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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 Peoples)
Memphis May Fire – The Hollow (Rise Records)
Mindless Self Indulgence – Tighter (The End Records)
Martha Munizzi – Make It Loud (MmMG)
Of Montreal – thecontrollersphere (Polyvinyl Records)
Otep – Atavist (Victory Records)
Rachel Platten – Be Here (Rock Ridge Music)
Poisonblack – Drive {EU} (Hype Records)
Poly Styrene – Generation Indigo (Redeye Label)
Primordial – Redemption At The Puritan’s Hand (Metal Blade)
Samael – Lux Mundi {EU} (Season of Mist) — Trey Spencer
Silverstein – Rescue (Hopeless Records)
Emilie Simon – The Big Machine [Delayed US Release] (Le Plan Music)
Skindred – Union Black {EU} (BMG)
Sleepingdog – With Our Heads In The Clouds… (Gizeh Records)
Texas In July – One Reality (Equal Vision Records)
Thao & Mirah – Thao & Mirah (Kill Rock Stars)
Times New Viking – Dancer Equired (Merge Records)
Vomitory – Opus Mortis VIII (Metal Blade)
Winterus – In Carbon Mysticism (LIFEFORCE RECORDS)
The Wombats – This Modern Glitch (Bright Antenna) — Davey Boy
Younger Brother – Vaccine (Sci Fidelity Records) — Nick Butler

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

Augustana – Augustana

Bowling For Soup – Fishin’ For Woos

Bootsy Collins – The Funk Capitol of the World

Steve Earle – I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive 

Explosions in the Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care

Laura Stevenson & the Cans – Sit Resist

Poisonblack – Drive

Silverstein – Rescue

Emilie Simon – The Big Machine

Texas In July – One Reality

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

Staff:

01) TV on the Radio
02) Panda Bear
03) Thursday
04) Thrice
05) Fleet Foxes
06) Battles
07) Eisley
08) The Strokes
09) Kanye West
10) The National

General Users:

01) Radiohead
02) Thursday
03) Kanye West
04) Thrice
05) Foo Fighters
06) Brand New
07) Protest The Hero
08) Deftones
09) The National
10) Glassjaw

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