Street Date August 27: Dixie Chicks, Eve, Coldplay
ByAug 25, 2002 10:00 PM
Also: Queens of the Stone Age, Aimee Mann, KISS, Silverchair and more.
Also: Queens of the Stone Age, Aimee Mann, KISS, Silverchair and more.
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Dixie Chicks - “Home” (Open Wide/Monument)
Dixie Chicks’ third release is the trio’s first album on its newly formed Open Wide Records, which the group founded with Sony Music after settling a contract dispute with the record label earlier this year. “We are very proud of the music on ‘Home,’ the group said in a press release. “We recorded it as a labor of love during our time off, and are thrilled it has come together as an album that we think is our best yet.” “Home” is the follow up to the group’s multi-platinum release “Fly.” In December, NBC will air a Dixie Chicks concert special that was recorded this month, according to the group’s official website.
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Eve - “Eve-Olution” (Interscope)
Paving the way for this female rapper’s third solo effort is the hit single “Gangsta Lovin’,” which features chart-topping R&B singer Alicia Keys. Interscope is streaming the song’s companion music video at the label’s official website. “Eve-Olution” is the follow-up to last year’s “Scorpion” and 1999’s “Let There Be Eve.”
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Coldplay - “A Rush of Blood to the Head” (Capitol)
Coldplay recorded its latest at George Martin’s AIR studios in London and Parr Street Studios in Liverpool. The band co-produced the album with Ken Nelson, who also lent a hand during the recording of the Coldplay’s Grammy-winning 2000 debut, “Parachutes.” The new album is streaming at the group’s official website.
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Queens of the Stone Age - “Songs for the Deaf” (Interscope)
On their third album, QOTSA get some big-name help from Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters), who played drums on the record and also manned the drum kit during the group’s pre-release tour earlier this year. QOTSA has a flurry of promotional activity planned around the album, including a handful of release-week in-store appearances and an upcoming spot on “The Late Show with David Letterman.” Details are available at the band’s http://queensofthestoneage.com/index_main.html >website.
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Aimee Mann - “Lost in Space” (Superego)
Mann follows her critically acclaimed 2001 album, “Bachelor No. 2,” with her second consecutive self-released LP. Among the artists who contribute to the disc are Michael Penn (her husband), producer-musician John Brion and signer-songwriter Jason Falkner. Mann is expected to launch a tour in support of the album this fall.
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KISS - “The Very Best Of Kiss” (Mercury/UTV)
Fans not willing to shell out the cash for last year’s “KISS” five-disc box set can settle instead for this 21-track collection comprised almost entirely of material from the group’s ‘70s-era heyday. Songs featured include “Strutter,” “Detroit Rock City,” “I Was Made for Loving You” and, of course, “Rock and Roll All Nite.” A full track listing is posted at the band’s official website.
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Silverchair - “Diorama” (Atlantic)
Daniel Johns, Silverchair’s lead singer and principal songwriter, co-produced this album with David Bottrill (Tool, Peter Gabriel). Among the guest musicians who joined the group in the studio were Midnight Oil guitarist Jim Moginie and Australian electronica producer Paul Mac. Van Dyke Parks contributed arrangements on three tracks for orchestra, brass and woodwinds. The entire album is streaming at the group’s official website.
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Other new releases:
30 Seconds to Mars - “30 Seconds to Mars” (Immortal/Virgin)
4th Avenue Jones’ - “No Plan B” (Interscope)
A.I. - “Artificial Intelligence” (DreamWorks)
Alcazar - “Casino” (E-Magine)
Monty Alexander - “My America” (Telarc Jazz)
Axiom of Choice - “Unfolding” (Narada World)
Patricia Barber - “Verse” (Blue Note)
Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash - “Distance Between” (Ultimatum)
BBMak - “Into Your Head” (Hollywood)
Daniel Bedingfield - “Gotta Get Thru This” (Island)
Bigger Lovers - “Honey in the Hive” (Yep Roc)
BlackHawk - “Spirit Dancer” (Columbia)
Bleach - “Again, for the First Time” (Tooth & Nail)
Blind Boys of Alabama - “Higher Ground” (Real World)
Boston - “Corporate America” (Artemis)
Anouar Brahem - “Le Pas Du Chat Noir” (ECM)
Breaking Benjamin - “Saturate” (Hollywood)
Peter Bruntnell - “Ends of the Earth” (Back Porch)
Aoife Clancy - “Silvery Moon” (Appleseed)
Coralie Clement - “Salle des Pas Perdus” (Nettwerk)
Elizabeth Cook - “Hey Y’All” (Warner Bros. Nashville)
Norrie Cox and His New Orleans Stompers - “Live at the Illiana” (Delmark)
Defiance - “Out of the Ashes” (Punk Core)
Al Di Meola - “Flesh on Flesh” (Telarc Jazz)
The Dillinger Escape Plan - “Irony Is a Dead Scene [EP]” (Epitaph)
Division of Laura Lee - “Black City” (Epitaph)
Dragpipe - “Music for the Last Day of Your Life” (Interscope)
Dave Dresden - “Provocative Progressive” (Capitol)
Kahil El’Zabar - “Love Outside of Dreams” (Delmark)
Jimmy Fallon - “The Bathroom Wall” (DreamWorks)
Gordon Gano - “Hitting the Ground” (Instinct)
Bob Geldof - “Sex, Age & Death” (Koch)
Al Green and the Othello Anderson Quintet - “Mister Lucky” (Delmark)
Grits - “The Art of Translation” (Gotee)
gusgus - “Attention” (Moonshine)
Haven - “Between the Senses” (Virgin)
Hound Foundation - “Hound Foundation” (Spy)
Kingpin Skinny Pimp - “Pimpin’ & Hustlin’” (Rap Hustlaz)
Jesse LeGé and Edward Pollard - “Live at the Isleton Crawdad Festival” (Arhoolie)
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers - “Stories” (Red Ink)
Rob Mazurek - “Silver Spines” (Delmark)
The Miles Hunt Club - “The Miles Hunt Club” (Red Ink)
Montgomery Gentry - “My Town” (Columbia)
Maren Ord - “Waiting” (Nettwerk)
Riot - “Through the Storm” (Metal Blade)
Lee Ritenour - “Rit’s House” (GRP)
Rotten Apples - “Real Tuff: Durable Plastic” (Empty)
Duncan Sheik - “Daylight” (Atlantic)
John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars - “Fattening Frogs for Snakes” (Okra Tone)
Sixwire - “Sixwire” (Warner Bros. Nashville)
Andy Snitzer - “Sugar” (A440)
Spock’s Beard - “Snow” (Metal Blade)
Sunset Black - “Common Ground” (MCA)
Nestor Torres - “Mi Alma Latina” (Shanachie)
Trina - “Diamond Princess” (Atlantic)
Chucho Valdes - “Fantasia Cubana” (Blue Note)
Viva Death - “Viva Death” (Vagrant)
The Washdown - “The Washdown [EP]” (Lookout!)
Various artists - “Santa’s Got Mojo” (Electro-Fi)
Soundtracks and scores:
“Barbershop" (Epic)
“One Hour Photo” (Trauma)
“Swimfan" (TVT)
“One Big Trip” (Red Urban)