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In The News: Guided By Voices, Fleetwood Mac, Father John Misty, Ray Davies, Thundercat, ANOHNI, British Sea Power, Elbow And More

August By Cake is the first-ever double album by Guided By Voices and the 100th studio album released by Robert Pollard, due out from GBV Inc on April 7. MAGNET’s favorite band will tour the U.S. this spring, including an appearance at Coachella … The 30th anniversary of Fleetwood Mac’s Tango In The Night will be commemorated with a deluxe three-CD/DVD/LP reissue on March 10 via Warner Bros. … Chickenfoot—the rock supergroup consisting of Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani, Van Halen’s Michael Anthony and Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers—will release best-of collection BEST + LIVE via eOne Music on March 10 … Sub Pop has announced the April 7 release of Father John Misty’s Pure Comedy … April 21 will see the release of Ray Davies’ first solo album in nearly a decade, Americana, via Legacy … Silver Eye, the seventh studio album by Goldfrapp, is set for a March 31 release on Mute … The eighth full-length by Mastodon, Emperor Of Sand, will be available from Reprise on March 31 … “Weird Al” Yankovic has teamed up with Legacy and Pledgemusic for a career-spanning boxed set, Squeeze Box: The Complete Works Of “Weird Al” Yankovic, complete with a bonus disc of rarities, due out this fall … Brainfeeder will issue the third Thundercat album, Drunk, on February 24. It features appearances by Kendrick Lamar, Wiz Khalifa, Pharrell, Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald and more … On March 17, ANOHNI will release the Paradise EP via Secretly Canadian and Rough Trade … Let The Dancers Inherit The Party is the new LP by British Sea Power, set for a March 31 release on Golden Chariot/Caroline … A newly expanded and remastered deluxe 25th anniversary edition of the Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack—featuring tracks by Paul WesterbergAlice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees and more—will be released by Epic Soundtrax/Legacy on May 19 … New Found Glory has announced its new album, Makes Me Sick, due out from Hopeless on April 28. The band will also tour this spring in celebration of its 20th anniversary … Marathon Artists will release The Weather, the latest record from Pond, on May 5 … On March 17, Paul Shaffer & The World’s Most Dangerous Band will return with a self-titled album on Sire and will kick off a North American tour April 1 … Little Fictions, the new Elbow record, will be available February 3 via Concord … The soundtrack to the upcoming Danny Boyle film T2 Trainspotting (the sequel to 1996’s Trainspotting), is out now from Polydor, featuring tracks by Iggy Pop, Wolf Alice, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Blondie, Queen and more … Bardo Pond will issue its new album, Under The Pines, via Fire March 24 … The self-titled solo debut of Coco Hames of the Ettes is due out March 31 via Merge … Undertow Music will issue the new solo album from Will Johnson (Centro-Matic), Hatteras Night, A Good Luck Charm, on March 24 … That same day, the first new music from Jessi Colter since 2006, The Psalms, will be released by Legacy.

—Emily Costantino