Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of November 2, 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. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, we've compiled a list of all...

By Dave Herrera

November 4, 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. 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
The Beatles- Beatles For Sale
Various - KUVO Live at the Oasis Vol. 10
Rodney Crowell - Sex and Gasoline
The Ravonettes - In and Out of Control
WPA - I Go To Sleep

CHRIS CALLAWAY
The Alarm - Eye of the Hurricane
Stryper - Murder By Pride
Ray Davies - Other People's Lives
Pete Townshend - Empty Glass
The Stills - Logic Will Break Your Heart

CORY CASCIATO
Gavin Castleton - Home
Six Months to Live - This is What Happens
Fabio Frizzi - City of the Living Dead score
Time for Trees feat. Layden Bryant - "Sad Livin' in the City"
I am the Dot - I am the Dot

BRIAN FREDERICK
Lights - The Listening
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Flipsyde - We The People
The Kills - Midnight Boom
Karen O and the Kids - Where The Wild Things Are Soundtrack

A.H. GOLDSTEIN
Weezer - Raditude
Isaac Hayes Shaft - Deluxe Edition
They Might Be Giants - For Science
John Linnel - "Montana"
Hearts of Palm - "We Have No Water Here"

DAVE HERRERA
Fresh Breath Committee - CPR
Cryogen - Despara
Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story) - The Lucky One
I am the Dot - I am the Dot
The Swell Season - Strict Joy

NICK HUTCHINSON
JJ Cale - Roll On
Jeff Buckley - Grace Around the World
Regina Spektor - Far
Phish - Joy
Elvis Presley - From Elvis in Memphis

THORIN KLOWSOWSKI
Add N to (X)- Loud Like Nature
Burial - Untrue
Rain Machine - Rain Machine
OOIOO - Gold and Green
Neil Diamond - 12 Songs

KIERNAN MALETSKY
Cat-A-Tac - Past Lies and Former Lives
Evangelicals - The Evening Descends
Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story) - The Lucky One
Gregory Alan Isakov - This Empty Northern Hemisphere
The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic

TOM MURPHY
White Rabbits - It's Frightening
A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Lead Into Gold - Age of Reason
Chinese Stars - Heaven on Speed Dial
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic (Special Edition)

JEFF OTTE
Mr. Bungle - California
Converge - Jane Doe
Claude Debussy - Estampes (Alexis Weissenburg, piano)
Count Basie Bunch - Cool Too
Buzzcocks - Product

ADAM PERRY
Phish - Exile On Main Street (10/31/09)
The Ramones - It's Alive
The Compulsive Gamblers - Crystal Gazing Luck Amazing
Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs
Cat Power - Jukebox

CHARLES RUSSELL
The Raveonettes - Suicide
Cold Cave - Heavenly Metals
Demdike Stare - Haxan Dub
Skinny Puppy - Grave Wisdom
Ajapai - Incoming...

DUTCH SEYFARTH
Dub U - Delia
Filtermist - Scene This Taped That
The Forgotten Secret - Another Night On The Road
Blackstreet - No Diggity
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

KYLE SMITH
Brian Eno - Before And After Science
Public Image Ltd. - Public Image
Broadcast - The Noise Made By People
Beach House - Devotion
Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do

JON SOLOMON
Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard - One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Music From Kerouac's Big Sur
Lucero - That Much Further West
The Clientele - God Save the Clientele
The Clash - The Singles (box set)
The Hilliard Ensemble - Morimur

ANDY THOMAS
Various Artists - Revival Tour Compilation
Cheap Girls - My Roaring 20s
Tim Barry - 28th and Stonewall
Small Brown Bike - The River Bed
Samiam - Astray

NOAH VAN SCIVER
Daniel Johnston - Yip Jump music
The Raincoats - The Raincoats
R.E.M. - Reconstruction of the
Karp - Mustaches Wild
Lake - Let's Build a Roof

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