“When I was making Black Sheep Boy, I felt like it was good, and I was confident that it was gonna be the best record that I’d made. That said, I didn’t expect for it to be successful, necessarily” A ...

Musicologist Christopher Small, in his book Musicking, argued that we use music as a reflection. Music presents back to us how we think that relationships should work, or what kinds of relationships ...

Back in April, Okkervil River celebrated the 10th anniversary of their third album, Black Sheep Boy. Now, the band has announced a deluxe special-edition reissue of the 2005 full-length. The box set ...

On Wednesday, we rang up Will Sheff at home in Brooklyn, the Okkervil River frontman suspending dinner prep to talk about the 10th anniversary reissue of Black Sheep Boy, which includes the original ...

They left the stage after Black Sheep Boy closer “A Glow” and returned for an encore that had them playing the entire Black Sheep Boy Appendix EP, which came out a few months after the album and ...

Andrew Combs’ most recent album Canyons Of My Mind saw the Nashville-based songwriter veering from his traditional country roots in favor of dark, orchestral Americana rock. He still counts several of ...

On Thursday evening, Martin Pousson launches his new book, “Black Sheep Boy,” at Skylight Books. Pousson was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship to work on the book, ...