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
A.H. GOLDSTEIN Fats Waller - "What's the Matter With You" The Head and the Heart - Let's Be Still Louis Armstrong - "Stardust" Blind Faith - Blind Faith Slim Gaillard - Slim Gaillard Rides Again
DAVE HERRERA Ibis Giant - Fatez Relik Bianca Mikahn - Nightdreams & Daymares Inner Oceans - Inner Oceans R.Kelly - Black Panties Schoolboy Q - "Man of the Year"
TOM MURPHY Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) FC Kahuna - "Hayling" Arcade Fire - "It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus)" Chelsea Wolfe - Pain Is Beauty Wolf Eyes - Human Animal
ADAM ROY Dosh - Naoise EP A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone, But Shafts of Light... Black Moth Super Rainbow - Start a People The Octopus Project - Hello, Avalanche Black Sleep of Kali - Our Slow Decay
LESLIE SIMON Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - "Cinnamon and Lesbians" Natural Child - "Saturday Night Blues" The War on Drugs - "Red Eyes" Magik Markers - "Mirrorless" Dead Waves - "Instead"
JON SOLOMON Jim Hall & Friends - The Complete Town Hall Concert Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming Lenny Breau - Cabin Fever Aaron Parks - Arborescence
AMBER TAUFEN Daft Punk - Random Access Memories Jets to Brazil - Orange Rhyming Dictionary Aphrodite - Aphrodite Tosca - No Hassle Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
SHAWN WHITE Buika - La Nave del Olvido will.i.am - "Feeling Myself" Vampire Weekend - "Horchata" Nancy Wilson - "That's What I Want for Christmas" Jimmy Fallon & The Roots feat. Mariah Carey - "All I Want for Christmas"
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