Here’s a list of major new releases for the weeks of November 13 and November 20 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Also, a quick notice to all the Contributing Reviewers: the resurrected Contributors Thread is once again open for business. For all the recently  promoted, feel free to browse the first post and get familiar with the idea of the thread. A reminder to all though – the thread is designed for the contribs only; any user wishing to make a review request should still post here.

11.13.2012

Aaron Lewis – The Road (Blaster Records)
Access Denied – Touch Of Evil (Pitch Black Records)
Army Of Freshmen – Happy To Be Alive (Arkive Records)
The Babies – Our House On The Hill (Woodsist)
Bambi Lee Savage – Darkness Overshadowed (Bambi Lee Savage)
Brian Eno – Lux (Warp Records)
Christina Aguilera – Lotus (RCA)
Clinic – Free Reign (Domino)
Coldplay – Live 2012 [CD/DVD] (Parlophone)
Deftones – Koi No Yokan (Reprise) – Eli Kleman
Donny & Current Value – The Reading (Barcode Recordings)
Fake Blood – Cells ([PIAS] America)
Front Line Assembly – Airmech (Metropolis Records)
Green Day – iDos! (Reprise) – Joseph Viney
Guided By Voices – The Bears For Lunch (Guided By Voices)
Holly Herndon – Movement (Rvng Intl)
How To Destroy Angels – An Omen (Columbia)
Inertia – Universal Blood (Metropolis Records)
Issues – Black Diamonds (Rise Records)
Jozef Van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch – The Mystery Of Heaven (Sacred Bones)
Kim Talon – Kim Talon (Enclaves Records)
Lust For Youth – Growing Seeds (Sacred Bones)
Madness – Oui Oui, Si Si, Ja Ja, Da Da (Koch International)
Major League – Hard Feelings (No Sleep Records)
Matt & Toby – Matt & Toby (Tooth & Nail Records)
Midnight Magic – Walking The Midnight Streets (Midnight Sun Sound)
Motionless In White – Infamous (Fearless Records)
The New Lows – I Couldn’t Sleep (The New Lows)
One Direction – Take Me Home (Columbia)
Oneida – A List Of The Burning Mountains (Jagjaguwar)
Panic Lift – Is This Goodbye? (Metropolis Records)
Phillip Phillips – The World From The Side Of The Moon (Interscope Records)
Pop Levi – Medicine (Ninja Tune/Counter Records)
Robotiko Rejekto – Corporate Power (Metropolis Records)
Roc Marciano – Reloaded (Decon)
The Rolling Stones – GRRR! (ABKCO/Interscope)
School Of Seven Bells – Put Your Sad Down (Vagrant Records/Ghostly International)
Soundgarden – King Animal (Universal Republic)
Stephen Lynch – LION (What Are Records)
Steve Hauschildt – Sequitur (Kranky)
Storm The Beaches – Hemisphere (Apparition Records)
Sufjan Stevens – Silver & Gold: Songs For Christmas, Volumes 6-10 (Asthmatic Kitty)
Tormention – Hunger For Flesh (Grindhouse Music)
Vinyl Williams – Lemniscate (Salonislam)
The Weeknd – Trilogy (Universal Republic)

11.20.2012

AC/DC – Live At River Plate (Columbia)
Bad Brains – Into The Future (Megaforce)
Counterstrike – Fire (Algorhythm)
Delete – Predatory Things Of A Minute (Mindtrick Records)
Elbow – Dead In The Boot (Polydor UK)
The Evens – The Odds (Dischord)
Finsterforst – Rastlos (Napalm Records)
Graham Parker & The Rumor – Three Chords Good (Primary Wave)
Hell Militia – Jacob’s Ladder (Season Of Mist)
Keyshia Cole – Womman To Woman (Geffen Records)
Kid Rock – Rebel Soul (Atlantic)
Kylesa – From The Vaults Vol.1 (Season Of Mist)
Led Zeppelin – Celebration Day [CD/DVD] (Atlantic)
Maduk – Never Again (Fokuz Recordings)
Munruthel – CREEDamage (AIS)
Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded – The Re-Up (Universal Music Group/Cash Money)
Papercranes – Three (Manimal Vinyl) – SowingSeason
Phillip Phillips – World From The Side Of The Moon (Interscope Records)
Pitbull – Global Warming (RCA)
Porcupine Tree – Octane Twisted [CD/DVD] (Kscope Records)
Rihanna – Unapologetic (Island/Def Jam)
Royal Trux – Accelerator [Reissue] (101 Distribution)
Sienna Skies – The Constant Climb (Invogue Records)
Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin – Instrumental Tourist (Software)
The Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know: The Remixes (Fat Cat Records)
Uncle Kracker – Midnight Special (Sugarhill)
Woe, Is Me – Genesi[s] (Rise Records)

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Album Streams:

Bad Brains – Into The Future

The Evens – The Odds

Holly Herndon – Movement

Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch – The Mystery Of Heaven

Kylesa – From The Vaults Vol. 1

Papercranes – Three

Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin – Instrumental Tourist

The Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know: The Remixes

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

Staff :

01) Deftones
02) Converge
03) Andrew Bird
04) The National
05) Radiohead
06) Propagandhi
07) The Replacements
08) Japandroids
09) Destroyer
10) Lostprophets

Contributors:

01) Janelle Monae
02) Kendrick Lamar
03) Stars Of The Lid
04) The Weeknd
05) Drake
06) Deftones
07) Neurosis
08) Burial
09) Regina Spektor
10) Florence + The Machine