Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 05, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

2562 – Fever (When In Doubt)
3:33 – EP 1 (Parallel Thought)
Ambrose Akinmusire – When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note Records)
Artillery – My Blood (METAL MIN2)
Asking Alexandria – Reckless & Relentless (Sumerian Records)
Katy B – On A Mission (Columbia Records)
The Blackout – Hope (Cooking Vinyl) — Davey Boy
Blueprint – Adventures In Counter Culture (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
John Brodeur – Tiger Pop Ten (Mr. Duck Records)
Brotha Lynch Hung – Coathanga Strangla (Strange Music)
Craig Campbell – Craig Campbell (Bigger Picture)
Cold Cave – Cherish The Light Years (Matador Records)
Daft Punk – Tron: Legacy Reconfigured (Disney)
Ray Davies – See My Friends (Decca Records)
FM Static – My Brain Says Stop, But My Heart Says Go (Tooth & Nail Records)
Ghostlimb – Infrastructure (Vitriol Records)
Kina Grannis – Stairwells (One Haven)
Hollywood Undead – American Tragedy (A&M/Octone)
Hot Tuna – Steady As She Goes (Red House)
Ill Bill & Vinnie Paz – Heavy Metal Kings (Enemy Soil)
The Kills – Blood Pressures (Domino) — Rudy Klapper
Kool Keith – Legend of Tashan Dorrsett (Junkadelic Music)
Mandisa – What If We Were Real (Sparrow)
George Michael – The Lowdown (SEXY INTELLECTUAL)
Negura Bunget – Focul Viu [CD/DVD] (Prophecy)
Gretchen Parlato – The Lost and Found (OBLIQSOUND)
Raveonettes – Raven in the Grave (VICE RECORDS)
Robbie Robertson – How To Become Clairvoyant (429 Records)
Rush – Moving Pictures [Deluxe Edition CD/DVD-Audio] (Mercury)
Leon Russell – The Best of Leon Russell (Capitol)
Scattered Trees – Sympathy (Roll Call/EMI)
Sharks – The Joys Of Living 2008-2010 (Rise Records)
Rebecca St James – I Will Praise You (Reunion)
Tiesto – Club Life: Volume One Las Vegas (Musical Freedom)
Various Artists – Songs for Japan (Legacy)
Vicious Rumors – Razorback Killers (SPV)
Vigilante – The New Resistance: North American Special Edition (Artoffact Records) — Trey Spencer
John Zorn – Zorn: Nova Express (Tzadik)

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Album Streams (please inform us of any broken links/removed streams):

Cold Cave – Cherish The Light Years

Vicious Rumors – Razorback Killers

Vigilante – The New Resistance: North American Special Edition

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

Staff:

01) Sum 41
02) Pharoahe Monch
03) Radiohead
04) The Weeknd
05) TV on the Radio
06) The Flaming Lips
07) Weezer
08) Pink Floyd
09) Explosions in the Sky
10) The Strokes

General Users:

01) Radiohead
02) Protest the Hero
03) Brand New
04) Kanye West
05) Defeater
06) Thrice
07) The Beatles
08) The National
09) Deftones
10) The Strokes

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