Vanguard Records releases the Butterfly Jones album Napalm Springs. 
Vanguard Records releases the Butterfly Jones album Napalm Springs.
Oglio Records releases Listen To What The Man Said: Popular Artists Pay Tribute To The Music Of Paul McCartney, an all-star album of tributes to the former Beatle’s solo and Wings material.
Epic Records releases Ben Folds’ debut solo album Rockin’ The Suburbs.
Sonny’s Pop Records releases Tim Finn’s sixth solo album, Feeding The Gods.
Former Jellyfish guitarist Jason Falkner releases an instrumental album of lullaby-styled Beatles covers, Bedtime With The Beatles.
Capitol Records releases the Paul McCartney solo album Driving Rain, featuring the single “From A Lover To A Friend”.
Atlantic Records releases Jewel‘s fourth album, This Way, featuring the single “Standing Still”.
The first Electric Light Orchestra album is re-released in the UK in an expanded, remastered form, featuring numerous previously unreleases mixes and other curiosities. This two-disc edition is a British exclusive, though copies inevitably make their way across the Atlantic to die-hard fans.
The Jars Of Clay album The Eleventh Hour is released, featuring the single “I Need You”.
Not Lame Records releases the 2-CD set Lynne Me Your Ears, an all-star tribute to ELO frontman Jeff Lynne’s songs from ELO, The Traveling Wilburys, The Idle Race, and the Move, with contributions from Todd Rundgren, Jason Falkner, Ben Lee, and Sixpence None The Richer.
The Neil Finn album One All is released. This is a revised version of his 2001 album One Nil, altered specifically for the North American market.
Frank Klepacki releases his second solo album, Rocktronic.
Tony Fox NYC releases the classic-video-game-themed album I Am Humanoid at Classic Gaming Expo 2002.
The Röyksopp album Melody A.M. is released, featuring the singles “Epie” and “Remind Me”.
Water Music releases Julee Cruise‘s third solo album The Art Of Being A Girl, her first solo project with no involvement from Angelo Badalamenti or David Lynch (though a new recording of “Falling”, the Twin Peaks theme song, is included as a hidden track).
The Paul Melancon CD Camera Obscura is released, featuring the single “Jeff Lynne”.
The Peter Gabriel album Up is released, featuring the single “The Barry Williams Show”.
The Ben Folds CD Ben Folds Live is released.
Squint releases Sixpence None The Richer‘s fourth album, Divine Discontent, featuring the singles “Breathe Your Name” and “Don’t Dream It’s Over”.
The Tori Amos CD Scarlet’s Walk is released, featuring the single “A Sorta Fairytale”. This is her first album on the Epic label.
Not Lame Records releases the Jellyfish rarities box set Fan Club, featuring demos, unreleased tracks and copious live tour recordings.
The posthumous George Harrison CD Brainwashed is released, almost exactly a year after the ex-Beatle’s death.
The second album by New Zealand group Oceania, featuring Hinewehi Mohi, is released.
Frank Klepacki releases his first non-soundtrack solo album, Morphscape.
The fourth Afro-Celt Sound System album, Seed, is released, featuring the single “Rise Above It”.
EMI Records releases a UK-only remastered, expanded edition of the second Electric Light Orchestra album, Electric Light Orchestra II, featuring a bonus CD bearing the 1972 album’s unused work-in-progress title, The Lost Planet. The bonus disc includes numerous previously unissued songs, including demos from a session to test out prospective new lead singers before Jeff Lynne took that mantle as well, following the departure of co-founder Roy Wood. Though a remastered Electric Light Orchestra II is later issued in North America, it does not include the second disc or its contents.
The second Pete Yorn album, Day I Forgot, is released.
The first new material from the band in years, the Fleetwood Mac album, Say You Will, is released, featuring the single “Peacekeeper”.
The second Blue Man Group album, The Complex, is released, featuring the singles “The Current” and “Up To The Roof”.
The Weird Al Yankovic album, Poodle Hat, is released, featuring the singles “Ode To A Superhero” and “eBay”.