Halloween. Almost as good a release date as June 6, 2006...which too many metal bands missed out on. Tomorrow will see a pretty good crop of releases. Sony BMG, who could use a handful of hits in the second half of the year, is putting out Barry Manilow's The Greatest Songs of the Sixties (Arista) and Kevin Federline's Playing With Fire (Federline).

Market share leader Universal Music Group has the new Who album, Endless Wire (Republic) and Public Warning (Def Jam) Jay-Z's latest project, Lady Sovereign.

EMI, smarting from last week's accounting scandal and a suddenly lighter income statement, will release Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell III (Virgin).

Warner Music Group has The Deftones' Saturday Night Wrist (Maverick).

Oh, and NBA star Ron Artest releases his My World on his own Tru Warrier label (through Lightyear/WEA). Current Amazon.com rank: 49,032.

As for indies, TVT is releasing Pitbull's El Mariel, spinART is putting out Nellie McKay's double-album, Pretty Little Head (the album that lead to the dispute that eventually got her dropped from Columbia Records) and Ipecac has In The Absence of Truth, the new album by Isis.

See a list of tomorrow's releases at Pause & Play.