Street Date Sept. 24: Beck, Peter Gabriel, India.Arie
BySep 22, 2002 10:00 PM
Also: Uncle Kracker, Steve Earle, Ryan Adams, Eyes Adrift and more.
Also: Uncle Kracker, Steve Earle, Ryan Adams, Eyes Adrift and more.
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Beck - “Sea Change” (Geffen)
Beck’s eighth album--and his fifth major-label release--features a dozen somber tracks, most of which deal with heartbreak. Nigel Godrich, who turned the knobs on Beck’s 1998 album, “Mutations,” produced. A tour in support of the album opens in mid October; Flaming Lips will serve as the opening act and as Beck’s backing band.
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Peter Gabriel - “Up” (Geffen)
Though he has released various live and soundtrack albums in the interim, “Up” marks Gabriel’s first proper solo album in a decade. The new set features the track “The Barry Williams Show”; the song and its companion music-video are both posted at Gabriel’s official website. Gabriel will tour behind the album this fall.
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India.Arie - “Voyage to India” (Motown)
“Voyage to India” features the R&B singer’s latest single, “Little Things.” The album is the follow-up to her Grammy-nominated debut, “Acoustic Soul.” Next month, India.Arie kicks off a tour in support of the new release.
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Uncle Kracker - “No Stranger to Shame” (Lava/Atlantic)
Formerly known only as Kid Rock’s DJ, Uncle Kracker’s burgeoning solo career continues with this sophomore effort. “It’s not a big old-school-sounding record,” Uncle Kracker--a.k.a. Matt Shafer--said during a recent SoundSpike interview. “It’s not dated, either. It’s just straight songs. Some are a little lovey-dovey, some are not.” The new collection includes the single, “In a Little While,” the video for which is streaming at Atlantic’s website.
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Steve Earle - “Jerusalem” (Artemis)
Even before its release, Steve Earle’s sixth album in six years has garnered much negative attention on conservative talk-shows for its track “John Walker’s Blues,” which is written from the perspective of so-called American Taliban John Walker Lindh, and explores how Lindh may have ended up in Afghanistan. “Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too,” Earle said in a statement. “But there are circumstances.” Among the albums other tracks is a duet with Emmylou Harris titled “I Remember You.” Those two tracks and three others are streaming on the Artemis Records website.
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Ryan Adams - “Demolition” (Lost Highway)
This critically acclaimed singer-songwriter doesn’t consider this collection of 13 songs to be the official follow-up to his 2001 release, “Gold.” According to his label, “after sitting on stacks and stacks of tracks for over a year, the decision was made to assemble a ‘greatest hits’ from the unreleased songs, a retrospective of a high-speed year in the life of a rising star.” Adams embarks on a tour behind the album in October.
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Eyes Adrift - “Eyes Adrift” (SpinArt)
The trio behind this self-titled debut comprises the Meat Puppets’ Curt Kirkwood, Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic and Sublime’s Bud Gaugh. The group, which formed last year, has several promotional appearances planned this week, details for which are posted at its official website. The band launches a tour on the same day that the album hits stores.
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Other new releases:
60 Watt Shaman - “Reason to Live” (Spitfire)
Steve Almaas & Ali Smith - “Duets” (Parasol)
Jade Anderson - “Dive Deeper” (Columbia)
Gato Barbieri - “The Shadow of the Cat” (Peak)
The Beautiful Mistake - “Light a Match, for I Deserve to Burn” (Militia)
Tab Benoit and Jimmy Thackery - “Whiskey Store” (Telarc)
Biohazard - “Never Forgive, Never Forget” (Sanctuary)
Jim Breuer - “Smoke and Breu” (Comedy Central)
Jackson Browne - “The Naked Ride Home” (Elektra)
Jeremy Camp - “Stay” (BEC/Tooth & Nail)
Cky - “Infiltrate.Destroy.Rebuild” (Island)
Claire Voyant - “Love Is Blind” (Metropolis)
Les Claypool’s Frog Brigade - “Presents Purple Onion” (Prawn Song)
Mary Cleere Haran - “Crazy Rhythm” (Fynsworth Alley)
Peppino D’Agostino - “Every Step of the Way” (Favored Nations)
Paquito D’Rivera- “Brazilian Dreams” (MCG Jazz)
Dena DeRose - “Love’s Holiday” (Sharp Nine)
Dies Irae - “The Sin of War” (Metal Blade)
Eartha - “Sidebars” (AFRT Music)
Eliane Elias - “Kissed by Nature” (RCA)
Darren Emerson & Tim Deluxe - “Underwater - Episode I” (Thrive)
Tommy Emmanuel - “Only” (Favored Nations)
Bill Engvall - “Cheap Drunk: An Autobiography” (Warner Bros.)
Orrin Evans - “Meant to Shine” (Palmetto)
Evolution - “Unnatural Selection” (Nettwerk)
The Fallen - “Front Towards Enemy” (Metal Blade)
The Forty-Fives - “Fight Dirty” (Yep Roc)
Gran Torino - “The One and Only” (The Red Eye Label)
Nanci Griffith - “Winter Marquee” (Rounder)
Warren Hill - “Christmas” (Narada)
Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys - “Your Favorite Fool” (Bloodshot)
Abdullah Ibrahim - “African Symphony” (Enja)
Iron and Wine - “The Creek Drank the Cradle” (Sub Pop)
Bob James - “Morning, Noon and Night” (Warner Bros.)
Jet 68 - “SuperQueen” (Cleopatra)
Glenn Jones - “Feels Good” (Peak)
Josh Joplin Group - “The Future That Was” (Artemis)
Indira Khan - “What Can I Do?” (AFRT Music)
Living Sacrifice - “Conceived in Fire” (Tooth & Nail)
Mad Cap - “East to West” (Side One Dummy)
Delbert McClinton - “Room to Breathe” (New West)
McLusky - “Do Dallas” (Beggars)
Rhett Miller - “The Instigator (Elektra)
Alison Moyet - “Hometime” (Sanctuary)
NAAM Brigade - “Early in the Game” (ArtistDirect)
Ted Nugent - “Craveman” (Spitfire)
Of Montreal - “Aldhils Arboretum” (Kindercore)
Parker and Lily - “Here Comes Winter” (Manifesto)
Pastor Troy - “Universal Soldier” (Universal)
Plus One - “Mixer Presents: Next School 2” (Razor & Tie)
Poor Old Lu - “The Waiting Room” (Tooth & Nail)
Porcupine Tree - “In Absentia” (Lava/Atlantic)
Elvis Presley - “30 #1 Hits”
Project 86 - “Truthless Heroes” (Atlantic)
Rasa - “In Concert” (Hearts of Space)
D.J. Rodgers, Jr. - “EmoSoul” (Motown)
Mingo Saldivar y sus Temenos Cuatro Espadas - “A Taste of Texas” (Rounder)
Sepultura - “Under a Pale Grey Sky” (Roadrunner)
Vonda Shepard - “Chinatown” (Jacket)
The Silos - “Cuba” (DualTone)
Slobberbone - “Slippage” (New West)
Snapcase - “End Transmission” (Victory)
The Soft Boys - “Nextdoorland” (Matador)
Spring Heel Jack - “Amassed” (Thirsty Ear)
Doug Stone - “The Long Way” (Audium)
Stone Garden - “Stone Garden” (Gear Fab)
Andy Summers/John Etheridge - “Invisible Threads” (Favored Nations)
Tierney Sutton - “Something Cool” (Telarc)
Billy Taylor Trio - “Live at IAJE, New York” (Soundpost)
Ten Foot Pole - “Bad Mother Trucker” (Victory)
Tonic - “Head on Straight” (Universal)
Travis Tritt - “Strong Enough” (Columbia)
Underworld - “A Hundred Days Off” (V2)
The Violents - “Rececca’s Morning Voice” (Mud)
Volovan - “Volovan” (Lakeshore)
Phillip Walker Big Band - “Live at Biscuits & Blues” (M.C.)
Various artists - “Sounds Eclectic Too” (Palm Pictures)
Various artists - “Ultimate Chill Out” (Varese)
Various artists - “Viva Death” (Vagrant)
Soundtracks and scores:
“Autofocus" (Sanctuary)
“Brown Sugar” (MCA)
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More, with Feeling” (Rounder)
“Moonlight Mile” (Epic)
“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (Hip-O)
“Just a Kiss” (Milan)
“Monsoon Wedding: Dubara” (Milan)
“Standing in the Shadows of Motown” (Hip-O)
“Sweet Home Alabama” (Hollywood)
“The Red Dragon” (Decca)