The whole world will love it when Outkast cohort Killer Mike makes that sound as he unleashes his inner Monster and the first single, "AKshon."
Meanwhile, Muggs, best known as the DJ for Cypress Hill, steps away from the tales of drug romps and urban life to take on his own album, Dust, which features understated cameos by Everlast and Amy Trujillo.
Punk band AFI deliver their first major-label release, Sing the Sorrow. The album, co-produced by Butch Vig and Jerry Finn, features driving tracks like "Bleed Black" and "Dancing Through Sunday" as well as lighter fare like "The Great Disappointment."
Folk/punk singer Ani DiFranco releases Evolve, which contains an epic 10-minute song, "Serpentine," while folk/funk artist Ben Harper issues Diamonds on the Inside, which includes the James Brown-like number "Bringing the Funk" and the Bob Marley-inspired tune "With My Own Two Hands."
The first single off of Everclear's Slow Motion Daydream, "Volvo Driving Soccer Mom," is a good gauge of the tone of the rest of the album, which features such songs as "How to Win Friends and Influence People" and "I Want to Die a Beautiful Death."
Finally, Ms. Dynamite from the U.K. releases A Little Deeper, the album featuring the single "Dy-Na-Mi-Tee" as well as other tunes that seamlessly combine her talent for both singing and rhyming, like "Seed Will Grow," "Put Him Out" and "All I Ever." Dyno-mite!
40 Grit - Nothing to Remember (Metal Blade) AFI - Sing the Sorrow (DreamWorks)
Buju Banton - Friends for Life (VP) The Be Good Tanyas - Chinatown (Nettwerk) Walter Beasley - Go With the Flow (N-Coded) Bettie Serveert - Log 22 (Hidden Agenda/Parasol) Blackstreet - Level II (DreamWorks)
Bobby Blue Band - Blues at Midnight (Malaco) Mira Calix - Skimskitta (Warp/Lex) Dennis Chambers - Outbreak (ESC) Peter Cincotti - Peter Cincotti (Concord) Cooler Kids - All Around the World (DreamWorks) Ani DiFranco - Evolve (Righteous Babe)
DJ Icey - Different Day (Zone/System) Dressy Bessy - Little Music (Kindercore) Drunk Horse - Adult Situations (Tee Pee) Everclear - Slow Motion Daydream (Capitol)
Fiction Plane - Everything Will Never Be OK (MCA) Firesign Theatre - All Things Firesign (Artemis) Celso Fonseca - Natural (Six Degrees Travel Series) Kenny Garrett - Standard of Language (Warner Bros.) Gibson Brothers - Bona Fide (Sugar Hill) Ben Harper - Diamonds on the Inside (Virgin)
Aubrey Haynie - The Bluegrass Fiddle Album (Sugar Hill) Vincent Herring - All Too Real (High Note) Dave Hole - The Live One (Alligator) Jack Ingram - Electric: Extra Volts (Sony) Jenifer Jackson - So High (Bar/None) Joe Jackson - Volume 4 (Restless/Rykodisc) Steve James - Fast Texas (Burnside) Killer Mike - Monster (Aquemini/Columbia)
Ute Lemper - But One Day (Decca/Universal Classics) Little Hatch - Rock With Me Baby (APO) Jeff Lorber - Philly Style (Narada Jazz) Lunik - Ahead (Nettwerk America) Machine Head - Hellalive (Roadrunner) Mad Caddies - Just One More (Fat Wreck Chords) Meanest Man Contest - Merit (EFA-CAR) The Melvins - 26 Songs (Ipecac) Craig Morgan - I Love It (Broken Bow) Ms. Dynamite - A Little Deeper (Interscope)
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Muggs - Dust (Anti/Epitaph) Peter Ostroushko - Coming Down From Red Lodge (Red House) Kelly Joe Phelps - Slingshot Professionals (Rykodisc) Phillips & Driver - Togetherness (Bar/None) The Planets - Classical Graffiti (Angel Classics) Nelson Rangell - Look Again (A440) Marty Raybon - Full Circle (Doobie Shea) Relient K - Two Lefts Don't Make a Right ... But Three Do (Gotee) Yves Robert - In Touch (ECM) Roomful of Blues - That's Right! (Alligator) Sidecar - You're Killing Me (Three Mileage) Frank Sinatra - Beginnings and Show Stoppers (Brentwood) Jim Snidero - Strings (Milestone) Solea - Even Stranger (3 Milege) Soulthieves - Microphone in the Sugar Bowl (Soulthieves) Super Soul - 40 Acres and a Moog (Metatronix) Louise Taylor - Velvet Town (Signature Sounds) Turin Brakes - Ether Song (Source/Astralwerks) U.S. Bombs - Covert Action (Hellcat) Unloco - Becoming I (Maverick) Jody Watley - Midnight Lounge (Shinbone Alley/Shanachie) Jessica Williams - All Alone (MAXJAZZ) Various artists - "Agent Cody Banks" soundtrack (Hip-O) Various artists - Bass Busters: Booty Party (Pandisc) Various artists - Bass Busters: Techno Bass Jamz (Pandisc) Various artists - Celtic Compass (Compass) Various artists - Chillout 2003 (Nettwerk) Various artists - "The Hunted" soundtrack (Varese Sarabande) Various artists - Later (2 CDs, Surge) Various artists - "Laurel Canyon" soundtrack (Hollywood) Various artists - Projekt: Gothic (Projekt) DVD - DJ Quik - "Visualism: The Art of Sound Into Vision" (Image Entertainment) Allman Brothers Band - Hittin' the Note (Sanctuary) Stephen Malkmus - Pig Lib (Matador) Various artists - Atticus: Dragging the Lake 2 (USA Side 1 Dummy) Air - City Reading (Astralwerks)
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Celine Dion - One Heart (Sony) Les Nubians - One Step Forward (Higher Octave) Linkin Park - Meteora (Warner Bros.)
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Various artists - Now That's What I Call Music! Vol. 12 (Virgin) The White Stripes - Elephant (V2)
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Robbie Williams - Escapology (Virgin)
Russell Crowe and 30 Odd Foot of Grunts - Other Ways of Speaking (Artemis) Godsmack - Faceless (Universal)
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Lisa Marie Presley - To Whom It May Concern (Capitol) Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun (Matador) Thicke - Cherry Blue Skies (Interscope)
