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Pop country phenom Taylor Swift’s Fearless leads the way in this week’s slate of new releases. Jody Rosen calls Swift “a songwriting savant with an intuitive gift for verse-chorus-bridge architecture that, in singles like the surging “Fifteen,” calls to mind Swedish pop gods Dr. Luke and Max Martin. If she ever tires of stardom, she could retire to Sweden and make a fine living churning out hits for Kelly Clarkson and Katy Perry.” Click below for the full review of Swift’s new record, as well as looks at new releases from David Archuleta, Seal, T-Pain and reissues care of Genesis and Warren Zevon.

• Album Review: Taylor Swift, Fearless

• Album Review: David Archuleta, David Archuleta (more…)

The big-ticket album season is officially here. This week sees a number of highly-anticipated releases, including the latest from alt-country weirdo Ryan Adams. Will Hermes says of Cardinology, “Drunk on melody, high on musical history, but all his own, the record throbs with great playing and singing, and thrums with hope without pimping easy platitudes. It’s one of the best things he’s ever done.” Click below for the full review of Cardinology as well as reviews of new records from Queen & Paul Rodgers, the Cure, John Legend, Kaiser Chiefs, Snow Patrol, P!nk, Bloc Party and Eagles of Death Metal.

• Album Review: Ryan Adams, Cardinology

• Album Review: Queen + Paul Rogers, The Cosmos Rocks

• Album Review: P!nk, Funhouse (more…)

The latest entry in Bob Dylan’s “Bootleg Series” leads the slate of new releases hitting stores today. Dylan’s Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 collects three discs worth of outtakes, b-sides and live tracks from his late-career resurgence, starting in 1989. Mikal Gilmore says “This collection bears witness to Dylan’s reclamation of voice and perspective. He had been a singular visionary who upended rock & roll by recasting it as a force that could question society’s values and politics, but he relinquished that calling as the society grew more dangerous.” Click below for the complete write-up of Tell Tale Signs, as well as reviews of new albums by Oasis, Rise Against, the Streets, the Pretenders and the Clash.

• Album Review: Bob Dylan, Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 (4.5 stars)

• Album Review: Oasis, Dig Out Your Soul (2.5 stars) (more…)

It’s another super Tuesday on the album front, featuring hotly-anticipated albums from Kings of Leon, TV on the Radio, Pussycat Dolls and Cold War Kids hitting store shelves today. Christian Hoard calls Kings of Leon’s Only By the Night “long on astral, arena-ready largeness, with blippy keyboards, droney guitars and whoa-oh-oh backing vocals.” Click below for the full review of Only By the Night, as well as reviews of new albums by Jenny Lewis and Jackson Browne.

• Album Review: Kings of Leon, Only By the Night (3 stars)

• Album Review: TV on the Radio, Dear Science, (4 stars)

• Album Review: Jenny Lewis, Acid Tongue (4 stars)

• Album Review: Cold War Kids, Loyalty to Loyalty (3.5 stars)

• Album Review: Jackson Browne, Time the Conqueror (3.5 stars)

• Album Review: Pussycat Dolls, Doll Domination (3 stars)

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This week’s batch of new Rolling Stone reviews is online, and it is headlined by the high-profile release of RS cover boys the Jonas Brothers‘ A Little Bit Longer. Of the teen dreams’ new album, Jody Rosen writes, “The boys’ fantastic third album is steeped in the fuzzed-up guitars, three-part harmonies and cotton-candy choruses of Big Star and Cheap Trick. Power-pop die-hards awaiting the genre’s commercial saviors must reckon with the fact that the messiahs have arrived…and they’re a Disney boy band.” Click below for the full review, plus check out reviews for new records from Loudon Wainwright III and Irma Thomas.

• Review: The Jonas Brothers’ A Little Bit Longer (4 stars)

• Review: Loudon Wainwright III’s Recovery (3.5 stars)

• Review: Irma Thomas’ Simply Grand (3.5 stars)

Conor Oberst’s first solo album in over a decade leads the way in this week’s new Rolling Stone reviews. Will Hermes calls the self-titled record “A rough-hewn, death-haunted travelogue [that] proves that while you can run from home, you can’t run from yourself.” Click below for this review plus reviews of new albums from One Day as a Lion, Randy Newman, Lloyd and CSNY.

• Conor Oberst, Conor Oberst (3.5 stars)

• Randy Newman, Harps and Angels (4 stars)

• Lloyd, Lessons in Love (3 stars)

• One Day as a Lion, One Day as a Lion EP (4 stars)

• CSNY, Déjà Vu Live (3 stars)

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Today marks the release of the deluxe reissues of the first three U2 albums: Boy, October and War. David Fricke declares Boy “sprecociously magnificent for its proudly spiritual optimism in the thick of post-punk nihilism.” Click below for reviews of these three landmark releases, as well as the Rolling Stone reviews of Nas‘ Untitled and new releases from Dr. Dog and CSS.

• Reviews: U2’s Boy, October and War

• Review: Nas’ Untitled

• Review: CSS’ Donkey

• Review: Dr. Dog’s Fate

• Rolling Stone Album Reviews

John Mayer’s latest live album Where The Light Is: Live in Los Angeles leads the pack in this week’s RollingStone.com exclusive reviews for records hitting stores today. Mark Kemp writes, “Groupies will swoon over the opening five-song acoustic set of lightweight favorites like ‘Daughters,’ but it’s when Mayer trots out the power trio that his blues licks get red-hot, peaking with the squalling, ten-minute guitar workout ‘Out of My Mind.’” Click below for the Mayer album plus round-ups of new albums by G Unit, Alkaline Trio and Amos Lee plus a review of the reissue of Sebadoh’s Bubble and Scrape.

• Review: John Mayer’s Where the Light Is: Live From Los Angeles

• Review: G Unit’s T.O.S. (Terminate On Site)

• Review: Alkaline Trio’s Agony & Irony

• Review: Amos Lee’s Last Days at the Lodge

• Review: Sebadoh’s Bubble and Scrape

The release date for Scarlett Johansson’s collection of Tom Waits covers Anywhere I Lay My Head is next Tuesday, but the album premiered today on imeem. Head over there to sample tracks from the album and click below to read the review of the album and for the rest of the latest Rolling Stone album reviews, including new releases from Elvis Costello, Foxboro Hot Tubs and Foxy Brown.

• Album Review: Scarlett Johansson’s Anywhere I Lay My Head

• Rolling Stone Album Reviews

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Jack White and Brendon Benson shocked everyone on Tuesday when they released the second album from their band the Raconteurs after announcing its existence just one week ago. The Rolling Stone review will appear in next week’s issue, but Rock Daily has the full text now. Click here for the review of Consolers of the Lonely, which Melissa Maerz says “comes together like a blissfully stoned conversation between White and Benson about their favorite bands: Led Zeppelin, the Who, Badfinger.”

Georgia’s favorite Southern Rock revivalists Drive-By Truckers drop their new album Brighter Than Creation’s Dark next week, but you can stream the entire album for free via Rhapsody right now. Also be sure to check out Robert Christgau’s review of the record, where he praises the band for “letting the songwriting speak for itself.”

Indie darling Chan Marshall’s latest album as Cat Power doesn’t come out until next week, but you can stream all of Jukebox via Rhapsody for free here. While you’re at it, be sure to read Melissa Maerz’s four star review of the new record, where she says “Jukebox sounds like Marshall’s version of I’m Not There — a testament to the idea that ‘I is another’ — and nothing drives that message home more than her reconstruction of her own song, 1998’s ‘Metal Heart.’”

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Skip it, download it or buy it? Rolling Stone contributing editor Christian Hoard delivers the full story on the Foo Fighters’ Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace and Devendra Banhart’s Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon.

To read our full review of the Foo Fighters album, click here, and for Devendra Banhart, click here.

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Click here to watch the New Music Tuesdays reviews of Eddie Vedder and James Blunt’s new albums.

Rolling Stone’s Christian Hoard presents the “sensitive souls edition” of New Music Tuesdays, examining Eddie Vedder’s soundtrack to the film Into the Wild and James Blunt’s sophomore album All the Lost Souls. The verdict: Vedder’s LP is an apt soundtrack for the subject matter at hand (and a winner for Pearl Jam fans), and Blunt’s new album is a slightly sappy improvement over his debut, which featured the ubiquitous “You’re Beautiful”; though Hoard believes it only serves to make Coldplay sound exciting. Watch the video for his full reviews.

To read our full review of Eddie Vedder’s album, click here, and for James Blunt, click here.

>>Watch every episode of our weekly New Music Tuesdays video podcast by subscribing via iTunes (when prompted, click “Launch application”). Every Tuesday, a new episode will be delivered to your iTunes. [If you don’t have iTunes, download it here.]

You’ve seen Rolling Stone’s preview of the hottest albums hitting stores this fall, now we’ve got the lowdown on even more noteworthy records coming out between now and the end of the year. Click here to check out album details and sample tracks from Joni Mitchell, Coheed and Cambria, Chamillionaire and more, and stay tuned for in-the-studio videos throughout the rest of the week.

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