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Aloe Blacc, Harry Nilsson, Kid Cudi fill our playlists this week

As people who think about, talk about, listen to and make music, the most common question we encounter is, "What are you listening to right now?" Whether you're looking for recommendations, trying to get a feel for our individual sensibilities, or are just curious, we've compiled a list of all...
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As people who think about, talk about, listen to and make music, the most common question we encounter is, "What are you listening to right now?" Whether you're looking for recommendations, trying to get a feel for our individual sensibilities, or are just curious, we've compiled a list of all the things we're listening to this week. Click through to see which albums and songs dominated our playlists this week.

MARK BLIESENER

Darwin Deez - "Radar Detector"
John-Alex Mason - "Steel Pony Blues"
Professor Green - "I Need You Tonight"
Cleckhuddersfax - "New Durzi"
Arctic Monkeys - "Baby I'm Yours"

BRITT CHESTER

Aloe Blacc - Shine Through
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
La Roux - In for the kill
Cocorosie - The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell

NICOLE CORMIER

The Roots-Illadelph Halflife
Red and Meth-Blackout 2
Mr. Dibbs-Primitive Tracks
The Roots-How I Got Over
Eminem-The Eminem Show

BREE DAVIES

Usher Featuring Young Jeezy - "Love In This Club"
Big Tymers - "Number One Stunna"
Mania Fresh Featuring Lil Wayne - "Go DJ"
Mika Miko - "Bastard in Love"
Rick Ross Featuring Hella People - "MC Hammer"

BEN DAYTON

Gang Starr - Full Clip
Pornopop - Wired to the Cold Metallic Scene
Cocorosie - Gallows
The Knife - You Make Me Like Charity
Buck 65 - 1957

KYLE EUSTICE

Aesop Rock - Must Not Sleep
DJ Shadow - Preemptive Strike
Rob Swift - Dust to Dust
Cursive - Burst and Bloom EP
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

BOYD FLETCHER

Sublime - Everything Under the Sun
Aretha Franklin - Aretha Arrives
Phish - 10/31/2010
Mike Gordon - Moss
Horace Andy - You Are My Angel

BRIAN FREDERICK

Paul Oakenfold - Tranceport
Outkast - ATLiens
Taylor Swift - Speak Now
Bad Religion - How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
303Infinity - Transcending Reality

MARISSA GAVEL

Lecrae - Prayin For You
Jazmine Sullivan - Holding You Down
Drake - Same Mistakes
Florence and the Machine - Dog Days Are Over Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation

A.H. GOLDSTEIN

Yo Gabba Gabba Music is Awesome
Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Ballads
Grandmaster Flash - "The Message"
The Louvin Brothers - Satan is Real
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - One Size Fits All

DAVE HERRERA

Rakaa - Crown of Thorns
Fierce Bad Rabbit - Spools of Thread
Aloe Blacc - Good Things
Musketeer Gripweed - Dyin' Day
Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson

JASON HELLER

Total Abuse - Mutt
Thee Spivs - Taped Up
Aloe Blacc - Good Things
OFF! - First Four EPs
Wire - Red Barked Tree

NICK HUTCHINSON

Buddy Guy - Lving Proof
Kingfish - NYC, New York, 4.3.76
Big Head Todd - Live Monsters
Elvis Costello - National Ransom
The Black Crowes - Croweology

RU JOHNSON

Aguanile - Willie Colon
Untitled Track 27 - Mathematics
Anti-Matter - King Geedorah
Drink Away the Pain - Mobb Deep
Got 'Til Its Gone- Janet Jackson

THORIN KLOSOWSKI

Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon II
Tobacco - Maniac Meat
Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
El-P - I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Zombies - Odessey & Oracle

DOMINICK LEDEZMA

A-Butta - Starving Artist
Kyo Itachi ft. John Robinson - The Touch
Slaine - Insomnia
Celph Titled & Buckwild - Hardcore Data
J-Live - Undivided Attention

KIERNAN MALETSKY

Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Male Bonding - Nothing Hurts
Makeout Point - Night Moves
Cee Lo Green - The Lady Killer

CHRIS MEEHAN

The Night Marchers - "Open Your Legs"
The Heavy - "Oh No! Not You Again"
Bad Religion - "I Won't Say Anything"
Two Cow Garage - "Jackson Don't You Worry"
The Dead Weather - "Die By The Drop"

SEAN MERRELL

Eolian - Egg
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
The Chords - In Mint Condition
Brian Eno - Small Craft on a Milk Sea
Glenn Gould - Goldberg Variations

MATT MINER

Brian Eno: Small Craft on a Milk Sea
Pezzner: Freerange Radio Mix (DJ Mix)
J. Phlip: Are You Eating Healthy (DJ Mix)
Seth Troxler: Live @ Mulletover, London, 10.30.10 (DJ Mix)
Tess and Deciprocal: Live @ MESS Halloween Party, Denver, 10.30.10 (DJ Mix)

TOM MURPHY

Broken Water - Whet
The Heavy - The House That Dirt Built
Lush - Spooky
Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange
Eolian - Egg

RACHEL ROMERO

Wiz Khalifa - Black & Yellow
Dj Benzi & Diplo present: Paradise Falls
Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon II
N.E.R.D. - Nothing
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

DUTCH SEYFARTH

Dan Duval Sextet - The Endotherm
All India Radio - Echo Other
The Gamits - Parts
Rob Drabkin Featuring Davey Knowles - Melissa
Brothers O'Hair - Brothers O'Hair

KYLE SMITH

Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Deerhunter - Weird Era Cont.
Daft Punk - Discovery
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Buried at Sea - Ghost EP

JON SOLOMON

Brian Eno - Small Craft on a Milk Sea
Nels Cline - Dirty Baby
Tom Waits - The Black Rider
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus

AMBER TAUFEN

Bonobo - Black Sands
Blackalicious - Nia
DJ Shadow - The Private Press
NIN - The Downward Spiral
DJ Krush - Zen

ANDY THOMAS

Murder by Death - In Bocca al Lupo
Trees - When the Three Beggars Arrive
Two Cow Garage - Sweet Saint Me
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
Adai - Felo de Se

NOAH VAN SCIVER

The Magnetic Fields - Get Lost
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Broken Water - 6 Song Demo
Vincent Giraldi - Peanuts Christmas
Lust-Cats Of The Gutters - Nothing Cool Happens On Dates

SHAWN WHITE

David Banner ft. 9th Wonder, Ludacris & Marsia Ambrosus -"Be WIth You"
Drake - 'Fall for Your Type"
Kid Cudi - MOTM2 The Legend of Mr. Rager
Lady Daisey - "Soul Strut"
Chrisette Michelle - "90210 Marilyn Monroe"

D. WILLIAMS

New Edition - "Helplessly In Love"
Zion I - "Sorry"
Jay -Z - "You Must Love Me"
Whygee and F.O.E. - "Paranoid"
Boogie Down Productions - "Love's Gonna Get'cha (Material Love)"

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