This spring, two new collections honoring the legacy of the Cars will be released by Rhino. The Elektra Years 1978-1987, due out March 11, is a boxed set containing six remastered studio albums, while Moving In Stereo: The Best Of The Cars, a career-spanning best-of curated by the Cars themselves, will be out May 6 … Sub Pop will issue Three Men And A Baby, a collaboration between Mike Kunka and the Melvins, on April 1 … Candlebox has announced the April 22 release of new album Disappearing In Airports via Pavement … The sixth album from Jennifer O’Connor, Surface Noise, is due out from Kiam on March 4. She’ll pay a string of East Coast dates with Neko Case in support … Detour is the 11th studio album from Cyndi Lauper, which features country classics from the ‘40s, ‘50s and ‘60s as well as duets with Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Jewel and more. It will be out via Sire on May 6 … March 18 will see the release of Iggy Pop’s Post Pop Depression via Rekords Rekords/Loma Vista/Caroline … Suuns’ latest album, Hold/Still, is set for an April 15 release by Secretly Canadian … Big Machine will release Cheap Trick’s new record, Bang Zoom Crazy…Hello on April 1 … The eighth solo album by Peter Wolf, A Cure For Loneliness, will be available April 8 via Concord … Upland Stories, the latest full-length from Robbie Fulks, is due out April 1 via Bloodshot … This April, the fourth album by Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds, La Arana Es La Vida, will be released by In The Red.
—Emily Costantino
