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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of March 5, 2013. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Autechre – Exai (Warp Records)
Ashley Monroe – Like a Rose (Warner Bros.)
Blue hawaii – untogether (Alternative Distribution Alliance)
Boz Scaggs – Memphis (429 Records)
Caitlin Rose – The Stand-In (ATO RECORDS)
The Cave Singers – Naomi (Jagjaguwar)
Chelsea Light Moving – Chelsea Light Moving (Matador Records)
Cloud Cult – Love (Rebel Group)
The Demigodz – Killmatic (Dirty Version Record)
Enforcer – Death By Fire (Nuclear Blast)
Hatchet – Dawn Of The End (The End Records)
Hiromi – Move (Telarc)
Hollis Brown – Ride On The Train (Alive Records)
How To Destroy Angels – Welcome Oblivion (Columbia)
Jason Graves – Tomb Raider – Original Soundtrack (Sumthing Else Music Works)
Javelin – Hi Beams (Luaka Bop)
Jimi Hendrix – People, Hell & Angels (Legacy)
Josh Ritter – Beast in Its Tracks (Pytheas Recordings)
Kate Nash – Girl Talk (INGROOVES)
Kvelertak – Meir (Roadrunner Records)
Krokus – Dirty Dynamite (The End Records)
Madeleine Peyroux – The Blue Room (Decca)
Making Movies – A La Deriva (Independent)
The Men – New Moon (Sacred Bones) — Adam Downer
Mishka – Ocean Is My Potion (Aviate Records)
Molly Drake – Molly Drake (Squirrel Thing Recordings)
Neaera – Ours is the Storm (Metal Blade)
Ólöf Arnalds – Sudden Elevation (One Little Indian)
Ominum Gatherum – Beyond (Lifeforce Records)
Robyn Hitchcock – Love From London (Yep Roc Records)
Rotting Christ – Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy (Season of Mist)
Soilwork – The Living Infinite (Nuclear Blast) — Trey Spencer
Son Volt – Honky Tonk (Rounder)
Stereophonics – Graffiti on the Train (Stylus Records)
Stubborn Heart – Stubborn Heart (One Little Indian)
Superhuman Happiness – Hands (Royal Potato)
Suuns – Images Du Futur (Secretly Canadian)
They Might Be Giants – Nanobots (Idlewild Recordings)
The Tossers – The Emerald City (Victory Records)
Upon Wings – Afterlife (Sword of the Spirit Records) — Davey Boy
Young Dreams – Between Places (Modular Interscope)
Youth Lagoon – Wondrous Bughouse (Fat Possum Records)

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

Staff :

1. Shai Hulud
2. Pissed Jeans
3. Nails
4. Weezer
5. Beach Fossils
6. Neurosis
7. Radiohead
8. Modest Mouse
9. Tame Impala
10. KMFDM

Contributors:

1. The National
2. Coheed and Cambria
3. The Fall of Every Season
4. Burial
5. Meshuggah
6. Nine Inch Nails
7. Tyler, The Creator
8. Taking Back Sunday
9. Silverstein
10. Botanist