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Alice Cooper, “Detroit Stories”: The shock-rocker pays homage to his hometown with this album produced by longtime collaborator Bob Ezrin and featuring such Detroit music legends as The MC5’s Wayne Kramer, The Detroit Wheels’ Johnny “Bee” Badanjek, Paul Randolph and the Motor City Horns. It includes a cover of The Velvet Underground’s “Rock ‘n’ Roll,” which was recorded by Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels.Cloud Nothings, “The Shadow I Remember”: The Cleveland noise-rock band reunited with Steve Albini, who produced breakout album “Attack on Memory,” for this seventh album, of which frontman Dylan Baldi said, “I want the three-minute song to be an epic. That’s the short version of the long-ass jam.”Willie Nelson, “That’s Life”: Following his Grammy-winning 2018 album, “My Way,” this is a second collection of Frank Sinatra covers, recorded in the spare style of “Stardust.”Melvins, “Working With God”: The Washington state sludge punk/metal band assembles the 1983 lineup — Buzz Osborne, Dale Crover and Mike Dillard — for an album that will include a re-imagining of The Beach Boys’ classic “I Get Around” along with a song about their junior-high biology teacher.Julien Baker, “Little Oblivions”: The Memphis indie artist played nearly all the instruments on her third album, which will be a sonic shift to a more expansive sound.Architects, “Those That Wish To Exist”: Ninth album from the British post-metalcore quintet follows 2018’s “Holy Hell.”

Outlaw country singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver, who wrote songs like "Honky Tonk Heroes" and "I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train," has died at 81.