Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 10, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

16Volt – Wisdom [ReIssue] (Metropolis Records)
Accept – Stalingrad (Nuclear Blast)
Addison Groove – Transistor Rhythm (50 Weapons) — Deviant
Amadou & Mariam – Folila (Nonesuch)
Ancestors – In Dreams & Time (Tee Pee Records)
Attaloss – Attaloss (Rock Ridge Music)
Tim Barry – 40 Miler (Chunksaah Records)
Kishi Bashi – 151a (Joyful Noise Records)
Bassnectar – Vava Voom (Amorphous)
Black Dice – Mr. Impossible (Ribbon Records)
Cavo – Thick as Thieves (Eleven Seven Music)
Charm City Devils – Sins (Fat Lady Music)
Choir of Young Believers – Rhine Gold (Ghostly Int’l)
Counting Crows – Underwater Sunshine (Collective Sounds)
Dead Sara – Dead Sara (Pocket Kid Records)
Demon Hunter – True Defiance (Solid State Records
Dirge Within – There Will Be Blood (THC/Rocket Science)
Enthroned – Obsidium (Agonia Records)
Exumer – Fire & Damnation (Metal Blade Records)
Fastway – Eat Dog Eat (Steamhammer/SPV)
Florence + The Machine – MTV Unplugged [CD/DVD – Deluxe Edition] (Universal Republic)
Nanci Griffith – Intersection (Spunk)
Halestorm – Strange Case Of (Atlantic)
Job for a Cowboy – Demonocracy (Metal Blade)
Keb Mo – X2: Keb Mo / Keep It Simple [Reissue] (Sony Legacy)
Darrelle London – Eat a Peach (Hype)
Jeff Loomis – Plains of Oblivion (Century Media) — SowingSeason
Lords Of Acid – Deep Chills (Metropolis Records)
Manafest – Fighter (BEC Recordings)
Monica – New Life (RCA)
Municipal Waste – Fatal Feast (Nuclear Blast)
Peelander-Z – Space Vacation (Chicken Ranch)
Ryan Power – I Don’t Want To Die (NNA Tapes)
Bonnie Raitt – Slipstream (Redwing Records)
Scars On 45 – Scars On 45 (Chop Shop)
Steep Canyon Rangers – Nobody Knows You (Rounder)
Taproot – The Episodes (Victory Records)
Trampled by Turtles – Stars and Satellites (Banjodad Records)
Lissy Trullie – Lissy Trullie (Xenon)
M. Ward – A Wasteland Companion (Merge Records) — Rudy Klapper
Emily Wells – Mama (Partisan Records)
Alex Winston – King Con (Cooperative Music)
Wumpscut – DJ Dwarf XII (Metropolis Records)
Wumpscut – Women and Satan First (Metropolis Records)
Zambri – House Of Baasa (Kanine Records)

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Album Streams:

Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls

Attaloss – Attallos

Bassnectar – Divergent Spectrum

Cavo – Thick as Thieves

Counting Crows – Underwater Sunshine

Dead Sara – Dead Sara

Dirge Within – There Will Be Blood

Exumer – Fire & Damnation

Hawthorne Headhunters – Myriad of Now

Job For a Cowboy – Demonocracy

Jeff Loomis – Plains of Oblivion

Monica – New Life

Pelican – Atataxia/Taraxis

Tallhart – Bloodlines

Elliot Yamin – Let’s Get to What’s Real

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

Staff:

01) The Shins
02) The Tallest Man on Earth
03) Fleet Foxes
04) Thursday
05) Converge
06) Wilco
07) Iron Maiden
08) Weezer
09) OFWGKTA
10) Gorod

General Users:

01) Radiohead
02) The Mars Volta
03) Brand New
04) The National
05) Meshuggah
06) Bon Iver
07) The Beatles
08) The Tallest Man on Earth
09) OFWGKTA
10) Converge

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