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Releases
There's a boat load of new
releases coming out this month. On June 4th is the first full length
release in two years from Belle & Sebastian titled Storytelling.
Also out that day are The Suitcase from Duraluxe, the long awaited
Los Lobos disc Good Morning Atzlan. On June 11th DMZ Records,
the label started by T-Bone Burnett and the Coen Brothers, releases its
first disc, the self-titled cd from Ralph Stanley. Stanley was the
man behind much of the success of the O Brother Where Art Thou?
Soundtrack. Also out that day is Brian Wilson's Pet Sounds Live
and David Bowie's Heathen. June 18th sees the European release
of the new 16 Horsepower disc Folklore as well as new discs from
Coldplay, Chuck Prophet, and Our Lady Peace. Then on the 25th its
"Best of" compilations from Juliana Hatfield and Nanci Griffith.
6/4
Arlo - Stab the Unstoppable
Beachwood Sparks - Make
the Cowboy Robots Cry (EP)
Belle & Sebastian -
Storytelling (first full length in 2 years)
Danielsen Famile - A Prayer
for Every Hour (2 cd re-issue)
Dead Poetic - Four Wall
Blackmail
Doleful Lions - Out Like
a Lamb
Duraluxe - The Suitcase
The Glory Fountain - The
Beauty of 23
Chris Hillman/Herb Pederson
- Way Out West
Jack Ingram - Electric (featuring
Patty Griffin)
Kansas - The Ultimate Kansas
Tommy Keene - The Merry
Go-Round Broke Down (w/ Jay Bennett of Wilco)
The Kennedys - Get it Right
(w/ Nanci Griffith)
Los Lobos - Good Morning
Atzlan
Looper - The Snare
Marah - Float Away With
the Friday Night Gods (featuring Springsteen)
Marley MacLeod - Like Hollywood
(w/members of Jayhawks and Son Volt)
Natalie MacMaster - Live
(two discs)
Tift Merritt - Bramble Rose
(Ryan Adams side-man)
Model Rockets - Tell the
Kids the Cops are Here (w/ Scott McCaughey)
Meshell Ndegeocello - Cookie:
The Anthropological Mixtape
Pinetop Perkins - Pinetop
is Just Top
Plumb - tba
Rick Shea and Brantley Kearns
- Trouble & Me (featuring Dave Alvin)
Side Walk Slam - Give Back
Simple Minds - The Best
of (double cd)
Tobin Sprout - Sentimental
Station
Swearing at Motorists -
The Flag Signals Goodbye
Dave Van Ronk - Two Sides
of DVR
Yo-Yo Ma - Plays the Music
of John Williams
6/11
David Bowie - Heathen
Byrds - Byrds Sing Dylan
Ani DiFranco - Render (biographical
DVD/VHS)
Bill Frisell - The Willies
Bob Geldof - Sex, Age &
Death
James - Double Live
Korn - Untouchables
New Found Glory - Sticks
and Stones
Jonathan Richman - The Best
of
Santana - The San Mateo
Sessions - Deluxe Edition (2 cds)
Ralph Stanley - Ralph Stanley
(on label from Coen Bros. And T-Bone Burnett)
They Might Be Giants - No!
(children's music)
The Tragically Hip - In
Violet Light
The Who - Ultimate Set (two
cds)
Widespread Panic - Live
in the Classic City (recorded in Athens, GA)
Brian Wilson - Pet Sounds
Live
Various - Kindred Spirits:
A Tribute to the Songs of Johnny Cash (featuring
Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen,
Emmylou Harris, Sheryl Crow, Mary Chapin
Carpenter, Marty Stuart,
Diwght Yoakam, Travis Tritt, Keb' Mo, and Little
Richard, among others)
6/18
16 Horsepower - Folklore
(in Europe on Glitterhouse)
Ace Troubleshooter - The
Madness of the Crowds
The Casket Lottery - Survival
is for Cowards
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood
to the Heart
Julia Fordham - Concrete
Love
Peter Gabriel - Long Walk
Home
Ghoti Hook - Retrospective
Guided by Voices - Universal
Truths and Cycles
Joy Electric - Art &
Craft of Popular Music
Loudbomb (Bob Mould) - Long
Playing Grooves (electronic album)
Me Without You - A->B Life
Our Lady Peace - Gravity
Ozzy Osbourne - Live at
Budokan
Pitchshifter - Ununited
Kingdom
Chuck Prophet - No Other
Love
Simple Minds - Cry
Violent Femmes - Violent
Femmes (2 cd re-issue)
6/25
Ash - Free All Angels
Fatboy Slim - Live on Brighton
Beach
Vincent Gallo - Recordings
of Music for Film
Nanci Griffith - From a
Distance: The Very Best of...
David Grisman Quintent -
Dawgnation
John Wesley Harding - The
Man with no Shadow
Juliana Hatfield - Gold
Stars 1992-2002 (best of)
Arto Lindsay - Involke
Heather Myles - Sweet Talk
& Good Lies
Rollins Band - The Only
Way to Know for Sure (double cd)
The Velvet Underground &
Nico - self-titled deluxe edition(digitally
remastered with extra tracks
- 2 cds)
Also In June:
The Gravity Show - Fabulous
Like You (Michael Pritzl project)
Jellyfish - Fan Club (4-cd
box set)
Morella's Forest - Tiny
Lights of Heaven
7/2
Filter - Amagamut
Sonic Youth - Street Sauce
to Murray Street
Paul Weller (of the Jam)
- Days of Speed (live acoustic disc)
Various - Songs From the
Penalty Box Vol. 5 (Tooth and Nail artists)
7/9
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
- A Jacknife to a Swan
Pixies - Pixies (early demos)
7/16
Kutless - Kutless
Marah - Float Away with
the Friday Night Gods (featuring Bruce Springsteen)
Dave Matthews Band - Busted
Stuff
David Pirner - David Pirner
(first solo effort from Soul Asylum frontman)
The Vines - Highly Involved
Various - Songs from the
Penalty Box, Vol. 5 (Tooth & Nail artists)
7/23
Mark Olson- December's Child
(w/ Gary Louris of The Jayhawks and Victoria
Williams)
Also in July:
Cush - 2nd Ep (1st in a
3 part series of spiritual recordings)
Solomon Burke - Don't Give
Up on Me (featuring songs written specifically
for Burke by Dylan, Costello,
Waits, Van Morrison, Brian Wilson, Joe Henry
and others)
Linkin Park - Reanimation
Bill Mallonee - Fetal Position
(indie release, first solo disc)
Oasis - Heathen Chemistry
Robert Plant - Head First
Pulp - We Love Life
Simon & Garfunkel -
Live from New York City 1967
8/6
Burlap to Cashmere - tba
Chevelle - Wonder What's
Next
Lifehouse - tba
Victoria Williams - Old
Fashioned (covers of standards)
8/13
Jay Farrar - ThirdShiftGrottoSlack
(EP)
Poor Old Lu - The Waiting
Room
Starflyer 59 - Can't Stop
Eating (EP)
8/20
Blindside - Silence (debut
on Elektra)
8/27
Bleach - Again for the First
Time
Joan Osborne - Womanly Hips
Also in August:
Frank Black - two new discs
tba
Ted Nugent - Craveman (featuring
Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow, and others)
Sleater-Kinney - tba
Peter Wolf - Sleepless (featuring
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Steve Earle,
and members of Dylan's band)
Also This Summer:
Duran Duran - Singles Box
'81 - '84 (12 CD set)
Dave Matthews Band - The
Lillywhite Sessions
The Minus 5 - Down with
Wilco (Scott McCaughey, Peter Buck, etc., featuring
members of Wilco)
Ace Troubleshooter - tba
Linkin Park - remix album
(all remixes of previous material, done by Marilyn
Manson, Jay Gordon, Alchemist,
etc.
Chris Stamey - Travels in
the South (from dbs, featuring Ben Folds and
others)
Taproot - tba
Zao - tba
9/10
Element 101 - More Than
Motion
Bob Mould - Body of Song
(acoustic album)
9/24
Beck - tba
Mortal - Nu-En-Jin
Switchfoot - The Beautiful
Letdown
Various - I'm Your Biggest
Fan, Vol. 2 (Tooth & Nail)
In September:
The Billions - Never Felt
This Way Before
Rhett Miller - tba (Old
97s front man)
Project 86 - tba
The Baptist Generals - No
Silver/No Gold
10/8
Bon Voyage - The Right Amount
Two Thirty Eight - You Should
Be Living
This Fall:
Suptertones - tba (produced
by Charlie Peacock and Brent Bourgeois)
Stay tuned for more...
Ken Mueller
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