The official VHS or Beta follow-up to Night on Fire will be entitled Bring on the Comets. The disc will hit stores on August 28th via Astralwerks and will likely have an extensive, un-ending, tour along with it. In the meantime, a handful of summer dates have been announced for the band.
As previously stated, Domino Records will be releasing the next record from Animal Collective. What wasn't reported was that the album will be entitled Strawberry Jam and is set for a release in September. In the meantime, you can catch the band touring all over.
We speculated that the next Interpol record would be released on Capitol this summer. Turns out we were right. The album, Our Love to Admire, hits stores on July 10th. The band will be going on a worldwide tour in support of the album but if they aren't hitting your town you could always scour the internet looking for a download of the first single, "The Heinrich Maneuver."
Cake has announced the upcoming release of B-Sides and Rarities, which features covers of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" and Barry White's "Never, Never Gonna Give You Up”, in addition to other covers and Cake originals.
The Mooney Suzuki will set out on their US Summer tour this June in support of their upcoming release Have Mercy. After a string of tour dates opening for Albert Hammond, Jr. they’re heading back out on the road for a headlining tour with The Photo Atlas and Dark Romantics.
Birds of Avalon have announcd several new US tour dates with Ted Leo in support of the May 22nd release of their debut album, Bazaar Bazaar.
The Smashing Pumpkins have announced a string of overseas tour dates as well as nine-show residency June 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30, and July 2, 3 and 5 at The Orange Peel in Asheville, NC in addition to eight nights at the legendary Fillmore in San Francisco. The shows are in anticipation of the release of their new album, Zeitgeist, and we have no clue why they chose Asheville either.
Amber Webber and Joshua Wells of Black Mountain have launched a new side project by the name of Lightning Dust. The duo will release their self-titled full-length on June 19th through Jagjaguwar. Listen to "Listened On" and "Castles and Caves" on MySpace. Webber and Wells will head out on tour in June with Cave Singers to usher in the album.
The Cribs have completed recording their new album titled, Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever, scheduled for domestic release July 17. The album was produced by Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand, mixed by Andy Wallace (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) and includes special guest appearance by Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth.
Ex-Hot Hot Heat member (and current Wolf Parade guitarist), Dante De Caro is set to release a self-titled Johnny And The Moon full-length album in the US this summer. The album has been available in Canada for some time, but will finally see a US release next month.
Nick Drake will release a new album entitled, Family Tree, on June 19th. The album is filled with unreleased material from the vault of the Drake Estate and is produced by Drake Estate manager Cally.
Queens of the Stone Age have confirmed a few radio show appearances and their first official US headline show of 2007. Details below:
Page France will be touring a ton in 2007 in support of their recently released record ...and the Family Telephone. Dates below:
Metric is hard at work this Spring and Summer on their new album, meanwhile frontwoman Emily Haines will release a new EP entitled What Is Free to a Good Home on July 24th. To tide Metric fans over, the band will also release their first album, Grow Up and Blow Away (which was recorded in 1999, but never officially released) on June 26th.
Black Moth Super Rainbow have announced a tour with Architecture In Helsinki to promote their new album, Dandelion Gum. Current dates include:
You can stream the entire new Dungen album, Tio Bitar, right now via AOL. Check it out here.
Although the new They Might Be Giants album won't be released until July 10th, it is now available on iTunes.
Los Angeles' Neon Horse released their self-titled debut album last week. Stream two tracks with this album ecard.
Shapes and Sizes will release a new full-length, Split Lips, Winning Hips, A Shiner, through Ashmatic Kitty on May 22nd. Sample two MP3s of the "harmonious discord" in the Downloads or stream the whole album on asthmatickitty.com.
Ryan Adams will return with Easy Tiger on June 26th through Lost Highway. The track "Two" features an appearance from Sheryl Crow. Full tracklist after the jump.
