Monday, November 24, 2008

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)

Monday, November 17, 2008

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)

Monday, November 10, 2008

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)

Friday, November 7, 2008

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)