The second Broken Bells album, After The Disco, will be released in January … Give The People What They Want, the new Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings album, was put on hold last spring after Jones was diagnosed with cancer. After her successful operation and ongoing treatment, the band has announced that the LP will be out January 14 followed by a performance at the Beacon Theater on February 6 … Rhino will issue Ramones: The Sire Years (1976-1981), a boxed set featuring the first six Ramones albums, on October 29 … On October 15, A Very Special Christmas: Icon will be available from UMe, featuring tracks by Josh Groban, John Lennon & Yoko Ono/The Plastic Ono Band (with the Harlem Community Choir), Rod Stewart, Elvis Presley, Sting and more … The New Alchemy is the new project of Ebbot Lundberg and Per Svensson, and its debut album, On The Other Side of the Light, will be released in December via Subliminal Sounds … The late Richie Havens will be honored with the release of two new records, …His Last Songs and Mixed Bag For Kids, via Cen/Sharing World on October 29 … Southern Lord has announced the latest installment in a series of reissues from Poison Idea, an expanded edition of the band’s 1986 album Kings Of Punk, due out November 26 … October 15 will see the release of Deep Purple: Perfect Strangers Live in multiple formats via Eagle Rock. It features footage from Deep Purple’s 1984 performance in Australia during the band’s Perfect Strangers tour … The new release from Doug Paisley, Strong Feelings, will be available January 21 … Duane Allman’s acclaimed boxed set, Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective, will be reissued as an encore edition on November 5 via Rounder … In Roses, the new record from Gem Club, will be released by Hardly Art on January 28 … Bing Crosby Enterprises has just released two Bing Crosby CDs via Ume: Bing Sings The Johnny Mercer Songbook and Le Bing: Song Hits Of Paris (60th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) … On November 29, Brendan Benson’s new record, You Were Right, will be issued by Readymade. The release will be celebrated December 18 with a performance in Nashville featuring special guests Jack White, Adriel Denae, Eric Burdon, Butch Walker and more … The sixth album from the Caribbean, Moon Sickness, will be out February 4 on Hometapes … Four bands from the Paisley Underground movement—the Bangles, the Three O’Clock, the Dream Syndicate and the Rain Parade—will reunite December 6 to perform a benefit for Education Through Music Los Angeles at the Fonda Theater.
—Emily Costantino
