A double-album/DVD package, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Live In Paris, featuring a performance during Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s sold-out European tour last year as well as the documentary film 33.3{e5d2c082e45b5ce38ac2ea5f0bdedb3901cc97dfa4ea5e625fd79a7c2dc9f191}, will be available May 5 from Vagrant … Kindred is the new release from Passion Pit, due out via Columbia on April 21 … RCA will issue the 35th studio album from Van Morrison, Duets: Re-Working The Catalogue, on March 24. It will contain duet performances with the likes of Michael Buble, Steve Winwood, Bobbby Womack, Natalie Cole and more … Blues Traveler has announced the April 7 release of Blow Up The Moon via Loud & Proud … On May 5, the second record from Django Django, Born Under Saturn, will be available from Ribbon … After a 16-year hiatus, Blur returns on April 28 with a new album, The Magic Whip, on Warner Bros. … Era Of Manifestations, a collection of improvisations by People Of The North (a.k.a. Oneida’s Bobby Matador and Kid Millions), will be released by Thrill Jockey on March 24 … Rhino will issue Steve Howe’s two-disc career-spanning retrospective, Anthology, on March 10 … Shelby Lynne’s 13th full-length, I Can’t Imagine, is due out May 5 via Rounder … The second LP from METZ, II, will be available from Sub Pop on May 5 … April 21 marks the release of Damogen Furies, the new Squarepusher album, via Warp … Stillness In Motion: Vai Live In L.A features Steve Vai’s 2012 performance at Club Nokia, and it will be available in two-CD and two-DVD configurations from Sony/Legacy on April 7.
—Emily Costantino
