Atlantic Records releases Jewel‘s fifth album, 0304, featuring the single “Stand”. 
Atlantic Records releases Jewel‘s fifth album, 0304, featuring the single “Stand”.
Having been featured on The Matrix Reloaded soundtrack, Australian remixer Rob Dougan releases his debut album, Furious Angels.
The Steve Winwood solo album About Time is released via Winwood’s own newly-founded label.
Fat Wreck Chords releases Me First and the Gimme Gimmes‘ fourth album, Take A Break.
Epic Records releases the Ben Folds’ EP Speed Graphic, the first of a trio of EPs.
8-Bit Weapon releases the album Confidential at the 2003 Classic Gaming Expo.
Epic Records releases the Ben Folds’ EP Sunny 16, the second of a trio of EPs.
RCA Records releases The Strokes‘ second album, Room On Fire, featuring the singles “12:51” and “The End Has No End”.
Warner Bros. records releases the R.E.M. compilation album In Time: The Best Of R.E.M. 1988-2003, featuring the new single “Bad Day”. This collection is limited only to the band’s output on Warner-issued albums, and omits their earliest work.
Former Alan Parsons Project songwriter and vocalist Eric Woolfson releases the concept album Eric Woolfson’s Poe: More Tales Of Mystery & Imagination.
The Tori Amos comiplation album Tales Of A Librarian is released, including newly re-recorded versions of previously released songs. The album only covers her material from her years with Atlantic Records.
The video game-inspired album The Mario & Zelda Big Band Live CD is released in Japan, featuring live big band renditions of many of the themes from the Super Mario Bros. and Legend Of Zelda game series.
Tree Wave, a duo using vintage computer hardwar, releases the debut EP Cabana+. (Tree Wave member Paul Slocum is also the programmer of the Atari 2600 Synthcart, a homebrew application that turns the 2600 into a musical instrument.)
The dada album How to Be Found is released.
The Levinhurst album Perfect Life is released, featuring the single “Hope”.
Parlophone Records releases the Finn Brothers’ single Won’t Give In from the forthcoming album Everyone Is Here.
The Finn Brothers album Everyone Is Here is released, featuring the singles “Won’t Give In”, “Nothing Wrong With You” and “Part Of Me, Part Of You”.
The Brian Wilson album Smile, based on songs and concepts from an unfinished Beach Boys album, is released.
The R.E.M. album Around the Sun is released, featuring the single “Leaving New York”.
The William Shatner CD Has Been is released, featuring guest appearances by Brad Paisley, Henry Rollins and Ben Folds.
The Duran Duran CD Astronaut is released.
The Jason Falkner five-song CD EP Bliss Descending is released.
The “MC Hawking” album A Brief History Of Rhyme is released.
Art Records releases The Orchestra’s album No Rewind. This is a new lineup for the band previously known as Electric Light Orchestra Part II, which – after the departure of founding ELO drummer Bev Bevan – is now legally required to avoid references to Electric Light Orchestra in any promotional material. This album saw limited release as a tour exclusive in 2001; this is its first retail release.
Epic Records releases Ben Folds’ second solo album Songs For Silverman, featuring the single “Landed”.
Suckadelic Records releases the Suckadelic album Supervillains, a musical mash-up of soundbytes of TV and movie villains.
Reverberations Records releases the album Homemade Spaceship: The Music Of ELO by Parthenon Huxley, a member of The Orchestra (the successors to ELO Part II). The album covers numerous classic ELO songs, but with radically different arrangements.
Wall Of Sound releases the second album by Röyksopp, The Understanding, along with an edition that includes a bonus disc.
Tony Fox NYC releases the classic-video-game-themed album I Am Humanoid at Classic Gaming Expo 2005. (The album is attributed to Digital Retro Revolution.)
