Following last week s Springsteen-led tsunami of blockbuster new releases, things are comparatively quieter this week on the new music front. That is, if you can call a week where both Kid Rock and Puddle of Mudd will see their new CDs released, quiet. Coming off the heels of his Wrestlemania headlining main event cage match with Tommy Lee at the MTV Video Music Awards, Kid Rock hopes to see his once bright star born again with his new CD, Rock Roll Jesus .
Said to be a return to the unapologetic white trash rap/metal/country hybrid that was once a winning combination for the Kid on albums like Devil Without A Pause , many are looking at this release as a make or break proposition. Based on some of the early reviews that we ve read, all we can say is that Kid Rock better hope his Rock Roll Jesus can perform miracles in CD stores. The prospects look considerably brighter for Puddle Of Mudd, who return this week with Famous , which promises another potent dose of aggro/grunge/hip-hop/alternative/metal or whatever it is they are calling what loud, angry, young, tattooed, pierced, and goateed bands do these days.
With the holiday season looming just around the horizon, this is also the time of year that the record companies start to roll out the Christmas music. This week s holiday fare comes courtesy of two old school R B favorites in the Isley Brothers with their I ll Be Home For Christmas and Patti Labelle s Miss Patti s Christmas , as well as Euro-pop heartthrob Josh Groban s Noel . The holiday flood of reissued and repackaged product is also underway in earnest.
This week brings several repackages from the classic rock era, including Emerson Lake Palmer s Brain Salad Surgery and a new collection from Eric Clapton, with a title promising listeners the Complete Clapton . Perhaps of most interest to collectors however is the first wave of reissues from the long out-of-print catalog of seminal sixties Bay Area psychedelic pioneers Moby Grape. This week sees new versions of Moby Grape , Wow , and Grape Jam , all with bonus tracks.
Rounding out this week s new release highlights are new albums from one-time queen diva Jennifer J-Lo Lopez ( Brave ); indie rock darlings Band of Horses ( Cease To Begin ) and The Fiery Furnaces ( Widow City ); jazz bass virtuoso Stan (just don t call him Stanley) Clarke ( Children Of Forever ); and the late, great Luciano Pavarotti ( Pavarotti Forever ). Here are all this week s new album releases courtesy of All Music Guide : Band of Horses Cease to Begin Sub Pop Indie Rock The Fiery Furnaces Widow City Thrill Jockey Garage Rock Revival, Indie Rock Kid Rock Rock N Roll Jesus Atlantic Rap-Rock, Hard Rock, Detroit Rock, Rap-Metal, Southern Rock Jens Lekman Night Falls Over Kortedala Secretly Canadian Swedish Pop/Rock, Indie Pop, Chamber Pop Moby Grape Moby Grape (Bonus Tracks) Sundazed Rock Roll, Country-Rock, Folk-Rock, Psychedelic Robert Wyatt Comicopera Domino Conceptual Art, Avant-Garde Jazz, International Pop, Chamber Pop, Experimental Rock, Avant-Garde, Singer/Songwriter, Urban Folk Vanessa Carlton Heroes Thieves Universal/Motown Adult Alternative Pop/Rock Deana Carter The Chain Vanguard Psychedelic Pop, Neo-Psychedelia, Pop/Rock, Folk-Rock, Country-Pop Celebration The Modern Tribe 4AD Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock Cyrus Chestnut Cyrus Plays Elvis Koch Neo-Bop, Post-Bop Eric Clapton Complete Clapton Reprise / Wea Album Rock, Pop/Rock, Adult Contemporary, Hard Rock, Blues-Rock Stan Clarke Children of Forever Polydor Fusion, Soul-Jazz, Soul Marc Cohn Join the Parade Decca Adult Contemporary, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Pop/Rock Credibility Gap Bronze Age of Radio Varese Sarabande Satire, Sketch Comedy, Political Comedy, Observational Humor Electric Six I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me from Being the Master Metropolis Indie Rock Emerson, Lake Palmer Brain Salad Surgery (Bonus Tracks) Shout! Factory Album Rock, Prog-Rock/Art Rock Enon Grass Geysers.
..Carbon Clouds Touch Go Indie Pop, Indie Rock, Noise Pop The Gil Evans Orchestra Out of the Cool Verve Post-Bop, Cool, Progressive Big Band, Modern Big Band, Modern Creative Sara Evans Greatest Hits RCA Contemporary Country, Country-Pop Extra Golden Hera Ma Nono Thrill Jockey Afro-Pop, Worldbeat Faber Drive Seven Second Surgery 604 Alternative Pop/Rock, Punk-Pop Fatboy Slim LateNightTales Thrive Soul, Roots Reggae, Pub Rock, Funk The Gladiators Studio One Singles Heartbeat Rocksteady, Ska, Roots Reggae Reinhard Goebel Concertos for 4 Violins Archiv Baroque Violin Concertos Josh Groban Noel Reprise Classical Crossover, Classical Pop, Classical Pop, Adult Contemporary, Adult Contemporary, Vocal Pop, Vocal Pop, Holiday, Christmas, Euro-Pop, Euro-Pop Brian Harnetty American Winter Atavistic Sound Collage, Field Recordings, Radio Works, Tape Music, Musique Concr te Debbie Harry Necessary Evil Eleven Seven Music Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock, New Wave Susanne Heinrich Carl Friedrich Abel: Mr.
Abel s Fine Airs Hyperion Classical Music for Viola da Gamba Will Hoge Draw the Curtains Rykodisc American Trad Rock, Blue-Eyed Soul, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock The Isley Brothers I ll Be Home for Christmas Def Soul Classics Holiday, Contemporary R B, Christmas Patti LaBelle Miss Patti s Christmas Def Soul Classics Holiday, Contemporary R B, Christmas Jennifer Lopez Brave Sony Urban, Dance-Pop Samara Lubelski Parallel Suns Social Registry Alternative Folk, Indie Rock, Neo-Psychedelia Claire Lynch Crowd Favorites Rounder Contemporary Bluegrass, Americana, Traditional Bluegrass Andrew Manze Schubert: Sonatas for violin piano Harmonia Mundi Romantic Violin Sonatas Cass Mccombs Dropping the Writ Domino Indie Pop, Indie Rock Moby Grape Grape Jam (Bonus Tracks) Sundazed Folk-Rock, Psychedelic, Country-Rock Moby Grape Wow (Bonus Tracks) Sundazed Folk-Rock, Psychedelic, Country-Rock The Naked Brothers Band Naked Brothers Band Sony Pop/Rock, Teen Pop Scout Niblett This Fool Can Die Now Too Pure Indie Rock Larry Ochs Sax Drumming Core Out Trios Vol. 5: Up from Under Atavistic Free Improvisation, Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Jazz Luciano Pavarotti Pavarotti Forever Decca Opera Arias Lara St. John Bach: The Six Sonatas Partitas for Violin Solo (Hybrid SACD) Ancalagon Baroque Violin Music The Paschall Brothers On the Right Road Now Smithsonian/Folkways Traditional Gospel, Southern Gospel, Black Gospel Robert Pollard Coast to Coast Carpet of Love Merge Indie Rock Robert Pollard Standard Gargoyle Decisions Merge Indie Rock Prince Ali Curb Side Service Hiero Imperium Underground Rap, Hip-Hop, West Coast Rap Puddle of Mudd Famous Geffen Alternative Metal, Post-Grunge LeAnn Rimes Family Curb Contemporary Country, Country-Pop She Wants Revenge This Is Forever Geffen New Wave/Post-Punk Revival, Alternative Pop/Rock Mindy Smith My Holiday Vanguard Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Holiday, Christmas, Americana Spank Rock Spank Rock and Benny Blanco Are.
.. Bangers Cash Downtown Underground Rap, Dirty Rap, Neo-Electro, Party Rap Sunset Rubdown Random Spirit Lover Jagjaguwar Indie Rock Van Zant My Kind of Country RCA Album Rock, Arena Rock, Hard Rock, Southern Rock Ohmega Watts Watts Happening Ubiquity Underground Rap, Hip-Hop, Alternative Rap Chuck E.
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