This week's new releases

Each title listed below will go on sale beginning Tuesday, June 26 unless otherwise indicated. Click on any LISTEN link to listen to a free, streaming version of the entire album (typically, available only during the week of release); streaming links go to AOL Music unless otherwise indicated. The week's most noteworthy releases are starred.

Casey Abrams Casey Abrams LISTEN

Bachman & Turner Live at the Roseland Ballroom NYC Blu-ray/DVD

Concert performance from 2010

Beachwood Sparks The Tarnished Gold LISTEN

First album in 11 years

Blues Traveler Suzie Cracks the Whip LISTEN

Chris Cagle Back in the Saddle LISTEN

Chain & The Gang In Cool Blood LISTEN (3voor12)

DIIV Oshin

Debut LP for the new project (formerly known as Dive) from Zachary Cole Smith, who has performed with Beach Fossils

Jerry Douglas Traveler LISTEN

Electric Prunes The Complete Reprise Singles

Everclear Invisible Stars LISTEN

Everest Ownerless LISTEN

The Flaming Lips The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends

First widely available CD release of collaborative album that was originally sold on Record Store Day; guests include Ke$ha, Bon Iver, Erykah Badu, Lightning Bolt, Nick Cave, My Morning Jacket, and more

Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage LISTEN (Spin)

The Henry Clay People Twenty-Five For The Rest of Our Lives LISTEN

Infantree Hero's Dose

Jesca Hoop The House That Jack Built LISTEN

Joe Jackson The Duke LISTEN

Covers of 10 Duke Ellington classics; guests include Iggy Pop and Sharon Jones

Julian Plenti Julian Plenti Lives… EP

5-song solo EP from Interpol frontman Paul Banks; an LP will follow later in 2012

Kasabian Live at the O2 Blu-ray/DVD

Concert performance from 2011

R. Kelly Write Me Back LISTEN

Kenny G & Rahul Sharma Namaste LISTEN

Linkin Park Living Things LISTEN (3voor12)

Little Feat Rooster Rag

Lorn Ask the Dust LISTEN

Maroon 5 Overexposed

Memphis May Fire Challenger

Milk Maid Mostly No

Mountain Goats Hound Chronicles / Hot Garden Stomp

Single-disc reissue of two albums (from 1992 and 1993) previously available on cassette only

The Offspring Days Go By LISTEN (Rolling Stone)

Pink Floyd The Story of Wish You Were Here Blu-ray/DVD

Documentary about the making of the album featuring new and archival interviews with the band

A Place to Bury Strangers Worship LISTEN

Kevin Saunderson KMS 25th Anniversary Classics 4xCD

Career-spanning retrospective for the Detroit techno legend

Ty Segall Band Slaughterhouse LISTEN (Spin)

Mindy Smith Mindy Smith LISTEN

Sonny and the Sunsets Longtime Companion

The Soundtrack of Our Lives Throw It To The Universe

Stone Temple Pilots Alive in the Windy City Blu-ray/DVD

Concert performance from 2010

Various Evita New Broadway Cast Recording 2xCD LISTEN

Various In Motion Pt. 1

Music from The Cinematic Orchestra and other artists

Various Magic Mike OST LISTEN

Various Maybach Music Group Presents: Self-Made 2

Tracks from Rick Ross, Wale, Omarion, and more; features include French Montana, T-Pain, and T.I.

Various Ted OST

Cassandra Wilson Another Country LISTEN

More streaming and downloadable new music

The Antlers

TRACK "Drift Drive" (from the forthcoming Undersea EP) streaming at Soundcloud.

Baroness

TRACK "Eula" streaming at Spin.

Bon Iver

TRACK "Beth/Rest" (live version from iTunes Session EP) streaming at Pitchfork.

Cat Power

TRACK "Ruin" (from the forthcoming album Sun) downloadable from Matador.

Chelsea Light Moving [new Thurston Moore band]

TRACK "Burroughs" downloadable from Pitchfork.

Codeine

TRACK "Kitchen" (previously unreleased demo) downloadable from Stereogum.

Com Truise

TRACK "Ghostly" (from the forthcoming compilation In Decay) streaming at Rolling Stone.

Dead Can Dance

TRACK "Amnesia" (from the forthcoming album Anastasis) downloadable from Pitchfork.

Deadmau5

ALBUM The Veldt EP streaming at Rolling Stone.

The Flaming Lips and Ghostland Observatory

TRACK "Tasered and Maced" streaming at Rolling Stone.

Freddie Gibbs and Madlib

TRACK "Shame" streaming at Pitchfork.

Holograms

TRACK "Monolith" streaming at Soundcloud.

jj

ALBUM High Summer EP downloadable at Stereogum.

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

TRACK "Black Mold" downloadable from Pitchfork.

Aimee Mann

TRACK "Charmer," the title track from her upcoming album (out 9/18), streaming at Rolling Stone.

Matt & Kim

TRACK "Let's Go" streaming at Soundcloud.

Nas

TRACK "Accident Murderers" (feat. Rick Ross) streaming at Soundcloud.

The New Pornographers

TRACK "Think About Me" (Fleetwood Mac cover) streaming at Soundcloud.

Om

TRACK "State Of Non-Return" streaming at Soundcloud.

Purity Ring

TRACK "Fineshrine" downloadable from Pitchfork.

The Raveonettes

TRACK "Observations" streaming at Rolling Stone.

Regina Spektor

TRACK "Patron Saint" downloadable from KCRW.

Stars

TRACK "The Theory of Relativity" downloadable from the official album site.

The Vaccines

ALBUM Live in Brighton EP downloadable from the official site.

On TV this week (new episodes only)

• Monday: Alabama Shakes (Fallon), Delta Rae (Leno), Diamond Rugs (Letterman), The Offspring (Kimmel)
• Tuesday: Big K.R.I.T. (Conan), Maroon 5 (Letterman), Robin Thicke (Leno)
• Wednesday: Justin Bieber (Leno), El-P (Conan), The Gaslight Anthem (Letterman), Linkin Park (Kimmel), LMFAO (Fallon)
• Thursday: Infantree (Conan), Keane (Leno), Linkin Park (Kimmel), Maroon 5 (Fallon), Tenacious D (The Daily Show)
• Friday: R. Kelly (Fallon), Of Monsters and Men (Leno)

Recent artist and industry news

• On Monday, July 2, at 6:15 p.m. BST, Blur will perform two new songs ("Under the Westway" and "The Puritan") on a London rooftop and stream the performance live on the web via their Twitter page. (The tracks will also be released as a single on August 6th).

The latest music videos

Can, "Messer, Scissors, Fork and Light":

Sigur Rós,"Fjögur Píanó" [starring Shia LaBeouf] [NSFW]:

The Shins, "No Way Down":

Beirut, "The Rip Tide":

Simian Mobile Disco, "Your Love Ain't Fair":

Twin Shadow, "Five Seconds":

Sun Kil Moon, "Black Kite":

Richard Hawley, "Down in the Woods":

The Beach Boys, "That's Why God Made the Radio":

Bowerbirds, "Sweet Moment":

Baio, "Sunburn Modern":

Neneh Cherry & The Thing, "Dream Baby Dream [Four Tet Remix]":

Lemonade, "Softkiss":

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, "Everybody's On The Run":

Slaughterhouse feat. Cee-Lo Green, "My Life":

In the studio / coming soon

• Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music compilation Cruel Summer looks like it's headed for an August 7 release date. - Rolling Stone
• There's good news ahead for Cat Power fans: Sun, Chan Marshall's first album of original songs in six years, arrives on September 4 via Matador.
• September 18 brings a new album from singer-songwriter Aimee Mann, Charmer.
• Stars return on September 4 with The North, the Canadian group's 6th LP.
• On September 11, Danish duo The Raveonettes will release their new album Observator on Vice Records.
• After an eight-year recording hiatus, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion will release a new album, Meat and Bone, on September 18. - Pitchfork
• September 18 will also bring Bend Beyond, a new album from Woods. - Pitchfork
• The Presets will return with a new album, Pacifica, in September.
• Sonic Youth may be dead, but Thurston Moore is staying busy. Along with Yoko Ono and Kim Gordon, he has a six-song album, YOKOKIMTHURSTON, due on September 25th. And Moore has also started a new band (with guitarist Keith Wood, bassist Samara Lubelski, and drummer John Moloney) called Chelsea Light Moving; they are currently recording their full-length debut for Matador.
• Band of Horses don't have a title for their next album, but it, too, will be out in September; watch a teaser video at Pitchfork.
• That Heady Fwends compilation out this week isn't the last you'll hear of The Flaming Lips this year; the band is nearly done recording a new studio album, which is targeted for a fall release. - Rolling Stone
• The Orbserver in the Star House is the name of a collaborative album by The Orb and reggae oddball Lee "Scratch" Perry, and you can find it in stores on August 28. - Pitchfork
• The Black Keys are planning on heading into the studio next month to record their follow-up to El Camino, though the resulting album likely won't arrive until 2013. - Rolling Stone
• Pitchfork has some more details about Frank Ocean's upcoming July 17 release Channel Orange.
• Minus the Bear return with Infinity Overhead on August 28. - Punknews
• Former Sleater-Kinney member Corin Tucker will release her second solo album, Kill My Blues, on September 18. - Pitchfork
• Scott Walker could have a new album out before the end of the year; his last was 2006's The Drift. - Pitchfork

Visit Metacritic's Album Release Calendar for a full listing of upcoming release dates, updated daily.

Tours and festivals

• The lineup for the annual FYF Fest in Los Angeles (expanded to two days this year, September 1-2) has been set; acts scheduled to perform include Wild Flag, Refused, M83, Redd Kross, Yeasayer, and James Blake. - Pop & Hiss
• Morrissey will spend much of the fall touring the U.S., with visits to cities large and small and a November 24 date in Los Angeles that finds him on the same bill as Iggy & The Stooges. - Spin
• Find August dates for Bob Dylan at Pollstar.
• Justice have lined up some new North American tour dates for late 2012. - Pitchfork
• Having just played a few dates on the West Coast, Jesus and Mary Chain will return to play the eastern half of the U.S. in September; Pollstar has the new dates.
• Get dates for The Dirty Three at Pitchfork.
• Washed Out will be touring with The Shins this fall; before that, they also have some headlining dates of their own in August. - Pitchfork
• Pitchfork also has dates for Zammuto, the new project for former Books member Nick Zammuto.
• Simian Mobile Disco will visit the U.S. in December. - Prefix
• BPM has new dates for The Tallest Man on Earth.
• Get dates for Jens Lekman (touring with Taken by Trees) at Pitchfork.
• Find dates for the Afghan Whigs at Prefix.
• Lightning Bolt begin a North American tour in August. - Prefix
• Following a deadly stage collapse in Toronto, Radiohead have postponed some of their upcoming European tour dates; Rolling Stone has part of the band's statement.