The Zombies are going on the road according to Billboard.com. Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent reunited a few years back and have put out a couple of discs to lukewarm response. The opportunity to see them live, and thus hear the old hits, is much more appealing.

George Pelecanos, a TIRBD favorite, has a new book forthcoming. The Night Gardener (an R.E.M. reference, perhaps?) hits stores in August, and according to his web site it iis "George Pelecanos' biggest novel ever: the haunting story of three cops -- one good, one bad, one broken -- and the murder that reunited them in a showdown decades in the making." Pelecanos could use a few more readers to cement his spot commercially among critically lauded peers like Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly, and this tale, with its surface echoes of Lehane's Mystic River, may just do it. Here's hoping.

Fans of Found magazine might not come across this interview with publisher Davy Rothbart at IT Conversations, so here t'is. Listen download or burn, your choice.