Against Me! has announced the June 14 release of a two-song seven-inch on Sabot Productions featuring “Russian Spies” and “Occult Enemies.” During the same session at Smart Studios, the band also recorded its rendition of the One Tree Hill theme song, which will air Tuesday. Against Me! has a North American tour set for the summer alongside Screaming Females and Lemuria and is also issuing Total Clarity, a collection of demos and unreleased songs from the sessions that resulted in 2005’s Searching For A Former Clarity, via Fat Wreck Chords on May 23 … The 2011 Lollapalooza festival will take place August 5-7 featuring headliners Eminem, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Muse, My Morning Jacket, Deadmau5, Ween and many more … This June, lucky fans on the East Coast will get to see Dinosaur Jr play its classic Bug album in its entirety, with a live interview onstage by Henry Rollins as a bonus … Portugal. The Man’s Atlantic Records debut, In The Mountain In The Cloud, will be available July 19 … The Great Lake Swimmers, Matthew Ryan, Cowboy Junkies, Over The Rhine, the Handsome Family and others contributed to Paint It Black: An Alt Country Tribute To The Rolling Stones (Reimagine Music), which is out May 17. The album title pretty much says it all … EMI Music will honor the Smashing Pumpkins starting this fall with the reissue of the band’s fully remastered catalog, starting with Gish, Siamese Dream and Pisces Iscariot … Paul McCartney’s classic solo albums McCartney and McCartney II are being released by MPL/Concord Music Group as special and deluxe editions on June 14, featuring previously unreleased outtakes, rare live recordings and more … The landmark 1981 debut from the Go-Go’s, Beauty And The Beat, has been remastered and expanded for its 3oth birthday. It’s out May 17 via Capitol/I.R.S., and the band is celebrating with the “Ladies Gone Wild Tour” across the U.S. this summer … Elvis Costello’s Sundance Channel hit, Spectacle: Elvis Costello With … Season Two, will be available on DVD and Blu-Ray on June 7 via MVD, containing seven episodes featuring Bono and the Edge, Bruce Springsteen, Neko Case, Sheryl Crow and more … Marble Son is the fourth album from Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, and it’s out via the band’s own Station Gray Records on August 2 … The final recordings of the legendary John Martyn will appear on Heaven And Earth (Hole In The Rain), out May 3 … Ozzy Osbourne’s Blizzard Of Ozz and Diary Of A Madman are being reissued May 31 by Epic/Legacy individually on vinyl and CD, as well as together as a boxed set … Guitar god Jimmie Vaughan is releasing More Blues, Ballads And Favorites, his first studio album in almost a decade, on July 26 via Shout! Factory.
—Emily Costantino
