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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of July 10, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Aesop Rock – Skelethon (Rhymesayers)
Alaska/Oranges – The Summer I Joined The Harlem Globetrotters [Split/EP] (Yespleaserecords)
Beak> – >>  (Invada)
Brendan James – Hope In Transition (Rock Ridge Music)
Bury Tomorrow – The Union Of Crowns (Nuclear Blast America)
Clare and the Reasons – KR-51 (Frog Stand Records)
Communist Daughter – Lions & Lamb [EP] (Grain Belt Records)
Dan Le Sac – Space Between The Words (Sunday Best)
Delicate Steve – Positive Force (Luaka Bop)
Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan (Domino) – SowingSeason
Duran Duran – A Diamond in the Mind [DVD] (Eagle Rock Entertainment)
The Early November – In Currents (Rise Records)
Eleni Mandell – I Can See the Future (Yep Roc Records)
Erika Forster – Erika Forster [EP] (Cascine)
Erika Spring – Erika Spring [EP](Cascine)
Glass Cloud – The Royal Thousand (Equal Vision Records)
Glocca Morra – Just Married (Kind Of Like Records)
The Grates – Secret Rituals (AIS)
Hank Williams Jr. – Old School… New Rules (Warner Bros.)
Holograms – Holograms (Captured Tracks)
House Of Heroes – Cold Hard Want (Gotee Records) – DaveyBoy
House Vs Hurricane – Crooked Teeth (PID)
Husky – Forever So (Sub Pop) – SowingSeason
I Call Fives – I Call Fives (Pure Noise Ent.)
JJAMZ – Suicide Pact (Dangerbird)
Kadaver – Kadaver (Tee Pee Records)
Marina And The Diamonds – Electra Heart (Elektra/Asylum)
Mark Tremonti – All I Was (FRET12 Records)
Martin Rivas – Reliquary (BTA/Hubbub!)
Mission Of Burma – Unsound (Fire Records)
Moonloop – Deeply from the Earth (Listenable Records)
P.O.D. – Murdered Love (Razor & Tie)
Rhett Walker Band – Come To The River (Provident)
Serj Tankian – Harakiri (Reprise)
Thick As Blood – Living Proof (Rise Records)
Twin Shadow – Confess (4AD Records)
Watch Commander – Clock And Compass (Self Released)
Zac Brown Band – Uncaged (Atlantic)

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Album Streams:

Brendan James – Hope In Transition

Clare And The Reasons – KR-51

Dan Le Sac – Space Between The Words

Delicate Steve – Positive  Force

Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan

The Early November – In Currents

Eleni Mandell – I Can See The Future

Glass Cloud – The Royal Thousand

Glocca Morra – Just Married

Husky – Forever So

JJAMZ – Suicide Pact

Mission Of Burma – Unsound

P.O.D. – Murdered Love

Serj Tankian – Harakiri

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

Staff :

01) Killer Mike
02) Fiona Apple
03) Thursday
04) Okkervil River
05) Touche Amore
06) Modest Mouse
07) Neil Young
08) Bob Dylan
09) Kanye West
10) Built To Spill

Contributors:

01) Death cab For Cutie
02) Against Me!
03) David Gilmour
04) A Place To Bury Strangers
05) Baroness
06) Celine Dion
07) Sufjan Stevens
08) Advent
09) Enabler
10) Sleepy Sun