Spoon presents a trio of hometown shows

Alt-rockers Spoon will return to their native Austin, TX, this summer for a three-night run dubbed SpoonX3.

The performances, slated for July 9-11, will debut material from the group's forthcoming album, which, according to a recent Houston Chronicle interview with frontman Britt Daniels, probably won't surface this year.

A 2009 release "could happen," Daniels told the newspaper last week, "but I don't love the odds."

Each evening of the hometown festival will feature special guests, including ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, and Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears on July 9; Low and Dale Watson July 10; and Atlas Sound and the Strange Boys July 11.

The presale of three-day passes began yesterday (4/23) at the band's