The Mountain Goats get dark, then Lightning Bug offers a little help.

H.E.R. takes listeners along for a journey on a great week for music.

Willie’s boy gets it right—and the best book I’ve read all year.

It’s the year of Japanese Breakfast!

Moby reprises his greatest musical moments, and one of my favorite novelists returns.

Counting Crows get buttery smooth, and one of the best pieces I’ve read all year.

Okkervil River returns, and let’s hear it for the poets!

A country trio welcomes you to their campfire, and one of the best hip-hop albums in recent memory takes hold.