Ben Harper's new album looks to lead the popularity pack with new music releases for the week. "Diamonds on the Inside," Harper's seventh album, will follow up his 2001 live release "Live From Mars." This will be Harper's first studio album since 1999's popular "Burn to Shine."
The runner-up for the Where Have You Been, Oh There You Are! Award goes to Everclear. Trying to re-establish itself, the group releases its seventh album, "Slow Motion Daydream."
And for the winner of the Where Have You Been, Oh There You Are! Award this week goes to Blackstreet. After dropping off the planet for the past five years since its 1999 "Finally," the group takes it to "Level II."
Christian-punk assembly Relient K continues on - mostly to impress it's teenage cult fan base - with its hard moral attitude in its third release, "Two Lefts Don't Make a Right ... But Three Do."
Marking 2000 as the beginning of its comeback, Machine Head presses on with its sixth release "Hellalive." Plauged by line-up changes and personal problems, Machine Head has been sticking it out with hard rocking label Roadrunner.
Drunk Horse releases "Adult Situations," reggae newbie Ja Cure releases his debut "Ghetto Life," hard-core rapper Greenwade releases "Represent Yo Hood" and metal meat heads





