Sound & Color is the second album from Alabama Shakes, which will be out April 21 via ATO. The band is touring North America this spring and summer in support … Dead Oceans will issue the new Tallest Man On Earth album, Dark Bird Is Home, on May 12 … The sixth album from Hot Chip, Why Make Sense?, is due out May 19 from Domino … Billie Holiday’s 100th birthday will be honored by Legacy Recordings with the March 31 release of The Centennial Collection, a single-disc anthology featuring 20 classic recordings … This April, the one and only BBC Session recorded by the Lemonheads, Bored On The Fourth Of July, will be commercially available for the first time ever via Fire … Saturns Pattern, the latest album from Paul Weller, is set for a May 11 release on Warner Bros. … A new self-titled solo record from Kathryn Calder of the New Pornographers is due out from File Under: Music on April 14 … Reclamation/Ipecac has announced the May 19 release of the new Faith No More album, Sol Invictus … Ringo Starr’s 18th studio release, Postcards From Paradise, will be available March 30 from UMe … On March 31, a 22-track collection of rare and previously unreleased material from Translator, Sometimes People Forget, will be released by Omnivore … The fourth solo album from Steve Von Till, A Life Unto Itself, is due out from Neurot in May … The Key To The Universe is the latest Michael Des Barres album, set for an April 7 release via FOD … Pinkflag will issue the new self-titled album from Wire on April 21 … Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan has announced the April 7 release of solo album Non-Believers on Merge … All eight Roxy Music studio albums will be available in a vinyl boxed set as Roxy Music: The Complete Studio Albums on March 17 from Virgin/UMe … May 5 marks the release of Rose Windows’ self-titled sophomore album via Sub Pop … The Last Fret, the third solo bass album from Wendy Atkinson, will be available from Smarten Up & Get To The Point on March 16 … Double Naught Spy Car and Stew have teamed up to bring us Panorama City on April 14 via 11 Foot Pole.
—Emily Costantino
