The Knoxville, TN-based Big Ears Festival has announced its initial 2023 lineup. It’ll be the 10th iteration of the event, which started back in 2009 and had a few years off in between. Performers this time around include the Mountain Goats, Grouper, Kevin Morby, Iron & Wine, Andrew Bird, Charles Lloyd, Christian McBride, and ...

Roberto Carlos Lange, aka Helado Negro, has signed to the storied indie label 4AD following an accomplished decade-plus discography with Sufjan Stevens' Asthmatic Kitty label and RVNGIntl -- most recently, 2019's great This Is How You Smile and this past summer's Kite Symphony EP, a collaboration with visual artist Kristi Sword crafted in Lange'...

Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of Daniel Johnston's death. As a tribute to the beloved outsider singer-songwriter, New York's Electric Lady Studios organized Honey I Sure Miss You, a tribute concert featuring Phoebe Bridgers, Waxahatchee, Jeff Tweedy, Beck, Devendra Banhart, the Lemon Twigs, Kevin Morby, Fontaines D.C., and more covering...

Last year, the veteran psychedelic folk sprite Devendra Banhart released an album called Ma, which does not have anything to do with Octavia Spencer befriending hard-partying teenagers. Since then, Banhart had assisted on the Mykki Blanco single "You Will Find It" and covered T. Rex's "Scenesof." Today, Banhart announced his intention to release...

Before he died of COVID-19 last month, the longtime Saturday Night Live music producer Hal Willner was working on putting together a tribute compilation dedicated to the songs of Marc Bolan and T. Rex. This fall, that album, entitled AngelHeaded Hipster will finally come out. It's set to feature a strange, fascinating collection of artists:&...