The Lost Trailers | Cheap Trick Unlimited | Ganging Up on the Sun | Allen Toussaint

Break On Through You Might Not Know These Up-and-comers Yet, But We Think You Should.

by Kevin Raub
Cheap Trick, Rockford (Cheap Trick Unlimited/Big 3 Records), June 6

Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint, The River in Reverse (Verve Forecast), June 6

Frank Sinatra Jr., That Face! (Reprise), June 6

Regina Carter, I’ll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey (Verve), June 13

Keb’ Mo’, Suitcase (Epic/RED), June 13

The Replacements, Don’t You Know
Who I Think I Was?
: The Best of the Replacements (Rhino), June 13

Smokey Robinson, Timeless Love (New Door), June 13
< br/>Sonic Youth, Rather Ripped (Geffen), June 13

The Stills, Without Feathers
(Vice Records), June 13

Widespread Panic, Earth to America (Sanctuary/Widespread Records), June 13

Guster, Ganging Up on the Sun (Reprise), June 20

Keane, Under the Iron Sea (Interscope), June 20

Diana Ross, Blue (Motown/UMe), June 20

Golden Smog, Another Fine Day (Lost Highway), July 18

Los Lonely Boys, title undecided (Epic), July 18

The Lost Trailers, The Lost Trailers (BNA Records), August (exact date TBD)

Sorta, Strange and Sad but True (Summerbreak Records), August 8

The Polyphonic Spree, The Fragile Army (Good Records), late summer/early fall

Future Forecast


Three artists with new releases we’re absolutely fired up about for fall:

The Shins
Bloc Party
Natalie Cole





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ISSUE: Jun 1, 2006
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