The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious and to give you a feel for our individual sensibilities, 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 Jack Kerouac - Blues and Haikus Lord Buckley - The Ruby Windows White Rabbits -"Percusion Gun" Bob Marley and the Wailers- Jungle Dub El Tigrillo Palma- "Flor de Dalia"
CHRIS CALLAWAY Ray Davies - The Kinks Choral Collection Holy Fiction - Hours from It Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
CORY CASCIATO Yeasayer - Odd Blood Die Antwoord - $O$ Vampire Weekend - Contra Spoon - Transference Booka Shade - DJ Kicks
BRIAN FREDERICK Alkaline Trio - Crimson The Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour OK Go - Of the Blue Colour of the Sky Massive Attack - Heliogland Slim Cessna's Auto Club - Cipher
A.H. GOLDSTEIN Charles Sheffield - "It's Your Voodoo Working" Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire - "Pathetique" Aqueduct - "Tension (Piano verite)" Temptations - "I Wish It Would Rain" Fats Waller - "The Curse of an Aching Heart"
DAVE HERRERA Die Antwoord - $O$ Broken Bells - "The High Road" (from forthcoming Broken Bells) jj - "And Now" (from forthcoming No 3) The Bloodsugars - I Can't Go On, I'll Go On HIM - Screamworks: Love In Theory and Practice
JASON HELLER Throwaway Sunshine - For Everything We're Not Lightspeed Champion - Life is Sweet! Nice to Meet You! Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's Heroes The Soft Pack - The Soft Pack Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
NICK HUTCHINSON Bob Marley - Greatest Hits at Studio One Megan Burtt - It Ain't Love Great American Taxi - Reckless Habits Various Artists - Joyful Noise (Reggae from the Virgin Islands) Vampire Weekend - Contra
RU JOHNSON The Entrance Band-The Entrance Band Lil Wayne- The Carter II Kidz in the Hall- Land of Make Believe Mos Def- The New Danger Jay-Z- Reasonable Doubt
THORIN KLOSOWSKI Tron - Soundtrack Art Brut - It's A Bit Complicated Bruce Haack - Electric Lucifer Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson Neil Diamond - 12 Songs
KIERNAN MALETSKY Gil Scott-Heron -- I'm New Here Lil Wayne -- No Ceilings Big Star -- #1 Record The Who -- My Generation Hot Congress -- Compilation 1
TOM MURPHY Clip'd Beaks - To Realize St. Vincent - Actor Fugazi - Repeater Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky Butthole Surfers - Hairway to Steven
JEF OTTE Die Antwoord - "Enter the Ninja" Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out Foals - Antidotes Buzzcocks - Product Ghostface - Fishscale
ADAM PERRY Sleepy Sun - Embrace Brian Eno - Music for Airports Wilco - Being There Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Ween - God Ween Satan
CHARLES RUSSELL Murder City Devils - Dear Hearts The The - True Happiness This Way Lies A Place To Bury Strangers - Missing You The Delta Mirror - He Was Worst Then The Needle He Gave You Bright Eyes - First Day of My life
DUTCH SEYFARTH Nick Ogawa - Shady Grove / Deeper Than The Vine These Unites States - Everything Touches Everything Regret Night - Lost My Head Diana Ross - Upside Down Hall & Oates - Rich Girl
KYLE SMITH Nurse With Wound - Homotopy to Marie Prurient - Arrowhead YOB - The Great Cessation Brian Eno - Before and After Science Matmos - Supreme Balloon
JON SOLOMON Casey James Prestwood & the Burning Angels - Falling Apart at the Seams Pat Metheny - Orchestrion Richard Swift - Atlantic Ocean Efterklang - Magic Chairs Bill Frisell - With Dave Holland & Elvin Jones
AMBER TAUFEN Peaches - The Teaches of Peaches Lyrics Born - Same !@#$ Different Day LTJ Bukem - The Progression Sessions RJD2 - Your Face Or Your Kneecaps Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
ANDY THOMAS Dessa - A Badly Broken Code Bomb the Music Industry - Adults POS - Never Better Disappearer - The Clearing Cheap Girls - My Roaring 20s
NOAH VAN SCIVER Jeremy Jay - Love Everlasting EP Lake - Let's Build a Roof Atlas Sound - Another Bedroom EP No Age - Eraser Times New Viking - Stay Awake
