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In The News: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Tom Waits, Billy Bragg, Otis Redding, Wire, Psychic TV And More

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Mosquito is the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album, due out on April 16 via Interscope … More than 200 pages of Tom Waits portraits taken by Anton Corbijn comprise collaborative art book Waits/Corbijn ’77-’11. The limited-edition tome, set for a May 8 release, also features musings and photographs taken by Waits himself, as well as forewords by Jim Jarmusch and Robert Christgau … The first two albums by Dump, a.k.a James McNew of Yo La Tengo, will be reissued by Morr Music with bonus material. Superpowerless is out March 19, while I Can Hear Music will be released April 16 … A four-CD set of Stephen Stills songs spanning 50 years, Carry On, will be available from Rhino on March 26. The set includes more than five hours of music, including 25 previously unreleased tracks, and a 113-page booklet … Billy Bragg’s first album in five years, Tooth And Nail, is out via Cooking Vinyl on March 19, just after he kicks off a North American tour at SXSW …  On March 5, Stax will issue Lonely & Blue: The Deepest Soul Of Otis Redding. The collection of Otis Redding ballads will be available on CD and blue vinyl … TV Mania: Bored With Prozac and The Internet? is a concept album by Nick Rhodes & Warren Cuccurullo of Duran Duran, which they call “the soundtrack to the digital age.” It will be released March 11 … Pinkflag will issue the new Wire album, Change Becomes Us, on March 26 … The Godfathers is releasing their first album since 1995, Jukebox Fury, on March 4. A 23-date U.K. tour with the Stranglers will follow … The second album from Psychic TV, 1983’s Dreams Less Sweet, is available on vinyl for the first time in 20 years via Angry Love Productions.

—Emily Costantino