There will be a few extra news items over the last few months of the year as we gear up for promotions, year-end lists and even a surprise or two. The first surprise that we have for you is the fact that we’ve added another moderator — our own Channing Freeman. So, go flood his shoutbox with congratulatory praise, ass kissing, thinly veiled threats and random requests for favors (or you could if he hadn’t disabled his shoutbox).

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of October 25, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Acylum – Karzinom (Alfa Matrix)
A Loss for Words – No Sanctuary (Rise Records)
Banner Pilot – Hearts Beats Pacific (Fat Wreck Chords)
The Beets – Let The Poison Out (HARDLY ART)
Black Rock & Ron – Stop the World – Stop the World (Get On Down)
Black Sun Aeon – Blacklight Deliverance (Stay Heavy Records)
Black Tusk – Set the Dial (Relapse)
Boyz II Men – Twenty {UK} (Universal UK)
Michael Buble – Christmas (Reprise)
Casey Veggies – Sleeping In Class (Delicious Vinyl)
Kelly Clarkson – Stronger (RCA) — Steve M.
Coldplay – Mylo Xyloto (Capitol Records)
DarkDriveClinic – Noise In My Head (Metropolis Records)
De/Vision – Popgefahr: The Mix (Metropolis Records)
Death – Individual Thought Patterns [Remastered] (Relapse)
Deer Tick – Divine Providence (Partisan Records)
Dirty Projectors and Bjork – Mount Wittenberg Orca (Domino)
Dub Trio – Dub Trio IV (Roir Records)
Giant Squid –…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of October 4, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Annie Crane – Jump With A Child’s Heart (Constant Clip Records)
Rodney Atkins – Take A Back Road (Curb Records)
James Blake – Enough Thunder (Universal Records)
Blessthefall – Awakening (Fearless Records)
Blotted Science – The Animation Of Entomology (EclecticElectric)
Bonnie – Wolfroy Goes To Town (Drag City)
Danny Brown – XXX (Fool’s Gold Records)
Browning – Burn This World (Earache Records)
Dessa – Castor, The Twin (Doomtree Records)
DJ Shadow – The Less You Know The Better (Roc-A-Fella)
Dreamers Of The Ghetto – Enemy/Lover (Temporary Residence)
Emika – Emika (Ninja Tune)
Exile – 4 Track Mind (OULP)
Feist – Metals (Cherrytree/Interscope)
Merle Haggard – Working In Tennessee (Vanguard Records)
Indigo Girls – Beauty Queen Sister (IG Recordings/Vanguard Records)
Jack’s Mannequin – People & Things (Sire/WEA)
La Dispute – Wildlife (No Sleep Records) — Channing Freeman
Lights – Siberia (Last Gang Records)
Eliot Lipp – How We Do: Moves Made (Old Tacoma Records)
Loney Dear – Hall Music (Polyvinyl Records)
Lydia – Paint it Gold (Self Released)
Mayday Parade – Mayday Parade (Fearless/Mayday Parade)
Scott McCreery – Clear As Day (Mercury Nashville)
Misfits – The Devil’s Rain (Misfit Records)
Mutemath – Odd Soul (Warner Bros.)
New Found Glory – Radiosurgery (Epitaph)
Prince Rama – Trust Now…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of September 27, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

9th Wonder – The Wonder Years (Traffic Entertainment)
Acoustic Alchemy – Roseland (Heads Up)
Apparat – The Devil’s Walk (Mute U.S.)
Sebastian Bach – Kicking & Screaming (Frontiers Records)
The Bangles – Sweetheart Of The Sun (Waterfront Records)
Barenaked Ladies – Hits From Yesterday And The Day Before (Rhino Records)
Big Troubles – Romantic Comedy (Slumberland Records)
Blink 182 – Neighborhoods (David Geffen Company) — Adam Downer
Blu – Open (Nature Sounds)
Boom Bip – Zig Zaj (Lex Records)
Brainstorm – On The Spur Of The Moment (AFM Records)
Brutal Truth – End Time (Relapse)
Chickenfoot – Chickenfoot III (Entertainment One Music)
Cobra Skulls – Agitations (Fat Wreck Chords)
J. Cole – Cole World: The Sideline Story (Roc Nation)
Collide – Counting to Zero (Self Released)
Confession – The Long Way Home (Resist Records)
Cormega – Raw Forever (Traffic Entertainment)
Download – Helicopter + Wookie Wall (Metropolis Records)
DTMD – Makin’ Dollas (Mello Music Group)
Dum Dum Girls – Only In Dreams (Sub Pop)
Evidence – Cats & Dogs (Rhymesayers)
Frankmusik – Do It In The AM (Interscope)
Gem Club – Breakers (HARDLY ART)
The Gift – Explode (Spindle Music)
Glorior Belli – The Great Southern Darkness (Metal Blade)
Hundredth – Let Go (MEDIASKARE)
Kasabian –…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of September 20, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Tori Amos – Night Of Hunters (Decca Records)
Andrew Jackson Jihad – Knife Man (Asian Man) — Robin Smith
Atlas Moth – Ache for the Distance (Profound Lore)
Tony Bennett – Tony Benett: Duets II (Columbia)
Boots Electric – Honkey Kong (Dangerbird Spain)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Hysterical (RED GENERAL CATALOG) — Rudy Klapper
Dangerous! – Teenage Rampage (Epitaph)
Gavin DeGraw – Sweeter (RCA)
dEUS – Keep You Close {UK}deus (Universal Music)
Madi Diaz – Far From Things That We Know (tinyOGRE ENTERTAINMENT)
The-Dream – Love IV (Diary of a Mad Man) (Def Jam Records)
Veronica Falls – Come On Over (Slumberland Records)
Glorior Belli – The Great Southern Darkness {EU} (Metal Blade)
Jamie Grace – One Song at a Time (Gotee Records)
Gungor – Ghosts Upon the Earth (Brash Music)
Lisa Hannigan – Passenger (ATO RECORDS)
Katie Herzig – The Waking Sleep (Downtown/Mercer Street)
Ivy – All Hours (Nettwerk Records)
Jayhawks – Mockingbird Time (Rounder)
The Jim Jones Revue – The Jim Jones Revue (Punk Rock Blues Records)
Kasabian – Velociraptor! {UK} (Red Int) — Davey Boy
Jens Lekman – An Argument With Myself (Secretly Canadian)
Demi Lovato – Unbroken (Hollywood Records)
Brad Mehldau – Largo (Nonesuch)
Mindless Behavior – #1 Girl (Interscope…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of September 13, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Anathema – Falling Deeper (Kscope) — Trey Spencer
Anterior – Echoes Of The Fallen (Metal Blade Records)
Anthrax – Worship Music (Megaforce)
Anubis Gate – Anubis Gate (Nightmare Records)
Apoptygma Berzerk – Black EP vol 2 (Metropolis Records)
Arch/Matheos – Sympathetic Resonance (Metal Blade Records) — Trey Spencer
Astronautalis – This Is Our Science (Fake Four Inc.)
Katy B – On a Mission (Columbia)
Blitzen Trapper – American Goldwing (Sub Pop)
Blondie – Panic Of Girls (Noble ID, LLC)
Bronze Nazareth – School for the Blindman (iHipHop Distribution)
Bush – The Sea Of Memories (Entertainment One Music)
Kathryn Calder – Bright And Vivid (FILE UNDER MUSIC)
CANT – Dreams Come True (RED GENERAL CATALOG)
Cephalic Carnage – Lucid Interval [Reissue] (Relapse)
Alice Cooper – Welcome 2 My Nightmare (Universal Music Enterprises)
Das Racist – Relax (RED GENERAL CATALOG) — Tyler Fisher
The Devil Wears Prada – Dead Throne (Ferrett Records)
Diary Of Dreams – Ego:X (Metropolis Records)
Download – FiXeR (Metropolis Records)
Dream Theater – A Dramatic Turn of Events (Roadrunner Records) — Trey Spencer
The Drums – Portamento {UK} (Universal UK)
Edguy – Age Of The Joker (Nuclear Blast)
Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost (True Panther Sounds)
God Module – Séance (Metropolis Records)
Imperative Reaction – Imperative Reaction (Metropolis Records)
The Jezabels – Prisoner {AU} (MGM Australia)
The Kooks – Junk of the Heart (Astralwerks)
Lady Antebellum –…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of September 06, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Am & Shawn Lee – Celestial Electric (ESL Music)
Anathema – Falling Deeper {UK} (Kscope) — Trey Spencer
Asa – Beautiful Imperfection (Naive)
Aidan Baker – Tonstreifen (Self Released)
Lindsey Buckingham – Seeds We Sow (Buckingham Records)
The Chemical Brothers – Hannah Soundtrack (Relativity Music Group)
Cipher System – Communicate The Storm {EU} (Nuclear Blast)
Einherjer – Nørrøn {EU} (Prosthetic Records)
The Front Bottoms – The Front Bottoms (Bar None Records)
The Horrible Crowes – Elsie (Side One Dummy) — Jom
Jessy J – Hot Sauce (Heads Up)
Grace Jones – Hurricane (Play It Again Sam)
Hugh Laurie – Let Them Talk (Warner Bros.)
Pistol Annies – Hell on Heels (Sony Nashville)
Princess Chelsea – Lil’ Golden Book (Lil’ Chief Records)
The Rapture – The Grace of Your Love (RED GENERAL CATALOG)
Tom Russell – Mesabi (Shout Factory!)
Samiam – Trips (Hopeless Records)
George Strait – Here For A Good Time (MCA Nashville)
Luke Temple – Don’t Act Like You Don’t Care (Western Vinyl)
Thrice – Major/Minor [Digital Only] (Vagrant Records) — Adam Thomas
Trek Life – Wouldn’t Change Nothing (Mello Music Group)
Darlene Zschech – You Are Love (COLUMBIA)

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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 30, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Anterior – Echoes Of The Fallen {EU} (Metal Blade)
Beirut – The Rip Tide (Pompeii Records) — Kiran S.
Blood Orange – Coastal Grooves (Domino)
Bombay Bicycle Club – A Different Kind Of Fix {UK} (Island UK)
Braille – Native Lungs (Humble Beast)
Glen Campbell – Ghost On The Canvas (Surfdog)
Cobra Starship – Night Shades (Fueled By Ramen)
Committed – Committed (Epic)
Cymbals Eat Guitars – Lenses Alien (Barsuk)
Mike Doughty – Yes And Also Yes (RED GENERAL CATALOG)
Juliana Hatfield – Speeches Delivered To Animals And Plants (Ye Olde Records)
Hella – Tripper (Sargent House)
I Break Horses – Hearts (PID)
Jacuzzi Boys – Glazin’ (HARDLY ART)
Tommy Keene – Behind The Parade (SECOND MOTION)
Killinger – Killinger (Red Distribution)
Kittie – I’ve Failed You (Entertainment One)
Lenny Kravitz – Black And White America (Roadrunner Records)
The Latebirds – Last Of The Good Ol’ Days (SECOND MOTION)
Lil Wayne – Tha Carter IV (Cash Money) — Tyler Fisher
Rene Lopez – ELS (Nat Geo Music)
Male Bonding – Endless Now (Sub Pop)
The Nightwatchman – World Wide Rebel Songs (New West Records)
The Nocturnes – Aokigahara (The Errant Child)
Jake Owen – Barefoot Blue Jean Night (Sony)
Paranoid Castle – Champagne Nightmares (Fake Four Inc.)
Puddle Of Mudd – Re(disc)overed…

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 –…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 16, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

All Pigs Must Die – God Is War (Southern Lord)
Awol One & Nathaniel Motte – Child Star (Fake Four Inc.)
Belle – Never Too Late (Ingenious Records)
Blue October – Any Man in America (RED GENERAL CATALOG)
The Bottle Rockets – Not So Loud: An Acoustic Evening (Bloodshot Records)
Braid – Closer To Closed (Polyvinyl Records)
Breaking Benjamin – Shallow Bay: The Best of Breaking Benjamin (Hollywood Records)
Jeff Bridges – Jeff Bridges (Blue Note)
Chimaira – The Age of Hell (Entertainment One Music)
Cianide – Gods of Death (Hells Headbangers)
Guy Clark – Songs & Stories (Dualtone Music Group)
Ghost Brigade – Until Fear No Longer Defines Us {EU} (Season of Mist)
Gotye – Making Mirrors (Eleven)
The Cool Kids – When Fish Ride Bicycles (C.A.K.E./Green Label Sound)
Denial Fiend – Horror Holocaust (IBEX MOON RECORDS)
Kosha Dillz – Gina and The Garage Sale (Team Kosha)
The Duke & The King – The Duke & The King (Silva America)
Friday – It’s Finally Friday (Grind Season Ent.)
Gold Leaves – The Ornament (HARDLY ART)
Hercules and Love Affair – Blue Songs (Moshi Moshi)
Hexentanz – Nekrocrafte (Agonia Records)
Jewel – The Merry Goes ‘Round (Fisher-Price)
Mac Dre – Da Treasure (Thizz Nation)
Mister Heavenly – Out Of Love (Sub Pop)
Natalia Kills – Perfectionist (Interscope…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 02, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Antigone Rising – 23 Red (101 DISTRIBUTION)
Archers of Loaf – Icky Mettle (Merge Records)
Trace Atkins – Proud To Be Here (Show Dog Nashville)
Battlecross – Pursuit of Honor (Metal Blade)
Boston Spaceships – Let it Beard (Guided By Voices)
Richard Buckner – Our Blood (Merge Records)
Bury Your Dead – Mosh N’ Roll (MEDIASKARE)
Caina – Hands That Pluck (Profound Lore)
Greyson Chance – Hold On ‘Til the Night (Geffen Records)
Dead and Divine – Antimacy (Wolf At Your Door Records)
Denial Fiend – Horror Holocaust (Ibex Moon)
Direct Hit – Domesplitter (Kind of Like Records)
Dir en Grey – Dum Spiro Spero (The End)
Excruciator – The Devouring (Heavy Artillery)
Flourishing – The Sum Of All Fossils (The Path Less Traveled)
Fountains Of Wayne – Sky Full Of Holes (Yep Roc Records) — Rudy Klapper
Fruit Bats – Tripper (Sub Pop)
Harvest – Years of Defiance. Years of Disgust. (Good Fight)
John Hiatt – Dirty Jeans & Mudslide Hymns (New West Records)
Hot Water Music – The Fire, The Steel, The Tread / Adds Up To Nothing (Self-released)
It Prevails – Stroma (MEDIASKARE)
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter – Marble Son (Thirty Tigers)
Keb Mo – The Reflection (Yolabelle International)
Machine Drum – Room(s) (101 DISTRIBUTION)
Malefice – Awaken the…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of July 19, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

311 – Universal Pulse (ATO Records)
3 Doors Down – Time Of My Life (Republic)
40 Watt Sun – The Inside Room (Metal Blade Records)
Battlefield Band – Line-Up (Temple Records)
Big Talk – Big Talk (Epitaph)
Brilliant Colors – Again And Again (Slumberland Records)
Burlap To Cashmere – Burlap To Cashmere (Red Int/Red Ink)
Chelsea Grin – My Damnation (Razor & Tie)
Cold – Superfiction (Eleven Seven Music)
The Dangerous Summer – War Paint (Hopeless Records) — Davey Boy
Demonical – Death Infernal (Metal Blade Records)
Disma – Towards the Megalith (Profound Lore)
DJ Khaled – We the Best Forever (Cash Money)
Down to the Bone – Main Ingredients (TRIPPIN & RHYTHM)
Dying Fetus – History Repeats (Relapse Records)
Angela Easterling – Beguiler (De L’Est)
Fink – Perfect Darkness (Ninja Tune)
Darren Hanlon – I Will Love You At All (Yep Roc Records)
Iselia – Life From Dead Limbs (Self Released) — Adam Thomas
Stacey Kent – Hushabye Mountain (Candid)
Kottonmouth Kings – Sunshine Sessions (Suburban Noize)
Amy Lavere – Stranger Me (Archer Records)
The Living End – The Ending Is Just The Beginning Repeating (Dew Process)
Theophilus London – Timez Are Weird These Days (Reprise)
George Lynch – Kill All Control (Rocket Science)
Mac Dre – Da Treasure (Thizz…