DMX [ tickets ]
"The Great Depression" (Def Jam)

Available in clean and explicit editions, the latest release from the man who keeps gangsta rap alive is the follow-up to 1999's " … And Then There Was X." That album debuted at No. 1 and has been certified multi-platinum for shipping 4 million copies in the U.S.

The new album's first single is "Who We Be," the video for which is streamed at DMX's official website. Also on the site are snippets of every song from "The Great Depression" and from DMX's three previous solo albums: "... And Then There Was X" and his two 1998 albums, "Flesh of My Blood, Blood of My Flesh" and his full-length debut, "It's Dark and Hell Is Hot."

According to his site, DMX will be doing an in-store at a New York HMV store (300 West 125th Street) on the day of the album's release, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

A budding actor who co-starred with Steven Seagal in "Exit Wounds" earlier this year," DMX reportedly will play the title role in a 2002 film titled "Lazarus."

Bush [ tickets ]
"Golden State" (Atlantic)

This radio-friendly modern-rock quartet's newest is the follow-up to 1999's "The Science of Things," and is the band's first release for its new label, Atlantic Records. The group changed the title of the album's first single, "Speed Kills," to "The People That We Love" following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Several radio stations stopped playing the song following the attacks.

Streaming video of "The People That We Love" is available on Atlantic Records' official website.

Dave Matthews Band [ tickets ]
“Live in Chicago 12/19/98” (RCA)

Regularly among the annual list of top-grossing touring acts, this jam band is releasing a two-CD set that includes a cover of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower." The collection marks Matthews' fifth live album.

The album is the band's second this year, following up "Everyday," which debuted at number one in March. "Everyday" was cowritten by Matthews and Top 40 guru Glen Ballard, who also produced.

The band is currently slated to spend November touring Europe, following two consecutive nights in Mountain View, Calif., this weekend (10/20, 21).

Incubus
"Morning View" (Epic)

California quintet Incubus has paved the way for "Morning View" with the single "I Wish You Were Here," a track found on Billboard's latest Hot 100 Airplay chart. The video for the song, meanwhile--a streaming clip of which can be seen at the band's official website--sits at No. 10 on MTV's most recent weekly Top 20 chart.

"Morning View" was produced by Scott Litt (R.E.M., Days of the New), and is Incubus' first full-length since 1999's "Make Yourself." The latter album features the group's breakthrough hit "Pardon Me," which spurred it on to double-platinum certification.

To mark the release of its new album, Incubus has scheduled in-store appearances for Wednesday (10/24) in New York City, Thursday (10/25) in Concord, Calif., and Friday (10/26) in Hollywood. Details including times and specific locations are posted on the band's website.

Incubus is currently on tour, and has dates scheduled until early December.

Harry Connick, Jr.
"Songs I’ve Heard" and "30" (Columbia)

Crooner-actor Harry Connick Jr. is releasing simultaneously these two separate collections of cover songs. "Songs I've Heard" features the singer's take on show tunes like "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (from "Mary Poppins"), "The Lonely Goatherd" (from "The Sound of Music") and "Over the Rainbow" (from "The Wizard of Oz").

The New Orleans-influenced "30" boasts appearances from jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, bassist Ben Wolfe and the late gospel vocalist Rev. James Moore. Sound clips are available on the singer's official website.

Connick kicks off a tour on Nov. 5.

The Cranberries
"Wake Up and Smell the Coffee" (MCA)

Celtic rockers the Cranberries follow up 1999's "Bury the Hatchet" with this 14-track album that features the group's latest single, "Analyse." The song, which surfaced in late August, sits at No. 28 on Billboard's latest Adult Top 40 chart.

The "Analyse" music video can be viewed in its entirety at the Cranberries' official website, as can streaming-audio versions of "Analyse" and three other tracks from the new album.

In August, the Cranberries played a handful of small-venue dates in the U.S. to hype the release.

C-Murder
"C-P-3.com" (Priority)

Master P's younger brother returns with his fourth full-length solo release, the follow-up to last year's "Trapped in Crime." The album features guest performances by Master P, Silkk the Shocker, Mia X, Wango, Slay Sean and T-Bo.

C-Murder named the album "C-P-3.com" as a reference to the Calliope project in New Orleans that he grew up in, according to his official website.

Also at C-Murder's website is a free Liquid Audio-formatted download of "What You Gonna Do?," the first single from "C-P-3.com."

Aphex Twin
"Drukqs" (Sire)

This leading experimental electronic musician's latest is his first full-length in five years, and his first non-single release since the 1997 EP "Come to Daddy."

The solo album is a two-CD affair featuring 45 tracks, which range in length from 13 seconds to almost 10 minutes, and from chamber-music elegance to industrial noise. A boxed vinyl edition featuring four high-grade, 180-gram LPs will be available in December.

Several MP3 files from the album are available on the album's promotional website.

London's two Rough Trade record stores will stock only "Drukqs" the day of its release, a stunt that Rough Trade reportedly last employed in 1977 for the release of the Sex Pistols' "Never Mind the Bollocks."

Aphex Twin's next American tour date will likely be a performance at the re-scheduled All Tomorrows Parties in Los Angeles in March 2002.

Raul Malo
"Today" (Higher Octave)

This solo album is the first from Mavericks frontman Malo, whose vocals have drawn comparisons to Roy Orbison from more than one reviewer.

With the Mavericks, Malo has blended classic pop stylings with most American music genres. On "Today," he makes the very natural leap into Latin and Cuban music.

Other new releases:

The 100% Storms Ensemble - "Performing the Music of Eric D. Morrison" (Emperor Jones)
Tom Adams - "Adams County Banjo" (Rounder Select)
Agricantus - "Ethnosphere" (Milan)
Victor Bailey - "That’s Right" (ESC)
Billy Bang - "Vietnam - Aftermath" (Justin Time)
Beatless - "Life Mirrors" (Ubiquity)
Regina Belle - "This Is Regina" (Concord Jazz)
T. Honsinger, S. Beresford, D. Toop - "Double Indemnity/Imitation of Life" (Atavistic)
Brainstorm - "Metus Mortis" (Metal Blade)
Toni Braxton - "Snowflakes" (Arista)
Dave Brubeck Quartet - "The Crossing" (Telarc)
Brujeria - "Mextremist! Greatest Hits" (Kool Arrow)
T. Bubba Bechtol - "I’m Confused" (MCA Nashville)
Jane Bunnett - "Alma de Santiago" (Blue Note)
R.L. Burnside - "Burnside on Burnside" (Fat Possum)
Don Byron - "You Are #6" (Blue Note)
Campbell Brothers - "Sacred Steel for the Holidays" and "Sacred Steel on Tour" (Arhoolie)
Col. Parker - "Rock ‘N’ Roll Music" (V2)
Bobby Conn - "The Golden Age" (Thrill Jockey)
The December People - "Sounds Like Christmas" (Magna Carta)
Dilated Peoples - "Expansion Team" (Capitol)
Disco D - "Straight Out tha Trunk" (GTI)
DJ Smash - "Recollection" (Instinct)
DJ X - "Best of Breaks" (StreetBeat)
The Donz - "Sex, Lies and Audio Tapes" (Eagle)
Einstürzende Neubauten - "Strategies Against Architecture Vol. III" (Mute)
Elk City - "The Sea Is Fierce" (Warm)
Empire State - "Eternal Combustion" (Warm)
Enigma - "LSD: Love Sensuality Devotion" (Virgin)
Fireballs of Freedom - "Welcome to the Octagon" (Estrus)
The Frames - "For the Birds" (Overcoat)
Terry Garland - "Out Where the Blue Begins" (Planetary)
Godflesh - "Hymns" (Koch)
Guitar Shorty - "Go Wild!" (Evidence)
Halou - "Wiser" (Nettwerk)
Happy Baby - "Breathing Right" (Valley)
Ginny Hawker - "Letters from My Father" (Rounder)
Richard Hinge - "Munich Manhattan" (Shadow)
Huntingtons - "Songs in the Key of You" (Tooth & Nail)
The (International) Noise Conspiracy - "A New Morning" (Epitaph)
Boney James - "Ride" (Warner Bros.)
Peter Jefferies - "Closed Circuit" (Emperor Jones)
Waylon Jennings - "Dreaming My Dreams" (Buddah)
Jesus Jones - "London" (Koch)
The Juliana Theory - "Music from Another Room" (Tooth & Nail)
La Chat - "Murder She Spoke" (Koch)
Anita Lane - "Sex O’Clock" (Mute)
Tracy Lawrence - "Tracy Lawrence" (Atlantic/Warner Bros.)
Lil’ Troy - "Back to Ballin" (Koch)
Lyle Lovett - "Anthology Volume One: Cowboy Man" (MCA Nashville)
Kelli Mack - "Kelli Mack" (Eagle)
Billy Mahonie - "What Becomes Before" (Southern)
Reba McEntire - "Greatest Hits Vol. III: I'm a Survivor" (MCA Nashville)
Mogwai - "My Father, My King" (EP) (Matador)
Mr. Len - "Pity the Fool" (Matador)
Mushroom - "Foxy Music" (City Hall)
The Nectarine No. 9 - "Received, Transgressed & Transmitted" (Beggars Banquet)
New Wet Kojak - "No. 4" (EP) (Beggars Banquet)
Willie Norwood - "'bout It" (Atlantic)
Jordan Rudess - "Feeding the Wheel" (Magna Carta)
Hope Sandoval - "Bavarian Fruit Bread" (Sanctuary)
Stinking Lizaveta - "III" (Tolotta)
Sorry About Dresden - "The Convenience of Indecision" (Saddle Creek)
Terry Southern - "Give Me Your Hump" (Koch)
Adam Steffey - "Grateful" (Mountain Home)
Craig Taborn - "Light Made Lighter" (Thirsty Ear)
Testament - "First Strike Still Deadly" (Spitfire)
Thug Law - "Thug Life and Outlawz, Chapter 1" (D3)
Too Short - "Chase the Cat" (Silvertone)
Trans Champs - "Double Exposure" (Thrill Jockey)
Trembling Blue Stars - "Alive to Every Smile" (Sub Pop)
Tricolor - "Nonparticipant+Milk" (Atavistic)
Various artists - "Christmas Blues Instrumentals" (Evidence)
Various artists - "Coming Up: An Indie Tribute to the Music of Paul McCartney" (Oglio)
Various artists - "Spirit of Africa" (Real World)
Various artists - "Stimulated Vol. 1" (Loud)
Robert Walker - "Rock the Night" (Rooster Blues)
Will Haven - "Carpe Diem" (Revelation)
Arthur Williams - "Midnight Blue" (Rooster Blues)
Saul Williams - "Amethyst Rock Star" (American)

Soundtracks and scores:

"K-Pax" (Universal Classics)
Edward Shearmur - "The Man Who Wasn’t There" (Decca)

Compiled by Jon Zahlaway with Scott Henkemeyer, Marc Weidenbaum and James Woster.