Concert Notes: Tickets for Governors Ball, Phoenix, Depeche Mode, & More On Sale Now (or Soon)

 See below for links to tickets for the Governors Ball and other concerts.

The summer music scene is taking shape, with tickets for one of the season's big festivals, the Governors Ball, going on sale today (the festival takes place early, the first weekend in June). The graphic above shows who's appearing, and as you'd expect tickets are going fast: three-day passes are already sold out, but single-day tickets are still available.

See links below for tickets to the Governors Ball and other shows. All went on sale Friday, April 5th, except where noted.

* Serena Ryder at Bowery Ballroom, Mon., May 6th.

* Aaron Freeman (former lead singer of Ween) at Music Hall of Williamsburg, Fri., May 10th. 

* Filligar plus Midnight Spin at the Gramercy Theatre, Sat., June 1st.

* Governors Ball Music Festival, Randall's Island, June 6th, 7th, and 8th.

* Subhumans at Bowery Ballroom, Sat., June 15th, and at Music Hall of Williamsburg, Sun., June 16th.

* Rancid at Terminal 5, Thurs., June 20th and Fri., June 21st.

* Fitz and the Tantrums at Irving Plaza, Sun., June 30th.

* Rachael Yamagata at Bowery Ballroom, Sat., July 13th.

* Depeche Mode at the Barclays Center, with Bat for Lashes, Fri., Sept. 6th, and at Nikon for Jones Beach Theatre, Sun., Sept. 8th. Both shows on sale Sat., April 6th, 10 a.m.

* Phoenix at the Barclays Center, Wed., Oct. 2nd. (May 13th show at the Apollo is sold out.)

Free Album Previews: New CDs by Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon, the B-52s, & Many More

Above: Peter Gabriel performing "Solsbury Hill" live, one of the songs on his latest release, "New Blood."

This is one of those "when it rains, it pours" weeks for online album previews. You can hear the new releases from a number of big-name veterans artists, including one who's no longer alive (that would be Johnny Cash, represented in the new "Bootleg Volume 3: Live Around the World"release).

Among the artists who are still with us (and have been for a long time), there are new albums for preview from Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, the B-52s, and even Erasure and Judas Priest. The Gabriel release, "New Blood," is a collection of songs from different eras of his solo career performed with an orchestra and some guest musicians—an arrangement he's been touring with this year.

The Paul Simon release is a two-disc retrospective, including live versions of songs including "The Sound of Silence" and "The Boxer."

And for fans of the Pixies and Frank Black (like me), there's a new album that Black has (under his Black Francis moniker) with Reid Paley, called simply "Paley & Francis."

Among the younger artists with new albums are the New Jersey band Real Estate, Ben Lee, Rachael Yamagata, and Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers. If you liked the music of The Swell Season from the movie "Once," you'll want to check out the debut album from the female half of that duo, Marketa Irglova. And The new Ryan Adams album is previewing on Spinner this week, in case you missed it at NPR Music last week.

I usually give multiple listens to new albums that I'm interested in, but that should to be quite a challenge this week.

NPR First Listen:
"Days" by Real Estate

Spinner.com's Listening Party:
"Songwriter" by Paul Simon
"Deeper Into Dream by Ben Lee
"Anar" by Marketa Irglova
"Norman (Music From the Motion Picture)" by Andrew Bird
"Paley & Francis" Reid Paley & Black Francis
"New Blood" by Peter Gabriel
"Liberty Bell" by Kate Miller Heidke
"The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective" by Ben Folds
"Chesapeake" by Rachael Yamagata
"Bootleg Volume 3: Live Around the World"by Johnny Cash
"With the Wild Crowd!" by the B-52s
"Tomorrow's World" by Erasure
"The Sound of His Voice" by John Wesley Harding
"Ashes and Fire" by Ryan Adams

AOL Music Listening Party: 
"Evanescence" by Evanescence
"The Chosen Few" by Judas Priest
"Free EP" by Graffiti6 
"Gift Horse" by Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers