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."

Out Tuesday, July 9:

  • 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 ... Glassjaw Pulling Double Duty On Warped Tour, Ozzfest
  • 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 ... Bosstones Look Back For Their Future On Jackknife
  • Lynn Miles - Unravel (Okra-Tone)
  • Bill Miller - Spirit Rain (Paras Recordings)
  • Abra Moore - No Fear (J)
  • 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.) Read about it ... Red Hot Chili Peppers: The Secret Sauce
  • 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)
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