2004 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2004.

Specific locations[edit]

• 2004 in British music
• 2004 in Irish music
• 2004 in Norwegian music
• 2004 in South Korean music

Specific genres[edit]

• 2004 in classical music
• 2004 in country music
• 2004 in heavy metal music
• 2004 in hip hop music
• 2004 in Latin music
• 2004 in jazz

Events[edit]

January–February[edit]

• January 1
  • The Vienna New Year's Concert is conducted by Riccardo Muti.
  • Kurt Nilsen wins World Idol.
• January 3 – Britney Spears marries Jason Allen Alexander, a childhood friend, in Las Vegas. The marriage is annulled 55 hours later.
• January 15 – Rapper Mystikal is sentenced to six years in prison for sexual battery.
• January 16–February 1 – The Big Day Out festival takes place in Australia and New Zealand, headlined by Metallica. A Perfect Circle is originally named in the lineup but later withdraw, with Fear Factory appearing as a mystery artist in place of all of A Perfect Circle's scheduled slots.
• February 1
  • Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake perform onstage at Super Bowl XXXVIII. The performance concludes with Jackson's right breast being exposed to the audience. The phrase "wardrobe malfunction" is coined during the ensuing controversy.
  • Daron Hagen is appointed President of the Lotte Lehmann Foundation in New York City.
• February 8 – The 46th Annual Grammy Awards are held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Outkast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below becomes the first rap album to win Album of the Year. Beyoncé wins five awards. Coldplay's "Clocks" wins Record of the Year, while Luther Vandross' "Dance with My Father" wins Song of the Year. Evanescence win Best New Artist.
• February 9 – Blink-182 release single "I Miss You" from the album Blink-182. The song will reach number one on the Billboard Modern Rock chart.
• February 10 – Paulina Rubio releases her seventh studio "Pau-Latina" under Universal Music Mexico. The album charted at #1 on the Billboard Latin Pop Albums and at #105 on the Billboard 200. The album also got certified 2× Platinum (Latin) by the RIAA.
• February 13 – Elton John begins The Red Piano concert residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Originally scheduled for 75 performances, it would run for 248 shows over five years, including twenty-four tour dates in Europe.
• February 17
  • BRIT Awards are held in London. The Darkness, Dido, Busted, Justin Timberlake and KRS-One are among the winners.
  • Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan posts a bitter message on his personal blog calling D'arcy Wretzky a "mean spirited drug addict" and blaming James Iha for the breakup of the band.

March–April[edit]

• March 2 – Britney Spears embarks on The Onyx Hotel Tour, her first tour in 2 years to support her fourth studio album, In The Zone.
• March 9 – Westlife member Brian McFadden leaves the band.
• March 10 – George Michael announces that Patience will be his last commercially released record. Future releases will be available from his web site in return for donations to his favourite charities.
• March 13 – Luciano Pavarotti gives his last performance in an opera, in Tosca at the New York Metropolitan Opera.
• March 23 – Usher releases his Confessions album selling 1.1 million copies its first week, making him the first R&B artist to ever accomplish that. The album would be the top seller of the year with four number one singles.
• April 6
  • A previously unreleased Johnny Cash album called My Mother's Hymn Book is released less than a year after his death on September 12, 2003.
  • Modest Mouse, an American indie rock band releases Good News for People Who Love Bad News.
• April 20 – Fear Factory returns after their 2002 breakup with the new album Archetype.
• April 26
  • Deborah Voigt, sacked by Covent Garden for being too fat for an opera role, makes her recital debut to a rapturous reception at Carnegie Hall.
  • Dream Theater performs at the Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

May–June[edit]

• May 1-2 – The annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival takes place in California. Headlined by Radiohead and The Cure, the lineup also features Pixies, The Flaming Lips, Belle and Sebastian, Muse, MF Doom, Basement Jaxx, Death Cab for Cutie, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Kraftwerk and Kool Keith.
• May 10
  • Blender magazine's May issue includes a "50 Worst Songs Ever!" list. "We Built This City," by Starship, is rated worst.
  • Peter Tägtgren replaces Mikael Åkerfeldt In Bloodbath.
  • Keane release Hopes and Fears which becomes the 16th best selling album of the millennium in the UK. It went 8× platinum and was nominated for the Mercury Prize and the BRIT award for best album.
• May 12–15 – The 49th Eurovision Song Contest, held at Abdi İpekçi Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, is won by Ukrainian singer Ruslana with the song "Wild Dances". It is the first contest to take place as a multi-date event.
• May 18-23 – The European Festival of Youth Choirs (EJCF) is held in Basel.
• May 24 – Madonna starts The Re-Invention Tour in 20 cities with a total of 56 shows and making it the most successful concert tour of the year with a gross of $124.5 million.
• May 25
  • Phish announces that after 21 years they will break up following the Summer 2004 Tour.
  • Skinny Puppy releases their first studio album since disbanding in 1996, called The Greater Wrong of the Right.
• May 26 – Fantasia Barrino wins the third season of American Idol, defeating Diana DeGarmo.
• May 28 – June 6 – The Rock in Rio concert festival is staged in Lisbon, Portugal under the name Rock in Rio Lisboa. Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Foo Fighters, Metallica, Britney Spears and Sting headline each of the six days.
• June 4
  • Karl Jenkins signs a 10-year recording deal with EMI.
  • Creed dissolved. Guitarist Mark Tremonti, Drummer Scott Phillips and Brian Marshall (ex Bassist of Creed) were working on side project Alter Bridge along with Myles Kennedy of The Mayfield Four Their first album is One Day Remains, which was scheduled to be released on August 10.
• June 5-6 – The annual Download Festival takes place at Donington Park in Leicestershire, England, with Linkin Park and Metallica headlining the main stage. Pennywise and HIM headline the Snickers "Game On" stage, while the Barfly stage is headlined by Peaches and SuicideGirls.
• June 7 – The Killers released their first album Hot Fuss.
• June 8 – Velvet Revolver released their first album Contraband.
• June 10 – Ray Charles dies at the age of 73 from acute liver disease.
• June 11 – The Van Halen Summer Tour 2004 kicks off in Greensboro, North Carolina, marking the return of Sammy Hagar on vocals for the first time since his acrimonious departure from the band in 1996.
• June 12 – The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ-FM airs the 12th Annual KROQ Weenie Roast show with Bad Religion, Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, The Hives, Hoobastank, The Killers, Modest Mouse, New Found Glory, Story of the Year, The Strokes, Velvet Revolver, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Yellowcard.
• June 22 – 14th annual Lollapalooza festival, scheduled for July 17, is cancelled. Organizers cite "poor ticket sales". (See: Lollapalooza 2004 lineup.)
• June 23 – UK DJ Tony Blackburn is suspended by radio station Classic Gold Digital for playing songs by Cliff Richard, against station policy.
• June 25
  • Eric Clapton sells his famous guitar "Blackie" at a Christie's auction, raising $959,000 to benefit the Crossroads drug rehabilitation center that he founded in 1998.^[1]
  • While in Scheeßel, Germany for his A Reality tour, David Bowie suffers a heart attack onstage and is subsequently rushed to the emergency room for an angioplasty. The incident brings an abrupt end to the tour and prompts Bowie to move away from both musicianship and public life in the following years, with his next album coming out nearly nine years later.

July–August[edit]

• July 10
  • Ex-S Club star Rachel Stevens sets a world record for completing the fastest promotional circuit in just 24 hours- including a run for the charity Sport Relief.
  • American Idol winner Fantasia becomes the first artist in history to debut at number-one on the Hot 100 with a first record.
• July 11 – McFly debut at #1 on the UK album charts with Room On The 3rd Floor. They break the record set by The Beatles as the youngest group ever to debut at #1 on the album charts.
• July 20 – Van Halen releases The Best of Both Worlds, a 36-song compilation album featuring three new recordings with Sammy Hagar on vocals.
• July 24 – The Robert Smith organized Curiosa Festival kicks off with a concert in West Palm Beach, Florida. Performing along with The Cure are Interpol, The Rapture, Mogwai, Cursive, Muse, Head Automatica, Thursday, Scarling., The Cooper Temple Clause, and Melissa Auf der Maur.
• July 24–25 – The Splendour in the Grass music festival is held in Byron Bay, Australia, headlined by PJ Harvey & Jurassic 5.
• July 25 – The Doobie Brothers record and perform Live at Wolf Trap at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia. The live album was released two months later, on October 26.
• July 31
  • Simon & Garfunkel perform a free concert in front of the Colosseum in Rome for an audience of 600,000 people.^[2]
  • Dispatch performs their last live show at the DCR Hatchshell in Boston, Massachusetts.
• August 8 – Dave Matthews Band's tour bus dumps 800 lb (360 kg) of human feces from a Chicago bridge, intending to unload it in the river, but it lands on an architecture tour boat. The bus driver and the band are sued by the state of Illinois.
• August 15 – Phish performs their final concert at a two-day festival in Coventry, Vermont.
• August 17 – Moments in Grace release their debut studio album Moonlight Survived.
• August 23 – The Prodigy release their much anticipated and postponed first full-length album Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned, 7 years after 1997's The Fat Of The Land.

September–October[edit]

• September 7 – Senses Fail release their debut studio album Let It Enfold You
• September 18 – Britney Spears marries Kevin Federline.
• September 20 – Green Day release their seventh studio album American Idiot, making a comeback for the band, following disappointing sales of their 2000 album Warning. American Idiot eventually receives the award for Best Rock Album at the 47th Grammy Awards on February 13, 2005.
• September 26 – Avril Lavigne begins her Bonez Tour.
• September 28
  • Brian Wilson releases Brian Wilson Presents Smile, the first official interpretation of the Smile sessions since their shelving in 1967.
  • On the same day, young Filipino singer Christian Bautista unveiled his first self-titled debut album.
• October – Jazz at Lincoln Center performance venue opens in New York City.
• October 2 – Billy Joel marries for the third time, to the food critic and chef Katie Lee.
• October 11
  • The original lineup of Duran Duran release their new album Astronaut, which is preceded by the single "(Reach Up for The) Sunrise".
  • Melissa Etheridge undergoes surgery for breast cancer.
• October 23 – Ashlee Simpson is accused of lip synching after an abortive live performance on the television show Saturday Night Live.
• October 25 – Indian singer Hariharan is awarded the Swaralaya Kairali Yesudas Award for his outstanding contribution to Indian film music.

November–December[edit]

• November 4 – Three members of the band RAM, who all lived in a neighborhood known for its support of the recently deposed former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, are detained by Haitian police during a concert performance in Port-au-Prince; no charges are ever filed or official explanation for the detentions given.
• November 9 – Britney Spears releases her first compilation album titled Greatest Hits: My Prerogative.
• November 11 – Eric Clapton receives a CBE at Buckingham Palace.^[3]
• November 12 – Eminem's fourth major studio album, Encore is released four days before schedule to combat Internet bootleggers. The album sells 710,000 copies in only three days and becomes Eminem's third consecutive album to debut at #1 on the Billboard charts.
• November 16 – Destiny's Child released their fourth and final studio album Destiny Fulfilled by Columbia Records in North America.
• November 17 – Within Temptation release the single "Stand My Ground".
• November 21 – Casey Donovan is crowned winner of the second season of Australian Idol. Anthony Callea was named runner-up.
• November 24 – Brian & Eric Hoffman leave Deicide after a royalties dispute.
• November 30 – Jay-Z and Linkin Park's album "Collision Course" debuts at number #01 in the Billboard 200, later becoming the best-selling CD/DVD of that year.
• December 7 – Lindsay Lohan releases her début album, Speak.
• December 8 – Dimebag Darrell is murdered on stage while performing in Columbus, Ohio, by a deranged fan,^[4][5] who shoots the guitarist three times in the head with a 9mm Beretta handgun.^[6] The gunman kills three other people and wounds a further three before being shot dead by police.
• December 11 – Steve Brookstein is crowned winner of the first series of The X Factor. G4 are named the runner-ups, while Tabby Callaghan and Rowetta Satchell finish in third and fourth place respectively.
• December 11–12 – The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ-FM airs the 15th Annual of the Acoustic Christmas with Chevelle, Franz Ferdinand, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Hoobastank, Incubus, Interpol, Jimmy Eat World, Keane, The Killers, Modest Mouse, Muse, The Music, My Chemical Romance, Papa Roach, Snow Patrol, Social Distortion, Sum 41, Taking Back Sunday, The Shins, The Used, and Velvet Revolver.
• December 14 – Clint Lowery leaves Sevendust due to fights with band about gaining control of the band and doubts of the band's future after being released from their label TVT Records.

Bands formed[edit]

See Musical groups established in 2004

Bands on hiatus[edit]

• Spineshank (reformed in 2008)
• Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus (disbanded in 2006)
• Matchbox Twenty (reformed in 2007)

Bands disbanded[edit]

See Musical groups disestablished in 2004

Bands re-formed[edit]

• Megadeth
• Restless Heart
• Destiny's Child
• Vaya Con Dios
• The Shadows (till 2015)
• New York Dolls

Albums released[edit]

January–March[edit]

April–June[edit]

Date		Album	Artist	Notes
A P R I L	4	Indestructible Object	They Might Be Giants	EP
	5	Best of Both Worlds	Midnight Oil	DVD
		The Dissociatives	The Dissociatives	-
		Greatest Hits	Atomic Kitten	Compilation
		J Wess Presents Tha LP	J-Wess	LP
		Now That's What I Call Music! 57 (UK series)	Various Artists	Compilation
	6	2 Nights Live!	Barry Manilow	Live
		22nd Century Lifestyle	pre)Thing	-
		Convict Pool	Calexico	EP
		Good News for People Who Love Bad News	Modest Mouse	-
		Hellfire Club	Edguy	-
		Hood Hop	J-Kwon	-
		Just Be	Tiësto	-
		Inspiration	William Hung	-
		Liars	Todd Rundgren	-
		Ludo	Ludo	-
		Matters	Pulley	-
		More	Tamia	-
		Unearthed (Johnny Cash album)#Disc 4.C2.A0.E2.80.93 My Mother.27s Hymn Book	Johnny Cash	-
		The Neon God: Part 1 – The Rise	W.A.S.P.	-
		On My Way	Ben Kweller	-
		Retriever	Ron Sexsmith	-
		Satanic Panic in the Attic	of Montreal	-
		Seis De Mayo	Trey Anastasio	-
		My Mother's Hymn Book	Johnny Cash	-
		Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles?	Local H	-
	12	Prasasti Seni	Siti Nurhaliza	-
	13	Baron von Bullshit Rides Again	Modest Mouse	Live
		Crossfade	Crossfade	-
		The Duel	Allison Moorer	-
		Is There Love in Space?	Joe Satriani	-
		Kill Bill Vol. 2 Original Soundtrack	various	-
		Palm Trees and Power Lines	Sugarcult	-
	19	DJ-Kicks: Erlend Øye	Erlend Øye	-
	20	Afroholic... The Even Better Times	Afroman	2xCD
		Archetype	Fear Factory	-
		The Blue Jukebox	Chris Rea	-
		BYO Split Series, Vol. 5	Alkaline Trio/One Man Army	Split LP
		The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell	Buckethead	-
		Desensitized	Drowning Pool	-
		Fire It Up	The Kottonmouth Kings	-
		Franz Ferdinand	Franz Ferdinand	-
		Funeral for a Friend / Moments in Grace	Funeral for a Friend / Moments in Grace	Split EP
		Hangover Music Vol. VI	Black Label Society	-
		Highwire Act Live in St. Louis 2003	Little Feat	Live
		Hurt No More	Mario Winans	-
		I'd Like a Virgin	Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine	-
		Impossible Dream	Patty Griffin	-
		Letters from Home	John Michael Montgomery	-
		Music of Mass Destruction	Anthrax	Live
		Mute Print	A Wilhelm Scream	-
		The Pretty Toney Album	Ghostface Killah	-
		Ratatat	Ratatat	-
		Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1	Various Artists, Rock Against Bush	Compilation
		Stone Age Complication	Queens of the Stone Age	EP
		Sunsets and Car Crashes	The Spill Canvas	-
		Through the Ashes of Empires	Machine Head	US
		2 a.m. Wakeup Call	Tweaker	-
		Underneath	Hanson	-
	24	Rejoicing in the Hands	Devendra Banhart	-
	26	Walk The Tightrope	Human Nature	-
	27	American Idol Season 3: Greatest Soul Classics	Various Artists	-
		Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath (1970–1978)	Black Sabbath	Box Set
		D12 World	D12	-
The Dresden Dolls		The Dresden Dolls	Re-issue
Escondida		Jolie Holland	-
The Girl in the Other Room		Diana Krall	-
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly		Frankee	-
The Inner Circle		Evergrey	-
The Last of Tha Pound		Tha Dogg Pound	Compilation
Naked		Joan Jett and the Blackhearts	-
Re.present		Jimmie's Chicken Shack	-
Souls to Deny		Suffocation	-
Trampin'		Patti Smith	-
The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash		Jason Forrest	-
Van Lear Rose		Loretta Lynn	-
Z-Ro Tolerance		Z-Ro	-
M A Y	2	The Concretes	The Concretes	Sweden
	3	Marbles	Marillion	-
		My Angel Rocks Back and Forth	Four Tet	EP
		Sung Tongs	Animal Collective	-
	4	Chopstick Bridge	Avoid One Thing	-
		C'mon Miracle	Mirah	-
		Emblems	Matt Pond PA	-
		Endangered Species	Flaw	-
		Horse of a Different Color	Big & Rich	-
		i	The Magnetic Fields	-
		Just for You	Lionel Richie	-
		One Love	Kimberley Locke	-
		ONoffON	Mission of Burma	-
		Platinum & Gold Collection	Lit	Collection
		The Ride	Los Lobos	-
		Southside Double-Wide: Acoustic Live	Sevendust	Live
		Still Writing In My Diary: 2nd Entry	Petey Pablo	-
		Timeless Journey	Patti LaBelle	-
		Too Much Guitar	Reigning Sound	-
		Wave of Mutilation: The Best of the Pixies	Pixies	Compilation
		Wire	Third Day	-
	5	Greatest Hits	A*Teens	Compilation
	8	Lafcadio	As Tall as Lions	-
	10	All Roads to Fault	Yourcodenameis:milo	EP
		Hopes and Fears	Keane	-
		Spectral	Skyfire	-
	11	Come Again	Thornley	Debut
		Dis/Location	Seven Mary Three	-
		The End of Heartache	Killswitch Engage	-
		E. Von Dahl Killed the Locals	The Matches	Epitaph re-release
		Express Yourself	Erik van der Luijt	-
		Here for the Party	Gretchen Wilson	-
		Living Legends	8Ball & MJG	-
		Metalogy	Judas Priest	Compilation
		Out to Every Nation	Jorn	-
		Shrek 2: Motion Picture Soundtrack	Various Artists	Soundtrack
		Sonic Firestorm	DragonForce	-
	16	In Exile Deo	Juliana Hatfield	-
		Live at Tramps, NYC, 1996	De La Soul	Live
		A Song Is A City	Eskimo Joe	-
	17	Happiness in Magazines	Graham Coxon	-
		Iron	Ensiferum	-
		Meltdown	Ash	-
	18	Asobi Seksu	Asobi Seksu	-
		Baptism	Lenny Kravitz	-
		Black Skies in Broad Daylight	Living Things	-
		Catalyst	New Found Glory	-
		Dynamite Boy	Dynamite Boy	-
		Faded Seaside Glamour	Delays	US
		Fuckin A	The Thermals	-
		A Grand Don't Come for Free	The Streets	-
		Guster on Ice	Guster	Live
		Hell to Pay	Dokken	-
		Kidz Bop Gold	Kidz Bop Kids	-
		Let It Die	Feist	-
		My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue	Fall Out Boy	EP/DVD
		Now Here Is Nowhere	The Secret Machines	-
		So-Called Chaos	Alanis Morissette	-
		The Throes	Two Gallants	-
		Tical 0: The Prequel	Method Man	-
		You Are the Quarry	Morrissey	-
		You Do Your Thing	Montgomery Gentry	-
	21	Here We Go Again	SR-71	-
	24	Destroy Rock & Roll	Mylo	-
Exposures – In Retrospect and Denial		Dark Tranquillity	Compilation
Hits 58		Various artists	Compilation
The Human Equation		Ayreon	-
Lemuria		Therion	-
Sirius B		Therion	-
25	Achilles Heel	Pedro the Lion	-
	Fading Days	Amber Pacific	EP
	The Greater Wrong of the Right	Skinny Puppy	-
	The Human Equation	Ayreon	-
	It's About Time	Christina Milian	-
	Let's Be Us Again	Lonestar	-
	Long Gone Before Daylight	The Cardigans	US
	Monolithic Baby!	Monster Magnet	-
	Play to Win	Gabrielle	-
	Rock the Night: The Very Best of Europe	Europe	Compilation
	Rockin' the Rhein with the Grateful Dead	Grateful Dead	Live
	Under My Skin	Avril Lavigne	-
	Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)	Slipknot	-
	White Trash Beautiful	Everlast	-
27	Between Here and Gone	Mary Chapin Carpenter	-
30	Joe's Corsage	Frank Zappa	Compilation
31	Borrowed Heaven	The Corrs	-
	I Com	Miss Kittin	-
	Uh Huh Her	PJ Harvey	UK
	Wayward Angel	Kasey Chambers	-
?	A Year at the Movies	Social Code	-
J U N E	1	Auf der Maur	Melissa Auf der Maur	-
		Falling Up	Digby	-
		No Said Date	Masta Killa	-
		Ready Now	Truth Hurts	-
		The Silence in Black and White	Hawthorne Heights	-
	5	Loud, Mean, Fast and Dirty	Peter Pan Speedrock	-
	6	DiscO-Zone	O-Zone	-
	7	The Lost Riots	Hope of the States	Debut; UK
		Guetta Blaster	David Guetta	-	-
		Louden Up Now	!!!	-
		No Roots	Faithless	-
		Once	Nightwish	-
		Outta Sight/Outta Mind	The Datsuns	-
		Rewired	Mike + The Mechanics	-
		Supergrass Is 10	Supergrass	Compilation
	8	2004 Warped Tour Compilation	Various Artists	Compilation
		The Art of Live	Queensrÿche	Live
		Asshole	Gene Simmons	-
		Contraband	Velvet Revolver	-
		Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See	Jim White	-
		Egypt	Youssou N'Dour	-
		The Empire Strikes First	Bad Religion	-
		Fast Moving Cars	The Clarks	-
		Greatest Hits '93-'03	311	Compilation
		Happenstance	Rachael Yamagata	-
		International War Criminal	The Slackers	EP
		Keep Your Wig On	Fastball	-
		One Soul Now	Cowboy Junkies	-
		Punk-O-Rama Vol. 9	Various Artists	Compilation
		The Slow Wonder	A.C. Newman	-
		Sonic Nurse	Sonic Youth	-
		Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge	My Chemical Romance	-
		Thunderdome	Pink Cream 69	-
		Two	The Calling	-
		Un	Chumbawamba	-
		Vengo a Cobrar	Mellow Man Ace	-
		White Light Rock & Roll Review	Matthew Good	-
	12	Maximum XS: The Essential Nazareth	Nazareth	Compilation
	14	2	OCS	-
		Dark Matter	IQ	-
		Live in Boston	Fleetwood Mac	Live DVD
		A New Day... Live in Las Vegas	Céline Dion	Live
		Sound Shattering Sound	Gyroscope	-
		To the 5 Boroughs	Beastie Boys	-
	15	The Blind Watchmaker	Mana ERG	-
		Disclaimer II	Seether	-
		Hot Fuss	The Killers	-
		It's About Time	Christina Milian	US
		My Name	BoA	-
		Obsession	Eighteen Visions	-
		The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)	The Fall	US
		They're Only Chasing Safety	Underøath	-
		23rd St. Lullaby	Patti Scialfa	-
		Undermind	Phish	-
	16	Rock the 40 Oz: Reloaded	Leftöver Crack	Compilation
	18	Battering Ram	Iron Savior	-
		Cipher System / By Night	Cipher System and By Night	EP
	21	Aren't You Dead Yet?	Carnal Forge	-
		One Plus One Is One	Badly Drawn Boy	-
		Riot on an Empty Street	Kings of Convenience	-
		A Semblance of Normality	Skyclad	-
		Ta det lugnt	Dungen	-
	22	1.22.03.Acoustic	Maroon 5	Live
		From the End of Your Leash	Bobby Bare Jr's Young Criminals' Starvation League	-
Gettin' in Over My Head		Brian Wilson	-
A Ghost Is Born		Wilco	-
In a Safe Place		The Album Leaf	-
Houses of the Molé		Ministry	-
Inferno		Motörhead	-
JoJo		JoJo	-
Jupiters Darling		Heart	-
Kiss of Death		Jadakiss	-
Lit		Lit	-
Not So Much to Be Loved as to Love		Jonathan Richman	-
Power of the Blues		Gary Moore	-
Scream & Whisper		Edwin McCain	-
Spider-Man 2		Various Artists	Soundtrack
Unbreakable		Scorpions	-
Will to Death		John Frusciante	-
28	Afrodisiac	Brandy	-
	The Cure	The Cure	-
	The Eye of Every Storm	Neurosis	-
	Up All Night	Razorlight	-
29	Tha Carter	Lil Wayne	-
	The Curse	Atreyu	-
	Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count	From First to Last	-
	Detroit Deli (A Taste of Detroit)	Slum Village	-
	Dwight's Used Records	Dwight Yoakam	Compilation
	Feedback	Rush	EP
	Forget What You Know	Midtown	-
	The Gorge	Dave Matthews Band	Live
	Hollywood Potato Chip	The Vandals	-
	In Between Evolution	The Tragically Hip	-
	This Magnificent Distance	Chris Robinson	-
	Mojave	Concrete Blonde	-
	Nina Sky	Nina Sky	-
	Revelation	Joe Nichols	-
	Revival	The Reverend Horton Heat	-
	Seventy Two and Sunny	Uncle Kracker	-
	Tiger Army III: Ghost Tigers Rise	Tiger Army	-
	Trouble	Akon	-
	Watch Out!	Alexisonfire	-
	We Are Not Alone	Breaking Benjamin	-
	White2	Sunn O)))	-
	Who Still Kill Sound?	Kid 606	-

July–September[edit]

Date		Album	Artist	Notes
J U L Y	5	Room on the 3rd Floor	McFly	-
	6	Fortress In Flames	The Crüxshadows	EP
		Patient Man	Brad Cotter	-
		Star Trails	Spirit of the West	-
		Stone Love	Angie Stone	US
		Wild Dances	Ruslana	-
	12	Armed Love	The (International) Noise Conspiracy	-
		Braxton Hicks	Jebediah	-
		The Futureheads	The Futureheads	-
	13	At Our Worst	Evergreen Terrace	-
		Back to Basics	Beenie Man	-
		Blueberry Boat	The Fiery Furnaces	-
		The Book of Heavy Metal	Dream Evil	-
		Caught by the Window	Pilot Speed	US
		A Cinderella Story: Original Soundtrack	Hilary Duff/Various Artists	Soundtrack
		Eat Your Face	Guttermouth	-
		The Funeral of God	Zao	-
		Happy Love Sick	Shifty	-
		Humanure	Cattle Decapitation	-
		Humboldt Beginnings	The Pharcyde	-
		Indian Summer	Carbon Leaf	-
		It's About Time	Christina Milian	-
		Keep Right	KRS-One	-
		Letters to the President	Hawk Nelson	-
		License to Chill	Jimmy Buffett	-
		Lock-Sport-Krock	Nikola Šarčević	-
		Mutual Admiration Society	Mutual Admiration Society	-
		Out of the Shadow	Rogue Wave	-
		Porcelain	Sparta	-
		Shhh...Don't Tell	Adam Sandler	-
		The Spine	They Might Be Giants	-
		The Tipping Point	The Roots	-
		To Tha X-Treme	Devin the Dude	-
		Together We're Heavy	The Polyphonic Spree	-
		Über Cobra	Widespread Panic	Live
		Viking	Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards	-
		I	Meshuggah	EP
	20	Autobiography	Ashlee Simpson	-
		B Is for B-sides	Less Than Jake	Compilation
		Beneath... Between... Beyond...	Static-X	Compilation
		The Best of Both Worlds	Van Halen	Compilation +3 new songs
		East Nashville Skyline	Todd Snider	-
		Hazen Street	Hazen Street	-
		Miss Machine	The Dillinger Escape Plan	-
		Southside	Lloyd	-
		Sweet Somewhere Bound	Jackie Greene	-
		Tyrannosaurus Hives	The Hives	-
		White Turns Blue	Maria Mena	-
	22	Waste of MFZB	Zebrahead	-
	24	Drivetrain	38 Special	-
	26	Now That's What I Call Music! 58 (UK series)	Various Artists	Compilation
	27	The Beginning of Survival	Joni Mitchell	-
		Blue Cathedral	Comets on Fire	-
		Drag It Up	Old 97's	-
		Hymns of the 49th Parallel	k.d. lang	-
		Kevin Lyttle	Kevin Lyttle	-
		Kiss & Tell	Sahara Hotnights	-
		Life After Cash Money	B.G.	-
		Live at Benaroya Hall	Pearl Jam	Live
		Live in Hamburg	Maria McKee	Live
		Lost & Found	Ian Van Dahl	-
		Now That's What I Call Music! 16 (U.S. series)	Various Artists	Compilation
		Studio X Sessions EP	Death Cab for Cutie	EP
		Testimony Live	Neal Morse	DVD
True Story		Terror Squad	-
Until the End		Kittie	-
Where You Want to Be		Taking Back Sunday	-
Whiskey Tango Ghosts		Tanya Donelly	-
A U G U S T	3	Alive and Well... In Krakow	Green Carnation	Live
		An Elixir for Existence	Sirenia	-
		Firestarter	Jimmy Eat World	EP
		Red Hot Chili Peppers Live in Hyde Park	Red Hot Chili Peppers	Live
		A Long Hot Summer	Masta Ace	-
		M.I.A.M.I.	Pitbull	-
		Ride This – The Covers EP	Los Lobos	EP
		Riders in the Sky Present: Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier	Riders in the Sky	-
		Subsurface	Threshold	-
		Ticonderoga	Morning 40 Federation	-
	6	2Pac Live	2Pac	Live
	9	3.0	Safri Duo	-
		Distant Sense of Random Menace	Urthboy	-
	10	Automatic Writing	Ataxia	-
		The Best of Coal Chamber	Coal Chamber	Compilation
		The Blessed and the Damned	Iced Earth	Compilation
		Bubblegum	Mark Lanegan	-
		Creamfields	Paul Oakenfold	Remix
		Crosby & Nash	David Crosby & Graham Nash	-
		Diesel Truckers	Kool Keith	-
		The Essential Red Collection	Sammy Hagar	Compilation
		It's Already Written	Houston	-
		Kidz Bop 6	Kidz Bop Kids	-
		My Own Best Enemy	Richard Marx	-
		One Day Remains	Alter Bridge	-
		Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2	Various Artists, Rock Against Bush	Compilation
		Siren Song of the Counter Culture	Rise Against	-
		The Way It Really Is	Lisa Loeb	-
		Whiskey Tango Ghosts	Tanya Donelly	-
		Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer	Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer	Debut, re-issue
	11	Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned	The Prodigy	-
		Partytime	The Cheeky Girls	-
	13	Joyful Rebellion	k-os	-
	16	Grey Will Fade	Charlotte Hatherley	-
	17	All City	Northern State	-
		Decadence	Head Automatica	-
		Free the Bees	The Bees	-
		The Hard Way	213	-
		Love Everybody	The Presidents of the United States of America	-
		Lyfe 268-192	Lyfe Jennings	-
		Moonlight Survived	Moments in Grace	Debut album
		More Adventurous	Rilo Kiley	-
		Music to Start a Cult To	Gram Rabbit	Debut album
		Seven Circles	The Tea Party	Final Album
		Soviet Kitsch	Regina Spektor	-
		Survival of the Sickest	Saliva	-
		Take It All Away	Ryan Cabrera	-
	18	?	Enuff Z'nuff	-
	23	Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned	The Prodigy	UK
		Flowers in the Pavement	Bliss n Eso	Debut
		Leaders Not Followers: Part 2	Napalm Death	Covers album
		Pigs of the Roman Empire	Lustmord & Melvins	-
		Winchester Cathedral	Clinic	-
	24	Beat Cafe	Donovan	-
		Connected	The Foreign Exchange	-
		The Dirty South	Drive-By Truckers	-
		Half Smiles of the Decomposed	Guided by Voices	-
		Happy People/U Saved Me	R. Kelly	-
		Hide Nothing	Further Seems Forever	-
		The Hustle	G. Love & Special Sauce	-
		Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones	The Rolling Stones	US; Compilation
		Kidz Bop Halloween	Kidz Bop Kids	-
		Legacy of Blood	Jedi Mind Tricks	-
		Letters	Butch Walker	-
Lift		Sister Hazel	-
Live Like You Were Dying		Tim McGraw	-
Luminaria		Ian Moore	-
On My Way to Church		Jim Jones	-
Paper		Rich Robinson	-
Potter's Field		12 Stones	-
The Revolution Starts Now		Steve Earle	-
The Secondman's Middle Stand		Mike Watt	-
She Loves You		The Twilight Singers	Covers album
Straight Outta Cashville		Young Buck	-
Super D		Ben Folds	EP
Tambourine		Tift Merritt	-
Tessie		Dropkick Murphys	EP
Throwback, Vol. 1		Boyz II Men	Covers album
Tonight, Not Again: Jason Mraz Live at the Eagles Ballroom		Jason Mraz	-
The Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage of the Carter Family		Various	compilation
A Valid Path		Alan Parsons	-
Welcome Back		Mase	-
25	The Bassmachine	Basshunter	-
30	Don't Look Now	Way Out West	-
	Everything Will Be Alright Tomorrow	Faithless	-
	Killing Heidi	Killing Heidi	-
	The Libertines	The Libertines	-
	Medúlla	Björk	-
	Pleasureman	Günther	Debut
	Silent Nation	Asia	-
31	Ashes of the Wake	Lamb of God	-
	Circle of Snakes	Danzig	-
	The DEFinition	LL Cool J	-
	Fuck World Trade	Leftöver Crack	-
	Genius Loves Company	Ray Charles	-
	Getting Away with Murder	Papa Roach	-
	Hell's Pit	Insane Clown Posse	-
	Leviathan	Mastodon	-
	Rhythm of Time	Jordan Rudess	-
	Sail On: The 30th Anniversary Collection	Kansas	Compilation+DVD
	The Spine Hits the Road	They Might Be Giants	Live
S E P T E M B E R	1	The Romance of Kenny G	Kenny G	Compilation
	3	Wu Ha	Will Pan	-
	6	Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck	Flotation Toy Warning	-
		De wereld rond	K3	-
		Fate of Norns	Amon Amarth	-
		Sardonic Wrath	Darkthrone	-
		Showtime	Dizzee Rascal	-
		The Sound of White	Missy Higgins	-
		Temple of Shadows	Angra	-
		Unwritten	Natasha Bedingfield	UK
		Voice	Alison Moyet	UK, covers album
	7	The Big Eyeball in the Sky	Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains	-
		Home for an Island	The Exit	-
		I Got Love in These Streetz	Daz Dillinger	-
		Let It Enfold You	Senses Fail	-
		Living Things	Matthew Sweet	-
		Master of the Moon	Dio	-
		My Everything	Anita Baker	-
		Rubber Factory	The Black Keys	-
		Stealing of a Nation	Radio 4	-
		Underdog Victorious	Jill Sobule	-
		The Very Best of Macy Gray	Macy Gray	US; Compilation
		What I Do	Alan Jackson	-
	8	Exodus	Utada	Japan
	10	IM the Supervisor	Infected Mushroom	-
	13	Kasabian	Kasabian	UK
		Let's Bottle Bohemia	The Thrills	-
		Nino Rojo	Devendra Banhart	-
		Out of Nothing	Embrace	UK
		Season for Assault	8 Foot Sativa	-
		The Singles 1986–1995	Duran Duran	Box Set
		Solarized	Ian Brown	-
		Strangers	Ed Harcourt	-
		The Tension and the Spark	Darren Hayes	-
		Thunder, Lightning, Strike	The Go! Team	-
	14	DC EP	John Frusciante	EP
		Eat My Heart Out	The Dollyrots	-
		Everybody Loves a Happy Ending	Tears for Fears	-
		Exhibit A	The Features	-
		Funeral	Arcade Fire	-
		A Hangover You Don't Deserve	Bowling for Soup	-
		Quaudiophiliac	Frank Zappa	-
		The Revelry	Bullets and Octane	-
		The Clarence Greenwood Recordings	Citizen Cope	-
		Set Yourself on Fire	Stars	Canada
		So Jealous	Tegan and Sara	-
		Studio 150	Paul Weller	-
		Sweat and Suit Double albums	Nelly	-
		The System Has Failed	Megadeth	-
		Trouble	Ray LaMontagne	-
		Turn	The Ex	Double LP
		Wayward Angel	Kasey Chambers	-
		Wet from Birth	The Faint	-
		Wheel of Life	Karmakanic	-
		Within a Mile of Home	Flogging Molly	-
	20	Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	-
		American Idiot	Green Day	-
		Hits 59	Various artists	Compilation
		One for the Road	Ocean Colour Scene	Live
		Universal Audio	The Delgados	Final album
	21	Be Here	Keith Urban	US
		City	Client	-
		Deja Vu All Over Again	John Fogerty	-
		The Delivery Man	Elvis Costello	-
Dreaming in Color		Jump5	-
Eucademix		Yuka Honda	-
Future Perfect		Autolux	-
Il Sogno		Elvis Costello	-
Last Exit		Junior Boys	-
The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered		Various Artists	-
London Calling: 25th Anniversary Legacy Edition		The Clash	LP & DVD
Mirages		Tim Hecker	-
The New What Next		Hot Water Music	-
Night on Fire		VHS or Beta	-
Noise from the Basement		Skye Sweetnam	-
Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home		These Arms Are Snakes	-
Remixed!		Scissor Sisters	EP
Riders of the Apocalypse		Demonoid	-
Romeoland		Lil' Romeo	-
Saul Williams		Saul Williams	-
Shine		Meredith Brooks	Reissue of 2002's Bad Bad One
Songs in the Key of Eh		Mad Caddies	Live
There Will Be a Light		Ben Harper and The Blind Boys of Alabama	-
This Is My Time		Raven-Symoné	-
This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)		Chevelle	-
You Fail Me		Converge	-
The War Within		Shadows Fall	-
22	Start from the Dark	Europe	-
23	The Other Side of Earth	The Last Goodnight	-
24	Dreamland	Joni Mitchell	-
25	This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For	Bring Me the Horizon	EP
26	By Request	Brett Kissel	-
27	Antics	Interpol	-
	Never Apologise Never Explain	Therapy?	-
	Nightmares Made Flesh	Bloodbath	-
	Prelude to History	Preluders	-
	Symphony of Enchanted Lands II: The Dark Secret	Rhapsody	-
28	180°	Gerardo	-
	Advance and Vanquish	3 Inches of Blood	-
	Anniemal	Annie	-
	Bat Out of Hell: Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra	Meat Loaf	Live
	Beautiful Soul	Jesse McCartney	-
	Christian Bautista	Christian Bautista	-
	The Beautiful Struggle	Talib Kweli	-
	The Dana Owens Album	Queen Latifah	-
	Feels Like Today	Rascal Flatts	-
	Goodies	Ciara	-
	Hilary Duff	Hilary Duff	-
	In Love and Death	The Used	-
	Jackassolantern	Widespread Panic	Live
	Lest We Forget: The Best Of	Marilyn Manson	Compilation +1 new track
	Lionheart	Saxon	-
	Mind Body & Soul	Joss Stone	-
	The Neon God: Part 2 – The Demise	W.A.S.P.	-
	Reset	Mutemath	EP
	Scores	Barry Manilow	-
	Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll	Social Distortion	-
	Shangri-La	Mark Knopfler	-
	Show and Tell	Silvertide	-
	Smile	Brian Wilson	-
	Trouble	Bonnie McKee	-

October–December[edit]