Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of June 21, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

1,2,3 – New Heaven (frenchkiss)
Dave Alvin – Eleven Eleven (Yep Roc Records)
Attack! Attack! – The Latest Fashion (Rock Ridge Music)
August Burns Red – Leveler (Solid State Records) — Adam Thomas
The Black Dahlia Murder – Ritual (Metal Blade)
The Black Rabbits – Hypno Switch (Rock Ridge Music)
Blaq Poet – Blaq Poet Society (Brick Records)
Bon Iver – Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar) — Cam
Cindy Bradley – Unscripted (TRIPPIN & RHYTHM)
Cassettes Won’t Listen – EVINSPACEY (Daylight Curfew)
Co$$ – Before I Awoke (Tres)
The Crimson Armada – Conviction (Red Int/Red Ink)
Crossfade – We All Bleed (Eleven Seven Music)
Dayton Family – Charges of Indictment (Psychopathic)
The Devin Townsend Project – Deconstruction (Inside Out U.S.)
The Devin Townsend Project – Ghost (Inside Out U.S.)
Draconian – A Rose For The Apocalypse {EU} (Napalm Records)
Ellwood – Lost In Transition (Fat Wreck Chords)
Liam Finn – FOMO (Yep Roc Records)
Gomez – Whatevers on Your Mind (ATO RECORDS)
Grieves – Together/Apart (Rhymesayers)
In Flames – Sounds Of A Playground Fading (Century Media) — Trey Spencer
I Set My Friends On Fire – Astral Rejection (Epitaph)
Jagged Edge – Remedy (Slip N Slide)
The Japanese Popstars – Controlling Your Allegiance (ASTRALWERKS)
Jungle Rot – Kill on Command (Victory…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of June 14, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Bad Meets Evil – Hell: The Sequel [EP] (Interscope Records)
Bella Morte – Before The Flood (Metropolis Records)
Black Veil Brides – Set The World On Fire (Republic)
The Book Of Knots – Garden Of Fainting Stars (Ipecac Recordings)
Marc Broussard – Marc Broussard (Atlantic)
The Dear Hunter – The Color Spectrum (Triple Crown)
Departures – When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted (FITA Records)
Dismantled – The War Inside Me (Metropolis Records)
Emily’s Army – Don’t Be A Dick (Adeline Records)
Jackie Evancho – Dream With Me (Sony Music Distribution)
Gel Roc – Beautiful Tragedy (Abolano Records)
Andy Grammer – Andy Grammer (S-CURVE)
Junior Boys – It’s All True (Domino)
Ledisi – Pieces of Me (Verve Forecast)
Ziggy Marley – Wild And Free (Tuff Gong Worldwide)
Matt – What I Became (Piccadilly Records)
Pat Metheny – What’s It All About (Nonesuch)
Mr. J. Medeiros – Saudade (De Medeiros LLC)
Marissa Nadler – Marissa Nadler (Box Of Cedar)
Of Mice & Men – The Flood (Rise Records)
Owl City – All Things Bright and Beautiful (Universal Republic) — Rudy Klapper
Madeleine Peyroux – Standing on the Rooftop (Decca)
Planningtorock – W [Physical Release] (DFA Records)
Q-Tip & J. Period – The [Abstract] Best vol.1 (RBC Records)
Random Axe – Random Axe…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 24, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Acid Reign – Diversity (Uncommon Records)
Aerosmith – Tough Love: Best Of The Ballads (Geffen Records)
Against Me – Total Clarity (Fat Wreck Chords)
Amorphis – The Beginning Of Times {EU} (Nuclear Blast)
Army of the Universe – Mother Ignorance (Metropolis Records)
Art Brut – Brilliant! Tragic! (Cooking Vinyl) — Joseph Viney
David Bazan – Strange Negotiations (Barsuk)
Black Stone Cherry – Between The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea (Roadrunner Records)
Black Tusk – Passage Through Purgatory [Remastered] (Relapse)
Boris – Attention Please (Sargent House)
Boris – Heavy Rocks (Sargent House)
Carter’s Chord – Wild Together (Universal Music)
Cave In – White Silence (Hydra Head Records)
Clan Of Xymox – Darkest Hour (Metropolis Records)
Coerce – Ethereal Surrogate Saviour {AU} (Capitalgames Records)
Destroyer 666 – To the Devil His Due (Hells Headbangers)
The Devil Whale – Teeth (The Devil Whale)
Fireworks – Gospel (Triple Crown Records)
Foster the People – Torches (Columbia) — Rudy Klapper
Friendly Fires – Pala (XL Recordings)
Haemorrhage – Hospital Carnage (Relapse)
Inevitable End – Oculus (Relapse)
In Solitude – World the Flesh the Devil (Metal Blade)
Johanna & The Dusty Floor – Northern Lights (Red Valise Records)
King Creosote and Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine (Domino Records) — Observer
Lady Gaga…

Be sure to check out Rudy Klapper’s Coachella Festival coverage beginning here.

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 26, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

About Group – Start & Complete (Domino Recording Co.)
Agoraphobic Nosebleed/Despise You – And On and On… (Relapse)
Augustana – Augustana (Epic) — Jared Ponton
Bootsy Collins – The Funk Capitol of the World (Mascot Records)
Bowling For Soup – Fishin’ For Woos (RED GENERAL CATALOG)
Boxcutter – The Dissolve (Planet Mu)
Circle of Silence – The Blackened Halo (Massacre Records)
Dawn Of Disease – Legends Of Brutality (Noise Art Records)
Deafheaven – Roads to Judah (Deathwish Inc)
Steve Earle – I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive (New West Records)
The Echocentrics – Sunshadows (UBIQUITY RECORDS)
Explosions in the Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care (Temporary Residence)
Girl Names – Dead To Me (Slumberland Records)
Emmylou Harris – Hard Bargin (Nonesuch)
Insidead – Chaos Elecdead (Massacre Records)
In the Nursery – Blind Sound (ITN Corp) — Trey Spencer
Katatonia – Last Fair Deal Gone Down [Deluxe Edition] (Peaceville)
Katatonia – Night is the New Day [Deluxe Edition] (Peaceville)
KMFDM – WTF?! (Metropolis Records) — Trey Spencer
Lake Of Tears – Illwill (AFM Records)
Laura Stevenson & the Cans – Sit Resist (Don Giovanni Records) — Channing Freeman
Lions!Tigers!Bears! – Shallow Waters, Endless Depth (TRAGIC HERO RECORDS)
Julian Lynch – Terra (Underwater…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 19, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Azymuth – Aurora (Far Out Recordings)
The Belle Brigade – The Belle Brigade (Reprise)
Blackfield – Welcome To My DNA (Kscope)
Blu – Her Favorite Colo(u)r (Nature Sounds)
Kimberly Caldwell – Without Regret (Capitol)
Cam’ron & Vado – Gunz N Butta (Entertainment One)
Del The Funky Homosapien – Golden Era (The Council)
Dengue Fever – Cannibal Courtship (Fantasy)
DJ Quik – The Book of David (Mad Science)
Duff McKagan’s Loaded – The Taking (Eagle Records) — Joseph Viney
Eliza Doolittle – Eliza Doolittle (Capitol)
Explosions In The Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care {UK} (Temporary Residence Limited)
Former Thieves – The Language That We Speak (No Sleep Records)
French Horn Rebellion – The Infinite Music of… [Digital release] (Once Upon A Time Records)
Graveyard – Hisingen Blues (Nuclear Blast America)
The Head and the Heart – The Head and the Heart (Sub Pop)
I’m From Barcelona – Forever Today (MUTE)
InfinitiRock – Apeirophobia (Base Trip Records)
Lanu – Her 12 Faces (Tru Thoughts Recordings)
Leaves’ Eyes – Meredead {EU} (Napalm Records)
Lenka – Two (Epic)
Mf Doom – Operation Doomsday: Lunchbox [Box set] (Metal Face Records)
Midnattsol – The Metamorphosis Melody {EU} (Napalm Records)
Mike Tramp & Rock N Roll Circuz – Stand Your Ground (Cleopatra)
Tracy Nelson – Victim of the Blues (Delta Groove Productions)
Norther – Circle Regenerated (Century Media)
Pendragon – Passion (Snapper Madfish)
Periphery – Icarus Lives!…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 22 , 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Adele – 21 (Columbia) — Joseph Viney
The Aviator Set – Better Days [EP] (Self Released)
Julianna Barwick – The Magic Place (Asthmatic Kitty) — Robin Smith
Bayside – Killing Time (Wind-Up) — Davey Boy
Before the Dawn – Deathstar Rising {EU} (Nuclear Blast)
Jonny Burke – Distance And Fortune (Dreamcar Records)
Civet – Love & War (Hellcat Records)
Darkest Hour – The Human Romance (eOne Music) — Jared Ponton
Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows – D.R.U.G.S. (Sire/Decaydance)
DevilDriver – Beast (Roadrunner Records)
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter – Moral & Wahnsinn {EU} (Nuclear Blast Records)
Earth – Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1 (Southern Lord)
Eat Sugar – Levantense (Mush)
Evergrey – Glorious Collision (Steamhammer)
G. Love – Fixin to Die (Brushfire Records)
Handguns – Don’t Bite Your Tongue (Pure Noise Ent.)
I See Stars – The End of the World Party (Sumerian Records) — Davey Boy
Jamie xx/Gil Scott Heron – We’re New Here (XL)
Kerouac/The Long Haul – Split EP (Tangled Talk Records)
Komor Kommando – Oil, Steel & Rhythm (Alfa Matrix)
The Low Anthem – Smart Flesh (Nonesuch)
Luttenberger*Klug – Unsere Zeit (Universal)
Malakwa – Street Preacher (Alfa Matrix)
Mercenary – Metamorphosis (NoiseArt Records)
Moonsorrow – Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden…