Hot off a string of East Coast and Canadian dates, The Slackers return to New York, opening for London’s The Pogues, and performing songs off their new album Peculiar on March 16 and 18 at the new Nokia Theater in Times Square.
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Souvenir Recording artists Tiger Baby are gearing up for the release of their second full-length album “Noise Around Me” on May 23, 2006. The record will include the bonus US-only track, a lush and iconoclastic cover of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart.”
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Last, but not least, Frank Black will see the release of his new double-CD, “Fastman/Raiderman,” on June 20 on Back Porch/EMI. Paired again with producer Jon Tiven, the 27-song CD was recorded over a two-year period at studios in Nashville and Los Angeles, and features Levon Helm from The Band, Tom Petersson from Cheap Trick, Heartbreaker drummer Steve Ferrone, the legendary Al Kooper, honky-tonk hero Marty Brown, songwriting enigma P.F. Sloan, and Simon Kirke from Bad Company and Free, as well as “Honeycomb” returnees Steve Cropper, Reggie Young, Buddy Miller, Spooner Oldman and Chester Thompson, to name just a few. Black plans to put together a band that can support the songs on “Fastman/Raiderman” and hit the road later this year.  First, he¹ll join his Pixies bandmates on a European summer tour.