While "XXX" may not be that type of movie, the two-CD soundtrack sure sounds sexy, featuring music by Nelly, Queens of the Stone Age, N.E.R.D. and Moby.
Also out Tuesday (August 6) is yet another project from Damon Albarn (Gorillaz, Blur). This time he's teamed up with some of the finest musicians from the African nation of Mali to create a sound that they simply call Mali Music.
Plus, it's finally time for embattled Project Pat to lay da tracks down. After at least four months of scheduling changes and pesky imprisonment hang-ups, Layin' Da Smack Down finally gets released this week alongside Trick Daddy's Thug Holiday and Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band's King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents.
Also look out for Libertineby Gene, Scarface's The Fix, MTV's "Road Rules"soundtrack featuring songs by Jimmy Eat World, Unwritten Law and Hoobastank, and from the file of "When bad album titles happen to good artists," Jean Grae's Attack of the Attacking Things.
Vicente Amigo - City of Ideas (Windham Hill) Analogue II - Oh Perfect Masters (Rubric) Astrobotnia - Part 3 (EFA-CAR) Jim Brickman - Love Songs & Lullabies (Windham Hill) Dee Dee Bridgewater - This Is New (Verve) Buc Fifty - Bad Man (Battleaxe) The Buzzhorn - Disconnected (Atlantic) Cage - Movies for the Blind (High Times) Carissa's Wierd - Songs About Leaving (Sad Robot) Read: [article id="1454568"]"Color Red Learning From Ant Farm But Still Haven't A Clue About Their Name"[/article]
Cruxshadows - Wishfire (Dancing Ferret) Dälek - From the Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots (Ipecac) Dani Girl - All Me (Rockboy) Deep Purple - Who Do We Think We Are (Rhino) Diary of Dreams - Freak Perfume (Metropolis) DJ Joe - A Mover ... (Cutting) DJ Sammy - Heaven (Robin's Ent.) DJ Sangeet - DJ Sangeet (EFA-CAR) Foreigner - Double Vision (Rhino) Foreigner - Head Games (Rhino) Kevin Fowler - High on the Hog (Tin Roof) Gene - Libertine (iMUSIC) Martin Gerschwitz - Lazy Afternoon (Silica) Golden - Apollo Stars (Touch & Go) Jean Grae - Attack of the Attacking Things (Third Earth Music) Kind of Like Spitting - Bridges Worth Burning (Barsuk) Kitchens & Bathrooms - Utter a Sound (Sonic Unyon) Mack & Jamie - Extreme Channel Surfing (Uproar) Mali Music - Mali Music (Honest Jon's/Astralwerks) Ray Manzarek - Freshly Dug (Ozit Morpheus) Mastretta - Mastretta (Minty Fresh) Meshuggah - Nothing (Nuclear Blast) Read: [article id="1456455"]Meshuggah Deliver Something For Nothing[/article]
Stephan Micus - Towards the Wind (ECM) Allison Moorer - Miss Fortune (Universal South) No Secrets - No Secrets (Jive) Off by One - Off by One (MCA) Opium Jukebox - Bhangra Bloody Bhangra: A Tribute to Black Sabbath (Underground Inc.) Pietasters - Turbo (Fueled by Ramen) Project Pat - Layin' Da Smack Down (Loud) Read: [article id="1451448"]"Project Pat Digging Street Love, Layin' The Smack Down"[/article]
Ray Makers - Phantom Third Channel (Transistor) Riddlin' Kids - Hurry Up and Wait (Aware/Columbia) Jack Russell - For You (Knight) Sasha - Airdrawndagger (Kinetic) Scarface - The Fix (Def Jam) Sixteen Horsepower - Folklore (Jet Set) Sole Music Presents - Homecookin': Do What You Wanna Do (Sole) Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band - King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents (King Biscuit) Stretch Princess - Fun With Humans (Wind-up) Steve Tibbetts - A Man About a Horse (ECM) Trick Daddy - Thug Holiday (Slip-n-Slide/Atlantic) Read: [article id="1455310"]"Trick Daddy Celebrating Thug Holiday In August"[/article]
Unleashed - Hell's Unleashed (Century Media) Various artists - Amnesia Ibiza (Groovilicious) Various artists - Baadasssss Cinema: The Sounds of Blaxploitataion (TVT) Various artists - Body + Soul: Ladies Got Soul (Time Life) Various artists - Critical Mass Vol. 3 (Metropolis) Various artists - Cuts: Session 002 (Groovilicious) Various artists - Dance Mix NYC Vol. 2 (Tommy Boy) Various artists - Fluid Ounce: Unmeasured (Ubiquity) Various artists - Hi-Fidelity House Vol. 4 (Guidance) Various artists - Notes from Thee Real Underground Vol. 4 (Underground Inc.) Various artists - Om 100 (Om) Various artists - Pitamaha: Music From Bali (Amulet) Various artists - Real Deal (Bomb Hip Hop) Various artists - Total Lee: The Songs of Lee Hazelwood (Astralwerks) Various artists - "24 Hour Party People" soundtrack (London) Read:[article id="1456314"]"Kurt Loder Weighs In On '24 Hour Party People' "[/article]
Various artists - Soulful House Experience (Nervous) Various artists -"Spy Kids 2" soundtrack (Milan) Various artists - Trance Mix USA Vol. 3 (Radikal) Various artists - "The Kid Stays in the Picture" soundtrack (Milan) Various artists - "The Last Minute" soundtrack (Palm Pictures) Various artists - MTV Road Rules: Don't Make Me Pull This Thing Over Vol. 1 (Roadrunner) Various artists - "Providence" soundtrack (MCA Nashville) Various artists - "XXX" soundtrack (2 CDs, Universal) Phil Vassar - American Child (Arista) Jeff "Tain" Watts - Bar Talk (Columbia) The Wildweeds - The Best Of: No Good to Cry (Confidential) Victoria Williams - Sings Some Ol' Songs (DualTone) Brad - Welcome to Discovery Park (Redline) Slum Village - Trinity: Past, Present and Future (Priority/ Capitol) Keith Sweat - Rebirth (Elektra) Lady May - May Day (Arista) Maná - Revolución De Amor (Warner Music Intl.) Murderdolls - Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls (Roadrunner) Read: [article id="1456042"]"Corey Taylor Insists His Other Band Is No Slipknot Jr."[/article]
Orbital - Work 89-02 (FFRR/ WSM) Erykah Badu - TBD (EP, Motown) Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash - Distance Between (Ultimatum) BBMak - Into Your Head (Hollywood) Beenie Man - Tropical Storm (Virgin) 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) Eve - Eve-olution (Ruff Ryders/ Interscope) Read: [article id="1454477"]"Eve, Alicia Keys Team Up For Some 'Gangsta Love'"[/article]
Gus Gus - Attention (Moonshine) Aimee Mann - Lost in Space (Superego) Mudhoney - Since We've Become Translucent (Sub Pop) Ms. Jade - Girl Interrupted (Beat Club/ Interscope) Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (Interscope) Silverchair - Diorama (Atlantic) Stone Sour - Stone Sour (Roadrunner) Trina - Diamond Princess (Slip-N-Slide/ Atlantic) Viva Death - Viva Death (Vagrant) Christina Aguilera - TBD (RCA) Cassius - Au Rêve (Astralwerks) Ladytron - Light & Magic (Emperor Norton) Nine Days - So Happily Unsatisfied (Epic) Shadows Fall - The Art of Balance (Century Media) 
