Paul Allen releasing album

HE’S NOT OVERTHINKING IT: Microsoft co-founder and Portland Trailblazers owner Paul Allen, who’s rumored to have some money in the bank, is releasing his debut album at the age of 60. Everywhere at Once, hitting Aug. 6 on Sony Legacy, will bear the moniker Paul Allen and the Underthinkers, whose members presumably include Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson, Chrissie Hynde, Joe Walsh, Los Lobos’ David Hidalgo, Derek Trucks, Doyle Bramhall II and Ivan Neville, all of whom make appearances. All proceeds will benefit educational programs at Allen’s nonprofit Experience Music Project museum in Seattle. Allen is no musical neophyte. “I’ve rarely gone a week without picking up a guitar,” he wrote in his 2011 memoir, Idea Man, the L.A. Times’ Randy Lewis noted in breaking the story yesterday. “It’s more than a hobby; it gives me balance and keeps me in the moment, which can be a challenge with all the projects I’m pursuing at any one time… I take music with me wherever I go.” (5/24a)