Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 23, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Active Child – You Are All I See (Vagrant Records)
Apathy – Honkey Kong (Dirty Version Record)
Zee Avi – Ghostbird (Universal Republic)
Balam Acab – Wander/Wonder (Tri Angle)
Black Tide – Post Mortem (Geffen Records)
Bunnydrums – PKD (Metropolis Records)
Circle Takes the Square – Rites of Initiation (Gatepost Recordings)
CSC Funk Band – Things Are Getting Too Casual (Fat Beats)
CSS – La Liberacion {UK} (V2)
Gabe Dixon – One Spark (Fantasy)
Darondo – Listen To My Song: The Music City Sessions (Omnivore Recordings)
Downhere – On the Altar of Love (Centricity Records)
Edguy – Age Of The Joker {EU} (Nuclear Blast)
The Game – The R.E.D. Album (Interscope)
Ganglians – Still Living (Lefse)
Ghost Brigade – Until Fear No Longer Defines Us (Season of Mist)
Global Noize – Prayer for the Planet (Lightyear)
Trevor Hall – Everything Everytime Everywhere (Vanguard Records)
Hard-Fi – Killer Sounds (Warner Bros UK) — Davey Boy
Hawthorne Heights – Hate (Cardboard Empire)
Heart – Greatest Hits (Audio Fidelity)
Heart-Set Self Destruct – Of Nightmares [EP] (Sound Mine)
ICS Vortex – Storm Seeker (Century Media)
Jorn – Live in Black (Frontiers Records)
Kourosh – Back from the Brink (Now Again)
Krum Bums – Cut The Noose (Century Media Records)
Left Spine Down – Caution (Metropolis Records)
Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks – Mirror Traffic (Matador Records)
The McClymonts – Wrapped Up Good (Fontana Australia)
Stephin Merritt – Obscurities (Merge Records)
Outerspace – My Brother’s Keeper (Enemy Soil)
Razika – Program 91 (Smalltown Supersound)
Rock Most – Rise & Shine (Dirty Bomb Records)
ShamRain – Isolation {EU} (Spinefarm)
Patti Smith – Outside Society [Remastered] (Sony Legacy)
Sonic Youth – Hits are for Squares (Geffen Records)
Stetsasonic – On Fire (Re-Issue) (Traffic Entertainment)
Dave Stewart – The Blackbird Diaries (Surfdog)
Barbra Streisand – What Matters Most (Columbia)
Sun Araw – Ancient Romans (Sun Ark Records)
Sunny Sweeney – Concrete (Republic Nashville)
Tabernacle MCz – -Boy Prophecies: The Book of Him-othy (Project Blowed Recordings)
Various Artists – Muppets: The Green Album (Walt Disney Records)
We Are Augustines – Rise Ye Sunken Ships (WEA)
Chelsea Wolfe – Apokalypsis (Pendu Sound)

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Album Streams (please inform us of any broken links/removed streams):

CSC Funk Band – Things Are Getting Too Casual

Gabe Dixon – One Spark

Ghost Brigade – Until Fear No Longer Defines Us

Global Noize – Prayer for the Planet

Trevor Hall – Everything Everytime Everywhere

Heart-Set Self Destruct – Of Nightmares [EP]

Krum Bums – Cut The Noose

Rock Most – Rise & Shine

Patti Smith – Outside Society [Remastered]

Dave Stewart – The Blackbird Diaries

Tabernacle MCz – -Boy Prophecies: The Book of Him-othy

Various Artists – Muppets: The Green Album

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

Staff:

01) Bon Iver
02) Kanye West
03) The War on Drugs
04) Sonic Youth
05) Radiohead
06) Wilco
07) Sufjan Stevens
08) Broken Social Scene
09) Bjork
10) Wolves in the Throne Room

General Users:

01) Radiohead
02) Kanye West
03) Bon Iver
04) Brand New
05) Thrice
06) Manchester Orchestra
07) The Throne
08) Converge
09) blink-182
10) Deftones

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