John Darnielle talks to Philly's City Paper about the next Mountain Goats album. "I've got a working title for the album already—The Sunset Tree—which I took from a hymn mentioned in a particularly brutal scene in Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh. There's other stuff in the hopper, probably, but I'm pretty focused on this next album for now—the songs are really direct and savage and I'm really happy with them."

Drummer Lisa Milberg of The Concretes talks to Canada's National Post.

This week only, Audible and Apple are making the US presidential debates available as free downloads.