10 Songs Celebrating San Francisco

10 Songs Celebrating San Francisco

Here's our 10-song playlist celebrating everything good about San Francisco.  read more

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New Multitudes: Farrar, Yames, Johnson & Parker Revisit Woody Guthrie

New Multitudes: Farrar, Yames, Johnson & Parker Revisit Woody Guthrie

Like a cadre of musical brothers finally coalescing after years on the road apart, Jay Farrar, Yim Yames (Jim James), Will Johnson and Anders Parker gratefully deliver New Multitudes, their intimate interpretation of American icon and musical legend Woody Guthrie’s previously unrecorded lyrics.  read more

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Video Premiere: Behind The Scenes of New Multitudes

Video Premiere: Behind The Scenes of <i>New Multitudes</i>

As we previously reported, Son Volt’s Jay Farrar, Centro-Matic’s Will Johnson, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James and Varnaline’s Anders Parker will appear on New Multitudes, which will be released on Feb. 28. The album is a homage to Woody Guthrie and will feature interpretations of unrecorded Guthrie lyrics.  read more

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Lou Reed, Tom Morello, Others to Pay Tribute to Woody Guthrie

Lou Reed, Tom Morello, Others to Pay Tribute to Woody Guthrie

In commemoration of Woody Guthrie's would-be-100th birthday in July 2012, several musicians have teamed up with the hugely influential folk singer's estate to pay tribute to him.  read more

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Ben Gibbard, Jay Farrar and John Roderick - New York, NY - Webster Hall - 10/28/09

Ben Gibbard, Jay Farrar and John Roderick - New York, NY - Webster Hall - 10/28/09

Photos taken by Eric Ryan Anderson at Webster Hall...  read more

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Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard Announce Additional Kerouac Dates

Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard Announce Additional Kerouac Dates

Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard have added a couple more shows and special screenings to the tour backing their collaboration project, One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur, due out Oct. 20....  read more

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Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard Announce Kerouac Live Dates

Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard Announce Kerouac Live Dates

Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard have lately been devoting their artistry to converting Jack Kerouac's spirited prose into song and verse, a collaboration album known as One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur. To support their project, which is slated for an Oct. 20 debut, they'll be hosting a special series of four concerts around the U.S. where they'll perform songs from the record along with other surprise material....  read more

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Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard Talk Kerouac Project

Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard Talk Kerouac Project

The Death Cab for Cutie and Son Volt frontmen explain to Paste the creation of One Fast Move or I’m Gone...  read more

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Jay Farrar And Ben Gibbard Collaborate on Jack Kerouac Project

Jay Farrar And Ben Gibbard Collaborate on Jack Kerouac Project

Jack Kerouac's writing holds an integral spot on many a musician's required reading list. The late writer pioneered and documented the Beat movement, paving the way for much of the writing and music that would come in the latter half of the century. Perhaps his most celebrated work, 1957's On The Road captures the spirit of the cross-country tour and the floundering and frenzied lifestyle of an artist. Channeling the essence of Kerouac's life and canon, Son Volt frontman Jay Farrar and Death Cab's Ben Gibbard are working on a project that Farrar told St. Louis alt-weekly The Riverfront Times...  read more

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Catching Up With... Son Volt's Jay Farrar

Catching Up With... Son Volt's Jay Farrar

Son Volt’s new release, American Central Dust, its third in four years, finds alt-country purveyor Jay Farrar embracing...  read more

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