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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of June 19, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Ashanti – Braveheart (Entertainment One Music)
Beat Connection – The Palace Garden (Moshi Moshi/Tender Age)
Blood On The Dance Floor – Evolution (Dark Fantasy Records)
Broadway – Gentlemen’s Brawl (Uprising Records)
Can – The Lost Tapes (Mute)
Chantal Claret – The One, The Only (The End Records)
Chelsea Grin – Evolve (Razor & Tie/RSM)
Christian Loffler – A Forest (Ki Records)
Delta Rae – Carry the Fire (Sire / Wea)
Del the Funky Homosapien and Parallel Thought – Attractive Sin (Parallel Thought Ltd)
Devin Townsend – By A Thread: Live In London 2011 [CD/DVD] (Inside Out – EMI)
Dirty Heads – Cabin By The Sea (Five Seven Music)
Don Williams – And So It Goes (Sugar Hill Records)
The Dopamines – Vices (It’s Alive)
Dr. Acula – Nation (Victory)
Dr. Michael White – Adventures In New Orleans Jazz Part 2 (Basin Street Records)
Ephel Duath – On Death and Cosmos {EU} (Agonia Records)
Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel… (Epic)
For All Those Sleeping – Outspoken (Fearless Records)
The Ghost Inside – Get What You Give (Epitaph)
Glen Hansard – Rhythm and Repose (ANTI Records)
Ignite – Our Darkest Days Live [CD/DVD] (Century Media)
Ihsahn – Eremita (Candlelight / Lumberjack)
Justin Bieber – Believe (Island)
Katana – Storms of War (Listenable Records)
Kenny Chesney – Welcome To The Fishbowl (Sony Nashvillve / BNA)
Kylie Minogue – The Best Of Kylie Minogue [CD/DVD] (EMI)
Lions Lions – To carve Our Names (Hollywood Waste)
Lit – View From The Bottom (Megaforce)
Lita Ford – Living Like A Runaway (Steamhammer US)
Lostprophets – Weapons (Fearless Records) – Adam Knott
Make Do And Mend – Everything You Ever Loved (Rise Records)
Mnemic – Mnemesis (Nuclear Blast US)
Moby – Destroyed Remixed (Mute)
Morning Parade – Morning Parade (Astralwerks)
My Dynamite – My Dynamite (Listenable Records)
Neneh Cherry – The Cherry Thing (Smalltown Supersound)
The Overseer – We Search, We Dig (Solid State Records)
Peaking Lights – Lucifer (Mexican Summer)
Reactions – Archetypes [EP] (Reactions)
Ravi Coltrane – Spirit Fiction (Blue Note Records)
Rhapsody – Ascending to Infinity (Nuclear Blast)
The Smashing Pumpkins – Oceania (Martha’s Music) – Joseph Viney
Senses Fail – Follow Your Bliss: The Best Of (Vagrant Records)
Sophie B. Hawkins  – The Crossing (Lightyear)
Spineshank – Anger Denial Acceptance (Century Media)
States – Room To Run (Tooth & Nail Records)
Vicci Martinez – Vicci (Universal Motown Records Group)
Walk The Moon – Walk The Moon (RCA)
White Arrows – Dry Land Is Not A Myth (WEA)
Whitechapel – Whitechapel (Metal Blade)
Witch Mountain – Cauldron Of The Wild (Profound Lore)
Zulu Winter – Language (Arts & Crafts)

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Album Streams:

Ephel Duath – On Death And Cosmos

Glen Hansard – Rhythm And Repose

Smashing Pumpkins – Oceania

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

Staff :

01) Japandroids
02) Death Cab For Cutie
03) The Tallest Man On Earth
04) J Dilla
05) The National
06) Radiohead
07) fun.
08) Burial
09) M. Ward
10) Regina Spektor

Contributors:

01) Radiohead
02) Jack White
03) Japandroids
04) Fall Out Boy
05) Scritti Politti
06) Arthur Russell
07) Discovery
08) Love American
09) Main Attraktionz
10) Phortune