A18, Forever After Nothing (Victory)
Mindi Abair, It Just Happens That Way (GRP)
Alpinestars, White Noise (Astralwerks)
American Hi-Fi, The Art of Losing (Island)
Eric Andersen, Beat Avenue (Appleseed Recordings)
AntiSeen, Here to Ruin Your Groove (TKO)
Richard Ashcroft, Human Conditions (Virgin)
B3 Bombers featuring Clyde Stubblefield, Live at the Green Mill (Alltribe)
A Band of Bees, Sunshine Hit Me (Wall of Sound/ Astralwerks)
Bay City Jazz Band, Alligator Crawl (Delmark)
Bleu, Redhead (Aware/Columbia)
Doyle Bramhall, Fitchburg Street (Yep Roc)
Anthony Braxton, Four Compositions 2000 (Delmark)
Bug vs. Rootsman/DJ Rupture, Split EP (Tigerbeat 6)
Cinder, Break Your Silence (Geffen)
Stanley Clarke, One, Two to the Bass (Epic)
Communique, A Crescent Honeymoon (EP) (Lookout!)
Count the Stars, Never Be Taken Alive (Victory)
The D.O.C., The Deuce (Silverback/RUMM/RED)
Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble, Capetown Shuffle: Live at Hot House (Delmark)
Willy DeVille Acoustic Trio, Live in Berlin (Eagle)
John Digweed, Stark Raving Mad (Thrive)
Dirty, Keep It Pimp & Gangsta (Universal)
DJ Cam, Soulshine (Koch/In the Paint)
DJ Smash, Phonography No. 2 (Blue Note)
Nate Dogg, Nate Dogg (Elektra)
Vikter Duplaix, International Affairs (Hollywood)
Echoboy, Giraffe (Mute)
Fischerspooner, #1 (Capitol)
Freeway, Philadelphia Freeway (Def Jam)
Funki Porcini, Fast Asleep (Ninja Tune/NTone/ Big Dada)
The Funky Meters, Fiyo at the Fillmore Vol. 1 (Fuel 2000)
Peter Green Splinter Group, Reaching the Cold 100 (Eagle)
Jeff Hanson, Son (Kill Rock Stars)
Eileen Ivers, Immigrant Soul (Koch)
Kem, Kemistry (Motown)
Jeannie Kendall, Jeannie Kendall (Rounder)
Killer Mike, Monster (Aquemini/Columbia)
Little Brother, The Listening (ABB)
Jeff Lorber, Philly Style (Narada Jazz)
Lyle Lovett, Smile (MCA)
MAE, Destination: Beautiful (Tooth & Nail)
Massive Attack, 100th Window (Virgin)
Edwin McCain, The Austin Sessions (ATC)
Memento, Beginnings (Columbia)
Milligram, This Is Class War (Small Stone)
Mountaineers, Mountaineers (Mute)
Movielife, Forty Hour Train Back to Penn (MCA)
Said Mrad, 1001 Nights: Remixes by (Mondo Rhythmica/Ark 21)
The Music, The Music (Capitol)
Sevara Nazarkhan, Yol Bolshin (Real World)
The Notwist, Neon Golden (Domino)
Orchestre National de Jazz, Charmediterraneen (ECM)
OST, Carmen Jones (Decca)
OST, Down & Out with the Dolls (Lakeshore)
OST, Nicholas Nickleby (Varese Sarabande)
OST, Smallville (Elektra)
OST, Sweet Home Alabama (Hollywood)
Paper Lions, The Symptom and the Sick (Kindercore)
Jeff Parker, Like-Coping (Delmark)
Peace 586, Generations (Uprok/Tooth & Nail)
Puretone, Stuck in a Groove (V2)
Yves Robert, In Touch (ECM)
The Rocket Summer, Calendar Days (The Militia Group)
Brady Seals, Thompson Street (Image Entertainment)
Adrian Sherwood, Never Trust a Hippy (Real World)
Slide Hampton, Spirit of the Horn (Manchester Craftsmen's Guild)
Spiv, Don'tcha Know? (Pop Sweatshop)
Tobin Sprout, Lost Planets & Phantom Voices (Recordhead/Wigwam)
John Surman with Jack DeJohnette, Free and Equal (ECM)
Swingin' Utters, Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass and Bones (Fat Wreck Chords)
Switchfoot, The Beautiful Letdown (Red Ink)
Thicke, Cherry Blue Skies (Interscope)
Tosca, Dehli 9 (!K7/G-Stone)
Treble Charger, Detox (Virgin)
Steve Turre, One 4 J: Paying Homage to J.J. Johnson (Telarc Jazz)
VA, African Express (Shakti)
VA, Covered in Filth – A Tribute to Cradle of Filth (Cleopatra)
VA, George Harrison: Tribute Songs from the Material World (Koch)
VA, That's Trance Mix 2 (Moonshine Music)
VA, This Is Electroclash (Hypnotic/Cleopatra)
Nick Warren, Reykjavik (Global Underground)
Wilco & the Minus Five, Down with Wilco (Yep Roc)
David Wilcox, Into the Mystery (W.A.R.?)
Peanut Butter Wolf, Badmeaningood (Ultimate Dilemma)
Worldwide, Worship with Your Life (Audio Adrenaline)
This article appears in Feb 19-25, 2003.