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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of June 12, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Assemblage 23 – Bruise (Metropolis Records)
Azealia Banks – 1991 (Interscope Records)
BoDeans – American Made (Megaforce)
Bouncing Souls – Comet (Rise Records)
Celldweller – Wish Upon a Blackstar (FiXT Music)
Charli XCX – You’re the One (IAMSOUND)
Alice Cohen – Pink Keys (Olde English Spelling Bee)
The dB’s – Falling Off The Sky (Bar None Records)
Decoded Feedback – disKonnekt (Metropolis Records)
Dent May – Do Things (Paw Tracks)
Eternal Tapestry – Dawn In 2 Dimensions (Digitalis)
Friends – Manifest! (Fat Possum)
Future of the Left – The Plot Against Common Sense (Xtra Mile)
Giant Sand – Tucson (Fire Records)
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals – The Lion The Beast The Beat (Hollywood Records)
Guided by Voices – Class Clown Spots a UFO (Guided By Voices)
Heimataerde – Gottgleich (Metropolis Records)
Hot Chip – In Our Heads (Domino)
Ryan Humbert – Sometimes The Game Plays You (Rock Ridge Music)
The Hundred In The Hands – Red Night (Warp Records)
iVardensphere – I Dream In Noise: Remixes Vol. 2 (Metropolis Records)
Jaill – Traps (Sub Pop)
Jukebox the Ghost – Safe Travels (Yep Roc Records)
Kandodo – Kandodo (Thrill Jockey)
Maximo Park – The National Health (Self Released)
Metric – Synthetica (Mom & Pop Music)
Michael The Blind – Are’s & Els (Alder Street Records)
Miss May I – At Heart (Rise Records)
Nouela – Chants (The Control Group)
Oddisee – People Hear What They See (Mello Music Group)
Rush – Clockwork Angels (Roadrunner Records)
Skinny Puppy – Bootlegged, Broke And In Solvent Seas (Metropolis Records)
SpaceGhostPurrp – Chronicles Of SpaceGhostPurrp (4AD Records)
Tallest Man On Earth – There’s No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans)
These United States – These United States (UNITED INTERESTS)
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Trouble (Xenon)
Josh Turner – Punching Bag (MCA Nashville)
Usher – Looking 4 Myself (RCA)
Waka Flocka Flame – Triple F Life (Warner Bros.)
Wintersleep – Hello Hum (Roll Call Records)
Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man in the Universe (XL Recordings)

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Album Streams:

Grace Potter & the Nocturnals – The Lion The Beast The Beat

Oddisee – People Hear What They See

Tallest Man On Earth – There’s No Leaving Now

Waka Flocka Flame – Triple F Life

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

Staff :

01) Coldplay
02) Boards of Canada
03) Regina Spektor
04) The Walkmen
05) Japandroids
06) Kanye West
07) Interpol
08) Hot Water Music
09) St. Vincent
10) Be’lakor

Contributors:

01) The Killers
02) Radiohead
03) Bruce Springsteen
04) Love American
05) Vampire Weekend
06) Wavves
07) Muse
08) The Tallest Man on Earth
09) Grimes
10) Torche

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