Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 02, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Antigone Rising – 23 Red (101 DISTRIBUTION)
Archers of Loaf – Icky Mettle (Merge Records)
Trace Atkins – Proud To Be Here (Show Dog Nashville)
Battlecross – Pursuit of Honor (Metal Blade)
Boston Spaceships – Let it Beard (Guided By Voices)
Richard Buckner – Our Blood (Merge Records)
Bury Your Dead – Mosh N’ Roll (MEDIASKARE)
Caina – Hands That Pluck (Profound Lore)
Greyson Chance – Hold On ‘Til the Night (Geffen Records)
Dead and Divine – Antimacy (Wolf At Your Door Records)
Denial Fiend – Horror Holocaust (Ibex Moon)
Direct Hit – Domesplitter (Kind of Like Records)
Dir en Grey – Dum Spiro Spero (The End)
Excruciator – The Devouring (Heavy Artillery)
Flourishing – The Sum Of All Fossils (The Path Less Traveled)
Fountains Of Wayne – Sky Full Of Holes (Yep Roc Records) — Rudy Klapper
Fruit Bats – Tripper (Sub Pop)
Harvest – Years of Defiance. Years of Disgust. (Good Fight)
John Hiatt – Dirty Jeans & Mudslide Hymns (New West Records)
Hot Water Music – The Fire, The Steel, The Tread / Adds Up To Nothing (Self-released)
It Prevails – Stroma (MEDIASKARE)
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter – Marble Son (Thirty Tigers)
Keb Mo – The Reflection (Yolabelle International)
Machine Drum – Room(s) (101 DISTRIBUTION)
Malefice – Awaken the Tides (Metal Blade)
Manraze – Punkfunkrootsrock (Rocket Science)
Mariachi El Bronx – Mariachi El Bronx (ATO RECORDS)
Moonface – Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped (Jagjaguwar)
Nekromantix – What Happens In Hell, Stays In Hell (Hellcat Records)
Noise By Numbers – Over Leavitt (Jump Start Records)
O.A.R. – King (Wind-up Records)
Powerwolf – Blood of the Saints (Metal Blade Records)
Screaming Trees – Last Words: The Final Recordings (Digital Only)
Swollen Members – Monsters II (Suburban Noize)
Thi’Sl – Beautiful Monster (X-Hustler Music)
Unkind – Harhakuvat (Relapse)
Viva Brother – Famous First Words (A&M/Octone)
Jim Ward – Quiet In The Valley, On The Shores The End Begins & The Electric Six (Tembloroso)

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

Bury Your Dead – Mosh N’ Roll

Dead and Divine – Antimacy

Direct Hit – Domesplitter

Falls of Rauros – The Light That Dwells In Rotten Wood

Fountains Of Wayne – Sky Full Of Holes

It Prevails – Stroma

Keb Mo – The Reflection

Mariachi El Bronx – Mariachi El Bronx

O.A.R. – King

Swollen Members – Monsters II

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

Staff:

01) Fair to Midland
02) Thrice
03) The National
04) Bon Iver
05) Radiohead
06) Swarms
07) Boards of Canada
08) Bob Dylan
09) Frank Turner
10) Jimmy Eat World

Contributing Reviewers:

01) Radiohead
02) Thrice
03) Tim Hecker
04) Elliott Smith
05) Punch
06) Taylor Swift
07) Beirut
08) Bon Iver
09) Neutral Milk Hotel
10) Trophy Scars

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