Bad Brains, Banned in DC, Bad Brains' Greatest Riffs (Caroline)
Bear vs. Shark, Right Now, You're in the Best of Hands (Equal Vision)
The Bug/Cutty Ranks, Gun Disease (Rephlex)
Cheer-Accident, Gumballhead the Cat (Skin Graft)
Chicago, Chicago, The Box (Rhino)
Circo, No Todo lo Que Es Pop Es Bueno (Universal Latino)
Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen, Tales from the Ozone (Wounded Bird)
Crazy Horse, At Crooked Lake (Wounded Bird)
Da Brat, Limelite, Luv & Niteclubz (Arista)
Deadweight, Stroking the Moon (Alternative Tentacles)
Ronny Elliott, Hep (Blue Heart)
Fever Tree, San Francisco Girls (Gear Fab)
Macy Gray, Trouble With Being Myself (Sony)
Guyana Punch Line, Direkt Aktion (Prank)
Holy Sons, I Want to Live a Peaceful Life (Film Guerrero)
Frankie J., Frankie J (Sony International)
Leng Tch'e, Man Made Predator (Willowtip)
Lordz of Brooklyn, Graffiti Roc (High Times)
Majority Rule, Emergency Numbers (Magic Bullet)
Medicine, Mechanical Forces of Love (Astralwerks)
Keith Murray, He's Keith Murray (Def Jam)
New Mexican Disaster Squad, New Mexican Disaster Squad (Af)
Nicotine, School of Liberty (Asian Man)
Paris, Texas, Are You Ready (Polyvinyl)
Pearl Jam, State College, PA, May 3, 2003 (Sony)
RX Bandits, Resignation (MCA)
Shinedown, Leave a Whisper (Atlantic)
Sissy Bar, Our Reunion Is Pending (Big Wheel Recreation)
Spark of Life, Promises Made, Promises Kept (Lorelei)
The Strap-Ons, Four Dollar Whore (Naked Jain)
Tokyo Rose, Reinventing a Lost Art (Sidecho)
Troys, Massaging Your Ego (Elektra)
Twisted Method, Escape From Cape Coma (MCA)
The Used, Maybe Memories (Warner Brothers)
Volta Do Mar, Split (Arborvitae)
War, Very Best of War (Rhino)
Withered Earth, Of Which They Bleed (Olympic)
Year Of The Rabbit, Year Of The Rabbit (Elektra)—Compiled by Cooper Cruz
This article appears in Jul 10-16, 2003.