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
The Beatles – “Honey Pie”
Arlo Guthrie – “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree”
The Head and the Heart – “Rivers and Roads”
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention – Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Bruce Springsteen – “High Hopes”
DAVE HERRERA
Five Iron Frenzy – Engine of a Million Plots
Krooked Drivers – Right Beneath Your Feet
Megan Burtt – In Good Company, Vol.1: The Colorado Sessions
Cryogen – Continuum
Slim Thug – Boss Life
NOAH HUBBELL
YC the Cynic – “God Complex”
Yelawolf – “Hustle”
A-1 – “Summertime Sadness”
The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
Grip Grand – GG DOOM! BUT HOW?
BRAD LOPEZ
Every Time I Die – “Typical Miracle”
Nekrogoblikon – “Powercore”
Arise In Chaos – “Xenocide”
Cruel Hand – “Rotations of Hurt”
Down To Nothing – “Down on You”
TOM MURPHY
Boards of Canada – “Semena Mertvykh”
Four Tet – Beautiful Rewind
Oneohtrix Point Never – R Plus Seven
Magik Markers – Surrender to the Fantasy
Various Artists: – Ambient 4: Isolationism
ADAM ROY
Vista Chino – Peace
Wellwater Conspiracy – The Scroll and its Combinations
Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures
Axeslasher – Anthology of Terror
Clue to Kalo – Lily Perdida
LESLIE SIMON
Shafty – “Gotta Jibboo > Inverted David Bowie”
Gap Dream “Shine Your Light”
Temples – “Mesmerize”
Awolnation – “This Kid’s Not Alright”
Junip – “Line of Fire”
JON SOLOMON
Andras Schiff – Ludwig van Beethoven: Diabelli-Variationen
Andras Schiff – Bach: Goldberg Variations
Brian Eno – Another Green World
Aaron Parks – Arborescence
Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes – Ame Debout
AMBER TAUFEN
Boozoo Bajou – Grains
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
Tosca – Different Tastes of Honey
Led Zeppelin – Presence
Monsters of Folk – Monsters of Folk
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