Feature Reviews

"Shannon's Select Sounds" by Shannon Holliday

  • January 1, 2010 - Shannon's Select Sounds: My Favorites of 2009
  • September 1, 2009 - Heading for Brazil: Putumayo’s Brazilian Cafe |  Ludovic Beier's Django Brasil | Márcio Local’s Says Don Day Don Dree Don Don | Yonlu's A Society In Which No Tear Is Shed Is Inconceivably Mediocre
  • June 1, 2009 - The African Connection: Béla Fleck’s Throw Down Your Heart: Africa Sessions -- Tales from the Acoustic Planet Vol.3 | Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara: Tell No Lies | Mulatu Astatke and the Heliocentrics’ Inspiration Information
  • March 1, 2009 - Joe Zawinul: 75 | McCoy Tyner: Guitars | The Bad Plus: For All I Care
  • December 1, 2008 - Crooked Still: Still Crooked | Chance McCoy and the Appalachian String Band | A Jazz and Blues Christmas | Spyro Gyra: A Night Before Christmas
  • August 1, 2008 - Esperanza Spalding: Esperanza | Raya Yarbrough: Raya Yarbrough | Eljuri: En Paz | Sa Dingding: Alive

Reviews by various contributors

  • February 1, 2010 - Tina Brooks: True Blue | Missy Andersen: Missy Andersen | Iver Kleive: Organ Music from Troubled Water | Various Artists: Joyful Noise | Jethro Tull: Their Fully Authorised Story

  • December 1, 2009 - New Holiday Music Recordings for 2009

  • November 1, 2009 - Mario Adnet and Philippe Baden Powell: Afro Samba Jazz: The Music of Baden Powell | Barbra Streisand: Love Is the Answer: Deluxe Edition | Mark Knopfler: Get Lucky | Paul O’Brien: Walk Back Home | Buddy Guy: The Blues Giant

  • October 1, 2009 - Jen Chapin: reVisions: Songs of Stevie Wonder | The Wailin’ Jennys: Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House | Lara MacMillan: Miss Mercury | Clutch: Strange Cousins from the West | John Mayall: Tough

  • August 1, 2009 - Ocote Soul Sounds and Adrian Quesada: Coconut Rock | Eric Dolphy: Out to Lunch! | This Is a Shakedown!: Love Kills | Craig Jackson: Damn the Roses | Larry Slezak: No Worries

  • July 1, 2009 - True Blood: Music from the HBO Original Series | Del Castillo: Del Castillo | Louisiana Red: Back to the Black Bayou | Jesse Winchester: Love Filling Station | Mr. Lif: I Heard It Today

  • May 1, 2009 - Danny Schmidt: Instead the Forest Rose to Sing | Chick Corea & Hiromi: Duet | Connor Christian & Southern Gothic: 90 Proof Lullabies | Jorma Kaukonen: River of Time | Jesse Terry: The Runner

  • April 1, 2009 - Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus | John Stetch: TV Trio | Tom Rush: What I Know | Justin Townes Earle: Midnight at the Movies | Matthew Montfort: Seven Serenades for Scalloped Fretboard Guitar

  • February 1, 2009 - Wave Mechanics Union: Second Season: Progressive & Classic Rock as Jazz | Chopteeth: Afrofunk Big Band | New York Electric Piano: King Mystery | Beirut: New Recordings from the State of Oaxaca; Beirut: March of the Zapotec; Realpeople: Holland | Patti Smith: Dream of Life

  • January 1, 2009 - Jim Boggia: Misadventures in Stereo | Neil Young: Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House | Various Artists: Rich Man’s War: New Blues & Roots Songs of Peace and Protest | The Columbia Is Lost: St. Anthony’s Fire | Artie Shaw: The Last Recordings, Volume 1

  • November 1, 2008 - Southside Johnny with LaBamba’s Big Band: Grapefruit Moon: The Songs of Tom Waits | Feufollet: Cow Island Hop | Pete Seeger: At 89 | Various: Joe Gibbs Reggae Anthology: Scorchers from The Mighty Two | Jewel: The Essential Live Songbook

  • October 1, 2008 - Beck: Modern Guilt | Taj Mahal: Maestro | Archie Fisher: Windward Away | Work of Art: Waves | Bob Mintzer Big Band: Swing Out

  • September 1, 2008 - John Mellencamp: Life Death Love and Freedom | Jorge Albuquerque, Marcos Amorim, Rafael Barata: Revolving Landscapes | S.M.V.: Thunder | The Grascals: Keep On Walkin’ | The Paul Carlon Octet: Roots Propaganda

  • July 1, 2008 - Walter Becker: Circus Money | Angel Band: With Roots & Wings | Joe Moss: Maricela’s Smile | Barrington Levy: Teach the Youth: Barrington Levy & Friends at Joe Gibbs 1980-1985 | Putumayo Presents: Québec

  • June 1, 2008 - Van Morrison: Keep It Simple | Rosa Passos: Romance | Lorraine Feather: Language | Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys: Best of | Albéniz: Féte-dieu à Séville; Bizet: Carmen Suites; Borodin: Kismet; Ravel: Boléro

  • May 1, 2008 - Auktyon: Girls Sing | Holly Cole: Holly Cole | Caribbean Jazz Project: Afro Bop Alliance | Jamshied Sharifi: One | Interstate Cowboy: There’s a Road

  • April 1, 2008 - Rhonda Vincent: Good Thing Going | Various: It All Started with Doo Wop | The Northside Southpaws: Stomp-Glide-Wobble | Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers: Humming My Way Back Home | Otis Taylor: Recapturing the Banjo

  • March 1, 2008 - Juno (Soundtrack) | Eagles: Long Road Out of Eden | Leroy Anderson: Orchestral Music, Vol.1 | Dave Insley: West Texas Wine | Moreland & Arbuckle: 1861

  • February 1, 2008 - Ryan Blotnick: Music Needs You | The Kennedys: Better Dreams | Jeremy Pelt & Wired: Shock Value: Live at Smoke | M.I.A.: Kala | The Captain & Tennille: Songbook

  • January 1, 2008 - Robert Plant and Alison Krauss: Raising Sand | Alex Clements: Waiting for You . . . | Ween: La Cucaracha | Monster Mike Welch: Just Like It Is | Danny Schmidt: Little Grey Sheep

  • December 1, 2007 - Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker: Favorite Selections | Various: The Gift: A Tribute to Ian Tyson | PJ Harvey: White Chalk | Various: The Roots of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru | Steve Allee Trio: Colors

  • November 1, 2007 - Ray Charles: Ray Sings, Basie Swings | Hans Zimmer & Klaus Badelt: Music from The Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy | The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey | Jacintha: Goes to Hollywood | Habib Koité & Bamada: Afriki

  • October 1, 2007 - Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band: Live in Dublin | Richard Rodney Bennett: Words and Music | Linda Thompson: Versatile Heart | Merle Haggard: Working Man’s Journey | John Corigliano: The Red Violin Concerto; Violin Sonata

  • September 1, 2007 - Paul McCartney: Memory Almost Full | Jimmy Cobb: Cobb’s Corner | Michael Brecker: Pilgrimage | Charlie Daniels Band: Live from Iraq | Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles: Diamonds in the Dark

  • August 1, 2007 - Deborah Cox: Destination Moon | Jay Boy Adams: The Shoe Box | Born in the Honey: The Pinetop Perkins Story | Erasure: Light at the End of the World | Various Artists: Freeway Jam: To Beck and Back

  • July 1, 2007 - Rory Block: The Lady and Mr. Johnson | Tori Amos: American Doll Posse | The Greyboy Allstars: What Happened to Television? | Norah Jones: Not Too Late: Deluxe Edition | Steve Khan: Borrowed Time

  • June 1, 2007 - E.S.T.: Tuesday Wonderland | Fishbone: Still Stuck in Your Throat | Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver: More Behind the Picture than the Wall | Russian Nights | Assemblage 23: Meta

  • May 1, 2007 - Dept. of Good and Evil featuring Rachel Z: Dept. of Good and Evil | Kings of Leon: Because of the Times | Stanton Moore: III | Lucy Kaplansky: Over the Hills | Anberlin: Cities

  • April 1, 2007 - Watermelon Slim & The Workers: The Wheel Man | Paul Simon: Surprise | Tom Waits: Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards | Christopher O’Riley: Second Grace: The Music of Nick Drake | Turbo Tabla: The Belly and the Beat

  • March 1, 2007 - Harry Connick Jr.: Chanson du Vieux Carré | Peter Himmelman: My Green Kite |  Pete Levin: Deacon Blues | Faithless: To All New Arrivals |  Les Pommes de ma Douche: On n’est pas là pour se faire engueuler

  • February 1, 2007 - The Be Good Tanyas: Hello Love | Nickel Creek: Reasons Why (The Very Best) | David Crosby: If I Could Only Remember My Name . . . | JJ Cale & Eric Clapton: The Road to Escondido | The Flaming Lips: At War with the Mystics

  • January 1, 2007 - Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps; Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin; Mussorgksy: Night on Bald Mountain | Malcolm Arnold: The Complete Brass Chamber Music | Nanci Griffith: Ruby’s Torch | The Brubeck Brothers Quartet: Intuition | Sean Noonan Brewed by Noon: Stories to Tell

  • December 1, 2006 - The Orlando Consort: Medieval Christmas | Brad Paisley: Christmas | Furnace Mountain: Fly the River | Maria Muldaur: Sings Love Songs of Bob Dylan: Heart of Mine | Lynne Arriale Trio: Live

  • November 1, 2006 - Joseph Haydn: Trumpet Concerto; Symphony No.83, "La Poule"; Michael Haydn: Concertino for Trumpet & Orchestra; Serenade in B-flat; Concertino for Clarino | American Orchestral Works (Music by Barbara Kolb, Aaron Jay Kernis, Michael Hersch, John Corigliano, and John Harbison) | Les Claypool: Of Whales and Woe | Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood: Out Louder | Lonesome Spurs: Lonesome Spurs

  • October 1, 2006 - Jay Greenberg: Symphony No.5; String Quintet | Highlights from Russian Operas | Theatre of Voices, Fretwork: The Cries of London | Morning 40 Federation: Ticonderoga | Tarzan: The Broadway Musical

  • September 1, 2006 - Lily Afshar: Hemispheres | Christopher O’Riley: Home to Oblivion: An Elliott Smith Tribute | The Green and Yellow TV: Sinister Barrier | Borodin: String Quartet 1; String Quintet | Bear McCreary: Battlestar Galactica: Season 2

  • August 1, 2006 - Alliage Quartett: Saxophone Plus | Round-Up: Favorite Western Themes | Mahler: Symphony No.8, "Symphony of a Thousand" | Spirits of Mozart | Slammin All-Body Band

  • July 1, 2006 - The 5 Browns: No Boundaries | Nielsen: Symphony No. 2, "The Four Temperaments"; Symphony No. 4, "The Inextinguishable"; Helios Overture; The Fog Is Lifting | Chabrier: Piano Music (Impromptu, Dix pièces pittoresques, Aubade, Habanera, Bourée Fantasque, etc.) | Wolfmother: Wolfmother | Beegie Adair: Sentimental Journey

  • June 1, 2006 - Janácek: The Eternal Gospel; The Ballad of Blanik; The Fiddler’s Child; The Excursions of Mr Broucek: Suite for Orchestra | Chopin: Piano Sonata No.2 in B-flat Minor; Piano Sonata No.3 in B Minor; Variations Brillantes; Barcarolle in F-sharp Minor | Marta Gomez: Entre Cada Palabra | Various Artists: Sail Away: The Songs of Randy Newman | Duran Duran: Astronaut

  • May 1, 2006 - Grieg: Holberg Suite; Two Elegiac Melodies; Two Melodies, Op.53; Two Nordic Melodies, Op.63; Two Lyric Pieces, Op.68 | Great Film Fantasies: Music from Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings | Lynn Miles: Love Sweet Love | Z.Z. Top: Tres Hombres | David Wilczewski: Room in the Clouds

  • April 1, 2006 - Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Concerto in F, Prelude No.2 | Handel: Water Music, Music for the Royal Fireworks | Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No.3 in G; Stravinsky: Divertimento from Le Baiser de la Fée | Spyro Gyra: Wrapped in a Dream | Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not

  • March 1, 2006 - Blood, Sweat and Tears: Blood, Sweat & Tears | Paul Kelly and the Stormwater Boys: Foggy Highway | John Coltrane: One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note | Poetics | Brahms: String Quartet No.3 in B-flat Major, Piano Quintet in F Minor

  • February 1, 2006 - Kroumata Percussion Ensemble: Kroumata Encores | Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, Capriccio Italien | Handel: Messiah | The Modern Jazz Quartet: 35th Anniversary Tour | They Might Be Giants: They Got Lost

  • January 1, 2006 - Amanda McBroom: A Timeless Thing | Mozart: Vesperae solennes de confessore, K.339; Missa solemnis, K.337; Regina coeli, K.276 | Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Alto Rhapsody, Variations on a Theme by Haydn | Great Big Sea: The Hard and the Easy | David Elias: Crossing

  • December 1, 2005 - A Christmas Choral Spectacular | Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass: Christmas Album | Sarah Pierce: It Must be Christmas Time | Claire Martin and Richard Rodney Bennett: When Lights Are Low | Paul McCartney: Chaos and Creation in the Backyard

  • November 1, 2005 - Maria Muldaur: Sweet Lovin’ Ol’ Soul | Mozart: Requiem | Celso Fonseca: Rive Gauche Rio | Martinu: Rhapsody for Viola, Concerto and Concertino for Piano Trio and String Orchestra, Memorial for Lidice | Terry Bozzio: Chamber Works

  • October 1, 2005 - Chicago Blues Reunion: Buried Alive in the Blues | Franck: Three Chorales; Pièce Héroïque; Prélude, Fugue, et Variation | Rachmaninoff: Moments Musicaux, Op.16; Morceaux de fantasie, Op.3; Fragments; Prelude, Op. Post.; Zdes’ khorosho, Op.21 No.7; Vocalise | Carole King: The Living Room Tour | Playboy Jazz: Jazz After Dark II

  • September 1, 2005 - Paquito D’Rivera: Portraits of Cuba | Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Sérénade mélancolique; Bruch: Scottish Fantasy | Per Nørgård: Morgenmyte, Ut Rosa, Wie ein Kind, Two Nocturnes, Mystik Morgen, Morgen-Meditation | Patricia Barber: Verse | The Kentucky Headhunters: Big Boss Man

  • August 1, 2005 - Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral | Walton: Christopher Columbus: A Musical Journey; Hamlet and Ophelia | Martin: Violin Concerto, Concerto for Seven Wind Instruments, Danse de la peur for Two Pianos and Small Orchestra | Dave Insley: Call Me Lonesome | Nick Moss & the Flip Tops: Sadie Mae

  • July 1, 2005 - Gershwin: An American in Paris; Catfish Row (Suite from Porgy and Bess); Promenade; Rhapsody in Blue; Cuban Overture | Cedar Walton Quartet: Recorded Live at the Umbria Jazz Festival | Haydn: The Creation | Mendelssohn: Choral Works (Kyrie in D Minor, Psalm 42, Anthems, Motets) | Jude Johnstone: On a Good Day

  • June 1, 2005 - Rózsa: Three Choral Suites: Ben-Hur, Quo Vadis, King of Kings | La Tarantella: Antidotum Tarantulae | Jane Monheit: In the Sun | Diana Krall: Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival | Elvis Costello: King of America

  • May 1, 2005 - David Chesky: Violin Concerto, Flute Concerto, The Girl from Guatemala | Chopin: Nocturnes; Impromptus | The Reverend Al Green: Everything’s OK | Cassandra Wilson: Traveling Miles | The Rolling Stones: The Singles, 1968-1971

  • April 1, 2005 - George Frederick McKay: Violin Concerto, Suite on 16th-Century Hymn Tunes, Sinfonietta No.4, Song Over the Great Plains | Jordi Savall: Tous les matins du monde (original soundtrack) | John Pizzarelli: Knowing You | Jesse Dayton: Country Soul Brother | Jay Geils: Jay Geils Plays Jazz!

  • March 1, 2005 - Various Artists: The Only Doo-Wop Collection You’ll Ever Need | Ravel: String Quartet; Debussy: String Quartet | North Texas Wind Symphony: Allegories | Branford Marsalis Quartet: A Love Supreme Live in Amsterdam | Erasure: Nightbird

  • February 1, 2005 - Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Dance Suite, Hungarian Peasant Songs | Bill Madden: Samsara’s Grip  | Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique | Herbie Hancock: Gershwin’s World | Citizen Cope: The Clarence Greenwood Recordings

  • January 1, 2005 - Max Steiner: The Adventures of Mark Twain | Claire Martin: Secret Love | Leonard Bernstein: Mass | Seal: Best: 1991-2004 | Dolly Parton: Live and Well

  • December 1, 2004 - Various Artists: Portrait of Bill Evans | Anonymous 4: Wolcum Yule | Holst: The Planets | The Yellowjackets: Peace Round: A Christmas Celebration | Hiroshima: Spirit of the Season

  • November 1, 2004 - James Newton Howard: Collateral (Soundtrack) | Nielsen: Symphony No.5; Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps | Weingartner: Symphony No.1; King Lear | The Animals: Retrospective | Herman’s Hermits: Retrospective | Dion: Live in Concert

  • October 1, 2004 - Karrin Allyson: Wild for You | Handel: La Lucrezia, Arias from Theodora and Serse | Faithless: No Roots | James Newton Howard: The Village (Soundtrack) Allman Brothers Band: Eat a Peach

  • September 1, 2004 - Stravinsky: Petrouchka, Firebird Suite | Nickel Creek: Nickel Creek | The Rolling Stones: The Singles, 1965-1967 | Heinrich Biber and Johann Schmelzer: Seventeenth-Century Music and Dance from the Viennese Court | John Hiatt: Bring the Family | Grieg: Piano Concerto, Symphonic Dances, Concert Overture, In Autumn

  • August 1, 2004 - Berlioz: Requiem; Mahler: Symphony No.1 | Gary Allan: See If I Care | ZZ Top: Greatest Hits: The Video Collection | Mel Tormé: Standing Room Only | Barbra Streisand: The Concert

  • July 1, 2004 - Beyoncé: Live at Wembley | Morrissey: Morrissey, You Are the Quarry | Bryn Terfel: Bryn Terfel Sings Favourites | Mozart: Flute Concertos Nos.1 and 2; Concerto for Flute and Harp | Hiromi Uehara: Brain

  • June 1, 2004 - In the French Tradition | Beethoven: Christ on the Mount of Olives | Norah Jones: Feels Like Home | Soundtrack: Hellboy | Seal: Seal IV | The Rolling Stones: The Singles, 1963-1965 | Big Brother and the Holding Company, with Janis Joplin: Nine Hundred Nights

  • May 1, 2004 -  Mussorgsky-Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition... | Jane Monheit: Come Dream with Me | Laurindo Almeida and Charlie Byrd: Tango | David Bowie: Reality | Peter Frampton: Frampton Comes Alive! | Morgan Heritage: Live in Europe 2003

  • April 1, 2004 - Walter Trout and the Radicals: Relentless: The Concert | Jacques Loussier Trio: The Best of Play Bach | Bach: Six Motets | Aimee Mann: Bachelor No.2 | Lisa Gerrard/Patrick Cassidy: Immortal Memory | Jimi Hendrix: Jimi Plays Berkeley | Jane Olivor: Safe Return

  • March 1, 2004 - Prokofiev: Ivan the Terrible | Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 and Finale Fragment | Greg Brown: Honey in the Lion's Head | Soundtrack: The Last Samurai | Kerosene Brothers: Choose Your Own Title* | Ladysmith Black Mambazo: Raise Your Spirit Higher (Wenyukela)

  • February 1, 2004 - Entremeses del Siglo de Oro | Virginia Mayhew: Phantoms | De/Vision: Devolution | Sting: Sacred Love | Soundtrack: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

  • January 1, 2004 - Missa Mexicana | Nnenna Freelon: Shaking Free | Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto No. 1 in E Minor | Grieg: Holberg Suite ,Dvorák: Serenade in E for Strings , Elgar: Serenade in E Minor for Strings | Mel Tormé and George Shearing: A Vintage Year

  • December 1, 2003 - Dido: Life for Rent | The Gents: Follow That Star | Wolfsheim: Casting Shadows | Haydn: Symphonies 50 in C Major, 51 in B-flat Major, 52 in C Minor | Florence Foster Jenkins & Friends: Murder on the High C’s

  • November 1, 2003 - Paul McCartney: Paul Is Live in Concert | Rhythm, Love & Soul: The Sexiest Songs of R&B Performances Live, Vol. 1 | Astor Piazzolla: Tangazo, Tres Movimientos Tanguísticas Porteños, Milonga del Angel, Sinfonietta | Alan Lomax: Popular Songbook | ATB: Addicted to Music

  • October 1, 2003 - Daniel Lanois: Shine | Jack Johnson: On and On | Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik... | Laurence Juber: Guitar Noir | Delerium: Chimera

  • September 1, 2003 - Gordon Getty: Joan and the Bells; Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2 | Rosemary Clooney: With Love | Annie Lennox: Bare | Alison Moyet: Hometime | Hooverphonic: Jackie Cane

  • August 1, 2003 - William Schuman: Credendum (Article of Faith), Piano Concerto, Symphony No. 4 | Chopin: Polonaises | Heart: Alive in Seattle | Soundtrack: X2 | Erasure: Loveboat

  • July 1, 2003 - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E Flat "Romantic" | Doc Powell: 97th and Columbus | David Gahan: Paper Monsters | Soundtrack: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Ian McCulloch: Slideling

  • June 1, 2003 - Rachmaninoff: Vespers, Op. 37 | Alison Krauss + Union Station: Live | Afrocelts: Seed | Goldfrapp: Black Cherry | Further Seems Forever: How to Start a Fire

  • May 1, 2003 - Great Conductors of the 20th Century: Pierre Monteux | The L.A. 4: Just Friends | Evanescence: Fallen | Iris: Awakening | Angels of Light: Everything is Good Here/Please Come Home

  • April 1, 2003 - African Heritage Symphonic Series: Volume III | Wojciech Kilar: Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Other Film Music | Deep Forest: Music.Detected_ | Massive Attack: 100th Window | Peter Gabriel: So (Remastered)

  • March 1, 2003 - Arthur Bliss: String Quartet No.1... | Gene Harris: Ballad Essentials | Soundtrack: Gods and Generals (Original Score) | Erasure: Other People's Songs | Crooked Fingers: Red Devil Dawn

  • February 1, 2003 - Jerome Moross: Frankie and Johnny; Those Everlasting Blues; Willie the Weeper | Vivaldi: Concertos for Mandolin; Concertos for Diverse Instruments | Sinead O’Connor: Sean-Nós Nua | Soundtrack: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Original Score) | Paul Simon: Songs from the Capeman

  • January 1, 2003 - Rolling Stones: Forty Licks | Keely Smith: Keely Swings Basie-Style. . .With Strings | Eric Himy: Plays Ravel | Elton John: Greatest Hits 1970-2002 | Soundtrack: Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones

  • December 1, 2002 - Paul Giovanni: The Wicker Man (Original Score) | Weinacht der Romantik (Romantic Christmas Songs) | Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head | Peter Gabriel: Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence (Original Score) | Howard Shore: Panic Room (Original Score)

  • November 1, 2002 - Peter Gabriel: Up | Nino Rota: Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet | Blue Rodeo: Palace of Gold | Steve Earle: Jerusalem | French Ballet Music

  • October 1, 2002 - Karrin Allyson: In Blue; Chadwick: Euterpe, Angel of Death, Aphrodite, Melpomene, Thalia, They Might Be Giants: No!, Duncan Sheik: Daylight, Pulp: We Love Life

  • September 1, 2002 - Soundtrack: Die Hard, Beth Orton: Daybreaker, Soundtrack: K-Pax, Bruce Springsteen: The Rising, Soundtrack: Monster's Ball

  • August 1, 2002 - Red Hot Chili Peppers: By the Way, Craig Armstrong: As If to Nothing, Moby: 18, Soundtrack: Minority Report, David Bowie: Heathen

  • July 1, 2002 - John Coltrane: Live Trane: The European Tours, Soundtrack: The Iron Giant, Stan Getz: Stan Getz with Cal Tjader, Rusted Root: Welcome to My Party, Peter Murphy: Dust

  • June 1, 2002 - Pet Shop Boys: Release, Miles Davis: Complete In a Silent Way Sessions, Soundtrack: The Million Dollar Hotel, Brendan Perry: Eye of the Hunter, Enigma: LSD: Love, Sensuality and Devotion

  • May 1, 2002 - Dave Brubeck Quartet: The Dave Brubeck Quartet At Carnegie Hall, Delirium: Poem, Bob Marley & The Wailers: Exodus (Deluxe Edition), Jars of Clay: The Eleventh Hour, Alphaville: Salvation

  • April 1, 2002 - Masada: Live at Tonic, 2001, Dead Can Dance: Dead Can Dance 1981-1998, Soundtrack: Finding Forrester, Bjork: Vespertine, Collide: Chasing the Ghost

  • March 1, 2002 - Diary of Dreams: One of 18 Angels, Morrissey: The Best of Morrissey, Clan of Xymox: Notes from the Underground, Willie Nelson: The Great Divide, The Proclaimers: Persevere

  • February 1, 2002 - Soundtrack: I Am Sam, Howard Shore: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Original Score), Eberhard Weber: Endless Days, Bruce Cockburn: Anything Anytime Anywhere (Singles 1979-2002), New Order: Get Ready

  • January 1, 2002: Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette: Inside Out, Suzanne Vega: Songs in Red and Gray, Shakira: Laundry Service, Bill Frisell: Bill Frisell with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones

  • December 1, 2001: Afro Celt Sound System: Volume 3: Further in Time, John Zorn: Filmworks, Vol. 10: In the Mirror of Maya Deren, Belle and Sebastian: Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant, The Beautiful South: Painting It Red, Miles Davis: Live at the Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It’s About That Time

  • November 1, 2001: Leonard Cohen: Ten New Songs, Peter Gabriel: Ovo: Millennium Show, Faithless: Outrospective, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble: Couldn't Stand the Weather, Ben Folds: Rockin' the Suburbs

  • October 1, 2001: Bob Dylan: Love and Theft, Depeche Mode: Exciter, Roland Orzabal: Tomcats Screaming Outside, John Zorn: The Big Gundown: John Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone, The Ocean Blue: Davy Jones’ Locker

  • September 1, 2001: Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros: Global A-Go Go, Sarah Slean: Sarah Slean, Chopin Sonata No.3, Op.58 in B Minor; Liszt Piano Sonata in B Minor, Vassilis Saleas: Orama – Vassilis Saleas plays Vangelis, Shafqat Ali Khan: Shafqat Ali Khan

  • August 1, 2001: Charles Lloyd: The Water Is Wide, Tim Story: Shadowplay, Pink Floyd: Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall: Live 1980-1981, Cheb Mami: Dellali, Cesaria Evora: São Vicente

  • July 1, 2001: Angélique Kidjo: Keep on Moving, The Best of, Ani DiFranco: Revelling: Reckoning, Renaud Garcia-Fons: Oriental Bass, Emma Shapplin: Carmine Meo

  • June 1, 2001: Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble: Texas Flood, Romane/Stochelo Rosenberg: Élégance, Stevie Nicks: Enchanted, Jimmy Lee Robinson: all my life, Andy Narell: Live in South Africa

  • May 1, 2001: PJ Harvey: Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea, Jan Garbarek: Visible World, U2: All That You Can't Leave Behind, Aria 2: New Horizon, Eric Fernandez: Magic Gipsy