Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of June 28, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

13 & God – Own Your G (Anticon)
Beyonce – 4 (Sony Music Distribution)
Big Sean – Finally Famous (Def Jam)
Evan Brewer – Alone (Sumerian Records)
Bunnydrums – Holy Moly (Metropolis Records)
Burn Halo – Up From the Ashes (Rawkhead Rekords)
David Cook – This Loud Morning (RCA)
Curren$y – Weekend at Burnies (Warner Bros.)
Billy Ray Cyrus – I’m American (Walt Disney Records)
Marianne Faithfull – Horses And High Heels (Naive)
Handsome Furs – Sound Kapital (Sub Pop)
Jolie Holland – Pint of Blood (Anti-)
Eilen Jewell – Queen of the Minor Key (Signature Records)
Junior Battles – Idle Ages (Paper and Plastick)
Alicia Keys – Songs in A Minor – 10th Anniversary Edition (Sony Legacy)
Left Banke – The Left Banke Too (Sundazed Music)
Limp Bizkit – Gold Cobra (Interscope Records)
Lock Up – Necropolis Transparent {EU} (Nuclear Blast)
Dolly Parton – Better Day (Dolly Records)
Pete Rock & Smif-N-Wessun – Monumental (Duck Down Records)
Queensryche – Dedicated to Chaos (Roadrunner Records) — Trey Spencer
Redlight King – Something for the Pain (Hollywood Records)
Riverside – Memories in My Head [EP] (Laser’s Edge)
Samiyam – Sam Baker’s Album (Brainfeeder)
Selena Gomez And The Scene – When The Sun Goes Down (Hollywood)
Set Your Goals – Burning at Both Ends (Epitaph)
Shabazz Palaces – Black Up (Sub Pop)
Sistema Subversiva – Da Cruz (Six Degrees)
Strawbs – Hero & Heroine-in Ascencia (Witchwood Media)
Taking Back Sunday – Taking Back Sunday (Warner Bros) — Adam Downer
There For Tomorrow – The Verge (Hopeless Records)
Thievery Corporation – Culture of Fear (Eighteenth Street)
Jenavieve Varga – Tambovieve (Anti-)
Gillian Welch – The Harrow & The Harvest (Acony Records)
White Wives – Happeners (Adeline Records)
Mark Wills – Looking for America (Gracie G Records)
Graham Wright – Shirts vs. Skins (FILE UNDER MUSIC)
Wu-Tang – Legendary Weapons (Entertainment One Music)
YACHT – Shangri-La (DFA)
Yes – Fly From Here {EU} (Frontiers Records)

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

Beyonce – 4

David Cook – This Loud Morning

Billy Ray Cyrus – I’m American

Alicia Keys – Songs in A Minor – 10th Anniversary Edition

Set Your Goals – Burning at Both Ends

Taking Back Sunday – Taking Back Sunday

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

Staff:

01) WU LYF
02) Bon Iver
03) Boards of Canada
04) Swarms
05) The National
06) Thrice
07) Deftones
08) System of a Down
09) Deerhunter
10) Broken Social Scene

Contributors:

01) The National
02) Bon Iver
03) Radiohead
04) Manchester Orchestra
05) WU LYF
06) Unwound
07) Four Tet
08) Third Eye Blind
09) American Football
10) Arcade Fire

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