Audio By Carbonatix
As music critics, the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, “What are you listening to?” The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation, our latest feature. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, we’ve compiled a list of all the things we’re listening to this week. Feel free to chime in with picks of your own after the jump.
MARK BLIESENER
Boulder Acoustic Society – Punchline
Sin Vida – The Westwood Anthem
ELO – Greatest Hits
Otis Taylor – Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs
Ian Hunter – Man Overboard
CHRIS CALLAWAY
U2 – War
The Smiths – The Queen is Dead
The Who – Face Dances
Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
The Velvet Underground & Nico – The Velvet Underground & Nico
CORY CASCIATO
Zeno – Amnesia Studio Mix
Inactivists – Love Songs and Other Songs About Love
Robyn Hitchcock – Eye
Willie Nelson – various tracks
LSG – The Black Album
ERYC EYL
Murder Ranks – “Cowboys and Indians”
Glasvegas – “Come As You Are”
Hyperstory – Hyperstory
Miles Fisher – “This Must Be the Place”
Susurrus Station – Add a Day Going West
BRIAN FREDERICK
B.O.B. – 12th Dimension EP
Glasvegas – Glasvegas
Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires
The Gossip – Music For Men
ABBA – 20th Century Masters – The Milennium
A.H. GOLDSTEIN
Django Reinhardt – “The Sheik of Araby”
Oren Bloedow and Jennifer Charles – La Mar Enfortunada
Sergei Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf
Howlin’ Wolf – “Spoonful”
Avett Brothers – “Bella Donna”
JASON HELLER
Polvo – In Prism
The Rezillos – Can’t Stand the Rezillos
Primal Scream – Screamadelica
Christian Death – Only Theatre of Pain
Fleetwood Mac (all the Christine McVie stuff)
DAVE HERRERA [imports]
Lizzie Huffman & Her Brother Band – Lizzie Huffman & Her Brother Band
Monotonix – Where Were You When It Happened?
Mute Math – Armistice
Municipal Waste – Massive Agressive
Mew – No More Stories Are Told Today I’m Sorry They Washed Away…
Slaughterhouse – Slaughterhouse
DAVE HERRERA [exports]
Sonnenblume – Sonnenblume
Pretty Lights – Filling Up the City Skies (Disc 1)
Cephalic Carnage – Halls of Amenti
Suburban Hostage – Unified Theory of Critical Thinking
Whygee & Sunken State – Sambodextrust
Jen Korte & the Loss – Jen Korte & the Loss
TOM MURPHY
Time – Naked Dinner
Pictureplane – Dark Rift
Kissing Party – The Hate Album
The Replacements – Pleased To Meet Me
The Doors – The Doors
ADAM PERRY
Broken Social Scene – Bonnaroo 2008
The Helio Sequence – Keep Your Eyes Ahead
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey – Winter Wood
Joey Ramone – Don’t Worry About Me
Deerhoof – Reveille
QUIBIAN SALAZAR-MORENO
Noisettes – Wild Young Hearts
Kenna – New Sacred Cow
Punchlyne & Fokis – The Appetizer
Elektrik Red – How To Be a Lady Vol. 1
Jay-Z & DJ Noodles – BP3-Qual
DUTCH SEYFARTH
Type O Negative – Bloody Kisses
Coconut Records – Nightiming
Devildriver – Pray for Villains
Owl City – Ocean Eyes
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
JON SOLOMON
Jen Korte & the Loss – Jen Korte & the Loss
The Damned – Damned Damned Damned
Love – Forever Changes
Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
James White & the Blacks – Off White
PATRICK SITES
Hot Buttered Rum – Limbs Askimbo
Railroad Earth – Elko
Allman Brothers Band – An Evening With The Allman Brothers
Bela Fleck – The Bluegrass Sessions
Lubos Malina – Afterparty
KYLE SMITH
Liars – Drum’s Not Dead
Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
M83 – Saturdays = Youth
Kylesa – Static Tensions
Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
AMBER TAUFEN
Radiohead – “Idioteque”
TV on the Radio – “Province”
The Flaming Lips – “Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Cheated Hearts
Beck – “The Golden Age”
ANDY THOMAS
Whygee & Sunken State – Sambodextrust
Cheap Girls – My Roaring 20s
Frank Turner – Poetry of the Deed
Chuck Ragan – Gold Counrty
Gregory Alan Isakov – This Empty Northern Hemisphere
NOAH VAN SCIVER
Shellac – 1000 Hurts
Joanna Newsom – The Milk-eyed Mender
Bardo Pond – Lapsed
Various Artists – My Girlfriend was a Punk
Colonel Jeffrey Pumpernickel – A Concept Album
