As I mentioned when it was first announced that Mark Kozelek (of Sun Kil Moon) and Jimmy LaValle (of the Album Leaf) had joined forces to work on a new album: Kozelek has scaled back his musical…   Read Story »

Mark Kozelek's new collection, Like Rats, finds the Sun Kil Moon frontman reimagining songs by a host of artists whom he's never before covered -- Misfits, Godflesh, etc. -- as well as a few whose…   Read Story »

I've read and written a lot about Mark Kozelek (of Sun Kil Moon and Red House Painters fame) in my life, and spent a good deal more of that time listening to his music -- I'm not exactly an obsessive…   Read Story »

Mark Kozelek has delivered a catalog's worth of unexpected covers -- most famously dedicating entire albums to covers of Modest Mouse and Bon Scott-era AC/DC, respectively, but he's crafted trademark…   Read Story »

Sun Kil Moon's Mark Kozelek has scaled back his musical operations considerably over the last decade or so. He's built one of modern music's richest catalogs dating back to 1992 -- when his first…   Read Story »

Much of Sun Kil Moon's 2012 album, Among The Leaves, finds Mark Kozelek writing about his life as a musician, perhaps never more directly than on "Track Number 8." In the lyric, the title is rhymed…   Read Story »

Red House Painters' first album, Down Colorful Hill, came out 20 years ago last month, and over the last two decades, the band's mastermind, Mark Kozelek, has produced a catalog of staggering power…   Read Story »

BLOG GAME MARIO CHALMERS filling in for Tom this week, who had a kid or something (it's hard to know since Tom's baby boy -- congrats Tom! -- hasn't showed up on any releases yet). So, let's do this…   Read Story »

Mark Kozelek's music has mutated pretty significantly over the arc of his now-20-year-old career, but the visual aesthetic associated with his music has remained remarkably consistent, even…   Read Story »

As Exclaim! points out, Tim Mooney, former drummer of the depressive San Francisco alt-country band American Music Club, has died of undisclosed causes. He was 53. AMC frontam Marc Eitzel made the…   Read Story »