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In The News: High On Fire, Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard, Roger Waters, Frank Sinatra, Knack, Jonny Polonsky, Jason Isbell And More

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Luminiferous is the new High On Fire album, due out from eOne on June 23 … Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard have reunited to bring us Django And Jimmie on June 2 via Legacy … An expanded version of Carly Simon’s The Bedroom Tapes will be released by her own boutique label, C’EST Music, on April 20 … On July 24, Roger Waters’ 1992 record, Amused To Death, will be re-released on multiple formats by Columbia/Legacy … Grönland will issue The Conny Plank Session, featuring Duke Ellington & His Orchestra’s 1970 session at Germany’s Rhenus Studio, on July 10 … The September performance of Slash And Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators at The Roxy will be available as Live At The Roxy 9/25/14 on June 16 via Eagle Rock … A Little Bit Of Me: Live In L.A showcases the final performance on Melissa Etheridge’s This Is M.E. tour at the Orpheum Theater last year, and is set for a June 9 release on CD, DVD, Blu-ray and digital from Shout! Factory … In celebration of Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday, Capitol/UMe will issue several career-spanning Ultimate Sinatra collections in various formats on April 21 … The Knack’s three final albums—Zoom, Normal As The Next Guy and Live From The Rock ‘N’ Roll Fun House—will get expanded reissues from Omnivore beginning May 19 … May 12 will see the release of Jonny Polonsky’s new album, The Other Side Of Midnight, which was mixed at David Lynch’s Asymmetrical Studios … Verve/Decca has announced the June 2 release of Melody Gardot’s new record, Currency Of Man … The fifth album from Jason Isbell, Something More Than Free, will be available from Southeastern on July 17 … High Risk is a new collaborative album between Dave Douglas and Shigeto, which will be released June 23 by Greenleaf … A four-disc set of previously unreleased live shows by Sly & The Family Stone, Live At The Fillmore East October 4th & 5 th 1968, is due out via Epic/Legacy on July 17 … Robin Gibb’s entire musical output at 19 years old will be chronicled on Saved By The Bell: The Collected Works Of Robin Gibb 1969-70, due out June 2 from Reprise … This July, Stereo Total will release a career-spanning best-of compilation, Yéyé Existentialiste … The Fire label has announced the May 19 release of Firestation Towers 1986-1989, a boxed set containing Close Lobsters’ two studio album as well as a singles collection … The lost 1972 LP by Vince Matthews And Jim Casey, The Kingston Springs Suite, will finally see the light of day on May 19 via Delmore.

—Emily Costantino