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In The News: Matt & Kim, Melvins, Avett Brothers, Grateful Dead, Lee Ranaldo And More

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The new full-length from Matt & Kim, Lightning Remixes, will be released this fall on Fader. A remix contest for the track “Tonight” is currently underway, and fans will be able to vote for their favorite September 3-17 … Tres Cabrones is the new LP from the Melvins, due out from Ipecac on November 5. The band is currently celebrating 30 years with an anniversary tour across North America … The October 15 release of the Avett BrothersMagpie And The Dandelion has been announced by Republic … Willie Nelson turned 80 this year, a milestone that will be celebrated with the release of To All The Girls…, a collection of 18 musical duets with country’s top female singers, including Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Norah Jones, Loretta Lynn, Sheryl Crow and many more. It’s set for a September 24 release via Legacy … On October 22, JD Samson & MEN’s new record, Labor, will be issued … Third Man Records will release Kelley Stoltz’s latest work, Double Exposure, on September 24 … Sunshine Daydream chronicles the Grateful Dead’s Veneta, Ore., performance at the Aug. 27, 1972, benefit concert for the Kesey family’s Springfield Creamery. It will finally be available as a limited-edition deluxe version on September 17 … The soundtrack to the upcoming movie CBGB features 20 songs by the likes of Talking Heads, Television, Dead Boys, Joey Ramone, the Velvet Underground, the Stooges and many more.  It will be available via Omnivore on October 8 … Matador will issue Last Night On Earth, the new album by Lee Ranaldo And The Dust, on October 8 … The new movie from Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, The World’s End, will hit theaters August 23. The soundtrack—which features hits from Primal Scream, the Soup Dragons, the Stone Roses, Blur, Pulp, Suede and more—will be available from ABKCO on August 20.

—Emily Costantino