Last Place, the first new Grandaddy album in 10 years, will be released by 30th Century on March 3. The band will also be hitting the road in 2017 … Anti- will issue Japandroids’ new album, Near To The Wild Heart Of Life, on January 27 … The Apples In Stereo have announced the December 14 release of Science Faire, a limited-edition triple seven-inch vinyl boxed set containing the band’s earliest recordings, via Chunklet Industries … The latest release from Foxygen, Hang, is due out from Jagjaguwar on January 20. A supporting North American tour will take place in the spring … On December 16, an expanded three-LP version of Bob Marley & The Wailers’ historic 1975 concert at Lyceum Theatre, Bob Marley & The Wailers: Live!, will be available from The Marley Family and UMe … Stitch Of The World is the sixth studio album from Tift Merritt, set for a January 27 release on Yep Roc … Ahead Of Our Time will release the first new material from Coldcut in a decade, the Only Heaven EP, on November 25 … Dropkick Murphys’ ninth studio album, 11 Short Stories Of Pain & Glory, will be released January 6 via the band’s Born & Bred label. A national tour, culminating in a run of Boston shows during St. Patrick’s Day week, will kick off in February … A two-disc package containing a brand-new unplugged album along with a greatest-hits album featuring the work of UB40, Unplugged + Greatest Hits, will be available on December 2 by UMe … December 9 will see the reissue of John Cale’s live album, Fragments Of A Rainy Season, on Double Six/Domino … A Very British Synthesizer Group is a three-LP/two-CD anthology featuring the work of the Human League, due out from UMe on November 18.
—Emily Costantino
