Call it Neko Case And Her Boyfriends & Girlfriends. The Divine Miss C returns June 1 with Hell-On (Anti-), her new 12-track, self-produced (with assistance from Bjorn Yttling on half the songs) album, featuring guest appearances from the likes of AC Newman (New Pornographers), k.d. Lang, Joey Burns (Calexico), Beth Ditto, Mark Lanegan, Kelly Hogan, Eric Bachmann, Laura Veirs and Doug Gillard (GBV, Nada Surf) … 7 is the seventh album from Beach House—a collaboration of sorts with Peter “Sonic Boom” Kember (Spacemen 3)—and it’s out May 11 on Sub Pop … On May 4, Secretly Canadian will issue The Horizon Just Laughed, the 13th album by Damien Jurado … A companion to last year’s Temple Of I & I, Thievery Corporation‘s Treasures From The Temple (ESL, April 27) features new material, remixes and guest vocals courtesy of Mr. Lif, Sitali, Racquel Jones and others … The Nels Cline 4 is the latest project from Wilco guitar god Cline, and its debut, Currents, Constellations, is out April 13 on Blue Note … PARADOX (Original Music From The Film) is the latest from Neil Young + Promise Of The Real (Reprise, April 20; 420, dude), and it’s the soundtrack to the movie of the same name, which was written and directed by Daryl Hannah and features Young and the Nelson brothers … Also on April 20, Pennywise returns with 12th LP Never Gonna Die, the first album of new songs from the band’s almost original lineup in a decade … The North Mississippi Allstars just issued Blue Dances Music (Legacy), an EP featuring live recordings of songs off Prayer For Peace with loops and other digital programming added to them … Cary Brothers‘ third album, Bruises, is out April 27 via Procrastination Music … Fan is the solo project of the Dodos’ Meric Long, and on May 4, Polyvinyl will issue his self-produced debut, Barton’s Den … Jon Hopkins‘ Singularity is his first LP since 2013’s Immunity, (Domino), and it’s also out May 4 … You’re Driving Me Crazy is the 39th album from Van Morrison; it’s a collaboration with organ/trumpet player Joey DeFrancesco that’s out via Legacy on April 27 … Wildness is Snow Patrol‘s first LP in seven years, out May 25 on Republic … Spacehog frontman Royston Langdon returns May 4 with the solo Everthing’s Dandy, credited to Leeds … Del McCoury Band‘s Del McCoury Still Sings Bluegrass is out May 25 … YOB is back June 8 with eighth album Our Raw Heart (Relapse) … On May 18, BMG will issue Not Too Far Away by Joan Armatrading … Influential early-’60s folkie Tom Rush will release the all-original, 10-track Voices on April 27 via Appleseed … The soundtrack to Wes Anderson’s Isle Of The Dogs—featuring Alexandre Desplat’s score, music from Japanese films Seven Samurai and Drunken Angel, the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band and the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra—is out March 30 on ABKCO … Omnivore will reissue the first two solo albums from Dream Syndicate frontman and MAGNET fave Steve Wynn—1990’s Kerosene Man and 1992’s Dazzling Display—in expanded editions on April 27 … Steppenwolf and frontman John Kay just got the retrospective treatment with Steppenwolf At 50 (Rainman), a three-CD, 41-track collection celebrating a half-century of music making … The four-CD/five-LP Before The Dead set compiles 84 songs Jerry Garcia recorded from 1961 to 1964, before he formed the Warlocks, who, of course, morphed into the Grateful Dead … The Very Best Of Andy Gibb is 15-track package compiling all of Andy Gibb‘s hits, out April 13 on Capitol/UMe.
