This week kicks off with a soaring wail, a devilish shriek and a fistful of phunk:
-Coldplay stick with their tried-and-true formula of piano-driven, ascending atmospheric ballads, on their latest release, X&Y.
With the
devil — not to mention a new flame-haired, eyebrowless model wife — behind him, Jack White and the White Stripes release Get Behind Me Satan. A few things to know:
- The album title refers to the biblical phrase "get thee behind me Satan."
- The White Stripes made much ado about the use of the marimba on this album, which makes its debut on track two: "The Nurse."
- Drummer Meg White steps up to the mic to sing on the ephemeral "Passive Manipulation."
And the Black Eyed Peas are literally all over the place on Monkey Business.
- The album was recorded in bits and pieces over two years, across the globe (see our Peas feature "Black Eyed Peas: 'Mad All Over The Place' ").
- The Peas got by with a little help from friends like Justin Timberlake, jazz icon Branford Marsalis, James Brown, Sting, John Legend and Jack Johnson.
Those are the biggies this week.
Out Tuesday, June 7:
- Paul Anka - Rock Swings (Verve)
- Annie - Anniemal (Big Beat)
- The Aquabats - Charge!! (Nitro)
Buy Now: Charge!! (Nitro)
- Between Home and Serenity - Power Weapons in the Complex (Fontana/Rust)
- Frances Black - How High the Moon (Koch)
- Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business (A&M/ Interscope)
Read: "Black Eyed Peas Team Up Again With Timberlake For New LP"
Buy Now: Monkey Business (A&M/ Interscope)
- Terence Blanchard - Flow (Blue Note)
- Sarah Blasko - The Overture and the Underscore (Low Altitude)
- Blue Highway - Marbletown (Rounder)
- Bullet Train to Vegas - We Put Scissors Where Our Mouths Are (Nitro)
- Beth Nielsen Chapman - Look (Compass)
Buy Now: Look (Compass)
- Clumsy Lovers - Smart Kid (Nettwerk)
- Danny Cohen - We're All Gunna Die (Epitaph)
- Coldplay - X&Y (Capitol)
Read: "Coldplay Album Preview: X&Y A Complex Stadium-Rocker"
Buy Now: X&Y (Capitol)
- Cubik and Origami - Cubik and Origami (Wide Hive)
- Death by Stereo - Death for Life (Epitaph)
Buy Now: Death for Life (Epitaph)
- Disciple - Disciple (Epic)
- Dream Theater - Octavarium (Atlantic)
Buy Now: Octavarium (Atlantic)
- Tinsley Ellis - Live - Highwayman (Alligator)
- Europe - Start From the Dark (Friday Music)
- Teri Falini - Sun Under Me (National Recorder)
- Finch - Say Hello to Sunshine (Geffen)
Buy Now: Say Hello to Sunshine (Geffen)
- Michael Galasso - High Lines (ECM)
- Billy Gibson Band - The Billy Gibson Band (Inside Sounds)
- Gomez - Out West (ATO)
Buy Now: Out West (ATO)
- Goon Moon - I Got a Brand New Egg Layin' Machine (Touch and Go)
- Corey Harris - Daily Bread (Rounder)
- Missy Higgins - The Sound of White (Reprise)
Buy Now: The Sound of White (Reprise)
- Ahmad Jamal - After Fajr (Dreyfus)
- Courtney Jaye - Traveling Light (Def Jam)
- Kraftwerk - Minimum Maximum (Astralwerks)
Buy Now: Minimum Maximum (Astralwerks)
- LAPUSH - Someplace Closer to Here (456 Enterprises)
- Ute Lemper - Blood & Feathers - Live at Cafe Carlyle (Koch)
- Life in Your Way - Ignite and Rebuild (Indianola)
- Madagascar - Forced March (Western Vinyl)
- The Mae Shi - Heartbeeps EP (Kill Rock Stars)
- Stephen Marley - Got Music? (Universal Motown)
- Veronica Martell - The Art of Intimacy (Kindred Rhythm)
- Raul Midon - State of Mind (Manhattan)
- Minmae - I'd Be Scared, Were You Still Burning (Greyday Productions)
- Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory (Epitaph)
Buy Now Commit This to Memory (Epitaph)
- Need New Body - Where Is Black Ben? (Kill Rock Stars)
- No Wait Wait - No Wait Wait (Chairkickers Music)
- Odawas - The Aether Eater (Jagjaguwar)
- Kelly Osbourne - Sleeping in the Nothing (Sanctuary)
Read: "Kelly Osbourne, Sophomore LP On The Way, Is Ready To Earn Her Fame"
Buy Now: Sleeping in the Nothing (Sanctuary)
- Graham Parker - Songs of No Consequence (Bloodshot)
- Phosphorescent - Aw Come Aw Wry (Secretly Canadian)
- The Planet The - You Absorb My Vision (Kill Rock Stars)
- Lee Ritenour - OverTime (Concord)
- Xavier Rudd - Solace (Universal)
- Say Hi to Your Mom - Ferocious Mopes (Euphobia)
- John Scofield - That's What I Say: Plays the Music of Ray Charles (Verve)
- Seal - Live in Paris (Warner Bros.)
Buy Now: Live in Paris (Warner Bros.)
- Shakira - Fijacion Oral Vol. 1 (Epic)
Read: "Shakira Reveals Her Neurotic Side, Says Next LP Is 'A Mirror'
"
Buy Now: Fijacion Oral Vol. 1 (Epic)
- Slow Dazzle - The View From the Floor (Misra Records)
- The Spinto Band - Nice and Nicely Done (Bar/None)
- Ringo Starr - Choose Love (Koch)
Buy Now: Choose Love (Koch)
- Teenage Fanclub - Man-Made (Merge)
Buy Now: Man-Made (Merge)
- Turin Brakes - JackInABox (Astralwerks)
Buy Now: JackInABox (Astralwerks)
- Frances-Marie Uitti/ Paul Griffiths - There Is Still Time (ECM)
- Christian Wallumrod Ensemble - A Year From Easter (ECM)
- White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan (V2)
Read: "White Stripes Album Preview: Confounding Satan Both Loud And Subtle"
Buy Now: Get Behind Me Satan (V2)
- Robert F. Williams - Self Defense, Self Respect and Self Determination (Alternative Tentacles)
- Buckwheat Zydeco - Jackpot! (Tomorrow)
- Various artists - Adrenaline (Water Music)
- Various artists - Beatles ReGrooved (Koch)
- Various artists - Estrus Kamikaze Ass Chomp N' Stomp (Touch and Go)
- Various artists - Hi Power Book 5 (Thump)
- Various artists - Neo Tango (Sunswept)
- Various artists - Punk-O-Rama X (Epitaph)
- Various artists - Telluride Bluegrass Festival: Thirty Years(Rounder)
- Various artists - The Art of the Motorcycle - Songs of the Open Road (Inside Sounds)
- Various artists - "Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus" soundtrack (V2)
- DVD: "Disco: Spinning the Story" (Passport/Koch)
- DVD: Lou Reed - "Spanish Fly: Live in Spain" (Sanctuary)
June 14:
June 21:
June 28:
- Fountains of Wayne - Out of State Plates (Virgin)
- Longwave - There's a Fire (Red Ink)
This report is from MTV News.
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