor Jimmi Simpson, fellow musicians Reggie Watts, Kevin Morby, Tomberlin, Moldy Peaches’ Adam Green, and Lvl Up’s Greg Rutkin, plus more than a dozen other close friends, familiar faces and even the hooded Strange Disciple itself.

Nation of Language aren’t the only folks disheartened by a news cycle that intersperses manufactured controversy with genuinely heart-wrenching headlines. Still, their latest single “Too Much, Enough” is a pretty good entry to the canon, urging us to unplug from the doom channels with an understated chorus of bubbling synths.

“‘Too Much, Enough’ is a song born out of an exhaustion with the 24 hour news cycle and the outrage bait it uses to get everyone permanently wound up,” Nation of Language said in a statement. “It seems the only way to find an edge in the media business is to appeal to our most base instincts of disgust, and we end up suffering both individually and collectively for it.”

Rather than lean into this darkness, however, the single’s music video goes for a classic gimmick: celebrities pretending to be news anchors. Directed by Robert Kolodny, the visual sees Reggie Watts,...

Woods have announced their new album Perennial, due September 15th on Woodsist, with the dual debut singles, “Between the Past” and “White Winter Melody.”

Recorded in the same Stinson Beach, California studio that yielded 2020’s Strange to Explain and produced by bandmates Jeremy Earl and Jarvis Taveniere, Perennial was partially inspired by Earl’s realization that “perennial plants and flowers are nature’s loops.” Along with Earl, Taveniere, and long-time members John Andrews and Kyle Forester, the album also features pedal steel work from Connor Gallaher. Pre-orders are ongoing.

Perennial boasts 11 tracks, led by the first two singles “Between the Past” and “White Winter Melody.” The paired release highlights the band’s mix of folk psychedelia and vocals-free constructions, with “White Winter Melody” representing one of the album’s four completely instrumental tracks. Stream both songs below.

Woods most recently released a deluxe edition of Strange to Explain in June 2021. Reflections Vol.

Kevin Morby hasn’t completely closed the door on This is a Photograph, the introspective seventh studio album he released last year. On it, he walked a thin line between autobiographical and fictional storytelling while exploring the way childhood memories change with age. But even those 12 songs weren’t enough for him to feel at peace with it all, so he’s going back for more on More Photographs (A Continuum), set for release on May 26.

“If This Is a Photograph is a house that you have been living inside of,...

What’s better than one Tim? Tim Heidecker has announced 2023 North American dates for his “Two Tims Tour,” in which he’ll perform music alongside his Very Good Band in addition to a comedy set featuring his “No More Bullshit” persona.

Dates for the “Two Tims Tour” kick off on July 28th in Monterey, California, before making stops in cities like San Diego, San Antonio, New York City, Columbus, Nashville, and many more. Things will wrap up on August 24th in Oklahoma City. Tickets are available via Ticketmaster or Heidecker’s website beginning this Friday, March 24th at 10:00 a.m. local.

These dates are an extension of Heidecker’s European tour leg, which he’s on right now. Check out his full tour schedule below.

Heidecker’s most recent album, High School, was released in 2022. His other antics as of late include starring as a nasty talent show host...

Wilco are heading back to Mexico this December for their Sky Blue Sky Festival. They’ve unveiled the full lineup for its 2023 iteration today, which includes Father John Misty, Sylvan Esso, and Lucinda Williams.

Wilco themselves, of course, are also featured on the lineup for Sky Blue Sky 2023, where they’ll play three shows throughout the four-day festival at the Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya. Other notable names on the poster include Waxahatchee, Kevin Morby, Built to Spill, Bartees Strange, and Cate Le Bon, as well as a solo set from Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy.

“Sky Blue Sky is something we feel lucky we get to do, and look forward to every time we put one together,” Tweedy writes in a press release. “We love sharing music with our friends, and we love getting together with everyone in the sun. It’s nice to step out from under the clouds every now and then.

Musician Ben Kweller is mourning the death of his son.

He announced on Instagram Tuesday that his 16-year-old son Dorian Zev Kweller was killed the night before.

Kweller began his post, “There’s no way that I can be typing this but I am…. Our son, Dorian Zev Kweller, was killed last night.”

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“He was only 16 and he was a true legend. Kindest, gentle soul, a friend to all. If you knew him, you know. We’ll never get over him as long as we’re here on earth,” he continued.

The 41-year-old then asked for fans to keep his memory alive by sharing Dorian’s music. The teenager was an aspiring songwriter like his father and was beginning his journey, according to the post.

The latest offering from Kevin Morby’s This Is a Photograph is the beautiful music video for “Bittersweet, Tn,” the singer’s solemn duet with Tennessee singer-songwriter Erin Rae. Filmed outside of Nashville, the video finds Rae and Morby separately wandering a variety of landscapes.

Watching the bucolic video, there would be no way to know that the video had been interrupted by a nearby shooting scare.

“I generally don’t like making music videos, but I was really enjoying this one,” Morby tells Rolling Stone. “Suddenly, though, a helicopter started circling over us…...

End Of The Road is a festival that keeps its promises. The cultured leftfield shindig – where croquet tournaments break out in forest glades and peacocks roam the trimmed lawns of Dorset’s Larmer Tree Gardens, unbothered by the experimental folk, rock, rap and electronic tomfoolery floating across the site – has been promising a weekend headlined by indie giants Pixies and Bright Eyes since 2020. Covid scuppered that event, and post-pandemic travel issues forced the 2021 bill to become more UK-based. But this year, Eotr puts its music where its mouth is at last, with plenty more curveballs thrown in to keep this crowd of discerning alternative music fans pleasingly off-balance.

The opening Thursday night bill is a brain-rattling case in point. On the main Woods Stage, LA’s Sudan Archives sets out to invent jig-hop, interspersing psychosexual ambient raps with ruined snippets of Irish folk played on the fiddle she brandishes throughout.

Rhett Miller finds himself pleasantly surprised by his contentment in “Follow You Home,” the first offering from the Old 97’s frontman’s first solo album in four years. Titled The Misfit, the project will be released via Ato Records on Sept. 16.

With shades of Fleetwood Mac and dream-pop, the buoyant “Follow You Home” is anchored by its upbeat rhythm and sunny splashes of electric guitar. “Tried living in the moment, but I was living in a dream,” Miller sings, lamenting the random, unpredictable nature of existence. In the end, he...

Kevin Morby offered audiences a taste of his latest album with a high-octane performance of “This Is a Photograph” on Wednesday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!.

Backed by a full band and a trio of backup singers, Morby emphasizes the track’s slow-burning dynamics, skillfully layering different sonic elements — a jaunty guitar riff, the gentle shake of a maraca, an unobtrusive bass line — until the performance explodes into a frenetic, urgent crescendo. “This is what I’ll miss after I die,” he exclaims during a chant-like refrain. “And this...

Ohana Fest is adding a second weekend of music at the beach this October. On Monday, Eddie Vedder’s music festival announced that it will be extending itself to a second “Ohana Encore” weekend with Vedder headlining, alongside Alanis Morissette on day one and the Black Keys and Haim on day two.

The second Doheny State Beach music weekend will also see the likes of the Roots, Julieta Venegas, the Front Bottoms, Amos Lee, and Marcus King on Oct. 8 and artists such as Band of Horses, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Afghan Whigs,...

There’s something strange about Memphis. Nestled along the muddy waters of the Mississippi River, the city lies shrouded in an aura of perpetual gloom, its skyline dominated by a mammoth, metal-clad pyramid filled not with treasures, but a Bass Pro Shop superstore. Unable to escape its murky past — yellow fever, massacres and assassinations, untimely demises — the city remains burdened by the stench of death lingering in the hot, humid air.

It’s not the happiest place on earth, but it does make an ideal locale to ruminate on mortality.

Eddie Vedder will take the stage at his sixth annual Ohana Festival, which will also feature performances from Stevie Nicks, Jack White, Pink, and more.

The festival — which Vedder founded in 2016 — will return to Doheny State Beach in Dana Point, California, this year, Sept. 30 through Oct. 2. Nicks will headline day one, with additional performances from artists like Khruangbin, Brittany Howard, the Revivalists, Gang of Youths, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, and Kolohe Kai.

Day two will feature Vedder and White, along with the likes of Billy Strings, Manchester Orchestra,...

Kevin Morby tackles his inner demons and fear of failure on “Rock Bottom,” the newest offering from the singer-songwriter’s upcoming album, This Is a Photograph, out May 13 via Dead Oceans.

“Rock Bottom” is accompanied by a campy video — which the singer describes as an “ice cream-themed nunchucking Western” — directed by frequent Morby collaborator Johnny Eastlund and featuring appearances by comedian Tim Heidecker and artist Ariel Kellogg. It follows Morby and Kellogg as they set out across Los Angeles, nunchucks in tow, to face a sinister talent agent in a delightfully silly no-holds-barred beatdown.

In January 2020, songwriter Kevin Morby witnessed his father collapse from a medical event while visiting his childhood home in Kansas. In a state of shock, the singer spent the evening looking at old family photos and fixated on an image of his father as a young man, looking, as Morby states, “full of confidence.” The experience forced Morby to confront both the idea of mortality and the passage of time — and, after an extended sojourn in Tennessee, these reflections came together in the form of his upcoming album, This Is a Photograph,...

Cal (Owen Teague) arrives on a large Montana spread, his long face and hesitant gait foretelling what his father’s large wooden, picturesque home holds. When he enters, an overbearing beeping sound arises, and a kind-spoken Kenyan nurse named Ace (Gilbert Owuor) greets him. Cal’s father had a stroke. He’s now lying in the living room in a permanent coma attached to life support. The ranch isn’t in much better shape: A lapsed mortgage, no cattle, a 25-year-old stallion on its last legs, and a few chickens account for what remains.

Cal tries to shoulder the burden alone until his estranged sister Erin (a profound Haley Lu Richardson) makes an unannounced appearance. The pair haven’t spoken for seven years. Back then, Erin outed their father in the school paper as a lawyer covering up a toxic mess at a local mine. Their father attacked her, beating her nearly to death,...

Nathaniel Rateliff has previewed his forthcoming album Red Rocks 2020 with a live music video for “All or Nothing.” The clip was shot at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre during the pandemic, where Rateliff performed for 125 fans in the 9400-capacity venue.

Red Rocks 2020 is set for release on July 16 via Stax Records and includes 18 tracks performed live at Red Rocks during Rateliff’s series of socially-distanced shows. The album is available for pre-order here.

Red Rocks 2020 features a range of music from Rateliff’s career, including several tracks from And It...

The Weather Station performed three tracks off their acclaimed new album Ignorance for CBS This Morning’s latest “Saturday Sessions.”

For the virtual performance, Toronto singer-songwriter Tamara Lindeman — who has recorded under the Weather Station moniker for over a decade — and her well-dressed, masked band delivered “Parking Lot,” “Loss” and “Tried to Tell You” from Ignorance, which was informed largely by Lindeman’s concerns about climate change; the latter track hones in on global warming.

Lindeman previously said in a statement, “I feel like I spend half my life working on trying to stay positive.

Indie artists Waxahatchee and Kevin Morby performed four songs together for the latest installment of CBS This Morning’s Saturday Sessions.

For the mini-set, Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield delivered her Saint Cloud cuts “Fire” and “Lilacs” — which she also recently played on Jimmy Kimmel Live — alongside Morby, who fronted the group for his “Campfire” and “Sundowner,” the title track from his 2020 LP.

As revealed in a recent Rolling Stone Year in Music interview, Crutchfield and Morby are also partners, with the pair recently relocating to Morby’s native Kansas City.

Katie Crutchfield has been making music full of beautifully expressed emotional turbulence since her teens, picking up rave reviews and new fans with each release. Before recording Saint Cloud, her fifth album as Waxahatchee, the Alabama-raised musician made some big changes in her life, giving up drinking and moving to Kansas City, where she now lives with her partner, Kevin Morby. She also took a major leap forward in her songwriting, which rings out with a new clarity on Saint Cloud — an album with no skips, just 11 tender country-rock songs...

Fleet Foxes have released a new visual for “I’m Not My Season,” a track from their latest album Shore.

The video was filmed at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn (the same location as the band’s recent Colbert performance with the Resistance Revival Chorus) and was directed by Sean Pecknold, a long-time Fleet Foxes collaborator and brother to frontman Robin Pecknold.

Fleet Foxes released Shore, their fourth album, in September, following their 2017 LP Crack-Up. The album features contributions from Kevin Morby and Grizzly Bear members Christopher Bear and Daniel Rossen.

So, How Was Your 2020? is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December.

2020 found the Old 97’s making a new album under conditions that encapsulated this disastrous year: Recording in Nashville amid a devastating tornado and on the precipice of a deadly pandemic. The resulting LP was Twelfth, released this summer, but frontman Rhett Miller still found time to do things in quarantine, like hosting his Wheels Off podcast,...

Fleet Foxes’ rustic neo-folk music and skybound harmonies loomed large over indie-ish rock in the early 2010s, not unlike the way Arcade Fire touched the mid-2000s or Pavement shaped the Nineties. Their last album, 2017’s correctly titled Crack-Up, was a stranger listen than usual for them, proggily ambitious and often opaquely sprawling. With Shore, their newly released fourth album, they’ve wandered back to the campfire, except only now it’s a world on fire: “We’re a long way from the past/I’ll be better off in a year in two,...

Beck, Jeff Tweedy and Phoebe Bridgers were among the artists to participate in a Daniel Johnston tribute that aired Friday, September 11th on the website of Electric Lady Studios and Johnston’s new YouTube page. Friday marked the one-year anniversary of Johnston’s death.

The tribute is titled, “Honey I Sure Miss You” — after a Johnston song of the same name — and it will feature a stacked lineup of artists who have submitted pre-recorded performances of their favorite Johnston songs. Joining Beck (“True Love Will Find You in the End...

Justin Sullivan has spent the better part of two decades as a touring drummer for a variety of indie bands, and as a member of Flat Worms and the Babies alongside Kevin Morby and Cassie Ramone. He stepped out into the spotlight in 2018 with In the Break, his solo debut under the name Night Shop. Now Sullivan returns with “In the Twilight Sun,” a slow-burning duet with Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield that’s one of the year’s most charming indie singles.

The track opens with a soulful groove, assisted...

Kevin Morby has shared “Campfire,” the first offering from his new album Sundowner, out October 16th via Dead Oceans.

Directed by Johnny Eastlund and Dylan Isbell, the video features Morby at Castle Rock in Kansas — playing guitar and surrounded by limestone. He meets up with his partner, Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee, who drives off in an old Ford pickup, with Morby riding in the truck bed. “Now that it’s dusk, kids scatter the avenue,” he sings. “Hey, who are you? I’m a sundowner too.”

Morby wrote Sundowner after...

The War on Drugs, Waxahatchee, Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, members of Grizzly Bear and more will partake in the Vote Ready livestream concert/voter registration drive, August 14th starting at 7 p.m. Et.

The free virtual concert was put together by the voter registration group HeadCount and Fort William Artist Management and will be part of the Live From Out There livestream series. The show will feature original, self-recorded and socially distanced performances, and those that want to attend can secure a free eTicket simply by verifying their voter registration...

With the coronavirus continuing to force artists to cancel or postpone tours and festivals, many have taken their shows to social media — livestreaming from the comforts of their homes and offering fans a glimpse of their lives. From Brian Wilson to Diplo, here are the best performances so far of the stay-at-home era. Click through and find something to pass all the hours you’ll have to spend inside for the good of yourself and others.

Neil Young

When Neil Young streamed a performance of the digital rally for Bernie Sanders earlier in the week,...

Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield overlooks the Mississippi River in the new video for “Fire,” the first single from her upcoming LP Saint Cloud, out March 27th via Merge Records.

“That’s what I wanted,” she sings in the clip, walking across the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge in the blinding sunlight. “It’s not as if we cry a river, call it rain/West Memphis is on fire in the light of day.”

Crutchfield came up with the Americana slow-burner when she and her partner, musician Kevin Morby, were driving over that...

Katie Crutchfield recently read a diary entry from when she was 17 years old. “It was actually really sad,” she says. “I talked about how I wanted to quit drinking, and that was so long ago.”

It’s 11 a.m., but Crutchfield, who performs under the name Waxahatchee, is still in her pajamas, sitting in her twin sister Allison’s backyard in Los Angeles. Now 30 years old, she’s been sober for a year and a half. “I really feel like I came back to the person I was before I started drinking,...