It’s going to be a big year for Lucinda Williams. In a few weeks, she’s releasing a new memoir, Don’t Tell Anybody The Secrets I Told You, and she’s just announced a new full-length album, Stories From A Rock N Roll Heart, which will be out in June. It’s her follow-up to 2020’s Good Sou...

At the very beginning of 2022, Wilco staged their first edition of Sky Blue Sky, their Cancun destination festival, since the beginning of the pandemic. There were complications. Amidst a new wave of COVID variants, many fans were mad that Wilco didn’t offer a refund option, and Wilco’s rep had to make a statement that the ba...

Roots icon Lucinda Williams has announced a new memoir coming out next spring. Titled Don’t Tell Anybody The Secrets I Told You, Williams’ book will be out April 25 and will look back at her childhood (she lived in 12 different places by the age of 18). She’ll also recount her rise to fame and the recording of landm...

Two years ago, the great Texan outlaw country singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver died of a stroke at the age of 81. This fall, we’re getting a new tribute album called Live Forever: A Tribute To Billy Joe Shaver, and it’ll feature people like George Strait, Margo Price, Steve Earle, and Amanda Shires covering Shaver&#8217...

We at Stereogum haven’t kept close tabs on the Tallest Man On Earth lately, but one good way to recapture my attention is by recording a Yo La Tengo classic. That’s just what Kristian Matsson has done. As part of a recent series of covers that also includes songs by Lucinda Williams and Håkan Hellström, the new ANTI signee ...