Heavy Rotation, our top five spins for the week of May 18, 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...
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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
Goldfrapp – Seventh
Tree
Hank III – Damn Right Rebel Proud
Au Revoior Simone – The Bird of Music
June Christy – Something Cool
Bob Dylan – Together Through Life

CHRIS CALLAWAY
XTC – Black Sea
Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
U2 – The Best of 1980 – 1990
The Pale – Gravity Gets Things Done
Quiet Company – Every You Love Will Be Happy Soon


CORY CASCIATO
Eric Skiff –
Resistor Anthems
Darren Emerson – Global Underground Bogota
Ideal Fathers – A Complete Waste of Time Travel
Royale – “Invisible Pink Unicorns”
Fiat Lux – various tracks

ERYC EYL
Nick Lowe – Quiet
Please: The New Best of Nick Lowe
Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes (deluxe edition)
Wonderlick – “A Different Kind of Love”
Isha – “Head Over Heals”
Tim Easton – “Stones Throw Away”

A.H. GOLDSTEIN
Ghost Buffalo – the
Magician
Ween – “Kim Smoltz”
Akron/Family – Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free
Flight of the Conchords – “Carol Brown”
Cloud Cult – The Meaning of 8

DAVE
HERRERA [LOCAL]

Piggies – Rusted
Bullets
Rocky Mountain Low – the Colorado Musical Underground of the late 1970s
The Mighty 18 Wheeler – Stimulus Package
Blue Million Miles – Of Building Walls

DAVE HERRERA [NATIONAL]
Jeremy Enigk – OK
Bear
The Bittersweets – Goodnight, San FranciscoPhoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Andy Shauf – Darker Days
Zee Avi – Zee Avi

NICK
HUTCHINSON

Booker T – Potato
Hole
Buddy Guy – the Definitive Buddy Guy
Bob Dylan – Together Through Life
Otis Taylor – Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs
Seth Walker – Leap of Faith

CICILY JANUS
Ted Nash – The
Mancini Project
Rudder – Matorning
Daniel Sadownick – There Will Be a Day
Rene Marie – Experiment In Truth
Tyler Gillmore – Ninth & Lincoln

TOM MURPHY
Death in June – The
Guilty Have No Pride
Napalm Death – Time Waits for No Slave
Wolves In the Throne Room – Black Cascade
Napalm Death – Noise for Music’s Sake
Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours

JEF OTTE
Widowers –
“Interstate Eighty”
Rodrigo y Gabriela – Rodrigo y Gabriela
Good Housekeeping – “Hanging in the Hollow”
Bob Dylan – Desire
P.J. Harvey – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

Eminem – Relapse
N*E*R*D* – Seeing Sounds
Maxwell – “Pretty Wings”
The Cool Kids – Gone Fishin’ Mixtape
Julian Marley – Awake

DUTCH
SEYFARTH

Green Day – “Know
Your Enemy”
Pretty Lights – “Cold Feelings”
Matt clark Band – “Can’t Stay Long”
MC Subconcious – The Antitoxin
Full Belly – “2 Blessed 2 Be Stressed”

KYLE
SMITH

Merzbow – Pulse Demon
Neurosis – Times of Grace
Camera Obscura – My Mauldlin Career
Dr. Octagon – Dr. Octagonecologyst
Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)

JON
SOLOMON

Gregory Alan Isakov
– This Empty Northern Hemisphere
Wilco – Wilco (the Album)
Mogwai – The Hawk Is Howling
The Clash – London Calling
Minutemen – Double Nickles on the Dime

AMBER
TAUFEN

Massive Attack –
“Tear Drop”
Jets to Brazil – “King Medicine”
And Difference – “Talk to Me”
The Roots – Things Fall Apart
Folk Imploring – “Kingdom of Lies”

ANDY
THOMAS

Cobra Skulls –
Sitting Army
The Who – Who’s Next
Lenny and the Piss Poor Boys – Lenny and the Piss Poor Boys
Cheap Girls – Find Me a Drink Home
The Rouge – Heat & Light EP

NOAH
VAN SCIVER

Bob Dylan – Bringing
It All Back Home Again
Angst – Mending Wall
The Sonics – The Savage Young Sonics
Daniel Johnston – 1990
J. Spaceman / Sun City Girls – Mister Lonely

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