Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 19, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Accept – Blind Rage (Nuclear Blast US)
Ace Frehley – Space Invader (Entertainment One Music)
Ariana Grande – My Everything (Universal Republic)
Avenged Sevenfold – Waking The Fallen: Resurrected (Hopeless Records)
Bahamas – Bahamas Is Afie (Universal Republic)
Beach Day – Native Echoes (Kanine Records)
Benjamin Booker – Benjamin Booker (ATO Records)
Better Than Ezra – Surprise (Liaison Records)
Bishop Allen – Lights Out (Dead Oceans)
Buddy – Last Call For The Quiet Life (Stove Punchin’ Records)
Chase Rice – Ignite The Night (Dack Janiels Records)
Colton Dixon – Anchor (Sparrow Records/Universal)
Counterpunch – Bruises (Cyber Tracks)
Darkness Divided – Written In Blood (Victory Records)
Dirty Loops – Loopified (Verve)
Dr. John – Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit Of Satch (Concord)
Dragonforce – Maximum Overload (Metal Blade)
Egypt Central – Murder In The French Quarter (Fat Lady Music)
Electric Würms – Musik, Die Shwer Zu Twerk (Warner Bros.)
Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) – You Will Eventually Be Forgotten (Topshelf Records) – Eli
Fat White Family – Champagne Holocaust (Fat Possum Records)
Gretchen Wilson – Snapshot (Redneck Records)
He Is Legend – Heavy Fruit (Tragic Hero Records)
Imogen Heap – Sparks (RCA)
Jason Feathers – De Oro (Totally Gross National Product)
Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas – Secret Evil (Instant Records)
JJ – V (Secretly Canadian)
J Mascis – Tied To a Star (Sub Pop)
Kimbra – The Golden Echo (Warner Bros.) – Greg Fisher
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu – Pika Pika Fantajin (Warner Bros./ADA)
Literature – Chorus (Slumberland)
Migde Ure – Fragile (Hypertension)
Museum Of Love – Museum Of Love (DFA)
Music Go Music – Impressions (Secretly Canadian)
Octoberman – What More What More (October Man Recordings)
Orenda Fink – Blue Dream (Saddle Creek)
Randy Travis – Influence Vol. 2: The Man I Am (Warner Bros./WEA)
Roadkill Ghost Choir – In Tongues (Greatest Hiss Records)
Royal Blood – Royal Blood (Warner Bros.)
Sleeping Giant – Finished People (Century Media)
Smokey Robinson – Smokey & Friends (Verve)
Statik Selektah – What Goes Around (Duck Down Music)
Thurston Moore – Sun Gift Earth (Blank Editions)
Trioscapes – Digital Dream Sequence (Metal Blade)
VA – Look Again To The Wind: Johnny Cash’s Bitter Tears Revisited (Sony Masterworks)
Wiz Khalifa – Blacc Hollywood (Atlantic)

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Album Streams:

Bahamas – Bahamas Is Afie

Beach Day – Native Echoes

Benjamin Booker – Benjamin Booker

Bishop Allen – Lights Out

Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) – You Will Eventually Be Forgotten

Fat White Family – Champagne Holocaust

Jason Feathers – De Oro

J Mascis – Tied To A Star

Kimbra – The Golden Echo

Octoberman – What More What More

Roadkill Ghost Choir – In Tongues

Wiz Khalifa – Blacc Hollywood

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

Staff :

1. Spoon
2. White Lung
3. Mastodon
4. Caribou
5. Eminem
6. Kanye West
7. The Hotelier
8. Adramelech
9. Porcupine Tree
10. Insomnium

Contributors:

1. Brand New
2. The National
3. Defeater
4. Trophy Scars
5. The Menzingers
6. Opeth
7. Modest Mouse
8. mewithoutYou
9. Thou
10. La Dispute

Community:

1. The National
2. Converge
3. Radiohead
4. Spoon
5. Brand New
6. Mastodon
7. Kanye West
8. Opeth
9. Every Time I Die
10. Modest Mouse