213 (file)
Photo: Anthony Mandler

Hitting stores this week are albums by two rap trios, a pop star's ex-boy-toy, angry hard rockers and one of the preeminent original pop-punk bands.

Hip-hop heavyweights Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg and Warren G have put their solo careers on hold in order to drop a supergroup superproject. 213, the group named after the former Long Beach, California, area code, release The Hard Way this week.

Ryan Cabrera, ex-boyfriend of Ashlee Simpson and up-and-coming singer/songwriter with a pop penchant, releases his major-label debut, Take It All Away. The album, co-produced by Goo Goo Dolls frontman Johnny Rzeznik, was penned almost two years ago, before Cabrera and Simpson were an item, so don't look for any love songs or angry breakup tunes about the starlet.

Saliva represent for hard rock with their most recent effort, Survival of the Sickest, the Memphis band's follow-up to 2002's Back Into Your System.

Northern State, the rap trio some have labeled the female Beastie Boys, will release their major-label debut, All City. The Long Island-bred ladies — Hesta Prynn, Guinea Love and DJ Sprout — released their first full-length album, Dying in Stereo, in 2003.

Original A-list alternative band the Talking Heads have two releases this week. The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads, the group's 1982 double live album, becomes available on CD for the first time, while The Best of the Talking Heads, the band's first single-disc greatest-hits album, includes hits "Psycho Killer," "Once in a Lifetime," "Burning Down the House" and 15 others.

Also out this week are albums by Rilo Kiley (More Adventurous), Presidents of the United States of America (Love Everybody) and Bruce Hornsby (Halcyon Days).

Out Tuesday, August 17:

• 213 - The Hard Way (TVT)
  Buy Now: The Hard Way (TVT)
  Read: "Snoop's 213 Get Wrong Number While Doing Things The Hard Way"
• John Brannen - The Good Thief (Sly Dog)
• Ryan Cabrera - Take It All Away (E.V.L.A./Atlantic)
  Buy Now: Take It All Away (E.V.L.A./Atlantic)
  Read: "Ryan Cabrera, Ashlee's Ex, Sets Sights On Album, Sorority Tour"
• The Court and Spark - Witch Season (Absolutely Kosher)
• Good for Cows - Bebop Fantasy (Asian Man)
• Bruce Hornsby - Halcyon Days (Sony)
• Kissing Tigers - Pleasure of Resistance (Slowdance)
• Little Wings - Magic Wand (K Records)
• Moments in Grace - Moonlight Survived (Salad Days/Atlantic)
• Nagisa Ni Te - The Same As a Flower (Jagjaguwar)
• Northern State - All City (Columbia)
• Presidents of the United States of America - Love Everybody (Pusa Inc.)
• Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous (Brute/Beaute)
• Saliva - Survival of the Sickest (Island)
  Buy Now: Survival of the Sickest (Island)
  Read: "Saliva: Foaming At the Mouth"
• Sasquatch - Sasquatch (Small Stone)
• Tracy Shedd - Louder Than You Can Hear (Devil in the Woods)
• Slang - More Talk About Tonight (Terminus)
• Steve Smith and Vital Information - Come on In (Tone Center)
• Spiderbait - Tonight Alright (Interscope)
• Mavis Staples - Have a Little Faith (Alligator)
• The Sunshine Fix - Green Imagination (spinART)
• Steve Swallow With Ohad Talmor - The Bum’s Tale (Palmetto)
• Talking Heads - The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads (Rhino)
• The Jacob Fred Odyssey - Walking With Giants (Hyena)
• Travis Tritt - My Honky Tonk History (Sony)
• Twelve Girls Band - Eastern Energy (Platia Entertainment)
• The Uncle Devil Show - A Terrible Beauty (Compass)
• Various artists - Bump This (Pyramid)
• Various artists - Future Soundtrack for America (Barsuk)
• DVD: Various artists - "Hip Hop Story 3: Coast to Coast" (Ventura)
• DVD: Various artists - "Mayor of the Sunset Strip" (First Look)
• DVD: Nick Lachey & Jessica Simpson - "The Nick & Jessica Variety Hour" (Image)

August 24:

• R. Kelly - Happy People/ U Saved Me (Jive)
• Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying (Curb)
• Jason Mraz - Tonight, Not Again - At the Eagles Ballroom (Elektra)

August 31:

• Björk - Medulla (Elektra/ Asylum)
  Read: "Bjork Album Preview: Beautiful, Baffling and Bothersome Medúlla"
• Jill Scott - Beautifully Human: Words & Sounds 2 (Sony)
• Insane Clown Posse - Hell's Pit, Version 1 (Psychopathic)
• Insane Clown Posse - Hell's Pit, Version 2 (Psychopathic)
• Various artists - Passion of the Christ: Songs (Wind-Up)
  Read: "Scott Stapp, Lauryn Hill, P.O.D., MxPx Head Up 'Passion Of The Christ' LP"

September 7:

• Christine McVie - In The Meantime (Koch)
• Alan Jackson - What I Do (Arista)
• Anita Baker - My Everything (Blue Note)

• 213
• Ryan Cabrera
• Saliva
• Talking Heads
• Northern State

Nada Surf (file)
Photo: Barsuk

If someone's going to plunk down $110 for noodle pudding, the money had better be going to a good cause.

On May 12, a new political organization called CitizenChange held its first fund-raiser, benefiting the John Kerry campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and Swing State Summer Break, an organization that sends college students to register voters in the states expected to be the most hotly contested in the upcoming election.

The live auction and concert, held at a club in Brooklyn, New York, featured performances from Nada Surf, Northern State and the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, and the auction's donated items ranged from private yoga lessons to tattoo work to that pricey noodle pudding, which was baked by the mom of one of CitizenChange's founders.

The organization even overcame the last-minute realization that Kerry, in an effort to symbolize his support of campaign-finance reform, refuses to accept PAC donations by giving auction bidders the option of writing their checks directly to his campaign. (The Bush campaign, however, does accept PAC donations.)

A lot of work went into the event, but by divvying up all the tasks, the 12 members found the planning went pretty smoothly. At the end of the night, CitizenChange was thrilled to find that it had packed the house with more than 400 people and netted around $12,000.

It's a long way from a group of friends getting together to chat about politics in a living room — which is how CitizenChange got their start.

Back in 2000, writer Suzanne Snider and some of her left-leaning friends — teachers, fashion designers, small-business owners — formed a political-brunch club, gathering occasionally in her apartment to debate the Nader vs. Gore issue over bagels and coffee. But four years later, talk seemed insufficient and Snider's club craved action. They decided that despite their differences, the objective they shared was "regime change" — getting President Bush out of office.

"We realized that every issue we were interested in was affected by the presidential election, and we wanted to be involved," Snider recalled. "We didn't know what we were looking for in terms of officially incorporating, but we wanted to be recognized as a political entity." Some of the members researched their options and found the answer: The group would become a political action committee. CitizenChange was born.

While much of the recent media attention on grass-roots activism has focused on new forms involving the Internet, old-school methods of organizing — like political action committees — are thriving, too. PACs are groups of people with common concerns who pool their resources to help elect candidates or engage in other types of political activity. PACs are often associated with powerful special interests: For instance, drug manufacturers, unions, trial lawyers, and advocacy groups like the National Rifle Association and the National Education Association all have PACs that rake in millions. But smaller PACs formed by people like Snider and her friends aren't uncommon, according to Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "There are a lot of them this year," Sabato said. "People are energized, whether they're pro- or anti-Bush. It's the war, the economy, gay marriage — you name it. The plate is full in this election."

There are currently around 4,000 PACs registered with the Federal Election Commission, the agency that governs election financing. The main reason to form a PAC is that under campaign finance law, PACs can make larger political donations than individuals can. "You have to form a PAC in order to give contributions that are sizable," Sabato said. "With a PAC you can also pool your individual contributions to make them more noticeable to the candidates." And being noticed — having an impact that went beyond their individual interests — was exactly what Snider and her friends had in mind.

CitizenChange are now planning an art auction and other actions. "We were all pretty amazed by the success of this event," one of the members said, "and that gives us incentive. As a PAC, we have the legitimacy and the infrastructure to do more things like this in the future. We feel a little like an institution — we have a bank account, and we have checks in our name."

If you're interested in forming a PAC of your own, you have to hook up with two government agencies, the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Election Commission. The IRS will give you an employee identification number for the bank account your PAC will use, ensuring that you won't be taxed for the money your PAC brings in. Call (800) TAX-FORM for more information. The necessary FEC forms are available at www.fec.gov. Click on "reporting forms and filing information," and you'll find the information you need to get started. Some of the forms are tedious — this is the government, after all. But form your PAC, come up with your idea — bake sales for Bush? karaoke for Kerry? — and in no time you'll be making your voice heard the American way: with money.

• Nada Surf
• Northern State
• Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Singers

Lillix
Photo: Maverick

The Warped Tour's Ladies Lounge has grown up and moved out to the garage.

Inspired by the success of the Lounge — a staple of the Warped Tour since 1998 — organizers have put together the Girlz Garage Tour. Five primarily female acts — Lillix, the Peak Show, Northern State, Brassy and the Start — have been tapped for the trek's inaugural run, kicking off on October 20 in Boston. Organizers have lined up a month's worth of dates, stretching through November 23 in Detroit.

"There are so many strong female-fronted acts that this tour is never more relevant than now," said Warped founder Kevin Lyman, who is also presenting the Girlz Garage outing.

The jaunt will give Lillix their first bit of extensive road work since releasing their debut album, Falling Uphill, in May (see "Lillix Pair Angelic Voices With Rock Sensibilities On Debut").

Girlz Garage itinerary, according to tour officials:

• 10/20 - Boston, MA @ Axis
• 10/21 - Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony
• 10/22 - Philadelphia, PA @ TLA
• 10/24 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
• 10/25 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
• 10/26 - Norfolk, VA @ Norva
• 10/28 - Atlanta, GA @ Cotton Club
• 10/29 - New Orleans @ House of Blues
• 10/30 - Houston, TX @ Engine Room
• 11/1 - Austin, TX @ Stubb's BBQ
• 11/2 - Dallas, TX @ Indigo
• 11/4 - Phoenix, AZ @ Bash on Ash
• 11/5 - Los Angeles, CA @ Roxy
• 11/7 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Catalyst
• 11/8 - San Francisco, CA @ Slim's
• 11/10 - Seattle, WA @ Graceland
• 11/11 - Portland, OR @ Roseland
• 11/12 - Boise, ID @ Big Easy
• 11/14 - Salt Lake City, UT @ DV8
• 11/15 - Denver, CO @ Bluebird
• 11/17 - Lawrence, KS @ Bottleneck
• 11/18 - St. Louis, MO @ Galaxy
• 11/20 - Minneapolis, MN @ Ascot Room
• 11/21 - Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
• 11/22 - Chicago, IL @ Metro
• 11/23 - Detroit, MI @ Shelter

• Lillix
• Northern State
• Brassy

Sugar Ray is In the Pursuit of Leisure, and that process apparently involves Mark McGrath and company reuniting with their longtime producer, David Kahne. The new album features the group's usual mix of '80s-inspired tunes, a flirtation with hip-hop, and lighthearted party songs, plus a cover of Joe Jackson's "Is She Really Going Out with Him" and the first single, "Mr. Bartender (It's So Easy)."

Jewel channels her inner Prince on 0304, using such song titles as "Run 2 U," "Yes U Can," and "U & Me = Love." Meanwhile, Nina Nastasia issues the beautifully haunting album Run to Ruin, engineered by Steve Albini, and Northern State, the all-girl hip-hop group from Long Island, New York, who fancy themselves a Beastie Boys for a new generation, is Dying in Stereo.

Eels deliver Shootenanny!, a solid pop album, while Souls She Said, a band featuring former members of the Icarus Line and Ink and Dagger, release the EP Rub the Sleep Out. Also out this week is Paper Monsters, the debut solo album from Depeche Mode's David Gahan.

The Yes New York compilation features Longwave, the Walkmen, and the Strokes on a live recording of "New York City Cops." Another team effort, Warped Tour 2003, contains songs from the Used, NoFX and Andrew W.K., among other performers at this year's festival.

Finally, indie hip-hop heads, Aceyalone and Saul Williams both release albums this week. The emcees espouse their political poetry on Love and Hate and Not in Our Name, respectively. Also on the independent hip-hop radar is S.A Smash/Cage's Smashy Trashy, produced by El-P and featuring Def Jux favorite Aesop Rock.

Out Tuesday, June 3:

• Aceyalone - Love and Hate (Red Urban)
• Adequate Seven - Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Household Name)
• Amazing Transparent Man - Taking Back the Covers (EP, Springman)
• Joan Armatrading - What's Inside (Denon)
• Armor for Sleep - Dream to Make Believe (Equal Vision)
• Aspera - Oh Fantastica (Jagjaguwar)
• Audio Bullys - Ego War (Astralwerks)
• Gene Autry - Singing Cowboy (American Legends)
• Aziza A - Kendi Dunyam (Doublemoon)
• Belvedere - 'Twas Hell Said Former Child (Household Name)
• Brendan Benson and the Wellfed Boys - Metarie (Star Time)
• Biff Bang Pow! - Best of Biff Bang Pow (Rev-Ola)
• Big Star - Big Star Story (Rykodisc)
• Bodies Lay Broken - Eximinous Execration (Deathvomit)
• Marc Bolan - Work in Progress (Edsel)
• Bonepony - Jubilee (Superduper)
• Bride of No No - Bride of No No (Atavistic)
• Budapest One - This Town Just Gave You a Dreamer (Beatville)
• Canned Heat - Friends in the Can (Varese)
• Andre & Martine Charbonneau - Air Mail Music: Spain - Guitare Flamenca (Playasound)
• Chatham County Line - Chatham County Line (Bonfire)
• Don Chezina - Live from Miami (D.C.)
• The Clique - Vanbrugh Park (DeTour)
• Cousin Harley - Jukin' (East Side)
• Curse of the Golden Vampire - Mass Destruction (Ipecac)
• Terence Trent D'Arby - Wild Card (Compendia)
• The Daycare Swindlers - This Is No Way to Make a Living (Vile Beat)
• Dead Meadow - Shivering King and Others (Matador)
• Death Comet Crew - DCC America (Troubleman Unlimited)
• Dee Rangers - Pretty Ugly Beat (White Jazz)
• Depswa - Two Angels and a Dream (Interscope)
• Destruction Made Simple - Terror Sticken Youth (Af )
• Divine Empire - Nostradamus (Olympic)
• DNA - Influences (Tommy Boy)
• Don't Look Down - Five (EP, NIT)
• Gordon Downie - Battle of the Nudes (Rounder)
• The Dragons - Sin Salvation (Gearhead)
• D.R.I. - Dirtiest ... Rottenest (Restless)
• The Durutti Column - Someone Else's Party (Artful)
• Dusty Drake - Dusty Drake (Warner Bros)
• Dust to Dust - Sick (Music Cartel)
• Stacey Earle/Mark Stuart - Never Gonna Let You Go (Evolver)
• Earth Quake - Purple: The A&M Recordings (Acadia)
• Eels - Shootenanny (DreamWorks)
• Elephant Micah - Elephant Micah, Your Dreams Are Feeding Back (Bluesanct Musak)
• Enon - In This City (Touch & Go)
• Erase Errata - Dancing Machine (EP, Troubleman Unlimited)
• Essential Logic - Fanfare in the Garden: An Essential Logic Collection (Kill Rock Stars)
• Extreme Noise Terror - From One Extreme to Another (Anag Punk)
• The Fall - It's the New Thing (Sanctuary)
• Federation X - X-Patriot (Estrus)
• Flamethrower - Flamethrower (DeAd Teenager)
• Adam Forkner - [[[[VVRSSNN]]]] (K)
• From Monument To Masses - Impossible Leap in 34 Simple Steps (Dim Mak)
• David Gahan - Paper Monsters (Warner Bros.)
  Read: "Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan Working On Solo Debut"
  
• Gasman - Remedial (Planet Mu)
• Ghetto Superstars - Ghetto Classics (Blackstone)
• The Gift Machine - Don't Turn Me Off (KNW-Yr-Own)
• Give Up the Ghost - Background Music (Equal Vision)
• Goldberg-Miller Blues Band - 1965-66 Blowing My Mind Plus (Acadia)
• Gold Chains - Young Miss America (Pias America)
• Grave Digger - Rheingold (Nuclear Blast America)
• Buddy Guy - Blues Singer (Jive)
• Steve Hackett - To Watch the Storms (Inside Out)
• Hoods - Pray for Death (Victory)
• Horace X - Sackbutt (Omnium)
• Hotwire - Routine (RCA)
• Glenn Hughes - Live in Tokyo (Shrapnel)
• The Jealous Sound - Kill Them With Kindness (Better Looking)
• The Jets - Bolt of Lightning (Krypton)
• Jewel - 0304 (Atlantic)
  Read: "Jewel Bites Into A Musical Pickle-And-Peanut Butter Sandwich"
  Buy Now: 0304 (Atlantic)
  
• Jumpin' Jack - Rhumba Lee (Back Bender)
• Josh Kelley - For the Ride Home (Hollywood)
• King Prawn - Got the Thirst (Golf)
• Landing - Passages Through (K)
• Langhorns - Mission Exotica (Bad Taste)
• Last Days of April - Ascend to the Stars (Crank)
• Chris Lee - Cool Rock (Misra)
• Barry Levenson & Johnny Dyer - Hard Times Won (Storyville)
• Limecell - It's Gonna Get Ugly (TKO)
• Erik Lindgren - Sound on Sound (Arf Arf)
• The Lonesome Organist - Form and Follies (Thrill Jockey)
• Lonestar - Greatest Hits (BNA)
• Lousy - Babylon District (Knockout)
• Love and Rockets - Sorted: The Best of Love and Rockets (Beggars Banquet)
• David McWilliams - Reflections of David McWilliams (RPM)
• Mea Culpa - They Put You in a Mask (Empty)
• John Cougar Mellencamp - Trouble No More (Sony)
  Buy Now: Trouble No More (Sony)
  
• Millencolin - Battery Check (Burning Heart)
• The Mink Lungs - I'll Take It (Arena Rock)
• Mister Zippy - Ambition Is Critical (Golf)
• Mistreaters - Playa Hated to the Fullest (Estrus)
• Moka Only - Lowdown Suite (Battle Axe)
• Eddie Money - Then and Now (Sanctuary)
• The Moondogs - John Peel Sessions (DeTour)
• The Movies - In One Era out the Other (Gern Blandsten)
• Nina Nastasia - Run to Ruin (Touch & Go)
• New Orleans Klezmer All Stars - Borvis (Kismet / Mri)
• None More Black - File Under Black (Fat Wreck Chords)
• Northern State - Dying in Stereo (Star Time)
  Read:"Ain't No Bling In Their Thing"
  
• Nuclear Saturday - Best Time You Never Had (New School)
• Louis Osbourne - Motion Audio (Blue Chip)
• Paradise Island - Lines Are Infinitely Fine (Dim Mak)
• Dolly Parton - Ultimate Dolly Parton (RCA)
• Britta Phillips and Dean Wareham - Avventura (Jetset)
• Pineapple Corner - Soul G & Tony Match (Milan)
• Planet Smashers -Mighty (Stomp)
• Puffball - Leave Them All Behind (Burning Heart)
• Rattlesnakes - I, Explosion (Localhost)
• Lou Reed - NYC Man: The Ultimate Lou Reed Collection (RCA)
• The Riffs - Death or Glory (TKO)
• The Riverboat Gamblers - Something to Crow About (Gearhead)
• Roxy Music - Live (Eagle)
• Carla Rugg - Dynamite (East Side)
• S.A. Smash/Cage - Smashy Trashy (Definitive Jux)
• The Satellites - Jump (Planet X)
• Saxon Shore - Four Months of Darkness (Burnt Toast Vinyl)
• Brian Setzer - Jump, Jive an' Wail (Interscope)
• Seventh Star - Dead End (Facedown)
• Shoe Suede Blues - Saved By the Blues (Beachwood)
• Sinister - Savage or Grace (Nuclear Blast America)
• Skinless - Sacrifice to Survival (Relapse)
• Sleep - Dopesmoker (Tee Pee)
• Snuff - Kilburn/Caught in Session (Golf)
• Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild (Century Media)
• Souls She Said - Rub the Sleep Out (EP, Buddyhead)
• Spacegirl - Alone (Topaz)
• Rebecca Spencer - Wide Awake and Dreaming (LML)
• Strung Out - Live in a Dive (Fat Wreck Chords)
• A Sudden Sway - Seventysix Kids Forever (Cherry Red)
• Sugar Ray - In the Pursuit of Leisure (Atlantic)
  Read: "Babies, Marriage Somehow Lead Sugar Ray To Write A Club Song"
  Buy Now: In the Pursuit of Leisure (Atlantic)
• Surface of Eceon - Dragyn (Strange Attractors)
• Tabula Rasa - Role of Smith (Af)
• Tegan & Sara - If It Was You (Sanctuary) Read: Tegan & Sara: Just Don't Mention The Name 'T.A.T.U.' "
  
• Testostarone Kill - War All the Time (Fortified)
• They Came from the Stars - What We Are Doing Here (Lo.)
• Three Inches of Blood - Battle Cry Under a Winter Sun (Infect)
• Throw Rag - Desert Shores (Better Youth Organization)
• Devin Townsend - Terria (Inside Out)
• Train - My Private Nation (Sony)
  Buy Now: My Private Nation (Sony)
  
• Pete Turland - Both Wheels Left the Ground (East Side)
• Unseen -Explode (Better Youth Organization)
• Vanilla Muffins - Drug Is Football (Knockout)
• The Vanishing - Songs for Psychotic Children (Gold Standard)
• Variable Unit - Handbook for the Apocalypse (Wide Hive)
• Gillian Welch - Soul Journey (Acony)
• White Light Motorcade - Thank You, Goodnight! (Octone)
• Saul Williams - Not in Our Name (EP, Synchronic)
• Wirebox - Prison Cell (Tru-one)
• Woman & Children - Woman & Children (Attack 9)
• Zion - Zion (Native)
• Various artists - 25 Beach Music Classics (Varese)
• Various artists – “Beer: The Movie” soundtrack (Triple Crown)
• Various artists - Best of America, Vol. 2 (Curb)
• Various artists – “Bruce Almighty” soundtrack (Varese)
• Various artists - Cat'n Around, Vols. 1 & 2 (Pink & Black)
• Various artists - Compunktion, Vol. 2 (Sucka-punch)
• Various artists - Deadly Dose of Wylde Psych (Arf Arf)
• Various artists - Dream Babes, Vol. 4: Go Girl (RPM)
• Various artists - Forgive This Foolish Man: Hi Records' Deep Soul (Hi)
• Various artists - Grimey, Vol. 1 (Image)
• Various artists - Jesse and Jorge Morales Presents Z: Banda Rap (Sony)
• Various artists - Liberation Songs to Benefit PETA (Fat Wreck Chords)
• Various artists - Magpie (RPM)
• Various artists - Old School Oldies (Thump)
• Various artists - Pawn Stars!: The Pawn Label Story 1974-1978 (Hi)
• Various artists - Snoisses: The Skateboarder Sessions (Sessions)
• Various artists - Spanish Fly (Universal Latino)
• Various artists - Swami Sound System, Vol. 1 (Swami)
• Various artists - Terminal Sales (Sub Pop)
• Various artists - Ultimate Smash Hits (Arista)
• Various artists - Underground Radio: Volume High (Morisen)
• Various artists - Warped Tour 2003 (Side One Dummy)
• Various artists - We Are Tottenham (Cherry Red)
• Various artists - World Wide Noise Attack (Retch)
• Various artists - Vital Idol (Idol)
• Various artists - Yes New York (Atlantic)

June 5:

• Metallica - St. Anger (2 CDs, Elektra)
  Read: "Metallica Album Preview: Damage Inc. Is Back In Business"
  Buy Now: St. Anger (2 CDs, Elektra)

June 10:

• Duran Duran - Singles Box Set 1981-1985 (Capitol)
• Justin Guarini - TBD (RCA)
• Radiohead - Hail to the Thief (Capitol)
  Read: "New Radiohead Album, Hail To The Thief, Due In June"
  Buy Now: Hail to the Thief (Capitol)
  
• Luther Vandross - Dance With My Father (J)

June 17:

• Petey Pablo - Still Writing in My Diary: 2nd Entry (Jive)
• Monica - After the Storm (J)

June 24:

• Beyoncé - Dangerously in Love (Sony)
  Read: "Beyonce Pushes Up Release Date Of Solo Debut"
• Gang Starr - The Ownerz (Virgin)

July 15:

• Macy Gray - The Trouble With Being Myself (Sony)

• Sugar Ray
• Jewel
• eels
• Northern State
• Dave Gahan

• Northern State