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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)

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    By Teri vanHorn


    Speech
    Photo: iMusic

    Terrorism struck the United States on a Tuesday, the day labels release albums, and that day had its share of potential blockbusters: Jay-Z, Bob Dylan and Mariah Carey were among the artists who released records on September 11, 2001.

    The first anniversary of the attacks, by contrast, will pass quietly in the nation's record stores, with no big-name releases hitting shelves this week and retailers predicting that new records will be the furthest thing from fans' minds.

    "It just seems to be in bad taste," said bassist Joe Escalante of veteran punk band the Vandals, who chose a September 17 release date for their album Internet Dating Superstuds to avoid dropping the album this week. "Sometimes it's hard enough to push silly punk rock on people and say, 'Buy this,' but if you're going to do that the day before the first anniversary of September 11, it makes even less sense."

    Retailers say it's also a poor marketing move to release an album on September 10. "You're not going to want to spend this week trying to promote a pop culture product when most of the country is going to be mourning," said Dave Montes, general manager of Tower Records in New York's East Village. "There's the ethical side of it that says it's not the right time. And from a marketing standpoint, it's probably not a smart decision. No one's going to concentrate on a new album this week."

    Sales during the week of September 11 last year did not appear to drop drastically in light of the attacks. Jay-Z's The Blueprint, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, sold just under 427,000 copies, while his previous album, The Dynasty - Roc La Familia 2000, sold about 560,000 the year before (see "Jay-Z's Dynasty Continues As Blueprint Debuts At #1").

    Although this week will see an absence of major-label acts who typically score big first-week sales, some independent labels are proceeding with business as usual. Among the indie releases hitting shelves are albums by Ani DiFranco, X singer John Doe, the Bangs, "I Will Survive" singer Gloria Gaynor and former Arrested Development member Speech. DiFranco's double live CD, So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter, includes a poem reflecting on 9/11 (see "In Stores Now And Coming Soon: LPs By Ani DiFranco, BT, The Pattern, Run-DMC, Sahara Hotnights, Ivy & More").

    "It's unbelievably self-centered to think that a record would matter compared to all these grand tributes," Doe said Monday. "Records, especially on independent labels, last a lot more than one week. And you've got to get on with it. ... Some [people] are paying tribute, remembering; others are moving on and listening to music."

    Speech said he immediately fingered September 10 to release Spiritual People, feeling that the album's themes were particularly relevant considering the anniversary of the attacks. "We really wanted to go for it," he said. "My music has always been pretty message-orientated, and we felt that coming out with an album with messages of hope and freedom was a good thing. ... Music is part of reflecting, and yeah, you should buy music this week, just like you should still buy food."

    Doe, whose Dim Stars, Bright Sky features appearances by Jakob Dylan, Aimee Mann, Juliana Hatfield and Go-Go Jane Wiedlin, suggested it was mostly fear that motivated labels to refrain from releasing albums on Tuesday. "I think people find any excuse to be scared," he said. "The entertainment industry is so paranoid, and it's so difficult to even get noticed putting out a record. People are so scared that anything's going to get in the way that they'll move the day of the release. My theory is, 'Keep going.' "

    Yet some label reps said silence may be the only appropriate way for the industry to acknowledge the anniversary of the attacks. "It's about respect," said a spokesperson for Warner Bros., which is not releasing any major albums on Tuesday.

    Major labels will be back in action in the next couple of weeks. Lifehouse, Enrique Iglesias, Disturbed, Ryan Adams and a single by "American Idol" winner Kelly Clarkson are due on September 17, while Beck, India.Arie, Uncle Kracker, Peter Gabriel, Underworld and Steve Earle will release albums on September 24.

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