Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of October 26, 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

October 28, 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 picks of your own after the jump.

MARK BLIESENER
Mott the Hoople - Retrospective
Jeff Finlin - Ballad of a Plain Man
Rodney Crowell- Sex and Gasoline
The Ravonettes - In and Out of Control
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of Understatement

CHRIS CALLAWAY
Squeeze - East Side Story
Pete Townshend - Empty Glass
Jerry Gaskill - Come Somewhere
Galactic Cowboys - Machine Fish
The Who - Face Dances

CORY CASCIATO
Gavin Castleton - Home
Oneida - Rated O
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
Mike Weitz - various unreleased tracks

ERYC EYL
Children of Bodom - Skeletons in the Closet
Elbow - "Independent Woman"
John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light - Beautiful Empty
Everything Absent Or Distorted - The Lucky One
Hawnay Troof - Daggers at the Moon

BRIAN FREDERICK
Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy
The Sounds - Dying To Say This To You
Joss Stone - Colour Me Mine
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
The Epilogues / The Photo Atlas Split EP - Friendship EP

ADAM GOLDSTEIN
Lola Black "Hated"
Hello Kavita To A Loved One
Bob Dylan Christmas in the Heart
Archie Shepp Body and Soul
Frank Zappa "Packard Goose"

DAVE HERRERA
The Fray - The Fray
Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story) - The Lucky One
Hello Kavita - To a Loved One
Houses - Summer EP
The Swell Season - Strict Joy

THORIN KLOSOWSKI
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
Do Make Say Think - Other Truths
Judas Priest - Killing Machine

KIERNAN MALETSKY
Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story) - The Lucky One
Astrophagus - For Boating
The Pixies - Doolittle
Hello Kavita - To A Loved One
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

SEAN MERRELL
Shunsuke Kida - Demon's Souls
Brian Eno - Before & After Science
Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte
Boris - Pink
The Who - Live at the Isle of Wight Festival

TOM MURPHY
Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick - In Color
Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight
The Future of the Left - Travels With Myself and Another
Sleepy Sun - Embrace

JEF OTTE
The Pixies - Doolittle
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Chet Atkins - Guitar Legend: The RCA Years
The Ventures - "Walk, Don't Run"
King Crimson - Red

ADAM PERRY
Bob Dylan - Christmas in the Heart
Bob Dylan - Live 1975 with The Rolling Thunder Revue
The Oblivians - Soul Food
Rodrigo y Gabriela - 11:11
John Coltrane - Lush Life

CHARLES RUSSELL
Velvet Acid Christ - Black Rainbow
Hearts of Black Science - Gold & Dust
Anti-pop Consortium - NY to Tokyo
Combichrist - Kick Start the Fight
Equilizers - The Illness (Noisses rmx)

DUTCH SEYFARTH
Little Fyodor and Babushka - Peace is Boring
30 Seconds to Mars - Kings and Queens
Yonder Mountain String Band - The Show
Merlot - The Wreckage Left Behind
Blitzen Trapper - Furr

JON SOLOMON
Lou Barlow - Goodnight Unknown
Aakash Mittal Quartet - Videsh
Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Leonard Cohen - Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
The Low Frequency in Stereo - The Low Frequency in Stereo

AMBER TAUFEN
Beck - Midnite Vultures
Dilated Peoples - The Platform
Rahzel - Make the Music 2000
The Flaming Lips - Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell
Radiohead - Amnesiac

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