Monday, March 30, 2009

Playlist 3/30/09

Cursive - I Couldn't Love You / Mama I'm Swollen (Saddle Creek)
Billy Bragg - You Woke Up My Neighborhood / Don't Try This at Home (Elektra)
British Sea Power - Appologies to Insect Life / The Decline of British Sea Power (Rough Trade)

Swan Lake - Settle on Your Skin / Enemy Mine (Jagjaguwar)
Blitzen Trapper - Sci-Fi Kid / Wild Mountain Nation (Lidkercow Ltd.)
Calvin Johnson - Lies Goodbye / s/t (K Records)

David Vandervelde - Feet of a Liar / Nothin No EP (Secretly Canadian)
The Appleseed Cast - An Army of Fireflies / Sagamatha (Militia Group)
Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - She Just Wants to Move / I Bet You Say that to All the Boys (Fashion Brigade)

Bishop Allen - Rooftop Brawl / Grr…(Dead Oceans)
Whiskey & Co. - Clocks and Spoons / Leaving the Nightlife (No Idea)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - The Songs that We Sing / 5:55 (Vice)

The Sea and Cake - Up on Crutches / Everybody (Thrill Jockey)
The Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me / Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me EP (Memphis Industries)
Jeremy Jay - In this Lonely Town / Slow Dance (K Records)

Art Brut - People in Love / It's a Bit Complicated (Downtown)
Lily Allen - Him / It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol)
Life at Sea - Speedometers and Cigarettes / Is There a Signal Coming (Lucid Records)

The Get Up Kids - Better Half / iTunes Exclusive EP (iTunes)
Head of Femur - Curve that Byrd / Ringdom or Proctor (Greyday Productions)
David Dondero - The Living and the Dead / The Transient (Future Farmer)

The National - Murder Me Rachel / Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers (Brassland)
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love / The Hazards of Love (Capitol)
Okkervil River - It Ends with a Fall / Down the River of Golden Dreams (jagjaguwar)

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love / Hounds of Love (EMI)
Lady Sovereign - Bang Bang / Jigsaw (Midget)
!!! - Dear Can / Louden Up Now (Touch & Go)

Beep Beep - I Am the Secretary / Business Casual (Saddle Creek)
The Long Blondes - Once and Never Again / Someone To Drive You Home

Monday, March 23, 2009

Playlist 3/23/09

Neko Case - The Next Time you Say Forever - Middle Cyclone (Anti-)
The Album Leaf - Wishful Thinking - Into the Blue Again (Sub Pop)
Spoon - Anticipation - The Way We Get By (12xu)

Lonely Dear - I Was Only Going Out - Dear John (Polyvinyl)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I Don't Belong to Anyone - Beware (Drag City)
Silver Jews - Time Will Break the World - Bright Flight (Drag City)

Fruit Bats - Seaweed - Mouthfuls (Sub Pop)
The Sea and Cake - The Argument - The Fawn (Thrill Jockey)
Morrisey - I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris - Years of Refusal (Decca)

Hum - If You Are to Bloom - Downward Is Heavenward (RCA)
The Aislers Set - Attraction Action Reaction - How I Learned to Write Backwards (Suicide Squeeze)
Mirah - Gone Are the Days - (a)spera (K Reecords)

His & Her Vanities - The Shocking Truth - s/t (The Science of Sound)
Dressy Bessy - Gloria Days - Little Music (Kindercore)
In Ink Please - If You Don't Like It, Throw It in the Rhine - Formica Table for Two (Fall)

Azure Ray - For the Sake of the Song - s/t (Saddle Creek)
Bishop Allen - The Ancient Common Sense of Things - Grr…(Dead Oceans)
Jim O'Rouke - Therefore I Am - Insignificance (Drag City)

The Golden Hours - My Feet Beneath the Water / Spooky EP (Eggy)
Desaparecidos - Man and Wife, the Latter (Damaged Goods) - Read Music/Speak Spanish
Jawbreaker - Save Your Generation - Dear You (DGC)

Pinehurst Kids - Shepherd to Lost Sheep - Bleed It Dry (Barbaric)
Richard Hell - Love Comes in Spurts - Time (Matador)
Cursive - I Couldn't Love You - Mama, I'm Swollen (Saddle Creek)

Wavves - So Bored - s/t (Fat Possum)
Hefner - The King of Summer - Dead Media (Too Pure)
Asobi Seksu - Familiar Light - Hush (Polyvinyl)

International Espionage! - Free For All - Transmissions (Noise to Infinity)
Matt and Kim - I Wanna - Grand (Fader)
Broken Spindles - Introvert - Kiss/Kick (Blank.wav)

Monday, March 16, 2009

Playlist 3/16/09

Rilo Kiley - Go Ahead - Take Offs and Landings (Barsuk)
Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You - Middle Cyclone (Anti-) LR
Mayday - Booze and Pills - Bushido Karaoke (Saddle Creek)

M. Ward - Rave On - Hold Time (Merge) HR
Andrew Bird - Fiery Crash - Armchair Apocrypha (Fat Possum)
Merle Haggard - My Baby's Just Like Money - Roots v 1 (Anti-)

Langhorne Slim - Electric Love Letter - When the Sun's Gone Down (Narnack)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Death Final - Beware (Drag City) LR
Dan Auerbach - Trouble Weighs a Ton - Keep It Hid (Nonesuch) HR

Mirah - Gone Are the Days - (a)spera (K Records) HR
Bat for Lashes - Tahiti - Fur and Gold (Echo)
Stephen Merritt - The Ugly Little Duck - Showtunes (Nonesuch)

She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? - Volume One (Merge)
Smog - Let's Move to the Country - Knock Knock (Drag City)
Tom Waits - We're All Mad Here - Alice (Anti-)

Tegan & Sara - Living Room - If It Was You (Vapor)
Sondre Lerche - It's Over - Two Way Monologue (Virgin)
The Natural History - It's a Law - Beat Beat Heartbeat (Startime International)

Les Savy Fav - Yawn, Yawn, Yawn - Inches (French Kiss)
Dirty Projectors - Winter Is Here - The Glad Fact (Western Vinyl)
The Handsome Furs - All We Want, Baby, Is Everything - Face Control (Sub Pop) HR

Foals - Olympic Airwaves - Antidotes (Sub Pop)
Okkervil River - You Can't Hold the Hand of a Rock and Roll Man - The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)
Hello Seahorse! - Cassette - Hoy a las Ocho (Magic Marker) LR

The Boy Least Likely to - I'm Glad I Hitched My Apple Wagon To Your Star - The Best Party Ever (Too Young to Die)
Mountain Goats - Against Agamemnon - Bitter Melon Farm (3 Beads of Sweat)
Lungfish - Nation Saving Song - Love Is Love (Dischord)

Against Me! - We Laugh at Danger (and break all the rules) - Reinventing Axle Rose (No Idea)
Heartless Bastards - Be So Happy - The Mountain (Fat Possum) HR
Cursive - Donkeys - Mama I'm Swollen (Saddle Creek)

Bon Iver - Beach Baby - Blood Bank EP (Jagjaguwar) HR
Grizzly Bear - Deep Blue Sea - Dark Was the Night (4AD) LR

Monday, March 9, 2009

Playlist 3/9/09

Mighty Boosh - Soup Song - Mighty Boosh Music Series 2
Johnathan Rice - It Is Best to Keep It All Inside - Further North (Reprise)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - You Can't Hurt Me Now - Beware (Drag City)*

Mineral - LoveLetterTypewriter - End Serenading (Crank!)
Sondre Lerche - Virtue and Wine - Faces Down (Astralwerks)
Laura Gibson - Funeral Songs - Beasts of Seasons (Hush)*

M. Ward - For Beginners - Hold Time (Merge)**
Dean & Britta - The Sun Is Still Sunny - Back Numbers (Zoe Recordings)
Sia - The Girl You Lost to Cocaine - Some People Have Real Problems (Hear Music)

Lily Allen - Him - It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol)**
Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken - Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken EP (Merge)
Jarvis Cocker - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time - Jarvis (Rough Trade)

Cursive - I Couldn't Love You - Mama, I'm Swollen (Saddle Creek)
Handsome Furs - I'm Confused - Face Control (Sub Pop)**
The Books ft. Jose Gonzales - Cello Song - Dark Was the Night Sampler (4AD)*

The Builders & The Butchers - Spanish Death Song - s/t (Bladen County Records)
William Elliott Whitmore - Hell or High Water - Animals in the Dark (Anti-)**
Adam Stephens - Lead in Our Lungs - s/t (self-released)

Hefner - The Hymn for the Alcohol - Because We Cannot Lie All Night Together
Asobi Seksu - Gliss - Hush (Polyvinyl)**
Islands - Jogging Gorgeous Summer - Return to the Sea (Equator)

Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - Your Head Here - Goodnight Oslo (Yep Roc)**
Suburban Kids w/Biblical Names - Loop Duplicate My Heart - #3 (Minty Fresh)
Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire - In Ghost Colors (Modular)

John Vanderslice - Coming and Going on Easy Terms - Cellar Door (Barsuk)
Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead - Set Yourself on Fire (Arts&Crafts)
Park Ave. - All Boy Band - When Jamie Went to London, We Broke Up (Saddle Creek)

Broken Spindles - You're Happy but Not for Long - Kiss/Kick (Blank.wav)*

Monday, March 2, 2009

Playlist 3/2/09

Spoon - The Fitted Shirt - Girls Can Tell (Merge)
Tuung - Bricks - Good Arrows (Thrill Jockey)
Devendra Banhart - Seahorse - Smokey Rolls Down…(XL Recordings)

M. Ward - Fisher of Men - Hold Time (Merge)
Beirut - La Llorona - March of the Zapotec (Pompeii)
Wilco - I Am Trying to Break Your Heart - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)

Patsy Cline - Don't Ever Leave Me Again - s/t (MCA)
Legendary Shack Shakers - Creek Cats - Believe (Yep Roc)
Neva Dinova - Hat O'er Eyes - The Hate Yourself Change (Sideecho)

William Elliott Whitmore - Let the Rain Come In - Animals in the Dark (Anti-)
Victory at Sea - Bloodline - Carousel (Kimchee)
Faunts - It Hurts Me All the Time - Feel Love Thinking Of (Friendly Fire)

Tristeza - Memphis Emphasis - Spine and Sensory (Makoto Recording)
American Football - I'll See You When We're Both Not So Emotional - s/t (Polyvinyl)
Wavves - Weed Demon - s/t (Fat Possum)

Fugazi - Life & Limb - The Argument (Dischord)
Lawrence Arms - The Northside, the L&L… - A Guided Tour of Chicago (Asian Man)
Cursive - Mothership, Mothership - Burst & Bloom (Saddle Creek)

Grade - Victims of Mathematics - Under the Radar (Victory)
Mission of Burma - Max Ernest's Dream - OnoffOn (Matador)
Bright Eyes - We Are Nowhere and It's Now - I'm Wide Awake…(Saddle Creek)

Here We Go Magic - I Just Wanted to See You - s/t (Western Vinyl)
Asobi Seksu - Layers - Hush (Polyvinyl)
Lily Allen - The Fear - It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol)

Antony & the Johnsons - Epilepsy Is Dancing - The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian)
Broken Spindles - The Moist Red Mess - Kiss/Kick (Blank.wav)

Extra Tracks:
Le Tigre - Fake French - Feminist Sweepstakes (Mr. Lady)
Of Montreal - Disconnect the Dots - Satanic Panic in the Attic (Polyvinyl)