Albums to be released today

Airport 5 “Life Starts Here” (Rockathon)

Aspera “Birds Fly EP” (Suicide Squeeze)

B2K “Iz Hot!” (Epic)

Beatifics “In the Meantime” EP (Bus Stop)

Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo “Live” (DVD and VHS same day) (Gold Circle)

Greg Brown “Milk of the Moon” (Red House)

Gary Burton/Makoto Ozone “Virtuosi” (Concord Jazz)

Calibretto 13 “Adventures in Tokyo” (Tooth & Nail)

Cinema8 “Cinema8” (Telegraph)

Eels “Souljacker” (Dreamworks)

Fila Brazilia “Jump Leads” (23 Music)

Finch “What It Is To Burn” (Drive-Thru)

Hayden “Skyscraper National Park” (Badman)

Hot Rod Circuit “Sorry About Tomorrow” (Vagrant)

Indigo Girls “Become You” (Epic)

Masters of the Hemisphere “I Can’t Believe the Volume” (Kindercore)

Bob Mould “Modulate” (GM/ Red Ink)

N.E.R.D. (Neptunes) “In Search of…” (Virgin)

Six Parts Seven “Things Shaped in Passing” (Suicide Squeeze)

Supersuckers “Must’ve Been Live” (Mid-Fi)

Toothpaste 2000 “Instant Action” (Parasol)

Tosca “Suzuki in Dub” (K7)

Letterman to remain at CBS

David Letterman won’t be moving to ABC after all. Letterman told the audience at Tuesday afternoon’s “Late Show” taping that he plans to stay at CBS.

The host had been away on a St. Bart’s vacation when word leaked that he was considering an offer to displace Ted Koppel’s “Nightline” at ABC; Tuesday was his first taping since that news broke. “This is how strange my life’s been the last week — earlier today, I got a call offering me the `Tonight’ show,” Letterman joked at the taping, according to the AP.

ABC is said to have offered the host $31 million a year and his own studio in Times Square, while CBS countered with a slightly lower offer.

Additional reports suggested Letterman was reluctant to threaten the highly regarded “Nightline” and CBS was offering heavy promotion on its corporate brethren at MTV and VH1.

Rob Burnett, president of Worldwide Pants, Letterman’s production company, told the AP that the host’s nine-year stint at CBS was “too much to walk away from” and that Letterman was flattered by the attention from both sides.

– News gathered by Bethany Kohoutek and Charlie Weaver from pitchforkmedia.com, billboard.com, and the associated press