Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of September 25, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Angie Stone – Rich Girl (Saguaro Road Records)
As I Lay Dying – Awakened (Metal Blade)
The Bad Plus – Made Possible (Entertainment One Music)
Bettye LaVette – Thankful N’ Thoughtful (ANTI Records)
Bullet – Full Pull (Nuclear Blast America)
Caspian – Waking Season (Triple Crown)
Chris Cohen – Overgrown Path (Captured Tracks)
Collapse Under The Empire – Fragments Of A Prayer (Finaltune)
Danny! – Payback (Okayplayer Records)
Deadmau5 – >album title goes here< (Ultra Records)
Deception Of A Ghost – Life Right Now (Bullet Tooth)
DJ Shadow – Reconstructed: The Best Of (Hip-O)
Dragonette – Bodyparts (Dragonette Inc.)
Dum Dum Girls – End Of Daze (Sub Pop)
Efterklang – Piramida (4AD Records)
Green Day – iUno! (Reprise)
Handguns – Angst (Pure Noise)
In Dying Arms – Boundaries (Razor & Tie)
Jason Collett – Reckon (Arts & Crafts)
John Hiatt – Mystic Pinball (New West Records)
Levek – Look A Little Closer (Lefse Records)
John Frusciante – PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone (101 Distribution)
Ludovico Technique – Some Things Are Beyond Therapy (Metropolis Records)
Lupe Fiasco – Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album – Part 1 (Atlantic)
Melody’s Echo Chamber – Melody’s Echo Chamber (Fat Possum Records)
Michael McDermott – Hit Me Back (Rock Ridge Music)
Monuments – Gnosis (Century Media)
Mumford & Sons – Babel (Glass Note) – Sowing Season
Murder By Death – Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon (Bloodshot Records)
No Doubt – Push And Shove (Interscope Records)
Onuinu – Mirror Gazer (Rocket Science)
Ozomatli – OzoKidz (Red General Catalog)
Pathology – The Time Of Great Purification (Victory Records)
Pete Seeger – Pete Remembers Woody (Appleseed Records)
Pete Seeger & Loorre Wyatt – A More Perfect Union (Appleseed Records)
Pray For Sound – Monophonic (Pray For Sound)
Preservation Hall Jazz Band – St. Peter & 57th (Rounder)
Richie Sambora – Aftermath Of The Lowdown (Dangerbird)
Ricky Skaggs – Music To My Ears (Xenon)
Showbread – Cancer (Come&Live!)
The Soft Pack – Strapped (Mexican Summer)
Steve Harris – British Lion (UMe)
Sundials – When I Couldn’t Breathe (Asian Man Records)
Talib Kweli – Prisoner Of Conscious (Caroline Records Distribution)
This Or The Apocalypse – Dead Years (Entertainment One Music)
Toy – Toy (InGrooves)
Ungdomskulen – Secrecy (Yap Records)
The Wedding – No Direction (Tooth & Nail Records)
X Marks the Pedwalk – The Sun, The Cold and My Underwater Fear (Metropolis Records)
Yoko Ono, Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon – YOKOKIMTHURSTON (Chimera Music)

——————————————————————————–

Album Streams:

As I Lay Dying – Awakened

Caspian – Waking Season

Dragonette – Bodyparts

Dum Dum Girls – End Of Daze

Efterklang – Piramida

Jason Collett – Reckon

Levek – Look A Little Closer

Melody’s Echo Chamber – Melody’s Echo Chamber

Murder By Death – Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon

Preservation Hall Jazz Band – St. Peter & 57th

Steve Harris – British Lion

Ungdomskulen – Secrecy

——————————————————————————–

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

Staff :

01) The Killers
02) Japandroids
03) Grizzly Bear
04) Fiona Apple
05) Flying Lotus
06) The Presets
07) The Devin Townsend Project
08) Propagandhi
09) The Gaslight Anthem
10) Manchester Orchestra

Contributors:

01) David Byrne & St. Vincent
02) Stars Of The Lid
03) Katatonia
04) The Microphones
05) Justin Bieber
06) Kimbra
07) Nara Leao
08) Blut Aus Nord
09) Jes
10) Bright Eyes