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MARCH 25, 2008

Artist: Title: Label/Due date:
Bryan Adams "11" (another album recorded in hotel rooms and empty concert halls) (U.K. - Badman, March 24, 2008)
Nicola Benedetti "Vaughan Williams/Tavener" (Hear here) (Deutsche Grammophon, March 25, 2008)
B-52's, The "Funplex" (first album of new material since 1992; producer: Steve Osbourne; first single: "Pump"; Hear here; Read here) (Astralwerks, March 25, 2008)
Blues Anatomy with Jef Lee Johnson "Rediscovering Lonnie Johnson" (producer: Aaron Luis Levinson; guests: Geoff Muldaur, Joe Mass; Hear here) (Range, March 25, 2008)
Caribbean Jazz Project "Afro Bop Alliance" (Read here) (Heads Up, March 25, 2008)
Cavalera Conspiracy, The (featuring brothers Max and Igor Cavalera) "Inflikted" (Hear here; Read here) (Roadrunner, March 25, 2008)
Counting Crows "Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings" (producer: Gil Norton; Read here) (Geffen, March 25, 2008)
Crash Romeo "Gave Me the Clap" (producer: Chris Badami; first single: "Popular"; Hear here) (Trustkill, March 25, 2008)
DAY26 (Diddy's hand-picked group is featured on MTV's "Making the Band 4") "DAY26" (producers: The Runners, Jim Bean, Adonis, Bryan Michael Cox; first single: "Got Me Going"; Read here) (Bad Boy, March 25, 2008)
Justin Townes Earle (son of Steve Earle) "The Good Life" (producer: RS Field; Hear here) (Bloodshot, March 25, 2008)
Emerson String Quartet "Bach: Fugues" (Deutsche Grammophon, March 25, 2008)
Gnarls Barkley "The Odd Couple" (Hear here) (Downtown/Atlantic, March 25, 2008)
Head of Femur "Great Plains" (Hear here; Read here) (Greyday, March 25, 2008)
Heavy, The "Great Vengeance and Furious Fire" (released in the U.K. in 2007; U.S. version contains bonus track "Our Special Place"; Hear here; See here) (+1 Records/Counter, March 25, 2008)
Zane Lewis "Zane Lewis" (Hear here) (Slant, March 25, 2008)
Nick Loren (actor and John Travolta's stunt double) "Let's Make It Real" (producers: Jeeve, Claudio Cueni; Hear here) (LGN Entertainment, March 25, 2008)
Miguel Migs "Those Things Remixed" (new interpretations of original tracks from his 2007 album "Those Things"; Hear here) (Salted Music, March 25, 2008)
Mike Oldfield "Music of the Spheres" (producers: Oldfield, Karl Jenkins; guests: Hayley Westenra, Lang Lang; Hear here; Read here) (Decca, March 25, 2008)
Panic! at the Disco "Pretty. Odd." (Hear here; Read here) (Decaydance/Fueled by Ramen, March 25, 2008)
Pennywise "Reason to Believe" (producer: Cameron Webb; first single: "Something to Live For"; Hear here) (MySpace, March 25, 2008)
Plants and Animals "Parc Avenue" (Hear here) (Secret City, March 25, 2008)
Raconteurs, The "Consolers of the Lonely" (first single: "Salute Your Solution"; Hear here; Read here) (Third Man/Warner, March 25, 2008)
Silver Mount Zion "13 Blues for Thirteen Moons" (Hear here) (Constellation, March 25, 2008)
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder "Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass: Tribute to 1946 and 1947" (Skaggs Family, March 25, 2008)
Temposhark "The Invisible Line" (producers: Sean McGhee, Guy Sigsworth; guests: Imogen Heap, Sophie Solomon; first single: "Blame," co-written by Youth; Hear here; See here) (Paper and Glue Ltd./Defend Music, March 25, 2008)
Various artists "WWE: The Music, Volume 8" (includes Jeff Hardy's theme, "No More Words," by EndeverafteR; Hear here; See here) (World Wrestling Entertainment/Columbia, March 25, 2008)
We Are Scientists "Brain Thrust Mastery" (Hear here) (U.K. - Virgin, March 24, 2008)
Geoff Weston "Vidiots - Tune In!!" (guests: Davey Johnstone, Richard Elliot, Lewie Goldsmith, Jefferson Kewley, Dennis Conway, The Heart Attack Horns) (Disturbing Music, March 25, 2008)

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Artist: Title: Label/Due date:
Bay City Rollers "Elevator" (1979 album; remastered; includes the single "Turn On Your Radio," when the band was known simply as The Rollers) (U.K. - Glam/7Ts, March 24, 2008)
Cardigans, The "Best of The Cardigans" (U.K. - Universal, March 24, 2008)
Coasters, The "The Very Best of The Coasters" (1993 album; 16 tracks) (Rhino, March 25, 2008)
England Dan & John Ford Coley "The Very Best of England Dan & John Ford Coley" (Rhino, March 25, 2008)
Doobie Brothers, The "Best of the Doobies, Volume II" (1981 album) (Rhino, March 25, 2008)
Everly Brothers, The "The Very Best of The Everly Brothers" (Rhino, March 25, 2008)
Gerry and the Pacemakers "You'll Never Walk Alone (The EMI Years 1963-1966)" (4 CDs; Read here) (U.K. - EMI, March 24, 2008)
Jesus and Mary Chain, The "Psychocandy" (1985 album; remastered), "Darklands" (1987 album; remastered), "Automatic" (1989 album; remastered), "Honey's Dead" (1992 album; remastered), "Stoned & Dethroned" (1994 album; remastered) (Rhino, March 25, 2008)
Nicolette Larson "The Very Best of Nicolette Larson" (Rhino, March 25, 2008)
Lemonheads, The "It's a Shame About Ray [CD/DVD Collector's Edition]" (1992 album; remastered, with 10 bonus tracks; the DVD contains 45 minutes of videos and live performances; Hear here) (Rhino, March 25, 2008)
Montrose "The Very Best of Montrose" (2000 album) (Rhino, March 25, 2008)
Morrissey "Greatest Hits" (includes two new songs, "That's How People Grow Up," produced by Jerry Finn, and "All You Need Is Me"; Hear here; Read here; also available in deluxe edition, with a second disc of live cuts) (Decca, March 25, 2008)
Leo Sayer "The Very Best of Leo Sayer" (2000 album; 16 tracks) (Rhino, March 25, 2008)
Simon & Garfunkel "Live 1969" (17 previously unreleased tracks culled from performances in Detroit, Toledo, Carbondale, Ill., St. Louis, Long Beach, Calif., and New York) (Columbia/Legacy, March 25, 2008 - sold exclusively at Starbucks stores; retail release will be in the fall)
Smokie "Solid Ground" (1981 album; remastered, with five bonus tracks), "Strangers in Paradise" (1982 album; remastered) (U.K. - Glam/7Ts, March 24, 2008)

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Artist: Title: Label/Due date:
Lindsey Buckingham "Live at the Bass Performance Hall [DVD/CD]" (Jan. 27, 2007, concert in Fort Worth; Read here) (Reprise, March 25, 2008)
Mike Douglas "Mike Douglas - Moments & Memories [DVD]" (featuring John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the Rolling Stones, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Martin, etc.; Read here) (Kultur, March 25, 2008)

MUSIC BOOKS

Subject/ Author(s): Title: Publisher/Due date:
Greil Marcus "Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll: Fifth Edition [Paperback]" (Plume, March 25, 2008)
Pet Shop Boys "Pet Shop Boys Catalogue [Paperback]" (author: Philip Hoare, Chris Heath) (Thames & Hudson, March 24, 2008)
Bruce Williams, Donnell Alexander "Rollin' with Dre: The Unauthorized Account: An Insider's Tales of the Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of West Coast Hip Hop [Paperback]" (One World/Ballantine, March 25, 2008)

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