When she's not touring the world with the Decemberists, collaborating with an array of local musicians, or writing and recording her own solo works, Jenny Conlee teaches piano-mostly via Zoom.

The narrative surrounding the new album by Damien Jurado is a juicy one: A well-regarded singer/songwriter whose last three dense, psychedelic studio albums were created with the help of producer Richard Swift reverses course with his next LP. He decides to make an acoustic album--just guitar and vocals-and record it quickly, using all first takes.

With "Forced Witness," Alex Cameron documents belligerent bar fights, catfishing, and bloody-knuckled escapes.

Tragic news tonight: Andrew Loomis, the drummer for the seminal Oregon rock band Dead Moon, has died. Loomis was a founding member of the group, which formed in 1987 and took a hiatus in 2006; since then, Loomis and the band's other two members, Fred and Toody Cole, have reunited sporadically for occasional Dead Moon shows and tours, and Loomis drummed for another band, the Shiny Things.