Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno, Just Another Band from the Cosmic Inferno (Important)
Al Anderson, Party Favors (Rykodisc)
The Birds, Birds Birds Birds in the World (Important)
Blind Boys of Alabama, Walk With Me (Pazzazz)
Frank Black, Honeycomb (Back Porch)
Boy Least Likely To, Best Party Ever (Rough Trade)
Canned Heat, Dimples (Fruit Tree)
Chariots Race, Existence (Divot)
Chelsea, Urban Kids: A Punk Anthology (Castle Us)
Day Two, Never Come Home (Outline)
Drastik, Dios Perdoname (Aries Music)
Dreamside, Open Your Eyes (Dancing Ferret)
Charlie Feathers, Rockabilly Kings (Ace Rock
The G-Man, Sonic Tonic (Delvian)
Holiday With Maggie, Skyline Drive (Wynona)
King Crimson, Starless and Bible Black: 30th Anniversary Edition (Discipline)
Povl Kjoller, Hey Kasper (Disky)
Leave's Eyes, Vinland Saga (Napalm)
Lilium, Short Stories (Smooch)
Lucifer, Good for Gold (Disky)
Marjorie Fair, Self Help Serenade (Capitol)
Mortal Treason, Sunrise Over a Sea of Blood (Flicker)
The Muggs, Muggs (Times Beach)
New Dead Radio, Avalon Bridge Will Burn (Sindrome)
Obituary, Frozen in Time (Roadrunner)
Jizzy Pearl, Vegas Must Die (Shrapnel)
Pigface, Gub/Welcome to Mexico (Underground Inc)
Pittbull, Worst of Pittbull (Disconnected)
Pluto, Pluto (Breathless)
Iggy Pop, Million in Prizes: The Anthology (Virgin)
Quicksand, Home Is Where I Belong (Breathless)
Sham 69, Albums (Castle Us)
Carly Simon, Moonlight Serenade (Sony)
Simple Minds, Reel to Real Cacophony (Disky)
Jeff Scott Soto, Lost in the Translation (Locomotive Music)
Stinking Polecats, Broken (Wynona)
Suffering and the Hideous Thieves, All My Friends Are on Prozac (Lujo)
Thousand Foot Krutch, Art of Breaking (Tooth & Nail)
Toy Dolls, Cheerio and Toodletip!: Complete Singles (Castle Us)
UB40, Who You Fighting For? (EMI)
This article appears in Jul 13-19, 2005.