So, this is not your average Tuesday Boozeday Album Reviews Day column. Apparently, today is THE day to drop some of the most influential and unique albums of 2011. June is upon us, and thus a whole new wave of summer music is being infiltrated through out the interwebs and your local record stores. Check out little blurbs about our favorite album releases below, and click the links to learn more and even download some albums in their entirety.

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So the much anticipated new Beastie Boys album Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2 dropped a week ago, giving me a good amount of time to become acquainted with the Boys’ eighth studio album.

Let me just begin by saying–the Beastie Boys are back. Not just in the sense that it’s been seven years since we’ve heard a “proper” album from them (2007′s The Mix-Up was all instrumental), but with the release of Hot Sauce Committee Part 2, they’re back back.

The album has [...]

Noah Lennox, better known as Panda Bear and one-fourth of Animal Collective, is a musical medium. Many of the distinctive qualities found in his music relate to the both the physics of sound and emotion. Imagine a booming chorus racing through your eardrums at a speed of 343.2 metres per second until it reaches your brain and causes an explosion of pleasure, curiosity, and a strong infiltration of other feelings. It all depends on how your brain interprets it.

Out April 19th under [...]

Austin, Texas native Govinda drops this album just in time to give the already raucous crowds a little taste before he goes out on a couple guest appearances outside his home base. He’ll be jamming through Dallas for Manifestation Celebration in May, which makes this album even more of a must-have.

Govinda starts Universal on Switch off with a nice dose of his trademark Middle Eastern down-tempo beats. As the album progresses, Govinda winds the listener in, out and through [...]