Dylan Metrano, who over the past year has seen his band Tiger Saw blossom into an ever-evolving music collective, mentioned the other day a recent show he played in Connecticut, at which the Boston-based band Sparrows served as his back-up band. Even though Sparrows weren’t familiar with most of the material, Metrano reports that the show “came together beautifully.” The bands hope to consummate their relationship in the studio sometime this winter. He also reports that the group will release their third CD, “Sing!,” for Kimchee Records in October. Their official CD release will be held Sept. 13 at The Middle East in Cambridge and following the show they’ll set out on a fall tour that will take them cross-country. A homecoming show is planned for the end of October at The Red Door. After that the band will be headed for Europe in November, where they’ll tour with Jason Anderson and Kimya Dawson. The three artists will commemorate the bill with a three-way split 7-inch, to be released in Europe on Wild Zero records. 

Musician, artist and zaniest guy we know Dan Blakeslee dropped a line recently to say that that night for dinner he’d be eating only orange food—sweet potato, carrots, cantaloupe and orange juice—just for the fun of it. He also mentioned that he’s got a show of his poster art hanging at the Middle East through Sept. 4. For those of you who commute, to promote the exhibition, he’ll be busking occasionally in the “smoke-laden” Boston underground. The big news, though, is that at the end of the month (after three years of talking about it at shows) Blakeslee will be heading into the studio to record what he tentatively describes as “another album or three.” It’s been so long since he last recorded that he’s now got more than 40 tunes to choose from. The thought of selecting one album’s worth of songs from the bunch is so daunting, he admits, that it may just be easier to record them all and release a double- or triple-album.

New Portsmouth-based music collective Broken Sparrow Records is set to release its first three albums on Aug. 23. The most prominent is a limited edition vinyl-only reissue of “New Mother,” the first album by Angels of Light, the solo project of Michael Gira of cult favorite The Swans. Label co-founder Nate Groth is pleased to report that interest in the release has been strong—so strong, in fact, that the album is already sold out. This is the first of three Angels albums that the label plans to release on vinyl. The second is due out this fall and the third will be out early next year. Also on Aug. 23, Broken Sparrow will release “Lights Out,” the debut EP by local upright bassist and songwriter Nat Baldwin, and “Doctor Won’t You Get Us to Dawn,” the second album by Testface, an ex-New Hampshire artist now living in Portland, Wash.
—Chris Greiner