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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 10th, 2015. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Adolescents – La Vendetta… È Un Piatto Che Va Servito Freddo (Frontier Records)
Adrenaline Mob – Dearly Departed (Century Media)
Blackberry Smoke – Holding All The Roses (Rounder)
Blacklisted – When People Grow, People Go (Deathwish Inc.)
Caught On Tape – Full Bleed (Northern Spy Records)
The Districts – A Flourish And A Spoil (Fat Possum)
The Dreaming – Rise Again (Metropolis Records)
Fat Mike – Home Street Home (Fat Wreck Chords)
Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear (Sub Pop Records)
Gretchen Peters – Blackbirds (Scarlet Records)
JD McPherson – Let The Good Times Roll (Rounder)
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – A Year With 13 Moons (Mexican Summer)
Johan Agebjorn – Notes (Paper Bag)
Joker – Mainframe (Kapsize)
Knifight – V (KnifightMusic)
Marduk – Frontschwein (Century Media) – Kyle Ward
Martin Sexton – Mixtape Of The Open Road (Kitchen Table)
Neal Morse – The Grand Experiment (Metal Blade)
Retox – Beneath California (Epitaph)
Rhiannon Giddens – Tomorrow Is My Turn (Nonesuch)
Ricky Martin – A Quien Quiera Escuchar (Sony Latin)
Sisqo – Last Dragon (Massenburg Media)
Vijay Iyer Trio – Break Stuff (ECM Records)

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Album Streams:

Fat Mike – Home Street Home

Gretchen Peters – Blackbirds

JD McPherson – Let The Good Times Roll

Rhiannon Giddens – Tomorrow Is My Turn

Sisqo – Last Dragon

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

Staff :

1. Aphex Twin
2. D’Angelo
3. Burial
4. Sleater-Kinney
5. Yuck
6. System Of A Down
7. Cymbals Eat Guitars
8. Lupe Fiasco
9. Teebs
10. Two Gallants

Contributors:

1. Burial
2. The National
3. Weezer
4. Grimes
5. Hammock
6. A$AP Rocky
7. Death Grips
8. Jessie Ware
9. R.E.M.
10. Blink-182

Community:

1. Kanye West
2. Deftones
3. Brand New
4. Aphex Twin
5. Modest Mouse
6. Radiohead
7. Run The Jewels
8. The National
9. Flying Lotus
10. Viet Cong