Evidence Records will release a 5-CD "chronicle" of jazz bandleader-composer Sun Ra's career, including a 2-CD box of previously unreleased albums. The group of CDs is due on September 26.

The debut album from the Jicks--a trio fronted by Pavement's Stephen Malkmus--will be released in early 2001, according to Matador Records. After concluding a tour behind its "Terror Twilight" album last year, Pavement announced that it was taking a "much needed rest."

SubPop will release "Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen [ tickets ]'s 'Nebraska'" on Nov. 7, Billboard reported. Featured artists include Chrissie Hynde, Billy Bragg and Ben Harper.

Coldplay [ tickets ] has signed a deal with Nettwerk Productions to release their debut album, "Parachutes," in the U.S. on Nov. 7. The British rockers went to No. 1 in the U.K. albums chart when the LP was first released, and it is also hotly tipped to win them this year's Mercury Music Prize.

Ex-Creation Records founder Alan McGhee, the man who signed Oasis and Primal Scream, will float his new online record label Poptones on the U.K's Alternative Investment Market on Tuesday (8/8). The business is valued at $18.2 million (£12m).

Dee Snider will replace Thin Lizzy as headliner of Germany's Wacken Metal Festival on Saturday (8/5).