Here's the complete list of this week's major new album releases, courtesy AMG:
Bucky Covington Bucky Covington Lyric Street
Contemporary Country
Avril Lavigne Best Damn Thing Arista 
Punk-Pop, Teen Pop, Pop/Rock
Nine Inch Nails Year Zero Universal Japan
Industrial Metal, Alternative Metal, Industrial
Noisettes What's the Time Mr. Wolf? Vertigo Garage Rock Revival, Indie Rock
Watermelon Slim and the Workers The Wheel Man Northern Blues
Electric Blues, Acoustic Blues, Contemporary Blues, Folk-Blues, Country Blues, Electric Country Blues, Modern Acoustic Blues
Anya Alexeyev The Russian Music Box Marquis
Russian Piano Music
Joseph Arthur Let's Just Be Lonely Astronaut
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
The Band Best of a Musical History Capitol
Folk-Rock, Country-Rock, Rock & Roll, Album Rock, Pop/Rock
Breaking Benjamin Phobia [CD/DVD] Hollywood
Alternative Metal, Post-Grunge
The Chrysler Cold War Classic [Bonus Tracks] Galaxy Gramophone
Swedish Pop/Rock, American Trad Rock, Indie Rock
Guy Clark Live from Austin, TX New West
Alternative Country, Country-Folk, Singer/Songwriter, Progressive Country
Clorox Girls J'Aime Les Filles Better Youth Organization
Punk Revival
The Comas Spells Vagrant
Indie Rock, Indie Pop
The Cowboy Junkies At the End of Paths Taken Latent/Zoë
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Country-Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, College Rock
Elk City New Believers Friendly Fire Recordings
Indie Rock
Fightstar Grand Unification Universal/Island
Post-Hardcore, Emo, Hard Rock
The Flesh Firetower Gern Blandsten
Indie Rock
Friar Tuck Friar Tuck & His Psychedelic Guitar [Bonus Tracks] Fallout
Psychedelic Pop, Baroque Pop, Psychedelic, Novelty
Darrell Grant Truth and Reconciliation Origin
Post-Bop, Crossover Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Neo-Bop, Bop
Greyboy Allstars What Happened to Television? Sci Fidelity
Club/Dance, Acid Jazz
Lou Harrison Lou Harrison: In Retrospect New World
Contemporary Chamber Music
Richard X. Heyman Actual Sighs Turn-Up
Pop Underground
Howlin' Wolf The Definitive Collection Geffen
Electric Chicago Blues, Chicago Blues, Electric Memphis Blues
Article comments
1 - Ashley Gray
I agree, Avril certainly isn't punk rock, but this is a fun little pop album, with a little bit of wit and loud guitars. Not my usual kind of thing, but I thought it worth a review. Check out my website.
2 - Michael J. West
Well, I wasn't aware that you had to be "a self-loathing, suicidal, drug-addicted whore" to be punk rock (since neither Joey Ramone, nor Joe Strummer, nor Johnny Rotten, nor Ian MacKaye were any of those things)...however, even if you lift those criteria, Avril Lavigne still isn't punk rock, so it's neither here nor there.
The actual reason I'm commenting is to recommend one of these new releases:
which is one of the most fascinating of the year so far. Avant-garde jazz/ambient fusion. Awesome.
3 - Al Barger
I can't speak authoritatively to how every single adjective there applies to every single punk, but you don't see how Johnny Rotten for one is FULL of self-loathing? Consider just the famously rotten teeth, for starters. Hey, he doesn't figure he deserves to have good teeth. That's putting a pretty low value on yourself.
4 - Michael J. West
I'm assuming that was a joke (sometimes, Ally, you make it hard to tell!), partially because Rotten is maybe the most enthralled-with-himself rock star this side of Jagger.
5 - zingzing
i second mike... it's not that rotten despises himself... despite the "i wish i could die" mantra of early pil... it's that he hates everything around him so much, and maybe that's where the "self-loathing" you pick up comes from. of course, it could just be an act, which is most certainly is in some way.
and al, we all know that your understanding of punk rock is... at best, simplistic and minimal. which is just what you would say about punk rock, isn't it?
6 - Thomas
The only CD worth picking up on 4/17/2007 was Spells by The Comas
7 - Mike
Nine Inch Nails delivers, as expected. Bucky was surprisingly good. Avril's hott, who cares what she sounds like!
8 - hana
i love you very very mach
avril lavigne you are the best