Street Date August 20: Lee Ann Womack, Amber
Also: Black Crowes, Diamond Rio, The Ramones, Sleater-Kinney, Frank Black, Berlin and more.
Also: Black Crowes, Diamond Rio, The Ramones, Sleater-Kinney, Frank Black, Berlin and more.
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Lee Ann Womack - “Something Worth Leaving Behind” (MCA Nashville)
Womack’s follow-up to her critically acclaimed--and multi-platinum--2000 release, “I Hope You Dance,” features a hit title-track that is climbing the country-singles chart. The singer-songwriter’s official website features a complete tracklist and audio samples, as well as details about her August in-store tour.
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Amber - “Naked” (Tommy Boy)
Paving the way for Amber’s third album are the hit singles “Yes” and “The Need to be Naked.” Both tracks, along with five other cuts from “Naked,” are streaming at the singer’s official website. The site also features details about Amber’s promotional club tour behind “Naked.”
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Black Crowes - “Live” (V2)
Crowes guitarist Rich Robinson sorted through hours of material while hand-picking the 19 live cuts that make up this two-disc set, according to the band’s official website. The site features a complete tracklist. The new album will have to tide over fans while the Black Crowes’ members take an official break from each other to pursue other interests; frontman Chris Robinson soon will launch a tour and release his first solo effort.
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Sleater-Kinney - “One Beat” (Kill Rock Stars)
The critically acclaimed all-female punk-rock trio issues the follow-up to 2000’s “All Hands on the Bad One.” Limited editions of the CD and LP come with a bonus single, and the vinyl LP is packaged with a poster. The full album is streaming at the Kill Rock Stars website.
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Frank Black & The Catholics - “Black Letter Days” and “Devil’s Workshop” (SpinART)
The prolific ex-Pixies frontman issues two separate albums on the same day. According to the label, each album was recorded “live to two-track,” but are “fleshed out stylistically with much fuller arrangements” than previous releases from Black and the Catholics.
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Diamond Rio - “Completely” (Arista)
Country sextet Diamond Rio’s latest is the follow up to last year’s “One More Day.” The latter album’s title track became a country-radio staple in the wake of Sept. 11. The new album features the hit single “Beautiful Mess,” which is climbing Billboard’s Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
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Ramones - “End Of The Century,” “Pleasant Dreams,” “Subterranean Jungle,” “Too Tough To Die” (Rhino)
Following up on its June reissuing of the Ramones first four albums, Rhino offers up four more remastered and expanded collections. All four feature numerous bonus tracks not found on the original releases, as well as new liner notes that contain a Johnny Ramone-penned tribute to late bassist Dee Dee Ramone, who died earlier this year. Detailed information about the reissues is posted at Rhino’s official website.
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Berlin - “Voyeur” (iMusic/ArtistDirect)
The ‘80s band best known for its hits “The Metro,” “Take My Breath Away” and “No More Words” returns with its first studio album since 1986. Each of the album’s 11 tracks was written or co-written by lead-singer Terri Nunn, and ex-Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan was among her writing collaborators. The entire album is streaming on Berlin’s official website.
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Other new releases:
Ah*Nee*Mah - “Grand Circle” (Paras)
Armik - “Lost in Paradise” (Paras Group)
Eric Bachmann - “Short Careers: Music from Ball of Wax” (Merge)
Blindside - “Silence” (Elektra)
Bowling for Soup - “Drunk Enough to Dance” (Jive)
Capital D & the Molemen - “Writer’s Block (The Movie)” (All Natural)
Seana Carmody - “Struts and Shocks” (Kimchee)
Neko Case - “Blacklisted” (Bloodshot)
Eva Cassidy - “Imagine” (Blix Street)
Clipse - “Lord Willin’” (Arista)
Biffy Clyro - “Blackened Sky” (Beggars Banquet)
Julee Cruise - “The Art of Being a Girl” (Varese)
Dark Tranquility - “Damage Done” (Century Media)
Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe - “The Bridge” (Relaxed)
Andy Dick & the Bitches of the Century - “Andy Dick & the Bitches of the Century” (Milan)
DJ Jazzy Jeff - “The Magnificent” (BBE/Rapster)
Explorers Club - “Raising the Mammoth” (Magna Carta)
Great Lakes - “The Distance Between” (Orange Twin)
Interpol - “Turn on the Bright Lights” (Matador)
Mike Johnson - “What Would You Do?” (Up)
June Panic - “Baby’s Breadth” (Secretly Canadian)
L.A. Guns - “Waking the Dead” (Spitfire)
Lady May - “May Day” (Arista)
Gordon Lightfoot - “Salute” (Rhino)
Gordon Lightfoot - “Shadows” (Rhino)
Lovers - “Starlit Sunken Ship” (Orange Twin)
Mana - “Revolucion De Amor” (WEA International)
Manishevitz - “Private Lines [EP]” (Jagjaguwar)
Angie Martinez - “Animal House” (Elektra)
Mecca Normal - “The Family Swan” (Kill Rock Stars)
The Mekons - “O.O.O.H.” (Quarterstick)
Mudhoney - “Since We’ve Become Translucent” (Sub Pop)
Murderdolls - “Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls” (Roadrunner)
Non - “Children of the Black Sun” (Mute)
John Oates - “Phunk Shui” (Beyond)
Permer - “Summerdays Attract the Pain” (Hidden Agenda)
Phantomsmasher - “Phantomsmasher” (Ipecac)
Grant-Lee Phillips - “Ladies’ Love Oracle” (Rounder)
Pulp - “We Love Life” (Sanctuary/Rough Trade)
Rivulets - “Thank You Reykjavik [EP]” (BlueSanct)
Steve Roach/Jeffrey Fayman - “Trance Spirits” (Projekt)
Thom Rotella - “A Day in the Life” (V2)
Schneider TM - “Zoomer” (Mute)
Seether - “Disclaimer” (Wind-Up)
Sleater-Kinney - “One Beat” (Kill Rock Stars)
Anthony Smith - “If That Ain’t Country” (Mercury Nashville)
Rose Smith - “Dawnraiding” (Paras)
Sonia Dada - “Barefoot Soul” (Razor & Tie)
Spoon - “Kill the Moonlight” (Merge)
The Standard - “August” (Touch & Go)
Andy Stochansky - “Five Star Motel” (RCA)
Sugar Shack - “Spinning Wheels” (Estrus)
Tegan & Sara - “If It Was You” (Sanctuary)
The Turbo A.C.’s - “Damnation Overdrive” (Blackout)
Victory at Sea - “The Good Night” (Kimchee)
Kelly Willis - “Easy” (Rykodisc)
Wolf Colonel - “Something/Everything!” (K)
Yonder Mountain String Band - “Mountain Tracks Volume 2” (Sci Fidelity)
Various artists - “Barrio Latino 3” (George V)
Various artists - “La Maison de L’Elephant” (Milan)
Various artists - “We Love New York” (RCA)
Soundtracks & Scores:
“Possession" (RCA)
“Simone" (Varèse Sarabande)
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