Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 6, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Atmosphere – Southsiders (Rhymesayers)
BADBADNOTGOOD – III (Innovative Leisure)
Barrows – Red Giant (Barrows)
Baths – Ocean Death (Anticon)
Ben & Ellen Harper – Childhood Home (Prestige Folklore)
Black Stone Cherry – Magic Mountain (Roadrunner)
Crash – Hardly Criminal (Community Music)
Current Swell – Ulysses (Nettwerk Records)
Elephant – Sky Swimming (Memphis Industries)
Eno & Hyde – Someday World (Warp Records)
Epica – The Quantum Enigma (Nuclear Blast America)
Fujiya & Miyagi – Artificial Sweeteners (Yep Roc Records)
The Horrors – Luminous (XL Recordings)
Hunter Hayes – Storyline (Atlantic)
Kina Grannis – Elements (One Haven Music)
King Dude – Fear (Not Just Religious Music)
Leisure Cruise – Leisure Cruise (Last Gang Records)
Liam Finn – The Nihilist (Yep Roc Records)
Lily Allen – Sheezus (Warner Bros.)
Lykke Li – I Never Learn (Atlantic)
Matrimony – Montibello Memories (Sony)
Money – The Shadow Of Heaven (Bella Union)
Morning Parade – Pure Adulterated Joy (So Recordings)
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult – Spooky Tricks (SleazeBox) – Raul Stanciu
Natalie Merchant – Natalie Merchant (Nonesuch)
Naughty Boy – Hotel Cabana (Capitol Records)
Nikki Lane – All Or Nothin’ (New West Records)
Papercuts – Life Among The Savages (Easy Sound Recording Company)
Paws – Youth Culture Forever (FatCat Records)
Rachel Taylor Brown – Family (Rachel Taylor Brown/Bandcamp)
Rodrigo…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 29, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Andre Obin – Ways Of Escape (Sky Council)
Ben Watt – Hendra (Unmade Road)
Brody Dalle – Diploid Love (Caroline)
Broken Twin – May (Anti Records)
Chad VanGaalen – Shrink Dust (Sub Pop)
Chris Robinson – Phosphorescent Harvest (Silver Arrow Records)
Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots (Warner Bros.)
Devil You Know – The Beauty Of Destruction (Nuclear Blast America)
Edguy – Space Police: Defenders Of The Crown (Nuclear Blast America)
Floor – Oblation (Season Of Mist)
Fennesz – Becs (Editions Mego) – Raul Stanciu
Helstar – This Wicked Nest (AFM Records)
Howlin Rain – Live Rain (Agitated Records)
Lindsey Stirling – Shatter Me (Lindseystomp Music)
Maria Minerva – Histrionic (Not Not Fun)
Nels Cline – Macroscope (Mack Avenue)
Old 97’s – Most Messed Up (ATO Records)
Olga Bell – Krai (New Amsterdam Records)
Ought – More Than Any Other Day (Constellation)
Pattern Is Movement – Pattern Is Movement (Hometapes)
Pink Mountaintops – Get Back (Jagjaguwar)
Pixies – Indie Cindy (Pias America)
Ramona Lisa – Arcadia (Red Distribution)
The Revere – Behold, The Sea Itself! (Rock Ridge Music)
Rodrigo y Gabriela – 9 Dead Alive (ATO Records)
The String Cheese Incident – Song In My Head (Loud & Proud Records)
Whitechapel – Our Endless War (Metal Blade)
Wye Oak – Shriek (Merge Records)

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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 22, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Archie Powell & The Exports – Back In Black (Team Cool Records)
Asher Roth – RetroHash (Pale Fire)
Augustana – Life Imitating Life (Razor & Tie)
Death – Death III (Drag City)
Eels – The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett (Pias America)
Francesca Battistelli – If We’re Honest (Warner Nashville)
Hot Victory – Hot Victory (Eolian Empire)
Iggy Azalea – The New Classic (Island/Def-Jam)
Jerry Leger – Early Riser (Latent Recordings)
Justin Rutledge – Daredevil (Outside Music)
Keb Mo – Bluesamericana (Kind Of Blue Music)
Kelis – Food (Ninja Tune)
The Menzingers – Rented World (Epitaph) – Channing Freeman
Modern Rivals – Cemetery Dares (Modern Rivals)
More Than Life – What’s Left Of Me (Holy Roar) – Jom
Neon Trees – Pop Psychology (Island/Mercury)
Sebastian Bach – Give Em’ Hell (Frontiers Records)
TEEN – The Way And Color (Carpark Records)
To Kill A King – Cannibals With Cutlery (Xtra Mile)
Trophy Scars – Holy Vacants (Monotreme Records)
The Whigs – Modern Creation (New West)
Wumpscut – Bulwark Bazooka (Metropolis Records)

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Album Streams:

Death – Death III

Eels – The Cautionary Tales Of Mark Oliver Everett

Jerry Leger – Early Riser

Kelis – Food

The Menzingers – Rented World

TEEN – The Way And Color

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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 15, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

The Afghan Whigs – Do To The Beast (Sub Pop)
Amps For Christ – Canyons Cars And Crows (Shrimper Records)
August Alsina – Testimony (Island/Def-Jam)
Banner Pilot – Souvenir (Fat Wreck Chords)
Big Sugar – Yardstyle (Bread & Butter Productions)
The Birds Of Satan – The Birds Of Satan (+180 Records)
The Both – The Both (SuperEgo Records)
Brandon Michael Williams – The Pride Of Titanic (Brandon Michael Williams)
Breathe Carolina – Savages (Fearless Records)
Chet Faker – Built On Glass (Downtown)
Chuck E. Weiss – Red Beans And Weiss (Anti Records)
Cult Leader – Nothing For Us Here (Deathwish Inc.)
Dan Wilson – Love Without Fear (+180 Records)
Deleted Scenes – Lithium Burn (Park The Van)
Emmure – Eternal Enemies (Victory Records)
Heartsrevolution – Ride Or Die (OWSLA)
Ian Anderson – Homo Erraticus (Kscope)
Ingrid Michaelson – Lights Out (Cabin 24 Records/Mom + Pop Music)
Jack Bruce – Silver Rails (Esoteric)
Jamie O’Neal – Eternal (Shanachie)
Jason Derulo – Talk Dirty (Warner Bros.)
Jim Byrnes – St. Louis Times (Black Hen Music)
Megafauna – Maximalist (Danimal Kingdom)
NEEDTOBREATHE – Rivers In The Wasteland (Atlantic)
Odonis Odonis – Hard Boiled Soft Boiled (Buzz Records)
Pharmakos – Nude (Pharmakos/Bandcamp)
Plague Vendor – Free To Eat (Epitaph)
A Pony Named Olga – The Land Of Milk And Pony (Saustex Media)
Rodney…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 8, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks – Enter The Slasher House (Domino Recording Company)
Black Label Society – Catacombs Of The Black Vatican (Entertainment One)
Chuck Inglish – Convertibles (Federal Prism)
Consider Me Dead – Young At Heart (Standby Records)
EMA – The Future’s Void (Matador Records)
The Faint – Doom Abuse (SQE Music)
Flutronix – 2.0 (Flutronix Records)
For The Fallen Dreams – Heavy Hearts (Rise Records)
Highasakite – Silent Treatment (Inkind Music)
Incan Abraham – Tolerance (White Iris)
Ital Tek – Mega City Industry (Civil Music)
Joan Osborne – Love And Hate (Entertainment One)
John Frusciante – Enclosure (+180 Records)
King Dude – Fear (Dais)
L’Orange – The Orchid Days (L’Orange/Bandcamp)
Martina McBride – Everlasting (Alliance)
The Mary Onettes – Portico (Labrador/Universal)
MercyMe – Welcome To The New (Fair Trade Services)
OFF! – Wasted Years (Vice Music)
Ratking – So It Goes (XL)
School Of Language – Old Fears (Memphis Industries)
Sleepmakeswaves – In Today Already Walks Tomorrow (Monotreme Records)
SOHN – Tremors (4AD)
SoftSpot – MASS (SoftSpot)
Split Single – Fragmented World (Inside Outside Records)
Squarepusher – Music For Robots (Warp Records) – Hyperion
SZA – Z (Top Dawg Entertainment)
Teebs – E S T A R A (Brainfeeder)
Thus Owls – Turning Rocks (Secret City Records/Universal)
Todd Terje – It’s Album Time…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 1, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Austrian Death Machine – Triple Brutal (Artery Recordings)
Band Of Skulls – Himalayan (+180 Records)
The Body – I Shall Die Here (Revenge International)
Chevelle – La Gargola (Epic)
Chiodos – Devil (Razor & Tie)
Christina Perri – Head Or Heart (Atlantic)
Cloud Nothings – Here And Nowhere (Carpark Records)
Combichrist – We Love You (Out Of Line)
Dan Croll – Sweet Disarray (Capitol)
Fartbarf – Dirty Power (Space Jumbles Music)
Hank Williams III – Ramblin’ Man (Curb Records)
Inventions – Inventions (Temporary Residence)
Jamaica – Ventura (Pias America)
Jon Langford & Skull Orchard – Here Be Monsters (In De Goot Recordings)
Kaiser Chiefs – Education, Education & War (ATO Records)
Lacuna Coil – Broken Crown Halo (Century Media)
Leon Russell – Life Journey (UMe)
Lost Society – Terror Hungry (Nuclear Blast America)
Mac DeMarco – Salad Days (Captured Tracks)
Manchester Orchestra – Cope (Loma Vista/Republic)
Matt Andersen – Weightless (True North)
Mike Oldfield – Man On The Rocks (Mercury)
Millie & Andrea – Drop The Vowels (Modern Love)
Mobb Deep – The Infamous Mobb Deep (Infamous Records)
Nickel Creek – A Dotted Line (Nonesuch)
S. Carey – Range Of Light (Jagjaguwar)
Saintseneca – Dark Arc (Anti Records)
Smoke DZA – Dream.ZONE.Achieve (Cinemtaic Music Group/Surf School Recordings/Priority Records)
Sonata Arctica – Pariah’s Child (Nuclear Blast America) –…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of March 11, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

311 – Stereolythic (311 Records)
Aloe Blacc – Lift Your Spirit (Interscope Records)
Angel Vivaldi – Away With Words – Part I (Indiegogo/Big Cartel)
Architects – Lost Forever // Lost Together (Epitaph)
Charlie Oxford – Charlie Oxford (Rock Ridge Music)
Dean Wareham – Dean Wareham (Double Feature)
Don Williams – Reflections (Sugar Hill/Universal)
Elbow – The Take Off And Landing Of Everything (Concord)
God Module – False Face (Metropolis Records)
Juanes – Loco De Amor (Universal Latino)
Laibach – Spectre (Mute)
Ledisi – The Truth (Verve)
Max Cooper – Human (Fields)
Metronomy – Love Letters (Elektra)
MØ – No Mythologies To Follow (RCA)
Nervosa – Victim Of Yourself (Napalm Records) – Brendan Schroer
Qui – Life, Water, Living…  (Cobraside)
Sara Evans – Slow Me Down (Sony Nashville/RCA)
September Girls – Cursing The Sea (Fortuna Pop)
Young Money – Rise Of An Empire (Universal Republic)

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Album Streams:

Architects – Lost Forever // Lost Together

Dean Wareham – Dean Wareham

Max Cooper – Human

Metronomy – Love Letters

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

Staff :

1. Real Estate
2. The Hotelier
3. Cloud Nothings
4. Morbus Chron
5. St. Vincent
6. Neneh Cherry
7. Animal Collective
8. Dark Tranquility
9. Sun Kil…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of March 3, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Arthur Beatrice – Working Out (Harvest Music)
Ashanti – Braveheart (Written Entertainment/eOne Music)
Axxa/Abraxas – Axxa/Abraxas (Captured Tracks)
Bart Davenport – Physical World (Lovemonk)
Bruised But No Broken – Fragment (Standby Records)
Carla Bozulich – Boy (Constellation)
Carnifex – Die Without Hope (Nuclear Blast America) – Brendan Schroer
CHON – Woohoo! (Equal Vision Records) – Jacob Royal
Color War – It Could Only Be This Way (Four Horsemen Records)
Comeback Kid – Die Knowing (Victory Records) – Adam Thomas
Damaged Bug – Hubba Bubba (Castleface)
Drive-By Truckers – English Oceans (ATO Records)
Eternal Summers – The Drop Beneath (Kanine Records) – Irving Tan
Fuel – Puppet Strings (MRI Associated)
Imogen Heap – Sparks (RCA)
Information Society – Land Of The Blind (Hakatak International)
Jupe Jupe – Crooked Kisses (Jupe Jupe Music)
Kandle – In Flames (Dare To Care Records)
Kimono Kult – Hiding In The Light (Neurotic Yell Records)
Lea Michele – Louder (Columbia)
Linda Perhacs – The Soul Of All Natural Things (Asthmatic Kitty)
Love American – Hollow Crosses (Love American/Bandcamp)
The Men – Tomorrow’s Hits (Sacred Bones) – Adam Downer
The Mighty Fine – Brothers And Smugglers (Creator-Destructor Records)
Morbus Chron – Sweven (Century Media) – Hyperion
Morning Glory – Was Psalms (Fat Wreck Chords)
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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 25, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Barzin – To Live Alone In That Long Summer (Monotreme Records)
Beck – Morning Phase (Capitol/Universal) – Rudy K.
Bleeding Rainbow – Interrupt (Kanine Records)
Brandt Bauer Frick – DJ-Kicks: Brandt Bauer Frick (!K7)
Dierks Bentley – Riser (Capitol Nashville/Universal)
Doomsquad – Kalaboogie (Hand Drawn Dracula)
Drekka – Ekki Gera Fikniefnum (Dais Records)
The Fray – Helios (Epic)
InDirections – Clockworks (InVogue Records)
Lo-Fang – Blue Film (4AD)
Major Lazer – Apocalypse Soon (Mad Decent)
Mike Gordon – Overstep (ATO Records)
Neneh Cherry – Blank Project (Smalltown Supersound)
New Bums – Voices In A Rented Room (Drag City)
The Notwist – Close To The Glass (Sub Pop)
Patten – ESTOILE NAIANT (Warp Records) – Hyperion
Priscilla Ahn – This Is Where We Are (SQE Music)
Runaway Dorothy – The Wait (Rock Ridge Music)
Scattered Bodies – Talking Songs (Dream Tower Records)
ScHoolboy Q – Oxymoron (Interscope Records) – Aziz
St. Vincent – St. Vincent (Loma Vista/Republic) – Greg Fisher
Twin Forks – Twin Forks (Dine Alone)
Untold – Black Light Spiral (Hemlock Recordings)
Wild Beasts – Present Tense (Domino)
Yellow Ostrich – Cosmos (Barsuk)

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Album Streams:

Barzin – To Live Alone In That Long Summer

Beck – Morning Phase

Bleeding Rainbow – Interrupt

Dierks Bentley – Riser

Lo-Fang…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 18, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
Ashley Riley – All The Pretty Things (Riled Up Records)
Bayside – Cult (Hopless Records)
BossaCucaNova – Our Kind Of Bossa (Six Degrees)
Candice Glover – Music Speaks (Interscope Records)
Cynic – Kindly Bent To Free Us (Season Of Mist) – Jacob Royal
The Feeling – Boy Cried Wolf (BMG)
Guided By Voices – Motivational Jumpsuit (Guided By Voices)
I Killed The Prom Queen – Beloved (Epitaph)
Issues – Issues (Rise Records)
The Jezabels – The Brink (PIAS America)
Junius – Days Of The Fallen Sun (Prosthetic Records)
Kevin Seconds – Off Stockton (Rise Records)
Lionize – Jetpack Soundtrack – Greg Fisher
Lost In The Trees – Past Life (Anti Records)
Lucy – Churches Schools & Guns (Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Phantogram – Voices (Universal/Republic) – Brendan Schroer
Planningtorock – All Love’s Legal (Human Level)
Slough Feg – Digital Resistance (Metal Blade) – Adam Thomas
Solids – Blame Conclusion (Fat Possum)
Suzanne Vega – Tales From The Realm Of The Queen Of Pentacles (Amanuensis Productions)
Vales – Wilt & Rise (6131 Records)
We Are The In Crowd – Weird Kids (Hopeless Records)
William Fitzsimmons – Lions (Nettwerk Records)

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Album Streams:

Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness

Cynic – Kindly…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 11, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Abandon All Ships – Malocchio (Rise Records) – DaveyBoy
Aesthetic Perfection – ‘Til Death (Metropolis Records)
Band Of Horses – Acoustic At The Ryman (Brown Records)
Cashmere Cat – Wedding Bells (LuckyMe)
Cibo Matto – Hotel Valentine (Virtual Label)
Clan Of Xymox – Matters Of The Mind, Body & Soul (Metropolis Records)
Death Of Samantha – If Memory Serves Us Well (St. Valentine Records)
Eric Church – The Outsiders (Universal Nashville)
The Fleshtones – Wheel Of Talent (Yep Roc Records)
Frankie Ballard – Sunshine & Whiskey (Warner Nashville)
The Glitch Mob – Love Death Immortality (Glass Air) – Will Robinson
Helms Alee – Sleepwalking Sailors (Sargent House)
Jay Malinowski & The Deadcoast – Martel (Pirates Blend/Sony Music Canada)
Katy B – Little Red (Rinse/Columbia)
Loners Society – King City Sessions (Autumn + Colour)
Maggie McClure – Time Moves On (Maggie McClure Music)
Modern Baseball – You’re Gonna Miss It All (Run For Cover Records)
Neil Finn – Dizzy Heights (Lester Records)
Noah Gundersen – Ledges (Dualtone Music Group)
Sam Roberts Band – Lo-Fantasy (Paper Bag Records)
Sun Kil Moon – Benji (Caldo Verde)
Temples – Sun Structures (Fat Possum Records)
Thumpers – Galore (Sub Pop)
Tinariwen – Emmaar (Anti Records)
††† – ††† (Sumerian)

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Album Streams:

Band Of Horses – Acoustic At The Ryman

Cibo Matto…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of November 5, 2013. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Alice Rose – each is a DREAM (Manual Music)
Avril Lavigne – Avril Lavigne (Epic)
Bryce Dessner & Kronos Quartet – Aheym (Anti Records)
Celine Dion – Loved Me Back to Life (Columbia)
Connan Mockasin – Caramel (Phantasy/Because Music)
Cut Copy – Free Your Mind (Loma Vista/Republic) – Rudy K.
DJ Rashad – Double Cup (Hyperdub)
Eden’s Curse – Symphony Of Sin (AFM Records)
Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (Aftermath)
Guido – Moods Of Future Joy (Tectonic Recordings)
Hellogoodbye – Everything Is Debatable (Old Friends Records)
Howe Gelb – The Coincidentalist (New West)
James Blunt – Moon Landing (Atlantic)
Luscious Jackson – Magic Hour (City Song)
M.I.A. – Matangi (Interscope Records)
Melodic – Effra Parade (Epitaph)
Melvins – Tres Cabrones (10 Spot)
Midlake – Antiphon (ATO Records)
Scott Stapp – Proof Of Life (Wind-Up)
Sore Eros & Kurt Vile – Jamaica Plain (Care In The Community Records)
Steven Wilson – Drive Home (Kscope)
Stryper – No More Hell To Pay (Frontiers Records/Universal)
Submotion Orchestra – 1968 (Circus Records)
Weekend Nachos – Still (Relapse)
A Wilhelm Scream – Partycrasher (No Idea Records)

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Album Streams:

Avril Lavigne – Avril Lavigne

Bryce Dessner & Kronos Quartet – Aheym

Celine Dion – Loved Me Back To Life

Connan Mockasin – Caramel

Cut Copy – Free Your Mind

Eminem…