Veteran singer/songwriter (and ACL alumnus) Loudon Wainwright III pays tribute to a legend of American music with an ambitious new project. Details here.

Cheap Trick have a pair of new records on deck, one a batch of new originals and the other an intriguing live concert covering the Beatles’ landmark album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (which is now – gulp – almost 42 years old). Details here.

Blurt has a nice story on Allen Toussaint and the New Orleans R&B great’s new jazz record The Bright Mississippi. Read it here.