We’ll be streaming Sarah Fimm’s upcoming album through the entire week so be sure to check it out here. Also, it appears that Rudy Klapper has completed his coverage of this year’s Coachella festival. Feel free to check into that as well.

Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 03, 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.

Karrin Allyson – Round Midnight (Concord Records)
And So I Watch You From Afar – Gangs (Richter Collective)
Architecture In Helsinki – Moment Bends (Downtown Records) — Davey Boy
Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 (Capitol Records)
Cat’s Eyes – Cat’s Eyes (Downtown Records)
Decree – Fateless (Artoffact Records) — Trey Spencer
Donny and Marie – Donny and Marie (MPCA)
Dredg – Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy (Superball Music)
Elusive – Beat Placement (Fly Definition)
Sarah Fimm – Near Infinite Possibility (Sarah Fimm LLC) — Trey Spencer
Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop) — Tyler Fisher
Foundation – When The Smoke Clears (Bridge Nine Records)
Galactic – The Other Side Of Midnight: Live In New Orleans (Anti/Epitaph)
Have Nots – Proud (Paper and Plastick)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Tell My Sister (Nonesuch)
Leaves’ Eyes – Meredead (Napalm Records)
Jennifer Lopez – Love? (Island)
Midnattsol – The Metamorphosis Melody (Napalm Records)
Musiq Soulchild – MUSIQINTHEMAGIQ (Atlantic)
Neranature – Foresting Wounds {EU} (Metal Mind Productions)
Stevie Nicks – In Your Dreams (Reprise)
Poison – Double Dose: Ultimate Hits (Capitol)
Kelly Price – Kelly (My Block)
Gruff Rhys – Hotel Shampoo (Wichita Recordings)
Riverside – Memories In My Head [EP] (Self Released)
Sade – The Ultimate Collection (Epic)
Samael – Lux Mundi (Season of Mist) — Trey Spencer
Shinedown – Somewhere In The Stratosphere [2CD/2DVD] (Atlantic)
Sixx:A.M. – This is Gonna Hurt (Eleven Seven Music)
Tarot – Spell Of Iron MMXI {EU} (Nuclear Blast Records)
Ulver – Wars of the Roses (KSCOPE)
Uriah Heep – Into The Wild (Frontiers Records)
While Heaven Wept – Fear of Infinity (Nuclear Blast)
Wormrot – Dirge (Earache Records)

——————————————————————————–

Album Streams (please inform us of any broken links/removed streams):

And So I Watch You From Afar – Gangs

Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee Part 2

Sarah Fimm – Near Infinite Possibility

Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues

Foundation – When The Smoke Clears

——————————————————————————–

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

Staff:

01) Swarms
02) Beck
03) Animal Collective
04) Radiohead
05) The National
06) Raekwon
07) Yuck
08) Thursday
09) TV on the Radio
10) Broken Social Scene

Contributors:

01) Bon Iver
02) Fleet Foxes
03) The Weeknd
04) Elliot Smith
05) Brand New
06) Cap’n Jazz
07) Off Minor
08) Grown Ups
09) Sonic Youth
10) Flying Lotus

——————————————————————————–

Follow us on…

Facebook
Last.fm
MySpace
Twitter