Ring in 2012 with the January 24 release of The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy (Barsuk), the new album from Nada Surf. A celebratory day-of -elease show will take place at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom … Mazzy Star is set to release a new digital single via its own Rhymes Of An Hour Records on October 31. The single, featuring new tracks “Common Burn” and “Lay Myself Down,” precedes an early-2012 tour and a full-length containing brand-new material … On Valentine’s Day, Islands will issue new album A Sleep & A Forgetting via Anti- Records … The first-ever live LP from the Twilight Singers will be available digitally on November 15. Live in New York was recorded at Webster Hall in May 2011 and features 21 career-spanning tracks … Eagle Rock Entertainment will celebrate the life of the late Jeff Healey with the November 1 release of Full Circle: The Live Anthology. It’s a four-disc boxed set containing three CDs and one DVD, featuring three complete concerts from 1989-1995 … Nils Lofgren has announced his first studio album in five years. Old School will be out November 1 via Vision Music and features guest musicians including Lou Gramm, Sam Moore and Paul Rodgers … Rhino Handmade is issuing a triple-disc deluxe edition of the Monkees’ seventh studio album, Instant Replay, on November 22. The set includes rarities and more than 50 unreleased recordings, as well as a 45-rpm vinyl single … Art Of The Trio is a boxed set containing the five original albums by Brad Mehldau’s threesome with Jorge Rossi and Larry Grenadier, plus an extra disc of previously unreleased material. Nonesuch will release it December 6 … Black Bananas is the new project from RTX’s Jennifer Herrema and will see its first album, Rad Times Xpress IV, released via Drag City in January … On January 24, Chuck Prophet will issue his new album, Temple Beautiful (Yep Roc), which will be supported by an upcoming tour.
—Emily Costantino
