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Musings: A Look at July Releases
July has some interesting
releases, both from the indie world, as well as the world of top-name music
acts. The bigger name artists with releases this month include Oasis,
Sonic Youth, Counting Crows, Robert Plant, and two of the most anticipated
releases of the year: Bruce Springsteen's The Rising on July 30th and Dave
Matthews Band's Busted Stuff on the 16th.
Lesser known artists with
new discs this month include the long-awaited Daybreak from Beth Orton
on the 30th , her first album since 1999's beautiful Central Reservation.
The remaining members of Morphine are back under the name of The Twinemen
with a self-title disc on the 9th. On the 16th look out for the critically
acclaimed Highly Involved from The Vines, while Mark Olson releases December's
Child on the 23rd, featuring wife Victoria Williams and former Jayhawk's
bandmate Gary Louris. And of course don't forget the Silent Planet's
compilation tribute to Beach Boy Brian Wilson, Making God Smile.
Also, two discs of note that
are already out: the new EP from Cush, the first in what is intended to
be a three-part series of spirituals, and Michael Pritzl's new side-project,
The Gravity Show with the disc Fabulous Like You.
7/2
The Beach Boys - Beach Boys
Classics (including previously unreleased track)
David Broza - Painted Postcard
Doleful Lions - Out Like
a Lamb
Filter - Amagamut
Kansas - The Ultimate Kansas
Oasis - Heathen Chemistry
Sonic Youth - Street Sauce
to Murray Street
Paul Weller (of the Jam)
- Days of Speed (live acoustic disc)
Various - Black Magic: A
Tribute to Santana
Various - Sound+Vision:
An Electronic Tribute to David Bowie
7/9
Bonnie Bramlett - I'm Still
the Same
Jen Chapin - Open Wide (Harry
Chapin's daughter)
Counting Crows - Hard Candy
Jellyfish - Fan Club (4-cd
box set)
Kieran Kane - The Blue Chair
Jason Loewenstein - At Sixes
and Sevens (of Sebadoh)
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
- A Jacknife to a Swan
Bill Miller - Spirit Rain
Pixies - Pixies (early demos)
Red Hot Chili Peppers -
By the Way
Six By Seven - The Way I
Feel Today
Styx - At the River's Edge:
Live in St. Louis 2000
Twinemen - Twinemen
Kevin Welch - Millionaire
7/16
Joe Cocker - Respect Yourself
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles
the Pink Robots
Halo Friendlies - Get Real
Kutless - Kutless
Marah - Float Away with
the Friday Night Gods (featuring Bruce Springsteen)
Dave Matthews Band - Busted
Stuff (reworking of "Lillywhite Sessons" w/ new cuts)
David Pirner - David Pirner
(first solo effort from Soul Asylum frontman)
Robert Plant - Dreamland
Doug Powell - The Lost Chord
Rocket from the Crypt -
Hot Charity Cut and Play
Simon & Garfunkel -
Live from New York City 1967
The Vines - Highly Involved
Zao - A Parade of Chaos
Various - Songs from the
Penalty Box, Vol. 5 (Tooth & Nail artists)
7/23
Ruben Blades - Mundo
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)
Dag Nasty - Minority of One
Mark Olson- December's Child
Stephen Pearcey - Social
Intercourse
7/30
Def Leppard - X
Filter - The Amalgamut
Linkin Park - Reanimation
(remixes from Hybrid Theory)
Graham Nash - Songs for
Survivors
Beth Orton - Daybreaker
Plankeye - Wings to Fly
David Pirner - Faces and
Names (of Soul Asylum)
Bruce Springsteen - The
Rising (first studio disc with full E-Street band since 1984)
Linda Thompson - Fashionably
Late
Richard Thompson - Rumor
and Sigh (DVD Audio w/ videos)
Yes - In a Word (five disc
compilation with six tracks never heard before)
Various - Making God Smile:
Artists' Tribute to the Songs of Beach Boy Brian Wilson
Also in July:
Pulp - We Love Life
8/6
16 Horsepower - Folklore
(U.S. release on Jet Set Records)
Burlap to Cashmere - tba
Chevelle - Wonder What's
Next
Lifehouse - tba
Victoria Williams - Old
Fashioned (covers of standards)
Various - Total Lee: The
Songs of Lee Hazelwood (featuring Evan Dando, Calexico, Lambchop, Jarvis
Cocker, and others)
8/13
Jay Farrar - ThirdShiftGrottoSlack
(EP)
Aimee Mann - Lost in Space
(second self-released disc)
Poor Old Lu - The Waiting
Room
8/20
Blindside - Silence (debut
on Elektra)
8/27
Bleach - Again for the First
Time
Black Crowes - Live
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood
to the Heart
Morella's Forest - Tiny
Lights of Heaven
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)
The Minus 5 - Down with
Wilco (Scott McCaughey, Peter Buck, etc., featuring members of Wilco)
Chris Stamey - Travels in
the South (from dbs, featuring Ben Folds and others)
Taproot - tba
9/10
Element 101 - More Than
Motion
Bob Mould - Body of Song
(acoustic album)
Soft Cell - Cruelty Without
Beauty (first new album in 18 years)
Speech - Spiritual People
9/24
Beck - tba
Mortal - Nu-En-Jin
Poor Old Lu - The Waiting
Room
Project 86 - Truthless Heroes
Switchfoot - The Beautiful
Letdown
Various - I'm Your Biggest
Fan, Vol. 2 (Tooth & Nail)
In September:
The Billions - Never Felt
This Way Before
Bjork - best of album
Johnny Cash - American IV:
When the Man Comes Around (w/ Rick Rubin)
Rhett Miller - tba (Old
97s front man)
The Baptist Generals - No
Silver/No Gold
10/8
Bon Voyage - The Right Amount
Starflyer 59 - Can't Stop
Eating (EP)
Two Thirty Eight - You Should
Be Living
10/22
OC Supertones - Truth and
Soul (produced by Charlie Peacock and Brent Bourgeois)
Various - I'm You're Biggest
Fan, vol. 2 (Tooth & Nail)
Various - 80s Tribute, vol.
1 (Tooth & Nail)
11/5
Too Bad Eugene - Moonlighting
11/19
Various - Tooth & Nail
Box Set 200
Stay tuned for more...
Ken Mueller
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