According to Rekords Rekords, the Joshua Homme imprint will reissue vinyl of the out-of-print Queens of the Stone Age debut album on November 26th, with the CD version coming on November 30th. Three songs cut from the original release have been reinstated, "The Bronze," "These Aren't the Droids You're Looking For" and "Spiders and Vinegaroons." [www.rekordsrekords.com]
The Decemberists premiered some new songs at Bumbershoot on September 4th. Pitchfork was nice enough to compile videos of the three performances, "Down By The Water," "June Hymn" and "Rise To Me." [pitchfork.com]
Cave In will release the next installment of their Anomalies series on December 14th. The collection will actually be Anomalies Vol. 1, as the band released Vol. 2: Live at Mazda Palace, Milan, Italy 10/27/03 first. However, look out for "a pre-release date 'leak' on Black Friday." [www.theprp.com]
Mogwai has signed to Sub Pop for its North American releases and will issue a new album in early 2011. The album is "currently being mixed in Glasgow at Castle Of Doom studios by Paul Savage." [www.mogwai.co.uk]
As previously reported, Dredg are hard at work on their fifth album. It's now been revealed that the band are working with musician/producer Dan the Automator, writing and recording in San Francisco and tentatively looking at an April 2011 release date. [dredg.com]
As suspected, A Perfect Circle will officially reunite for a five-city tour this fall. The trek will feature multiple night residencies where the band will perform an album from its catalog in its entirety each night. On October 27th, the group will appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live. [www.theprp.com]
The War On Drugs will release Future Weather through Secretly Canadian on October 28th. Preview album track "Comin' Through" in Music. Wagonwheel Blues was released in 2008. [secretlycanadian.com]
Chilly Gonzalez recently revealed to the Guardian that he's working with Feist on her follow-up to 2007's The Reminder in Paris. He's apparently just a collaborator, as "he's not producing it as such." Feist recently performed a new song, "He Was Free," at a tour stop in Vancouver. [www.guardian.co.uk]
Green Day are apparently preparing to release a live album, as announced by the band at a recent tour stop in Denver, CO. A couple new songs, "Cigarettes and Valentines" and "Olivia," were premiered at the show. As band lore goes, said songs would've been the included on the follow-up to 2000's Warning. It's possible the songs will finally see the light of day on the forthcoming live album. [www.punknews.org]
Montreal's Kid Koala is putting the finishing touches on the soundtrack for his second graphic novel, Space Cadet. Eric San told Spinner the score is "almost classical" and that he "recorded a lot of it on baby grand piano." San will take the novel on the road following its completion. Fans will experience the music through headphones and 3D projections. Considering recent news of The Slew reactivating, San is one busy guy. [www.spinner.com]
Odd couple Lightning Bolt and Dan Deacon have announced a brief trek in October to promote their new albums, Earthly Delights and Bromst respectively. [www.tinymixtapes.com]
According to TwentyFourBit, a nice group of collaborators are turning out to rework past material from The Kinks. Several sources, including Ray Davies, have confirmed Spoon, Billy Corgan, Bruce Springsteen, Frank Black, Alex Chilton, Lucinda Williams and Bon Jovi. Davies hinted at new material back in March and this is probably part of what he was talking about. Said album is expected before the end of 2010. [www.twentyfourbit.com]
Sufjan Stevens will release a new album, The Age of Adz (pronounced Odds), on October 12th through Ashmatic Kitty. Stream and download the album tracks "I Walked" and "Too Much" on Bandcamp. Stevens just released the All Delighted People EP last month. [asthmatickitty.com]
Bad Religion has planned three decade-spanning shows at Irving Plaza in New York City on October 20th, 26th and 27th. The first night will feature songs from How Can Hell Be Any Worse? to No Control, the second Against the Grain to No Substance and the last The New America to New Maps of Hell. In related news, the band will issue their fifteenth full-length, The Dissent of Man, on September 28th through Epitaph and are out on tour. [www.badreligion.com]
According to the Washington Post, The Dismemberment Plan will reunite in January 2011 for a quick tour around the vinyl reissue of Emergency & I from Barsuk. Eric Axelson reported the group are "not planning a new record" and will take it "day to day after" the tour. [blog.washingtonpost.com]
Pomegranates new album, One of Us, has been pushed back to an October 26th release date. However, the band will tour North America in support of the release until the end of November with Oh No Oh My in tow. [www.myspace.com]
Domino will release the second single, "You Can Count On Me," from the forthcoming Panda Bear album, Tomboy, tentatively due on October 19th. [www.dominorecordco.us]
On October 5th, EMI will release the Gimmie Some Truth, a four-CD box set commemorating the music of John Lennon and what would have been his 70th birthday. Along with Truth, Double Fantasy Stripped Down, Power To The People: The Hits and the deluxe, 11-CD John Lennon Signature Box will be released. If that wasn't enough, Lennon's eight solo albums have been digitally remastered from his original mixes. [www.johnlennon.com]
Arts & Crafts will reissue the two self-released EPs (Captured Anthems For An Empty Bathtub and Anthems For The Could’ve Bin Pills) from K.C. Accidental, Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin's musical project prior to Broken Social Scene, on October 26th. The recordings were originally released on Noise Factory Records and are currently out of print. [www.arts-crafts.ca]
According to a post on their website, Iron & Wine will return with Kiss Each Other Clean in early 2011. The Shepherd's Dog was released in 2007. [ironandwine.com]
