CD Reviews for April 15:

808 STATE Outpost Transmission (Shadow)

JESSICA ANDREWS Now (DreamWorks Nashville)

DAN BERN Fleeting Days (Messenger)

BOTTLES AND SKULLS Born in a Black Light (Sick Room)

THE BRIGGS Numbers (Disaster)

WARD CHURCHILL Pacifism as Pathology (Alternative Tentacles)

STANLEY CLARKE One, Two to the Bass (Epic)

KELLY CLARKSON American Idol (RCA)

COBRA VERDE Easy Listening (J Mascis guests) (MuscleTone)

EDWYN COLLINS Doctor Syntax (Instinct)

RAVI COLTRANE Mad 6 (Eighty-Eights/Columbia)

THE COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS Live and Deadly (Sympathy for the Record Industry)

THE CRAMPS Fiends of Dope Island (Vengeance)

FATS DOMINO The Legends of New Orleans: The Music of (DVD same day) (Shout!)

THE DUDOOS Specium Sommer (Sound Pollution)

E. TOWN CONCRETE The Renaissance (Razor & Tie)

THE EFFECTION Soundtrack to a Moment (Adeline)

ENNIS SISTERS It’s Not About You (Rounder)

THE EVOLUTION CONTROL COMMITEE Plagiarhythm Nation v2.0 (Seeland)

FLEETWOOD MAC Say You Will (Reprise)

BILL FRISELL The Intercontinentals (Nonesuch)

LISA GERMANO Lullaby for Liquid Pig (w/Neil Finn, Johnny Marr, Wendy Melvoin and former eels drummer Butch) (Ineffable/ARTISTdirect)

BILLY GILMAN Music Through Heartsongs: Songs Based Upon the Poems of Mattie J.T. Stepanek (Epic)

GRAVY TRAIN!!!! Hello Doctor (Kill Rock Stars)

EDDIE HENDERSON So What (tribute to Miles Davis) (Eighty-Eights/Columbia)

JIM & JESSE Tis Sweet to Be Remembered (Pinecastle)

DAVID KNAPP Global Groove: House 2 (Centaur)

ZIGGY MARLEY Dragonfly (Private Music)

MONADE (Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier) Socialisme ou Barbarie (Drag City)

TODD RIGIONE V612 Project (Underdogma)

ALASDAIR ROBERTS Farewell Sorrow (Drag City)

SLAUGHTER & THE DOGS A Dog Day Afternoon: Live in the USA (TKO)

STERLING Sterling (File 13)

CLARK TERRY & MAX ROACH Friendship (Eighty-Eights/Columbia)

THICKE A Beautiful World (Interscope)

VAUX There Must Be Some Way to Stop Them (Volcom)

APRIL VERCH April Verch (Rounder)

WHIRLWIND HEAT Do Rabbits Wonder? (co-produced by Jack White and Dave Friedmann) (Third Man/V2)

WIDESPREAD PANIC Ball (Sanctuary/Widespread)

WILDFIRE Where Roads Divide (Pinecastle)

DARRYL WORLEY Have You Forgotten? (DreamWorks Nashville)

YERBA BUENA President Alien (Razor & Tie)

PETE YORN Day I Forgot (Columbia)

ZZ TOP Mescalero (RCA)

VA Believe: The Songs of the Sherman Brothers (new renditions of songs from Mary Poppins, Charlotte’s Web, etc.) (Fynsworth Alley)

VA The Detroit Experiment (Ropeadope)

VA Freestyle Party (Thump)

VA Kitestringing: The Prison Literature Project Benefit (w/Chumbawamba, Jenny Toomey and others) (Substandard)

VA Lonesome, On’ry and Mean: A Tribute to Waylon Jennings (DualTone)

VA Tantra Lounge (Water)

VA Underground Screams (Asian Man)

OST Holes (new Sigourney Weaver/Patricia Arquette film) (Walt Disney)

OST Identity (score by Alan Silvestri) (Varsse Sarabande)

OST Malibu’s Most Wanted (new Jamie Kennedy film) (Universal)

DVD 50 CENT The New Breed (w/bonus CD) (Aftermath)

DVD RYAN ADAMS Music in High Places: Live in Jamaica! (Image Entertainment)

DVD THE MARSALIS FAMILY A Jazz Celebration (Marsalis Music)

DVD THE WAILERS Live (Image Entertainment)