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Melissa Auf Der Maur (file)
Photo: Capitol

It's a motley crew releasing new albums this week, with Melissa Auf Der Maur dropping her first solo project, Truth Hurts and the Baha Men seeking a return to the spotlight, and an electronic band getting dreamy.

Melissa Auf Der Maur, former Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist, tries her hand at a solo career with her debut album, Auf Der Maur. Auf Der Maur has brought along some friends to help out, though, including members and former members of Queens of the Stone Age, Hole, A Perfect Circle, Helmet and the Offspring.

Truthfully Speaking, it's been two years since Dr. Dre protégé Truth Hurts released her last album. Well, she's Ready Now, and releasing her sophomore album this week.

Holla at the Baha Men. The group is letting its dogs out again with a new album, Holla! The Men have released three albums since 2000's immensely successful Who Let the Dogs Out, but none have had a comparable runaway hit.

Like Kraftwerk? Have a fondness for electronic music and synthesizers? Tangerine Dream may be right up your alley. They release Dream Mixes 4 this week.

Flying under the radar this week are albums by Downset (Universal), Melissa Ferrick (The Other Side) and Katey Sagal of "Married With Children" fame (Room).

Out Tuesday, June 1:

  • Aa - Big A Little a (Narnack)
  • Afterlife - Speck of Gold (Bar de Lune)
  • Amp Fiddler - Waltz of a Ghetto Fly (PIAS America/Genuine)
  • Animal Collective - Sung Tongs (Fatcat)
  • Another Dead Juliet - Here Lies (Trash Art!)
  • Asura - Lost Eden (TV Matters)
  • Auf Der Maur - Auf Der Maur (Capitol)
    Read: "Ex-Hole Bassist Follows Orders From The Aliens In Her Head"
    Buy Now: Auf Der Maur (Capitol)
  • Backstabbers Incorporated - Kamikaze Missions (Trash Art!)
  • Baha Men - Holla (S-Curve)
    Buy Now: Holla (S-Curve)
  • Blue-Eyed Son - West of Lincoln (Eenie Meenie)
  • Gary U.S. Bonds - Back in 20 (M.C.)
  • Brydge - Crossover (X-Ray)
  • BT - Music From and Inspired by the Film "Monster" (DTS)
  • Eugene Cole & Persuaded - Jesus Is the Balm (Jabez/PGE/Brody)
  • Cosmic Rough Riders - Too Close to See Far (429/Savoy)
  • Crimson Spectre - Crimson Spectre (Magic Bullet)
  • Joe Diffie - Tougher Than Nails (BBR/C4)
  • Sandy Dillon - Nobody's Sweetheart (One Little Indian)
  • Downset - Universal (Hawino/Liquid 8)
  • Ronnie Earl - Now My Soul (Stony Plain)
  • A Faith Called Chaos - Forgive Nothing (Volcom Entertainment)
  • Farewell My Enemy - Casting for Funerals (Rise)
  • Fear My Thoughts - The Great Collapse (Lifeforce)
  • Melissa Ferrick - The Other Side (Right On)
  • Fluke - Puppy (One Little Indian)
  • Gift - Sumthin' Amazin' (X-Ray)
  • Grandadbob - Waltzes for Weirdoes (MRI/Lax Recordings)
  • Mic Harrison - Pallbearer's Shoes (Valley Entertainment)
  • He Is Legend - He Is Legend (Tribunal)
  • Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle - Night Light (Hybrid)
  • Heart & Soul (Nexus) - Parkes Stewart (Comin' Atcha/PGE/Brody)
  • The Honorary Title - Anything Else But the Truth (Dog House)
  • Joss - If Not for the Hovering ... (Delmore)
  • Ana Laan - Orégano (Liquid 8)
  • Lackloves - The Beat and the Time (Rainbow Quartz)
  • The Like Young - So Serious (Parasol)
  • Misery Signals - Of Malice and the Magnum Heart (Ferret)
  • Miss Kittin - I COM (Astralwerks)
  • My Revenge! - Less Plot, More Blood (Thorp)
  • Greg Osby - Public (Blue Note/Metro Blue)
  • Jesse Powell - Jesse (Liquid 8)
  • The Power & the Glory - Call Me Armageddon (Deathwish Inc.)
  • Duke Robillard - Blue Mood (Stony Plain)
  • Dexter Romweber - Blues That Defy My Soul (Yep Roc)
  • Bobby Rush - Folkfunk (Deep Rush)
  • Katey Sagal - Room (Valley Entertainment)
  • Saigon - Warning Shots (Sure Shot)
  • Bobby Sanabria - Quarteto Ache (Zoho)
  • Seldom Seen - See Me Now (East Side)
  • W.C. Spencer - Blues Explorer (Catscan)
  • Steep Canyon Rangers - Steep Canyon Rangers (Rebel)
  • Tangerine Dream - Dream Mixes 4 (TDI Music)
  • Therion - Lemuria/Sirius B (Nuclear Blast)
  • DJ Tiesto Just Be (Nettwerk)
  • Truth Hurts - Ready Now (Pookie Entertainment)
    Buy Now: Ready Now (Pookie Entertainment)
  • Twelve Tribes - The Rebirth of Tragedy (Ferret)
  • Two Lone Swordsmen - From the Double Gone Chapel (Warp)
  • Tyshena - Take as Is (X-Ray)
  • White Lights -Gifts From Strangers (Two Sheds)
  • Zug Izland - 3:33 (Ax & Smash)
  • Various artists - Homeward Sound: A Bluegrass Tribute to Simon & Garfunkel (CMH)
  • Various artists - Cypress Thrill (X-Ray)
  • Various artists - The String Quartet Tribute to Enya: Dreams (Vitamin)
  • Various artists - Evil Lives: A True Metal Tribute to Black Sabbath (Magick)
  • Various artists - Guitar Tribute to Bob Seger (Tribute Sounds)
  • Various artists - Outbreak Presents: Biological Warfare (MRI/Outbreak)
  • Various artists - Record of Shadows Infinite (Crucial Blast)
  • Various artists - Soho Lounge (Organica/tpz)
  • Various artists - The String Quartet Tribute to Duran Duran (Vitamin)
  • Various artists - The String Quartet Tribute to Guns N' Roses (Vitamin)
  • Various artists - The String Quartet Tribute to Jet (Vitamin)
  • Various artists - The String Quartet Tribute to A Perfect Circle (Vitamin)
  • Various artists - A Tribute to Blink-182 (Tributized)
  • Various artists - A Tribute to Jet (Tributized)
  • Various artists - A Tribute to Sevendust (Tributized)
  • Various artists - A Tribute to the Strokes (Tributized)
  • Various artists - Tribute to Brooks & Dunn (Tribute Sounds)
  • Various artists - Tribute to Snoop Dogg (Tribute Sounds)
  • Various artists - A Tribute to Josh Turner (Big Eye)
  • Various artists - A Tribute to Norah Jones (Big Eye)
  • Various artists - A Tribute to Twista (Big Eye)
  • DVD: "Lyricist Lounge: Dirty States of America" (Image Entertainment)
  • DVD: Corn on Macabre - "The Final Chapter" (Magic Bullet)
  • DVD: John Kay and Friends - "Live at the Renaissance Center" (Rainman)

June 8:

June 15:

June 22:

  • Mobb Deep - Amerikaz Nightmare (Jive)
  • Wilco - A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)
  • Brian Wilson - Gettin' in Over My Head (Rhino)
  • Stevie Wonder - A Time 2 Love (Motown)

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The Von Bondies (file)
Photo: Candace Lawler

It's not a blockbuster week for new releases, but that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of albums to choose from. First up, the Von Bondies.

After their frontman's scuffle last year with the band's former producer Jack White, the Von Bondies are ready to open their Pawn Shoppe Heart. The garage rockers' second album features the single "C'mon C'mon."

James Lavelle's second DJ set, the double disc Global Underground Romania #026, reinvents songs by Queens of the Stone Age, the Chemical Brothers, DJ Shadow and Lavelle's own U.N.K.L.E.

El-P drops his hybrid jazz album, High Water, Bad Plus Give fans their new LP, and Now It's Overhead are joined by Michael Stipe and Conor Oberst on their second album, Fall Back Open.

BT's Music From and Inspired by the Film "Monster" shares shelf space this week with Deerhoof's concept album Milk Man and Henry Rollins' collection of readings from his book of the same name, Black Coffee Blues.

Brides of Destruction, featuring Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe and Tracii Guns from L.A. Guns, release Here Come the Brides alongside Fleshcrawl's Made of Flesh and throwback rockers Tesla's Into the Now.

Finally, the indie contingent: Brooklyn, New York, rock group TV on the Radio serve up Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes, Scotland's retro rockers Franz Ferdinand release their self-titled LP, and Your Enemies Friends remind you that You Are Being Videotaped. But we're sure they mean that in a good way.

Out Tuesday, March 9:

  • 40 Watt Domain - Short Wave (Gaki Records)
  • Aveo - Battery (Barsuk)
  • The Bad Plus - Give (Columbia)
  • Eszter Balint - Mud (Bar/None)
  • The Bigger Lovers - This Affair Never Happened ... (Yep Roc)
  • Bio Ritmo - Bio Ritmo (Locutor)
  • The Black Heart Procession and Solbakken - In the Fishtank 11 (Fishtank)
  • The Blinding Light - The Ascension Attempt (Deathwish Inc.)
  • Bloody Lovelies - Some Truth and a Little Money (Cheap Lullaby)
  • Blue Dogs - Halos and Good Buys (Black River)
  • The Bobbyteens - Cruisin' for a Bruisin' (Estrus)
  • Brides of Destruction - Here Come the Brides (Sanctuary)
  • BT - Music From and Inspired by the Film "Monster" (Digital Sound)
  • Centinex - Decadence-Prophecies of Cosmic Chaos (Candlelight)
  • Slaid Cleaves - Wishbones (Rounder/Philo)
  • CocoRosie - Le Maison de Mon Rève (Touch and Go)
  • Sarah Connor - Sarah Connor (Epic)
  • Cordero - Somos Cordero (Daemon)
  • Covert Movements - 60 Channels (Supacrucial)
  • Cross Canadian Ragweed - Soul Gravy (Universal South)
  • Deerhoof - Milk Man (Kill Rock Stars)
  • Constance Demby - Spirit Trance (Valley Entertainment)
  • Demons - Demonology (Gearhead)
  • Destroyer - Your Blues (Merge)
  • Dose Hermanos - Bright Shadows (Gaff)
  • El-P with the Blues Series Continuum - High Water (Thirsty Ear)
  • Encore - Layover (Hiero/Imperium)
  • Euge Groove - Livin' Large (Narada Jazz)
  • Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (Domino)
  • Fleshcrawl - Made of Flesh (Metal Blade)
  • Paul Geremia - Love Murder and Mosquitos (Red House)
  • Gingersol - Eastern (Rubric)
  • Great Big Sea - Something Beautiful (Zoë/Rounder)
  • Troy Gregory - Laura (Fall of Rome)
  • Euge Groove - Livin' Large (Narada)
  • Berkley Hart - Twelve (PSB)
  • Heavenly - Dust to Dust (Noise/Sanctuary)
  • Jucifer - War Bird EP (Velocette)
  • James Lavelle - Global Underground Romania #026 (Global Underground)
  • Hubert Laws - Moondance (Savoy Jazz)
  • Leatherface - Dog (BYO Records)
  • Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monologue (Astralwerks)
  • Melissa Manchester - When I Look Down That Road (Koch)
  • Wynton Marsalis - The Magic Hour (Blue Note)
  • Morifade - Domination (Candlelight)
  • My Dying Bride - Songs of Darkness, Words of Light (Peaceville)
  • Nassiri - Love Sees No Color (Liquid 8)
  • Keri Noble - Fearless (Manhattan/EMI)
  • Now It's Overhead - Fall Back Open (Saddle Creek)
  • Alecia Nugent - Alecia Nugent (Rounder)
  • Ollabelle - Ollabelle (Columbia)
  • James Otto - Days of Our Lives (Mercury Nashville)
  • Graham Parker - Your Country (Bloodshot)
  • Play - Don't Stop the Music (Columbia)
  • Pornosonic - Pornosonic (Valley Entertainment)
  • The Prisoners Dilemma - Handshakes, Hello, and Goodbye (Indianola)
  • The Push Stars - Paint the Town (33rd Street)
  • Annie Quick - Bigger (Paste)
  • Rockfour - Nationwide (Rainbow Quartz)
  • Henry Rollins - Black Coffee Blues (2.13.61)
  • Sammy Sadler - Hard on a Heart (Texas Music)
  • Scarlet - Cult Classic (Ferret Music)
  • Sergent Garcia - La Semilla Escondida (Shakti)
  • Shockwave - The Ultimate Doom (Triple Crown)
  • Tarot - Suffer Our Pleasures (Metal Blade)
  • Tesla - Into the Now (Sanctuary)
  • Josh Todd - You Made Me (XS)
  • TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (Touch and Go)
  • The Von Bondies - Pawn Shoppe Heart (Sire)
  • Ware River Club - Cathedral (Spirit House)
  • Susan Werner - I Can't Be New (Koch)
  • Wildhearts - Riff After Riff (Gearhead)
  • World Saxophone Quartet - Tribute to Jimi Hendrix (Justin Time)
  • Your Enemies Friends - You Are Being Videotaped (Buddyhead)
  • Various artists - Disney - World of Happiness (Walt Disney)
  • Various artists - No Depression: What It Sounds Like, Vol. 1 (DualTone)
  • Various artists - NRBQ Tribute (Spirit House)
  • Various artists - Tribute to Elvis Costello (Tribute Sounds)
  • Various artists - Tribute to Green Day (Tribute Sounds)
  • Various artists - Tribute to Martina McBride (Tribute Sounds)
  • Various artists - X 2004 (BEC/Tooth & Nail)
  • DVD: Dropkick Murphys - Live on the Road With ... (Hellcat)
  • DVD: The Rocket Summer - Calendar Days (The Militia Group)

March 23:

  • Johnny Cash - Life (Sony)
  • Knoc-Turn'Al - The Way I Am (LA Confidential/Elektra)
  • Pastor Troy - By Any Means Necessary (Universal)


March 30:



April 6:

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Junior Senior
Photo: Gregg Delman

That Smash Mouth, always sweet-talkin' the ladies. "You are My Number One" is the first single from Get the Picture? and acts as the band's requisite summer single. Also on the album are the succinctly summarized tunes "Hot" and "Fun."

Killing Joke's latest self-titled album features drumming by Dave Grohl. Meanwhile, the Libertines release the EP I Get Along alongside '60s guitar god Jeff Beck's Jeff and Junior Senior's Euro-pop album D-D-Don't Stop the Beat.

Blues Traveler get honest on Truth Be Told, on which the jam band makes an effort to keep its songs from wandering. On the other hand, drummer Josh Freese (A Perfect Circle, the Vandals) drops a solo album under the name Stripsearch and tries his hand at some improvisational sounds. The self-titled album features his brother and music mate Jason Freese on the saxophone, plus bass player Mike Elizondo (Eminem) and guitarist Michael Ward (Wallflowers).

Finally, with the exception of a song extolling the virtues of Zoloft and some routine wordplay, wacky Ween tone down their act a bit and get more serious on Quebec. Ooh la la.

Out Tuesday, August 5:

  • Paolo Angeli - Bucato (ReR/Cuneiform)
  • Arraya - Arraya (Volcom)
  • Jeff Beck - Jeff (Sony)
  • Terence Blanchard - Bounce (Blue Note)
  • Blast - Alta Strata (ReR/Cuneiform)
  • Blue October - History for Sale (Universal)
  • Blues Traveler - Truth Be Told (Sanctuary)
    Buy Now: Truth Be Told (Sanctuary)
  • BT - Emotional Technology (Nettwerk)
    Read:"BT Secretive About 'NSYNC Payback On Upcoming Album"
  • Canterbury Music Festival - Rain & Shine (Rev-Ola)
  • Nikki Cleary - Nikki Cleary (Jive)
  • Cruxshadows - Frozen Embers (Dancing Ferret)
  • Division of Laura Lee - Trapped In (Burning Heart)
  • Enchant - Tug of War (Inside Out)
  • Found Cats - Full Gospel Rockabilly (Golly Gee)
  • Funker Vogt - Revivor (Metropolis)
  • Jeff Golub - Soul Sessions (GRP)
  • Shaun Groves - Twilight (Rocketown)
  • Hocico - Disidencia Inquebrantable (EP, Metropolis)
  • Hyperions - Under My Sombrero (Surprise Truck)
  • Javier - Javier (Capitol/Priority)
  • Wynonna Judd - What the World Needs Now Is Love (Curb)
  • The Juliana Theory - Live 10.13.2001 (Tooth & Nail)
  • Junior Senior - D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat (Atlantic)
    Read: "Junior Senior: Anarchistic Odd Couple Wants To 'Move Your Feet'"
    Buy Now: D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat (Atlantic)
  • Killing Joke - Killing Joke (Red Ink)
  • Lake Trout - Another One Lost (RX/Palm Pictures)
  • Ben Lee - Hey You. Yes You. (F2 Music)
  • Jeffrey Lewis - It's the Ones Who've Cracked That the Light Shines Through (Sanctuary/Rough Trade)
  • Libertines - I Get Along (EP, Sanctuary/Rough Trade)
  • Charlotte Martin - In Parentheses (EP, RCA)
  • Mr. Criminal - Criminal Mentality (Thump)
  • New Amsterdams - Worse for the Wear (Vagrant)
  • Pinebender - The High Price of Living Too Long With a Single Dream (Lovitt)
  • The Poor - Poor (Rev-Ola)
  • Robert Randolph & the Family Band - Unclassified (Dare/Reprise)
  • Don Ross - Robot Monster (Narada)
  • Rachael Sage - Public Record (Mpress)
  • Smash Mouth - Get the Picture? (Interscope)
    Buy Now: Get the Picture? (Interscope)
  • Steadman - Revive (Elektra)
  • Stripsearch - Stripsearch (Magna Carta)
  • Tampa Tony - Y-Not (Empire Musicwerks BMG)
  • The Derek Trucks Band - Soul Serenade (Sony)
  • Turbulence - The Truth (Sanctuary/Ras)
  • Velvet Acid Christ - Hex Angel: Utopia-Dystopia (Metropolis)
  • Ween - Quebec (Sanctuary)
  • Luther Wright and the Wrongs - Guitar Pickin' Martyrs (Back Porch)
  • Various artists - Supertones Surf (Golly Gee)
  • Various artists - "Uptown Girls" soundtrack (Nettwerk)

August 12:

August 19:

August 26:

September 2:

  • Mariah Carey - Remixes (Sony)

September 9:

September 16:

October 7:

Related Artists ]]> http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1475408/20030804/smash_mouth.jhtml News Article http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1475408/20030804/smash_mouth.jhtml 5 Aug 2003 07:59:00 EDT <![CDATA[BT Plans DJ Sets Without The Wheels Of Steel]]> Trance innovator/ 'NSYNC producer to debut live set that will feature only two laptops, Oxygen 8 keyboards.
By Corey Moss


BT
Photo: Nettwerk America

Are laptops the new turntables?

While some underground DJs abandoned the wheels of steel a few years ago, the big names in electronic music have continued to entertain dancers the old-fashioned way. Until now.

BT, one of the innovators of trance who went on to produce 'NSYNC's "Pop," is planning to debut a live set early next year that will feature only two laptops and Oxygen 8 keyboards, which work as an interface with computers.

"It's much more like remixing live than it is like DJing," BT explained at his home studio recently. "I'll have some other people's tracks and my tracks and a capellas from different sh--. And on headphones, as if I were cueing up a record, I'll load some software synths and I'll play an acid line or bassline that fits with the record that I'm playing. And instead of beatmixing in another record, I'll beatmix in a bunch of lines, then fade that track out and drop a breakbeat of my own. So there'll be a track playing that didn't exist before I stepped up to the decks. It's some really intense sh--."

BT, who was also one of the first electronic music stars to sing and perform with a band, has been experimenting with his new form of DJing during some of his standard sets.

"I took the Beatles' 'Day Tripper' and put it on top of beats from [Kraftwerk's] Trans-Europe Express and then on top of a Dylan Rhymes track, all in real time, though," he said of a recent gig. "On turntables, you can only go to plus eight or 10 [beats per minute] in either direction. With this I can take something that's 60 BPM and make it 130. And it works amazing."

Fans who aren't able to catch BT's shows will likely be able to see the DJ in action on a DVD he hopes to release next year. Since he will have at least 20 tracks left over from the recording sessions for his new album (see "BT Secretive About 'NSYNC Payback On Upcoming Album"), BT plans to include unreleased music on the DVD, along with live footage and behind-the-scenes material he shot himself.

"I run around with my little eight-millimeter camera all the time and I've filmed some beautiful stuff," BT said.

For the DVD, BT may also mix some of his songs in 5.1 surround sound. "It gives you a lot more room to work with," he noted. "And I'm the guy who can use it."

BT tour dates, according to Nettwerk:

  • 12/21 - Orlando, FL @ Icon
  • 12/31 - Villa Park, IL @ Odeum Expo
  • 1/24 - San Diego, CA @ Montage

Related Artists ]]> http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1458942/20021202/bt.jhtml News Article http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1458942/20021202/bt.jhtml 2 Dec 2002 12:04:00 EST <![CDATA[BT Secretive About 'NSYNC Payback On Upcoming Album]]> Producer of their 'Pop' got JC Chasez to sing on his LP, but he's not saying which track.
By Corey Moss


BT
Photo: MTV News

TARZANA, California — BT is hesitant to reveal that his new album features a collaboration with JC Chasez, but not because he's worried about ruining his dance-music credibility.

"I've been playing it in my sets and I'm top secret about who it is, 'cause I want people to judge it on the song, not the whole 'NSYNC affiliation," the DJ/producer explained Friday at his home studio. "People go f---ing nuts, even my super cool friends that would never admit to [liking 'NSYNC]. They're like, 'Wow, this is such a great tune.' And I'm like, 'It's JC.' And they're like, 'Shut the f--- up,' buggin' out."

It's easy to understand why BT's friends don't recognize the Chasez collaboration, which BT is concealing the title of to keep the details secret. The song is heavily influenced by the producer's trance background and is a far cry even from 'NSYNC's "Pop," which BT produced (see "BT Earns 'King Of Dirty Pop' Title With 'NSYNC, Britney Tracks").

BT first met the pop star two years ago when Chasez started showing up at his DJ shows. After forming a friendship, Chasez eventually asked him to work on Celebrity. Busy schedules kept BT from working on Justin Timberlake's solo effort, but he's set aside time next year to work on some cuts for Chasez's album with Alexander Greggs (Brandy, Aaron Carter).

"Alex has that whole R&B sh-- locked down. He gets that, and that's not my world," he said.

In the meantime, BT is putting the finishing touches on a proper follow-up to 2000's Movement in Still Life. Despite losing several tracks when his studio robbed in late 2001, the prolific BT had 42 finished tracks to choose from.

Twelve of the songs stood out, including collaborations with Peter Gabriel ("Our Loving Silence"), the Roots ("Tao of the Machine") and Gang Starr's Guru ("Knowledge Is Self") (see " 'Emotional' New Album, Korn Remixes, More Film Work For BT"). One epic number, "The Great Escape," features guitarist Richard Fortus (Guns N' Roses) on cello.

One song destined for the new LP, "Superfabulousness," is reminiscent of the Movement in Still Life single "Never Gonna Come Back Down" with Mike Doughty, but with an electroclash slant. It features vocals from Girls Against Boys singer Scott McCloud and actress Rose McGowan ("Scream," "Charmed").

"She totally can [sing]," BT said. "I think she sounds a bit like Shirley Manson."

Although it's packed with guest vocalists, the upcoming disc features several tracks sung by BT, who began experimenting with singing on his last album. One song he sings on, the album closer "Animals," samples recordings from deep sea scuba divers.

"I'm really proud of this song lyrically," BT said. "It's a metaphor for the human experience and just talking about how basically that's what we are — animals who can talk and have consciousness, so therefor feel so grandiose and self-important as to justify all different kinds of behavior."

BT's work in progress covers a wide range of emotions, from deeper reflections to party joints, but the DJ promised the album will make sense when you hear the songs in their correct order.

"I try to make records people can listen to from start to finish that encourage you to not, like, flip to track three," he explained. "This is a commitment. You can't read a book or watch TV while you listen to it."

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Ani DiFranco
Photo: Albert Sanchez

Except for the inclusion of "Self Evident," a post-9/11 poem on Ani DiFranco's live double CD, So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter, this week's releases are steering clear from addressing the first anniversary of September 11, 2001 (see "Artists Debate Releasing Discs Near 9/11 Anniversary" ).

Aside from DiFranco, more girls with guitars who are issuing new albums are the Bangs (Call & Response) and anti-Ace of Base Swedes the Sahara Hotnights, whose Jennie Bomb is their first U.S. effort. Meanwhile, Lynda Stipe (sister of R.E.M.'s Michael) and her '80s band Oh-OK are rediscovered with The Complete Oh-OK, which features the early, early work of Matthew Sweet.

Former Arrested Development member Speech and former Pharcyde member Tre Hardson both try thei hands at solo efforts this week with Spiritual People and Liberation, respectively. And the Yohimbe Brothers, a duo made up of Vernon Reid of Living Colour and DJ Logic from Eye & I, release Front End Lifter, which reunites Reid with all of the original members of Living Colour and includes guest spots by Prince Paul and Slick Rick.

Out Tuesday, September 10:

  • Audio Soul Project - Community Remixed (Studio K7)
  • Authority Zero - A Passage in Time (Lava/ Atlantic)
  • Baby D - Lil' Chopper Toy (Big Oomph)
  • The Bachelors - The Very Best of the Bachelors (Varèse Sarabande)
  • The Bangs - Call & Response (EP, Kill Rock Stars)
  • Before Braille - The Rumor (Liquid 8)
  • Boas - Mansion (Overcoat/ Touch & Go)
  • Boy Sets Fire - Live for Today (EP, Wind-Up)
  • Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Ultimate Collection (Hip-O)
  • Broken Spindles - Broken Spindles (Tiger Style)
  • The Brooklyn Cowboys - Dodgin' Bullets (Leaps)
  • BT - 10 Years in the Life (WEA Labels)
  • Richard Buckner - Born Into (Overcoat/ Touch & Go)
  • Tom Burris - For Sale (Tomato)
  • Cross Canadian Ragweed - Cross Canadian Ragweed (Universal South)
  • Cynthia Dall - Sound Restores Young Men (Drag City)
  • Coco de Mer - Coco de Mer (Rasa/ Tommy Boy)
  • Dead to Fall - Everything I Touch Falls to Pieces (Victory)
  • Delaney & Bonnie - Accept No Substitute (Collector's Choice)
  • The Detachment Kit - They Raging Quiet Army (SpinART)
  • Diesel - Watts in a Tank (One Way)
  • Ani DiFranco - So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter (Righteous Babe)
     
  • John Doe - Dim Stars, Bright Sky (iMusic)
     Read: "Punk Pioneers John Doe, Gordon Gano Pull A P. Diddy On Star-Studded Solo LPs"
  • Dropkick Murphys - Live on St. Patrick's Day from Boston, MA (Hellcat)
  • Drums & Tuba - Mostly Ape (Righteous Babe)
  • Earl Slick Band - Slick Trax (Metal Blade)
  • Echo - Echo (New Line)
  • Excommunion - Superion (World War III)
  • Faultline - Your Love Means Everything (Elektra)
  • Radney Foster - Another Way to Go (DualTone)
  • Sue Garner - Shadyside (Touch & Go)
  • Gloria Gaynor - I Wish You Love (Logic)
  • Goapele - Even Closer (Hiero Imperium/ Sky Blaze)
  • Chico Hamilton - Thoughts of... (Koch Jazz)
  • Tre Hardson - Liberation (iMusic)
  • Gordon Haskell - Harry's Bar (Compass)
  • Richard X. Heyman - Basic Glee (Turn-Up)
  • Hocico - Signos de Aberración (Metropolis)
  • Holiday Express - Live (Oglio)
  • Rebecca Lynn Howard - Forgive (MCA Nashville)
  • Ferlin Husky - Country Music Is Here to Stay (Collector's Choice)
  • Peter Huttlinger - Naked Pop (Favored Nations Acoustic)
  • Ill Lit - Wacmusic (Badman)
  • In Strict Confidence - Mistrust the Angels (Metropolis)
  • Mike Ireland & Holler - Learning how to Live (Sub Pop)
  • Ming & FS - Subway Series (Om)
  • Ivy - Guestroom (Minty Fresh)
  • Jackpot - Shiny Things (Surfdog)
  • Sonny James - The Complete Columbia and Monument Hits (Collector's Choice)
  • Doug Kershaw - Easy (spinART/Cooking Vinyl)
  • Layo & Bushwacka! - Night Works (XL)
  • Magellan - Hundred Year Flood (Magna Carta)
  • John McCutcheon - The Greatest Story Never Told (Red House)
  • Megadeth - Alive ... and Well? (Sanctuary)
  • Mercury Program - Data Learn the Language (Tiger Style)
  • Roger Miret & the Disasters - Roger Miret & the Disasters (Hellcat)
  • The Mission UK - Aura (Metropolis)
  • moe. - Warts & All Vol. 2 (Red Ink)
  • Gary Moore - Scars (Sanctuary)
  • Carrie Newcomer - The Gathering of Spirits (Philo/ Rounder)
  • No Good - Game Day PBB (ArtistDirect)
  • Novembers Doom - To Welcome the Fade (The End)
  • Oh-OK - The Complete Oh-OK (Collector's Choice)
  • Anders Osborne - Bury the Hatchet (Shanachie)
  • John Parish - How Animals Move (Touch & Go)
  • The Pattern - Real Feelness (Lookout!)
  • Ellis Paul - The Speed of Trees (Philo/ Rounder)
  • Peter Rauhofer - Live @ Roxy (Star 69)
  • Jordan Rudess - 4NYC (Magna Carta)
  • Run-DMC - Greatest Hits (Arista)
  • The Sahara Hotnights - Jennie Bomb (Jetset)
  • Shade Sheist - Informal Introduction (MCA)
  • The Sheila Divine - Secret Society (EP, Arena Rock)
  • The Smokey River Boys - Sing O Brother (Universal Special Products)
  • Snowboy & Latin Section - Para Puente (Cubop)
  • Sodom - Code Red (Crash)
  • Speech - Spiritual People (iMusic)
  • Stick Men With Ray Guns - Some People Deserve to Suffer (Emperor Jones)
  • Supreme Beings of Leisure - Divine Operating System (Palm Pictures)
  • T-Model Ford - Bad Man (Fat Possum)
  • Tin Hat Trio - The Rodeo Eroded (Ropeadope/ Atlantic)

  • Aaron Tippin - Stars & Stripes (Lyric Street)
  • Trans Am - Extremixxx (Touch & Go)
  • Tracey Ullman - Tracey Ullman Takes on the Hits (Varése Sarabande)
  • Vandermark 5 - Free Jazz Classics Vol. 1 & 2 (Atavistic)
  • Various artists ? "The Banger Sisters" soundtrack (Sanctuary)
  • Various artists - Best of Buddha (Buddha Lounge)
  • Various artists - Best of Gothic Radio Vol. 1 (Dark Future)
  • Various artists - British Are Coming Vol. 2 (Sanctuary)
  • Various artists - "City by the Sea" soundtrack (Varèse Sarabande)
  • Various artists - Essential Underground Hip Hop (Landspeed)
  • Various artists - Going Driftless - An Artist's Tribute to Greg Brown (Red House)
  • Various artists - "Invincible" soundtrack (Milan)
  • Various artists ? "The Lathe of Heaven" soundtrack (Milan)
  • Various artists - Party Time 2003: Part 1 (Groovilicious)
  • Various artists - Perpetuous Sounds of European Dance (Nervous)
  • Various artists - Pure Slow Jams (Universal TV)
  • Various artists ? "Rebecca" soundtrack (Varése Sarabande)
  • Various artists ? "The Transporter" soundtrack (Elektra)
  • Vile - Depopulate (Unique Leader)
  • Peter Wagoner - Unplugged (Shellpoint)
  • Peter Wolf - Sleepless (Artemis)
  • The Wondermints - Mind If We Make Love to You (Smile/ Image Entertainment)
  • Xmarsx - Xmarsx (Atavistic)
  • Yohimbe Brothers - Front End Lifter (Ropeadope/ Atlantic)
September 17:

September 24:

October 1:

October 8:

October 15:

October 22:

October 29:
  • Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk (Epic/ Sony)


November 5:
  • Björk - Björk's Greatest Hits (Elektra)

    Related Artists ]]> http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1457377/20020909/difranco_ani.jhtml News Article http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1457377/20020909/difranco_ani.jhtml 10 Sep 2002 08:03:00 EDT <![CDATA['Emotional' New Album, Korn Remixes, More Film Work For BT]]> Electronic artist's new LP will feature Peter Gabriel, the Roots, Guru and others.
    By Corey Moss


    BT
    Photo: Jay Morel

    After his studio was broken into in December and hundreds of recordings were stolen, electronic music architect BT had to take his upcoming album in a different direction.

    "This is a very emotional album," BT said Sunday backstage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (see "Review: Bjork's Pit, Beck's Set Among Few Surprises At Risk-Free Coachella"). "I'm singing a lot on this album. The collaborations are with people I really care about, like Peter Gabriel and the Roots and Guru from Gang Starr. It's a really special record. I'm already proud of it and it's not done."

    The still-untitled follow-up to 2000's Movement in Still Life would probably be released by now if not for the break-in, which crushed the normally sky-high spirits of the producer (see "BT's Collaborations With Sarah McLachlan, Peter Gabriel Stolen"). But BT said he has fully recovered and is feeling better than ever.

    "I just re-centered myself and reminded myself that I am really fortunate to be able to do what I love for a living," he said. "There's got to be a reason some of the tracks disappeared into the ether, they must not have been meant to be heard. I just made peace with that."

    Over the last few months BT has written several new songs, which his friends have told him are the best he has ever written.

    "They're just really emotional, like on the tip of 'Satellite' from the last album," BT said. "They're sort of Sigur Rós, Radioheady type electronic-rock music. And the stuff that is more breakbeat-oriented, that stuff is particularly aggro. It's hard to describe, ... but it's starting to make sense as an album."

    As for collaborations, BT said he lost the Sarah McLachlan track in the burglary and may not have a chance to re-record it. "Tao of the Machine," his song with the Roots, appeared on the "Blade 2" soundtrack earlier this year (see "Eve, Ice Cube, Redman Go Electronic For 'Blade 2' ") and will also show up on BT's album remixed and longer. And along with Guru, dance music luminaries Sasha and Paul van Dyk will make guest appearances, pleasing BT's longtime trance fans and retaining a bit of his signature sound.

    "Stylistically, in terms of beats and things, even on the rock songs, I've been taking the aesthetic of proper techno stuff that I like, Autechre and Richie Hawtin, the really clippy-style computer-type beats, and mixing it with stuff like the hip-hop and R&B I listen to, like Timbaland."

    "Our Loving Silence," the collaboration with Gabriel, features BT playing seven-string bass over "mental beats." "They sound like a typewriter with epilepsy," BT said. "It's kind of like world music meets Autechre, with Peter singing over the top of it."

    BT said his work as producer in the pop world last year with 'NSYNC and Britney Spears has not influenced his own music ("There's not going to be dancing in my videos," he insists). The work did inspire BT to continue producing for other artists, and he has a major one lined up for the summer that he's keeping tight-lipped about.

    Meanwhile, BT just finished remixing the new Korn single, "Here to Stay" (see "Korn's Jonathan Davis On New Video: 'This Is What Kids Are Taught' "). Korn's record label loved one of his versions but passed on the other.

    "Jonathan [Davis] sounds like Timmy from 'South Park,' so I made it a duet," BT said, laughing. "The label said, 'Ah, no dude.' I'm playing that tonight, though!"

    Also on BT's plate are two film scores, though he won't reveal the title of either one. His past projects have included "Go," "Under Suspicion," "Driven" and "The Fast and the Furious."

    "I want to do an independent film, like something that's for the art of it, and then something I can write strings for a 120-piece orchestra for," BT said. "You can't do that on an independent. I get to use all of the classical training I learned as kid. I don't even get to use it on my own record, 'cause it's so cost-prohibitive. When I have done it, I'm like, 'Don't show me the bill!' "

    Related Artists ]]>     http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1453758/20020503/bt.jhtml News Article http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1453758/20020503/bt.jhtml 3 May 2002 11:41:00 EDT     <![CDATA[BT's Collaborations With Sarah McLachlan, Peter Gabriel Stolen]]> Thieves broke into DJ/producer's Los Angeles studio while he was in London.
    By Corey Moss


    BT
    Photo: Nettwerk America

    Newly recorded collaborations with Peter Gabriel and Sarah McLachlan were among the items stolen from BT's home studio in late December, the electronic music guru revealed Tuesday.

    Thieves broke into the DJ/producer's Los Angeles studio over Christmas while he was recording in London and made off with more than $75,000 worth of equipment, including computers storing 11 tracks for his upcoming album and hundreds of other recordings, he said.

    "One of the FireWire hard drives that was stolen included my sound library since I was 15 years old," a shaken BT said. "It's a really heavy thing, a really hard thing to have happen when you are gone. The guys that work for me were crying over the phone — grown men crying. It was a really difficult blow to take, but it's made me more determined."

    Since he returned from Europe, BT has recovered parts of half of the stolen songs, he said. He also learned from Gabriel on Tuesday that the British singer had saved a copy of most of their collaboration.

    Re-recording the missing parts won't be easy, however. "It's going to be like remembering the lines in someone's forehead if you were painting them from memory," BT said.

    One of the mixers stolen from BT's studio was once a part of a set. BT had the other half stolen shortly after moving to Los Angeles a few years ago.

    "I've had such strange experiences here," he said. "Being in Los Angeles has been so positive on a career level for me, and at the same time I've been robbed and put in the trunk of a car, and now I've had my studio broken into."

    BT said fortunately his most expensive and rare equipment was not in the studio that was burglarized. He also did not lose his collaboration with the Roots (see "BT Working With Roots, Sarah McLachlan On New LP"), and he said the material he was recording in England is some of the best stuff he has done for the album, which had been due in the spring but will likely be pushed back.

    BT's McLachlan collaboration may not ever be heard, depending on the availability of the Canadian songstress or his luck in retrieving the stolen goods.

    "I'll give a huge f---ing reward for my hard drives back," BT said. "That's all I care about. Anybody that can get them, they can keep everything else."

    BT called his still-untitled track with Gabriel, which includes excerpts from their favorite poets, Pablo Neruda and Sylvia Plath, a "really beautiful piece of music." "It just gutted me thinking it was lost," he said.

    BT, who gained notoriety outside the club scene last year by producing 'NSYNC's "Pop" (see "BT Earns 'King Of Dirty Pop' Title With 'NSYNC, Britney Tracks"), has been recording the follow-up to 2000's Movement in Still Life since last fall.

    Despite the break-in, BT still performed at a giant street party in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve with Paul Oakenfold and Deep Dish (see "Paul Oakenfold, BT Throwing New Year's Block Party In L.A.").

    "I considered not playing, but you know, that's something that makes me very happy, connecting with a bunch of people, and it was good for the spirit to do it," he said.

    Related Artists ]]>     http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1451706/20020108/bt.jhtml News Article http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1451706/20020108/bt.jhtml 8 Jan 2002 09:45:00 EST     <![CDATA[Thieves Steal Equipment, Remixes From BT's Home Studio]]> Computers, equipment, three weeks' worth of recordings taken.
    By Corey Moss


    BT
    Photo: Nettwerk America

    Two weeks ago, electronic music guru BT was dropping breakbeats. Today he's dealing with a break-in.

    Thieves broke into the DJ/producer's Los Angeles home studio while he was in London for Christmas and made off with thousands of dollars' worth of equipment and new recordings.

    A spokesperson said the artist had three weeks' worth of material on the computers that were taken. "It was mostly remixes," she said. "Nothing that can't be replaced."

    BT, who gained notoriety outside the club scene last year by producing 'NSYNC's "Pop," has been recording his as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2000's Movement in Still Life since the fall. Peter Gabriel, Sarah McLachlan and the Roots are expected to make guest appearances on it (see "BT Working With Roots, Sarah McLachlan On New LP").

    The break-in did not keep BT from performing at a giant street party in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve with Paul Oakenfold and Deep Dish (see "Paul Oakenfold, BT Throwing New Year's Block Party In L.A.").

    Related Artists ]]>     http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1451677/20020107/bt.jhtml News Article http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1451677/20020107/bt.jhtml 7 Jan 2002 02:46:00 EST     <![CDATA[Paul Oakenfold, BT Throwing New Year's Block Party In L.A.]]> Center of the Universe on Hollywood Boulevard expected to draw 20,000 people.
    By Corey Moss


    Paul Oakenfold
    Photo: Perfecto

    Electronic music stars Paul Oakenfold, BT and Deep Dish will headline a massive outdoor New Year's Eve party on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.

    The second annual Center of the Universe on Hollywood Boulevard will feature three stages showcasing those DJs and others, including Sander Kleinenberg, DJ Sneak and Marques Wyatt. BT, whose profile rose this year after producing 'NSYNC's "Pop" (see "BT Earns 'King Of Dirty Pop' Title With 'NSYNC, Britney Tracks"), will be performing a rare live set, according to organizers.

    This year's event will be held on seven city blocks between Vine Street and Whitley Avenue and is expected to draw 20,000 people, twice the number who turned out for last year's Paul van Dyk-headlined festival.

    Dance music promoters Spundae are hosting the event, and profits will be donated to local youth charities. Tickets are $80 and available at Ticketmaster outlets.

    BT, who has been hard at work on his next album (see "BT Working With Roots, Sarah McLachlan On New LP"), said recently that more uplifting music should be recorded in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

    "The music I make has always been sort of positive," he said. "It's important to express a lot of different emotions in music, but if it's a constant anger, rage, and frowning and negativity, I just don't think people wanna hear that anymore. I'm starting to hear more Travis songs and Coldplay and good music [on the radio]. And hopefully that will keep happening."

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