Robert Pollard’s Circus Devils is set to issue new full-length Stomping Grounds on October 23 … Ultimate Bill Hicks is a three-DVD boxed set containing four Bill Hicks performances as well as the documentary of his life, It’s Just A Ride. It will be available on November 9 via PIAS Comedy … On January 29, the new Bloc Party album, Hymns, will be available from Infectious/BMG/Vagrant … After a 10-year hiatus, Dweezil Zappa returns November 27 with the release of Via Zammata’ from Fantom … American/UMe will re-release the first four albums from the Black Crowes (Shake Your Money Maker, The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion, Amorica and Three Snakes and One Charm) on high-grade 180-gram vinyl on December 4 … Tracy Chapman has announced the November 20 release of her long-awaited Greatest Hits album via Elektra/Rhino … The Peanuts Movie original motion-picture soundtrack, which features classic Vince Guaraldi tracks as well as hits by Meghan Trainor and Flo Rida, will be available from Epic and 20th Century Fox on October 23 … January 22 marks the release of A Coliseum Complex Museum, the new album from the Besnard Lakes, via Jagjaguwar … Domino will issue a new collection of Cass McCombs tracks, A Folk Set Apart: Rarities, B-Sides And Space Junk, Etc., on December 11 … A career-spanning retrospective from Can’s Irmin Schmidt, Electro Violet, is due out November 20 via Mute/Spoon … Brooke Waggoner’s fifth studio album, Sweven, is set for a January 15 release via Swoon Moon Music … Weather Report: The Legendary Live Tapes: 1978-1981 is a four-disc boxed set of previously unreleased live performances by Weather Report. It will be issued by Legacy on November 20 … Omnivore has announced the November 13 release of Buck ‘Em! Volume 2: The Music Of Buck Owens (1967-1975). It’s chronicles the work of Buck Owens, containing 50 tracks, including seven previously unreleased recordings … On November 27, a four-disc boxed set spanning Bobby Rush’s 50-year career, Chicken Heads: A 50-Year History Of Bobby Rush, will be released by Omnivore … Three films by Robert Mugge—Black Wax (a 1982 portrait of Gil Scott-Heron), Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise and Hawaiian Rainbow/Kumu Hula: Keepers Of A Culture—will be available on DVD and Blu-ray … The Color Of Noise is a new documentary about the life of Tom Hazelmyer (a.k.a the Artist Haze XXL) and his record label, Amphetamine Reptile. It will be out from MVD on November 24 … Alligator will issue A Blues Christmas—featuring tracks by Koko Taylor, Charlie Musselwhite, Shemekia Copeland, Elvin Bishop and more—on vinyl November 6 … The life of Genesis’s Steve Hackett is documented in The Man, The Music, which will be available on DVD on October 16 via MVD … The final studio album from Love, Reel To Real (originally released in 1975), has been remastered and expanded by High Moon, with a release date of November 27.
—Emily Costantino
