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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of June 26, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

16Volt – LetDownCrush [Reissue] (Metropolis Records)
As The Sky Awaits – Rebirth
Beachwood Sparks – The Tarnished Gold (Sub Pop)
Blues Traveler – Suzie Cracks The Whip (429 Records)
Bondo do Role – Tropicalbacanal (Mad Decent)
Bright Light Bright Light – Make Me Believe In Hope (Self Raising Records)
Casey Abrams – Casey Abrams (Concord Music)
Cesium_137 – Science and Sound (Metropolis Records)
Chris Cagle – Back In The Saddle (Bigger Picture Group)
The Cinematic Orchestra – In Motion # 1 (Ninja Tune)
The Daredevil Christopher Wright – The Nature of Things (FILE UNDER MUSIC)
Davidson Hart Kingsberry – 2 Horses (2012 Fin Records)
DIIV – Oshin (Captured Tracks)
Diplo – Express Yourself (Mad Decent)
Dynasty Electric – Dynasty Electric (No Shame)
Echo Lake – Wild Peace (Slumberland Records)
The End Of The Ocean – In Excelsis (Futurerecordings)
Everclear – Invisible Stars (Entertainment One)
Everest – Ownerless (Ato Records)
The Flaming Lips – The Flaming Lips & Heady Fwends (Warner Bros.)
Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage (Roadrunner Records)
Icebreaker with BJ Cole – Apollo (Cantaloupe)
Jerry Douglas – Traveler (Entertainment One Music)
Jesca Hoop – The House That Jack Built (Bella Union)
Joe Jackson – The Duke (Razor & Tie)
Linkin Park – Living Things (Warner Bros./WEA)
Little Feat – Rooster Rag (Rounder)
Maroon 5 – Overexposed (A&M Octone)
Memphis May Fire – Challenger (Rise Records)
Mieka Pauley – The Science of Making Choices (Meika Pauley)
Milk Maid – Mostly No (Fat Cat)
Mindy Smith – Mindy Smith (101 DISTRIBUTION)
The Offspring – Days Gone By (Columbia)
Nymfo – Characters (Commercial Suicide)
Old Man Gloom – NO (Hydra Head Records)
Parallels – XII (Marigold Records)
A Place to Bury Strangers – Worship (Dead Oceans)
R. Kelly – Write Me Back (RCA)
A Sight For Sewn Eyes – Alone Together (PID)
Sleeping With Sirens – If You Were A Movie, This Would Be Your Soundtrack (Rise Records)
Sonny and the Sunsets – Longtime Companion (Polyvinyl Records)
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives – Throw It To The Universe (Yep Roc Records)
Tigers On Trains – Foundry (Simple Stereo)
Two Wounded Birds – Two Wounded Birds (PID)
Ty Segall Band – Slaughterhouse (In The Red Records)

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Album Streams:

Blues Traveler – Suzie Cracks The Whip

R.Kelly – Write Me Back

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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) Rush
02) Sleigh Bells
03) Manchester Orchestra
04) Fleet Foxes
05) Pink Floyd
06) Against Me!
07) Fiona Apple
08) LE Yikes SURF CLUB
09) Lana Del Rey
10) Poison The Well