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

Big Time Rush – Elevate (Columbia)
Mary J. Blige – My Life II: The Journey Continues, Act 1 (Geffen Records)
The Break Up – Synthesis (Metropolis Records)
Kate Bush – 50 Words For Snow (ANTI Records)
Vanessa Carlton – Hear the Bells [EP] (Razor & Tie)
Caustic – White Knuckle Head Fuck [EP] (Metropolis Records)
Cloudkicker – Loop (Self Released)
Chris Cornell – Songbook (Universal Music)
Daughtry – Break The Spell (RCA)
Dimlite – Grimm Reality (Now Again)
Doap Nixon – Doap Traffiking (Nickel Bagz)
Doomtree – No Kings (Doomtree Records)
James Durbin – Memories Of A Beautiful Disaster (Wind-Up)
Floating Points – Shadows [EP] (Eglo Records) — Deviant
Gazpacho – London (KSCOPE)
J. Period & Black Thought – The Best of The Roots (RBC Records)
Kingdom [US] – Dreama (Night Slugs) — Deviant
Koji Kondo – The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony (Nintendo)
Lagwagon – Double Plaidnum [Reissue] (Fat Wreck Chords)
Lagwagon – Duh [Reissue] (Fat Wreck Chords)
Lagwagon – Hoss [Reissue] (Fat Wreck Chords)
Lagwagon – Let’s Talk About Feelings [Reissue] (Fat Wreck Chords)
Lagwagon – Putting Music in its Place [Box Set] (Fat Wreck Chords)
Lagwagon – Trashed [Reissue] (Fat Wreck Chords)
Magazine – No Thyself (Wire-Sound Records)
Mobb Deep – Black Cocaine [EP] (RED GENERAL CATALOG)
M.O.P – Sparta (Babygrande Records)
Nickelback – Here & Now (Roadrunner)
Phace and Misanthrop – Energy (Neosignal) — Deviant
Rihanna – Talk That Talk (Def Jam) — Steve M.
Riot – Immortal Soul (Steamhammer US)
Sepalcure – Sepalcure (Hotflush) — Deviant
Statik Sel/Action Bronson – Well Done (DCide)
Vain – Enough Rope (Phantom Domestic)
Vektor – Outer Isolation (MRI)
Voivod – To the Death 84 (Alternative Tentacle)
Yelawolf – Radioactive (XENON)
Young Statues – Young Statues (RED GENERAL CATALOG)

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Album Streams:

Big Time Rush – Elevate

Kate Bush – 50 Words For Snow

Vanessa Carlton – Hear the Bells

Cloudkicker – Loop

Daughtry – Break The Spell

Doomtree – No Kings

James Durbin – Memories Of A Beautiful Disaster

Riot – Immortal Soul

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

Staff:

01) Thrice
02) Deerhunter
03) Oneohtrix Point Never
04) Wilco
05) The Antlers
06) Bon Iver
07) Neutral Milk Hotel
08) The Jezabels
09) Johnny Foreigner
10) Girls

General Users:

01) Radiohead
02) Brand New
03) Thrice
04) Bon Iver
05) Cynic
06) The Beatles
07) Sigur Ros
08) Mastodon
09) Converge
10) M83

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