A.F.I. Sing the Sorrow (packaged w/limited-edition DVD) (DreamWorks)

AGENT 51 The Red & the Black (Surfdog)

ALL GIRL SUMMER FUN BAND 2 (two CDs) (K Records)

ANDROIDS The Androids (Universal)

ARAB STRAP Monday at the Hug and Pint (Matador)

ATOMIC KITTEN Atomic Kitten (Virgin)

MARCIA BALL So Many Rivers (Alligator)

RAY BENSON (of Asleep at the Wheel) Beyond Time (Audium)

BLAC HAZE So Much Drama (TK Entertainment)

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY The Blessed Hellride (guests Ozzy Osbourne) (Spitfire)

BLUE MAN GROUP The Complex (Lava/Blue Man)

MARI BOINE Eight Seasons and Remixed (Northside)

RANDY BRECKER 34th and Lex (Tone Center)

CAESARS 39 Minutes of Bliss (In an Otherwise Meaningless World) (Astralwerks)

KRISTI CALLAN (ex-Wednesday Week) Feed the Kitty (EP) (Vibro-phonic)

CARNAL FORGE The More You Suffer (Century Media)

RALPH CARNEY This Is! (Black Beauty)

REGINA CARTER Paganini: After a Dream (Verve)

CAITLIN CARY I’m Staying Out (guests Mary Chapin Carpenter) (Yep Roc)

JING CHI Live (Tone Center)

THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION One Nation Under a Re-Groove (Parliament/Funkadelic covers w/DJ Logic) (Magnatude)

VIC CONRAD & THE FIRST THIRD Vic Conrad & the First Third (Hidden Agenda/Parasol)

CROSS MOVEMENT Holy Culture (BEC/Tooth & Nail)

EVAN DANDO Baby I’m Bored (co-written w/Jon Brion) (Bar/None)

DIANA DARBY Fantasia Ball (Delmore)

DE-PHAZZ Godsdog (Water)

DEATH BY STEREO Into the Valley of Death (Epitaph)

THE DEUCE PROJECT Stone Cold (Maverick)

DISCO D A Night at the Booty Bar (Tommy Boy)

DJ FERRET Presents Noir: Smooth Female Trip-Hop (Noir)

DJ LIQUID The Remix Project Vol. 2 (Journees)

JULIE DOIRON Broken Girl (Jagjaguwar)

DUMP A Grown-Ass Man (Shrimper)

EARLIMART Everyone Down Here (Palm Pictures)

EARLY DAY MINERS Jefferson at Rest (Secretly Canadian)

ECHOSPHERE ElectroAcidFunk5 (Journees)

DAVE ELLIS State of Mind (Milestone)

THE FIGHT Home Is Where the Hate Is (EP; previously titled Wot! No Beer?) (Fat Wreck Chords)

FLAMING LIPS Fight Test (EP) (Reprise)

THE FLESHTONES Do You Swing? (Yep Roc)

FOLKSONGS FOR THE AFTERLIFE Put Danger Back Into Your Life (Hidden Agenda/Parasol)

FRENZAL RHOMB Sans Souci (Fat Wreck Chords)

FRIENDLY FIRE Initiative (Journees)

GARAGE A TROIS Emphasizer (Tone-Cool)

GO KART GO Flying (House Cat)

THE WINARD HARPER SEXTET A Time for the Soul (Savant)

THE HEADHUNTERS Evolution Revolution (Basin Street)

HIROMI Another Mind (Telarc Jazz)

I MUVRINI Pulifunie (Higher Octave World)

MARK INSLEY Supermodel (Rustic)

INTI-ILLIMANI Lugares Communes (Xenophile)

JAY-JAY JOHANSON Antenna (E-magine)

MICHAEL JONES Echoes of Childhood (Narada)

RONNY JORDAN At Last (N-Coded)

KILLAH PRIEST Black August (Artemis)

KAKI KING Everybody Loves You (Velour)

ITHAMARA KOORAX Love Dance – The Ballad Album (Milestone)

CHANTAL KREVIAZUK What if It All Means Something (Columbia)

DANIEL LANOIS Shine (Anti/Epitaph)

JAMES LAST Songs from the Heart (Eagle)

LEDISI Soulsinger (Tommy Boy)

TH’ LEGENDARY SHACK*SHAKERS CockaDoodleDon’t (Bloodshot)

LAURA LOVE Welcome to Pagan Place (Koch/Kela)

LYNCH & PILSON Wicked Underground (Spitfire)

MADAME MERCURY I Wanna Dance 02 (Mad Wax)

MADONNA American Life (Warner Bros.)

REN MARIE Live at Jazz Standard (MAXJAZZ)

BILL MCGARVEY Tell Your Mother (Thievery)

MARIA MCKEE High Dive (Viewfinder)

MEMARIE Memarie (Cupit)

MARCUS MILLER The Ozell Tapes: The Official Bootleg (two CDs) (Telarc Jazz)

MOLLY The Finger (Idol)

MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK/SCHATZI Motion City Soundtrack/Schatzi (split disc) (Redemption/Doghouse)

THE MURDER CITY DEVILS R.I.P. (live recording from Halloween 2001) (Sub Pop)

MUSHROOM WITH GARY FLOYD (of Sister Double Happiness) Mad Dogs and San Franciscans (Black Beauty)

NINETEEN FORTY-FIVE I Saw a Bright Light (engineered by Dave Barbe) (Daemon)

NOTHINGFACE Skeletons (TVT)

OPETH Damnation (Koch/Music for Nations)

THE ORANGES BAND All Around (Lookout!)

OYSTERBAND Rise Above (Omnium)

PINK ANVIL (Ministry’s Paul Barker and Max Brody) Halloween Party (Ipecac)

GENE PISTILLI I Still Get Dressed on Sunday (Memphis International)

JOHN PIZZARELLI Live at Birdland (two CDs) (Telarc Jazz)

POLE 45/45 (Mute)

PUNY HUMAN It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humanity (Small Stone)

RASCO & THE CALI AGENTS Presents Hip Hop Classics Vol. 1 (Copasetik)

AMY RIGBY Til the Wheels Fall Off (guests Todd Snider, Bill Lloyd, Duane Jarvis and Wilco’s Ken Coomer) (Signature Sounds)

TOM RUSSELL Modern Art (guests Gurf Morlix and Nanci Griffith) (HighTone)

SANDMAN The Long Road Home (Knw-Yr-Own)

SIDESTEPPER 3AM (In Beats We Trust/Palm Pictures)

JANIS SIEGEL Friday Night Special (Telarc Jazz)

SKINDRED Babylon (MCA)

SLOW DAY COMING Farewell to the Familiar (Tooth & Nail)

SOUNDS FROM THE GROUND Natural Selection (NuTone)

SOUTH SAN GABRIEL (a.k.a. Centro-matic; Slobberbone’s Brent Best) Welcome, Convalescence (Undertow)

THE MELVIN SPARKS BAND What You Hear Is What You Get (Savant)

CHRISTY STARLING Christy Starling (Word)

SUKILOVE Sukilove (Hidden Agenda/Parasol)

KEN TAMPLIN Wake the Nations (Song Haus)

PAUL TAYLOR Steppin’ Out (Peak)

TOUCH ACOUSTRA When It Comes to You (Lost Wax)

TOWER OF POWER Oakland Zone (Or Music)

TRUE LOVE I Was Accident (Not Lame)

UNDERGROUND RISE Sunrise, Sunset (Uprok)

URSA MINOR Silent Moving Picture (Smells Like)

GERALD VEASLEY Velvet (Heads Up)

VESICA PISCES Halfway Naked (produced by Jack Douglas) (Big 3)

WASTELANDZ Cop N Go (Tommy Boy)

THE YARDBIRDS Birdland (Favored Nations)

ZONGAMIN Zongamin (XL/Beggars Banquet)

VA African Groove (Putumayo)

VA Blues on Blonde on Blonde (blues tribute to Dylan) (Telarc)

VA Cinco de Mayo Celebration Part 2 (Thump)

VA Credence Club Hits (w/Dirty Vegas, DJ Sneak and others) (Nettwerk America)

VA Crydamour Presents: Waves II (Astralwerks)

VA Dim Mak Sampler (Dim Mak)

VA Electro Kills (w/Felix da Housecat and Ladytron) (Nettwerk America)

VA Merlefest Live! The 15th Anniversary Jam (DVD same day) (Merlefest)

VA Night Grooves 3: The Love Songs (Narada Jazz)

OST Lizzie McGuire (Walt Disney)

OST People I Know (score by Terence Blanchard) (Decca)

OST Winged Migration (Higher Octave World)

DVD CBGB: Punk from the Bowery (Music Video Distributors/CBGB)

DVD If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story (Music Video Distributors)

DVD Standing in the Shadows of Motown (two discs) (Artisan)

DVD Don Carlos Live in San Francisco (Music Video Distributors/2B1)

DVD DJ Craze Hip Hop/Drum & Bass: Live in Puerto Rico (Music Video Distributors/Recognition)

DVD Wesley Willis The Daddy of Rock ‘N’ Roll (Music Video Distributors/Daniel Bitton)

SACD Chick Corea Rendezvous in New York (two-disc hybrid) (Stretch)