5/18/09

The Brunettes - Brunettes Against Bubblegum Youth / Structure and Cosmetics (Sub Pop)
Architecture in Helsinki - Like It or Not / Places Like This (Polyvinyl)
Camera Obscura - The Sweetest Thing / My Maudlin Career (4AD)

The Decemberists - After the Bombs (Live) / Causes2 (Waxploitation)
Okkervil River - Our Live Is Not a Movie or Maybe / The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)
Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band - Big Black Nothing / Outer South (Merge)

Tunng - Hands / Good Arrows (Thrill Jockey)
The Owls - Welcome to Monday / Daughters and Suns (Magic Marker)
Saturday Looks Good to Me - (Even if You Die on the) Ocean / Fill Up the Room (K Records)

Bat for Lashes - Pearl's Dream / Two Sons (Astralwerks)
The Magnetic Fields - Zombie Boy / Distortion (Nonesuch)
Bon Iver - Skinny Love / For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)

Iron and Wine - Dearest Forsaken / Around the Well (Sub Pop)
Devotchka - Undone / A Mad and Faithful Telling (Anti-)
She & Him - Change Is Hard / Volume One (Merge)

The Good Life - You Don't Feel Like Home to Me / Help Wanted Nights (Saddle Creek)
John Vanderslice - Tremble and Tear / Romanian Names (Dead Oceans)
Cat Power - Aretha, Sing One for Me / Jukebox (Matador)

Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Am I Demon? / Ask Forgiveness EP (Drag City)
Joe Lally - Skin and Bone / Nothing Is Underrated (Dischord)
Boy in Static - Toy Baby Grand / Candy Cigarette (Fake Four Inc)

Art Brut - Twist and Shout / vs. Satan (Downtown)
Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! / Sticking Fingers into Sockets (Arts & Crafts)
The Coat Hangers - Stop Stomp Stompin / Scramble (Suicide Squeeze)

New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream / Fantastic Playroom (Modular)
Crocodiles - Soft Skull (In My Room) - Summer of Hate (Fat Possum)

Playlist 5/11/09

Jenny Lewis - Carpetbaggers / Acid Tongue (Warner)
Sally Timms - Dreaming Cowboy / Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments (Bloodshot)
McCarthy Trenching - Single Ladies (Cover) (Team Love Records)

Conor Oberst - Nikorette / Outer South (Merge)
Willy Mason - Hard Hand to Hold / Where the Humans Eat (Team Love)
Bill Callahan - All Thoughts Are Prey to Some Beast / Sometimes I Wish I Were an Eagle (Drag City)

The Good Life - The Beaten Path / Black Out (Saddle Creek)
Lambchop - I Can Hardly Spell My Name / Is a Woman (Merge)
The Lesser Birds of Paradise - Always the Sound / Space Between (Contraphonic)

Jenny Owen Youngs - Led to the Sea / Rransmitter Failure (Nettwerk)
Bat for Lashes - Sleep Alone / Two Suns (Astralwerks)
Wake the President - You Can't Change that Boy / You Can't Change that Boy (Magic Marker)

Lucksmiths - Edward, Sandwhich Hand / Happy Secret (Drive-In)
Smoosh - La Pump / She Like Electric (Pattern 25)
Panda Bear - Track Two / Young Prayer (Paw Tracks)

Devotchka - Such a Lovely Thing / How It Ends (Cicero)
My Brightest Diamond - Golden Star / Bring Me the Workhorse (Asthmatic Kitty)
Tom Waits - How It's Gonna End / Real Gone (Anti-)

Jarvis Cocker - Black Magic / s/t (Rough Trade)
The Thermals - Now We Can See / Now We Can See (Kill Rock Stars)
The Reputation - The Stars of Ameture Hour / s/t (Initial)

The Lawrence Arms - Nebraska / split w/Shady View Terrace (Asian Man)
Art Brut - Twist & Shout / vs. Satan (Downtown)
Camera Obscura - You Told a Lie / My Maudlin Career (4AD)

Mirah - Make It Hot / Advisory Committee (K Records)
Cryptacize - What You Can't See Is / Mythomania (Athsmatic Kitty)
June of 44 - Five Bucks in My Pocket / Anahata (Gestalt Rock)

Years - Kids Toy Love Affair / s/t (Arts & Crafts)

Playlist 5/4/09

Anathallo - Northern Lights / Canopy Glow (Anticon)
Son, Ambulance - Katie Come True / Oh Holy Fools (Saddle Creek)
CocoRosie - Madonna / La Maison de Mon Reve (Touch & Go)

Bill Cllahan - My Friend / Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle (Drag City)
Olivia Tremor Control - A Sleepy Company / Black Foliage V. 1 (Cloud)
Patrick Wolf - Pigeon Song / Lycanthropy (Tomlab)

Blake Miller - When the Sky Turns to Black / Burn Tape (Exitstencil)
Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945 / In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Merge)
Akron/Family - Many Ghosts / Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free (Dead Oceans)

Canasta - Slow Down Chicago / Find the Time (Broken Middle C)
Woods - The Number / Songs of Shame (Shrimper)
Loretta Lynn - Portland Oregon / Van Lear Rose (Interscope)

The Devil Makes Three - Gracefully Facedown / Do Wrong Right (Milan)
Pomegranites - The Southern Ocean / Everybody, Come Outside! (Lujo)
Of Montreal - Let's Do Everything for the First Time Forever / Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies (Kindercore)

Art Brut - Slap Dash for No Cash / Art Brut vs. Satan (Downtown)
Volcano, I'm Still Excited - Shouting Across the Water / s/t (Polyvinyl)
Heavenly - Itchy Chin / The Decline and Fall of Heavenly (K Records)

Mates of State - Like U Crazy / Bring It Back (Barsuk)
Crocodiles - Refuse Angels / Summer of Hate (Fat Possum)
New Order - Age of Consent / 20 Years of... (Reprise)

Pulp - Lipgloss / His 'n Hers (Ilsand)
The Music Lovers - A Word From Your Fashion Editor / Masculine Feminine (Le Grand Magistery)
Not Rebecca - Blender / Rocketship to Canada (Johanns Face)

Hefner - Hold Me Closer / We Love the City (Too Pure)
John Vanderslice - Tremble and Tear / Romanian Names (Dead Oceans)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Am I Demon? - Ask Forgiveness EP (Drag City)