Alanis Morissette--Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
The Brian Setzer Orchestra--The Dirty Boogie: His new spin on "Rock This Town" is excellent.
Recoil--Bloodline and Liquid: Recoil is the project of Alan Wilder, formerly of Depeche Mode. He released 3 EPs before leaving DM in 1995 and devoting all his time to the project.
Bloodline (the 3rd Recoil EP) came out in 1992, and features Moby, Doug McCarthy (of Nitzer Ebb), and Toni Halliday (of Curve) on vocals.
Liquid is his second full-length CD (and the 2nd release since leaving DM) and features vocalists that really aren't worth mentioning.
Incidentally, the Recoil
site is great, and, at least when I frequented it more, he was rather interactive with the fans. He also has a mailing list through Yahoo! Groups, which is not really worth subscribing to. Recoil fans are a twisted lot...many of them hate Depeche Mode since Alan left...and truth be told, I find Alan to be a bit of a whiny bitch about DM after his departure. In any case, I was on said mailing list for a few months in 1998, but found it a bit too disturbing. A couple of folks from there post a monthly summary of the mailing list happenings to the website, and I happened to find a couple with me in them...heh:
From August 1998: "Duck discussed his deep love of, and history with Erasure, while Sycamore composed a page designed to trash them." (That was a trip...the minute I set up the Erasure Anti-Fan Club, I got a mix of laughs and hate mail.)
I've got more Madden to play now...