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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?" So 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. Follow the jump to see which albums and songs dominated our playlists this week. Out of 135 total picks this week, only Grinderman and RJD2 appear on multiple lists, while Dismemberment Plan appears multiple times on the same list.
MARK BLIESENER Sin Vida -"High Y Tite" Sin Vida -"All I Wanna Do" Gil Scott Heron - "Whitey On the Moon" Teenage Fanclub - "Shock and Awe" Safe Boating is No Accident - "Boom Boom"
CORY CASCIATO LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening George & Caplin - Secluded Malls and Scenic Byways Mark Farina - Mushroom Jazz 3 Michael Weitz - assorted unreleased tracks The Delta Mirror - Machines That Listen
BRITT CHESTER RJD2 - DeadRinger ASG - Amplification of Self Gratification Sage Francis - Personal Journals Mad Caddies - Duck and Cover O.C. - Diggin in the Crates
NICOLE CORMIER FOE & Whygee - Dispensary Music Cysko Rokwel - Five Dollars Buster (mixtape) Black Milk - Album of The Year Pete Rock - PeteStrumentals Jay Dee - Rough Draft
BREE DAVIES B.O.B. featuring Rivers Cuomo - "Magic" Paramore - "Brand New Eyes" New Edition - "Candy Girl" Grass Widow - "Past Time" Drake - "Fancy"
KYLE EUSTICE The Glitch Mob - Drink the Sea Little Dragon - Machine Dreams Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank Fugazi - 13 Songs Au Revoir - Simone Remixes
BRIAN FREDERICK Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole Sandra Collins - Tranceport 3 AutoVaughn - Science Of Our Time Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
A.H. GOLDSTEIN Arcade Fire - The Suburbs Sufjan Stevens - "Heirloom" Alan Alda - Alan Alda Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines - "Weather Bird" The Mothers of Invention - "Brown Shoes Don't Make It."
DAVE HERRERA American Tomahawk - Contradictions Generalities Future Criminals Air Dubai - The Wonder Age Ra Ra Riot - The Orchard Wiz Khalifa - "Black and Yellow" J. Cole - "Blow Up"
NICK HUTCHINSON Robert Plant - Band of Joy Devon Allman's Honeytribe - Space Age Blues Jesse McReynolds & Friends - Songs of the Grateful Dead Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus Jerry Lee Lewis - Mean Old Man
RU JOHNSON Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma John Legend and The Roots - Wake Up! DJ Drama and Maino - The Art of War Innerstate Ike and Will Guice - Best of Both Worlds (Diamonds in the Dirt) Crooked I - Medicine (Hip Hop Reloaded #6)
THORIN KLOSOWSKI Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I Dismemberment Plan - Is Terrified Lyrics Born -Same Shit Different Day Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted Dismemberment Plan - Change
DOMINICK LEDEZMA DJ Muggs Vs. Ill Bill - Kill Devil Hills Exile - Am/FM Spectac - Looks Like Another Job For Spectac Q-Unique - Between Heaven And Hell KRS-One & True Master - Meta-Historical
NICK LUCCHESI Discharge - Why? Tragedy - Vengeance Bastard - Wind of Pain Motorhead - No Remorse Dropdead - 1998 LP
CHRIS MEEHAN Tweak Bird - "Tunneling Through" Howlin' Wolf - "Tail Dragger" Lawrence Ferlinghetti - A Coney Island of the Mind The Black Heart Procession - "Return to Burn" NoMeansNo - All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt
MATT MINER Grinderman - Grinderman 2 Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall Jay Reatard - Matador Singles Grinderman - Grinderman Sleep - Dopesmoker
TOM MURPHY Pictureplane - Dark Rift Miniature Tigers - Fortress Lower Dens - Twin Hands Movement School of Seven Bells - Disconnect From Desire Casiotone For the Painfully Alone - Young Shields EP
ADAM PERRY Andrew Bird "Oh No" Dexter Gordon - Ballads Emilia Dahlin - "God Monster" Beastie Boys - Check Your Head Black Angels - Directions to See a Ghost
RACHEL ROMERO The Roots & John Legend - Wake Up Black Milk - Album of the Year Black Sky Blue Death - Third Party Kanye West & Perajok - G.O.O.D. Ass Mixtape N.E.R.D. - In Search of...
DUTCH SEYFARTH The Flash Mob - Happy Ending Pretty Lights - Spilling Over Every Side Calexico - Live In Nuremberg Strung Out - Twisted By Design Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
KYLE SMITH Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of the Beast Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express Wendy Carlos - A Clockwork Orange Complete Original Score The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me Talk Normal - Sugarland
JON SOLOMON Grinderman - Grinderman 2 Chocolate Genius Inc. - Swansongs The Blue Canyon Boys - Mountain Bound Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards John Abercrombie - The Third Quartet
AMBER TAUFEN Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk Inti - Chemtrail Candy Tosca - Delhi 9 RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke Breakbest Era - Ultra Obscene
AARON THACKERAY Chromeo - Business Casual The Legion of Doom - The Legion of Doom Horse The Band - Desperate Living Helloween - Treasure Chest The Mars Volta - Scab Dates
ANDY THOMAS Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues Possesed by Paul James - Feed Your Family Two Cow Garage - Sweet Saint Me David Cross - Bigger and Blackerer Dark, Dark, Dark - Bright, Bright, Bright
SHAWN WHITE Miguel ft. J. Cole & Raekwon- "All I Want is You" (REMIX) Leona Lewis vs. Kanye West - "Flashing Love, Bleeding Lights(DJ Big Styles Rub)" Kanye West ft. Pusha T - "Runaway" Usher ft. Pitbull - "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love" Dorrough ft. DJ Drama, Diddy, Bun B., Wiz Khalifa, Maino, Yo Gotti, Diamond and Shawty Lo - "Get It Big(REMIX)"
D. WILLIAMS Cee-Lo Green - "Fuck You" After-Life All-Stars - "Yeah!" The Clefs - "Thank You Denver" Devin The Dude - "I Need a Song" Tech N9ne - "Show Me a God"
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