Arch Magazine releases issue number two with reviews of new releases by Shearwater, Richard Bona, and Bonnie “Prince” Billy, along with live coverage of the Pitchfork Music Festival, and an interview with tabla virtuoso Marcus Wise.

We realize that these shows aren’t even happening in 2008, but tickets are onsale already for both of the shows here:

http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=4562

Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:00 pm
Thursday, March 19, 2009, 10:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Non-members: $25
Walker members: $21

Spend an evening with one of the most enigmatic and celebrated singer-songwriters of the last decade. Oldham’s atmospheric art-folk is borne of an Appalachian netherworld finding its glimmer and glow through gentle guitars, lush harmonies, shimmering folk-tronics, and elegies that slide between spare and sly, lovely and lonely, beautiful and bucolic. A rare live performance by one of today’s most prolific and fiercely creative artists.

Just for those keeping score, these shows are the Thursday during SXSW unfortunately, so if you plan on going next year, you’re SOL for seeing Will at the Walker. Will’s last show in the Twin Cities was at in-store at Roadrunner in 2006, and before that i believe 2001, so he doesn’t get around these parts too often.