The third installment of Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs’ Under The Covers series is due out from Shout! Factory on November 12; it features 14 classics from the likes of Tom Petty, the Pretenders, Echo & The Bunnymen, the Smiths and more … After a 10-year hiatus, Throwing Muses is back with a new studio album, Purgatory/Paradise, which is set for release as an art book with CD by Harper Collins on November 11 … Drag City will issue the new Magik Markers record, Surrender To The Fantasy, on November 19 … The Chills and contemporary artist Shane Cotton have teamed up to bring us Somewhere Beautiful, a triple-LP set of live recordings from New Year’s Eve 2011 along with a print of artwork by Cotton. It will be available from Fire Records on October 14 … Don’t Tell The Driver is the new record by the Dirty Three’s Mick Turner, said to be the first “post-rock rock opera” of our times, due out November 19 via Drag City … On November 26, Shearwater will issue Fellow Travelers, a collection of reinventions and collaborations from artists the band has toured with, via Sub Pop … A boxed set featuring all six solo albums by Howe Gelb, Little Sand Box, will be out December 9 on Fire Records … If you missed Megadeth’s sold-out Countdown To Extinction 20th anniversary tour last year, on September 24 you’ll be able to own the definitive document of the tour, Countdown To Extinction: Live (Tradecraft/Ume), in multiple video and audio configurations … Chrome has announced the November 5 release of an entire album of previously unreleased material from 1979-80, Half Machine From The Sun, The Lost Chrome Tracks From ’79-’80 … Happiness, the new album from Kid606, is due out from Tigerbeat6 on October 21 … November 12 will see the release of Emerson Lake & Palmer’s two-CD live album, Live In Montreal, 1977, via Shout! Factory … This fall, UMe will launch its “Respect The Classics” campaign, which will reissue iconic hip-hop albums from several labels. It begins September 3 with five Priority Records classics from Eazy-E, EPMD, Ice Cube and N.W.A … For the first time in more than 10 years, Monster Magnet will hit the road this fall for a North American tour, which will support new album Last Patrol, due out from Napalm Records on October 18 … Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band will issue its debut EP on October 1 via the band’s own ZNA Records.
—Emily Costantino
