Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of July 30, 2013. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Alelea Diane – About Farewell (Rusted Blue Records)
Backstreet Boys – In A World Like This (K-Bahn LLC/BMG Rights Management)
Barricades – With Perfect Aim (Barricades)
Buddy Guy – Rhythm & Blues (RCA)
Chimaira – Crown Of Phantoms (Entertainment One)
Confide – All Is Calm (Confide)
Cosmoscope – Hero Or Menace (Cosmoscope)
Elitist – Between The Balance (Consumer Records)
Enduser – Retox (Retox)
Five Finger Death Punch – The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell – Part I (Prospect Park)
Fortune Howl – Earthbound (Fortune Howl/Bandcamp)
Joan Of Arc – Testimonium Songs (Polyvinyl Records)
Michael Franti & Spearhead – All People (Capitol)
Missing Monuments – Missing Monuments (Dirtnap Records)
Moreland & Arbuckle – 7 Cities (Telarc)
The Reign Of Kindo – Play With Fire (Candyrat Records)
Russell Howard – City Heart + (Rock Ridge Music)
Shpongle – Museum Of Consciousness (Twisted Records)
Soft Swells – Lifeboats (Modern Outsider)
Sparks The Rescue – Truth Inside The Fiction (Sparks The Rescue)
Tech N9ne – Something Else (Strange Music)
Tiefighter – Tiefighter (Tiefighter)
Vince Gill & Paul Franklin – Bakersfield (MCA Nashville)

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Album Streams:

Missing Monuments – Missing Monuments

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

Staff :

1. Thundercat
2. Vampire Weekend
3. The National
4. Slum Village
5. Mew
6. Modest Mouse
7. My Bloody Valentine
8. Boards Of Canada
9. Otis Redding
10. Propagandhi

Contributors:

1. Gorguts
2. The National
3. Coheed & Cambria
4. Run The Jewels
5. Caspian
6. Palms
7. GZA
8. Kanye West
9. Death Cab For Cutie
10. Coldplay