‘Ride, Rise, Roar’ — a new concert film documenting the creation and staging of David Byrne’s ambitious ‘The Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno’ tour in 2008 and 2009 — will receive its world premiere next month at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.

This week’s new releases include Peter Gabriel’s new orchestral covers album, a live Pet Shop Boys CD/DVD, Niter Ebb’s first new record in 15 years and new reissues from Pixies, Bomb the Bass and 808 State.

[tweetmeme]David Byrne and Fatboy Slim next month finally will release Here Lies Love, the duo’s long-gestating, star-laden 22-track concept album about former Filipino first lady — and noted shoe hoarder — Imelda Marcos and her relationship, as a child, with one of her family’s servants.
Due out Feb. 23, the project — available both as a [...]

Record Rack: A weekly round-up of new albums, reissues and/or box sets due out Tuesday.
ARTIST: Echo & The Bunnymen
RELEASE: The Fountain
BACKSTORY: The long-running and beloved Bunnymen — original members Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant, plus assorted sidemen — this week release their 10th studio album, preceded by first single “Think I Need It Too.” [...]

No stranger to the two-wheeler, ex-Talking Head David Byrne this fall will publish “Bicycle Diaries,” a 320-page text-and-photo account of his observations gleaned while cycling through the world’s cities while on tour.
Byrne famously has relied on bicycles as his primary means of transportation at home in New York for decades, and also takes them on [...]

Talking Heads spinoff Tom Tom Club sees its sophomore album Close to the Bone released on CD for the first time ever next week as part of an expanded reissue of its 1981 self-titled debut.
The Tom Tom Club: Deluxe Edition 2CD set, due out Tuesday, features remastered versions of the group’s self-titled album and 1983’s [...]

Epic/Legacy will release an expanded reissue of the 1985 debut from Mick Jones’ terrific post-Clash project, Big Audio Dynamite, on Sept. 8, according to Pause and Play. The 2CD This is Big Audio Dynamite: Legacy Edition will feature a second disc full of b-sides and rarities.
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The next batch of books in the ever-popular 33 1/3 [...]

Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new releases hitting stores this Tuesday:
ARTIST: Jane’s Addiction
ALBUM: Nothing’s Shocking, Ritual de lo Habitual
BACKSTORY: Although they’re technically being released Saturday for Record Store Day, the new deluxe 180-gram vinyl reissues of the two classic Jane’s studio albums likely will start showing up in shops Tuesday with [...]

The second-annual Record Store Day is less than two weeks out, and the list of exclusive releases being prepped for the April 18 support-your-local-shop shindig is growing more impressive daily.
Artists ranging from Radiohead and My Morning Jacket to Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and even the defunct Pavement are issuing special vinyl releases for the event, [...]

Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new releases hitting stores this Tuesday:
ARTIST: Lloyd Cole
ALBUM: Cleaning Out the Ashtrays
FORMAT: CD
BACKSTORY: This four-disc U.K. box set features 59 unreleased songs, original demos, alternate takes, hard-to-find B-sides, covers and more, all spanning the Brit singer-songwriter’s 21-year solo career. Cole went through boxes of old tapes and [...]