Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of October 19, 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 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
Various Artists - Daptone Records Remixed
Levon Helm - Dirt Farmer
the Ravonettes - In and Out Of Control
Union Remains - Union Remains
John Common - Why Birds Fly

CHRIS CALLAWAY
The Kinks - playlist of various songs
King's X - Out of the Silent Planet
Modest Mouse - No One's First and You're Next
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Pete Townshend - Empty Glass

CORY CASCIATO
Modeselektor - Body Language Vol. 8
The Bottesini Project - Naima's Grass Pajamas
Sultan - Global Underground NuBreed
Brian Eno - Another Green World
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema

ERYC EYL
Hello Kavita - "I'm Not"
Alice Russell - Pot of Gold Remixes, Vol. 1 and 2
Bob Dylan - Christmas in the Heart
Dawes - Dawes
Huw M - "Y drôr sy'n dal y sanau"

BRIAN FREDERICK
Joss Stone - Colour Me Free
Astronautalis - You and Yer Good Ideas
Blonde Redhead - Misery Is a Butterfly
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
The Grates - Teeth Lost, Hearts Won

ADAM GOLDSTEIN
Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
Teddy Wilson - "Body and Soul"
Elvis Costello - "Imagination (Is a Powerful Deceiver)"
Flight of the Conchords - I Told You I Was Freaky
Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence

DAVE HERRERA
Chad Price - Smile Sweet Face
Pretty Lights - Passing By Behind Your Eyes
Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story) - The Lucky Ones
Sufan Stevens - The BQE: The Motion Picture Soundtrack
Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder

NICK HUTCHINSON
Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
Woody Guthrie - My Dusty Road
John Hartford -  A John Hartford Anthology
Tom Lena - Om at Club Passim

THORIN KLOSOWSKI
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood -Fairytales and Fantasies
Miss Ludello Black and the Masonics - From this Witness Stand
Black Mold - Snow Blindness in Crystal Antz
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
The United States of America - The United States of America

KIERNAN MALETSKY
Gregory Alan Isakov - That Sea, The Gambler
The Very Best - Warm Heart of Africa
The Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come
The Clientele - Suburban Light
Vince Guaraldi Trio - Cast Your Fate To The Wind

SEAN MERRELL
Baroness - Blue Record
Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson
King Crimson - USA
Ian Cooke - Unreleased Material
Dälek - From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots

TOM MURPHY
Galaxie 500 - On Fire
Damon & Naomi - The Sub Pop Years
Luna - Live
Various Artists - The Local Shakedown Vol. 3
Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan

JEF OTTE
Izcalli - Despiertame
Devotchka - Una Volta
The Rentals - Return of the Rentals
Ahmad Jamal - "A Gal in Calico"
Crooked Fingers - Red Devil Dawn

ADAM PERRY
Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
The Police - Certifiable
The Dodos - Time to Die
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - "Hybrid Moments"

CHARLES RUSSELL
Dances With White Girls - And How We Live
Genevieve Pasquier - Fusion
Diary Of Dreams - King Of Nowhere (Club Mix)
Mocky - Birds of a Feather
Rammstein - Ich Tu Dir Weh

QUIBIAN SALAZAR-MORENO
Brother Ali - Us
Ghostface Killah - Ghostdini Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City
Hector Lavoe - Legends of Salsa I & II
Julian Marley - Awake
Scary Kids Scaring Kids - The City Sleeps in Flames

DUTCH SEYFARTH
Sound Tribe Sector 9 - Phoneme
And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Isis Unveiled
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - "The Tears Of A Clown"
Circle Number Dot - Take Your Mind Off
Dropkick Murphys - The Chosen Few

JON SOLOMON
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Slaraffenland - We're On Your Side
The Bottesini Project - Naima's Grass Pajamas
BrakesBrakesBrakes - Touchdown
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace From God

KYLE SMITH
YOB - The Great Cessation
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Wolf Eyes - Always Wrong
Prurient - Arrowhead
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem

ANDY THOMAS
William Elliott Whitmore - Animals in the Dark
William Elliott Whitmore - Ashes to Dust
William Elliott Whitmore - Hymns for the Hopeless
William Elliott Whitmore - Song of the Blackbird
Gregory Alan Isakov - This Empty Northern Hemisphere