The 11th studio album from Metallica, Hardwired…To Self-Destruct, is set for a November 18 release via the band’s own Blackened Recordings … R.E.M. will commemorate the 25th birthday of Out Of Time on November 18 with the release of a special anniversary edition via Concord Bicycle … Live In Little Five is the new live album from by the Whigs, due out from New West on November 11. The band is currently touring the East Coast … Bong Load will reissue the Killers’ sophomore album, Sam’s Town, on vinyl on October 7 … On October 21, Jane’s Addiction will release a six-LP vinyl boxed set, Sterling Spoon, which will contain the albums Nothing’s Shocking and Ritual de lo Habitual, as well as the 1990 live recording Live from The Palladium and a selection of rarities … The debut holiday LP by Spandau Ballet’s Tony Hadley, The Christmas Album, will be available on October 21 from Omnivore … Scorpions’ never-before-released final concert from its Sting In The Tale world tour will see the light of day as Live In Munich 2012, due out from Eagle Rock on September 30 … Highway Prayer: A Tribute To Adam Carroll contains tracks by James McMurtry, Hayes Carll, Slaid Cleave and more honoring the work of Adam Carroll. It will be released October 28 via Eight 30 … Living Music Duplication will issue The Western Suite And Siesta Songs, a musical tribute to the Southwest by John Convertino (Calexico) and Naim Amor, on October 23 … On October 28, three of Colin Newman’s solo albums—A-Z, Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish and Not To—will be reissued by his own imprint Sentient Sonics … The 18th album by Marillion, F E A R, is due out from earMUSIC on September 23 … 2003 Rachel’s album, systems/layers, will make its vinyl debut on October 28 via Quarterstick … EJ, the first all-acoustic solo album by Eric Johnson, is set for an October 7 release via Provogue … Polyvinyl will release American Football’s self-titled sophomore album—17 years after the band’s debut—on October 21 … October 21 will also see the release of Jacuzzi Boys’ fourth album, Ping Pong, via their own label Mag Mag … The new solo LP from the Weakerthan’s John K. Samson, Winter Wheat, will be available from Anti- on October 21 … Glen Phillips has announced the October 7 release of Swallowed By The New … Ready Take One is a brand-new album of 14 unreleased studio performances by Erroll Garner, due out from Legacy/Octave Music Set on September 30.
—Emily Costantino
