Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 21, 2013. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

30 Seconds To Mars – Love, Lust, Faith + Dreams (Virgin/Universal)
Alpine – A Is For Alpine (Votiv)
Amos Slade – Hungry Earth (Sodak Media Group)
Baptist Generals – Jackleg Devotional To The Heart (Sub Pop)
Christopher Paul Stelling – False Cities (Christopher Paul Stelling)
Club 8 – Above The City (Labrador/Universal)
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories (Columbia)
Darius Rucker – True Believers (10 Spot)
Dead Gaze – Dead Gaze (Fat Cat Records)
Dirty Beaches – Drifters/Love Is The Devil (1-2-3-4-GO!)
Extrema – The Seed Of Foolishness (Scarlet Records)
FACT – Burundanga (Good Fight Music)
French Montana – Excise My French (Interscope Records)
The Front Bottoms – Talon Of The Hawk (Bar None Records)
Have Mercy – The Earth Pushed Back (Topshelf Records/Universal)
Japanther – Eat Like Lisa Act Like Bart (Recess Records)
The Joy Of Painting – Tender Age (South Division Records)
Linda Draper – Edgewise (Linda Draper)
LVMRKS – Pale Fairytale (LVMRKS Records)
Majical Cloudz – Impersonator (Matador Records)
Man Or Astro-Man? – Defcon 5…4…3…2…1  (Warm Electronic Recordings)
The National – Trouble Will Find Me (4AD Records)
NK – Nothing To Be Gained Here (Triple Crown Records)
Palisades – Outcasts (Rise Records)
Radiation City – Animals In The Median (Tender Loving Empire)
Red Hare – Nites Of Midnite (Dischord Records)
Saturday Looks Good To Me – One Kiss Ends It All (Polyvinyl Records)
Scout Niblett – It’s Up To Emma (Drag City)
The Story Changes – Static And Trembling (I Am Shark)
Ten Kens – Namesake (The MuseBox Records)
Thrift Store Talent – Evergreens (Pirate Our Music!)
Weerd Science – Red Light Juliet (Horris Records)
Young Benjamins – Less Argue (Young Benjamins)
Zed – Desperation Blues (I:and:I Recordings)

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Album Streams:

30 Seconds To Mars – Love, Lust, Faith + Dreams

Daft Punk – Random Access Memories

The National – Trouble Will Find Me

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

Staff :

1. The National
2. Arcade Fire
3. Laura Stevenson and The Cans
4.  The Dillinger Escape Plan
5. Kurt Vile
6. Bibio
7. Vampire Weekend
8. Waxahatchee
9. Mikal Cronin
10. Modest Mouse

Contributors:

1. The National
2. Burial
3. The Dillinger Escape Plan
4. Opeth
5. Deftones
6. Orchid
7. Boards Of Canada
8. Queens Of The Stone Age
9. Rob Zombie
10. Meshuggah