The long-awaited third album from Local Natives, Sunlit Youth, will be issued September 9 via Lorma Vista/Infectious … Angel Olsen has announced the September 2 release of new album My Woman via Jagjaguwar. She’ll embark on a world tour this summer and fall … Merge will issue the new release from Wye Oak, Tween, on August 5. It’s a collection eight songs written and abandoned between 2011 and 2014 … On July 15, two new Frank Zappa titles containing previously unreleased material, Frank Zappa For President and The Crux Of The Biscuit, will be available from Zappa/UMe … Born Of The Sun is the first new album in six years from Faun Fables, due out from Drag City on July 22 … The 1993 Greatest Hits collection by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers will be available on vinyl for the first time in North America on July 29 via UMe … Sam Coomes’ first-ever solo album, Bugger Me, is due out from No Quarter on August 19 … Verve/UMe will reissue two albums as part of Verve’s 60th anniversary celebration this year. Ella Fitzgerald’s Mack The Knife: Ella In Berlin and Jimmy Smith’s Root Down: Jimmy Smith Live! will be available June 24 on 180-gram vinyl … July 29 will see the release of the new Descendents album, Hypercaffium Spazzinate, via Epitaph … Freetown Sound is the new album from Blood Orange (a.k.a Devonte Hynes), set for a July 1 release on Domino … Two classic Grifters albums 1993’s One Sock Missing and 1994’s Crappin You Negative will be reissued by Fat Possum on August 12, with the digital versions available now … Tobacco’s fourth solo album, Sweatbox Dynasty, will be released August 19 via Ghostly International … Specialty will pay tribute to Little Richard with the July 15 release of a deluxe, five-LP boxed set, Mono Box: The Complete Specialty And Vee-Jay Albums … On August 26, Butch Walker will release his eighth studio album, Stay Gold, via Dangerbird … Rolling Disclosure is the debut full-length from the Paranoid Style, due out from Bar/None on July 15 … The 20th birthday of Squirrel Nut Zippers’ Hot will be celebrated July 29, when Hollywood reissues the newly remastered album on vinyl and digital platforms … Banks & Steelz, the new collaboration between Wu Tang Clan’s RZA and Interpol’s Paul Banks, will release debut album Anything But Words on Warner Bros. later this year.
—Emily Costantino
