3 Doors Down, Seventeen Days (Universal)
Alpha Safari, Commercial Suicide (Abstract Sounds)
The Apocalyptic Riders, Samurai (Nuclear Blast America)
The Art Bears, Hopes & Fears (Rer)
Bad Manners, Feel Like Jumping (Sanctuary/Trojan)
Matthew Barber, Means & Ends (Paper Bag)
Andrew Bird, Mysterious Production of Eggs (Righteous Babe)
The Burning Season, Haze of Infatuation (Hand of Hope)
Coram Lethe, Gates of Oblivion (Crash Music)
Crowbar, Lifesblood for the Downtrodden (Candlelight)
Roger Daltrey, Just a Boy: Anthology (Sanctuary)
Ana Da Silva, Lighthouse (Chicks on Speed)
Earth, Dissolution III (Troubleman Unlimited)
Eisley, Room Noises (Warner Brothers)
Ronny Elliott, Valentine Roadkill (Blue Heart)
The Frames, Burn the Maps (Anti Rock)
Frantic Bleep, Sense Apparatus (The End Rock)
Golden Republic, Golden Republic (Astralwerks)
Gurufish, Mohair Supreme (Rhythm Club)
Hood, Outside Closer (Domino)
Sonya Kitchell, Cold Day (Velour)
Lagwagon, Live in a Dive (Fat Wreck Chords)
Sylvie Lewis, Tangos and Tantrums (Cheap Lullaby)
Mars Black, Folks Music (Team Love)
Brian McKnight, Gemini (Motown)
Mercenary, Eleven Dreams (Century Media)
The Mighty Nimbus, Mighty Nimbus (Candlelight)
Neva Dinova, Hate Yourself Change (Sidecho)
Night Sun, Drive (Borealis)
Odious Mortem, Devouring the Prophecy (Crash Music)
Primordial, Dark Romanticism (Candlelight)
Reckless Kelly, Wicked Twisted Road (Sugar Hill)
Rocket Science, Eternal Holiday (Modular)
Sham Pain, Pimp of the Century (Delvian)
Sound Tribe Sector 9, Artifact (System)
Regina Spektor, Soviet Kitsch (Sire)
Square Egg, Songs to Live By (Strange World)
Ultraswade, Day in the Life of a White Trash Socialite (Jack'd Up Records)
Usurper, Cryptobeast (Earache)-Leilani Polk
This article appears in Feb 2-8, 2005.