Everything old is new again with this week's batch of new releases.
Both Red Hot Chili Peppers and Counting Crows return after three-year
absences, with By the Way and Hard Candy, respectively.
On the harder side, Long Island melodic hardcore outfit Glassjaw release
Worship and Tribute as the follow-up to their 2000 release, Everything
You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence. Mighty Mighty Bosstones aim
for a strong comeback with A Jackknife to a Swan.
The LOX's tough-talking lyrical enforcer Styles drops his long-awaited solo LP, A Gangster and a Gentleman. While the self-proclaimed "hardest rapper out" has been enjoying heavy radio play the past few months with "Good Times," produced by Swizz Beatz, as well as the Pharoahe Monch-featured "The Life," he still dishes out underground chunks of funk like "I'm a Ruff Ryder."
Aden - Topsiders (TeenBeat) Verden Allen - 20 Year Holiday (Griffin) Aphrodite - Aftershock (Gee Street) Babalu - Lo-Tech Hi-Fi Spaceblues (Kindercore/EWB) Bobby Bare, Jr. - Young Criminals' Starvation League (Bloodshot) Bis - Plastique Nouveau (spinART) Bonnie Bramlett - I'm Still the Same (Audium) Cass - Spundae Presents (Spundae/Mute) Jen Chapin - Open Wide (Purple Chair) The Cherry Valence - Riffin' (Estrus) Popa Chubby - The Good, the Bad, and the Chubby (Blind Pig) Counting Crows - Hard Candy (Geffen) Cousteau - Sirena (Palm Pictures) DJ Spooky - Optometry (Thirsty Ear) Death by Chocolate - Zap the World (Jetset) Joey DeFrancesco - Ballads and Blues (Concord Jazz) Echocast - Where the Future Ends (XS) Roger Espinoza - Cafe Fuego (New World Music) Mary Gauthier - Filth & Fire (Signature Sounds) Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute (Warner Bros.) Read about it ... [article id="1455126"]Glassjaw Pulling Double Duty On Warped Tour, Ozzfest[/article]
Ian Gomm - Rock 'N' Roll Heart (Gommsongs) Kieran Kane - The Blue Chair (Dead Reckoning/Compendia) Sharon Katz & the Peace Train - Imbizo (Appleseed Recordings) Koop - Waltz for Koop (Palm Pictures/Quango/JCR) Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials - Heads Up! (Alligator) Jason Loewenstein - At Sixes and Sevens (Sub Pop) Lycia - Tripping Back Into the Broken Days (Projekt) Magic Slim & the Teardrops - Blue Magic (Blind Pig) Roots Manuva - Dub Come Save Me (Big Dada) Meat Katie - Presents... Beyond the Darkness (4 Foot 11) Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Jackknife to a Swan (Side One Dummy) Read about it ... [article id="1455392"]Bosstones Look Back For Their Future On Jackknife[/article]
Lynn Miles - Unravel (Okra-Tone) Bill Miller - Spirit Rain (Paras Recordings) Orbital - Back to Mine (DMC) Dolly Parton - Halos & Horns (Sugar Hill) Phillips, Grier & Flinner - Looking Back (Compass) The Prom - Under the Same Stars (Barsuk) Quixotic - Mortal Mirror (Kill Rock Stars) Hugh Ragin - Feel the Sunshine (Justin Time) Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way (Warner Bros.) Kevin Russell's Junker - Buttermilk & Rifles (Sugar Hill) Six by Seven - The Way I Feel Today (Mantra/Beggars Banquet) Sixer - Beautiful Trash (BYO) The Slip - Angels Come on Time (Rykodisc) Smilez & Southstar - Crash the Party (ArtistDirect) Gary Stroutsos - Oru: The Natural Order (Paras Recordings) Styles - A Gangster and a Gentleman (Interscope) Styx - At the River's Edge: Live in St. Louis (Sanctuary/CMC Int'l) Sun Palace - Into Heaven (Drake) Superdrag - Last Call for Vitriol (Arena Rock) Swan Dive - June (Compass) Tabla Beat Science - Live in San Francisco (Palm Pictures) Trustcompany - The Lonely Position of Neutral (Geffen) Twinemen - Twinemen (Hi-N-Dry) Butch Walker - Left of Self-Centered (Arista) Bennie Wallace - In Berlin (Enja) Kevin Welch - Millionaire (Dead Reckoning/Compendia) Dhafer Youssef - Electric Sufi (Enja/Koch) Joe Cocker - Respect Yourself (Eagle/Red Ink) Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Reprise) Wayne Kramer - Adult World (MuscleTone) Lady May - May Day (Arista) Lil' Romeo - Game Time (Universal/No Limit) Read about it ... [article id="1453172"]Lil' Romeo Battles His Evil Twin On B-Ball Court[/article]
Mad at Gravity - Resonance (ArtistDirect) Marah - Float Away with the Friday Night Gods (E-Squared/Artemis) Mary Mary - Incredible (Columbia) Read about it ... [article id="1455871"]Mary Mary Are Incredible On New LP[/article]
Dave Matthews Band - Busted Stuff (RCA) Read about it ... [article id="1453756"]Dave Matthews Band's 'Lillywhite Sessions' To Be Busted In July[/article]
Jerzee Monet - Love & War (DreamWorks) Read about it ... [article id="1453551"]Jerzee Monet: Workin' For Her Big Break[/article]
Robert Plant - Dreamland (Universal) Pulse Ultra - Headspace (Velvet Hammer/Atlantic) Read about it ... [article id="1455356"]Ozzfest Act Pulse Ultra Lead New Nu-Metal Crusade[/article]
Riddlin' Kids - Hurry Up and Wait (Aware/Columbia) Slum Village - Trinity (Priority/Capitol) Space Monkeyz Vs. Gorillaz - Laika Come Home (Astralwerks) Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It (Drive-Thru/MCA) Swizz Beatz - Presents G.H.E.T.T.O. Stories (DreamWorks) Read about it ... [article id="1452795"]Metallica/Ja Rule, DMX, Eve, Nas Shake Up Swizz Beatz LP[/article]
The Vines - Highly Evolved (Capitol) Various artists - "Austin Powers in Goldmember" (Maverick) Read about it ... [article id="1455426"]Dr. Evil, Dr. Dre Both Lend Remixes To 'Goldmember' Album[/article]
Various artists - "Halloween Resurrection" (Varese Sarabande) Various artists - "Me Without You" (Epic/Sony Soundtrax/Legacy) Various artists - "Reign of Fire" (Varese Sarabande) Read about it ... [article id="1452782"]The Next Alicia Keys Might Be A Boy Named Mario[/article]
Public Enemy - Revolverlution (Slam Jamz) Read about it ... [article id="1455207"]Public Enemy Leading A Revolverlution With Interactive LP[/article]
Filter - The Amalgamut (Reprise) Linkin Park - Reanimation (Warner Bros.) Read about it ... [article id="1455335"]Linkin
Park Master Reanimation But Kant Spell[/article]
Beth Orton - Daybreaker (Astralwerks) Read about it ... [article id="1453389"]Beth Orton Tours, Breaks Day With Ryan Adams, Chemical Brothers[/article]
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - The Rising (Columbia) Read about it ... [article id="1454977"]Springsteen, E Street Band On The Rise After 18 Years[/article]
Various artists - "Topdog/Underdog" soundtrack (MCA) Read about it ... [article id="1455118"]Jay-Z, DMX, Wu-Tang, Mos Def Bone Up 'Topdog/Underdog' LP[/article]
Eve - Eve-olution (Ruff Ryders/ Interscope) Read about it ... [article id="1454477"]Eve, Alicia Keys Team Up For Some 'Gangsta Love'[/article]
Trick Daddy - Thug Holiday (Slip-N-Slide/ Atlantic) Read about it ... [article id="1455310"]Trick Daddy Celebrating Thug Holiday In August[/article]
Erykah Badu - TBD (EP, Motown) BBMak - Into Your Head (Hollywood) The Black Crowes - The Black Crowes Live (V2) Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head (Nettwerk/ Capitol) The Dillinger Escape Plan - Irony Is a Dead Scene (EP, Epitaph) Dixie Chicks - Home (Open Wide/ Monument/ Columbia) Gus Gus - Attention (Moonshine) Aimee Mann - Lost in Space (Superego) Ms. Jade - Girl Interrupted (Beat Club/ Interscope) Read about it ... [article id="1455095"]Ms. Jade's 'Big Head' Is Meant To Move Your Big Butt[/article]
Read about it ... [article id="1453245"]New O-Town Album To Include Track From Nelly[/article]
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (Interscope) Read about it ... [article id="1454981"]Queens Of The Stone Age Flex Their Star Power[/article]
Silverchair - Diorama (Atlantic) Read about it ... [article id="1453872"]Silverchair Craft U.S. Diorama, Plan New York Dates[/article]
Trina - Diamond Princess (Slip-N-Slide/ Atlantic) Read about it ... [article id="1455889"]Diamond Princess Trina Recruits Tweet For 'No Panties' Single[/article]