Album Sweep: June 8, 2013 - Part Two...

Hey gang, it's time to roll out part two of this week's "album sweep" sampling the records charting for the first time on Billboard's Top 200 Albums list. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as before I've included links to buy whatever you see.

Roaring in at #89 is Australian hard rock band Airbourne, from the southern city of Warrnambool, with their third disc Black Dog Barking, their second to reach the top half of the chart...

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The legendary Beach Boys return at #94 with their fifth official concert set Live - The 50th Anniversary Tour. Their 1964 release Beach Boys Concert was one of their only two #1 albums (the other being the compilation Endless Summer in 1974)...

Danish alternative rock group New Politics put their second album A Bad Girl In Harlem in on the chart at #129...

Actress and five-time Tony Award-winning stage star Audra McDonald returns at #147 with Go Back Home, her fifth solo album....

British crossover jazz/pop vocalist Jamie Cullum may not have hit the heights like peer Michael Buble has, but he has had a respectable career nonetheless, and his sixth album Momentum comes in at #156. his last effort, The Pursuit, almost made the top-40 at #42 in 2009...

Rapper Gucci Mane's eighth studio album Trap House III sneaks in at #175. It's quite a difference from his last studio set, The Appeal: Georgia's Most Wanted, which went to #4 in 2010...(NSFW)

New Jersey indie-rock band the Front Bottoms debut at #181 with Talon Of The Hawk....

 Gospel artist Jekalyn Carr arrives at #183 with Greater Is Coming....

The final debut of the week is yet another album compilation from Elvis Presley, whose Uncovered comes in at #192. Nothing really special here, just a bargain-priced compilation from 2012 of Elvis' tracks from his later years...

That does it for the second group of the new stuff....out of these nine the three I'd recommend first are the Audra McDonald, New Politics, and Jamie Cullum records....