Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of October 12, 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 13, 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
Cherry Bonb Club - Cherry Bomb Club
Imelda May - Love Tattoo
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
Lee Harris and River Styx - Angel-Headed Hip Hop
Various - Verve Remixed

CHRIS CALLAWAY
World Party - Bang!
Quiet Company - Everyone You Love Will Be Happy Soon
The Who - The Who By Numbers
King's X - XV
World Party - Goodbye Jumbo

CORY CASCIATO
Brim Liski - Brim Liski
Alert - various tech house tracks
Lords of Fuzz - Lords of Fuzz
Sultan - Global Underground NuBreed
Time for Trees - Sometimes Always

ERYC EYL
Cysko Rokwel - Best of Beatnuts
The Avett Brothers - Mignonette
Gastr del Sol - Camoufleur
We Butter the Bread with Butter - Das Monster Aus Dem Schrank
Dead Man's Bones - Dead Man's Bones

BRIAN FREDERICK
Muse - The Resistance
Kittie - In The Black
Gossip - Music For Men
Zero 7 - Yeah Ghost
Matisyahu - Light

A.H. GOLDSTEIN
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Tom Waits - "Jersey Girl"
The Dubliners - "Seven Drunken Nights"
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Los Campesinos - "The Sea is a Good Place to Think of the Future."

DAVE HERRERA
The Heavy - The House That Dirt Built
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
J Dilla - Dillanthology Vol. 3
Fresh Breath Committee - CPR
Churchill - Churchill

THORIN KLOSOWSKI
Múm - Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt II
Minutemen - Double Nickels On the Dime
various Artists - Blade Runner Trilogy, 25th Anniversary
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue

SEAN MERRELL
Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Bailter Space: Vortura
Oneida: Each One Teach One
Behold... The Arctopus: Skullgrid
Ian Cooke: Unreleased Material

TOM MURPHY
Sian Alice Group - 59.59
Sian Alice Group - Troubled, Shaken, Etc.
Sole - Plastique
Eleventh Dream Day - Stalled Parade
Godflesh - Pure

JEF OTTE
Spokeshaver - HLAZERZ!
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Django Reindhart - "Diminushing"
Pinback - Pinback

ADAM PERRY
Dr. Dog - We All Belong
Black Flag - Damaged
Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind
Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead - 1987 Tour Rehearsals
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam

CHARLES RUSSELL
Royksopp - "Tricky Tricky" (Salem's Remix)
Future Trail - "Breaking New Ground"
A Place To Bury Strangers - "In Your Heart" (Vince Clarke Remix)
D-ranged - "Her"
Dragonette - "Too Far Gone"

DUTCH SEYFARTH
Krashkarma - Seven Deadly Sounds
I Am The Ocean - City By The Lake
the MileMarkers - How You Make It
The Creepshow - Run for Your Life

JON SOLOMON
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Tortoise - A Lazarus Taxon
Akron/Family - Love is Simple
Liam Finn & Eliza Jane - Champagne in Seashells
Le Loup - Family

KYLE SMITH
Nadja - Bliss Torn From Emptiness
Suicide - Suicide
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Public Image Ltd. - Second Edition
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

AMBER TAUFEN
various Artists - Jazzanova Remixed
So Many Roads - the Grateful Dead
Mad Blunted Jazz - DJ Cam
The Rap Guide to Evolution - Baba Brinkman
Moon Safari - AIR

ANDY THOMAS
Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic
Thursday- Common Existence
Converge - Axe to Fall
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Pearl Jam - Backspacer

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