Rhino will release the highly anticipated companion to last year’s Replacements boxed set on March 29. The four-LP collection, The Sire Years, will contain all of the band’s albums from 1985-1990 … Ash & Ice is the newest album from the Kills, due out via Domino on June 3 … M83 has announced the April 8 release of Junk on Mute … A tribute album paying homage to the late Elliott Smith, Say Yes! A Tribute To Elliott Smith, is due out from American Laundromat on October 14. J Mascis, Amanda Palmer, Yuck, Juliana Hatfield, Mark Kozelek and more will appear on the record … On April 15, the Coathangers will release Nosebleed Weekend on Suicide Squeeze … Stax will issue the first new album in nine years from Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Call It What It Is, on April 8 … Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets is Rufus Wainwright’s celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. The collection, due out on April 22 on Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music Classics and features appearances by Florence Welch, Helena Bonham Carter, William Shatner and more … David Bowie’s A Reality Tour will be released on vinyl for the first time as a limited-edition three-LP set from Friday Music on June 3 … A new collaborative album between Neko Case, k.d. lang and Laura Veirs, case/lang/veirs, will be available June 17 via Anti-. An extensive U.S. tour will follow … April 15 will see the release of four classic Dixie Chicks albums—Wide Open Spaces, Fly, Home and Taking The Long Way—remastered on vinyl via Columbia/Legacy … 429 Records has announced the May 6 release of Pierced Arrow, the second album from the Rides, which features Stephen Stills, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Barry Goldberg … Get Off, the latest release from Bird Of Youth, is set for a May 20 release via Kiam … Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds will issue La Arana Es La Vida via In The Red on April 22 … The sophomore release from Eagulls, Ullages, will be out May 13 on Partisan … On May 6, Aloha will release Little Windows Cut Right Through via Polyvinyl … Absentee/Kobalt will issue the Boxer Rebellion’s Ocean By Ocean on April 29 … Charismo, the newest album from Hackensaw Boys, will be available on April 15 via Free Dirt.
—Emily Costantino
