[Variety] By Chris Willman With Tift Merritt revealing that she has an album of new material on the way after nine years without one, fans may have an instinctual reaction to the fact that it’s titled “Sugar,” as if to say, of course — because they’ve had a sweet tooth for what she has to offer that has gone unsatisfied ...

[Brooklyn Vegan] Robyn Hitchcock has announced a new album, The Confuser, which will be out July 24 on Tiny Ghost Records. Depending on how and what you count, this is around his 23rd long-player and features Jeremy Fetzer (guitar), Todd Bolden (bass), and Eric Slick (drums), plus Robyn’s old Soft Boys bandmate Kimberly Rew. “Can you recall ...

[Rolling Stone] Straight out of Austin, Texas, this punk band is playing loud, winning fans, and opening for Foo Fighters this summer By Andy Greene When the e-mail came in from their management last year telling them they were opening for the Foo Fighters, Die Spitz drummer Chloe de St. Aubin started screaming. She was seated next to her ...

[Pollstar] Dina DuskoHigh Road Touring | Agent ONE-DAY BEST SELLER | Her Memoir, “Why Am I Still Talking?: The Dina Dusko Story,” remains unwritten and unlikely to be published. Described as a New Jersey native but full-time Californian working out of High Road Touring’s Sausalito office just north of San Francisco, agent Dina Dusko represents artists ...

[WBEZ Chicago] Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy interviewed the 79-year-old icon in a wide ranging conversation on the occasion of her new memoir, ‘Bread of Angels.’ By  Cassie Walker Burke Few wordsmiths in the American cultural canon can bend genres like Patti Smith, the artfully rebellious rocker, poet and author who, at 79, seems destined to keep ...