Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of January 29, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Aubrie Sellers – New City Blues (Aubrie Sellers Music)
Avantasia – Ghostlights (Nuclear Blast)
Basement – Promise Everything (Run For Cover Records) — Dan H.
Black Tusk – Pillars Of Ash (Relapse Records)
Bloc Party – Hymns (Vagrant)
Brothers In Law – Raise (WWNBB Collective)
Bury Tomorrow – Earthbound (Nuclear Blast)
Chthe’ilist – Le Dernier Crépuscule (Profound Lore) — Elijah K.
Clan Nugent – Night Fiction (Woodsist Records)
Conan – Revengeance (Napalm Records) — Raul Stanciu
Dream Theater – The Astonishing (Roadrunner Records)
Emily Wells – Promise (Lefse Records)
Exumer – The Raging Tides (Metal Blade Records)
Fall – The Insatiable Weakness (Self-Released)
The Gathering – TG25: Live At Doornroosje (Napalm Records)
Hexvessel – When We Are Death (Century Media Records)
Kevin Gates – Islah (Bread Winners Association/Atlantic)
Lionheart – Love Don’t Live Here (LHHC Records)
Master – An Epiphany Of Hate (FDA Rekotz)
Miranda Lee Richards – Echoes of the Dreamtime (Invisible Hands Records)
Money – Suicide Songs (Bella Union)
Nevermen – Nevermen (Ipecac Recordings)
Nordic Union – Nordic Union (Frontiers Records)
Pil & Bue – Forget The Past, Let’s Worry About the future (Name Music/Indie Recordings)
Rihanna – Anti (Westbury Road Entertainment)
Serenity – Codex…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of January 22, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Abbath – Abbath (Season of Mist)
Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Arc (Bandcamp)
The Besnard Lakes – A Coliseum Complex Museum (Jagjaguwar)
Borknagar – Winter Thrice (Century Media)
Brutality – Sea of Ignorance (Ceremonial)
The Casualties – Chaos Sound (Season of Mist)
Closet Fiends – Closet Fiends (Fat Wreck Chords)
Conrad Keely – Original Machines (Superball Music)
Eleanor Friedberger – New View (Frenchkiss Records)
The I Don’t Cares – Wild Stab (Dry Wood Records)
Jesu/Sun Kill Moon – Jesu/Sun Kill Moon (Caldo Verde Records)
Half Japanese – Perfect (Joyful Noise Recordings)
Latitudes – Old Sunlight (Thrill Jockey)
The London Suede – Night Thoughts (WM UK)
Lumisokea – Transmissions From Revarsavr (Opal Tapes)
Megadeth – Dystopia (T-Boy Records)
Mourning Beloveth – Rust & Bone (Van Records)
The Mute Gods – Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me (Inside Out U.S.)
NZCA Lines – Infinite Summer (Memphis Industries)
Peace Killers – Peace Killers (Svart Records)
Primal Fear – Rulebreaker (Frontiers Music srl)
Savages – Adore Life (Matador)
Seer – Vol. 1 & 2 (Art of Propaganda)
Shearwater – Jet Plane And Oxbow (Sub Pop Records)
Steven Wilson – 4 1/2 (KSCOPE)
Tindersticks – The Waiting Room…

As many of you will now know Daniel Davis, better known as paradox1216, tragically passed away recently after fighting a long battle with cancer. While I personally had very little interaction with Daniel, the passion that he had for music and life in general was something that was displayed so prominently through his writing and in his interactions with his fellow users.

Since this website’s formation many many moons ago, its success has always been dictated by its userbase. To the point where we have become an online community, able to express ourselves, laugh and get things off our chests with users that we have grown close with over the years. Regardless of your association with Daniel, a loss in the community is a devastating thing. Daniel had a presence that will sorely be missed, and if the comments in the wake of his passing are any indication, he was a user who touched the hearts and minds of everyone he encountered.

Rest in Peace Daniel

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of October 16th 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

!!! – As If (Warp Records)
Alex Bleeker And The Freaks – Country Agenda (Omnian Music Group)
Børns – Dopamine (Interscope)
Chad Valley – Entirely New Blue (Indie Japan)
Chris Walla – Tapes Loops (Trans Records)
Coheed & Cambria – The Color Before…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of October 9th 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Alex G – Beach Music (Domino Recording Co.)
Chris Hadfield – Space Sessions: Songs From A Tin Can (Warner Music Canada)
City And Colour – If I Should Go Before You (Dine Alone Music)
Corb Lund – Things That Can’t Be Undone (New West Records)
Dirty Ghosts – Let It Pretend (Last Gang Records)
Duncan Sheik – Legerdemain (+180 Records)
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – In No Particular Order: 2009-2014 (Community Music)
The Game – The Documentary 2 (Entertainment One Music)
Glenn Mercer – Incidental Hum (Bar/None Records)
Jake Shimabukuro – Travels (Entertainment One Music)
John Grant – Grey Tickles, Black Pressure (Partisan)
Kelela – Hallucinogen (Cheery Coffee Music)
Mayday Parade – Black Lines (Fearless Records)
Nicole Dollanganger – Natural Born Losers (Eerie Orgainzation)
Personable – New Lines(Peak Oil)
Protomartyr – The Agent Intellect (Hardly Art)
Rudimental – We The Generation (Atlantic)
Saintseneca – Such Things (Anti/Epitaph)
Selena Gomez – Revival (Interscope)
St. Germain – St. Germain (Nonesuch)
Toby Keith – 35 MPH Town (Show Dog Universal Music)
W.A.S.P. – Golgotha (Napalm Records)
The Zombies – Still Got That Hunger (The End Records)

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Album Streams:

Alex G – Beach Music

Dirty Ghosts – Let It Pretend

Duncan Sheik – Legerdemain

John Grant – Grey Tickles, Black…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of October 2nd 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Avicii – Stories (Island)
Autre Ne Veut – Age Of Transparency (Downtown)
Blitzen Trapper – All Across This Land (Vagrant)
Born Ruffians – Ruff (Yep Roc Records)
Childbirth – Women’s Rights (Suicide Squeeze Records)
Children Of Bodom – I Worship Chaos (Nuclear Blast)
Collective Soul – See What You Started By Continuing (Vanguard)
Darkstar – Foam Island (Warp Records)
Des Ark – Everything Dies (Graveface)
Deafheaven – New Bermuda (Anti/Epitaph)
Eagles Of Death Metal – Zipper Down (T-Boy Records/UMe)
Editors – In Dream (Pias)
Emily Kinney – This Is War (Independent Label Services Inc.)
Fit For An Autopsy – Absolute Hope, Absolute Hell (Entertainment One Music)
Girls Names – Arms Around A Vision (Tough Love)
Great Collapse – Holy War (LOTB Inc.)
Indian Handcrafts – Creeps (Sargent Records)
Janet Jackson – Unbreakable (Rhythm Nation/BMG)
Kylesa – Exhausting Fire (Season Of Mist)
Loma Prieta – Self Portrait (Deathwish Inc.)
Malevolent Creation – Dead Man’s Path (Century Media)
Mercury Rev – The Light In You (Pias)
Nicolas Godin – Contrepoint (Because Music)
Night Birds – Mutiny At Muscle Beach (Fat Wreck Chords)
Queensrÿche – Condition Human (Century Media)
Sevendust – Kill The Flaw (7Bros. Records)
The Sheepdogs – Future Nostalgia (Dine Alone Music)
Shopping – Why Choose?…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of September 25th 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Alix Perez – Recall & Reflect (Exit Records)
Apollo Brown – Grandeur  (Mello Music)
Black Breath – Slaves Beyond Death (Southern Lord)
Boysetsfire – Boysetsfire (End Hits Records)
CHVRCHES – Every Open Eye (Glassnote)
The Dead Weather – Dodge & Burn (Third Man Records)
The Dears – Times Infinity Vol. 1 (Dangerbird)
De Profundis – Kingdom Of The Blind (Wickerman Recordings)
Disclosure – Caracal (Capitol)
Doe Paoro – After (Anti/Epitaph)
Don Henley – Cass County (Capitol)
Dungen – Allas Sak (Mexican Summer)
Exxasens – Back To Earth (Aloud Music) – Raul Stanciu
Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap (300 Entertainment)
Girl Band – Holding Hands With Jamie (Rough Trade)
Grace & Tony – Phantasmagoric (Self-released)
Huntress – Static (Napalm Records)
JR JR. – JR JR. (Warner Bros.)
Julia Holter – Have You In My Wilderness (Domino Recording Co.)
Kaskade – Automatic (Warner Bros.)
Kurt Vile – B’lieve I’m Goin Down (Matador Records)
Kwabs – Love + War (Atlantic)
Los Lobos – Gates Of Gold (429 Records)
Lucero – All A Man Should Do (ATO Records)
Matthew Good – Chaotic Neutral (Warner Music Canada)
Monogold – Good Heavens (Self-released)
New Order – Music Complete (Mute)
No Devotion – Permanence (Collect Records)
Parkway Drive – Ire (Epitaph)
Patty Griffin –…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of September 4th 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Against Me! – 23 Live Sex Acts (Total Treble)
Amorphis – Under The Red Cloud (Nuclear Blast)
Animal Collective – Live At 9:30 (Domino Recording Company)
The Arcs – Yours, Dreamily (Nonesuch)
Cruciamentum – Charnel Passages (Profound Lore)
Dâm-Funk – Invite The Light (Stones Throw)
The Dear Hunter – Act IV: Rebirth In Reprise (Equal Vision Records)
Diane Coffee – Everybody’s A Good Dog (Western Vinyl)
FIDLAR – Too (Mom & Pop Music)
Five Finger Death Punch – Got Your Six (Prospect Park Records)
Helen – Original Faces (Kranky)
Iron Maiden – Book Of Souls (BMG Recorded Music)
Jerusalem In My Heart – If He Dies, If If If If If If (Constellation)
Joey Cape – Stitch Puppy (Fat Wreck Chords)
K-os – Can’t Fly Without Gravity (Dine Alone Music)
Lou Barlow – Brace The Wave (Joyful Noise Recordings)
Master Musicians Of Bukkake – Further West Quad Cult (Important Records) – Raul Stanciu
The Money Pit – The Money Pit (BC Music)
Motives – This World, Not Dead, Merely Sleeping (InVogue Records)
Mueller_Roedelius – Imagori (Groenland)
Painted Palms – Horizons (Polyvinyl Records)
Prince – HITNRUN (Tidal Digital Exclusive)
Public Image Ltd. – What The World Needs Now… (PiL Official)
Rob Moir – Adventure Handbook (Underground Operations)
The…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 28th 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Ahab – The Boats Of The Glen Carrig (Napalm Records)
Beach House – Depression Cherry (Sub Pop Records) – Rudy K.
Cold Showers – Matter Of Choice (Dais Records)
Defeater – Abandoned (Epitaph)
Destroyer – Poison Season (Merge Records)
Drinks – Hermits On Holiday (Birth Records)
Foals – What Went Down (Warner Bros.)
The Fratellis – Eyes Wide, Tongue Tied (Cooking Vinyl/MRI Entertainment)
Frog Eyes – Pickpocket’s Locket (Paper Bag)
Grandchildren – Zuni (Ernest Jenning)
I See Stars – Phases (Sumerian Records)
The Jet Age – Destroy.Rebuild (Sonic Boomerang Records)
Kahn, Commodo & Gantz – Vol. 1 (Deep Medi Musik)
Liam Corcoran – ROM-DROM (Fontana North)
Mike Krol – Turkey (Merge Records)
Monk Parker – How The Spark Loves The Tinder (Bronzerat Records)
Motörhead – Bad Magic (UDR)
Nile – What Should Not Be Unearthed (Nuclear Blast)
Pentagram – Curious Volume (Peaceville Records)
Silicon – Personal Computer (Weird World)
Soilwork – The Ride Majestic (Nuclear Blast)
Stolen Jars – Kept (Self-released) [Digital Only]
Tad Morose – St. Demonius (Despotz Records)
Tamaryn – Cranekiss (Mexican Summer)
Tijuana Panthers – Poster (Innovative Leisure)
The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness (Republic)
Willis Earl Beal – Nocturnes (Tender Loving Empire)
Yo La Tengo – Stuff Like That…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 21st, 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Adrien Reju – Strange Love And The Secret Language (Zip Records)
Battlecross – Rise To Power (Metal Blade)
Bon Jovi – Burning Bridges (Mercury Records)
Briana Marela – All Around Us (Jagjaguwar)
Carly Rae Jepsen – E·MO·TION (Silent Records/Giant Little Man)
Cocksure – Corporate Sting (Metropolis Records)
Disturbed – Immortalized (Reprise) – Irving Tan
Gardens & Villa – Music For Dogs (Secretly Canadian Records)
Ghost – Meliora (Loma Vista) – Jom
Hate Eternal – Infernus (Season Of Mist)
Jordin Sparks – Right Here, Right Now (RAL)
Kadavar – Berlin (Nuclear Blast)
Kip Moore – Wild Ones (MCA Nashville)
Method Man – The Meth Lab (Tommy Boy Entertainment/LLC)
The Murder Of My Sweet – Beth Out Of Hell (Belle Antique)
Myrkur – M (Relapse)
Noah Gundersen – Carry The Ghost (Dualtone Music)
P.O.D. – The Awakening (T-Boy Records/UMe)
Paul Smith & The Intimations – Contradictions (PIAS)
Publicist UK – Forgive Yourself (Relapse)
Racoon Bandit – Close Your Eyes (Self-Released)
Radkey – Dark Black Makeup (+180 Records)
Rivers Of Nihil – Monarchy (Metal Blade)
The Road Chief – All My Love (Cascine)
Rob Thomas – The Great Unknown (Atlantic)
Royal Headache – High (What’s Your Rupture)
Salvador Santana – Fantasy Reality (Various Music)
Sarah McQuaid – Walking…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 14th, 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Bullet For My Valentine – Venom (RCA)
Don Broco – Automatic (Search & Destroy Records)
Gangrene – You Disgust Me (Mass Appeal Records)
The Good Life – Everybody’s Coming Down (Saddle Creek Records)
Grace Potter – Midnight (Hollywood Records)
Melanie Martinez – Cry Baby (Atlantic)
New Politics – Vikings (Warner Bros.)
Pat Green – Home (Greenhorse Music)
Pete Nolan – Easy (Arbitrary Signs)
Stray From The Path – Subliminal Criminals (Sumerian Records)
Soulfly – Archangel (Nuclear Blast)
Teen Daze – Morning World (Paper Bag)

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Album Streams:

Bullet For My Valentine – Venom

Grace Potter – Midnight

Soulfly – Archangel

Teen Daze – Morning World

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 7th, 2015. All dates are for physical U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Alessandro Cortini – Risveglio (Hospital Productions)
Cattle Decapitation – The Anthropocene Extinction (Metal Blade)
Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss (Sargent House)
Craig Marshall – After All (Big Ticket Records)
Deaf Wish – Pain (Sub Pop Records)
Dr. Dre – Compton (Aftermath) [Digital Only]
Enabler – Fail To Feel Safe (Century Media)
Fear Factory – Genexus (Nuclear Blast) – Trey Spencer
Frank Turner – Positive Songs For Negative People (Interscope)
Georgia – Georgia (Domino Recording Company)
Golden Rules – Golden Ticket (Lex Records)
HEALTH – Death Magic (Loma Vista) – Rudy K.
I Am The Albatross – Lonesome Son (Rail Rider)
Iris DeMent – Trackless Woods (Flariella Records)
Joe Plummer – Built In Sun (People In A Position To Know Records)
Krisiun – Forged In Fury (Century Media)
La Luz – Weirdo Shrine (Hardly Art)
LHF – For The Thrown (Keysound Recordings) [Vinyl Only]
Luke Bryan – Kill The Lights (Capitol Nashville)
The Maccabees – Marks To Prove It (Caroline Records)
Mac DeMarco – Another One (Captured Tracks)
Miss May I – Deathless (Rise Records)
The Mynabirds – Lovers Know (Saddle Creek Records)
Never Shout Never – Black Cat (Warner Bros.)
Night Beds – Ivywild (Dead Oceans)
The Phoenix Foundation – Give Up…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of July 31st, 2015. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Albert Hammond, Jr. – Momentary Masters (Vagrant)
Camera Shy – Camera Shy (Run For Cover Records)
CFCF – Radiance And Submission (Driftless Recordings)
Daniel Romano – If I’ve Only One Time Askin’ (New West Records)
Elbow – Lost Worker Bee (Polydor) – Irving Tan
Gunplay – Living Legend (Def Jam)
Insane Clown Posse – Marvelous Missing Link (Psychopathic)
Joss Stone – Water For Your Soul (Kobalt)
Kataklysm – Of Ghosts And Gods (Nuclear Blast US)
Knuckle Puck – Copacetic (Rise Records)
Lianne La Havas – Blood (Nonesuch)
Migos – Yung Rich Nation (300 Entertainment)
Mocky – Key Change (Heavy Sheet)
Ricardo Donoso – Machine To Machine (Denovali)
The Strypes – Little Victories (Virgin EMI)
Teenage Time Killers – Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (Rise Records)
Titus Andronicus – The Most Lamentable Tragedy (Merge Records) – SowingSeason
Xandria – Fire & Ashes (Napalm Records)

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Album Streams:

Lianne La Havas – Blood

Migos – Yung Rich Nation

Titus Andronicus – The Most Lamentable Tragedy

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

Staff :

1. Jamie xx
2. Electrosoul System
3. Carly Rae Jepsen
4. Faith No More
5. Cradle Of Filth
6. Ben Howard
7. Florence + The Machine
8. Modest Mouse
9. mewithoutYou
…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of July 24th, 2015. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Ashley Monroe – The Blade (Warner Music Nashville)
Brigades – Indefinite (Pure Noise)
The Bunny The Bear – A Liar Wrote This (Victory Records) – Davey Boy
Counterparts – Tragedy Will Find Us (Pure Noise)
Cult Leader – Useless Animal (Deathwish Inc.)
Ducktails – St. Catherine (Domino Recording Company)
The Dustbowl Revival – With A Lampshade On (Signature Sounds)
Eleni Mandell – Dark Lights Up (Yep Roc Records)
Eleventh Dream Day – Work For Tomorrow (Thrill Jockey)
Field Music – Music For Drifters (Memphis Industries)
Jill Scott – Woman (Atlantic)
Joe Satriani – Shockwave Supernova (Legacy)
Kasey Chambers – Bittersweet (Sugar Hill)
Lamb Of God – VII: Sturm Und Drang (Epic)
Locrian – Infinite Dissolution (Relapse)
Loop – Array 1 (ATP Recordings)
Madchild – Silver Tongue Devil (Battle Axe Records)
Northlane – Node (Rise Records)
Old Man Luedecke – Domestic Eccentric (True North Records)
Omar Souleyman – Bahdemi Nami (Monkeytown)
On An On – And The Wave Has Two Side (Roll Call Records)
Ricked Wicky – King Heavy Metal (Guided By Voices)
Sleaford Mods – Key Markets (Harbinger Sound)
Strange Wilds – Subjective Concepts (Sub Pop Records)
Symphony X – Underworld (Nuclear Blast America)
Tim Bowness – Stupid Things That Mean The World (Inside Out US) – Raul Stanciu
Trae Tha Truth –…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of July 17th, 2015. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Alan Jackson – Angels & Alcohol (Capitol Nashville)
Bassnectar – Into The Sun (Amorphous Music)
The Bird And The Bee – Recreational Love (Rostrum Records)
The Chemical Brothers – Born In The Echoes (Astralwerks)
Dan Andriano In The Emergency Room – Party Adjacent (Asian Man)
Dragonforce – In The Line Of Fire (Ear Music)
Flying Saucer Attack – Instrumentals 2015 (Drag City)
Future – DS2 (Epic)
Galactic – Into The Deep (Provogue)
Iron Wine & Ben Bridwell – Sing Into My Mouth (Black Cricket/Brown Records)
Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free (Southeastern Records)
MS MR – How Does It Feel (Columbia)
Ninja Sex Party – Attitude City (CD Baby)
Pitbull – Dale (Sony Latin)
Ratatat – Magnifique (XL Recordings)
Sublime With Rome – Sirens (InGrooves)
Tame Impala – Currents (Interscope) – Rudy K.
Team Sleep – Woodstock Sessions Vol. 4 (Woodstock Sessions)
Tearjerker – Stay Wild (Self-released)
White Reaper – White Reaper Does It Again (Polyvinyl Records)
Wilco – Star Wars (Self-released)
Xander Duell – Wade Laiste (INGRID)

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Album Streams:

The Chemical Brothers – Born In The Echoes

Flying Saucer Attack – Instrumentals 2015

Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free

Ratatat – Magnifique

Tame Impala – Currents

Tearjerker – Stay Wild

White Reaper – White Reaper Does It Again

Wilco – Stars (free download)…

As Friday the 10th marks the first date under the global music industry’s paradigm shift into a more unified release schedule, your weekly news post will also be moving to the end of the week to honour the change (and to generally make things as easy as possible for yours truly). The change – which has eschewed multiple releases across the week in favour of one singular day – will affect 45 countries, and was put in place by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). The conglomerate currently represents 1300 various record companies around the world.

Friday was chosen as the official day in an effort to curb piracy, as both physical and online stores peak with consumer traffic over the weekend. July was chosen in an effort to work out  and fine-tune any kinks prior to the holiday season.

For more on the topic, you can head over here. But for now, as always…

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

Between The Buried And Me – Coma Elliptic (Metal Blade)
Cody Simpson – Free (Bananabeat Records/Coast House)
Cradle Of Filth – Hammer Of The Witches (Nuclear Blast America) – Trey Spencer
Ego Likeness – When The Wolves Return (Metropolis Records)
Four Tet – Morning/Evening (Text Records)
Ghostface Killah – Twelve Reasons To Die II (Linear Labs)
KMFDM…