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In The News: Ween, Ra Ra Riot, Half Japanese, Crooked Fingers, Fall, Rob Crow, Mac McCaughan, Dressy Bessy, High Llamas And More

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Ween has announced that it will reunite for three shows over President’s Day Weekend at the 1st Bank Center in Colorado. Tickets are on sale now … Need Your Light, the latest album from Ra Ra Riot, is due out February 19 via Barsuk … Joyful Noise will issue the new Half Japanese LP, Perfect, on January 22 … The third full-length from Tedeschi Trucks Band, Let Me Get By, will be available January 29 from Fantasy … On January 22, Sonya Kitchell will return after a seven-year hiatus with the release of We Come Apart on Rockwood Music Hall Recordings/Thirty Tigers … Crooked Fingers will reissue their first two full-lengths, Crooked Fingers and Bring On The Snakes, via Merge on January 29 … Still In A Dream is a five-disc collection of shoegaze songs spanning 1988-1995, containing tracks by the Jesus And Mary Chain, Cocteau Twins, Ride, Slowdive and many more. It will be available January 29 from Cherry Red … Duophonic has announced the February 19 release of the debut album from Cavern Of Anti-Matter, void beats/invocation trex. The new trio is comprised of Stereolab’s Tim Gane and Joe Dilworth, as well as synth player Holger Zapf … A new EP from the Fall, Wise Ol’ Man, is due out from Cherry Red on January 29 … March 4 marks the release of Rob Crow’s You’re Doomed. Be Nice., via Temporary Residence Ltd. … Mac McCaughan will issue Staring At Your Hologram, an instrumental remix of his Non-Believers album released earlier this year, on January 29 via Merge … The self-titled debut from Nevermen—TV On The Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, Mike Patton and Adam “Doesone” Drucker—will be available from Ipecac on January 29 … Kingsized is the first studio album from Dressy Bessy in seven years, due out from Yep Roc on February 5 … Blue Note will issue Detroit Jazz City on December 4. It’s a compilation album benefiting the organization Focus: HOPE, and features tracks by Marion Hayden, Kenny Cox, James Carter and more … The music from the High Llamas’ theatrical piece, Here Come The Rattling Trees, will be available January 22 from Drag City … On January 15, Resonance will release One Night In Indy, an exclusive 1959 performance by Wes Montgomery featuring the Eddie Higgins Trio, on CD for the first time.

—Emily Costantino