American Band is the new album from Drive-By Truckers, due out from ATO on September 30. The band, which celebrates its 20th birthday this year, will tour North America this fall in support … Teenage Fanclub’s 10th album, Here, will be available September 9 via Merge … Partisan will be issuing the debut solo LP from Flock Of Dimes (a.k.a. Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner) this fall … The third record by Grouplove, Big Mess, will be released September 9 by Canvasback/Atlantic. A supporting world tour will kick off later this summer … On September 2, the late Freddie Mercury will be honored with the release of Messenger Of The Gods: The Singles, a boxed set featuring all 13 of his solo singles on individually colored vinyl, via Hollywood … 4th Of July, the new solo album from My Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemel, is set for an August 19 release via Stocks In Asia/Thirty Tigers … The Turtles will reissue their classic ’60s LPs as The Complete Original Albums Collection, a six-CD boxed set, as well as a two-CD collection of the a- and b-sides of every original 1965-1970 songs as All The Singles. Both will be available August 19 via FloEdCo in association with Manifesto … Fire will release the first new album from the Moles in more than 20 years, Tonight’s Music, on August 12 … The long-awaited new album from Meat Loaf, Braver Than We Are, is due out September 16 via 429 … Atmosphere‘s new album, Fishing Blues, is out August 12 via Rhymesayers … August 26 will see the release of KISS Rocks Vegas, featuring KISS in the midst of its 40th-anniversary world tour, in multiple formats from Eagle Rock … Psychotic Supper, the 1991 album from Tesla, turns 25 this year, and UMe will mark the occasion on July 22 with the release of a two-LP vinyl release … ZZ Top has announced the August 12 release of Greatest Hits Live via Suretone … Captured Tracks will reissue the complete works of the Brotherhood Of Lizards as Lizardland on August 19 … A live version of Björk’s eighth studio album, Vulnicura, will be available on July 15 via One Little Indian.
—Emily Constantino
