New Music
High on Fire, ‘Surrounded By Thieves’ (Relapse) ; Dredg, ‘El Cielo’ (Interscope)
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)
Burnside Project, ‘The Networks, the Circuits, the Streams, the Harmonies’ (Bar None)
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)
