Audio By Carbonatix
As music critics — and people who generally think about, talk about, listen to and make music — the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, “What are you listening to right now?”
The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious and to give you a feel for our individual sensibilities, 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
William S. Burroughs – Spare Ass Annie
Green Day – “Know Your Enemy”
Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – 900 Baseline
The Cribs – Ignore the Ignorant
Madness- The Liberty of Norton Folgate
CHRIS CALLAWAY
The Kinks – Sleepwalker
Brasstronaut – Mt. Chimaera
The Kinks – Low Budget
Owlsey – self-titled
Ray Davies – Other People’s Lives
CORY CASCIATO
CacheFlowe – This Year is for Lovers
Hideous Men – EP
Jamie Jones – RebelPod 03
Brian Eno – Here Come the Warm Jets
Aaron Stoquert – “Song About Impending Zombie Apocalypse”
BRIAN FREDERICK
Lostprophets – The Betrayed
Butch Walker and the Black Widows – I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart
Alkaline Trio – This Addiction
Lil Wayne – ReBirth
Anything that isn’t “We Are The World 25”
JASON HELLER
Alkaline Trio, This Addiction
The Jam, Extras
Rush, Signals
Xiu Xiu, Dear God, I Hate Myself
The Stone Roses, The Stone Roses
DAVE HERRERA
Ploy For Extinction – Equality Lies Below
The Congress – The Congress
Rogue Wave – Permalight
Freeway & Jake One – The Stimulus Package
jj – jj n° 3
RU JOHNSON
Tanya Stephens – Gangsta Blues
Cee-Lo – Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections
Erykah Badu – Mama’s Gun
Jadakiss – Kiss Tha Game Goodbye
Jimi Hendrix – Band of Gypsy’s.
THORIN KLOSOWSKI
Books – Lost and Safe
Godspeed You Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists…
Kid Koala – Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Miles Davis – ‘Round About Midnight
Yeasayer – Odd Blood
KIERNAN MALETSKY
Girls – Album
Yeasayer – Odd Blood
“Dreamscene” – Hideous Men
Nebraska – Bruce Springsteen
6 Kiss – Lil B
TOM MURPHY
Nico – The Marble Index
Nico – Desertshore
Bailterspace – Robot World
St. Vincent – Actor
Pink Reason – Cleaning the Mirror
JEF OTTE
Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out
Between the Buried and Me – Colors
Sufjan Stevens – Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lakes State
Die Antwoord – “Zef Side”
Lenny Breau – The Velvet Touch of Lenny Breau Live!
ADAM PERRY
Fool’s Gold – Fool’s Gold
Neil Young – Dreamin’ Man Live ’92
Midlake – The Courage of Others
Miles Davis Quintet – Relaxin’
Neil Young – Comes a Time
CHARLES RUSSELL
Die Antwoord – Fish Paste
Black Tambourine – For X-lovers only
Adam F & Horx – Shut Off the Lights Feat. Redman (Caspa rmx)
Pink Floyd – On the Run
New Order – Sunrise
DUTCH SEYFARTH
Anthrax – Attack Of The Killer B’s
500 Miles to Memphis – We’ve Built Up To Nothing
Mumford and Sons – Winter Winds
Calling Out West – Where I Belong
Avett Brothers – I And Love And You
KYLE SMITH
Buried at Sea – Ghost EP
Buried at Sea – Demo
Neurosis – Given to the Rising
Robedoor – Totem Hole
La Monte Young – The Well-Tuned Piano
JON SOLOMON
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
Tom Harrell – Prana Dance
King Crimson – Discipline
Rahssan Roland Kirk – Bright Moments
Paul Motian & the Electric Bebop Band – Play Monk and Powell
AMBER TAUFEN
DJ Z-Trip and DJ P – Uneasy Listening, Volume 1
Peter Kruder – Peace Orchestra
Jets to Brazil – Orange Rhyming Dictionary
Beastie Boys – Ill Communication
Zero 7 – The Garden
ANDY THOMAS
The Knew – Pulperia
Justin Townes Earle – Midnight at the Movies
Uncle Tupelo – Anodyne
Replacements – Let It Be
Bon Iver – Blood Bank
NOAH VAN SCIVER
Jeremy Jay- Heavenly Creatures
The Magnetic Fields- Realism
The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Are You Experienced
Vivian Girls- Vivian Girls
Arthur Russell- Calling Out Of Context
