New CD Releases for Feb. 25:

A18 Forever After Nothing (Victory)

MINDI ABAIR It Just Happens That Way (GRP)

ALPINESTARS White Noise (Astralwerks)

SCOTT AMENDOLA BAND Cry (Cryptogramophone)

AMERICAN HI-FI The Art of Losing (Island)

ERIC ANDERSEN Beat Avenue (two CDs) (Appleseed Recordings)

ANGELS OF LIGHT Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home (Young God)

AQUEDUCT Power Ballads (Popular Music)

RICHARD ASHCROFT Human Conditions (Virgin)

AUDIO ADRENALINE Worldwide (ForeFront)

B.G. B. Gizzle (Kela/In the Paint)

B3 BOMBERS FEATURING CLYDE STUBBLEFIELD Live at the Green Mill (Alltribe)

A BAND OF BEES Sunshine Hit Me (w/bonus track) (Wall of Sound/Astralwerks)

BAY CITY JAZZ BAND Alligator Crawl (Delmark)

BLEU Redhead (Aware/Columbia)

BLUEPRINT The Weightroom (guesting Aesop Rock, Atmosphere and Illogic) (Weightless)

BONE STRUCTURE Bone Structure (Cryptogramophone)

DOYLE BRAMHALL Fitchburg Street (Yep Roc)

ANTHONY BRAXTON Four Compositions 2000 (Delmark)

BURRITO DELUXE Georgia Peach (Lamon)

CALAVERA Tequilamatic (CBM)

CINDER Break Your Silence (produced by Scott Weiland and Jay Baumgardner) (Geffen)

STANLEY CLARKE One, Two to the Bass (Epic)

COMMUNIQU A Crescent Honeymoon (EP) (Lookout!)

COUNT THE STARS Never Be Taken Alive (Victory)

THE D.O.C. The Deuce (Silverback/RUMM/RED)

DAVID DARLING The Tao of the Cello (Hearts of Space/Valley Entertainment)

JESSE DAVIS The Setup (Alltribe)

ERNEST DAWKINS’ NEW HORIZONS ENSEMBLE Capetown Shuffle: Live at Hot House (Delmark)

WILLY DEVILLE ACOUSTIC TRIO Live in Berlin (two CDs) (Eagle)

JOHN DIGWEED Stark Raving Mad (two CDs) (Thrive)

DIRTY Keep It Pimp & Gangsta (Universal)

DJ CAM Soulshine (Koch/In the Paint)

DJ SMASH Phonography No. 2 (Blue Note)

NATE DOGG Nate Dogg (Elektra)

VIKTER DUPLAIX International Affairs (Hollywood)

DYSHON & SQUABBLE Holden It Down (Romeo)

ECHOBOY Giraffe (Mute)

ESSENCE Mariposa (Or Music)

TERRY EVANS Live Like a Hurricane (AudioQuest/Valley Entertainment)

FISCHERSPOONER #1 (packaged w/DVD) (Capitol)

FREEWAY Philadelphia Freeway (Def Jam)

FUNKI PORCINI Fast Asleep (Ninja Tune/NTone/Big Dada)

THE FUNKY METERS Fiyo at the Fillmore Vol. 1 (Fuel 2000)

DONALD GLAUDE Mixed Live 2nd Session – Turnmills, London (Moonshine Music)

PETER GREEN SPLINTER GROUP Reaching the Cold 100 (Eagle)

JEFF HANSON Son (Kill Rock Stars)

EILEEN IVERS Immigrant Soul (Koch)

KEM Kemistry (Motown)

JEANNIE KENDALL Jeannie Kendall (Rounder)

KILLER MIKE Monster (Aquemini/Columbia)

TARA KING THEORY Sequence 101 (:\ run)

LIBBY KIRKPATRICK Winged (Heart Music)

JAY KLUM Home Cookin’ (Alltribe)

DONALD LAWRENCE Street Wise (Alltribe)

LITTLE BROTHER The Listening (ABB)

LYLE LOVETT Smile (MCA)

MAE Destination: Beautiful (Tooth & Nail)

MASSIVE ATTACK 100th Window (Virgin)

TAK MATSUMOTO Hana (Favored Nations)

EDWIN MCCAIN The Austin Sessions (ATC)

MAUREEN MCGOVERN Music Never Ends: The Lyrics of Alan & Marilyn Bergman (Fynsworth Alley)

MEMENTO Beginnings (Columbia)

MILLIGRAM This Is Class War (Small Stone)

CORY MORROW Fully Exposed (Write On)

LOU MOSLEY Finally (JenStar)

MOUNTAINEERS Mountaineers (EP) (Mute)

MOVIELIFE Forty Hour Train Back to Penn (w/limited edition bonus CD) (MCA)

SAID MRAD 1001 Nights: Remixes by (Mondo Rhythmica/Ark 21)

MURDER 1 On High (The Music Cartel)

THE MUSIC The Music (Capitol)

SEVARA NAZARKHAN Yol Bolshin (Real World)

THE NOTWIST Neon Golden (Domino)

ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE JAZZ Charmediterraneen (ECM)

PAPER LIONS The Symptom and the Sick (Kindercore)

JEFF PARKER Like-Coping (Delmark)

PEACE 586 Generations (Uprok/Tooth & Nail)

PUNY HUMAN It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humanity (Small Stone)

PURETONE Stuck in a Groove (Amiel guests) (V2)

THE RED THREAD After the Last (Badman)

YVES ROBERT In Touch (ECM)

THE ROCKET SUMMER Calendar Days (The Militia Group)

THE ROCKIN’ HIGHLINERS Sputnik Cafe (Severn)

RUFIO Rufio (EP) (Nitro)

BRADY SEALS (of Little Texas) Thompson Street (co-written w/guests Rodney Crowell and Jellyfish’s Andy Sturmer) (Image Entertainment)

ADRIAN SHERWOOD Never Trust a Hippy (Real World)

SLIDE HAMPTON Spirit of the Horn (Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild)

SOUL EMBRACED Immune (Solid State)

MINTON SPARKS This Dress (Keb Mo’ and Maura O’Connell guest) (Rural)

SPIV Don’tcha Know? (guests Ken Stringfellow) (Pop Sweatshop)

TOBIN SPROUT Lost Planets & Phantom Voices (Recordhead/Wigwam)

SPYRO GYRA Original Cinema (SACD same day) (Heads Up)

JOHN SURMAN WITH JACK DEJOHNETTE Free and Equal (ECM)

SWINGIN’ UTTERS Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass and Bones (Fat Wreck Chords)

SWITCHFOOT The Beautiful Letdown (Red Ink)

THICKE Cherry Blue Skies (Interscope)

TOSCA Dehli 9 (two CDs) (!K7/G-Stone)

TREBLE CHARGER Detox (Virgin)

STEVE TURRE One 4 J: Paying Homage to J.J. Johnson (Telarc Jazz)

NICK WARREN Reykjavik (two CDs) (Global Underground)

WILCO & THE MINUS FIVE Down with Wilco (Yep Roc)

DAVID WILCOX Into the Mystery (W.A.R.?)

WILLIE AND LOBO Manana (Narada World)

PEANUT BUTTER WOLF Badmeaningood (remixes of Grandmaster Flash, Human League, Iron Butterfly and others) (Ultimate Dilemma)

WORLDWIDE Worship with Your Life (Audio Adrenaline)

XEROPHONICS Xerophonics (Seeland)

ZAO All Else Failed (Solid State)

VA African Express (Shakti)

VAPeople)

VA Covered in Filth – A Tribute to Cradle of Filth (Cleopatra)

VA George Harrison: Tribute Songs from the Material World (Koch)

VA Kloned and Remixed – A Tribute to Korn (Big Eye)

VA Sky Lounge (Water)

VA That’s Trance Mix 2 (Moonshine Music)

VA This Is Electroclash (Hypnotic/Cleopatra)

VA A Tribute to Avril Lavigne, Coldplay, LeAnn Rimes and P.O.D. (Big Eye)

OST Carmen Jones (Decca)

OST Down & Out with the Dolls (new Kurt Voss film) (Lakeshore)

OST Nicholas Nickleby (score by Rachel Portman) (Varsse Sarabande)

OST Smallville (w/Remy Zero, Five for Fighting and others) (Elektra)

DVD Punk-O-Rama DVD Volume 1 (Epitaph)

DVD GEORGE STRAIT For the Last Time – Live from the Astrodome (MCA Nashville)