Fans who have recently seen Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young on http://www.soundspike.com/story/7>tour have heard at least one song from Young’s new solo album: “Let’s Roll,” a Young-penned song about the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Young’s official website is currently streaming “Are You Passionate?” in its entirety, and is offering a free download of the album’s song “Goin’ Home.” The album features Young’s occasional backing band Crazy Horse, as well as Booker T and the MGs.



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Bonnie Raitt - “Silver Lining” (Capitol)



Raitt’s first studio album since 1998’s “Fundamental” features two songs by Tommy Sims, Gordon Kennedy and Wayne Kirkpatrick, the team that wrote the Eric Clapton hit “Change the World.” The new CD’s title track was penned by David Gray, and appeared on his 1999 album “White Ladder.” Raitt, Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake--who first collaborated on “Fundamental"--produced the new album.

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Goo Goo Dolls - “Gutterflower” (Warner Bros.)



The Buffalo, N.Y., pop-rock group returns from a four-year respite with a dozen new tracks, including the debut single “Here is Gone.” The band and longtime collaborator Rob Cavallo produced the new album. The Goo Goo Dolls will headline the Pioneer Rock & Roar Concert at the 28th Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach (Calif.), taking the stage at the conclusion of the race on April 13.



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Steve Earle - “Sidetracks” (Artemis)



This collection of “unreleased or underexposed” material includes “Some Dreams,” which was written for the soundtrack of the new Disney baseball movie “The Rookie.” Among the others tracks are a previously unreleased version of Steve’s duet with Sheryl Crow on “Time Has Come Today,’’ originally heard on the “Steal This Movie” soundtrack. Tracks from the soundtracks of “The Horse Whisperer” ("Me and the Eagle") and “Dead Man Walking” ("Ellis Unit One") are also included, along with Earle’s covers of Nirvana’s “Breed” and Bob Dylan’s “My Back Pages.”

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Motörhead - “Hammered” (Metal-Is)



Now in its fourth decade, Motörhead is still at it. The latest from British metal pioneer Lemmy Kilmister and company features the first single, “Shut Your Mouth,” an mp3 version of which is available for downloading at the band’s official website. The site is also giving away copies of the CD via a contest hosted at its site. The group’s world tour kicked off on Sunday (4/9) in California, and will travel around the U.S. through late May.



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Brute - “Co-Balt” (Widespread)

Brute is jam-band Widespread Panic fronted by cult-hero Vic Chesnutt, a pairing of Georgia-based artists that first surfaced on 1993’s “Nine High a Pallet.” According to a press release, “recording the rough mixes for “Co-Balt” in Keane’s home studio over a three-day period in January of 2001, the Brute boys had no time to compose, let alone rehearse. Vic made selections from his ‘trunk of songs’ each day then the group simply hit record and played, a process not unlike their first collaboration.” Brute performs on Tuesday (4/9) at the Tabernacle, in Atlanta.



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Dokken - “Long Way Home” (Sanctuary/CMC Int’l)



Don Dokken’s eponymous rock outfit delivers the follow-up to 1999’s “Erase the Slate.” That album was the group’s first without guitar-virtuoso George Lynch, who co-founded the quartet in the early ‘80s along with namesake and frontman Dokken, drummer Mick Brown and bassist Jeff Pilson. Since “Erase the Slate,” Pilson has also jumped ship and is now working on a new project with Lynch. Dokken and Brown are forging ahead with new bassist Barry Sparks and new guitarist John Norum, according to the band’s official website. A tour kicks off in Europe next month.



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Other new releases:

764-HERO - “Nobody Knows This Is Everywhere” (Tiger Style)

98 Mute - “After the Fall” (Epitaph)

Avoid One Thing - “Avoid One Thing” (Side One Dummy)

Azure Ray - “Burn and Shiver” (Warm)

Heather B. - “Eternal Affairs” (SAI)

The Baldwin Brothers - “Cooking with Lasers” (TVT)

The Braxton Brothers - “Both Sides” (Peak)

Lane Brody - “Pieces of Life” (Scream)

Guillermo E. Brown - “Soul at the Hands of the Machine” (Thirsty Ear)

Bill Charlap - “Stardust” (Blue Note)

Consonant - “Consonant” (Fenway)

The Crown - “Crowned in Terror” (Metal Blade)

Guy Davis - “Give in Kind” (Red House)

Paul Elliot - “Coming Home” (Artists Only)

Drew Emmitt - “Freedom Ride” (Compass)

Face to Face - “How to Ruin Everything” (Vagrant)

Familiar 48 - “Wonderful Nothing” (MCA)

Mark Farina - “Connect” (OM)

Rachelle Ferrell - “Live at Montreux” (Blue Note)

Freaky Flow - “Keep It Live” (Moonshine)

Eliza Gilkyson - “Lost and Found” (Red House)

Gravediggaz - “Nightmare in A Minor” (Empire Musicwerks)

Matt Harris - “Slightly Elliptical Orbit” (Leon Russell)

Imperial Teen - “On” (Merge)

Bill Jones - “Turn to Me” (Compass)

Chris LeDoux - “After the Storm” (Capitol)

Masters at Work - “Our Time Is Coming” (Tommy Boy)

Masters of the Hemisphere - “Protest a Dark Anniversary” (Kindercore)

Meat Puppets - “Live “ (DCN)

Medeski, Martin and Wood - “Uninvisible” (Blue Note)

Mellow Man Ace - “From the Darkness Into the Light” (X-Ray)

Metta Quintet - “Going to Meet the Man” (Koch Jazz)

Moth - “Provisions, Fiction and Gear” (Virgin)

Must - “Androgynous Jesus” (Wind-up)

Nina Nastasia - “The Blackened Air” (Touch and Go)

The National - “Trust Dekkagar” (Thrill Jockey)

Nighthawks - “Live Tonite” (Ruf)

Portable - “Only If You Look Up” (TVT)

Pretty Girls Make Graves - “Is It Broken Doctor?” (Lookout!)

Quarashi - “Jinx” (Time Bomb/Columbia)

The Queers - “Pleasant Screams” (Lookout!)

Rain - “Get It Right” (True Life)

Ralph’s World - “At the Bottom of the Sea” (Minty Fresh)

Rasputina - “Cabin Fever” (Instinct)

Leon Russell - “Moonlight & Love Songs” (Leon Russell)

Rusted Root - “Welcome to My Party” (Island)

Semiautomatic - “Resident Genius” (5 Rue Christine)

Luke Slater - “Alright on Top” (Mute)

Slick Shoes - “Slick Shoes” (Tooth & Nail)

Soulmotor - “Revolution Wheel” (Sanctuary)

Soul Center - “III” (NovaMute)

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - “Plastic Fang” (Matador)

Tommy Shane Steiner - “Then Came the Night” (RCA Nashville)

Swayzak - “Groovetechnology v1.3” (Studio K7)

Ty Tabor - “Safety” (Metal Blade)

Erik Truffaz - “Mantis” (Blue Note)

Ultrapull - “From All Directions” (Gold Circle)

Junior Vasquez - “Earth Music” (Tommy Boy Silver)

David Wilcox - “Live Songs and Stories” (W.A.R.?)

Various artists - “Chronic Jointz - Da Hitz Vol. 1” (Koch)

Various artists - “NYC Dance Party” (Surge/Warlock)

Various artists - “The Jam Band Tribute to the Allman Brothers” (CMH)

Various artists - “Night Grooves 2” (Narada Jazz)

Various artists - “Shellac Presents: All Tomorrow’s Parties 2.0” (All Tomorrow’s Parties)

Various artists - “Still Phishin’: A Bluegrass Tribute to Phish, Vol. 2” (CMH)

Various artists - “The String Quartet Tribute to the Cure” (Vitamin)

Original cast recordings:



“Ben Franklin in Paris” (DRG/Koch)

“Christine" (DRG/Koch)



Soundtracks and scores:



“1 Giant Leap” (Palm Pictures)

“The Cat’s Meow” (RCA Victor)

“The Graduate: Music from the Broadway Comedy” (Columbia/Legacy)



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