Playlist 12/29/08

This week's show is basically my end of the year countdown, as it were. Listen at WLUW.org

Bob Mould - Who Needs to Dream - District Line (Anti-)
Langhorne Slim & the War Eagles - Diamonds and Gold - s/t (Kemado)
Bon Iver - Skinny Love - For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)

Tilly and the Wall - Cacophony - O (Team Love)
Wolf Parade - Call It a Ritual - At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop)
Flight of the Conchords - Robots - s/t (Sub Pop)

Blitzen Trapper - Sleepy Time in the Western World - Furr (Sub Pop)
Tobacco - Tape Eater - Fucked Up Friends (Anticon)
Ladyhawke - Manipulating Women - s/t (Modular)

The Faint - The Geeks Were Right - Fasciinatiion (blak.wav)

The Magnetic Fields - California Girls - Distortion (Nonesuch)
Okkervil River - Calling and Not Calling My Ex - The Stand In's (Jagjaguwar)
The Sea and Cake - Fuller Moon - Car Alarm (Thrill Jockey)

Justin Townes Earle - The Good Life - The Good Life (Bloodshot)
David Vandervelde - Old Turns - Waiting for the Sunrise (Secretly Canadian)
Horse Feathers - Curs in the Weeds - House with No Name (Kill Rock Stars)

Daniel Martin Moore - It's You - Stray Age (Sub Pop)
Pas/Cal - O Honey We're Ridiculous - I Was Raised on... (Le Grand Magistery)
Silver Jews - What Was Not but Could Be If - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)

Islands - Abominal Snow - Arm's Way (Anti-)
Born Again Floozies - Dumb It Down Now - Street Music (Triple R Records)
CSS - Rat Is Dead - Donkey (Sub Pop)

Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire - In Ghost Colours (Modular)
Saint Milkweed - Couldn't Hold on to You - s/t (Sparrow Down)
She & Him - This Is Not a Test - Volume One (Merge)

Port O'Brien - I Woke Up Today - All We Could Do Was Sing (self)
Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend - Partie Traumatic (Columbia)
The Faint - The Geeks Were Right - Fasciinatiion (blank.wav)

Conor Oberst - Souled Out!!! - s/t (Merge)
Devotchka - Undone - A Mad and Faithful Telling (Anti-)
Los Campesinos - Knee Deep at ATP - Hold on Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)

Playlist 12/22/08

1. Jens Lekman - A Postcard to Nina - Night Falls Over Kortedala (Secretly Canadian)
2. Los Campesinos - This Is How You Spell... - Hold On Now Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
3. Rilo Kiley - 15 - Under the Blacklight (Warner)

4. Islands - Pieces of You - Arm's Way (Anti-)
5. Okkervil River - A Hand to Hold the Scene - The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)
6. Of Montreal - ID Engager - Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl)

7. Pulp - The Day After the Revolution - This Is Hardcore (Island)
8. Flight of the Conchords - Ladies of the World - s/t (Sub Pop)
10. Wolf Parade - Call It a Ritual - Live at Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop)

11. Foals - Cassius - Antidotes (Sub Pop)
12. Ladyhawke - Paris Is Burning - s/t (Modular)
13. The Faint - I Treat You Wrong - Fasciinatiion (blank.wav)

14. Cut Copy - Lights and Music - In Ghost Colors (Modular)
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15. Stephen Malkmus - Baltimore - Real Emotional Trash (Matador)
16. Department of Eagles - No One Does It Like You - In Ear Park (4AD)
17. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - You Remind Me of Something - Lie Down... (Drag City)

18. The Sea and Cake - All in Throws - On Tour (Thrill Jockey)
19. She Is So Beautiful/She Is So Blonde - Days - s/t (Science of Sleep)
20. The Apples in Stereo - Hold on to this Day - Electronic Projects for Musicians (Yep Roc)

21. Tuung - Bricks - Good Arrows (Thrill Jockey)
22. Cat Power - I Believe in You - Jukebox (Matador)
23. Devendra Banhart - The Other Woman - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon (XL)

24. She and Him - Sentimental Heart - Volume One (Merge)
25. David Dondero - The Real Tina Turner - Shooting at the Sun... (Future Farmer)
26. Justin Townes Earle - Hard Livin' - The Good Life (Bloodshot)

27. Tom Waits - Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis - Used Songs (Elektra)

Playlist 12/15/08

Pixies – Here Comes Your Man – Doolittle (4AD)
Drakkar Sauna – Glissade Presse - Drakkansasauna
Of Montreal - Gallery Piece - Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl)

Little Joy – With Strangers – s/t (Rough Trade)
The Grates – Trampoline - The Ouch, The Touch (Dew Process)
Skybox – Various Kitchen Utensils – Arco Iris (Self)

Ladyhawke – Magic – s/t (Modular)
CSS – Alcohol – s/t (Sub Pop)
Richard Hell – Chinese Rocks – Time (Matador)

The Rosebuds – Border Guards – Life Like (Merge)
Los Campesinos - You'll Need Those Fingers for Crossing - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (Arts and Crafts)
Hey Mercades – Knowing When to Stop – Loses Control (Vagrant)

Belle and Sebastian – The State I Am in – BBC Sessions (Matador)
Tarkio – Mountains of Mourne - Omnibus
Mekons – Prince of Darkness – Honky Tonkin (Quarterstick)

Bob Dylan - The Times They Are Changin' - The Times They Are Changin' (Columbia)
Murder By Death - Comin' Home - Red of Tooth and Claw (Vagrant)
Department of Eagles - No One Does It Like You - In Ear Park (4AD)

Mavis Staples - Down in Mississippi - Live: Hope at the Hideout (Anti)
Maria Taylor - Ladyluck - Savannah Drive (Nettwerk)
Robbie Fulks - Every Kind of Music But Country - Country Love Songs (Bloodshot)

Benoit Piolard - Ragged Tint - Temper (Kranky)
Two Gallants - the Hand that Held Me Down - s/t (Saddle Creek)
Johnny Cash - Don't Take Your Guns to Town - Murder (Columbia)

Anthallo - Sleeping Torpor - Canopy Glow (Anticon)
Stars – Elevator Love Song – Heart (Arts and Crafts)
Resplendent - Wings Beneath the Sills - Wings Beneath the Sills (self)

Playlist 12/8/08

Songs: Ohia – Love Leaves Its Abusers - Axxes & Ace (Secretly Canadian)
Great Lake Swimmers – Falling Into the Sky – Bodies and Minds (Misra)
The Rosebuds – In the Backyard – Life Like (Merge)

Belle & Sebastian – Like Dylan in the Movies – The BBC Sessions (Matador)
Tilly & the Wall – Bessa – Wild Like Children (Team Love)
Los Campesinos - It's Never that Easy Though, Is It? - We Are Beautiful... (Arts & Crafts)
Bob Nanna – Forgiveness – split w/Elizabeth Elmore (Troubleman Unlimited)

Crooked Fingers – Give and Be Taken – Forfeit/Fortune (Constant Artists)
The Concretes – You Can’t Hurry Love – s/t (Astralwerks)
The Carter Family – Coal Miner’s Blues – Country Music Hall of Fame (MCA)
Mountain Goats – Cotton – We Shall All Be Healed (4AD)

Crystal Stilts – Shattered Shine – Alight of Night (Sub Pop)
Pinebender – Well Calibrated Moral Compass – The High Price of Living… (Lovitt)
Benoit Pioulard – The Loom Pedal – Temper (Kranky)
CocoRosie – Tekno Lovesong – Noah’s Ark (Touch & Go)
Kate Bush – The Big Sky – Hounds of Love (EMI)

Ted Leo/Pharmacists – Parallel or Together – The Tyranny of Distance (Lookout)
Silver Jews – I’m Getting Back Into… – Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City)
Department of Eagles – No One Does It Like You – In Ear Park (4AD)

Mount Eerie (w/Julie Doiron & Fred Squire) – Voice in Headphones – Lost Wisdom (?)
Maria Taylor – The Ballad of Sean Folley – Lynn Teeter Flowers (Saddle Creek)
The Fiery Furnaces – The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry – Bitter Tea (Fat Possum)
Jawbreaker – Shield Your Eyes – Bivouac (Tupelo)

Ladyhawke – Paris Is Burning – s/t (Modular)
My Brightest Diamond - Golden Star - Bring Me the Workhorse (Asthmatic Kitty)
Of Montreal – For Our Elegant Castle – Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl)
Pulp – Do You Remember the First Time? – His ‘n’ Hers (Island)

Seaweed - Start With - Nowcore! The Punk Rock Evolution (K-tel)

Playlist 12/1/08

El Guincho – Palmitos Park – Alegranza (XL Recordings)
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I’m From – Houdini - Who Killed Harry Houdini (Mute)
Of Montreal – An Eluardian Instance – Skeletal Landing (Polyvinyl)
Dressy Bessy – In Your Headphones - Holler and Stomp (Transdreamer)
Magnetic Fields - California Girls - Distortion (Nonesuch)
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Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Sink Ships - Cardinology (Lost Highway)
Sonic Youth - Total Trash - Daydream Nation (Universal)
Les Savy Fav - Comes&Goes - Let's Stay Friends (Frenchkiss)
Let's Get Out ... - Chattanooga Kookoo - Listening (Roydale)
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Mekons - Diamonds - Natural (Quarterstick/Touch&Go)
Castanets - Prettiest Chain - City of Refuge (Asmathic Kitty)
Crooked Fingers - Luisa's Bones - Forfeit/Fortune (Constant Artists)
Brightblack Morning Light - Hologram Buffalo - Motion to Rejoin (Matador)
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Peter von Poehl - The Story of the Impossible - Going to Where the Tea Trees Are (Bella Union)
Paper Airplane - This One's For Us - Middlemarch (All Hail)
Los Campesinos! - You!Me!Dancing! - Sticking Fingers into Sockets (Arts & Crafts)
The Ruby Suns - Kenya Dig It? - Sea Lion (Sub Pop)
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Damon & Naomi - Stars Never Fade - Within These Walls (20/20/20)
Bon Iver - re:Stacks - For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)
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The Pine Hill Haints - St. James Infirmary Blues - Ghost Dance (K Records)
Devotchka - Blessing in Disguise - A Mad and Faithful Telling (Anti-)
Little Joy - No One's Better Sake - Little Joy (Rough Trade)
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - We Can't Help You - Real Emothional Trash (Matador)
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The Good Life - Keely Aimee - Help Wanted Nights (Saddle Creek)
Megapuss - To the Love Within - Surfing (Vapor)
Camper Van Beethoven - Pictures of Matchstick Men - Popular Songs (Cooking Vinyl)
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Wolf Parade - Call It a Ritual - At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop)
Los Campesinos - Miserabilia - We Are Beautiful We Are Doomed (Arts & Crafts)

Playlist 11/24/08

Flaming Lips - Thank You Jack White - Fight Test (Warner)
The Halo Benders - Love Travels Faster - The Rebels Not In (K Records)
Mates of State - Ha Ha - Team Boo (Polyvinyl)
Los Campesinos - Knee Deep at ATP - Hold On Now Youngster (Arts and Crafts)

Nada Surf - Blizzard of '77 - Let Go (Barsuk)
The Mountain Goats - Song for an Old Friend - Bitter Melon Farm (3 Beads of Sweat)
The Boy Least Likely to - Fur as Soft as Fur - Best Party Ever (Too Young to Die)
Dirty Projectors - On the Beach - Slaves' Graves and Ballads (Happy Happy Bday to Me)

Vivian Girls - Where Do You Run to - s/t (In the Red)
Jarvis Cocker - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time - s/t (Rough Trade)
Crooked Fingers - Cannibals - Forfeit/Fortune (Constant Artists)
Swans - Power and Sacrifice - White Light...(Young God)

Decemberists - I Was Meant for the Stage - Her Majesty... (KRS)
She and Him - Take It Back - Volume One (Merge)
Mayday - Come Home - Old Blood (Saddle Creek)
Justin Townes Earle - Hard Livin' - The Good Life (Bloodshot)

Ryan Adams - Go Easy - Cardinology (Lost Highway)
M Ward - Vincent O'Brien - The Transfiguration of Vincent (Merge)
Kimya Dawson - Caving In - Remember that I Love You (K Records)
Tom Waits - How's It Gonna End - Real Gone (Anti)

David Byrne - The Great Western Road - Lead Us Not Into Temptation (Thrill Jockey)
The Sea and Cake - Weekend - Car Alarm (Thrill Jockey)
Songs: Ohia - I've Been Riding with the Ghost - Magnolia Electric Co. (Secretly Canadian)
Joanna Newsom - This Side of the Blue - The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City)

Wilco - I Am trying To Break Your Heart - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)
Azure Ray - The Devil's Feet - Hold on Love (Saddle Creek)

Playlist 11/17/08

Tom Waits – Innocent When You Dream – Beautiful Maladies (Island)
Jenny Lewis – Carpetbaggers –Acid Tongue (Warner)
Mason Proper – Downpour – Olly Oxenfree (Dovecote)
Crooked Fingers – Run, Lieutenant, Run – Forfeit/Fortune (Constant)

Tom Gabel – Harsh Realms - Heart Burns (Sire)
Frontier Ruckus – The Deep Yard Dream – The Orion Songbook (Quite Scientific)
Sally Timms – Cry Cry Cry – Cowboy Sally’s Twilight Laments (Bloodshot)

Buddy Holly – Take Your Time – Buddy Holly Collection (MCA)
Tegan & Sara – City Girl – If It Was You (Vapor)
I’m From Barcelona – Paper Planes – Who Killed Harry Houdini (Mute)
Lucksmiths – Synchronized Sinking – Why That Doesn’t Surprise Me (Clover)

The M’s – Break Our Bones – S/T (Brillante)
David Byrne & Brian Eno – Strange Overtones – Everything That Happens (Todomundo)
Arab Strap – One Day After School – Philophobia (Matador)

Postal Service – Such Great Heights – Give Up (Sub Pop)
Camera Obscura – Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken – Lloyd I’m Ready… (Merge)
Marnie Stern – Simon Says – This Is It (KRS)

Deerhoof – The Tears and Music of Love – Offended Maggie (KRS)
The Handsome Family – Sunday Morning Coming Down – Smothered & Covered (Bloodshot)

The Sea and Cake – Window Sills – Car Alarm (Thrill Jockey)
The Good Life – The Beaten Path – Black Out (Saddle Creek)
Leonard Cohen – A Bunch of Lonesome Heroes – Songs from a Room (CBS)

Eleanor Murray – Electric Sky – For Cedar (Anonymous Monk)
Pavement – Loretta’s Scars – Slanted and Enchanted (Matador)
Owen – In the Morning, Before Work – the EP (Polyvinyl)
Blitzen Trapper – Saturday – Furr (Sub Pop)

Playlist 11/10/08

1. P.J. Harvey – No Girl So Sweet – Is This Desire? (Island)
2. The Elected – The Bank and Trust - Sun, Sun, Sun (Sub Pop)
3. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals – Sink Ships - Cardinology (Lost Highway)

4. Blitzen Trapper – Gold for Bread - Furr (Sub Pop)
5. Iron & Wine – Lovesong of the Buzzard – The Shepard’s Dog (Sub Pop)
6. Silkworm – Insomnia – It’ll Be Cool (Touch & Go)

7. Crooked Fingers – Your Control – Forfeit/Fortune (Constant Artists)
8. Eric’s Trip – Now a Friend – Purple Blue (Sub Pop)
9. Frederick Knight – You’ve Never Really Lived – The Birmingham Sound (Rabbit Factory)

10. The Emeralds – Can’t Say I Love You Baby – Love Is Rolling (Australian Cattle God)
11. Broken Spindles – Burn My Body – Inside/Absent (Saddle Creek)
12. Office – Suburban Perfume – A Night at the Ritz (New Line)

13. The Faint – The Geeks Were Right – Fasciinatiion (Blank.wav)
14. Los Campesinos! – We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives – Sticking Fingers into Sockets EP (Arts & Crafts)
15. Lemonheads – Sad Girl – Hate Your Friends (Taang!)

16. Blondie – Sunday Girl – Parallel Lines (Chrysalis)
17. Spoon – The Ghost of You Lingers – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)
18. The French Kicks – The Way You Arrive – Swimming (Vagrant)

19. Elf Power/Vic Chestnutt – Mystery – Dark Developments (Orange Twin)
20. Wooden Wand – We Must Also Love the Thieves – James & the Quiet (Ecstatic Peace)
21. Andrew Bird – Fake Palindromes - & the Mysterious Production of Eggs (Righteous Babe)

22. Mogwai – The Sun Smells Too Loud – The Hawk Is Howling (Matador)
23. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – I See a Darkness – Summer in the Southeast (Sea Note)
24. Mason Proper – Out Dragging the River – Olly Oxen Free (Dovecote)

25. Grizzley Bear – Alligator – Horn of Plenty (Kanine)
26. Scotland Yard Gospel Choir – I Never Though I Could Feel This Way for a Boy – SYGC (Bloodshot)

27. Jay Reatard – No Time – Matador Singles ’08 (Matador)
28. Against Me! – Thrash Unreal – New Wave (Sire)

Playlist 11/3/08

The Replacements – Seen Your Video – Let It Be (TwinTone)
Slant 6 – What Kind of Monster Are You? – Soda Pop*Rip Off (Dischord)
The Clash – Career Opportunities – Live at Shea Stadium (Legacy)

Wire – One of Us – Object 47 (Pink Flag)
Boy’s Life – Temporary – Split w/Departures and Landfalls (Crank!)
Dan Andriano – Let the Stars Play – split w/Mike Flumlee (Double Zero)

The Rumble Strips – Cowboy – Girls and Weather (Island)
The Anniversary – The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter – Designing a Nervous Breakdown (Vagrant)
Nico – The Fairest of the Seasons – Chelsea Girl (Polydor)

Antony & the Johnsons – Hope Mountain – Another World EP (Secretly Canadian)
Velocity Girl – Marzipan – Sorry Again EP (Sub Pop)
Owls – I Want the Blindingly Cute to Confide in Me - s/t (Jade Tree)

Vic Chestnut/Elf Power… - The Mad Passing of the Stoic – Dark Developments (Orange Twin)
Brit Daniel/Conor Oberst – Let the Distance Bring Us Together – s/t (Post Parlo)
Nirvana – About a Girl – Bleach (Sub Pop)

Magnetic Fields – Queen of the Savages – 69 Love Songs v3 (Merge)
Slowdive – When the Sun Hits – Souvlaki (SBK)
Promise Ring – Everywhere in Denver – 30 Degrees Everywhere (Jadetree)

Tobacco – Berries that Burn – Fucked Up Friends (Anticon)
The Decemberists – Clementine – Castaways and Cutouts (Hush)
Patsy Cline – Don’t Ever Leave Me Again – s/t (MCA)

Saint Milkweed – Sometimes It Gets So Cold – s/t (Sparrow Down)
Pedro the Lion – I Am Always the One Who Calls – Exclusive CD
Paper Airplane Pilots – Exist You – Welcome to the Drunk Tank EP (Debris)

Vivian Girls – Damaged – s/t (In the Red)
Belle & Sebastian – Is It Wicked Not to Care – The Boy w/the Arab Strap (Matador)
Two Gallants – Train that Stole My Man – The Throes (Alive)

Playlist 10/27/08

1. Guided By Voices – Cheyenne – Universal Truths and Cycles (Matador)
2. Sorry About Dresden – This House Unhomed – Let It Rest (Saddle Creek)
3. The Shaky Hands – A New Parade – Lunglight (KRS)

4. Tobacco – Tape Eater – Fucked Up Friends (Anticon)
5. Old Time Relijun – Two Crows – Witchcraft Rebellion (K Records)
6. Hay Market Riot – One Screw to Split in Two – Live on Radio Free Chicago

7. Deerhoof – The Tears and Music of Love – Offend Maggie (KRS)
8. Joe Lally – Sons and Daughters – There to Here (Dischord)
9. The Kinks – Love Me Till the Sun Shines – Something Else (Essential)

10. Saint Milkweed – Wrong End of the Gun – s/t (Sparrow Down)
11. Joanna Newsom – This Side of the Blue – The Milk Eyed Mender (Drag City)
12. Tortoise – Resevoir – Singles

13. The Sea & Cake – Down in the City – Car Alarm (Thrill Jockey)
14. Sondre Lerche – Two Way Monologue – Two Way Monologue (Astralwerks)
15. Tom Waits – Time – Rain Dogs (Island)

16. Beck – Paper Tiger – Sea Change (DGC)
17. M Ward – Vincent O’Brien – Transfiguration of Vincent (Merge)
18. Daniel Martin Moore – Where We Belong – Stray Age (Sub Pop)

19. Starfucker – Holly – s/t (Badman)
20. Commander Venus – We’ll Always Have Paris – The Uneventful Vacation (Thick)
21. Braid – Please Drive Faster – Lucky to Be Alive (Glue Factory)

22. The Faint – Forever Growing Centipedes – Fasciinatiion (blank.wav)
23. Tilly & the Wall – Let It Rain – Wild Like Children (Team Love)
24. Deerhunter – Agoraphobia – Microcastle (Kranky)
25. Mineral – Love Letter Typewriter – End Serenading (Crank!)

26. Women – Cameras – s/t (Jagjaguwar)
27. Chinup Chinup – The Soccer Mom Gets Her Fix – s/t (Record Label)

Playlist 10/20/08

The Replacements – Kiss Me on the Bus – All For Nothing… (Reprise)
Rainer Maria – Hell and High Water – A Better Version of Me (Polyvinyl)
Jolie Holland – You Painted Yourself In – The Living and the Dead (Anti-)

Deerhunter – Agoraphobia – Microcastle (Kranky)
Devendra Banhart – Little Boys – Cripple Crow (XL)
Life at Sea – Speedometers and Cigarettes – Is There a Signal (Lucid)

Crystal Antlers – Vexation – EP (Touch and Go)
Stereo Total – Miau Miau – S/T (Bobsled)
The Buzzcocks – Ever Fallen In Love - Singles Going Steady (AAD)

You May Die in the Desert – The Writer’s Audience – Bears in the Yukon Mylene Sheath)
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The Lawrence Arms – 100 Resolutions – Cocktails and Dreams (Asian Man)

The Faint – The Geeks Were Right – Fasciinatiion (blank.wav)
Styrofoam – Ticket Out of Town – Nothing’s Lost (Moor Music)
The Dead Milkmen – Punk Rock Girl – Death Rides a Pale Cow (Restless)


Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Crow Jane – Murder Ballads (Mute)
Crooked Fingers – You Can Never Leave – Red Devil Dawn (Merge)
Son Ambulance – A Girl in New York City – Someone Else’s Déjà Vu (Saddle Creek)

The Sea and Cake – Weekend – Car Alarm (Thrill Jockey)
Okkervil River – Kansas City – Don’t Fall in Love… (Jagjaguwar)
The Knitters – Why Don’t We Try Anymore – Poor Little Knitters on the Road (Bloodshot)

Jay Reatard – An Ugly Death – Matador Singles ’08 (Matador)
The Good Life – An Acquaintance Strikes a Chord – Novena on a Nocturn (Saddle Creek)
Johnny Cash – I Still Miss Someone – Live at Folsom Prision (Columbia)

Horse Feathers – This Is What – House with No Home (KRS)
The Lucksmiths – Music to Hold Hands to – Why That Doesn’t Surprise Me (Clover)
Julie Frost – Life After You – The Wave (Tinderbox)

Playlist 10/13/08

Bright Eyes – The Calendar Hung Itself – Fevers and Mirrors (Saddle Creek)
John Vanderslice – Little Boy Lost – Time Travel Is Lonely (Barsuk)
All Girl Summer Fun Band – Everything I Need – Looking Into It (Agsfb Music)

Blitzen Trapper – Sleepy Time in the Western World – Furr (Sub Pop)
Minus the Bear – Women We Haven’t Met Yet – Bands Love It When You Yell ‘Yar’ at Them (Suicide Squeeze)
The M’s – Banishment of Love – s/t EP (Brilliante)

Harry Nilsson – The Moonbeam Song – Personal Best (BMG)
Lucinda Williams – I Envy the Wind – Essence (Lost Highway)
Bird Show – Clouds and Their Shadows – Bird Show (Kranky)

Land of Talk – Got a Call – Some Are Lakes (Saddle Creek)
A Hawk and a Handsaw – Zozobra – and the Hun Hangar Ensemble EP (Leaf)
June of 44 – Arms Over Arteries – Tropics and Meridians (Quarterstick)

Starfucker – Holly – s/t (Badman)
Flight of the Conchords – Robots – s/t (Sub Pop)
For Against – They Said – December (Words on Music)
Ted Leo – Shake the Sheets – Shake the Sheets (Lookout)
Atom and His Package – Fraudulent – Hamburgers (File 13)
The Faint – I Treat You Wrong – Fasciinatiion (blank.wav)

Prima Donna – I Don’t Want You to Love Me – After Hours (Acetate)
Against Me! – Thrash Unreal – New Wave (Sire)
Mos Isley – My Dear – s/t (Independent)

The Rumble Strips – Alarm Clock – Girls and Weather (Island)
Onalaska – Entrada – To Sing for Nights (Dim Mak)
Delta 5 – Mind Your Own Business – Singles and Sessions (KRS)

Neil Halstead – Baby, I Grew You a Beard – Oh! Mighty Engine (Brushfire)
Orenda Fink – Bloodline – Saddle Up and Love It – Lovitt Records
The Decemberists – My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist (Hush)

Playlist 10/6/08

Bikini Kill – Rebel Girl – CD Version of the First Two Records (KRS)
The Unicorns – Tuff Ghost – Who Will Cut Our Hair (Alien 8)
The Born Again Floozies – We Got the Power – Street Music (Triple R)

Okkervil River – Calling and Not Calling My Ex – The Stand Ins (Jagjaguwar)
She and Him – Sentimental Heart – Vol 1 (Merge)
Braid – Please Drive Faster – Movie Music v1 (Polyvinyl)

The Black Ghosts – It’s Your Touch – s/t (Iamsound)
Los Campesinos – Knee Deep at ATP – Hold On Now Youngster (Arts and Crafts)
John Cale – Fear is Man’s Best Friend – Fear (Island)

Horse Feathers – Curs in the Weeds – House w/no Home (KRS)
Bright Eyes – I’ll Be Your Friend – One Jug of Wine (Crank!)
The Sea and Cake – Afternoon Speaker – Oui (Thrill Jockey)

Tobacco – Backwoods Alter – Fucked Up Friends (Anticon)
Black Kids – Listen to Your Body Tonight – Partie Traumatic (Columbia)
New Order – Age of Consent – 20 Years of… - Reprise

Nico – You Forgot to Answer – the End… (Island)
Murder by Death – Killbot 2000 – Who Will Survive (Eyeball)
Takka Takka – Lion in the Waves – Migration (Ernest Jenning)

Calexico – Two Silver Trees – Carried to Dust (Quarterstick)
Jenny Lewis – The Charging Sky – Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)
Wilco – Muzzle of Bees – A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)

TV on the Radio – Dancing Choose – Dear Science (Interscope)
Devotchka – Blessing in Disguise – A Mad and Faithful Telling (Anti-)
Iron and Wine – Love and Some Verses – Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)

Netherfriends – Astronaut’s Wife – Home Is Where My House Is (self)
Jawbreaker – Sea Foam Green – Etc. (Blackball)

Playlist 9/29/08

1. Neutral Milk Hotel – Holland 1945 – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Merge)
2. Devotchka – Queen of the Surface Streets – Una Volta (Cicero)
3. Earlimart – Cigarettes and Kerosene – Hymn and Her (Majordomo)

4. Okkervil River – Pop Lie – The Stand Ins (Jagjaguwar)
5. PJ Harvey – One Line – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (Island)
6. Matt Skiba – Next to You – split w/Kevin Seconds (Asian Man)

7. RaRaRiot – Each Year – The Rhumb Line (Barsuk)
8. Cocorosie – Beautiful Boys – Noah’s Ark (Touch&Go)
9. The Darby Sisters – Go Back to Your Pontiac – Girls in the Garage v2 (Romulan)

10. The Royal We – I Hate Rock and Roll – s/t (Domino)
11. Velocity Girl – I Don’t Care If You Go – 6 Song Comp. (Slumberland)
12. The M’s – Maggie – Live on WLUW Series

13. Walkmen – Postcards from Tiny Islands – You and Me (Gigantic)
14. Cursive – The Night I Lost the Will to Fight – Domestica (Saddle Creek)
15. Richard Hell – Crack of Dawn – Time (Matador)

16. Pavement – Frontwards – Slanted and Enchanted (Matador)
17. Maria Taylor – Ladyluck – Savannah Drive (Nettwerk)
18. Music Tapes – Song for Oceans Falling – for Clouds and Tornados (Merge)

19. David Vandervelde - - Waiting for the Sunrise (Secretly Canadian)
20. Ani Difranco – Unrequited – Reprieve (Righteous Babe)
21. Scottland Yard Gospel Choir – Mid America – Live on WLUW series

22. Brazilian Girls – I Want Out – New York City – Verve
23. Concretes – Can’t Hurry Love – s/t (Astralwerks)

Playlist for 9/8/08

1. Sleater Kinney - You're No Rock and Roll Fun - All Hands on the Bad One (KRS)
2. Park Ave. - All Boy Band - When Jaime Went to London... (Urinine)
3. the Virgins - Hey Hey Girl - s/t (Atlantic)
4. Okkervil River - Calling and Not Calling My Ex - The Stand Ins (JagJaguar)
5. Of Montreal - Let's Do Everything for the First Time Forever - Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies (Kindercore)
6. Skybox - Various Kitchen Utensils - Arco Iris (Self Released)
7. Negativeland - Extra Sharp Pencils - Thigomatic (Seeland)
8. Devendra Banhart - Michigan State - Oh Me Oh My... (Young God Records)
9. Big Bill - How You Want It Done - Down in the Basement Compilation (Old Hat)
10. Miss Murgatroid & Petra Haden - Ballad for Anne Bonney - Hearts and Daggers (FMU)
11. David Dondero - Vaporize - The Transient (Future Farmer)
12. Devil in a Woodpile - Whiskey Headed Blues - s/t (Bloodshot)
13. Conor Oberst - Moab - s/t (Merge)
14. Magnetic Fields - I Don't Really Love You - I (Nonesuch)
15. Fugazi - Latin Roots - Steady Diet of Nothing (Dischord)
16. Mineral - Waking to Winter - End Serenading (Crank!)
17. The Walkmen - I Lost You - You and Me (Gigantic)
18. Calexico - The News About William - Carried to Dust (Quarterstick)
19. Jawbreaker - Kiss the Bottle - Etc. (Blackball)
20. Unicycle Loves You - Yum Pla Muk - s/t (High Weel)
21. Correcto - Save Your Sorrow - s/t (Domino)
22. Grade - A Year in the Past, Forever in the Future - Under the Radar (Victory)
23. Embrace - I Wish - s/t (Dischord)
24. the Black Kids - I'm Making Eyes at You - Partie Traumatic (Atlantic)
25. Murder by Death - Until the Morale Improves... - Who Will Survive... (Eyeball)
26. Wilco - Was I In Your Dreams? - Being There (Sire/Reprise)
27. Oxford Collapse - The Birthday Wars - Bits (Sub Pop)
28. Lifetime - 25 Cent Giraffes - Jersey's Best Dancers (Jadetree)
29. Nation of Ulysses - You're My Miss Washington DC - 13 Point Program... (Dischord)

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Playlist for 9/1/08

1. Pixies - Wave of Mutilation - Doolittle (4AD)
2. Jarvis Cocker - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time - Jarvis (Rough Trade)
3. Black Kids - Hurricane Jane - Partie Traumatic (Columbia)
4. CSS - Rat Is Dead (Rage) - Donkey (Sub Pop)
5. Art Brut - People in Love - It's a Bit Complicated (Downtown)
6. Poster Children - the Old School and the New - DDD (Spin Art)
7. Pas/Cal - Citizen's Army Uniform - I Was Raised... (Le Grand Magistry)
8. Tegan and Sara - I Know, I Know, I Know -If It Was You (Sanctuary Records)
9. Elvis Costello - Waiting for the End of the World - My Aim Is True (Rykodisc)
10. Architecture in Helsinki - Like It or Not v2 - Like It or Not EP (Polyvinyl)
11. Maria Taylor - Xanax - 11:11 (Saddle Creek)
12. Handsome Family - When that Helicopter Comes - In the Air (Carrot Top)
13. Conor Oberst - Danny Callahan - s/t (Merge)
14. Mayday - Old World, New World - Bushido Karaoke (Saddle Creek)
15. Mekons - If They Hang You - Honky Tonkin (Quarter Stick)
16. Uncle Tupelo - Graveyard Shift - No Depression (Rockville Records)
17. Dovotchka - You Love Me - How It Ends (Cicero Recordings)
18. Miss Mergatroid & Petra Haden - Hummingbirds - Hearts and Daggers (FMU)
19. Silver Jews - Suffering Jukebox - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)
20. Mountain Goats - This Year - The Sunset Tree (4AD)
21. Neko Case & Her Boyfriends - Guided by Wire - Furnace Room Lullaby (Bloodshot)
22. David Byrne - Blue Hawaii - Big Love: Hymnal (Suma)
23. Sufjan Stevens - Casmir Pulaski Day - Illinoise (Asthmatic Kitty)
24. Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues - Small Changes (Elektra)
25. The Lines - Don't Need Surgery - Memory Span (Acute)
26. The Evens - All These Governors - s/t (Dischord)
27. Rise Against - Swing Life Away - Siren Songs of the Counter Culture (Geffen)
28. David Van de Velde - Someone Like You -Waiting for the Sunrise (Secretly Canadian)

Playlist for 8/25/08

1. Le Tigre - Mediocrity Rules - From the Desk of... (Mr. Lady)
2. The Faint - Your Retro Career Melted - Danse Macabre (Saddle Creek)
3. CSS - Give Up - Donkey (Sub Pop)
4. Wolf Parade - Call It a Ritual - At Mt Zoomer (Sub Pop)
5. Rainer Maria - Hell and High Water - A Better Version of Me (Polyvinyl)
6. Braid - Niagra - Movie Music v. 1 (Polyvinyl)
7. Conor Oberst - Souled Out - s/t (Merge)
8. Two Gallants - Prodigal Son - What the Toll Tells (Saddle Creek)
9. Johnny Cash - I Still Miss Someone - Live at Folsom Prison (Columbia)
10. Against Me! - Cavalier Eternal - As the Eternal Cowboy (Fat Wreck Chords)
11. Lawrence Arms - A Guided Tour of Chicago - A Guided Tour of Chicago (Asian Man)
12. We vs. the Shark - I am a Caffienated Corpse - Dirty Versions - Hello Sir
13. Beck - Walls - Modern Guilt (DGC)
14. Islands - Jogging Gorgeous Summer - Return to the Sea (Equator)
15. The Black Kids – I’m Not Going to Teach – Single
16. Modern Lovers - Government Center - s/t (Rhino)
17. Belle and Sebastian - Seeing Other People - If You're Feeling Sinister (Matador)
18. The Boy Least Likely to - I'm Glad I Hitched... - The Best Party Ever (Too Young to Die)
19. Styrofoam - A Thousand Words - A Thousand Words (Nettwerk)
20. BSS presents Brendan Canning - Possible Grenade - Something for Us All (Arts&Crafts)
21. Fruit Bats - Earthquake of '73 - Spelled in Bones (Sub Pop)
22. Tullycraft - Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's too Stupid to Know About - Old Traditions, New Standards (Darla)
23. Silver Jews - What Was Not But Could Be If - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)
24. Langhorne Slim - Electric Love Letter - When the Sun's Gone Down (Narnack)
25. Nick Drake - The Thoughts of Mary Jane - Time of No Reply (Hannibal)
26. Boy in Static - Where It Ends - Violet (Mush)
27. Jens Leckman - A Postcard to Nina - Night Falls Over Kortedala (Secretly Canadian)
28. Andrew Bird - Wishing for Contentment - Oh the Grandeur (Rykodisc)
29. Pas/Cal - Oh Honey, We're Ridiculous - I Grew Up On... (Le Grand Magistery)
30. Los Campesinos - My Year in Lists - Hold on Youngster (Arts and Crafts)
31. The Smiths - William It Was Really Nothing - Louder than Bombs (Warner Bros.)