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BJORK penned and produced eleven songs for the soundtrack to the upcoming Japanese themed Matthew Barney film, Drawing Restraint 9. The soundtrack is due in late July . . . Superstar DJ TIESTO will launch his U.S. tour on August 20th in Los Angeles before heading to the Voodoo Music Experience festival in New Orleans on October 29th and 30th . . . BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN has announced a second set of North American tour dates, to follow the rocker's in-progress European trek. Springsteen's second leg kicks off in Ottawa, Ontario, on July 13th, wrapping up August 13th in Vancouver . . . Icelandic pop group SIGUR ROS will kick off their North American tour on September 6th in Atlanta . . . Psychedelic icon ROKY ERICKSON will join COLDPLAY, OASIS, WILCO, DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE and ARCADE FIRE at the fourth annual Austin City Limits Festival on September 23rd to 25th in Austin, Texas. The performance will be Erickson's first full concert appearance in almost twenty years . . . JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS will perform a free concert on the fourth of July in Pennsuaken, New Jersey, as part of 102.9 WMGK's Let Freedom Rock Fest. Classic rockers BLUE OYSTER CULT will also perform . . .
California hip-hop outfit FLIPSYDE will release their debut album, We the People, on July 12th. The rappers will also join EMINEM and 50 CENT on the European dates of this year's Anger Management tour . . . New York funk rockers the SPIN DOCTORS will release their new album Nice Talking to Me in September . . . ALL AMERICAN REJECTS will release Move Along on July 12th. Fans can pre-order the CD on the band's official Web site and receive a limited edition T-shirt . . . BOB MOULD will release his upcoming album, Body of Song, on July 26th. The indie rocker will hit the road in support of the release on September 22nd in Chapel Hill, North Carolina . . . TONY ORLANDO AND DAWN are getting back together after more than two decades apart to release the holiday-themed Tony Orlando and Dawn -- A Christmas Reunion, due October 11th . . . A thirty-two-year-old man from Huntsville, Alabama, later identified as David Ottman, was found dead on June 11th at the site of the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. Ottman's cause of death has not yet been determined . . .