Please Be Honest is the new Guided By Voices album, due out from GBV Inc. on April 22. The band has also announced a handful of North American tour dates following the release … The two Trio albums recorded by Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris have been newly remastered and will be available as a three-disc set, complete with rare and unreleased material, on September 9 via Rhino … Norah Jones, Aimee Mann, Susanna Hoffs, Neko Case, Lydia Loveless and Brian May all appear on the same song, “One Voice,” which will appear in the documentary A Dog Named Gucci. The track will be available April 16 (Record Store Day) on 12-inch vinyl and digitally on April 19. All proceeds will go to various animal charities … Warner Bros. will issue Tegan And Sara’s eighth studio album, Love You To Death, on June 3 … On April 16, the final installment of the Half Japanese boxed set series, Volume 4: 1997-2001, will be released by Fire Records … True Sadness, the new album by the Avett Brothers, is set for a June 24 release via American/Repulbic. The band will kick off a North American tour next month … Metric’s Joshua Winstead has announced the June 3 release of his debut solo album, MMXX, via Royal Cut … The new self-titled studio album from Ziggy Marley will be released by Tuff Gong on May 20 … Dischord will reissue the long out-of-print final album by Scream, Fumble, this spring … On May 6, Melody Gardot’s first-ever live DVD, Live At The Olympia Paris, will be available from Eagle Rock … The soundtrack to Everybody Wants Some, the upcoming Richard Linklater film, will be released by Warner Bros. on April 8. It features tracks by Van Halen, the Cars, the Knack, Blondie and many more … July 1978: The Complete Recordings is a limited-edition, 12-disc boxed set containing five unreleased Grateful Dead concerts, due out May 13 from Rhino … In other Grateful Dead news, 4AD has announced the May 20 release of Day Of The Dead, a tribute benefiting the Red Hot Organization. The compilation is nearly six hours long and features appearances by Bruce Hornsby & DeYarmond Edison, Fucked Up, the War On Drugs, Phosphorescent, Jenny Lewis and more … Al Jarreau’s 1993 performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival will be released on CD for the first time on April 15 via Eagle Rock … Legacy has announced its collectible vinyl releases for Record Store Day 2016, including titles by Big Star, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Matthew Sweet and more.
—Emily Costantino
