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September 24, 2026
Scott Foley, purveyor of dust
Every week we take account of what's been added to A Routes & Branches Guide To Feeding Your Monster, our constantly updated guide to feeding your monster. Eric Slick is best known as a longtime member of Deer Tick. He describes Bounce House as a chaotic, technicolor fever dream (Slick, Mar 5). Founding Felice Brother, James Felice, announces his second solo effort. Homeworld Blue arrives November 13 via Conor Oberst's Million Stars label. Brody Price says that the mantra for Leaf Miner's Daughter was Things fall apart and then I keep them around. Consider us curious (Gar Hole, Nov 13). Lydia Loveless' next project will be an EP. Bloodshot will present Accolades EP on October 30. Consider us curious again. Finally, Tender Things has been dropping singles for several months. Now they've set October 15 as the debut of Is a Nasty Band (Spaceflight).
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Allison Russell is fresh off the July issue of her In the Hour Of Chaos. And appearing as Persephone in Hadestown. And practicing her clarinet real good. Grateful Web catches Russell on a spare moment, for an interview in which she expands upon the idea that feeling good is a radical act. ^
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Australia's Dylan Young performs as Way Dynamic. The act's 2025 Massive Shoe has been reissued by the Jagjaguwar label. The Guardian sits down with Young, chatting about enrolling in the school of YouTube, beginning work on his next project, and the best music to play for cleaning your house.
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Friday marks the release of Julia Jacklin's new The Gem on the 4AD label. Paste offers a Q&A with the songwriter, grilling her about the pressure to party, the wisdom of matching tattoos, and the assumption that the longer you do it, the more successful you get (we wish).
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Were you aware that Crack Magazine is a thing? Aoife Anson-O'Connell from Westside Cowboy is way ahead of us. She has penned a piece about her appreciation for Sufjan Stevens. Is this our second mention of Stevens in the past seven days? Yes. Yes, it is.
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We mention Brody Price's forthcoming record up there in our Routes & Branches Guide To Feeding Your Monster thing. Twangville digs for the dirt, grilling the hard-working musician about touring in a Subaru, working at an east Austin sawmill, and how building your livelihood around music-related income sucks.
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We spend so much time tracking new and forthcoming releases. Nevertheless, we were unaware that Billy Allen + the Pollies had released Live At Muscle Shoals Sound earlier this month. We also missed NPR's chat with Allen about the project. God knows what else we might be allowing to pass beneath our increasingly patchy music dam.
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Spoiler: We've placed a bookmark in Waylon Payne's excellent Wayward album to revisit it for our year-end favorites list. Americana Highways catches up to the songwriter about his fondness for Amy Grant's Lead Me On record (!). Also Bobbie Gentry's Patchwork. But we were mostly curious about the Amy Grant thing.
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Fruition is calling it quits after eighteen years and eight records. But not before one final tour (and an interview with Bluegrass Situation). Oh, says Jay Cobb Anderson: Just because we aren't touring doesn't mean we won't play together again. In fact, I highly doubt we'll never play again. We might even put out another record but not tour on it ... So apparently not calling it quits for reals.
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Bassman Freddy Trujillo has served with both Richmond Fontaine and the Delines, so it's the least we can do to pay him some attention as a solo artist. His Ave Trujillo alights upon virtual shelves tomorrow, as noted by Glide's preview/interview. The record features several of his former and current bandmates, and is built around his fondness for birds. Turns out scrub jays are a gateway bird to a larger ornithological habit.
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