LINDA EDER Gold (Atlantic) The standards-bearer does her bright take on "Son of a Preacher Man," "Here Comes the Sun," and other classics.
CHRIS ISAAK Always Got Tonight (Reprise) Isaak's first album since 1998 features "American Boy," the theme song to Showtime's The Chris Isaak Show.
BIF NAKED Purge (Lava/Atlantic) The Canadian rawkette returns with the follow-up to her 1999 debut, I Bificus. The first single, "I Love Myself Today," was cowritten by Eric Bazilian (Joan Osborne) and Desmond Child (Bon Jovi, Aerosmith).
KASEY CHAMBERS Barricades & Brickwalls (Warner Bros.) The alt-country beauty invited Lucinda Williams and fellow Aussies the Living End to guest.
IF YOU LIKE...
The doomy intonations and creepy imprecations of NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, slip into the seductive weltschmerz of CHAN POLING's just-out Calling All Stars (Manifesto).
Rocked-up blues a la JONNY LANG, guitar whiz JOE BONAMASSA's A New Day Yesterday will sock it to ya.
The soulful roots-folk of HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH, you'll root soulfully for ROBERT BRADLEY'S BLACKWATER SURPRISE's brand-new New Ground (Vanguard).
BLINK-182, SUM 41, and other mosh-pit panderers, wrap your punk-lovin' hands around STIFF LITTLE FINGERS' The Peel Sessions (Dutch East India, 1989).
Garage gods THE LYRES, pick up on Lyres leader Jeff "Monoman" Connolly's old band DMZ on DMZ/Live at the Rat, a mix of recordings from 1976 to 1993 (Bomp!).
