Music is life -- or at least it is for us. When we're not writing about it, we're thinking about it, talking about it or listening to it. These are the things that were in heavy rotation for us this week. What are you listening to? What should we be listening to? C'mon, now. Sharing is caring. Don't hold out on us.
See also: Heavy Rotation archive of what we've been listening to
ADAM GOLDSTEIN Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Green River" Blind Willie McTell - "You Was Born to Die" Pogues - "Dirty Old Town" Pogues - "The Broad Majestic Shannon" Highland Ramblers - Four for the Pour
DAVE HERRERA The Head and the Heart - Let's Be Still Phosporescent - Muchaco Gungor - I Am Mountain Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels Dissonance In Design - Sentient
NOAH HUBBELL Ma$e - Harlem World SD - Life of a Savage 3 Too $hort - "City of Dope" Ca$h Out - "Cashin' Out" Brooke Candy - "Das Me"
BRAD LOPEZ Rivers of Nihil - "Rain Eater" Forty Fathoms - "Lead Mouth" The Burial Plot - "Of Kings" Skeletonwitch - "I am of Death (Hell has Arrived)" Moonspell - "Opera Carne"
TOM MURPHY Swans - Children of God Swans - World of Skin Sisters of Mercy - First and Last And Always Phil Ochs - "The War Is Over" Sister Crayon - Cynic
ASHLEY ROGERS Neko Case - "Man" Billy Bragg and Wilco - "Secrets of the Sea" Janelle Monae - "Q.U.E.E.N." Salt n Pepa - "Shoop" Dr. Dre - "Nuthin but a G Thang"
ADAM ROY U.S. Royalty - MIRRORS Exhumed - Necrocracy Cut Chemist - The Audience is Listening Charles Mingus - Blues & Roots Coheed and Cambria - "A Favor House Atlantic"
LESLIE SIMON Quilt - "Artic Shark" Yamantaka//Sonic Titan - "One" Jeffrey Novak - "Pictures on a Screen" ARP - "High-Heeled Clouds" Phia - "Do You Ever?"
JON SOLOMON John Lewis - JS Bach: Preludes & Fugues, Vol. 1 Gregory Porter - Liquid Spirit Charles Lloyd & Billy Higgins - Which Way is East Ben Allison - Action-Refaction John Coltrane - Crescent