On October 20, Destroyer (a.k.a. New Pornographer wild card Dan Bejar) will release 12th album ken, produced by Josh Wells (Black Mountain), via Merge … Hitchhiker, an unreleased solo-acoustic studio album from 1976 by Neil Young, is out September 8 on Reprise … ATO is issuing the fifth album by the Bronx, aptly titled V, on September 22 … Reaching For Indigo, Circuit des Yeux‘s fifth album, is out October 20 on Drag City … Chris Hillman, a founding member of the Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, Manassas and the Desert Rose Band, will release the Tom Petty-produced Bidin’ My Time, his first solo album in more than a decade, on September 22 via Rounder … Cut-Ups, the sophomore album from SAVAK (members of Obits, Holy Fuck, the Cops and the Make-Up), is out October 27 via Ernest Jenning … ORB‘s Naturality is out October 6 on Castle Face … MAGNET faves Antietam return with 10th album Intimations Of Immortality on September 8 via Motorific Sounds … On September 22, Palmetto will issue the late Leon Russell’s final studio album, On A Distant Shore … Experimental Music by Chain & The Gang—Ian Svenonius and members of the Gories, Demolition Dollrods, Tyvek, His Name Is Alive, Swimsuit and more—is out September 29 on Radical Elite … JD McPherson‘s Undivided Heart & Soul is out October 6 via New West … Angels Hear, the debut album from Action Skulls—Vicki Peterson (Bangles), John Cowsill (Cowsills, Beach Boys) and Emmy-nominated composer/actor Bill Mumy (Barnes & Barnes)—in out September 29 … Two great tastes that taste great together: Lou Reed And Kris Kristofferson‘s two-CD In Their Own Words With Vin Scelsa (Bottom Line Archive) is out September 15 and captures a 1994 live performance by the two legends swapping stories and songs, including “Sweet Jane,” “Me And Bobby McGee,” “Romeo Had Juliet” and “Sunday Morning Coming Down” … Reissues from artists who’ve been on the cover of MAGNET: Spoon‘s Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge, October 20, double vinyl); the Afghan Whigs‘ Up In It, Congregation and the Uptown Avondale EP (Sub Pop, September 8, vinyl); and Steve Earle‘s The Mountain, Transcendental Blues and Sidetracks (all September 22, CD and vinyl), Jerusalem, Just An American Boy and The Revolution Starts Now (all September 29, CD and vinyl) and El Corazón (November 24, vinyl only)—all courtesy of Warner Bros. … The Apples In Stereo probably should’ve been on the cover of MAGNET, but nonetheless, they’re still being given the vinyl-reissue treatment, via Yep Roc: Tone Soul Evolution (November 3), Her Wallpaper Reverie (November 24), The Discovery Of A World Inside The Moone (January) and Velocity Of Sound (February) … Craig Wedren was on the cover of MAGNET while in Shudder To Think, and now he’s back as the soundtrack composer for Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later and his fourth solo album, Adult Desire, out in October … Fans of Steve Miller rejoice, as Steve Miller Band Ultimate Hits comes in two different versions courtesy of Capitol/UMe on September 15: a single-CD, 22-track edition and a double-CD, 40-track set; both will be issued on vinyl October 27 … Live In Prague, by Academy Award-winning film composer Hans Zimmer, is out November 3 via Eagle Rock on DVD, Blu-ray, two CDs or four LPs and features the themes from The Lion King, Gladiator, Interstellar, The Da Vinci Code, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Sherlock Holmes, The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Rain Man, Driving Miss Daisy and others … Insane Clown Posse‘s The Great Milenko gets a deluxe, expanded, 20th-anniversary edition on September 1 via Island/UMe … The 21-track An American Troubadour: The Songs Of Steve Forbert, out October 6 via Blue Rose Music, pays tribute to the singer/songwriter with contributions from John Oates, Bill Lloyd, Robert Earl Keen, Jim Lauderdale, John Popper, Todd Snider and others … DCX MMXVI is a live CD/DVD recorded on last year’s Dixie Chicks North American tour; it’s out via Columbia on September 1 … Autograph returns October 6 with Get Off Your Ass (EMP) … Blackmore’s Night celebrates two decades of Renaissance rock with To The Moon And Back: 20 Years And Beyond…, a two-CD collection of re-recorded material and new songs, out now.
