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FEB. 21, 2006

Artist:Title:Label/Due date:
Adair"Destruction of Everything Is the Beginning of Something New" (Warcon, Feb. 21, 2006)
Anna Oxygen"This Is an Exercise" (Kill Rock Stars, Feb. 21, 2006)
Arab Strap"The Last Romance" (Read here) (Transdreamer, Feb. 21, 2006)
Arctic Monkeys"Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am Not" (Read here) (Domino, Feb. 21, 2006)
Bleeding Kansas"Dead Under Decor" (Hear here) (Abacus, Feb. 21, 2006)
Bloc Party"Helicopter [CD-single]" (remixes) (Dim Mak/Vice/Atlantic, Feb. 21, 2006)
Bril"Airless Alarm" (first single: "Far Away"; Hear here) (Kirtland, Feb. 21, 2006)
Nick Cave"The Proposition [film soundtrack]" (written by Cave and directed by John Hillcoat, the movie stars Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson and Danny Huston; See here) (Mute, Feb. 21, 2006)
Agnes Chan"Forget Yourself [CD/DVD]" (guests: Jackie Chan, Santana's Andy Vargas, Dishwalla's JR Richard, The Dilettantes; Read here) (Bungalo/Universal, Feb. 21, 2006)
Coldcut"Sound Mirrors" (Ninja Tune, Feb. 21, 2006)
BJ Cole"Trouble in Paradise [DualDisc]" (Read here) (Cooking Vinyl, Feb. 21, 2006)
Cowboy Mouth"Voodoo Shoppe" (Eleven Thirty, Feb. 21, 2006)
Ray Davies"Other People's Lives" (Read here) (V2, Feb. 21, 2006)

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Dilated Peoples"20/20" (first single: "Back Again"; Read here) (Capitol, Feb. 21, 2006)
Downtown Singapore"Don't Let Your Guard Down" (producer: Matt Squire) (DCide, Feb. 21, 2006)
Jimmy Edgar"Color Strip" (Warp, Feb. 21, 2006)
Elbow"Leaders of the Free World" (Read here; also available with bonus DVD) (V2, Feb. 21, 2006)
Evans Blue"The Melody and the Energetic Nature of Volume" (producer: Trevor Kustiak; Hear/read here) (Hollywood, Feb. 21, 2006)
Folly"Resist Convenience" (producer: Sal Villanueva) (Triple Crown, Feb. 21, 2006)
Stephen Fretwell"Magpie" (released last year in his native U.K.; producers: Fretwell, Guy Massey; Hear here) (Interscope, Feb. 21, 2006)
Gamble Brothers Band"Continuator" (producer: Jeff Powell; Read here) (Archer/ Emergent/RED, Feb. 21, 2006)
Tony Gilkyson (formerly of X and Lone Justice)"Goodbye Guitar" (his first solo album in eight years; producers: Charlie McGovern, Don Heffington; guests: Van Dyke Parks, Chuck E. Weiss, etc.) (Rolling Sea, Feb. 21, 2006)
?uestlove (of The Roots)"Babies Making Babies, Vol. 2: The Misery Strikes" (BBE, Feb. 21, 2006)
Jesse Harris"Mineral" (producer: Terry Manning; Read here) (Secret Sun, Feb. 21, 2006)
Hell Is For Heroes"Transmit Disrupt" (Burning Heart, Feb. 21, 2006)
Andrew Hill"Time Lines" (Blue Note, Feb. 21, 2006)
Hollies, The (new singer: Peter Howarth)"Staying Power" (U.K. - EMI, Feb. 20, 2006)
Janis Ian"Folk Is the New Black" (Cooking Vinyl, Feb. 21, 2006)
Bob James"Urban Flamingo" (Read here) (Koch, Feb. 21, 2006)
Arden Kaywin"Quarter Life Crisis" (producer: Rudy Hausermann; Hear here) (Arden Kaywin/PEGA, Feb. 21, 2006)
Kidz Bop Kids"Kidz Bop 9" (with comic book) (Razor & Tie, Feb. 21, 2006)
Nils Landgren & Joe Sample"Creole Love Call" (producer: Landgren; Read here) (Highnote, Feb. 21, 2006)
Lashes, The"Get It" (producer: John Goodmanson; Hear here) (Columbia/Red Ink, Feb. 21, 2006)
Liars"Drum's Not Dead [CD/DVD]" (Read here) (U.K. - Mute, Feb. 20, 2006)
Lilys"Everything Wrong Is Imaginary" (producer: Michael Musmanno) (Manifesto, Feb. 21, 2006)
Loved Ones, The"Keep Your Heart" (Fat Wreck Chords, Feb. 21, 2006)
Man Man"Six Demon Bag" (Ace Fu, Feb. 21, 2006)
Marley's Ghost"Spooked" (cover illustrated by cartoonist R. Crumb; producer: Van Dyke Parks; guest: Parks; Read here) (Sage Arts/Ryko, Feb. 21, 2006)
Willie Nile"Streets of New York" (first album in six years; guest: Jakob Dylan; Hear here; Read here) (00:02:59, Feb. 21, 2006)
William Orbit"Hello Waveforms" (producer: Orbit; guests: Sugababes, Kenna, Finley Quaye, Laurie Mayer) (Sanctuary, Feb. 21, 2006)
Lori Perry"I Found It in You" (Read/hear here) (Alliant Music Group, Feb. 21, 2006)
Robinella (of Robinella and the CC String Band)"Solace for the Lonely" (producer: Doug Lancio) (Dualtone, Feb. 21, 2006)
Robocop Kraus"They Think They Are the Robocop Kraus" (producer: Pelle Gunnerfeldt) (Epitaph, Feb. 21, 2006)
Scarface & The Product"Scarface Presents The Product: One Hunnid" (producers: Tone Capone, John Bido, The Alchemist, Scarface) (Koch, Feb. 21, 2006)
Shanice"Every Woman Dreams" (Read here) (IME/Play Tyme, Feb. 21, 2006)
Jules Shear"Dreams Don't Count" (Mad Dragon/Ryko, Feb. 21, 2006 - Mad Dragon is a student-run label at Drexel University)
Slackers, The"Peculiar" (Hear here; Read here) (Hellcat, Feb. 21, 2006)
Slave to the System"Slave to the System" (side project for Queensrÿche's Scott Rockenfield, Brother Cane's Roman Glick and Damon Johnson and ex-Queensrÿche member Kelly Gray; first single: "Stigmata") (Spitfire, Feb. 21, 2006)
Souls She Said"As Templar Nites" (Dim Mak/Vice/Atlantic, Feb. 21, 2006)
John Stewart"The Day the River Sang" (Appleseed, Feb. 21, 2006)
Street Drum Corps"Street Drum Corps [CD/DVD]" (Warcon, Feb. 21, 2006)
Teddy Thompson"Separate Ways" (producers: Thompson, Brad Albetta; guests: his parents Richard and Linda Thompson, Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Jenni Muldaur; first single: "Everybody Move It" - Hear here: QuickTime, Windows Media, Real) (Verve Forecast, Feb. 21, 2006)
Derek Trucks Band, The"Songlines" (Read here) (Columbia, Feb. 21, 2006)
Two Gallants"What the Toll Tells" (Saddle Creek, Feb. 21, 2006)
Various artists"Madea's Family Reunion [film soundtrack]" (Tyler Perry movie, which opens Feb. 24, stars Blair Underwood, Lynn Whitfield, Maya Angelou, Jennifer Lewis, Cicely Tyson, etc.; See here) (Motown, Feb. 21, 2006)
Various artists"Palo Duro Presents Texas Unplugged Vol. 2" (featuring The Derailers, Dale Watson, Rusty Wier, Wild Horses, Johnny Bush, etc.) (Palo Duro, Feb. 21, 2006)
Wonder Stuff, The"Suspended By Stars" (Read here) (U.K. - Independent Records Ltd., Feb. 20, 2006)
Kathleen "Bird" York"Wicked Little High" (producer: Larry Klein) (Narada, Feb. 21, 2006)

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Artist:Title:Label/Due date:
APB"Something to Believe In" (1985 album; 2 CDs) (Young American Recordings, Feb. 21, 2006)
Band, The"Jericho" (1993 album; remastered), "High on the Hog" (1996 album; remastered) (Titan/Pyramid, Feb. 21, 2006)
Theodore Bikel"Songs of Russia Old & New/Songs of a Russian Gypsy" (1960, 1958 albums) (Collectors' Choice, Feb. 21, 2006)
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers"Mosaic" (1961 album; remastered) (Blue Note, Feb. 21, 2006)
Billy Bragg"Life's a Riot with Spy vs. Spy" (1983 album; 2 CDs; remastered, with bonus material), "Brewing Up With Billy Bragg" (1984 album; 2 CDs; remastered, with bonus matieral), "Talking With the Taxman About Poetry" (1986 album; 2 CDs; remastered, with bonus material), "Live & Dubious/The Internationale" (1988, 1990 albums; 2 CDs; remastered, with bonus material), "Billy Bragg: Volume 1 [box set]" (with bonus DVD; Read here) (Yep Roc, Feb. 21, 2006)
Byrds, The"Preflyte" (demos from 1964) (Sundazed, Feb. 21, 2006)
Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash"16 Biggest Hits" (Columbia/Legacy, Feb. 21, 2006)
Chad & Jeremy"I Don't Want to Lose You Baby" (1965 album), "The Ark" (1968 album) (Sundazed, Feb. 21, 2006)
Chicken Shack"Poor Boy: The Deram Years" (2 CDs) (U.K. - Castle, Feb. 20, 2006)
Chieftains, The"The Essential Chieftains" (2 CDs) (RCA/Legacy, Feb. 21, 2006)
Cracker"Get On With It: The Best of Cracker" (Virgin, Feb. 21, 2006)
Cracker"Greatest Hits Redux" (Cooking Vinyl, Feb. 21, 2006)
Deacon Blue"Raintown" (1987 album; 2 CDs; second disc contains demos) (U.K. - Columbia, Feb. 20, 2006)
Rick Derringer"Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo: Very Best of Rick Derringer" (Big Eye Music, Feb. 21, 2006)
Five Americans, The"Progressions" (1967 album), "Western Union" (1967 album) (Sundazed, Feb. 21, 2006)

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Flamin' Groovies"Bust Out at Full Speed: The Sire Years" (DBK Works, Feb. 21, 2006)
Frankie Goes to Hollywood"Twelve Inches" (remix collection) (ZTT, Feb. 21, 2006)
David Frye"I Am the President/Radio Free Nixon" (1970, 1971 albums) (Collectors' Choice, Feb. 21, 2006)
Dick Gaughan"The Definitive Collection" (Highpoint, Feb. 21, 2006)
Merle Haggard"Strangers/Swinging Doors and the Bottle Let Me Down" (1965 albums; remastered, with bonus tracks), "Sing Me Back Home/The Legend of Bonnie & Clyde" (1968 albums; remastered), "Mama Tried/Pride in What I Am" (1968, 1968 albums; remastered), "Hag/Someday We'll Look Back" (1971 albums) (Capitol Nashville/EMI, Feb. 21, 2006)
Tommy James"More of the Greatest Hits of Tommy James & The Shondells" (new versions of old hits) (Compendia, Feb. 21, 2006)
Knickerbockers, The"Rockin'! With the Knickerbockers" (best-of; Read/hear here) (Sundazed, Feb. 21, 2006)
Kirsty MacColl"Titanic Days" (2 CDs; 1994 album; remastered, with bonus tracks) (ZTT, Feb. 21, 2006)
Hank Mobley"Dippin' " (1965 album; remastered) (Blue Note, Feb. 21, 2006)
Lee Morgan"Tom Cat" (1964 album; remastered) (Blue Note, Feb. 21, 2006)
Mott the Hoople"All the Young Dudes" (1972 album; remastered, with seven bonus tracks), "Mott" (1973 album; remastered, with four bonus tracks) (Columbia/Legacy, Feb. 21, 2006)
Santana"Santana III: Legacy Edition" (1971 album; 2 CDs; remastered, with bonus tracks; second disc features a July 4, 1971, concert at San Francisco's Fillmore West) (Columbia/Legacy, Feb. 21, 2006)
Sopwith Camel, The"The Sopwith Camel" (1967 album; featuring both mono and stereo tracks) (Acadia, Feb. 21, 2006)
Joe South"Games People Play/Joe South" (1969, 1971 albums on one disc) (Raven, Feb. 21, 2006)
Pete Townshend"Who Came First" (1972 album), "Rough Mix" (1977 album), "Empty Glass" (1980 album), "All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes" (1982 album), "Scoop" (1983 album; 2 CDs), "Pete Townshend's Deep End Live!" (1986 album), "Another Scoop" (1987 album; 2 CDs), "The Iron Man: The Musical by Pete Townshend" (1989 album), "Psychoderelict" (1993 album), "Scoop 3" (2001 album; 2 CDs) (Japan - Teichiku, Feb. 20, 2006)
Robin Trower"Living Out Of Time Live" (March 3, 2005, show at the Crossroads Festival in Germany) (Ruf, Feb. 21, 2006)
Various artists"Absolutely the Best of the 70's, Vol. 2" (Fuel 2000, Feb. 21, 2006)
Various artists"Fired Up! 3" (2 CDs) (Razor & Tie, Feb. 21, 2006)
Various artists"The Great Lost Elektra Singles, Vol. 1" (Read/hear here) (Collectors' Choice, Feb. 21, 2006)
Various artists"Original Irish Tenors: The Legendary Voices of Celtic Song" (RCA/Legacy, Feb. 21, 2006)
Various artists"Whiskey in the Jar: Essential Irish Drinking Songs and Sing Alongs" (2 CDs) (RCA/Legacy, Feb. 21, 2006)
Norma Waterson"The Definitive Collection" (Highpoint, Feb. 21, 2006)

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Artist:Title:Label/Due date:
G.G. Allin"Terror in America: Live 1993 [DVD]" (Music Video Distributors, Feb. 21, 2006)
Syd Barrett"Syd Barrett - Under Review [DVD]" (Chrome Dreams/Music Video Distributors, Feb. 21, 2006)
Blow Monkeys, The"Animal Magic: The Blow Monkeys Live [DVD]" (Cherry Red, Feb. 21, 2006)
Melissa Cross"The Zen of Screaming [DVD/CD]" (1x1 Music, Feb. 21, 2006)
eels"Eels With Strings: Live at Town Hall [DVD]" (June 30 concert in New York; Read here) (Vagrant, Feb. 21, 2006)
Europe"Live From the Dark [DVD]" (2 discs, plus a bonus CD; recorded at the Carling Apollo Hammersmith Theatre in London) (Talent Trust/Music Video Distributors, Feb. 21, 2006)
Iron Maiden"Death on the Road [DVD]" (Metal-Is/Sanctuary, Feb. 21, 2006)
Mastodon"The Workhorse Chronicles [DVD]" (a collection of the band's earliest live recordings) (Relapse, Feb. 21, 2006)
Elvis Presley"The Memphis Flash: Elvis Presley, Sun Records and How It All Began [DVD]" (Chrome Dreams/Music Video Distributors, Feb. 21, 2006)
Rolling Stones, The"Music in Review: 1963-1969 [DVD]" (2 discs) (Classic Rock Legends, Feb. 21, 2006)
Third World"Music Hall in Concert [DVD]" (live television performance from 1993 at the HR-Hessische Rundfunk in Germany) (Uncut DVD/Music Video Distributors, Feb. 21, 2006)
Turbo"The History: 1980-2005 [DVD]" (includes the band's performance at Metalmania 2005) (Metal Mind/Music Video Distributors, Feb. 21, 2006)
Various artists"Metal's Dark Side: Hard and the Furious Volume 1 [DVD]" (Hypnotic/Music Video Distributors, Feb. 21, 2006)
Various artists"Rent [DVD]" (2005 film; 2 discs) (Columbia/TriStar, Feb. 21, 2006)
Johnny "Guitar" Watson"Music Hall in Concert [DVD]" (live television performance from 1993 at the HR-Hessische Rundfunk in Germany) (Uncut DVD/Music Video Distributors, Feb. 21, 2006)

MUSIC BOOKS

Subject/ Author(s):Title:Publisher/Due date:
Tom Frederikse, Phil Benedictus"How to DJ: The Insider's Guide to Success on the Decks [Paperback]" (St. Martin's Griffin, Feb. 21, 2006)

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