Heavy Rotation, our top five spins for the week of May 11, 2009

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...

By Dave Herrera

May 12, 2009

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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 your own picks after the jump.

	MARK BLIESENER Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years Danielle Ate the Sandwich - Things People Do The Fugs -The Fugs First Album Gil Scott Heron - The Best of Gil Scott Heron Verve Remixed - Various Artists

	CHRIS CALLAWAY Gomez - A New Tide The Who - Face Dances Big Star - Radio City The Kinks - Schoolboys in Disgrace Quieting Syrup - Songs About a Sick Boy

	CORY CASCIATO Danielle Ate the Sandwich - "Rich Girl" (Hall & Oates cover) Laura Shigihara - "Plants vs. Zombies" Polo Club - Greenskeepers Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Aphex Twin Fabio Frizzi - Zombi score

	ERYC EYL Wentworth Kersey - "Wealth" Grafton Primary - "Allstars (Calling in Sick Remix)" Kenan Bell - Good News, the Mixtape The Cool Kids and Don Cannon - Gone Fishing (mixtape) Eprhyme - Waywordwonderwill

	A.H. GOLDSTEIN Houses - Spring EP Cannonball Adderly - Fiddler on the Roof The Handsome Family - Honey Moon Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career Sonny Rollins - The Bridge

	DAVE HERRERA [LOCAL] The Rouge - Heat & Light The Pseudo Dates - 400 Some Odd Songs In 400 Some Odd Nights The Jim Jims - Bottom of the City Tim Pourbaix - My Lover's Lover Havok - Burn

	DAVE HERRERA [NATIONAL] J Dilla - "Reality Check (featuring Black Thought)" Isis - Wavering Radiant Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career Crocodiles - Summer of Hate

	NICK HUTCHINSON John Scofield Piety Street Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing King Wilkie King Wilkie Presents: The Wilkie Family Singers Donavon Frankenreiter Pass it Around New Riders of the Purple Sage Where I Come From

	CICILY JANUS Zac Brown Band - The Foundation (Deluxe Edition) Roy Hargrove - Ear Food Joshua Redman - Back East Branford Marsalis - Metamorphosen Billy Currington - Little Bit of Everything

	TOM MURPHY Napalm Death - Smear Campaign Napalm Death - The Complete Radio One Sessions Napalm Death - The Code is Red...Long Live the Code Death in June - The Wall of Sacrifice The Clash - The Clash

	JEF OTTE Houses - Spring EP Stella Luce - Zugenruhe Air - "Mike Mills" Ahmad Jamal - Poinciana Radiohead - Amnesiac

	DUTCH SEYFARTH Band of Annuals - Let Me Live Phosphorescent - To Willie The Shallows - Destroy This Mad Brute Skyfox (their myspace tracks) Cut off Your Hands - 1

	KYLE SMITH Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career Fever Ray - Fever Ray Prurient - Cocaine Death Kylesa - Static Tensions Terry Riley - In C

	JON SOLOMON Sonic Youth - The Eternal Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling Marianne Faithful - Easy Come Easy Go deadbubbles - Frienemies The Clash - Sandinista!

	AMBER TAUFEN Blackalicious - "Release Part 1, 2 & 3 featuring Saul Williams, Lyrics Born" NIN - "Something I Can Never Have" Zero 7 - "Destiny" Tosca - "J.A.C." Low vs. Diamond - "Killer B"

	ANDY THOMAS Detroit Cobras - Mink Rat or Rabbit Ninja Gun - Restless Rubes Cory Brannan - Hell You Say Twothirtyeight - Regulate the Chemicals Gregory Allen Isakov - This Empty Northern Hemisphere

	NOAH VAN SCIVER Flipper - Album Immortal Technique - The 3rd world The Omens - Send Black Flowers Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde

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