Quarters for the Jukebox

In the Jukebox for this week (based off new releases and listed alphabetically be artist):

• The Alkaline Trio — Agony & Irony: Pop-rock.
• Beck — Chemtrails: An etheral, spacey (not for radio) single from the two turntabled maestro.
• Crooked Still — Still Crooked: Moody folk bluegrass.
• Jessica Simpson — Come On Over: I had to at least listen once and am thinking she’s a bit late to jump on the country train. The genre is already crowded with young blonde solo artists.
• John Mayer — Live in Los Angeles: If you like John.
• Kutless — To Know That You’re Alive: Melodic Christian hard rock.
• LL Cool J — Baby: The multi-talented Cool James keeps a toe in the music pool with this raunchy tale of a night out(and thus radio-ready).
• Los Lonely Boys — Forgiven: Easy listening Mexicana rock from this band of brothers (I liked “Heaven” back in the day, but this comes up a bit bland).
• Mariah Carey (featuring T.I.) — I’ll Be Lovin’ U Long Time: No, this isn’t about Vietnamese ladies of the street … instead it’s a standard slow grooving summer love song.
• Robin Thicke — Magic: Robin’s single sounds like a John Legend song.
• Tech N9ne — Killer: The cover is a playoff of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” but the music is the usual zany, dark, introspective and hostile Tech. KC represent!
• Yann Tiersen — Tabarly: Modern classical creations.