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
Sin Vida - The Westwood Anthem
Imelda May - Love Tattoo
Kristina Train - Spilt Milk
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
Sister Carol - Isis
CHRIS CALLAWAY
XTC - Upsy Daisy Assortment
The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
World Party - assorted songs
The Kinks - Give the People What they Want
Jellyfish - Bellybutton
CORY CASCIATO
Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals
Damian Lazarus - Essential Mix June 2006
The Inactivists - Love Songs and Other Songs About Love
Tones on Tail - Everything
David Bowie - Low
ERYC EYL
The Staple Singers - The Very Best of the Staple Singers
Danzig - "Mother" (boyhollow Found Hell Mix)
Primordial - A Journey's End (reissue)
Mayer Hawthorne - "Make Her Mine"
The Dimes - The King Can Drink the Harbor Dry
A.H. GOLDSTEIN
Girls - Album
The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
Ray Charles - "Ain't That Love"
Louis Jordan - "Buzz Me Blues"
Philadelphia Orchestra - Tchaikovsky Swan Lake
BRIAN FREDERICK
Kittie - In The Black
Joss Stone - Introducing Joss Stone
Brand New - Daisy
Beast - Beast (US version)
Body Count - Body Count
DAVE HERRERA
Hello Kavita - To a Loved One
Science Partner - Science Partner
Karen O and the Kids - Where the Wild Things Are (soundtrack)
Miranda Lambert - Revolution
Lady Antebellum - "Need You Now"
CICILY JANUS
Donny McCaslin - Declaration
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Miguel Zenon - Esta Plena
George Benson - Songs and Stories
Keith Urban - Defying Gravity
TOM MURPHY
The Mars Volta - Octahedron
The Mars Volta - Aputechture
HEALTH - Get Color
Karl Blau - Dance Positive
Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
QUIBIAN SALAZAR-MORENO
M.O.P. - Foundation
KRS-One & Buckshot - Survival Skills
J. Period & K'Naan - The Messengers (Trilogy)
Al Green - Lay It Down
SP Double - Focus on SP
DUTCH SEYFARTH
Dethlok - Dethalbum II
Wayman Tisdale - Way Up!
WPA - Works Progress Administration
Three Miles West - Cheyenne
500 Miles to Memphis - 500 Miles to Memphis
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KYLE SMITH
Ocean - Pantheon of the Lesser
Erasure - The Innocents
A Place To Bury Strangers - A Place To Bury Strangers
The Cure - Faith
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
JON SOLOMON
Luna - Live
Os Mutantes - Haih or Amortecedor
Lou Reed - Between Thought and Expression
Uri Caine Ensemble - The Goldberg Variations
M. Ward - Transfiguration of Vincent
AMBER TAUFEN
Blackalicious - Nia
Kid Droid - Niceness
Baba Brinkman - Apocalyptic Utopian Dreams in the Western Wilderness
LTJ Bukem - Journey Inwards
Tosca - Suzuki in Dub
ANDY THOMAS
Frank Turner - The First Three Years
Jawbreaker - Dear You
Make Do and Mend - Bodies of Water
Bon Iver - Blood Bank
Paper Bird - Live at Twist and Shout
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