Upcoming CD Releases

Here are a few CDs that I'm looking forward to finish up the year:

• Lucinda Williams - Live [2 CD] (9/14) - seeing her live was a treat [Update 9/13 - Live at the Fillmore West will not be coming out tomorrow after all... either late October or 2005 now :-( ]
  
• Jimmy Eat World - Futures (10/19) - more edge and less poppy than Bleed American,but still going to be one of the top 10 albums of the year
  
• Paul Westerberg - Folker (9/07) - can't wait for another lo-fi disc from the former Replacements frontman
  
• Other September Releases: Tegan & Sara, Bowling for Soup (one-hit wonder?), Green Day (still alive?), Elvis Costello (which direction will he go this time? rock? mellow? jazz?), Ben Harper & the Blind Boys of Alabama, Joss Stone (R&B diva?)
  
• Other October: Fatboy Slim (has his time come and go?), Yeah Yeah Yeahs (never passes spellcheck), Duran Duran (never passes spellcheck), Beck, Simple Plan, The Donnas
• (gone til) November: U2, Offspring
  

As for the CDs from my last mention, Finn Bros collaboration is very mellow and above average, Gavin Degraw's acoustic Chariot is great (but ineligible for my year-end Top 10 as it is a re-release), Taking Back Sunday is another EMO band that has finally broken out, and one more to note that somehow escaped mention was the latest from K-OS, Joyful Rebellion, the best hip hop record that I've heard this year.