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…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of October 15, 2013. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Anberlin – Devotion (Big3 Records)
Anneke Van Giersbergen – Drive (Inside Out US)
The Avett Brothers – Magpie And The Dandelion (American Recordings)
Beats Antique – A Thousand Faces: Act 1 (10 Spot)
Black Milk – No Poison, No Paradise (Fat Beats Records)
Bloc Party – Tapes (Retrofit/!k7)
Boardwalk – Boardwalk (Stones Throw)
Cass McCombs – Big Wheels And Others (Domino)
Courtesy Drop – Songs To Drive To; Cray And Make Love To (Animal Style Records)
Crystal Antlers – Nothing Is Real (Innovative Leisure)
Cults – Static (Columbia) – Rudy K.
Death Angel – The Dream Calls For Blood (Nuclear Blast US)
Diane Birch – Speak A Little Louder (S-Curve Records)
The Dismemberment Plan – Uncanney Valley (Partisan Records) – Adam Downer
Doomriders – Grand Blood (Deathwish Inc.)
Ereb Altor – Fire Meets Ice (Cyclone Empire)
Fall Out Boy – Pax AM Days (Island Records)
Field Study – Feverland (Nine Mile Records)
Friendzone – DX (Self released/Bandcamp)
Gary Numan – Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind) (10 Spot)
Gavin DeGraw – Make A Move (RCA)
The Head And The Heart – Let’s Be Still (Sub Pop)
Heavenly Beat – Prominence (Captured Tracks)
I Am King – Onehundred (Rise Records)
Icon For Hire – Icon For Hire (Tooth & Nail Records)
James Ferraro –…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of September 24, 2013. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Andrew St James – Doldrums (Fortune Records)
Au Revoir Simone – Move In Spectrums (Instant Records)
Audio – Bag Of Bones (Blackout Records)
Bleach Blonde – Starving Artist  (Rise Records)
Buried Beds – In Spirit (Devinyl Records)
Cher – Closer To The Truth (Warner Bros.)
Chvrches – The Bones Of What You Believe (Glassnote) – Eli Kleman
Deals Death – Point Zero Solution (Spinefarm)
Deer Tick – Negativity (Partisan Records)
Drake – Nothing Was The Same (Cash Money) – Adam Thomas
Elton John – The Diving Board (Capitol Records/Universal)
Frankie Rose – Herein Wild (Fat Possum Records)
Ghostpoet – Some Say I So I Say Light (Play It Again Sam)
Gov’t Mule – Shout! (Blue Note/Universal)
Ha Ha Tonka – Lessons (Bloodshot Records)
Huerco S. – Collonial Patterns (Software)
Icona Pop – This Is… Icona Pop (Big Beat/WEA)
The Internet – Feel Good (Odd Future)
INVSN – INVSN (Razor & Tie)
Jesu – Every Day I Get Closer To The Light From Which I Came (Shellshock)
Kelley Stoltz – Double Exposure (Third Man Records)
Kings Of Leon – Mechanical Bull (RCA)
Lovers – A Friend In The World (Badman Records)
Matthew Good – Arrows Of Desire (Frostbyte) – Irving Tan
Mazzy Star – Seasons Of Your Day (Rhymes Of…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of September 17, 2013. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

The Band In Heaven – Caught In A Summer Swell (Decades Records)
Bill Callahan – Dream River (Drag City)
Billy Currington – We Are Tonight (Mercury Nashville)
Carcass – Surgical Steel (Nuclear Blast America)
Chris Young – A.M. (Sony Nashville)
Cloud Control – Dream Cave (Votiv)
Crystal Stilts – Nature Noir (Sacred Bones)
Delorean – Apar (True Panther Sounds)
The Devil Wears Prada – 8:18 (Roadrunner Records)
The Dirtbombs – Ooey Gooey Chewy Ka-Blooey (In The Red)
Factory Floor – Factory Floor (DFA Records)
Felix Martin – The Scenic Album  (Prosthetic Records)
Five For Fighting – Bookmarks (Wind-Up)
The Flatliners – Dead Language (Fat Wreck Chords)
Grouplove – Spreading Rumours (Atlantic)
Gwar – Battle Maximus (Metal Blade)
Islands – Ski Mask (Redeye)
Jack Johnson – From Here To Now To You (Universal Republic)
JD Eicher & The Goodnights – Into Place (Rock Ridge Music)
Jessy Lanza – Pull My Hair Back (Hyperdub)
Justin Moore – Off The Beaten Path (Valory)
Keep Shelly In Athens – At Home (Cascine)
London Grammar – If You Wait (1-2-3-4-GO!)
Mark Lanegan – Imitations (Vagrant Records)
Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands – Tess (Candy Cross)
Maybach Music Group – Self Made Vol. 3 (Atlantic)
MGMT – MGMT (Columbia)
Múm – Smilewound (Morr Music)
The Naked & Famous – In Rolling Waves (Republic)
Nightmares…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of September 10, 2013. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

2 Chainz – B.O.A.T.S. II: Me Time (Def Jam)
Arctic Monkeys – AM (Domino)
Babyshambles – Sequel To The Prequel (EMI Import)
Balance & Composure – The Things We Think We’re Missing (No Sleep Records)
The Black Watch – The End Of When (1-2-3-4-GO!)
Body/Head – Coming Apart (Matador Records)
Covenant – Leaving Babylon (Metropolis Records)
Earth, Wind & Fire – Then, Now & Forever (Sony Legacy)
Emiliana Torrini – Tookah (Rough Trade US)
Farewell, My Love – Gold Tattoos (Standby Records)
George Jones – Amazing Grace (Welk Records)
Gloria Estefan – The Standards (Sony Masterworks)
Goldfrapp – Tales Of Us (Mute)
Human Parts – Human Parts (No Idea Records)
J. Roddy Walston & The Business – Essential Tremors (ATO Records)
Janelle Monae – The Electric Lady (Bad Boy) – Greg “the booty doesn’t lie” Fisher
Joanna Gruesome – Weird Sister (Slumberland Records)
Kaskade – Atmosphere (Ultra Records)
Katatonia – Dethroned & Uncrowned (Kscope) – Kyle Ward
Keith Urban – Fuse (Capitol Nashville)
Man Man – On Oni Pond (Anti Records)
Mark Knopfler – Privateering (Universal)
Miniboone – Miniboone (Ernest Jenning Record Co.)
Ministry – From Beer To Eternity (AFM Records)
Sam Cash & The Romantic Dogs – Stand Together, Fall Together (Cameron House Records)
Sheryl Crow – Feels Like Home…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of September 3, 2013. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Ariana Grande – Yours Truly (Universal Republic)
Califone – Stitches (Dead Oceans)
Celestial Shore – 10x (Hometapes)
Chelsea Wolfe – Pain Is Beauty (Sargent House) – Angel
Glasvegas – Later… When The TV Turns To Static (BMG Rights Management)
Gorguts – Colored Sands (Season Of Mist) – Sobhi Youssef
Grooms – Infinity Caller (Western Vinyl)
Holograms – Forever (Captured Tracks)
Jackson And His Computerband – Glow (Warp Records)
Jonathan Rado – Law And Order (Woodsist)
John Legend – Love In The Future (Columbia)
The Julie Ruin – Run Fast (The Julie Ruin Records)
King Khan & The Shrines – Idle No More (Merge Records)
Lonnie Holley – Keeping A Record Of It (Dust To Digital)
Modern Life Is War – Fever Hunting (Deathwish Inc.)
My Ticket Home – Strangers Only (Rise Records)
Natalia Kills – Trouble (Interscope Records)
Nedelle Torrisi – Nedelle Torrisi (Nedelle Torrisi)
Neko Case – The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You (Anti Records)
Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks (Columbia)
North Mississippi Allstars – World Boogie Is Coming (Songs Of The South)
Okkervil River – The Silver Gymnasium (ATO Records)
Pink Frost – Sundowning (BLVD Records)
Richard Buckner – Surrounded (Merge Records)
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Taylor Deupree – Disappearance…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 6, 2013. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Amanda Shires – Down Fell The Doves (Lightning Rod Rec.)
Anna Rose – Behold A Pale Horse (White Pony Records)
Asking Alexandria – From Death To Destiny (Sumerian)
Barbarossa – Bloodlines (Memphis Industries)
Blondes – Swisher (RVNG International)
Brendan James – Simplify (Noble Steed Music)
Brett Eldredge – Bring You Back (Atlantic)
Centuries – Taedium Vitae (Southern Lord)
Chick Corea – The Vigil (Concord Jazz)
The Civil Wars – The Civil Wars (Sensibility Recordings/Columbia Records)
The Dangerous Summer – Golden Record (Hopeless Records)
Dead Letter Circus – The Catalyst Fire (UNFD)
The Defiled – Daggers (Nuclear Blast US)
Eric Copeland – Joke In The Hole (DFA Records)
Exhumed – Necrocracy (Relapse)
Explosions In The Sky & David Wingo – Prince Avalanche (Temporary Residence)
Hugh Laurie – Didn’t It Rain (Warner Bros.)
The Icarus Line – Slave Vows (1-2-3-4-GO!) – Greg Fisher
Iwrestledabearonce – Late For Nothing (Century Media)
Jake Bellows – New Ocean (Saddle Creek)
James LaBrie – Impermanent Resonance (Inside Out US)
Karnivool – Asymmetry (Workhorse Music) – Jacob Royal
KT Tunstall – Invisible Empire/Crescent Moon (Blue Note Records)
Kyle – Beautiful Loser (Indie-Pop)
Long Lost – Save Yourself, Start Again (No Sleep Records)
Lumerians – The High Frontier (Red Distribution)
Medicine – To The Happy Few (Captured Tracks)
Moderat – II (Mute)
Modern…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of July 30, 2013. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Alelea Diane – About Farewell (Rusted Blue Records)
Backstreet Boys – In A World Like This (K-Bahn LLC/BMG Rights Management)
Barricades – With Perfect Aim (Barricades)
Buddy Guy – Rhythm & Blues (RCA)
Chimaira – Crown Of Phantoms (Entertainment One)
Confide – All Is Calm (Confide)
Cosmoscope – Hero Or Menace (Cosmoscope)
Elitist – Between The Balance (Consumer Records)
Enduser – Retox (Retox)
Five Finger Death Punch – The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell – Part I (Prospect Park)
Fortune Howl – Earthbound (Fortune Howl/Bandcamp)
Joan Of Arc – Testimonium Songs (Polyvinyl Records)
Michael Franti & Spearhead – All People (Capitol)
Missing Monuments – Missing Monuments (Dirtnap Records)
Moreland & Arbuckle – 7 Cities (Telarc)
The Reign Of Kindo – Play With Fire (Candyrat Records)
Russell Howard – City Heart + (Rock Ridge Music)
Shpongle – Museum Of Consciousness (Twisted Records)
Soft Swells – Lifeboats (Modern Outsider)
Sparks The Rescue – Truth Inside The Fiction (Sparks The Rescue)
Tech N9ne – Something Else (Strange Music)
Tiefighter – Tiefighter (Tiefighter)
Vince Gill & Paul Franklin – Bakersfield (MCA Nashville)

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Album Streams:

Missing Monuments – Missing Monuments

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

Staff :

1. Thundercat
2. Vampire Weekend
3. The National
4. Slum Village
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