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Fiending for a bit more Howlin Rain? They've got you, dude. The Bay Area psych-rock giants (and Comets on Fire associates) will issue their Magnificent Fiend March 4 on American Recordings, sure, but they've got a far weirder one on the way too.

Along with Lee Ranaldo, Magik Markers, Charalambides' Tom Carter, Bardo Pond, and a few others, Howlin Rain will contribute a disc to Three Lobed Recordings' "Oscillation III" subscription series. Howlin Rain's offering, titled Wild Life, features a pair of tunes clocking in at a quarter-hour or so. The first is a jam on the song by Wings (you know, the band that made Paul McCartney famous) that the set is named after, while the second is a "completely improvised piece with heavy jazz fusion and free, Latin jazz rock overtones" titled "Black Sangria".

Wild Life is a family affair, as Comets on Fire's Ben Chasny and Utrillo Kushner help out on the musical tip and Raeni Miller-- wife of Howlin Rain's Ethan Miller-- contributed two paintings for the cover.

You can nab Wild Life together with the eight other releases in the series via Three Lobed, though this package deal is limited to 550 sets. Additional individual copies of Wild Life will be available at all stops on Howlin Rain's forthcoming tour, which kicks off in earnest next month. Those dates-- including a friendly reminder of Howlin Rain's appearance at this May's ATP vs. Pitchfork fest-- are available after the jump.

Howlin Rain:

02-22 Big Sur, CA - Fernwood Resort
03-04 San Francisco, CA - Amoeba Music (in-store)
03-04 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
03-05 Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland
03-06 Los Angeles, CA - Amoeba Music Hollywood (in-store)
03-27 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
03-28 Pontiac, MI - Crofoot Pike Room
03-29 Pittsburgh, PA - 31st St. Pub
03-30 Philadelphia, PA - Khyber
03-31 Allston, MA - Great Scott
04-02 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
04-03 Washington, DC - DC9
04-04 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
04-05 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn
04-06 Memphis, TN - Hi-Tone
04-07 Bloomington, IN - Buskirk-Chumley Theatre
05-01 Belfast, Northern Ireland - Aunt Annie's
05-02 Dublin, Ireland - Tower Records (in-store)
05-02 Dublin, Ireland - Whelan's
05-03 Cork, Ireland - Pine Lodge
05-04 Salford, England - The Kings Arms
05-05 Birmingham, England - Custard Factory
05-07 Cornwall, England - Miss Peabody's
05-08 Cardiff, Wales - Clwb Ifor Bach
05-09 Rye, England - Camber Sands Holiday Centre (ATP vs. Pitchfork Festival) *
05-11 Bristol, England - The Croft
05-12 London, England - Scala
06-23 Arendal, Norway - Hove Festival
08-16 Brecon Beacons, Wales - Green Man Festival

* with the Hold Steady, Jens Lekman, Black Lips, Caribou, Hot Chip, Les Savy Fav, No Age, Of Montreal, Man Man, Vampire Weekend, Times New Viking, Los Campesinos!, Glass Candy, Dirty Projectors, Jay Reatard, Meat Puppets, the Black Angels, Marissa Nadler, Wooden Shjips, Deerhunter, Shit and Shine, Sebadoh, Ween, Redd Kross, Pissed Jeans, Yeasayer, Fuck Buttons, Apse, A Place to Bury Strangers, the Clientele, Black Mountain, Harmonia, Born Ruffians, Howlin Rain, Car Sick Cars, Even