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
ADAM GOLDSTEIN
Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Green River”
Blind Willie McTell – “You Was Born to Die”
Pogues – “Dirty Old Town”
Pogues – “The Broad Majestic Shannon”
Highland Ramblers – Four for the Pour
DAVE HERRERA
The Head and the Heart – Let’s Be Still
Phosporescent – Muchaco
Gungor – I Am Mountain
Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels
Dissonance In Design – Sentient
NOAH HUBBELL
Ma$e – Harlem World
SD – Life of a Savage 3
Too $hort – “City of Dope”
Ca$h Out – “Cashin’ Out”
Brooke Candy – “Das Me”
BRAD LOPEZ
Rivers of Nihil – “Rain Eater”
Forty Fathoms – “Lead Mouth”
The Burial Plot – “Of Kings”
Skeletonwitch – “I am of Death (Hell has Arrived)”
Moonspell – “Opera Carne”
TOM MURPHY
Swans – Children of God
Swans – World of Skin
Sisters of Mercy – First and Last And Always
Phil Ochs – “The War Is Over”
Sister Crayon – Cynic
ASHLEY ROGERS
Neko Case – “Man”
Billy Bragg and Wilco – “Secrets of the Sea”
Janelle Monae – “Q.U.E.E.N.”
Salt n Pepa – “Shoop”
Dr. Dre – “Nuthin but a G Thang”
ADAM ROY
U.S. Royalty – MIRRORS
Exhumed – Necrocracy
Cut Chemist – The Audience is Listening
Charles Mingus – Blues & Roots
Coheed and Cambria – “A Favor House Atlantic”
LESLIE SIMON
Quilt – “Artic Shark”
Yamantaka//Sonic Titan – “One”
Jeffrey Novak – “Pictures on a Screen”
ARP – “High-Heeled Clouds”
Phia – “Do You Ever?”
JON SOLOMON
John Lewis – JS Bach: Preludes & Fugues, Vol. 1
Gregory Porter – Liquid Spirit
Charles Lloyd & Billy Higgins – Which Way is East
Ben Allison – Action-Refaction
John Coltrane – Crescent