Audio By Carbonatix
As people who think about, talk about, listen to and make music, the most common question we encounter is, “What are you listening to right now?” Whether you’re looking for recommendations, trying to get a feel for our individual sensibilities, or are just curious, we’ve compiled a list of all the things we’re listening to this week. Click through to see which albums and songs dominated our playlists this week. The National appears on multiple lists, but otherwise our tastes were all over the map this week.
MARK BLIESENER
Jeff Finlin – The Tao of Motor Oil
The Kinks– “Waterloo Sunset”
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The Smiths – “Everyday Seems Like Sunday”
Boulder Acoustic Society – “Song for 3am”
The Pogues – “Dark Streets of London”
CHRIS CALLAWAY
The Posies – Blood/Candy
The Choir – Burning Like the Midnight Sun
Brendan Benson – Lapalco
The Beatles – White Album
7 Worlds Collide – The Sun Came Out
BRITT CHESTER
Get Busy Committee – My Little Razorblade
Mt Eden – Sierra Leone (remix)
Aloe Blacc – Loving You is Killing Me
Talking Heads – This Must be the Place
Bassnectar – Cozza Frenzy
NICOLE CORMIER
The Roots – Illadelph Halflife
Camp Lo – Let’s Do It Again
Ghostface Killah – The Pretty Toney Album
Eminem – Recovery
Big L – The Big Picture
BEN DAYTON
Moderat – A New Error
Soap&Skin – Thanatos
The Knife – Got 2 Let U Go
Four Tet – Smile Around The Face
Mason Jennings – Where The Sun Had Been
BREE DAVIES
Trey Songz Featuring Nicki Minaj – “Bottom’s Up”
Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights
Sickboy – Tweencore 1-6
King Tubby – “Drop Dub”
Lil Wayne – “Bill Gates”
KYLE EUSTICE
Gorillaz – Demon Days
Zion I – Atomic Clock
Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell
Alaska In Winter – “Berlin”
MARISSA GAVEL
Erykah Badu – “Call Tyrone”
B.o.B. – “Satelite”
The Beatles – “Because”
Cee Lo – “Fuck You”
Bruno Mars – “Move On”
A.H. GOLDSTEIN
Leonard Cohen – Songs of Love and Hate
Leonard Cohen – Songs
Claude Debussy – La Mer
The National – High Violet
Born in the Flood – “Hey”
JASON HELLER
The Slits – Peel Sessions
The Slits – The Return of the Giant Slits
The Slits – Cut
The Slits – Trapped Animal
The Slits – Live at the Gibus Club
DAVE HERRERA
Sleigh Bells – Treats
Meg & Dia – It’s Always Stormy In Tillamook
Overcasters – The Whole Sea is Raging
Cults – Cults 7″
Blue & Exile – Below the Heavens
RU JOHNSON
Marvin Gaye – “Anger”
Prince Rakeem – “Oooh We Love you Rakeem”
Curren$y – “King Kong”
FOE and Whygee – “Upside Down”
Maino feat. T-Pain – “All of the Above”
THORIN KLOSOWSKI
Tobacco – Maniac Meat
Holy Fuck – Latin
Add N to (X) – Loud Like Nature
Boards of Canada – The Campfire Headphase
The Books – The Way Out
DOMINICK LEDEZMA
Sene – Eye M Sorry
Falside ft. PackFM & RADIx – Cold Season
The Left – Scared
Co$$ & Numonics – Free
The Outlines ft. The Rza – Visions
NICK LUCCHESI
Crazy Spirit – Crazy Spirit 7″
Urban Blight – Total War 7″
Nomos – Notes From The Acheron 12″
Acid Reflux – Moves EP
Long Pigs – Demo CS
KIERNAN MALETSKY
Marnie Stern – Marnie Stern
Lissie – Catching A Tiger
Tennis – Tennis 7″
Kanye West – “Christian Dior Denim Flow”
Young Coyotes – Basement EP
CHRIS MEEHAN
The Raconteurs – “Consoler of the Lonely”
Cee Lo Green – “Fuck You”
Black Keys – “My Mind is Rambling”
Armchair Martian – “Xenophobe”
Mission of Burma – “All World Cowboy Romance”
SEAN MERRELL
Pink Floyd – The Wall
Talk Talk – Laughing Stock
Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas
Magma – Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh
Robert Fripp & Brian Eno – No Pussyfooting
MATT MINER
Paul Simon – Graceland
The Beatles – Rubber Soul [2009 Mono Remaster]
The Beatles – Revolver [2009 Mono Remaster]
Jay Reatard – Jay Reatard: Singles 06-07
Jay Reatard – Matador Singles ’08
TOM MURPHY
Best Coast – Crazy For You
Indian Jewelry – Totaled
PS I Love You – Meet Me at the Muster Station
Future Islands – In Evening Air
The Legendary Pink Dots – Seconds Late for the Brighton Line
ADAM PERRY
Mountain Man – Made the Harbor
Spoon – Gimme Fiction
Alela Diane – To Be Still
Deer Tick – Black Dirt Sessions
Ego vs Id – “National Disaster”
DUTCH SEYFARTH
The National – Mistaken For Strangers
Mechanical Dan – Flood
Blackstar – Definition
The Frozen Movement – Smile More
Tickle Me Pink – Strange Life
KYLE SMITH
Christian Fennesz – Endless Summer
Yob – The Great Cessation
Brian Eno – Before and After Science
Kylesa – Static Tensions
Tom Tom Club – Tom Tom Club
JON SOLOMON
The National – Boxer
The National – High Violet
Miles Davis – The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions
Jon Wirtz – Sea Level
John Coltrane – Crescent
AMBER TAUFEN
Thievery Corporation – It Takes a Thief
Lil Sum’n Sum’n – Released
TV On the Radio – The Interface (Acoustic)
Scott Thomas – Green Eggs and House
Eels – Daisies of the Galaxy
AARON THACKERAY
Mad Season – Above
Pete Yorn – Nightcrawler
Sparta – Porcelain
Anathema – A Natural Disaster
Failure – Comfort
ANDY THOMAS
Cursive – The Ugly Organ
Bruce Springsteen – Darkness On the Edge of Town
Young Cities – Young Cities
Dawes – North Hills
Trees – Demo
NOAH VAN SCIVER
Arthur Russell – Love is Overtaking Me
Bardo Pond – Lapsed
Monoland – Monoland
Film School – Film School
I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness – Fear is on Our Side
SHAWN WHITE
Fonda Rae – Over LIke A Fat Rat
The Source feat Candi Staton – You’ve Got the Love
Candi Staton – Young Hearts Run Free
Patrice Rushen – Remind Me
Gwen McCrae – Funky Sensation
D. WILLIAMS
Jason Caesar – “Beyonce (Lucky)”
K-Os ft. Nelly Furtado and Saukrates – “I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman”
The Pirate Signal w/ Andrea Ball – “Automatic”
ONCUE – Cuey Sings The Blues
B.o.B. – “Don’t Let Me Fall”
