New Music: Radiohead, Living Colour, Clientele…

We’ve got your funk, your rock and funk and some indie-pop mixed up in a hearty batch of new releases on the way.

Radiohead’s first three albums were given the reissue treatment in March, and now the band’s next trio of albums will be reissued this summer. That’s a mighty fine tri-fecta of music: Kid A (2000), Amnesiac (2001) and Hail to the Thief (2003).

According to Pitchfork, Radiohead’s fourth, fifth and sixth albums will be available August 25 as two-CD reissues, as well as collector’s edition, triple-disc sets including the albums proper, a disc of rarities and a bonus DVD. Both versions will include B-sides, live songs and studio sessions on the second rarities disc.

Mark down October 6 Clientele fans because the band will be releasing Bonfires on the Heath, the fifth album from the folk-pop band with the sweet melodies. The new disc includes two covers: “Tonight,” a song by Swedish band Evergreen Daze Days and a new version of “Graven Wood,” a cover of the Clientele’s own song.

Bonfires on the Heath:

01 I Wonder Who We Are
02 Bonfires on the Heath
03 Harvest Time
04 Never Anyone but You
05 Jennifer & Julia
06 Sketch
07 Tonight
08 Share the Night
09 I Know I’ll See Your Face
10 Never Saw Them Before
11 Graven Wood
12 Walking in the Park

‘What’s your favorite color baby?’ Big news for fans that like their hard rock with a hot dose of funk. Living Colour is coming back with their first album in six years. According to their MySpace page, the band are wrapping up The Chair in the Doorway, their fifth album, which was recorded in the Czech Republic and due from Megaforce Records on September 15. C’mon, how good is their debut Vivid? So good!

Austin foursome The Octopus Project has revealed the track listing and details for their forthcoming Golden Beds Enhanced EP, out July 14th (Peek-A-Boo Records). The Golden Beds EP is the follow-up to 2007′s full-length Hello, Avalanche. The band will also be reissuing their first two albums, One Ten Hundred Thousand Million and Identification Parade, on vinyl towards the end of the summer.

Golden Beds Enhanced EP track listing:

1. Wet Gold
2. Moon Boil
3. Rorol
4. Wood Trumpet
5. Half a Nice Day

On hiatus and mostly out of sight since 2002, R&B star Maxwell is primed for a soulful return. July 7 brings us the release of his long-awaited fourth studio album, BLACKsummer’snight, the first installment of a trilogy via Columbia Records.

“The time away gave me a better appreciation of things, so I took the time I needed to live to make this album something of substance,” Maxwell tells Billboard. “People tend to be so hell bent on remaining famous that you become desensitized to the music industry to some level. But my passion is making music and promoting and supporting great musicians.”

About the trilogy, Maxwell says that “‘BLACK’ is darker. It has a bluesier side and features more despondent records. It speaks plenty to love lost.” The first single from BLACK, “Pretty Wings,” is currently No. 11 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

“I want my music to last forever. I never want my music to be dated,” he says of the single. “‘Pretty Wings’ falls into that. I met this girl who I still respect very much, and although it didn’t work out, I got lots of inspiration from it. This track speaks of my time with her.”

Check out Maxwell’s “Pretty Wings” video here. From what I’ve heard so far, looks like BLACKsummer’snight is going to be something sexy, soulful and… funky.