Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of June 24, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Ab-Soul – These Days (Top Dawg Entertainment)
Black Bananas – Electric Brick Wall (Drag City)
Carsie Blanton – Not Old, Not New (So Ferocious)
Circulatory System – Mosaics Within Mosaics (Cloud Recordings)
Deadmau5 – While (1<2) (Astralwerks/Universal)
Flashlights – Bummer Summer (Hard Rock Records)
Gus Gus – Mexico (Kompakt)
Jad Fair & Danielson – Solid Gold Heart (Sounds Familyre)
Kasai Allstars – Beware The Fetish (Crammed Discs)
M. Geddes Gengras – Ishi (Leaving Records)
Mastodon – Once More ‘Round The Sun (Warner Bros.) – Greg Fisher
Peter Matthew Bauer – Liberation! (Mexican Summer)
Phish – Fuego (ATO Records)
Phox – Phox (Partisan Records)
Riff Raff – Neon Icon (Mad Decent)
Roll The Dice – Until Silence (Leaf Spain)
Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs – Gates Of Hell (Southpaw Records)
Sarah Borges – Radio Sweetheart (Lonesome Day)
Slaves – Through Art We Are All Equals (Artery Recordings)
Sons Of Magdalene – Move To Pain (Audraglint)
Speak – Pedals (Playing In Traffic)
Strand Of Oaks – Heal (Dead Oceans)
A Sunny Day In Glasgow – Sea When Absent (Lefse Records)
Total Control – Typical System (Iron Lung Records)
Xeno & Oaklander – Par Avion (Ghostly International)
Zig Zags – Zig Zags (In The Red)

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Album Streams:

Circulatory System – Mosaics Within Mosaics

Deadmau5 – While (1<2)…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of June 17, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Alexis Taylor – Await Barbarians (Domino)
The Antlers – Familiars (Anti Records)
Big Freedia – Just Be Free (Queen Diva Music)
Boris – Noise (Sargent House)
Cannabis Corpse – From Wisdom To Baked (Seasons Of Mist)
Cerebral Ballzy – Jaded & Faded (Cult Records)
David Gray – Mutineers (+180 Records)
Death Has No Dominion – Death Has No Dominion (Sqe Music)
The Downtown Fiction – Losers & Kings (Fearless Records)
Ed Sheeran – X (Atlantic)
The Felice Brothers – Favorite Waitress (Dualtone Music Group)
For All Those Sleeping – Incomplete Me (Fearless Records)
Frog Eyes – Carey’s Cold Spring (Paper Bag Records)
Ghost Town – The After Party (Fueled By Ramen)
Glass Animals – ZABA (Harvest)
The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer – A Real Fine Mess (Tonic Records)
How To Dress Well – What Is This Heart? (Alternative Distribution Alliance)
Jennifer Lopez – A.K.A. (Capitol)
Julian Velard – If You Don’t Like It, You Can Leave (Chloebro Records/Exodus Entertainment)
Klaxons – Love Frequency (Akashic Records)
Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence (Interscope Records)
Linkin Park – The Hunting Party (Warner Bros.) Irving Tan
Lone – Reality Testing (R&S Records) Hyperion
Lower – Seek Warmer Climes (Matador Records)
Martyn – The Air Between Words (Ninja Tune)
Matteah Baim – Falling Theater (Dream Drive Records)
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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of June 10, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

The Amity Affliction – Let The Ocean Take Me (Roadrunner Records)
Anathema – Distant Satellites (Kscope) – Trey Spencer
Andrew Bird – Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of… (Virtual Label)
Arch Enemy – War Eternal (Century Media)
Big Wreck – Ghosts (Zoe Records)
Body Count – Manslaughter (Sumerian Records)
Chrissie Hynde – Stockholm (Caroline)
Clipping. – CLPPNG (Sub Pop)
Craft Spells – Nausea (Captured Tracks)
Death Grips – The Powers That B – Part 1: Niggas On The Moon (Death Grips)
Dub Thompson – 9 Songs (Dead Oceans)
First Aid Kit – Stay Gold (Columbia) – Rudy K.
The Fresh & Onlys – House Of Spirits (Mexican Summer)
The Great Sabatini – Dog Years (Solar Flare Records)
Hollie Cook – Twice (Mr. Bongo)
Jack White – Lazaretto (Columbia)
Lust For Youth – International (Sacred Bones)
Mars Red Sky – Stranded In Arcadia (Listenable Records)
Mayhem – Esoteric Warfare (Season Of Mist) – Voivod
Memory Map – The Sky As Well As Space (Joyful Noise Records)
Mike Rosenberg – Whispers (Black Crow/Island Records)
O.A.R. – The Rockville LP (Vanguard/Universal)
Plastikman – EX (Mute)
Popcaan – Where We Come From (Mixpak Records)
Quantic – Magnetica (Tru Thoughts)
Rippikoulu – Ulvaja (Svart Records)
Say Anything – Hebrews (Equal Vision…

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

50 Cent – Animal Ambition: An Untamed Desire To Win (G-Unit Records)
Apathy – Connecticut Casual (Dirty Version Records)
Biome – Lost Dubs (Biome/Bandcamp)
Bis – Data Panik Etcetera (Do Yourself In)
Blue Sky Black Death – Euphoric Tape III (Blue Sky Black Death/Bandcamp)
Bob Mould – Beauty & Ruin (Merge Records)
Bok Bok – Your Charizmatic Self (Night Slugs)
Buzz Osborne (as King Buzzo) – This Machine Kills Artists (Ipecac Recordings)
Camper Van Beethoven – El Camino Real (429 Records)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Only Run (CYHSY Inc.)
Curtis Harvey – The Wheel (FatCat Records)
Devon Williams – Gilding The Lily (Slumberland Records)
The Donkeys – Ride The Black Wave (Vanguard Records/Universal)
Echo & The Bunnymen – Meteorites (429 Records)
Edward Rogers – Kaye (Zip Records)
Fucked Up – Glass Boys (Matador Records)
Fu Manchu – Gigantoid (Redeye Label)
Gabriel Kahane – The Ambassador (Sony Masterworks)
Gold-Bears – Dalliance (Slumberland Records)
Hamilton Leithauser – Black Hours (Ribbon Records)
Kan Wakan – Moving On (Verve)
Lucy Hale – Road Between (Hollywood Records)
Matisyahu – Akeda (Elm City/Universal)
Miranda Lambert – Platinum (RCA Records/Nashville)
Nightmares – Suspiria (Rise Records)
Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal (What’s Your Rupture?)
PHORK – High End (NNA Tapes)
Redvers – Truth In Silence (Redvers/Bandcamp)
Rich Robinson – The Ceaseless Sight (The End Records)
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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 27, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

7 Seconds – Leave A Light On (Rise Records)
Austin Mahone – The Secret (Universal Republic)
Ben Frost – A U R O R A (Mute)
Black Anvil – Hail Death (Relapse)
Cher Lloyd – Sorry I’m Late (Epic)
Crowbar – Symmetry In Black (Entertainment One)
Crowder – Neon Steeple (Six Steps Records)
Eyehategod – Eyehategod (Housecore Records)
Harassor – Into Unknown Depths (Dais Records)
Haunted Hearts – Initiation (Zoo Music)
Hercules And Love Affair – The Feast Of The Broken Heart (Moshi Moshi)
Hundred Waters – The Moon Rang Like A Bell (OWSLA)
Jerry David DeCicca – Understanding Land (Virtual Label)
Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires – Dereconstructed (Sub Pop)
Little Barrie – Shadow (Tummy Touch Records)
Mariah Carey – Me. I Am Mariah… The Elusive Chanteuse (Def Jam)
Mark Jones & Twenty Paces – Breaking Even (Mark Jones & Twenty Paces/Bandcamp)
Marty Friedman – Inferno (Prosthetic Records)
Matthew Barber – Big Romance (Outside Music)
Misery Index – Killing Gods (Season Of Mist)
Moe. – No Guts, No Glory (Sugar Hill/Universal)
Owen Pallett – In Conflict (Domino)
Peter Murphy – Lion (Nettwerk Records)
The Ready Set – The Bad & The Better (Razor & Tie Recordings)
Reuben And The Dark – Funeral Sky (Arts & Crafts)
Roll The Tanks – Broke Til Midnight (Epitaph)
Rush Midnight…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 20, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Archie Bronson Outfit – Wild Crush (Domino)
Blu – Good To Be Home (InGrooves)
Brian Jonestown Massacre – Revelation (A. Records)
Bry Webb – Free Will (Idee Fixe Records)
Chatham County Line – Tightrope (Yep Roc Records)
Cherry Ghost – Herd Runners (PIAS America)
Comet Control – Comet Control (Tee Pee Records)
Conor Oberst – Upside Down Mountain (Nonesuch)
DZ Deathrays – Black Rat (I Oh You)
The Everymen – Givin’ Up On Free Jazz (Ernest Jenning)
Haley Bonar – Last War (Graveface Records & Curiosities)
Hedley – Wild Life (Capitol Records)
Joakim – Tropics Of Love (Tigersushi/Because Music)
Jolie Holland – Wine Dark Sea (Anti/Epitaph)
Kate Tempest – Everybody Down (Big Dada Records)
Mr. Scruff – Friendly Bacteria (Ninja Tune)
The Okee Dokee Brothers – Through The Woods: An Appalachian Adventure Album (Okee Dokee Music)
Plaid – Reachy Prints (Warp Records)
The Roots – …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin (Def Jam)
Royksopp & Robyn – Do It Again (Cheery Tree)
Smoke Fairies – Smoke Fairies (10 Spot)
Toumani Diabaté and Sidiki Diabaté – Toumani & Sidiki (Nonesuch)
Trans Am – Volume X (Thrill Jockey)
Traxman – Da Mind Of Traxman Vol. 2 (Planet Mu)
White Sea – In Cold Blood (Alternative Distribution Alliance)
Yann Tiersen – ∞ (Infinity) (Mute)
Zero Boys – Monkey (Z-Disk)

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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 13, 2014. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Agalloch – The Serpent & The Sphere (Profound Lore) – Kyle Ward
Bane – Don’t Wait Up (Equal Vision Records)
The Black Keys – Turn Blue (Nonesuch)
Blondie – Ghosts Of Download (Noble ID)
Blondie – Blondie: 40 (Noble ID)
Brantley Gilbert – Just As I Am (Valory)
Chromeo – White Women (Big Beat/WEA)
Coldplay – Ghost Stories (Parlophone/Atlantic)
Cursed Sails – Rotten Society (Rise Records)
Dolly Parton – Blue Smoke (Sony Masterworks)
Dylan Gardner – Adventures In Real Time (Bingo Masters)
Front Line Assembly – Echoes (Metropolis Records)
Gruff Rhys – American Interior (Caroline International) – Raul Stanciu
Guided By Voices – Cool Planet (Guided By Voices)
Hiss Tracts – Shortwave Nights (Constellation)
The Howlin’ Brothers – Trouble (Readymade Records)
Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Goin’ Home (Concord)
Killer Be Killed – Killer Be Killed (Nuclear Blast America)
Kishi Bashi – Lighght (Joyful Noise Records)
La Sera – Hour Of The Dawn (Hardly Art)
Levi Weaver – Your Ghosts Keep Finding Me (Rock Ridge Music)
Little Dragon – Nabuma Rubberband (Loma Vista/Republic)
Malka Spigel – Gliding (Swim)
Michael Jackson – Xscape (Epic)
Midnight Faces – The Fire Is Gone (Broken Factory)
Mirah – Changing Light (K)
Mushroomhead – The Righteous & The Butterfly (Megaforce)
Only Crime – Pursuance (Rise Records)
The Pains Of Being Pure At…

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) –…