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)