Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 12, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Azam Ali – From Night to the Edge of Day (Six Degrees)
Alison Krauss & Union Station – Paper Airplanes (Rounder)
Atmosphere – The Family Sign (Rhymesayers) — John A. Hanson
Autechre – EPs 1991-2002 (Warp Records)
Believer – Transhuman (Metal Blade Records) — Trey Spencer
Bell X1 – Bloodless Coup (Yep Roc Records)
Between the Buried and Me – The Parallax (Metal Blade Records)
Caustic – The Golden Vagina Of Fame And Profit (Metropolis Records)
Classified – Handshakes+Middle Fingers (Decon)
Clemits – My Secret Garden (MSG Records)
Combichrist – Throat Full of Glass [EP] (Metropolis Records)
Crystal Stilts – In Love With Oblivion (Slumberland Records)
Brett Dennen – Loverboy (Dualtone Music Group)
Elbow – Build a Rocket Boys! (Downtown/Cooperative Music)
The Feelies – Here Before (BAR NONE ENT)
Foo Fighters – Wasting Light (RCA) — Nick Butler
Fractured – Beneath the Ashes (Metropolis Records)
Dana Fuchs – Love to Beg (RUF RECORDS)
Generationals – Actor-Caster (PARK THE VAN RECORDS)
Guano Apes – Bel Air {EU} (Columbia Europe)
Holy Ghost! – Holy Ghost! (DFA)
Jessie J – Who You Are (Universal Music Group)
Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit – Here We Rest (LIGHTNING ROD REC.)
Joan As Police Woman – The Deep Field (Play It Again Sam)
League of Lights – League of Lights (Self Released)
Low – C’Mon (Sub Pop)
Mana – Drama y Luz (Warner Music Latina)
Meat Puppets – Lollipop (Megaforce)
Moonlight Towers – Day Is The New Night (CHICKEN RANCH)
Agnes Obel – Philharmonics (Play It Again Sam)
Panda Bear – Tomboy (Paw Tracks) — Adam Downer
Pentagram – Last Rites (Metal Blade Records)
Pour Habit – Got Your Back (Fat Wreck Chords)
The Pretty Reckless – Light Me Up (Interscope Records)
Rebirth Brass Band – Rebirth Of New Orleans (Basin Street Records)
Red Fang – Murder the Mountains (Relapse Records)
Scar Symmetry – The Unseen Empire {EU} (Nuclear Blast)
Paul Simon – So Beautiful Or So What (HEAR MUSIC)
Skold – Suck [EP] (Metropolis Records) — Trey Spencer
Sonny And The Sunsets – Hit After Hit (Fat Possum Records)
Laura Story – Blessings (COLUMBIA/INO)
Swollen Members – Dagger Mouth (Battle Axe Records)
Teenage Bottlerocket – Mutilate Me [3 Song 7″] (Fat Wreck Chords)
Thursday – No Devolución (Epitaph) — Adam Thomas
Trampled Under Foot – Wrong Side Of The Blues (Vizzitone)
TV on the Radio – Nine Types of Light (Interscope Records) — Sobhi Abdul-Rakhman
Uriah Heep – Into The Wild {EU} (Frontiers Records)
Vivian Girls – Share the Joy (Polyvinyl Records) — Robin Smith
Young Widows – In and Out of Youth and Lightness (Temporary Residence)

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Album Streams (please inform us of any broken links/removed streams):

Foo Fighters – Wasting Light

Panda Bear – Tomboy

TV on the Radio – Nine Types of Light

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SputnikMusic’s Most Played Artists of the Week (according to Last.FM):

Staff:

01) The Weeknd
02) Fleet Foxes
03) Arcade Fire
04) Bibio
05) Burial
06) Bob Dylan
07) Yeah Yeah Yeahs
08) Between the Buried and Me
09) TV on the Radio
10) At the Drive-In

General Users:

01) Radiohead
02) Brand New
03) Thrice
04) Between the Buried and Me
05) Protest the Hero
06) Deftones
07) Burial
08) The Beatles
09) Kanye West
10) Defeater

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