This spring, the Beastie Boys are releasing Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 (Capitol), but it might as well be Hot Sauce Committee Part 1 (which has been delayed indefinitely), considering that the second installment’s tracklisting was revised and replaced entirely with songs originally recorded for part one. Confused yet? … Screenings of Look At What The Light Did Now, a documentary film about Feist and her collaborators, are currently underway at select big screens, festivals and museums in North America and Europe. The DVD—which includes a collections of music videos, rare live and archival footage and a 13-track bonus CD—will be released December 7 by Cherrytree/Universal … Crystal Castles teamed up with the Cure’s Robert Smith for their next single, “Not In Love,” which will be released by Fiction Records on December 6 … Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will is the upcoming album from Mogwai; it’s out February 15 via Sub Pop … Award-winning journalist Tom Moon takes a break from writing about music to actually make it with Moon Hotel Lounge Project. The first recordings by the instrumental outfit, Into The Ojalá, will be released January 11 on Frosty Cordial … Nine Inch Nails is issuing the remastered version of its debut album, Pretty Hate Machine, on November 22 via Universal … Social Distortion is doing a West Coast tour this winter in support of its upcoming album, Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes (out January 18 on Epitaph), which is the band’s first LP in more than six years … On January 11, Cage The Elephant’s sophomore album, Thank You, Happy Birthday, will be released by Jive Records … The Museum of Contemporary Art in L.A. is currently honoring Devo with an installation featuring various multimedia, including a wall of 400 of the band’s iconic red energy domes … The 40th-anniversary, super-deluxe, collector’s-edition boxed set of the Who’s Live At Leeds—which includes four discs and a reissue of the original LP and its seven-inch vinyl single—will be released November 16 on Geffen … The Go! Team returns February 1 with new album Rolling Blackouts (Memphis Industries).
—Emily Costantino
