Sunday, June 28, 2009

Playlist 6/29/09

Arab Strap - The First Big Weekend - Ten Years of Tears (Chemikal Underground)
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position - The Magic Position (Tomlab)
Eels - Prizefighter - Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire (Vagrant)

Sunset Rubdown - Silver Moons - Dragonslayer (Jagjaguwar)
Sonic Youth - What We Know - The Eternal (Matador)
Lymbyc System - Astrology Days - Love Your Abuser (Mush)

Grizzly Bear - Cheerleader - Vekatimest (Warp)
Silver Jews - I'm Getting Back into Getting Back into You - Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City)
Cage the Elephant - Ain't No Rest for the Wicked - s/t (Jive)

Kate Bush - Rubberband Girl - The Red Shoes (Columbia)
Marnie Stern - Put All Your Eggs in One Basket and then Watch that Basket - In Advance of the Broken Arm (KRS)
Wooden Wand & the Fanishing Voice - Rot On - Buck Dharma (5RC)

Tom Waits - Heigh Ho - Orphans: Bastards (Anti-)
Devendra Banhart - Long Haired Child - Cripple Crow (XL)
The Builders and the Butchers - Devil Town - Salvation Is a Deep Dark Well (Gigantic)

Langhorne Slim - Honey Pie - Engine EP (V2)
Taylor Hollingsworth - Gambling Barroom Blues - Tragic City (Brash Music)
A Hawk and a Hacksaw - In the River - The Way the Wind Blows (Leaf)

Maria Taylor - Irish Goodbye - Lynn Teeter Flower (Saddle Creek)
Matt & Kim - It's a Fact (Printed Stained) - s/t (IHEARTCOMIX)
Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline) - s/t (Arts & Crafts)

Woods - Don't Pass on Me - At Rear House (Shrimper)
Popup - What's the Matter Now? - A Time and a Place (Team Love)
Jarvis Cocker - Angela - Further Complications (Rough Trade)

The Lemonheads - Dirty Robot - Varshons (The End)
Lily Allen - Everything's Just Wonderful - Alright, Still (EMI)
Viva Voce - Midnight Sun - Rose City (Barsuk)

Monday, June 22, 2009

Playlist 6/22/09

Jens Lekman - You Are the Light / When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog (Secretly Canadian)
St. Vincent - Laughing with a Mouth of Blood / Actor (4AD)
Hanalei - Josh & Sara's Belated Wedding Present / We Are All Natural Disasters (Thick)

The Good Life - Notes in His Pocket / Album of the Year (Acoustic Bonus Disc) (Saddle Creek)
Laura Veirs - Icebound Stream / Carbon Glacier (Nonesuch)
Like Bells - Nothing Collapses / s/t (Exit Stencil)

Tortoise - Gigantes / Beacons of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey)
Tilly and the Wall - Let It Rain / Wild Like Children (Team Love)
Portland Cello Project - Hungry Liars / The Thao and Justin Power Sessions (Kill Rock Stars)

Takka Takka - One Foot in the Well (the optimists were wrong) / Migration (Ernest Jenning Records)
Okkervil River - Singer Songwriter / The Stand In's (Jagjaguwar)
Eels - Fresh Blood / Hombro Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire

Cut Copy - Bright Neon Payphone / Bright Light Neon Love (Modular)
CSS - Rat Is Dead (Rage) / Donkey (Sub Pop)
Call and Response - Colors Bleed / Winds Take No Shape (Badman)

Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is the Move / Bitte Orca (Domino)
The Fiery Furnaces - Spaniolated / Blueberry Boat (Rough Trade)
Snowglobe - Nothing I Can Do / No Need to Light a Night Light on a Night Like Tonight…EP (Makeshift)

Bachelorette - Instructions for Insomniacs / My Electric Family (Drag City)
Lambchop - Nothing But a Blur from a Bullet Train / Aw C'mon (Merge)
Belle and Sebastian - Wrapped Up in Books / Books EP (Rough Trade)

Jarvis Cocker - Caucasian Blues / Futher Complications (Rough Trade)
Viva Voce - Tornado Alley / Rose City (Barsuk)
My Morning Jacket - Hopefully / Acoustic Citsuoca (ATO)

Old Time Relijun - The Door I Came Through Has Been Closed (but I keep trying) / Lost Light (Secretly Canadian)
The Born Again Floozies - Dumb It Down Now / Street Music (Triple R)

Monday, June 15, 2009

Playlist 6/15/09

The Horse's Ha - Heiress / Of the Cathmawr Yards (Hidden Agenda)
The Rosebuds - Kicks in the Schoolyard / …Make Out (Merge)
The Pastels - Get 'Round Town / Up for a Bit with the Pastels (Vevel)

Belle and Sebastian - I Love My Car / I'm Waking Up to Us EP (Matador)
Hopewell - Worried Mind / Good Good Desperation (Tee Pee)
Heavenly - Lemonhead Boy / Heavenly vs. Satan (K Records)

Velocity Girl - Gilded Stars / Gilded Stars (Sub Pop)
The Robot Ate Me - Tied to the Car / They Ate Themselves (Swim Slowly)
Clues - Approach the Throne / s/t (Constellation)

The Stratford 4 - Hydroplane / The Revolt Against Tired Noise (Jetset)
Elbow - Not a Job / Cast of Thousands (V2)
Iron and Wine - Belated Promise Ring / Around the Well (Sub Pop)

Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band - Air Mattress / Outer South (Merge)
Neva Dinova - It's Worse When You're Young / s/t (Crank!)
Owen - Good Deeds / No Good for No One (Polyvinyl)

The Wunder Years - Crush Fatal / Living Tomorrow Today (Asian Man)
Hey Mercedes - Our Weekend Starts on Wednesday / Every Night Fireworks (Vagrant)
Haymarket Riot - Tasting a Good Movie / Bloodshot Eyes (Thick)

Native - Alpacastan / We Delete; Erase (Sargent House)
Dan Andriano - Let the Stars Play / Split w/ Mike Felumlee (Double Zero)
Alexa Woodward - Plants / Speck (self-released)

Cursive - Bloody Murderer / The Ugly Organ (Saddle Creek)
Sorry About Dresden - A Losing Season / The Convenience of Indecision (Saddle Creek)
Sufjan Stevens - Year of the Ox / Enjoy Your Rabbit (Athsmatic Kitty)

Grizzly Bear - About Face / Vekatimest (Warp)
Pavement - My First Mine / Slanted and Enchanted (Matador)
Pulp - Mis-Shapes / Different Class (Island)

Brian Jonestown Massacre - This Is Why You Love Me / Love EP (TVT)
Mannequin Men - (Who Is) Alice Golden / Lose Your Illusion, Too (Flameshovel)
Dirty Projectors - Two Doves / Bitte Orca (Domino)

Monday, June 8, 2009

Playlist 6/8/09

Los Campesinos! - Don't Tell Me to Do the Maths - Sticking Fingers into Sockets EP (Arts & Crafts)
Popup - What's the Matter Now? - A Time and a Place (Team Love)
Bishop Allen - The Ancient Common Sense of Things - Grr… (Dead Oceans)

Of Montreal - Everything Disappears When You Come Around - Cherry Peel (BarNone)
Lucksmiths - Edward Sandwhich Hand - Happy Secret (Lucky 6)
Lily Allen - The Fear - It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol)

The Slant - Love within My Sins - Slanted Eyes-Slanted Hearts (Self-Released)
City Center - Open/House - City Center (Type)
Will Oldham - Do What You Will Do - Black/Rich Music (Drag City)

Hefner - The Weight of the Stars - The Fidelity Wars (Beggars Banquet)
M. Ward - Jailbird - Hold Time (Merge)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Everything I Cannot See - 5:55 (Because Music/Vice)

David Vandervelde - Nothin' No - Nothin' No EP (Secretly Canadian)
Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band - Big Black Nothing - Outer South (Merge)
DeVotchKa - The Enemy Guns - How It Ends (Cicero)

St. Vincent - Actor Out of Work - Actor (4AD)
Blitzen Trapper - Sci-Fi Kid - Wild Mountain Nation (Lidkercow Ltd.
Laura Veirs - Saltbreakers - Saltbreakers (Nonesuch)

Adam Franklin - It Hurts to See You Go - Spent Bullets (Second Motion)
Apples in Stereo - Ruby - Her Wallpaper Reverie (spinART)
Jenny Owens Young - Led to the Sea - Transmitter Failure (Nettwerk)

William Elliott Whitmore - Hell or High Water - Animals in the Dark (Anti-)
Silver Jews - How to Rent a Room - The Natural Bridge (Drag City)
The Wooden Birds - Quit You Once - Magnolia (Barsuk)

Lonely Dear - I Was Only Going Out - Dear John (Polyvinyl)
Lullaby for the Working Class - Asleep on the Subway - Song (Bar-None)
Spoon - The Minor Tough - A Series of Sneaks (Elektra)

Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications - Further Complications (Rough Trade)
The Kinks - All Day and All of the Night - To the Bone (Grapevine)
Grizzley Bear - Two Weeks - Beckatimest (Warp)

Monday, June 1, 2009

Playlist 6/1/09

Jarvis Cocker - Angela - Further Complications (Rough Trade) *HR*
Cursive - Once - The Recluse EP (Saddle Creek)
Jawbreaker - Busy - Unfun (Shredder)

A.C. Newman - Come Crash - Slow Wonder (Matador)
Patti Smith - My Blakean Year - Trampin' (Columbia)
American Music Club - Western Sky - California (Demon)

Bricolage - Flowers of Deceit - s/t (Slumberland) *LR*
Weezer - In the Garage - Blue Album Deluxe Re-Issue (DGC)
Harlem Shakes - Technicolor Health - Technicolor Health (Gigantic) *LR*

The Beauty Pill - Terrible Things - The Unsustainable Lifestyle (Dischord)
The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Really Love You Anymore - I (Nonesuch)
Jolie Holland - Amen - Escondida (Anti-)

Ryan Adams - Anybody Wanna Take Me Home - Love Is Hell (UMG)
Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band - Slowly (Oh So Slowly) - Outer South (Merge)
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues / Live at Folsom Prison (Columbia)

Nora O'Connor - Bottoms / Til the Dawn (Bloodshot)
PJ Harvey - You Came Through / Uh Huh Her (Island)
St Vincent - Laughing with a Mouth of Blood / Actor

The Coat Hangers - Time Passing / Scramble (Suicide Squeeze)
The Soviettes - Channel X / LP II (Adeline)
Atom and His Package - Punk Rock Academy / A Society of People Named Elihu (Mountain)

Stereo Total - LA, CA, USA / Monokini (Kill Rock Stars)
French Kicks - The Falls / Trial of the Century (Star Time)
The Unicorns - The Unicorns: 2014 / 2014 EP (Suicide Squeeze)

Les Sans Culottes - Garcon Culotte (The Saucy Boy) / Fixation Orale (Aeronaut)
Tapes 'n Tapes - 50s Parking / s/t (Ibid)
Bettie Seveert - Healthy Sick / Palomine (Matador)

The Books - There Is No There There / Lemon of Pink (Tomlab)
Devendra Banhart - White Reggae Troll / Causes 2 (Waxploitation)
Woods - Rain On / Songs of Shame (Shrimper)

Raising the Fawn - Gwendolyn / The North Sea (Sonic Unyon)
Bob Dylan - Jolene / Together Through Life (Columbia)