The most promising item in this weeks new CD releases looks like the Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Funeral for a Friend. It's a religiously oriented lineup, including such classics as "Jesus on the Mainline."

Judas Priest has a FIVE DISC set out. Why?

Notice the Rhino Handmade compilations. I recognized only one of the titles from the Hallucinations set, and NONE from the soft pop nuggets set- not even the Monkees title. Coming from Rhino, collections with a high content of unknown songs certainly light my interest.

This week's major releases, from All Music Guide:

Various Artists Hallucinations: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets From the WEA Vaults Rhino Handmade
Styles: AM Pop, Pop, Psychedelic, Psychedelic Pop, Sunshine Pop

Johnny Paycheck The Little Darlin' Sounds of Johnny Paycheck: The Beginning Koch
Styles: Honky Tonk, Progressive Country, Traditional Country

Judas Priest Metalogy Columbia/Legacy
Styles: New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, British Metal, Heavy Metal, Album Rock

Jamie Cullum Twentysomething [US] Verve
Styles: Jazz-Pop, Vocal Jazz, Ballads, Contemporary Jazz, Crossover Jaz

Vinicius Cantuaria Horse and Fish Bar/None
Styles: Brazilian Jazz, Afro-Brazilian, Brazilian Pop, Bossa Nova, Latin Soul, Tropicalia, Samba

Popa Chubby Peace, Love and Respect Blind Pig
Styles: Modern Electric Blues

Conchord Poulenc: Chamber Music ASV
Styles: 20th-Century Chamber Music

The Delmore Brothers Classic Cuts 1933-1941 JSP
Styles: Old-Timey, Traditional Country, Country Gospel, Appalachian Folk

Detroit Grand Pubahs Galactic Ass Creatures from Uranus Poker Flat
Styles: Techno, Club/Dance, Detroit Techno, Electro-Techno

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band Funeral for a Friend Artemis
Styles: New Orleans Jazz, New Orleans Brass Bands

Division of Laura Lee Das Not Compute Epitaph
Styles: Indie Rock, Punk Revival

Eightball & MJG Living Legends Bad Boy
Styles: Southern Rap, Hardcore Rap

Steve Forbert Just Like There's Nothin' to It Koch
Styles: Singer/Songwriter, Folk-Rock

Reinhard Goebel Biber: Harmonia Artificiosa Deutsche Grammophon
Styles: Baroque Chamber Music

Susan Graham Charles Ives: Concord Sonata; Songs Warner Classics
Styles: 20th-Century Vocal Music; 20th-Century Chamber Music

Bobby Helms Little Darlin' Sounds of Bobby Helms Audium
Styles: Traditional Country, Progressive Country, Country-Pop, Nashville Sound/Countrypolitan

Peter Hirsch Luigi Nono: Composizione per Orchestra n. 1; Der rote Mantel Wergo
Styles: 20th-Century Orchestral Music

Jay-Z Black Album [Acappella] Roc-A-Fella
Styles: Hip-Hop, East Coast Rap, Hardcore Rap

Kool Keith Kool Keith Presents Thee Undatakerz Activate
Styles: Underground Rap

Le Concorde Le Concorde Spade Kitty
Styles: Chamber Pop, Indie Pop

Gordon Lightfoot Harmony Spin Art
Styles: Singer/Songwriter, Folk-Rock

Arto Lindsay Salt Righteous Babe
Styles: Worldbeat, Brazilian Pop, Electronica, Experimental Rock

Teena Marie Dona Cash Money Classics
Styles: Contemporary R&B

The Marshall Tucker Band Beyond the Horizon Sony
Styles: Southern Rock, Roots Rock

The Marshall Tucker Band Together Forever [Bonus Track] Sony
Styles: Album Rock, Boogie Rock, Southern Rock, Country-Rock

The Marshall Tucker Band Carolina Dreams [Bonus Track] Sony
Styles: Southern Rock, Album Rock, Country-Rock

The Matches E. Von Dahl Killed the Locals Epitaph
Styles: Punk-Pop

Marc Minkowski Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice Deutsche Grammophon
Styles: Classical Opera

Maura O'Connell Don't I Know Sugar Hill
Styles: Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter

Original Soundtrack Coffee and Cigarettes Milan
Styles: Soundtracks

Original Soundtrack Shrek 2 DreamWorks
Styles: Funk, Alternative Pop/Rock, Soundtracks, Teen Pop

Original Soundtrack Standing in the Shadows of Motown [Deluxe Edition] Hip-O
Styles: Soul, Motown, Film Music

Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble Memory/Vision ECM
Styles: Avant-Garde, Experimental, Process-Generated, Structured Improvisation

Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers Keepin' It Real Blind Pig
Styles: Modern Electric Blues

Pete Rock Soul Survivor II Rapster
Styles: Hip-Hop, East Coast Rap

Louis Sclavis Napoli's Walls ECM
Styles: Modern Free, Avant-Garde Jazz

John Scofield EnRoute Verve
Styles: Post-Bop, Contemporary Jazz

Ivan Smagghe Suck My Deck React
Styles: Club/Dance, Experimental Techno, Techno, Left-Field House

Teargas & Plateglass Teargas & Plateglass :\ run
Styles: Dark Ambient, Electronica, Downtempo

Thornley Come Again Roadrunner
Styles: Post-Grunge

Various Artists Come to the Sunshine: Soft Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults Rhino Handmade
Styles: AM Pop, Pop, Psychedelic Pop, Sunshine Pop

Various Artists Creole Bred: A Tribute to Creole & Zydeco Vanguard
Styles: Creole, Zydeco, Traditional Cajun

Various Artists Parkinsong, Vol. 1: 38 Songs of Hope Ryko
Styles: Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Americana, Alternative Folk, Alternative Country-Rock

Various Artists Voices Of Concord Jazz: Live at Montreux Concord Jazz
Styles: Vocal Jazz

Jody Williams You Left Me in the Dark Evidence
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Electric Chicago Blues