The following releases will be in stores Tuesday, May 18:
Age of Ruin, Black Sands of the Hourglass (Tribunal)
Amen, Death Before Music (Sony)
Artimus Pyle, Fucked from Birth (Prank)
As Tall as Lions, Lafcadio (Triple Crown)
Athlete, Vehicles & Animals (Astralwerks)
Beyond the Embrace, Insect Song (Metal Blade)
Black Lips, We Did Not Know the Forest Spirit Made the Flowers (Bomp)
Brandtson, Send Us a Signal (Militia)
Catheters, Howling … It Grows and Grows!!! (Sub Pop)
Lucia, From the Land of Volcanoes (Control Group/TCG)
Cruachan, Pagan (Candlelight)
Dashboard Confessional, Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar (Vagrant)
Dokken, Hell to Pay (Sanctuary)
Jermaine Dupri, Green Light (Arista)
The Exploding Fuck Dolls, Crack the Safe: 1991-2004 (Disaster)
Farmer Boys, Other Side (Nuclear Blast America)
Guster, Guster on Ice: Live from Portland Maine (Warner Brothers)
Juliana Hatfield, In Exile Deo (Zoe)
The Kicks, Hello Hong Kong (TVT)
King Django, Meets the Scrucialists (Jump Up)
The Kinison, What Are You Listening To (Atlantic)
Lenny Kravitz, Baptism (Virgin)
Gordon Lee, Flying Dream (Oa2)
Barbara Lynn, Blues & Soul Situation (Dialtone)
Charlie Mars, Charlie Mars (V2)
McLusky, Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not (Beggars Too Pure)
Method Man, Tical 0: The Prequel (Def Jam)
George Michael, Patience (Sony)
Alanis Morissette, So-Called Chaos (Maverick)
Morrissey, You Are the Quarry (Sanctuary)
The Never, Never (Morisen)
Nyia, Head Held High (Candlelight)
Orange Goblin, Thieving from the House of God (Music Cartel)
Piebald, All Ears, All Eyes, All the Time (USA Side 1 Dummy)
Brian Ritchie, Shakuhachi Club NYC (Weed)
Rosavelt, Story of Gasoline (Gaff Music)
Les Sans Culottes, Fixation Orale (Aeronaut)
Shane & Shane, Upstairs (Inpop)
Steady Ups, Soul of the City (Jump Up)
The Thermals, Fuckin A (Sub Pop)
The Unicorns, Unicorns 2014 (Suicide Squeeze)
Veronadowns, I Listen Thru All the Breaking Oceans (Wishing Tree)—Leilani Polk
This article appears in May 13-19, 2004.