The Stranger has details on the APRIL Festival, which sounds utterly fantastic, and makes at least one of us seriously consider booking a plane ticket to Seattle for late in the month of March.

Rosie Schaap on Robert Burns and scotch.

Nick Cave — the American artist, not the Australian musician – will be filling Grand Central with soundsuit horses in March.

Come’s Eleven: Eleven is getting a deluxe reissue later this year.

The best post-VU albums by members of the Velvet Underground.

Paul Pope’s long-awaited Battling Boy is coming out this October.

Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + our Tumblr, and sign up for our mailing list.