Paul McCartney is set to release his first new studio album in four years. The album, titled Chaos And Creation In The Back Yard, features 13 new tracks and was recorded over the past two years. Early reviews describe the new material as reminiscent of his solo debut, McCartney. To further add interest, the album was produced by none other than the inimitable Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Travis, Beck). Look for the album in stores on September 13th.

The upcoming Institute tour that we told you about has specific venues now. So check the more for where you can go see Gavin Rossdale's new band and maybe scream for him to play "Glycerine."

We told you about the upcoming Idlewild release, Warnings/Promises, that is to be released on August 16th but now we've got tour dates for the band as well. It's been awhile since they really hit North America so make suer you catch them while you can.

In support of their recently released Reverb EP and the forthcoming Armed To The Teeth full-length (September 13th), Abandoned Pools will be playing out and about. So far there's not that many dates but expect them to keep coming...

If you haven't been listening to Wolf Parade you are depriving yourself of a great gem. You can already get their self-titled, Sub-Pop released, EP but if you don't start listening now you won't be ready for their full-length, Apologies to the Queen Mary, on September 27th.

Fiery Furnaces plan to release two albums this year (as opposed to the rumored double-album). The first, Rehearsing My Choir, is due on October 25th and the second, Bitter Tea, is due sometime in early 2006. Expect hefty amounts of tour dates to pop up sometime soon.

How Interpol are not exhausted after all the touring they've already done in support of Antics is beyond me but they've got a bunch more dates announced throughout North America.

Surprisingly, Dredg have booked a number of acoustic shows while in support of their latest release, Catch Without Arms. Check the more for specifics.

Bayside will be hitting the road with Vendetta Red. Check out the dates below:

Atlantic Records is allowing you to stream a compilation from some of their current roster for free right here. Look for tracks from Bloc Party, Gratitude, Vaux, Hard-Fi, and The Format.

Itching for some tunes from the 90s? Well Rhino Records will be releasing Whatever: The 90s Pop & Culture Box on July 26th and it is sure to include your favs. The release is a 7-CD, 130 song collection that fuses everything from M.C. Hammer, to Primus, to Oasis, to Lucious Jackson, to Sinead O’Connor, to Helmet, to Pantera, to Moby. The collection is basically every hit from the 90s regardless of genre. Check below for the full track listing.

As previously reported, Ex-Glassjaw member Todd Weinstock's new band Men, Women & Children have just finished recording their debut record with Mike Mogis, Josh Abraham and the team of Raine Maida & Jason Lader. The band is now about to mix with Gareth Jones and Alan Moulder and it's looking like the record is gonna come out in January. Check below for some tour dates and check out some demos here.

The upcoming Supergrass album, Road to Rouen, that we told you about is set for release on September 27th from Capitol Records. It's a ways away but it's damn worth it, one of their best albums yet.

In a surprising bit of news, Karate have decided to split ways after leaning that frontman Geoff Farina has such an immense level of detoriation in his hearing that he can no longer be in the band. Instead of trying to continue on without him, the group will be disbanding.

Prefuse73 will be hitting the road in support of his latest release Surrounded By Silence and just musical endeavours in general. Maybe he'll bring The Books along.. no.. that's just a pipe dream.

The mighty Swift, hailing from Winston-Salem, NC, officially released their lastest effort, The Absolute Uncontrollable, earlier this month. The full-length album of new material comes after the departure and re-joining of founding guitarist Mikey Gentle. Head over their MySpace page to listen to "Silent Celebration" from the new album. Now if they'd play outside the Southeast, all the rest of you could enjoy it, too.

Metric is back in Canada after a long string of shows and back in the studio working on the follow-up to Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?. Other than writing and recording, the band will play the La Route de Rock Festival in Saint-Malo, France on August 14th.

As we reported, 311 had to push back the release of their new album, Don't Tread On Me, to August 16th. To make it up to the fans, 311 have posted the title track and first single over at 311.com for preview. The guys also revealed the full tracklisting.

In addition to their upcoming show dates, Mates Of State are also hard at work on their follow-up to Team Boo. The dynamic duo plan on recording at least 10 songs during the month of August for the album. In a recent post their official website, vocalist/organist Kori Gardner revealed they had already completed one song with an unnamed, trial producer/engineer. Apparently, the resulting track was so well done she reported fans may "poo [their] pants" upon hearing the new song.

G. Love (sans Special Sauce, but plus one Coke commercial) jumped straight off his supporting dates with the Dave Matthews Band and into the studio. The sessions are in preparation to release the follow-up to last year's The Hustle.