New Michael Franti & Spearhead album pushed back to September
After thirteen years, Michael Franti and his band Spearhead are back. Their return was prompted by the group's first US top 20 single in his career with the track "Say Hey (I Love You)." The song's success prompted music business interest last year, which led to the release of 2008 album "All Rebel Rockers" after "Say Hey" began to gain radio airplay. Sly & Robbie co-produced "All Rebel Rockers." Franti & Spearhead's new single "The Sound Of Sunshine" is now doing well too. The album's release date, which is alse titled "The Sound Of Sunshine," has been pushed back a bit to September 21.

New Elvis Presley album based on Las Vegas musical
A reworked collection of Elvis Presley songs will be released as a new album. As part of his 75th birthday celebrations the album “Viva Elvis” aims at showing what his songs would sound like if he was still performing. “Burning Love,” “Suspicious Minds,” “Blue Suede Shoes” and “It's Now Or Never” are among the songs that will feature on the record. The album is due in November and is based on the musical of the same name which opened in Las Vegas earlier this year.

Train working on new material
After their hit album "Save Me, San Francisco" from 2009 and their hit single "Hey, Soul Sister," Train is eager to start working on their next effort. It may however take some time before Train gets to work with second single "If It's Love" currently out. Meanwhile, the band is already looking out for a producer for the next Train record and they have started work on new material. Frontman Pat Monahan has already written a couple of songs and next February he expects to be finishing one some more material.

New Robyn album set for September 6
Singer Robyn has revealed the artwork and tracklisting for her new album, which will be titled “Body Talk Pt. 2.” The album is due out on September 6 and is the follow-up to this year's “Body Talk Pt. 1”. It is the second of three albums she plans to release this year. The new effort will be preceded by new single called “Hang With Me” on September 5. The upcoming new album also includes a collaboration with Snoop Dogg on the song “U Should Know Better.”

The Cars may reunite
Surviving members of the band The Cars have hinted at a reformation. A recent photo has surfaced online that shows surviving members jamming in a studio. The photo shows Ric Ocasek, Elliot Easton, Greg Hawkes and David Robinson. In 2005, Elliot Easton and Greg Hawkes formed The New Cars with Todd Rundgren, Prairie Prince and Kasim Sulton that played a mix of Cars and Rundgren tracks. This would be the first time the band has properly reunited since their disbanding in 1988. In the ‘80s The band had hits like “Drive” and “You Might Think.”