Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 28, 2013. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Alex Bleeker & The Freaks – How Far Away (Woodsist)
Alice In Chains – The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here (Virgin Commercial Marketing/Universal)
Anvil – Hope In Hell (The End Records)
ASG – Blood Drive (Relapse) – Greg Fisher
Baths – Obsidian (Anticon) – Jacob Royal
Black Star Riders – All Hell Breaks Loose (Nuclear Blast)
Black Sun Empire – From The Shadows: Remixed (Black Sun Empire)
Blue-Eyed Son – Shadows On The Son (Eenie Meenie Records)
Brazos – Saltwater (Dead Oceans)
Cinema Sleep – Truth For The Seeker (Standby Records)
Cloud Boat – Book Of Hours (Redeye)
CocoRosie – Tales Of A Grasswidow (Transistor Recording)
Crystal Fighters – Cave Rave (Atlantic)
Dark Tranquility – Construct (Century Media) – Kyle Ward
Dew-Scented – Insurgent (Prosthetic Records)
The-Dream – IV Play (Island/Def-Jam)
Eisley – Currents (12th Street Records)
Free Time – Free Time (Underwater Peoples Records)
Haraball – Sleep Tall (Fysisk Format)
Hooded Fang – Gravez (Full Time Hobby)
Imaginary Cities – Fall Of Romance (WEA)
John Fogerty – Wrote A Song For Everyone (Vanguard Records)
Kermit Ruffins – We Partyin’ Traditional Style! (Basin Street Records)
Kylesa – Ultraviolet (Season Of Mist)
Laura Marling – Once I Was An Eagle (Ribbon Records)
Man Overboard – Heart Attack (Rise Records)
Mike Marlin – Grand Reveal (All My People/Fontana North)
Mount Kimbie – Cold Spring Fault Less Youth (Warp Records)
Pastels – Slow Summits (Domino)
Phaseone – If I Tell U (Williams Street Records)
The Polyphonic Spree – Yes, It’s True (TVT Records)
Retox – YPLL (Epitaph)
Shining – One One One (Prosthetic Records)
Skinny Puppy – Weapon (Metropolis Records) – Trey Spencer
Snow Patrol – Greatest Hits (Island Records) – Irving Tan
Soft Major – Idolize (Solar Flare Records)
The Stranglers – Giants (101 Distribution)
Tesseract – Altered State (Century Media)
Texas – The Conversation (AIS)
Tricky – False Idols (!K7) – Hernan M. Campbell
Visage – Hearts And Knives (AIS)
When Saints Go Machine – Infinity Pool (!K7)

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Album Streams:

Black Star Riders – All Hell Breaks Loose

Laura Marling – Once I Was An Eagle

Mount Kimbie – Cold Spring Fault Less Youth

Tesseract – Altered State

Tricky – False Idols

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

Staff :

1. Daft Punk
2. The National
3. Vampire Weekend
4.  The Dillinger Escape Plan
5. James Blake
6. Beach House
7. Savages
8. Kurt Vile
9. A$AP Rocky
10. Real Estate

Contributors:

1. Daft Punk
2. The National
3. Tesseract
4. Stone Sour
5. Misery Signals
6. Alice In Chains
7. Led Zeppelin
8. Fort Minor
9. Vampire Weekend
10. Deftones