Posted on Fri, Jun. 02, 2006

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New Music | Due in stores Tuesday

• AFI, Decemberunderground (Interscope).

• Cheap Trick, Rockford (Big3).

• Barbara Cook, Barbara Cook at the Met with Special Guests (DRG).

• Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint, The River Between (Verve Forecast). The first major project recorded in New Orleans post Katrina, pairs British rock singer-songwriter with New Orleans songwriter-pianist.

• Depeche Mode, Speak & Spell, Music for the Masses, Violator (Sire/Rhino). Reissed albums on CD/DVD, with 5.1 audio and videos.

• Live, Songs From Black Mountain (Epic/Red Ink). Includes Mystery, a song the band performed on American Idol's recent season finale.

• Katie Melua, Piece by Piece (Universal).

• Brian Stokes Mitchell, Brian Stokes Mitchell (Playbill).

• The New Cars, It's Alive (Eleven Seven Music). Reunion of the Cars featuring two original members you don't know (Ric Ocasek, the chief songwriter, chose not to be involved, and lead singer Ben Orr died) with Todd Rundgren on vocals. Includes live favorites and some new music.

• Sha Na Na, One More Saturday Night (Gold Label). The 40-year-old nostalgia group issues its first studio set of originals.

• Various, Strummin' With the Devil: Bluegrass Tribute to Van Halen (CMH). Ex-Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth sings lead on revamped versions of Jump and Jamie's Cryin'.

• Zero 7, The Garden (Atlantic).

-- HOWARD COHEN