This looks like a good all-around week for new releases. The dog days of summer could use something, too.

Los Lonely Boys return with Sacred, the follow-up to their 2004 self-titled breakthrough. It currently has #11 ranking at Amazon.com and #12 at Barnes&Noble.com, sites that are frequented by the consumers that make up the band's core audience. They won a Grammy after all, so you know the older audience is there.

One of the key releases this week is by up-and-coming emo/screamo/metal band The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, who have been embraced by TV and radio well ahead of the release of their debut album, Don't You Fake It, on Virgin Records. They're a band to watch, and with a fairly new organizational chart at Virgin this offers a good test of their mettle.

Even louder but less Fuse-friendly is The Bronx, who are putting out their second album though Island. Their first album came out on Ferret in 2002.

• Alien Ant Farm: Up in the Attic (New Door)
• Rodney Atkins: If You're Going Through Hell (Curb)
• Scott Biram: Graveyard Shift (Bloodshot)
• Black Stone Cherry: Black Stone Cherry (Roadrunner)
• Boot Camp Clik: Last Stand (Duck Down)
• The Bronx: The Bronx (Island)
• Casavettes: Funny Story (Headphone Treats)
• Eric Church: Sinners Like Me (Capitol)
• Bruce Cockburn: Life Short Call Now (Rounder)
• Billy Ray Cyrus: Wanna Be Your Joe (New Door)
• Heather Duby: Heather Duby (Sonic Boom)
• Eighteen Visions: Eighteen Visions (Sony)
• French Kicks: Two Thousand (Vagrant)
• Feist: Open Season (Cherry Tree/Interscope)
• Neil Gaiman: Where's Neil When You Need Him? (Dancing Ferret)
• Lisa Germano: In The Maybe World (Young God)
• Golden Smog: Another Fine Day (Lost Highway)
• Helmet: Monochrome (Warcon)
• John Tucker Must Die: Soundtrack (Wind-Up)
• Lady in the Water: Soundtrack (Decca)
• Los Lonely Boys: Sacred (Or)
• Steve Miller: Fly Like An Eagle: 30th Anniversary (Capitol)
• The Minders: Bright Guilty World (Future Farmer)
• MSTRKRFT: The Looks (Last Gang)
• Ojos de Brujo: Techari (Diquela)
• Ozric Tentacles: Floor's Too Far Away (Magna Carta)
• John Pizzarelli: Dear Mr. Sinatra (Telarc)
• Pslam One: The Death of the Frequent Flyer (Rhymesayers)
• Sinking Ships: Disconnecting (Revelation)
• Skye: Mind How You Go (Cordless)
• Third Eye Blind: Greatest Hits (Rhino)
• The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus: Don't You Fake It (Virgin)
• Mike Vallely: Alone (Mike V Inc)
• The Working Title: About Face (Universal)