As far as we know, the great inward-looking indie singer-songwriter Cass McCombs has no plans to drop a new album on us anytime soon. But this summer, he will release a split 7" with the veteran…   Read Story »

Brooklyn label Famous Class will release the sixth installment of their Less Artists More Condo's series on February 18th, featuring a track each from Cass McCombs and White Magic. Now you can hear…   Read Story »

Cass McCombs has a few dates coming up with John Cale, and a new single made for the Wikileaks-embroiled US soldier "Bradley Manning." Today Cass unleashes an internet stream of the "Manning" b-side,…   Read Story »

On Saturday 11/17, some of indie rock's most prominent names got together to stage a benefit for victims of Hurricane Sandy. Real Estate, Vampire Weekend, Devendra Banhart, the Walkmen's Hamilton…   Read Story »

"Bradley Manning" is Cass McCombs's song in support of Manning, a U.S. Army soldier currently imprisoned and in deep shit for passing confidential info along to WikiLeaks. The song's new video, from…   Read Story »

Cass McCombs's lilting, gorgeous "Robin Egg Blue," a track from his excellent Humor Risk album, has a new video from director Tresh H. Zour. It's a jumble of random images, many of them taken from a…   Read Story »

For Record Store Day (April 21), Domino and Ribbon will put out the multi-media Smugglers Way Flexi-Disc Zine, a release that combines a 24-page zine with five flexi discs of unreleased material by…   Read Story »

A few days ago, we posted Bill Callahan's cover of Leonard Cohen's "So Long Marianne" from the forthcoming Leonard Cohen covers compilation UK music mag MOJO is putting together to celebrate Cohen's…   Read Story »

Cass McCombs has already released two albums this year, including the very recent Album Of The Week Humor Risk, but he's not done yet. McCombs recently recorded "Bradley Manning," a story-song about…   Read Story »

In the early '00s, when Cass McCombs and I were both living in Baltimore, we knew each other a little bit. We weren't friends or anything; I doubt he'd remember me. But we had mutual friends and we'd…   Read Story »