On April 26, Steve Earle is releasing I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive (New West), the follow-up to 2009’s Grammy-winning Townes. The 11-track LP, produced by T Bone Burnett, shares the same title with Earle’s first novel, which will be published May 12 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt … The Strokes will release their fourth album, the 10-track Angles (RCA), on March 22. First single “Under Cover Of Darkness” is out next month, and the band is planning a U.S. tour for the spring … Animal Collective is hitting the road for a five-date California tour that culminates in the band’s April 16 appearance at Coachella … A new I’ll Be Your Mirror event, curated by All Tomorrow’s Parties and Portishead, will take place September 30-October 2 in Asbury Park, N.J., and feature Jeff Mangum (playing Neutral Milk Hotel songs), Shellac, Chavez, Cults, the Album Leaf and many more artists to be announced. Mangum will also play a headlining show in Asbury Park on October 3 … Golden Greats, No. 1 (Little W/The Orchard) is a career-spanning compilation by the Soundtrack Of Our Lives. The album, out March 22, features hits, fan faves and odds ‘n’ sods and will be supported by a North American tour … “Island Brothers”/”New Wonder,” the new single by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & The Cairo Gang, is out February 22 on Drag City, and most of its profits are going to Edge Outreach, a faith-based organization providing water-purification systems that can be maintained by local populations in places like Haiti and Pakistan … The Second Motion label is releasing limited-to-500, 180-gram-vinyl editions of Swervedriver classics Raise and Mezcal Head. These mail-order only albums contain download codes for the bonus material available on the CD reissues the label released earlier … Also out on Second Motion is White Magic, the second album from Steve Kilbey (Church) and Martin Kennedy (All India Radio). The 11-track LP is due February 15, and if you pre-order it, you will also get a 15-song fan-remix album of the duo’s debut, Unseen Music/Unheard Words … The Grateful Dead is releasing a 60-CD set featuring every note the band played on its maiden European tour. Europe ’72: The Complete Recordings comes in a replica steamer trunk and features more than 70 hours of music mixed by longtime band associate Jeffrey Norman … Richard X. Heyman has two new albums, and they will be packed together and released April 19 as the 31-song Tiers/And Other Stories (Turn-Up) … On February 1, Knitting Factory Records is releasing the first in a series of curated Fela Kuti vinyl boxed sets. Vinyl Box Set 1 features six Kuti albums chosen by ?uestlove (Roots): 1975’s Everything Scatter and Expensive Shit, 1977’s Fear Not For Man and Sorrow Tears And Blood, 1986’s Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense and 1989’s Beasts Of No Nation … And in some cool non-music news: The six-DVD The Ernie Kovacs Collection is out April 19 via the Shout! Factory label. The set features more than 13 hours of comedian Ernie Kovacs‘ television content (much of which hasn’t been seen in more than 50 years) and a 44-page booklet (with essays by novelist Jonathan Lethem and TV critic David Kronke).
