Artist: Conor Oberst
Songs: 'Danny Callahan'
Album: 'Conor Oberst'
Sounds Like: Red House Painters, M. Ward

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Fleetwood Mac's Lindsay Buckingham will be joined by two of his primary bandmates for his fifth studio disc, the curiously titled 'Gift of Screws.' Fleetwood Mac's namesakes, drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie, will appear on the follow up to 2006's 'Under The Skin,' which is set to be released on September 16.

The three worked together on a number of new songs, including the title track and 'Wait For You.' Other new titles – written in his home studio and in hotel rooms during his last tour – include 'Great Day,' 'Time Precious Time,' 'Love Runs Deeper,' 'Bel Air Rain' and 'The Right Place to Fade.'

"This album distills several periods of time," Buckingham explained. "It has false starts to make albums, songs that go back a number of years that took a while to find a home and brand-new songs. I wanted to bring it all together in one place. As an artist I'm still, for better or worse, clinging to my idealism and to my sense that there is still much to be said. This album is a culmination of that."

Buckingham, 58, will launch a six-week tour on Sept. 7 in Saratoga, Calif. As for the status of Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham told reporters of a 2009 tour earlier this year, although no additional details have surfaced.

Artist: Black Gold
Songs: 'Detroit'
Album: 'Rush'
Sounds Like:Nada Surf, Office

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Artist: Cory Chisel
Songs: 'Home in the Woods'
Album: 'Cabin Ghosts'
Sounds Like:Eric Bachmann, Ray LaMontagne

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Artist: Lackthereof
Songs: 'Last November'
Album: 'Your Anchor' [iTunes]
Sounds Like:John Vanderslice, Pedro the Lion

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Artist: Judi Chicago
Songs: 'Mad Ape'
Album: Judi Chicago x 1,000,000 [iTunes]
Sounds Like: Radio 4, The Rapture

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Artist: Dr. Dog
Songs: 'The Old Days'
Album: 'Fate' [iTunes]
Sounds Like: Mother Hips, My Morning Jacket

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Artist: 31 Knots
Songs: 'Compass Commands'
Album: 'Worried Well' [iTunes]
Sounds Like: Devo, Sonic Youth

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It's 2008, but it sure sounds like '90s all over again with records dropping from the Lemonheads, Matthew Sweet and the Dandy Warhols in the coming months. Portland's psychedelic rock quartet are back in full swing with 'Earth to Dandy Warhols,' the bands sixth album. The record will surface on August 19, but you get a taste of the band's updated and untamed eclectic sound on 'The Legend of the Last of the Outlaw Truckers aka The Ballad of Sheriff Shorty.' Download the tune after the jump and check out tour dates.

After a nine-year split, the newly reunited Verve -- best known here for their 1997 hit 'Bittersweet Symphony' -- are gearing up for a European tour and the release of their fourth album, the aptly titled 'Forth.' The band's energetic first single, 'Love is Noise,' features a dark dance beat underlying Richard Ashcroft's bittersweet lyrics. Have a listen.



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Artist: The Heavenly Tenants
Songs: 'Fifteen'
Album: 'The Heavenly Tenants' EP
Sounds Like: Blake Babies, Velocity Girl, The Rentals

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Oasis will release their first album in three and a half years when they put forth 'Dig Out Your Soul' on October 7. Recorded at the legendary Abbey Road studios in London with producer Dave Sardy, the band's seventh studio disc, and first since 2005's 'Don't Believe The Truth,' will be preceded by a single, 'The Shock of Lightning.'

"I wanted to write music that had a groove, not songs that followed that traditional pattern of verse, chorus and middle eight," Oasis' guitarist and principal songwriter Noel Gallagher said of the new material. "I wanted a sound that was more hypnotic; more driving. Songs that would draw you in, in a different way. Songs that you would maybe have to connect to – to feel."

As for the 'The Shock of Lightning' – which is described as "unmistakably Oasis" and features singer Liam Gallagher's "immediately familiar voice" – Noel called the single "instant and compelling because it was written dead fast and recorded dead fast".

"[It's] basically the demo," Oasis' creative force adds. "And it has retained its energy. There's a lot to be said for that, I think. The first time you record something is always the best."

Ah, the 17th anniversary -- a milestone one tends to hold with high regard. It's suggested that furniture is the best gift for such an occasion, so all you Smashing Pumpkins fans should keep that in mind as the band celebrates the 17th anniversary of the release of their debut album, 'Gish.'

According to a sparse posting on the Pumpkins' official website, the band -- now officially down to frontman/brainchild Billy Corgan and loyal drummer Jimmy Chamberlain -- will reissue the effort "sometime in 2008" and launch a full tour this year, where the band will play the original disc in its entirety to celebrate the unconventional milestone.

In addition to a box set of both pre-'Gish' and 'Gish'-era material, the Pumpkins plan to celebrate twenty years together (although sans original guitarist James Iha and bassist D'Arcy for the last decade or so) with an array of outtakes, rarities, demos, live tunes and the like.

Specifics are scant, however, with SmashingPumpkins.com saying: "What is to be included on here, no one knows for sure." In May, Corgan and Chamberlains announced a forthcoming DVD chronicling the band's 2007 residency at the Fillmore in San Francisco.

Artist: The Wombats
Songs: 'Let's Dance to Joy Division'
Album: 'A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation' [iTunes]
Sounds Like: The Futureheads, The Maccabees

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Weezer will bolster the formal U.K. release of 'Pork and Beans' on Monday with cover versions of legendary songs by R.E.M., the Psychedelic Furs and Gary Numan. In a shrewd move, the Rivers Cuomo-fronted band will unveil one CD single -- featuring Numan's 1979 Tubeway Army classic 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' -- plus two 7" vinyl offerings, with takes on the Furs 1982 classic 'Love My Way' and R.E.M's 1987 track 'Oddfellows Local 151,' respectively.

Meanwhile, Weezer's promotional 'Hootenany Tour' of the West Coast continues this week, with private, radio station sponsored shows open to contest winners only in Portland (6/19), San Francisco (6/20), Seattle (6/21) and Century City (6/23). Tuesday in Phoenix , the group rocked 200 fans at the American Legion Post 41, and peppered the short, six-song set with a cover of Radiohead's 'Creep.'

In related news, Weezer's resident Gary Numan devotee, drummer Pat Wilson -- who has been absent from most Hootenany dates -- will appear at Monday's show in Century City, California, before undergoing minor knee surgery to correct an injury he suffered while playing basketball with actor Johnny Knoxville.