It’s been less than a year since David Gray released Draw the Line, but he’s not wasting any time returning with his ninth album to date. That’s right, next week Gray releases Foundling, a two-disc album that includes both a full-length studio album and a bonus disc that features nine previously unreleased songs.

“It was recorded during the same session [as Draw the Line]...when we weren't tracking as a band," Gray said recently. “I would do stuff on my own, so it is almost like the solo record I made in-between making the band record.”

Gray is wasting no time hitting the road again either. On Saturday he’ll be kicking off a co-headlining tour with singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne, which will begin on the East Coast and wrap up on the West Coast on September 10th.

“Every night the setlist is very different,” Gray told RadarOnline.com of the David Gray live experience. “It’s everything we can possibly give in just under two hours.”

Catch David Gray on tour:
August 15 Columbia, MD Merriweather Post Pavilion
August 17 Boston, MA Bank of America Pavilion
August 19 Wantagh, NY Nikon @ Jones Beach
August 20 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center
August 22 Nashville, TN Grand Ole Opry
August 25 Chicago, IL Millennium Park
August 26 Rochester, MI Meadow Brook Theatre
August 29 Council Bluffs, IA Stir Cover @ Harrah’s Council Bluffs
August 30 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre
August 31 Santa Fe, NM Santa Fe Opera House
September 1 Phoenix, AZ Dodge Theatre
September 3 Los Vegas, NV The Pearl @ The Palms
September 4 Valley Center, CA Harrahs Rincon
September 5 Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara Bowl
September 8 Los Angeles, CA The Greek Theatre
September 10 Berkeley, CA The Greek Theatre

Canadian wonder twins Tegan & Sara have just kicked off a two-month US tour and there’s a lot going on in their world, so let us bring you up to speed.

Next month, the gals release The Official Vinyl Collection Box Set, which is the definitive vinyl collection of the band’s recordings, gathering five of their albums — 2000’s This Business of Art, 2002’s If It Was You, 2004’s So Jealous, 2007’s The Con, and 2009’s Sainthood — and pairing them with a bonus record of nine demo tracks dating back to the recording of So Jealous.

The Sisters Quin also have two tracks on the 2010 Summer Tour EP, which also includes songs by Paramore, New Found Glory and Kadawatha, and is available on iTunes now and at Hot Topic stores on August 10th.

Of the upcoming shows, Sara says, “We have child-of-divorce syndrome, and we don't want anybody to be let down, so there's that sense of wanting to go out and show yourself and prove yourself.”

Check out Tegan and Sara on tour:

You can’t get much more American than Texas’s beloved Old 97’s, and appropriately the band celebrates the 4th of July in New York City with a celebratory show at South Street Seaport that is open to everyone.

The Dallas-based four-piece -- led by alt-country pin-up-of-sorts Rhett Miller -- continues to tour throughout the month, bringing both their upbeat and soothing sounds of countrified pop-rock from one coast to the other, including two more free shows, one in Chicago and the other in San Francisco, where the tour wraps up on August 5th.

The band’s new EP, entitled Mimeograph, brings the Old 97’s touch to four covers, the classics Rocks Off by The Rolling Stones and Five Years by David Bowie, along with R.E.M.’s bewitching Driver 8 and, rather unexpectedly, For The Girl by young Glaswegian rock trio The Fratellis. The EP can only be bought at the band’s shows or on their website, old97s.com.

In other Old 97’s news, the band has been hard at work on their upcoming album, The Grand Theatre, which Miller says is inspired by The Clash’s London Calling. The album is expected out in October.