Heavy Rotation, our top five spins for the week of April 27, 2009

By Dave Herrera Tue., Apr. 28 2009 at 12:39 PM

Categories: Heavy Rotation

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 your own picks after the jump.

	MARK BLIESENER The View - Which Bitch Johnny Thunders & Patti Palladin - Copy Cats Danielle Ate the Sandwich - Things People Do Ron Miles - Stone/Blossom Jeff Finlin - Ballad of a Plain Man

	CHRIS CALLAWAY Quiet Company - Everyone You Love Will Be Happy Soon U2 - No Line on the Horizon Pete Townshend - White City: A Novel Death Cab for Cutie - Open Door EP Vedera - Vedera (3 Song Sampler)

	CORY CASCIATO MSTRKRFT - Fist of God Darren Emerson - Global Underground Bogota Sparks - Exotic Creatures of the Deep The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed Deastro - Keeper's

	ERYC EYL The Autumn Film - "Joy" Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications The Photo Atlas - To Silently Provoke the Ghost Psyopus - "Choker Chain" Party Ben - "Single Ladies in Mayberry"

	A.H. GOLDSTEIN Rabbit is a Sphere - Hope is a Cinder That Blinks Quietly Until You Die Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen Yann Tiersen - Black Session Frank Zappa - Waka/Jawaka Louis Armstrong and Earl "Fatha" Hines - "West End Blues"

	DAVE HERRERA (local) Mama - Bayoutopia Good Housekeeping - Kind As Summer Bad Weather California - Young Punks Adai - I Carry King for a Day - Ghost In the Slipstream

	DAVE HERRERA (national) Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career Röyksopp - Junior Bob Mould - Life and Times Fever Ray - Fever Ray Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual

	NICK HUTCHINSON John Scofield - Piety Street Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything to Nothing King Wilkie - King Wilkie Presents: The Wilkie Family Singers Donavon Frankenreiter - Pass it Around New Riders of the Purple Sage - Where I Come From

	CICILY JANUS Zac Brown Band - The Foundation [deluxe edition] Roy Hargrove - Ear Food Joshua Redman - Back East Branford Marsalis - Metamorphosen Billy Currington - Little Bit of Everything

	TOM MURPHY Napalm Death - Time Waits for No Slave Napalm Death - Scum The Velvet Underground - Loaded My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

	JEF OTTE Manu Chao - Clandestino: Esperando La Ultima Ola. Stella Luce - "Beltbomb Machine" Houses - "Be the Woman" Pinback - Pinback Rodrigo y Gabriela - Rodrigo y Gabriela

	DUTCH SEYFARTH Cowboy Mouth - Voodoo Shoppe Reverend Horton Heat - Liquor in the Front... John Scofield - Piety Street Boston - Third Stage Aisha Duo - Quiet Songs

	KYLE SMITH Black Dice - Repo Orange Juice - The Glasgow School Josef K - Entomology Yellow Swans - At All Ends Björk - Homogenic

	JON SOLOMON Clutchy Hopkins Meets Lord Kenjamin - Music Is My Medicine Brian Blade - Mama Rosa Grand Duchy - Petits Fours PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By Marc Ribot - Asmodeus: The Book Of Angels Volume 7

	ANDY THOMAS Bon Iver - For Emma, Foever Ago Andrew Bird - Noble Beats The Bronx - III Propaghandi - Supporting Caste Dear and the Headlights - Small Steps, Heacy Hooves

	NOAH VAN SCIVER Half Japanese - Sing No Evil Wall of Voodoo - The Index Masters Bright Channel - Bright Channel My Bloody Valentine - Ecstasy and Wine The Swayback - Long Gone Lads