Badly Drawn Boy will kick off a brief tour of North America October 10, when he performs at Boston, Massachusetts’ Paradise Rock Club. The singer/songwriter will then perform a pair of shows in New York City, before hitting San Francisco and West Hollywood, California...

Teitur, who left Universal in early 2006, has teamed up with his manager to found their own label – Arlo and Betty Recordings – and will release his sophomore effort, Stay Under The Stars, via Equator Music. The singer enlisted the help of producer Martin Terefe (KT Turnstall, Ron Sexsmith) and produced the album at Martin’s Kensaltown Studios in London, England…

MVD Visual and Quantum Leap will release John Entwistle - Thunderfingers: A Tribute October 31 in North America. The DVD features the final interview with the legendary bassist from The Who before his untimely death. He shows his exceptional collection of rare guitars to interviewer Gordon Giltrap and talks about his special moments with his bandmates during his career…

Shout! Factory will release My Name Is Earl – The Album, September 19. The soundtrack includes tracks by Matthew Sweet, Uncle Kracker, Van Nuys, and John Hiatt, which were recorded exclusively for the release. The company worked with Jason Lee and series creator Greg Garcia to assemble the collection, and the album also includes key sound bytes from the show as well as an unheard vocal version of the My Name Is Earl theme song. The release of the album coincides with the release of the first season of the show on DVD, which also hits store shelves September 19…

Bruce Gary, the original drummer for The Knack, died Tuesday (August 22) of complications from lymphoma. He was 55. Gary was also a session player for Bob Dylan, George Harrison, and Stephen Stills, and also performed with Yoko Ono, Rod Stewart, Sheryl Crow, Bette Midler, John Lee Hooker, and others…

Quannum Projects will release Californian Tommy Guerrero’s album, From The Soil To The Soul, October 10. The 14-track album from the San Francisco Bay Area music legend was recorded primarily in his home studio, and Guerrero wrote, arranged, and played nearly al of instruments on the disc. He will tour San Francisco; Los Angeles, California; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle, Washington in October…

Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton will miss the beginning of the band’s forthcoming Route of All Evil tour in order to recover from radiation treatment for throat cancer. He plans to rejoin the tour in mid-October…

Darker My Love have hit the road for a West Coast tour which kicked off Thursday (August 25) in San Francisco. The tour hits Los Angeles Friday (August 26). The tour then resumes a month later, September 28, in San Francisco. Darker My Love will be joined by Asobi Seksu for the remaining five dates of the tour, starting September 30, in Seattle, and wrapping in Los Angeles, October 6…

Los Angeles-based rapper Pigeon John will release Pigeon John… And The Summertime Pool Party, September 12, via Quannum Projects. He will kick off a headlining tour with Busdriver, Aktrobatik, and Caural September 16, in San Francisco, Calfiornia, and will remain on the road through an October 4, performance in Austin, Texas. He will then join Cut Chemist and Lyrics Born, for whom he will open a tour that kicks off with a pair of shows in San Francisco, October 20 and 21, and wraps November 2, in Minneapolis, Minnesota…

Envelopes, whose debut, Demon, hit store shelves earlier this spring via Brille Records, will hit the road with Ratatat this fall for a tour of North America. The bands will kick off the tour in New York City, September 5, and will remain on the road through an October 5 performance in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania…