Nextdoorland, the new Soft Boys album, will be released on Matador Records on September 24th. Recorded over this past winter and spring, the album features the same lineup that brought you Underwater Moonlight: Robyn Hitchcock, Kimberley Rew, Matthew Seligman and Morris Windsor. Besides the CD release, a limited vinyl edition will also include a bonus 7" with two live tracks from the Knitting Factory.

Following a date at the Mean Fiddler (for which you can get tickets here) in London on October 17th, the Soft Boys will be touring North America in support of the album into early November, with UK dates planned to follow. Nothing confirmed in the UK as yet, but we've got US dates and venues. Available at shows (as well as through the website) will be the new album's "Side Three," a CD comprising five studio tracks plus one live recording from the last tour: "Evil Guy," recorded at the soundcheck at the Fillmore and featuring Thomas Dolby on keyboards.

We've got track listings for both Nextdoorland and Side Three.

In addition to Billboard's announcement of the upcoming release, Hitchcock has spoken with Rolling Stone, while bassist Matthew Seligman talks haddock and Snail in this interview.

Robyn Hitchcock has released a 2-disc set of Bob Dylan covers entitled Robyn Sings on his Editions PAF label. Incorporating the rare Beautiful Queen CD and featuring a 6-panel booklet with liner notes by Robyn, it's available in Europe and the UK through Vital Distribution as well as through the US and UK offices of the Museum of Robyn Hitchcock.

MOJO Magazine described Kimberley Rew's Tunnel into Summer as "big, jangling guitars, engaging lyrics and harmonies from heaven" ... now Kim's new album is out and available from Bongo Beat. Mixed by Pat Collier, Great Central Revisited features guest appearances by Robyn Hitchcock and former Soft Boy Andy Metcalfe, as well as Dave Mattacks, Vince de la Cruz, Patch Hannan, Julian Dawson, Lee Cave-Berry, and Tom Dalpra.

Twenty-one years after its initial appearance, the Soft Boys' Underwater Moonlight was joyfully re-released in March of 2001 by Matador Records. The reissue, which included more than two dozen additional songs, preceded a twenty-six city tour of the U.S., Canada, and the UK, entertainingly chronicled by Matthew Seligman. We've also got live mp3s from selected shows.

Here's the track listing from the album:

First, all the songs from the original Moonlight album:

	I Wanna Destroy You
	Kingdom of Love
	Positive Vibrations
	I Got The Hots
	Insanely Jealous
	Tonight
	You'll Have To Go Sideways
	Old Pervert
	The Queen Of Eyes
	Underwater Moonlight

Some outtakes that, for one reason or another, weren't among the original ten elect:

	He's A Reptile
	Vegetable Man
	Strange
	Only The Stones Remain
	Where Are The Prawns?
	Dreams
	Black Snake Diamond Rock
	There's Nobody Like You
	Song #4

And another seventeen tracks from the Underwater Moonlight rehearsals:

	Old Pervert - section 1
	Like A Real Smoothie
	Alien
	Bloat (extract)
	Underwater Moonlight
	She Wears My Hair
	Wang Dang Pig
	Old Pervert - section 2
	Insanely Jealous
	Leave Me Alone
	Goodbye Maurice or Steve
	Old Pervert - section 3
	Cherries
	Amputated
	Over You
	I Wanna, Er ... (extract)
	Old Pervert - section 4