New Music

Jets to Brazil, ‘Perfecting Loneliness’ (Jade Tree) ; The Get Up Kids, ‘On a Wire’ (Vagrant)

Fountains of Wayne, ‘Welcome Interstate Managers’ (S-Curve/EMI)

Christina Aguilera, ‘Stripped’ (RCA)

Audioslave, ‘Audioslave’ (Epic)

Drive-By Truckers, ‘Decoration Day’ (New West) ; Kings of Leon, ‘Youth and Young Manhood’ (RCA)

Lil’ Kim, ‘La Bella Mafia’ (Queen Bee/Big Entertainment/Atlantic)

Hootie and the Blowfish, ‘Hootie and the Blowfish’ (Atlantic) ; Ben Harper, ‘Diamonds on the Inside’ (Virgin)

Lucinda Williams, ‘World Without Tears’ (Lost Highway)

Libertines, ‘Up the Bracket’ (Rough Trade)

The Go-Betweens, ‘Bright Yellow, Bright Orange’ (Jetset)

White Stripes, ‘Elephant’ (V2/Third Man Recordings)

Ms. Dynamite, ‘A Little Deeper’ (Interscope)

Blood Brothers, ‘Burn, Piano Island, Burn’ (IM Recordings/Artist Direct)

Burnside Project, ‘The Networks, the Circuits, the Streams, the Harmonies’ (Bar None)

Jealous Sound, ‘Kill Them With Kindness’ (Better Looking)