Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of October 21st, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Allo Darlin’ – We Come From The Same Place (Slumberland)
Andrew St. James – The Shakes (Fortune Records)
Annie Lennox – Nostalgia (Blue Note/Universal)
Ben Howard – I Forget Where We Were (Universal Republic)
Billy Idol – Kings & Queens Of The Underground (Kobalt)
Boyz II Men – Collide (BMG Rights Management)
The Budos Band – Burnt Offering (Daptone)
Cold War Kids – Hold My Home (Downtown)
Eliot Bronson – Eliot Bronson (Saturn 5 Records/Hubbub! Music)
Elliott Brood – Work And Love (Paper Bag Records)
Horrendous – Ecdysis (Dark Descent) – Kyle Ward
The Flaming Lips – With A Little Help From My Fwends (Warner Bros.)
Jakob – Sines (Mylene Sheath)
Jeff The Brotherhood – Dig The Classics (Warner Bros.)
Jenn Grant – Compostela (Outside Music)
Jessie Ware – Tough Love (Interscope Records)
Little Big Town – Pain Killer (Capitol Nashville)
Mark Lanegan Band – Phantom Radio (Vagrant Records)
Modern Vices – Modern Vices (Autumn Tone Records)
Mystery Skulls – Forever (Warner Bros.)
Neil Diamond – Melody Road (CMG)
Ólafur Arnalds & Janus Rasmussen – Kiasmos (Erased Tapes Records)
Primus – Primus & The Chocolate Factory (ATO Records)
Rancid – Honor Is All We Know (Epitaph)
Scott Walker and Sunn O))) – Soused (4AD)
Slipknot – .5: The Gray Chapter (Roadrunner Records)
Stalley – Ohio (MMG/Atlantic)
Stench – Venture (Agonia Records)
Susan Boyle – Hope (Columbia)
T.I. – Paperwork (Columbia)
Taylor Swift – 1989 (Big Machine Records)
Thurston Moore – The Best Day (Matador Records)
Transit – Joyride (Rise Records)
Yusuf – Tell ‘Em I’m Gone (Legacy)

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Album Streams:

Billy Idol – Kings & Queens Of The Underground

The Flaming Lips – With A Little Help From My Fwends

Jessie Ware – Tough Love

Mark Lanegan Band – Phantom Radio

Neil Diamond – Melody Road

Primus – Primus & The Chocolate Factory

Slipknot – .5: The Gray Chapter

T.I – Paperwork

Thurston Moore – The Best Day

Yusuf – Tell ‘Em I’m Gone

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

Staff :

1. Flying Lotus
2. Caribou
3. St. Vincent
4. Real Estate
5. Porcupine Tree
6. Sun Kil Moon
7. Freddie Gibbs
8. Coheed & Cambria
9. The New Pornographers
10. Anberlin

Contributors:

1. Converge
2. Run The Jewels
3. Flying Lotus
4. The National
5. Brand New
6. Slipknot
7. Nine Inch Nails
8. Aphex Twin
9. Trophy Scars
10. Arctic Monkeys

Community:

1. Flying Lotus
2. Radiohead
3. Weezer
4. The National
5. Brand New
6. Aphex Twin
7. Converge
8. Mastodon
9. Kanye West
10. Run The Jewels