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 picks of your own after the jump.
MARK BLIESENER
New York Dolls -"A Hard Days Night"
The Informants - Crime Scene Queen
Nicole Atkins - Bleeding Diamonds
Various - Verve Remixed
The Beatles - A Hard Days Night (mono)
CHRIS CALLAWAY
Sloan - Never Hear the End of It
The Doobie Brothers - Best of the Doobies
U2 - No Line on the Horizon
The Who - Who's Next
Quiet Company - Everyone You Love Will Be Happy Soon
CORY CASCIATO
Fabio Frizzi - City of the Living Dead score
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Six Months to Live - This is What Happens
Hello Kavita - To a Loved One
Everything Absent or Distorted - The Lucky One
BRIAN FREDERICK
Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg
The Ravonettes - In and Out of Control
Brother Ali- Us
Alkaline Trio - Crimson
White Leather - White Leather EP
A.H. GOLDSTEIN
Memphis Jug Band - "Peaches in the Springtime"
Howlin' Wolf - Chess Recordings - 1956 to 1963
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Action Packed Thrill Ride -- "In This River"
Houses - Fall EP
DAVE HERRERA
Flashbulb Fires - Glory
Houses - Fall EP
Kill Paradise - The Second Effect
Fresh Breath Committee - CPR
Pretty Lights - Passing By Behind Your Eyes
THORIN KLOSOWSKI
Black Heart Procession - Six
Tyondai Braxton - Central Market
Smithsonian Folkways - Classic Maritime Music
Vaselines - Enter the Vaselines
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the The Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers
KIERNAN MALETSKY
Houses - Fall EP
Houses - Summer EP
The Cars - The Cars
Deer Tick - Elephant War
Eve 6 - Eve 6
SEAN MERRELL
Can - Soon Over Babaluma
Yes - Close to the Edge
Led Zeppelin - Presence
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Camarón - La Leyenda Del Tiempo
TOM MURPHY
Nitzer Ebb - That Total Age
Lead Into Gold - Age of Reason
White Rabbits - It's Frightening
Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
Bright Channel - Bright Channel
JEF OTTE
The Pixies - Doolittle
Jonny Woodrose and the Broken-Hearted Woodpeckers - Live from the Garage
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
DeVotchKa - Una Volta
Tom Waits - Blue Valentine
ADAM PERRY
Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
Dr. Dog - Easy Beat
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Metallica - 2/13/87 Gothenberg, Sweden
Descendents - Somery
CHARLES RUSSELL
Wu Tang - Let's Get It (Evol Intent remix)
The Sounds - Beatbox
13th Monkey - Yakis
Assemblage 23 - Grind
Nine Inch Nails - Discipline
DUTCH SEYFARTH
Stephen Marcus - Rotate Your Mind
Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
Michael Martin Murphy - Cowboy Christmas
Gregory Alan Isakov - "Evelyn"
AC / DC - Razor's Edge
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KYLE SMITH
Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
Swans - Filth
Joy Division - Closer
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
Broadcast - Tender Buttons
JON SOLOMON
The Clash - London Calling
The Mighty Cannibal - Hannibalism!
Mikey Dread - Beyond World War III
Dorothy Ashby - Afro-Harping
Ravi Shankar - West Meets East: The Historic Shankar/Menuhin Sessions
AMBER TAUFEN
Beck - Sea Change
Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions
Tori Amos - To Venus and Back
Dilated Peoples - Expansion Team
DJ Cam - Soulshine
ANDY THOMAS
Converge - Jane Doe
The Casting Out - Go Crazy! Throw Fireworks!
The Blackout Pact - Wolves In The Lavarette
Digger Barnes - Time Has Come
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
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