It's time to kick back with a little Chicken-N-Beer this week as Ludacris serves up his latest fare, featuring the single "Stand Up," whose accompanying video portrays Cris as a pimped-out baby. The album that Ludacris calls his most versatile includes "Hip-Hop Quotables," produced by Erick Sermon, as well as his notorious "Hoes in My Room" with Snoop and "Teamwork," an ode to three-way sex.
Stereolab release their first album since the death of Mary Hansen. The five-track EP, Instant 0 in the Universe, hits shelves this week alongside Death Cab for Cutie's Transatlanticism; Portishead's Beth Gibbons' stripped-down acoustic set, Out of Season; Ladytron's Softcore Jukebox, featuring songs by My Bloody Valentine, Fannypack and !!!; and Belle & Sebastian's Dear Catastrophe Waitress.
And in what we're sure is just a happy coincidence, former B&S member Isobel Campbell releases a solo disc, Amorino, this week as well.
In hard rock news, Motörhead release their box set, Stone Deaf Forever, while Sevendust's Seasons features the single "Enemy," a bitter diatribe to ex-Coal Chamber frontman Dez Fafara. Fireball Ministry have their Second Great Awakening with the single "Flatline," and the two-disc Headbangers Ball CD from MTV features Marilyn Manson, Godsmack, Stone Sour, Rob Zombie and the aforementioned Sevendust.
Static-X step into the Shadow Zone on their latest disc while the Boo-Yaa Tribe round up Eminem and B-Real for "9-1-1," a song on West Koasta Nostra about the state of hip-hop. Also, Slipknot's Shawn "Clown" Crahan's side project, To My Surprise, release their self-titled debut, produced by Rick Rubin.
Agents of the Sun - Aurora (DCide) Anjali - The World of Lady A (Wiija/Beggars Banquet) Apollo Sunshine - Katonah (spinART) Armsbendback - The Waiting Room (Trustkill) Azure Ray - Hold on Love (Saddle Creek) The Band of Blacky Ranchette - Still Lookin' Good to Me (Thrill Jockey) Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress (Sanctuary/Rough Trade) Martyn Bennett - Grit (Real World) Tim Berne's Science Friction Band - The Sublime And (Thirsty Ear) Big Collapse - Prototype (The Militia Group) Boo-Yaa Tribe - West Koasta Nostra (Oglio/Sarinjay) The Books - The Lemon of Pink (Tomlab) Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy - When the Spirit Returns (Dreyfus/Birdology) Boxhead Ensemble - Quartets (Atavistic) The Brian Jonestown Massacre - And This Is Our Music (Tee Pee) Harold Budd - La Bella Vista(Shout! Factory) Alex Bugnon - Southern Living (Narada Jazz) Isobel Campbell - Amorino (Instinct) Kenny Chesney - All I Want for Christmas Is a Real Good Tan (BNA) Coheed & Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (Equal Vision) Cracker - Countrysides (iMUSIC) Culture Club - Kissing to be Clever (Virgin) Jason Darling - Night Like My Head (Yep Roc) Howie Day - Stop All the World Now (Epic) Dead Low Tide - Dead Low Tide (Tiger Style) Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (Barsuk) Christine Dente - Becoming (Rocketown) Dixie Hummingbirds - Diamond Jubilation (Rounder) DJ Nelson and Rafy Mercenario - Kakoteo Mix (Cutting) DJ Nightshade - The Sound of Arabia (E-magine) Early November - The Room's Too Cold (Geffen) Electric Music AKA - The Resurrection Show (Sanctuary) Mark Farina - Air Farina (Om) Michael Feinstein - Only One Life (Concord) Fireball Ministry - The Second Great Awakening (Nuclear Blast) Flick - Iron Bottom Sound (Red Ink/Columbia) Robben Ford - Keep on Running (Concord) Nnenna Freelon - Live (Concord Jazz) Fun Lovin' Criminals - Welcome to Poppy's (Sanctuary) Galactic - Ruckus (Sanctuary) Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out of Season (Sanctuary) Glamour Puss - Wire & Wood (NorthernBlues) Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Sleep Holiday (Sanctuary) Russell Gunn - Mood Swings (HighNote) The Handsome Family - Singing Bones (Carrot Top) Howard Hello - Don't Drink His Blood (Temporary Residence Limited) Hey Mercedes - Loses Control (Vagrant) Hi & Mighty - The Highlite Zone (Eastern Conference) Hieroglyphics - Full Circle (Hiero/Imperium) High Llamas - Beet, Maize and Corn (Drag City) Hospital Food - Medicate (New School) Greg Howe - Extraction (Tone Center) Hum Machine - Theorems and Compositions of the Last Action Rocker (Cancer) Impossible Shapes - We Like It Wild (Secretly Canadian) Jag Panzer - Decade of a Nail-Spiked Bat (Century Media) Jet - Get Born (Elektra) Kacey Jones - The Sweet Potato Queens (IGO) Rickie Lee Jones - The Evening of My Best Day (V2) Robert Earl Keen - Farm Fresh Onions (Audium/Koch) Kinski/Acid Mothers Temple - Kinski/Acid Mothers Temple (Sub Pop) Kiss - Symphony (single CD version, Sanctuary/Kiss) Dave Koz - Saxophonic (Capitol) Kreisor - Graveyard of Your Mind (Rubric) Krisiun - Works of Carnage (Century Media) The Ladybug Transistor - The Ladybug Transistor (Merge) Ladytron - Softcore Jukebox (Emperor Norton) Robert Lamm - Subtlety&Passion (Blue Infinity) Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead (Lookout!) Living Colour - Collidescope (Sanctuary) P.W. Long - Remembered (Touch and Go) Oscar Lopez - My Destiny (Narada) Lucky Luciano - You Already Know (Dope House) Ludacris - Chicken -N- Beer (Def Jam) Read: [article id="1473436"]"Ludacris Reveals Release Date Of Chicken & Beer, Picks Party Single"[/article]
Lungfish - Love Is Love (Dischord) Lyrics Born - Later That Day ... (Quannum) Manishevitz - City Life (Jagjaguwar) Julian Marley - A Time and Place (Tuff Gong/Lightyear) Pat Martino - Think Tank (Blue Note) Maserati/The Mercury Program - Confines of Heat (Kindercore) Keiko Matsui - White Owl (Narada Jazz) Metric - Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?(Everloving) Melotron - Sternenstraub (Metropolis) Midwest Product - World Series of Love (Ghostly) Militia All-Stars - Coming at Cha (Entity/3citsyM) John Michael Montgomery - Mr. Snowman (Warner Bros. Nashville) Motörhead - Stone Deaf Forever (Box Set, Sanctuary) Motorpsycho & Jaga Jazzist Horns - In the Fishtank 10 (EP, Fishtank) Murk - Murk(Tommy Boy) Najee - Embrace (N-Coded) Orange Island - Orange Island (Triple Crown/Razor & Tie) Britta Phillips and Dean Wareham - Sonic Souvenirs (Jetset) Astor Piazzolla - Unmixed (Milan) The Planet The - Physical Angel (54°40' or Fight!) The Neal Pollack Invasion - Never Mind the Pollacks (The Telegraph Company) Portastatic - Autumn Was a Lark (Merge) The Post - Hasten the Homecoming (Jalisco) Elvis Presley - 2nd to None (BMG) Rachel's - Systems/Layers (Quarterstick) Ranaldo/Miller/Hooker - Out Trios Volume 1: Monsoon (Atavistic) Andre Rieu - Live From Dublin (Denon) The RZA - The Birth of a Prince (Sanctuary) Randy Savage - Be a Man (Big3) Read:[article id="1477844"] " 'Macho Man' Savage Cuts Rap P, Tells Hulk Hogan To Be A Man"[/article]
Paul Schwartz - State of Grace II: Turning to Peace(Windham Hill) Peggy Seeger - Heading for Home (Appleseed) Sevendust - Seasons (TVT) Read: [article id="1474694"]"Sevendust To Road-Test New Songs On Summer Trek"[/article]
Sleeping at Last - Ghosts (Interscope) Snatches of Pink - Hyena (MoRisen) Michael Snow - Never Say No to a Jar (IGO) Soul Position - 8 Million Stories (Fatbeats) Soulive - Turn It Out Remixed (Velour) Spiders - Glitzkrieg (Acetate) Static X - Shadow Zone (Warner Bros.) Stereolab - Instant 0 in the Universe (EP. Elektra) T.H.E.M. - Bang (Electrovenus) Teada - Teada (Green Linnet) To My Surprise - To My Surprise (Roadrunner) Toto - 25th Anniversary: Live in Amsterdam (Eagle) Paul Van Dyk - Reflections (Mute) Watch Them Die - Watch Them Die (Century Media) Dave Weckl - Live and Very Plugged In (Stretch) William Elliott Whitmore - Hymns for the Hopeless (Southern) Wilshire - New Universe (Columbia) Cassandra Wilson - Glamoured (Blue Note) Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland (Rykodisc) Rachael Yamagata - EP (EP, Private Music/AAL) Dan Zanes and Friends - House Party (Festival Five) Various artists - Astor Piazzolla Remixed (Milan) Various artists - "Avenue Q" soundtrack (RCA Victor) Various artists - Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (NorthernBlues/Borealis) Various artists - "Gypsy 83" soundtrack (Metropolis) Various artists - "Intolerable Cruelty" soundtrack (Hip-O/UME) Various artists - Jpop (Tofu) Various artists - MTV2 Headbangers Ball (Roadrunner) Various artists - "My Life With Albertine -- A New Musical" soundtrack (PS Classics) Various artists - "Prey for Rock & Roll" soundtrack (Hybrid) Various artists - Rough Trade 25th Anniversary: Stop Me If You've Heard This Before (Sanctuary/Rough Trade) Various artists - "Seventh Heaven" soundtrack (Decca) Various artists - Totally Hits 2003 (BMG Heritage/Warner) Various artists - A Trip in Trance (Water Music) Various artists - V3: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (Violator/Jive) Read: [article id="1479149"]"G-Unit, Missy, Busta, Others Lined Up For New Violator LP"[/article]
Various artists - Windham Hill Christmas II (Windham Hill) Various artists - "Zanna, Don't! -- A Musical Fairy Tale" soundtrack (PS Classics) DVD: King Crimson - "Eyes Wide Open" (Sanctuary) DVD: Ian Moore - "Live From the Cactus Café" (Music Video Distributors) DVD: Mr. Capone-E - "A Day 'N' the Life" (Thump) DVD: Primus - "Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People" (Universal) DVD: Quiet Riot - "Live! In the 21st Century -- 20 Years of Metal Health' (Music Video Distributors) DVD: Snoop Dogg - "Bossa Playa: A Day in the Life of Big Snoop Dogg" (Priority) DVD: Sting - "Inside" (A&M) DVD: Tower of Power - "In Concert -- Ohne Filter" (Music Video Distributors) DVD: Voodoo Glow Skulls - "Holmes Movies" (Music Video Distributors) Clay Aiken - Measure of a Man (RCA) Mariah Carey - Remixes (Sony) Raphael Saadiq - All Hits at the House of Blues (Pookie) Barenaked Ladies - Everything to Everyone (Warner Bros.) Mandy Moore - Coverage (Sony) Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Streetcore (Epitaph) Yo La Tengo - Today Is the Day (EP, Matador) R.E.M - In Time: The Best of R.E.M 1998 -- 2003 (Warner Bros.) The Strokes -Room on Fire (RCA) Triumph the Insult Comic Dog - Come Poop With Me (Warner Bros.) Wyclef Jean - The Preacher's Son (J Records) Stone Temple Pilots - Thank You (Atlantic) P.O.D. - Payable on Death (Atlantic) Ruben Studdard - Soulful (J Records) Blink-182 - Blink-182 (Universal) Jay-Z - The Black Album (Roc-a-Fella) 
