The sixth album from Dirty Projectors, Swing Lo Magellan, is set for a July 10 release via Domino Records. The band is performing at Celebrate Brooklyn and the Pitchfork Festival that month in celebration … Banga is Patti Smith’s first collection of original material since 2004, due out June 5 from Columbia Records … This month, A Place To Bury Strangers kicked off an extensive European tour in anticipation of the June 26 release of Woship (Dead Oceans) … Glen Hansard, star of Once and one-half of the Swell Season, will issue his debut solo effort, Rhythm And Repose, on June 19 via Anti-. Several U.S. dates in support have been confirmed … The first ever solo album from Beach Boys co-founder Al Jardine, A Postcard rom California, is available now via Waterfront/Fontana/Robo, just in time for the 50Fth anniversary reunion of the iconic band this summer … Foo Fighters, Bob Seger, My Morning Jacket, Alan Jackson and many others teamed up with John Fogerty to record classics from his extensive catalog as well as several new tracks for Wrote A Song For Everyone. Vanguard will release the album this fall … On June 26, Eagle Rock Entertainment will issue The Story Of Wish You Were Here on DVD and Blu-ray. The film documents the recording of Pink Floyd’s iconic LP, made with the full involvement and approval of the band members … Several Pussy Galore albums—including Right Now, Shugarshit Sharp and Dial M For Motherfucker—are now available as digital downloads for the first time ever, with several remastered vinyl releases to follow via Shove … Big Station, the 11th solo album from Alejandro Escovedo, will be out June 5 via Fantasy/Concord … The debut LP from Preteen Zenith, fronted by Tim DeLaughter of the Polyphonic Spree and Tripping Daisy, is due May 29 via Good. Rubble Guys & BB Eye will have a limited-edition vinyl pressing on April 21 in honor of Record Store Day … A three-disc boxed set of previously unreleased material from Can, The Lost Tapes (Spoon/Mute), will be released June 19 … On May 15, the Avengers will issue a self-titled, two-CD anthology of released and unreleased studio recordings, demos, live tracks, outtakes and alternate mixes … As part of its Stax Remasters series, Concord will release Albert King’s I’ll Play The Blues For You on May 22.
—Emily Costantino
