Saint Etienne has announced the June 2 release of Home Counties on Heavenly … Rock N Roll Consciousness, the new album from Thurston Moore, will be released by Caroline on April 28. Several North American tour dates will follow … Interscope will issue Feist’s first new album in six years, Pleasure, on April 28 … An LP featuring re-worked renditions of the Cranberries’ major hits as well as brand-new material, Something Else, is due out April 28 via BMG in honor of the band’s 25th anniversary … On April 28, the 1995 album by Swans, The Great Annihilator, will be reissued by Young God/Mute … !!! (Chk Chk Chk) will release new album Shake The Shudder via Warp on May 19 … Other is the latest release from Alison Moyet, due out June 16 on Cooking Vinyl … Rhino has announced 29 limited-edition vinyl releases for Record Store Day (April 22), including titles by David Bowie, the Cure, Ramones, Lou Reed and more (plus the Space Jam soundtrack!) … The first new Danzig album in seven years, Black Laden Crown, will be available from Evilive/Nuclear Blast in mid-May … June 16 will see the release of the first new Ride LP in two decades, Weather Diaries, on Wichita … Black Lips’ new album, Satan’s Graffiti Or God’s Art?, is due out from Vice on May 5 … Real High, the fourth Nite Jewel record, will be available May 5 from Gloriette … Bomber will issue America, Location 12, the latest Dispatch album, on June 2 … The second installment of Walkman Walter Martin’s “juvenile series,” My Kinda Music, will be released May 5 … On June 16, Platinum Tips And Ice Cream, the latest Royal Trux album, will be available from Drag City … Banditos’ second full-length, Visionland, is set for a June 23 release on Bloodshot … The Nashville Sound is the new album from Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit, due out from Southeastern on June 16 … Dead Oceans has announced the June 16 release of Kevin Morby’s City Music … The new record by North Mississippi Allstars, Prayer For Peace, is due out from Sony/Legacy on June 2 … April 28 marks the reissue of two long-lost EPs by Paul Collins’ band the Beat, Long Time Gone and To Beat Or Not To Beat, via Lolipop … Tindersticks have announced the release of the original soundtrack and film by Stuart Staples, Minute Bodies: The Intimate World Of F. Percy Smith, on June 16 via City Slang … I’m Just Dead, I’m Not Gone: Lazarus Edition is a live album featuring the late Jim Dickinson, which will be available from Memphis International in April … Legacy will release So It Is, the new release from Preservation Hall Jazz Band, on April 21.
—Emily Costantino
