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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of March 08 , 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Agnostic Front – That’s Life [7″] (Bridge Nine Records)
Angelspit – Carbon Beauty  (Metropolis Records) — Trey Spencer
Augury – Concealed (Sonic Unyon)
Ava Inferi – Onyx (SEASON MIST)
Banjo Or Freakout – Banjo Or Freakout (Rare Book Room Records)
Benedictum – Dominion (Frontiers Records)
Blood Ceremony – Living With the Ancients (Rise Above Records)
Carol Bui – Red Ship (Ex Oh Records)
Burzum – Fallen ( Byelobog Productions)
Children of Bodom – Relentless Reckless Forever (Fontana Universal)
Bruce Cockburn – Small Source Of Comfort (TRUE NORTH)
Colosseum – Chapter 3: Parasomnia (Firebox Country)
Dance Gavin Dance – Downtown Battle Mountain Pt. II (Rise)
Defeater – Empty Days & Sleepless Nights (Bridge Nine Records) — Adam Thomas
Dinosaur Bones – My Divider (Dine Alone Records)
Empress Hotel – Empress Hotel (Park the Van Records)
Riley Etheridge, Jr. – Power Keg (Rock Ridge Music)
Sara Evans – Stronger (SONY NASHVILLE)
Lupe Fiasco – Lasers (Atlantic) — Sobhi Abdul-Rakhman
Ghostpoet – Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam (Brownswood)
Ghost & Writer – Shipwrecks (Metropolis Records)
Aaron Gillespie – Anthem Song (Tooth & Nail Records)
Grails – Deep Politics (Temporary Residence)
The High Kings – Memory Lane (Ard Ri Entertainment)
Sierra Hull – Daybreak (Rounder)
The…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of March 01 , 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Marsha Ambrosius – Late Nights, Early Mornings (J-Records)
Agnostic Front – My Life My Way {EU} (Nuclear Blast Records)
Francesca Battistelli – Hundred More Years (Fervent Records)
Beady Eye – Different Gear, Still Speeding (Dangerbird) — Joseph Viney
Apollo Brown – Clouds (Mello Music Group)
Bugsy Da God – The Terrorist Advocate (Napalm Recordings)
Anna Calvi – Anna Calvi (Domino)
Harry Connick Jr. – In Concert on Broadway (Columbia)
DeVotchKa – 100 Lovers (ANTI-)
Simone Dinnerstein – Bach Strange Beauty (Sony Import)
Dropkick Murphys – Going Out In Style (DROPKICK MURPHYS)
Alexander Ebert – Alexander (Vagrant Records)
Linda Eder – Now (SONY MASTERWORKS)
Eisley – The Valley (Equal Vision Records) — Trey Spencer
Melissa Etheridge – Icon (Island)
Everyone Dies In Utah – Seeing Clearly (Tragic Hero Records)
Forever The Sickest Kids – Forever The Sickest Kids (Motown) — Davey Boy
Gideon – Costs (Facedown)
Go Radio – Lucky Street (Fearless Records) — Davey Boy
Grayceon – All We Destroy (Profound Lore)
Nicolas Jaar – Space Is Only Noise (Circus Company)
Aaron Lewis – Town Line (STROUDAVARIOUS)
Liquid Mind – DREAM: A Liquid Mind Experience (Real Music)
Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes (Atlantic)
Buddy Miller – Majestic Silver Strings (New West Records)

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 22 , 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Adele – 21 (Columbia) — Joseph Viney
The Aviator Set – Better Days [EP] (Self Released)
Julianna Barwick – The Magic Place (Asthmatic Kitty) — Robin Smith
Bayside – Killing Time (Wind-Up) — Davey Boy
Before the Dawn – Deathstar Rising {EU} (Nuclear Blast)
Jonny Burke – Distance And Fortune (Dreamcar Records)
Civet – Love & War (Hellcat Records)
Darkest Hour – The Human Romance (eOne Music) — Jared Ponton
Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows – D.R.U.G.S. (Sire/Decaydance)
DevilDriver – Beast (Roadrunner Records)
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter – Moral & Wahnsinn {EU} (Nuclear Blast Records)
Earth – Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1 (Southern Lord)
Eat Sugar – Levantense (Mush)
Evergrey – Glorious Collision (Steamhammer)
G. Love – Fixin to Die (Brushfire Records)
Handguns – Don’t Bite Your Tongue (Pure Noise Ent.)
I See Stars – The End of the World Party (Sumerian Records) — Davey Boy
Jamie xx/Gil Scott Heron – We’re New Here (XL)
Kerouac/The Long Haul – Split EP (Tangled Talk Records)
Komor Kommando – Oil, Steel & Rhythm (Alfa Matrix)
The Low Anthem – Smart Flesh (Nonesuch)
Luttenberger*Klug – Unsere Zeit (Universal)
Malakwa – Street Preacher (Alfa Matrix)
Mercenary – Metamorphosis (NoiseArt Records)
Moonsorrow – Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden

— “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”

It may already be six weeks into 2011, but we’re not going to let that stop us from giving the users of SputnikMusic a voice. Between now and the end of the month you can go here to vote for your favorite albums of 2010. Just make sure you read the rules before voting.

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 15 , 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

An Aesthetic Anaesthetic – Ghosts in the Red Wilderness (Bandcamp)
Armageddon Dildos – Untergrund (ALFA-MATRIX)
A Skylit Drive – Identity on Fire (Fearless Records)
Asobi Seksu – Fluorescence (Polyvinyl Records)
Awol One & Factor – The Landmark (Fake Four)
Lisa Batiashvili – Echoes of Time (Deutsche Grammophon)
Beans – End It All (Anticon)
Bright Eyes – The People’s Key (Saddle Creek) — Adam Thomas
Brown Recluse – Evening Tapestry (Slumberland Records)
Chixdiggit! – Safeways Here We Come (Fat Wreck Chords)
Close To Home – Never Back Down (Razor & Tie)
Common Man Down – Self Addiction [EP] (Bit Riot Records)
Cowboy Junkies – Demons (Razor & Tie)
Darkest Era – Last Caress of Light (Metal Blade)
DC the Midi Alien – Avengers Airwaves (Brick Records)
The Dears – Degeneration Street (Dangerbird Spain)
Death – Sound of Perseverance [Reissue] (Relapse)
Deicide –…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 08 , 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – Tao of the Dead (SUPERBALL MUSIC) — Rudy Klapper
Akron/Family – S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT (DEAD OCEANS)
David Arkenstone – Ambient World (Domo Records)
Nicole Atkins – Mondo Amore (Razor & Tie)
Belphegor – Blood Magick Necromance {USA} (Nuclear Blast)
James Blake – James Blake (Universal Republic)
Tion Bukue – Nome De Plume (Bandcamp)
Covenant – Modern Ruin (Metropolis Records)
Crowbar – Sever The Wicked Hand (Entertainment One Music)
Cut Copy – Zonoscope (Modular Records) — Rudy Klapper
Dave Dub/Sutter Cain Gang – Mind Police (M9 Entertainment)
Miles Davis – Bitches Brew LIVE (Sony Legacy)
Edge of Dawn – Stage Fright [EP] (Metropolis Records)
Kurt Elling – The Gate (Concord Records)
Esben & The Witch – Violet Cries (Matador Records)
Joe Farrell – Penny Arcade (101 DISTRIBUTION)
Fen – Epoch (Code666)
Goldenboy – Sleepwalker (Eenie Meenie Records)
Hell Rell and J.R. Writer – Gun Clap (Siccness.net)
Helrunar – Sol I – Der Dorn Im Nebel (Prophecy)
Hocico – Tiempos de Furia (Metropolis Records)
In Every Breath – Awakening [EP] (Band Camp)
Late Night Alumni – Haunted [Digital Only] (Ultra Records)
LBC Crew – Haven’t You Heard (Wideawake

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 01 , 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Abysmal Dawn – Leveling the Plane of Existence (Relapse Records) — Jared Ponton
Amplifier – The Octopus (Self-Released)
Chase and Status – No More Idols (Mercury Records)
The Civil Wars – Barton Hollow (101 DISTRIBUTION)
Steve Cole – Moonlight (Artistry Music)
The Dirtbombs – Party Store (In the Red Records)
Aretha Franklin – The Great American Songbook (Arista)
Thomas Giles – Pulse (Metal Blade)
The Go! Team – Rolling Blackouts (Memphis Industries) — Robin Smith
Paul Hardcastle – Desire (TRIPPIN & RHYTHM)
Dave Hause – Resolutions ( Paper + Plastick Records)
Hercules and Love Affair – Blue Songs (Moshi Moshi Music)
The Insane Warrior (RJD2) – We are the Doorways (RJ’s Electrical Connections)
The JaneDear Girls – The JaneDear Girls (Reprise)
Lazarus A.D. – Black Rivers Flow (Metal Blade Records)
Bobby Long – A Winter Tale (ATO Records)
David Lowery – The Palace Guards (429 Records)
Manowar – Battle Hymns MMXI – Battle Hymns 2011 (MAGIC CIRCLE MUSIC)
Bob Marley – Live Forever: The Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh PA [2 CDs] (TUFF GONG/UMGD)
Ricky Martin – Musica + Alma + Sexo (Sony U.S. Latin)
Matisyahu – Live at Stubb’s Vol.II (RED GENERAL CATALOG)
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes – Go Down Under (Fat Wreck Chords)
North Mississippi Allstars…

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

Adele – 21 (XL/Columbia) — Joseph Viney
Architects – The Here And Now (Century Media)
Andre Afram Asmar – Harmonic Emergency (Mush)
Arafel – For Battles Once Fought (Noise Art Records) — Jared Ponton
Cloud Nothings – Cloud Nothings (Carpark Records)
Cold War Kids – Mine Is Yours (Interscope) — Rudy Klapper
Tony Cook – Back To Reality (Stones Throw Records)
Deerhoof – Deerhoof Vs Evil (Polyvinyl Records)
Demdike Stare – Tryptych (Modern Love)
Destroyer – Kaputt (Merge Records) — Keelan H.
EkoTren – The Dead of Night (Burnhill Union Records)
The Gaddabouts – The Gaddabouts (Redeye Label)
Gang of Four – Content (Yep Roc Records)
The Get Up Kids – There Are Rules (Quality Hill Records) — Adam Thomas
Helene Grimaud – Resonances (Decca)
Iron & Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean (Warner Bros.)
Talib Kweli – Gutter Rainbows (Javotti Media/3D)
Amos Lee – Mission Bell (Blue Note Records) — Monica Skoko
James Vincent McMorrow – Early in the Morning (Vagrant Records)
Mother Of Mercy – IV: Symptoms Of Existence (Bridge Nine Records)
Onry Ozzborn – Hold on For Dear Life (Fake Four Inc.)
Papercranes – Let’s Make Babies in

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of January 18 , 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

The Afro Soultet – Afrodesia (Luv N Haight)
Gregg Allman – Low Country Blues (Rounder)
Aquabats – Hi-Five Soup! (Fearless Records)
Blackmore’s Night – Autumn Sky (Spinefarm/Fontana)
James Blunt – Some Kind Of Trouble (Atlantic)
Braids – Native Speaker (Kanine Records) — Adam Downer
Cobra Skulls – Bringing The War Home (Fat Wreck Chords)
The Decemberists – The King Is Dead (Capitol) — Adam Thomas
Elusive – Hip Hop For Hipsters (Elusive)
Brandon Heath – Leaving Eden (Provident)
Lady Lazarus – Mantic (Apartment Life Records)
Steve Lukather – All’s Well That Ends Well (Mascot Records)
Madlib – Low Budget High Fi Music (Madlib Invazion)
Moon Blazers – The Milky Williams Quintet (Domination Recordings)
Motorhead – The World Is Yours (Motörhead Music/UDR) — Joseph Viney
Amanda Palmer – Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under (Self Released)
Pearl Jam – Live On Ten Legs (Monkeywrench)
Roomful of Blues – Hook, Line & Sinker (Alligator Records)
The Sand Band – All Through the Night (Go To Hell/Deltasonic) — Keelan H.
The Script – Science & Faith (Phonogenic) — Davey Boy
Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde (Fat Possum)
Social Distortion – Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes (Epitaph)
Stratovarius – Elysium

It’s with a heavy heart and jazz hands that we bid farewell today to two of our longest-serving staff members.

Channing Freeman and Nick Greer have given a lot to the site in their time here – Nick being one of the few to remain from the site’s launch – and we thank them for everything. They’ll still be back from time to time to contribute reviews and blogs, but for all intents and purposes they can now be considered Professors Emeritus of Sputnik Univ… sorry, that’s way too cheesy. They gone, basically.

Vicious Social Darwinists that we are, though, we’ve wasted little time in giving birth to a new litter of contributor-level and staff babies. We decided to break with convention on this occasion and actively began to advertise the position outside the existing community. The result was that we received over double the number of applications as we have in previous rounds of promotions.

Overwhelmed by the quality of applications put forward, we’ve decided to go ahead and bring in four new contributors (on top of the two added before Christmas) and five new staff members -three from the existing contributor pool and two who impressed us so much we decided to take a leap of faith and grandfather them in at the highest level.

We’d like to thank everybody who applied for both staff and contributor positions. We were pleasantly surprised at the consistently high standard of the applications and many of you can consider yourselves…

Happy holidays to all of the Sputnik Music faithful. The last four weeks of the year are a notoriously slow time for new releases, and it just doesn’t make sense to release multiple news articles during such a slow time period. The following is a list of major releases through the end of 2010. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors. This article will be updated as necessary.

Week of December 07
Amia Venera Landscape – The Long Procession (Self Released) — Trey Spencer
Natasha Bedingfield – Strip Me (Epic)
Copywrite – Life & Times/Peter Nelson (Man Bites Dog Records)
Daft Punk – Tron Legacy [Soundtrack] (Walt Disney Records)
Damu The Fudgemunk – Supply For Demand (Redefinition Records)
Deadmau5 – 4×4=12 (Ultra Records)
Duffy – Endlessly (Mercury)
Flyleaf – Remember to Live (A&M/OCTONE)
Hinder – All American Nightmare (Universal Republic)
Christian Kane – The House Rules (Bigger Picture)
Plain White T’s – Wonders of the Younger (Hollywood Records)
Redman – Reggie (Def Jam)
T.I. – No Mercy (Atlantic)
Robin Trower – The Playful Heart (V-12 RECORDS)
Charlie Wilson – Just Charlie (Jive)

Week of December 14
Crystal Bowersox – Farmer’s Daughter (Jive)
Ciara – Basic Instinct (La Face)
The Damned Things – Ironiclast (Mercury)
Diddy and Dirty Money – The Last Train To Paris (Bad Boy Records)
Michael Jackson – Michael (Epic)
R. Kelly – Love Letter (Jive)
Like Moths…

The amount of quality new releases is slowing dwindling in favor of generic Christmas albums and greatest hits packages, but nothing can be done about that. To pass some time, consider reading Adam Thomas’ interview with Ryan Parrish of Darkest Hour.

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of November 30 , 2010. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Eric Benet – Lost In Time (Reprise/Wea)
Black Eyed Peas – The Beginning (Interscope Records)
Buckethead – Left Hanging (TDRS Music)
Circa Survive – Appendage [EP] (Atlantic Records)
Fefe Dobson – Joy (Island)
Ron Isley – Mr I (Def Jam)
JR & PH7 – The Update (SoulSpazm Records)
King Cannibal – The Way of the Ninja (Ninja Tune)
Tim McGraw – Number One Hits (Curb Records)
Chrisette Michele – Let Freedom Reign (Def Jam)
Miguel – All I Want Is You (Jive)
Soman – Noistyle [Digital Only] (Infacted)
The Republic of Wolves – Varuna (Self Released)
Flo Rida – Only One Flo (Part 1) (Atlantic)
Seven Days – Into Forever (Phantom Domestic)
Simian Mobile Disco – Delicacies (+1 Records)
Slim Thug – Tha Thug Show (Entertainment One Music)
Soulja Boy – The DeAndre Way (Interscope Records)
Jazmine Sullivan – Love Me Back (J-Records)
Steve Wynn – Northern Aggression (Yep Roc Records)

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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of November 23 , 2010. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Agalloch – Marrow of the Spirit (Profound Lore)
After the Burial – In Dreams (SUMERIAN RECORDS)
Akon – Akonic (Konvict Muzik/Universal Motown)
Alchemist+Oh No – Gangrene: Gutter Water (DECON INC)
Lloyd Banks – H.F.M.2 (Hunger For More 2) (G-Unit/EMI)
Big L – Return of the Devil’s Son (SMC Recordings)
Justin Bieber – My Worlds Acoustic (101 DISTRIBUTION)
The Chariot – Long Live (Good Fight Music)
Crematory – Black Pearls {EU} (Massacre Records)
Darkwater – Where Stories End (RED GENERAL CATALOG)
Doro – 25 Years In Rock {EU} (Nuclear Blast)
Kevin Eubanks – Zen Food (Mack Avenue)
Fat Music Vol. 7: Harder, Fatter + Louder! [Various Artists] (Fat Wreck Chords)
God Dethroned – Under the Sign of the Iron Cross (Metal Blade)
Gotthard – Heaven: Best of Ballads Part 2 {EU} (Indie Europe/Zoom)
Hardcore Superstar – Split Your Lip {EU} (Indie Europe/Zoom)
Impaled Nazarene – Road to the Octagon (Osmose Records)
Inspectah Deck – Manifesto Redux (Urban Icons Records)
Alan Jackson – 34 Number Ones (Sony Nashville)
Jay-Z – The Hits Collection Vol. 1 (Def Jam)
Jesus Culture – Come Away (Km: Kingsway Music)
Ke$ha – Cannibal [EP] (RCA)
Killing Joke – Absolute Dissent (Universal Int’l)
Killing the Dream – Lucky Me (Deathwish Inc)
Maestro Fresh-Wes – The Black Tie Affair (MFW Records)
Yngwie…

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of November 16 , 2010. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Bryan Adams – Bare Bones (Decca)
A Day To Remember – What Separates Me From You (Victory Records)
Bombay Bicycle Club – Flaws (Island)
Cassidy – Cash (Entertainment One Music)
Crushed Stars – Convalescing In Braille (Simulacra Records)
Curren$y – Pilot Talk 2 (Def Jam)
Lee DeWyze – Live It Up (RCA)
Jackie Evancho – O Holy Night [CD/DVD] (Columbia)
Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album [Soundtrack] (Columbia)
Josh Groban – Illuminations (143 Records)
Norah Jones – …Featuring Norah Jones [Collection of Collaborations] (Blue Note Records)
Kid Rock – Born Free (Atlantic)
Annie Lennox – A Christmas Cornucopia (Decca Records)
Loreena McKennitt – The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Verve)
Nelly – 5.0 (Universal Motown)
P!nk – Greatest Hits…So Far!!! (La Face)
Pink Martini – Joy To The World (Heinz Records)
The Pipettes – Earth vs. The Pipettes (FORTUNA POP)
Rascal Flatts – Nothing Like This (Big Machine Records)
John Regan – Sorry I’m Late (Culture VI)
Rihanna – Loud (Def Jam)
Showbread – Who Can Know It? (Come&Live!)
Bruce Springsteen – The Promise [Compilation of Unreleased Songs] (Columbia)
Stereolab – Not Music (Drag City)
Solefald – Norrøn Livskunst (Indie Recordings) — Trey Spencer
Suicidal Angels – Dead Again (NoiseArt Records)
Chris Tomlin – And If Our…

Just a handful of weeks left before 2010 is officially over, but there are still a few more releases left that are going to be worth checking out. In the blog section, be sure to check out Tyler Munro’s interview with Kelly Shaefer of Atheist.

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of November 09 , 2010. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

The Aquabats! – Radio Down! [EP] (Fearless Records)
Alter Bridge – AB III (Alter Bridge Recordings)
Marsha Ambrosius [Floetry] – Late Nights & Early Mornings (J-Records)
As I Lay Dying – The Powerless Rise [Box Set] (Metal Blade)
Atheist – Jupiter (Season of Mist) — Tyler Munro
Attrition – Dreamtime Collectors (Metropolis Records)
Behemoth – Evangelia Heretika [CD/DVD] (Metal Blade Records)
Bon Jovi – Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection (Island)
Susan Boyle – The Gift (Syco Music)
Brokencyde – Will Never Die (BreakSilence Recordings)
Cee-Lo Green – The Ladykiller (Radiculture/Elektra)
Julie Christmas – The Bad Wife (Rising Pulse Records)
Clan Of Xymox – Hidden Faces (Metropolis Records)
The Concretes – WYWH (101 DISTRIBUTION) Kiran Soderqvist
Conjure One – Exilarch (Nettwerk Records) — Trey Spencer
Crade of Filth – Darkly Darkly Venus Aversa (Nuclear Blast)
Dave Matthews Band – Live In New York City [2-CDs] (RCA)
Deathspell Omega – Paracletus (Norma Evangelium

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of November 02 , 2010. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

7 Walkers [Garetful Dead’s Bill Kreutzmann & Papa Mali] – 7 Walkers (Response Records)
AfroCubism – AfroCubism (Nonesuch)
Jason Aldean – My Kinda Party (Broken Bow)
Autumn Defense [Wilco’s John Stirratt & Pat Sansone] – Once Around (Yep Roc Records)
Bad Religion – Vinyl Box Set (Epitaph Records)
The Big Four: Live From Sofia, Bulgaria [5 CD/2 DVD Set] (Warner Bros)
Black Dub – Black Dub (Jive – R.E.D.)
Black Sheep – From the Black Pool of Genius (Bum Rush Records)
Mariah Carey – Merry Christmas II You (Island)
City Champs – The Set-Up (Electraphonic)
Elvis Costello – National Ransom (HEAR MUSIC)
Dark Party – Light Years (Old Tacoma Records)
Sean E Depp – Catharsis (Study Music)
Destroyer – Archer on the Beach (Merge Records)
Devin The Dude – Gotta Be Me (Real Talk Records)
Neil Diamond – Dreams (Columbia)
Diplo presents – Blow Your Head: Dubstep [Various Artists] (Mad Decent)
Brian Eno – Small Craft On A Milk Sea (Warp Records) — Cam
Good Charlotte – Cardiology (Capitol)
Helloween – 7 Sinners {EU} (The End Records)
Helstar – Glory Of Chaos (AFM Records)
Huey Lewis & The News – Soulville (W.O.W. Records)
Kokayi – Robots & Dinosaurs (QN5 Music)
Lazer Sword – Lazer Sword (Innovative Leisure Records)

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