NEW CD RELEASES FOR SEPTEMBER 13, 2005
A Dozen Furies A Concept from Fire (Sanctuary)
Jon Philip Alman When You Get Home (LML Music)
American Werewolves 1968 (Fractured Transmitter)
Shawn Amos Thank You Shirl-ee May (A Love Story) (Shout! Factory)
Anom So It’s Come to This (Eastern Fiction)
Aphasia Fact & Fiction (DRT Entertainment)
Apollo Sunshine Apollo Sunshine (spinART)
Arizona Amp and Alternator (Giant Sand’s Howie Gelb) Arizona Amp and Alternator (guests M. Ward, Scout Nibblet and members of Grandaddy and Arcade Fire) (Thrill Jockey)
Antonio Arnedo Colombia (Adventure Music)
Badi Assad Verde (w/covers of U2’s “One” and BjÀÜrk’s “Bachelorette”) (eDGe/Deutsche Grammophon)
Baby Mongoose Enter the (Dionysus)
Devendra Banhart Cripple Crow (XL Recordings)
Bedsit Poets The Summer That Changed (Bongo Beat)
David Benoit Orchestral Stories (Peak)
Black Eyed Peas Maximum (audio biography) (Chrome Dreams)
Brian Blain Overqualified for the Blues (NorthernBlues)
Steve Blanchard Northbound Train (LML Music)
Blue Rodeo Are You Ready (Rounder)
Blues Traveler Bastardos! (Vanguard)
The Bomb (w/ex-Naked Raygun’s Jeff Pezzati) Indecision (Thick)
Brakes (members of British Sea Power, Tenderfoot and Electric Soft Parade) Give Blood (Rough Trade)
Dee Dee Bridgewater J’ai Deux Amours (renditions of French songs) (Sovereign Artists)
Pieta Brown In the Cool (Valley Entertainment)
Eric Burdon It’s My Life (Snapper)
Cantoma Cantoma (Quango)
Carlos Guitarlos Hell Can Wait (Nomad)
Casino Royal Back to Back Bacharach (all covers of Burt Bacharach tunes) (VarËse Vintage)
Cave In Perfect Pitch Black (Hydra Head)
The Celebrity Pilots Beneath the Pavement, a Beach! (Sunken Treasure)
Sam Champion Slow Rewind (Razor & Tie)
Tracy Chapman Where You Live (co-produced by Tchad Blake) (Elektra/Atlantic)
Cherry Monroe The Good, the Bad & the Beautiful (formerly titled “Cherry Monroe”) (Rust/Universal)
The Clayton Brothers Back in the Swing of Things (Hyena)
CocoRosie Noah’s Ark (Touch and Go)
Dana Cooper Made of Mud (King Easy)
Doug Cox and Sam Hurrie Hungry Ghosts (NorthernBlues)
The Cranes Particles & Waves (w/bonus DVD featuring live performance) (Manifesto)
Creations End The Con of Man EP (HCNL)
The Crimea Tragedy Rocks (Warner Bros.)
Crombie Forest Walking… (This Generation Tapes)
Dandy Warhols Odditorium or Warlords of Mars (Capitol)
Steve Dawson Sweet Is the Anchor (Undertow)
Dengue Fever Escape from Dragon House (M80)
Desert City Soundtrack Perfect Addiction (Deep Elm)
Despised Icon The Healing Process (Goodfellow)
Diamond Nights Popsicle (Kemado)
Rob Dickinson (ex-Catherine Wheel) Fresh Wine for the Horses (Sanctuary)
DJ Quik Trauma (w/Ludacris, the Game, Chingy, Wyclef, B-Real, Jodeci and more) (Mad Science)
The Double Loose in the Air (Matador)
Dreamscapes of the Perverse Gignesthai (Tribunal)
Eugene Edwards My Favorite Revolution (Flagship)
The Evil Queens First It Boils, Then It Spills (w/four bonus tracks) (Addison)
Exceptor Alternation (Kill Rock Stars)
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer Scat Like That (Rounder)
Tim Fite Gone Ain’t Gone (Epitaph)
Five.Bolt.Main Venting (Rock Ridge Music)
Mary Flower Bywater Dance (Yellow Dog)
Jack Foster III Raptorgnosis (Muse-Wrapped)
The Fray How to Save a Life (Epic)
Freakwater Thinking of You (featuring Califone) (Thrill Jockey)
From Monument to Masses Schools of Thought Contend (remixes w/two new studio tracks) (Dim Mak)
Gas Huffer Lemonade for Vampires (Touch and Go)
Giant Drag Heart and Unicorns (Interscope)
Go Betty Go Go Betty Go (SideOneDummy)
David Gray Life in Slow Motion (DualDisc same day) (ATO/RCA)
Brian Lane Green Waiting for the Glaciers to Melt (LML Music)
Gustafsson/Stackenas Plays the Blues (Atavistic)
H.I.M. Greatest Love Songs – Vol. 666 (Universal)
Halifax The Inevitably of a Strange World (Drive-Thru)
Annie Hayden The Enemy of Love (Merge)
Horrorpops Bring It on! (Epitaph)
Imperial Crowns Hymn Book (Ruf)
In-Quest The Comatose Quandaries (Good Life)
Institute (w/ex-Bush’s Gavin Rossdale) Distort Yourself (DualDisc same day; produced by Helmet’s Page Hamilton) (Interscope)
Irish Tenors Sacred (Razor & Tie)
Iron and Wine/Calexico In the Reins EP (collaborative effort) (Touch and Go)
Jazzanova Blue Note Trip (mix CD of the label’s jazz classics) (Blue Note)
Jessy Rain (Water Music)
Marc Johnson Shades of Jade (ECM)
Syleena Johnson Chapter 3: The Flesh (guests Kanye West, Jermaine Dupri, R. Kelly, Common and Twista) (Jive)
George Jones Hits I Missed…and One I Didn’t (guest Dolly Parton) (Bandit/Welk)
The Juliana Theory Deadbeat Sweetheartbeat (Paper Fist/Abacus)
Eugene Kelly (formerly of the Vaselines and Eugenius) Man Alive (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
Killing the Dream In Place, Apart (Deathwish)
B.B. King 80 (Geffen)
Knuckledust Unbreakable (GSR)
Lake Trout Not Them, You (Palm Pictures)
Mike LeDonne Night Song (Savant)
Levy Rotten Love (One Little Indian)
The Like Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking? (produced by ex-Prince and the Revolution’s Wendy Melvoin) (Geffen)
Line of Fire Line of Fire (Tribunal)
Little Brother The Minstrel Show (Atlantic)
The Living Jarboe The Conduit (limited edition) (Atavistic)
Lonestar Coming Home (BNA)
Patty Loveless Dreaming My Dreams (Epic)
Jason Mackenroth (ex-Rollins Band/Mother Superior drummer) Mack (Wrecked)
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band 2006 (Friday Music)
Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley Welcome to Jamrock (w/Stephen Marley, the Roots’ Black Thought, Nas, Bobby Brown and more; features tracks using samples of Bob Marley tunes) (Universal Motown)
The Mass Perfect Picture of Wisdom and Boldness (Crucial Blast)
Paul McCartney Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard (co-produced by Nigel Godrich) (Capitol)
Mike + the Mechanics Rewired (Rhino)
Natasha Miller Don’t Move (Poignant)
Sister Gertrude Morgan King Britt Presents (remixes of rare classic New Orleans artist) (Ropeadope)
Mr. Greenweedz & Griot G-Strings (Touch and Go)
The Muckrakers Front of the Parade (Toucan Cove)
My Chemical Romance Maximum (audio biography) (Chrome Dreams)
Neon Blonde (members of the Blood Brothers) Chandeliers in the Savannah (Dim Mak)
Numbers We’re Animals (Kill Rock Stars)
Shannon O’Connor Low in Paradise (Varrga)
Ohmega Watts The Find (Ubiquity)
Old Time Relijun 2012 (enhanced CD w/live performance video) (K Records)
OOIOO (w/Yoshimi of the Boredoms) Gold and Green (Thrill Jockey)
Opeth Ghost Reveries (Roadrunner)
Judith Owen Lost and Found (guests Cassandra Wilson and Keb’ Mo’) (Courgette/ADA/Warner Music Group)
John Parish Once Upon a Little Time (w/members of Portishead and the Bad Seeds) (Thrill Jockey)
Maceo Parker School’s In (Phantom/BHM)
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble The Eleventh Hour (ECM)
Chris Pierce Static Trampoline (Prana Entertainment)
Jimmy Ponder What’s New (HighNote)
Princess Superstar My Machine (!K7)
PussyCat Dolls PCD (A&M/Interscope)
Queen + Paul Rodgers Return of the Champions (Hollywood)
Queenadreena The Butcher and the Butterfly (One Little Indian)
Bonnie Raitt Souls Alike (Capitol)
The Reigning Sound Home for Orphans (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
The Rosebuds Birds Make Good Neighbors (Merge)
Safety Scissors Tainted Lunch (Scape)
Dieter Scherf Trio Inside-Outside Reflections (Atavistic)
Secondhand Stores From the Talking Machine (Deep Elm)
Charlie Sexton Cruel and Gentle Things (Back Porch/EMI)
Sigur R√õs Takk… (Geffen)
Smif N Wesson (aka Cocoa Brovaz) Reloaded (guest members of Boot Camp Clik plus Talib Kweli, dead prez, Roc Raida and more) (Duck Down)
Soulive Breakout (w/Robert Randolph on cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “Crosstown Traffic;” also guests Living Colour’s Corey Glover, Chaka Khan and Ivan Neville) (Concord)
Sourvein Emerald Vulture (enhanced CD) (Dark Reign)
Steep Canyon Rangers One Dime at a Time (Rebel)
Stellastarr* Harmonies for the Haunted (RCA)
Bobo Stenson Trio Goodbye (ECM)
Stiffed Burned Again (produced by Daryl Jenifer of Bad Brains) (Outlook)
Nicola Stilo and Toninho Horta Duets (Adventure Music)
Stratovarius Stratovarius (Sanctuary)
Stretch Arm Strong Free at Last (We Put Out Records)
Subtract by Two Agoniser Ecrire (This Generation Tapes)
Stacy Sullivan Cold Enough to Snow (new and traditional Christmas songs) (LML Music)
Super Furry Animals Love Kraft (produced by Mario Caldato, Jr.; string arrangements by the High Llamas’ Sean O’Hagan) (XL Recordings)
Switchfoot Nothing Is Sound (DualDisc available same day) (Columbia)
Rosie Thomas If Songs Could Be Held (guest Ed Harcourt on “Let It Be Me”) (Sub Pop)
Billy Bob Thornton Hobo (Big Deal)
Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate In the Heart of the Moon (Nonesuch)
Trapt Someone in Control (Warner Bros.)
Turn Me on Dead Man God Bless the Electric Freak (Alternative Tentacles)
Vandermark 5 The Color of Memory (Atavistic)
Andreas Vollenweider Vox (Kin Kou/Savoy)
Paul Wall The People’s Champ (Atlantic)
Russell Watson Amore Musica (Decca)
Dar Williams My Better Self (w/Ani DiFranco, Marshall Crenshaw, Soulive and more) (Razor & Tie)
Charlie Wilson Charlie, Last Name Wilson (Jive/ZLG)
Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice Buck Dharma (Kill Rock Stars)
xbxrx Sixth in Sixes (Polyvinyl)
XCarnation Grounded (guest members of Winger and King Crimson) (Muse-Wrapped)
Trisha Yearwood Jasper County (MCA Nashville)
VA Mean It Man (new, previously unreleased tracks from Horace Pinker, the Methadones, the Bomb and more) (Thick)
VA Metro Weekender Presents РAmika (VarËse Sarabande)
VA Music Is My Art (hip-hop/electronica compilation) (Ubiquity)
VA Old Skars & Upstarts 2005 (rare and unreleased tracks from Turbonegro, the Skulls, Epoxies and more) (Disaster)
VA Rose & Thistle: English and Scottish Music from the Christmas Revels (Revels/Allegro)
VA Sacred Ground: A Tribute to Mother Earth (traditional and contemporary Native American songs) (Silver Wave)
VA The Enlightened Family: A Collection of Lost Songs (Touch and Go)
OCR Mary Poppins (Walt Disney)
OST Elizabethtown (Cameron Crowe film starring Orlando Bloom; includes original music by Heart’s Nancy Wilson plus songs by My Morning Jacket, Ryan Adams, Tom Petty and more; box set available same day) (RCA)
OST Four Brothers (Mark Wahlberg film) (Universal Motown)
OST Four Brothers (score by David Arnold) (VarËse Sarabande)
OST Just Like Heaven (originals and covers from the Cure, Amos Lee, Beck, Pete Yorn and more) (Columbia)
OST Proof (score by Stephen Warbeck) (VarËse Sarabande)
OST The Aristocrats (all-star comedy documentary w/George Carlin, Robin Williams, Chris Rock and many more) (V2)
OST Thumbsucker (score by the Polyphonic Spree’s Tim DeLaughter, plus three previously unreleased songs by Elliott Smith, including covers of Big Star’s “Thirteen” and Cat Stevens’ “Trouble”) (Hollywood)
DVD East of Sunset (w/covers of Tom Waits songs by Alex Chilton, Lydia Lunch and more) (Music Video Distributors)
DVD Amici Forever In Concert (RCA Victor)
DVD The Chesterfield Kings Where Is the Chesterfield King?!?! (sci-fi action/comedy starring the band; w/bonus live performance footage) (Music Video Distributors)
DVD Lydia Lunch Willing Victim (2003 concert w/members of Godflesh, Foetus, Swans and Unsane) (Music Video Distributors)
DVD Mara’akate Congratulations on Your Impending Geography (footage of 2003 tour) (HCNL)
DVD Duke Robillard A Special Evening with and Friends (Stony Plain)
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