Arcade Fire will issue its album-of-the-year-Grammy-winning LP The Suburbs as a deluxe CD/DVD package August 2 via Merge Records. The release features expanded and previously unreleased tracks and a half-hour short film directed by Spike Jonze … Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme (Philadelphia, Silence Of The Lambs, Rachel Getting Married) filmed the final two shows of Neil Young’s Le Noise tour in Toronto this week, and the footage will be used for an upcoming movie chronicling the tour. It’s the latest installment in Young and Demme’s series of concert films … Indigo Dreams is the new album by the BoDeans, and it will be released by 429 Records on June 28. The former MAGNET guest editors kicked off a U.S. tour this week … Marvin Gaye’s classic 1971 album What’s Going On will celebrate its 40th birthday May 21 with a super-deluxe edition from Motown/Ume. It include two CDs, a vinyl LP, 14 previously unreleased tracks, a booklet with rare photos and more … Van Dyke Parks is planning to self-issue a series of seven-inch singles, each of which will be illustrated by contemporary artists including Ed Ruscha and Art Spiegelman. The singles (his first new music in more than 15 years) will be followed by the September 20 release of Arrangements By Van Dyke Parks, a compilation album featuring artists such as Arlo Guthrie, Ry Cooder and Bonnie Raitt … On June 7, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke & Lenny White’s new LP, Forever, will be available as a two-CD set via Concord … In order to raise money for domestic-violence awareness, Ruth Gerson recorded her take on a selection of songs (ranging from ancient to modern) about “the bad things that can happen to ‘bad girls.’” Deceived features guest performances by Suzzy Roche, Byron Isaacs and the late Jack Rose and will be out Tuesday on the Wrong label …MAGNET fave Jolie Holland‘s new album, Pint Of Blood, is out June 28 via Anti- … The ninth studio LP from Old 97’s, The Grand Theatre Vol. 2 (New West), will be available July 5. It’s a companion to last year’s Volume 1 … Boston Spaceships spent six months (an eternity for Bob Pollard) making its fifth album in three years. The double-LP Let It Beard is out August 2 via Guided By Voices Inc. … Ready For Confetti (Lost Highway), the 16th release from singer/songwriter Robert Earl Keen, is out August 30.
—Emily Costantino
