Monday, August 31, 2009

Playlist 8/31/09

Heavenly - Hearts & Crosses / PUNK Girl EP (K Records)
Netherfriends - Really? / Calling You Out EP (Emergency Umbrella)
The Decemberists - July July / Castaways and Cutouts (Hush)

Shimmer Kids Underpop Association - Like Candy Like Poison / The Natural Riot (Hidden Agenda)
Nurses - What Then / Apple's Acre (Dead Oceans)
Tegan and Sara - You Went Away / If It Was You (Vapor)

The Do - Coda / A Mouthful (Get Down)
Fruit Bats - Flamingo / The Ruminant Band (Sub Pop)
Shipping News - Wax Museum / Three-Four (Quarterstick)

Generationals - Nobody Could Change Your Mind / Con Law (Park the Van)
The Dandy Warhols - Cool Scene / Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia (Capitol)
Devendra Banhart - Michigan State / Oh Me Oh My… (Young God Records)

Ani DiFranco - Dilate / So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter (Righteous Babe)
Dan Bern - Sweetness / New American Language (Messenger)
Heartless Bastards - Be So Happy / The Mountain (Fat Possum)

Sondre Lerche - Easy to Persuade / Heartbeat Radio (Rounder)
Mountain Goats - The Admonishing Song / Ghana (Beads of Sweat)
Jenny Toomey - Patsy Cline / Antidote (Misra)

Ryan Adams - Harder Now that It's Over / Gold (Lost Highway)
Eric Bachmann - The Mysterious Death of Robert Tower / Short Careers (Merge)
The Cave Singers - Shrine / Welcome Joy (Matador)

Dear Nora - A Polar Bear / The New Year EP (Magic Marker)
Onalaska - Entrada / To Sing for Nights (Dim Mak)
Neva Dinova - It's Worse When You're Young / s/t (Crank!)

Blitzen Trapper - Big Black Bird / Black River Killer EP (Sub Pop)
Iron and Wine - Faded From the Winter / The Creek Drank the Cradle (Sub Pop)
Owen - Declaration of Incompetence / s/t (Polyvinyl)

Reigning Sound - Debris / Love and Curses (In the Red)
The Natural History - Telling Lies Will Get You No Where / s/t (Startime International)
Bright Eyes - We Are Nowhere and It's Now / I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (Saddle Creek)

Monday, August 24, 2009

Playlist 8/24/09

Old 97's - Won't Be Home / Drag It Up (New West)
The Handsome Family - My Sister's Tiny Hands / Through the Trees (Carrot Top)
Laura Veirs - The Cloiud Room / Carbon Glacier (Nonesuch)

The Sea and Cake - All the Photos / Oui (Thrill Jockey)
Antony and the Johnsons - Cripple and the Starfish / s/t (Secretly Canadian)
Nick Cave - Let It Be / I Am Sam Soundtrack (V2)

A Hawk and a Hacksaw - The Man Who Sold His Beard / Delivrance (Beggars Banquet)
The National - Karen / Alligator (Leaf)
Theo Angell - A Crime from the Vine / Tenebrae (Amish)

The Good Life - Notes in His Pockets / Album of the Year (Saddle Creek)
Pedro the Lion - Political Science / Website Exclusive CD (self)
Fruit Bats - My Unusual Friend / The Ruminent Band (Sub Pop)

Camera Obscura - Knee Deep at the NPL / Under Achievers Please Try Harder (Merge)
Blitzen Trapper - Silver Moon / Black River Killer (Sub Pop)
Bright Eyes - Spent on Rainy Days / Austin City Limits…2003 (New West)

Tilly and the Wall - Fell Down the Stairs / Wild Like Children (Team Love)
Sondre Lerche - Heartbeat Radio / Heartbeat Radio (Rounder)
Ramona Falls - I Say Fever / Intuit (Barsuk)

What Made Milwaukee Famous - Almost Always Never / Trying to Never Catch Up (self)
Cymbals Eat Guitars - …And the Hazy Sea / Why There Are Mountains (self)
Husking Bee - The Sun and the Moon / The Sun and the Moon (Doghouse)

Mount Eerie - The Hidden Stone / Wind's Poem (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
Jawbreaker - Shield Your Eyes / Bivouac (Tupelo)
Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism / s/t (8 Ft.)

the Like Young - Degenerate / So Serious (Parasol)
Johnathan Richman - Not So much to be Loved as to love / not so much to be loved as to love (sanctuary
generationals - when they fight they fight / con law (Park the Van)

Monday, August 17, 2009

Playlist 8/17/09

Rilo Kiley - Wires and Waves / Take Offs and Landings (Barsuk)
Art in Manilla - The Abomination / Set the Woods on Fire (Saddle Creek)
Cage the Elephant - Ain't No Rest for the Wicked / s/t (Jive)

The Builders and the Butchers - Bringin Home the Rain / s/t (Bladen County)
Drakkar Sauna - Icing Down Her Top / Drakkansauna (Marriage)
the Ravonettes - Red Tan / Pretty in Black (Columbia)

The Black Angels - The First Vietnamese War / Passover (Light in the Attic)
God Help the Girl - Come Monday Night / s/t (Matador)
Magnolia Electric Co. - Rock of Ages / Josephine (Secretly Canadian)

Choo Choo La Rouge - I'm a Truck / Black Clouds (Kiam)
Patterson Hood - I Understand Now / Murdering Oscar (Ruth St.)
Adam Stephens - Lead in Our Lungs / self released (self released)

Horse Feathers - Curs in the Weeds / House with No Home (Kill Rock Stars)
Fruit Bats - Singing Joy to the World / The Ruminant Band (Sub Pop)
Oneida - It Was a Wall / Rated O (Jagjaguwar)

Devil Makes Three - Do Wrong Right / Do Wrong Right (Milan)
Justin Townes Earle - The Good Life / The Good Life (Bloodshot)
Loretta Lynn - God's Country / Van Lear Rose (Interscope)

Monsters of Folk - The Sandman, the Brakeman and Me
David Dondero - The Real Tina Turner - The Transient (Future Farmer)
Beirut - Postcards from Italy / Gulag Orkestrar (Ba Da Bing!)

The Lesser Birds of Paradise - She's Got a Set of Wings / It Isn't the Fall (Loose Thread)
Starlight Mints - Zoomba / Change Remains (Barsuk)
The Do - On My Shoulders / A Mouthful (Get Down)

Life Without Buildings - Let's Get Out / Any Other City (Tugboat)
The Grates - Howl / Gravity Won't Get You High (Interscope)
Cut Off Your Hands - Oh Girl / You and I (French Kiss)

Plasticines - Barcelona / About Love (Nylon)
Nurses - What Then / Apple's Acre (Dead Oceans)

Monday, August 10, 2009

Playlist 8/10/09

Wilco - One Wing / Wilco (the Album) (Nonesuch)
Silver Jews - I'm Getting Back into Getting Back into You - Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City)
Theo Angell - Tenebrae / Tenebrae (Amish)

Two Gallants - The Prodigal Son / What the Toll Tells (Saddle Creek)
My Morning Jacket - Gideon / Z (ATO)
Cass McCombs - The Executioner's Song / Catacombs

Bright Eyes - From a Balance Beam / There Is No Beginning to the Story EP (Saddle Creek)
Gregory Pepper and His Problems - It Must Be True / With Trumpets Flaring (Fake Four Inc.)
Spoon - Anything You Want / Girls Can Tell (Merge)

Books on Tape - Bubblegum / Dinosaur Dinosaur (Alien 8)
Starlight Mints - Black Champaign / Change Remains (Barsuk)
Slant 6 - Double Edged Knife / Soda Pop * Rip Off (Dischord)

Jawbox - Motorist / For Your Own Special Sweetheart (Atlantic)
Girls Against Boys - Kicking the Lights / You Can't Fight What You Can't See (Jade Tree)
Generationals - When They Fight They Fight / Con Law (Park the Van)
Kickball - Shoulders / ABCKEFGHIJKickball (YoYo)

Mirah - Cold Cold Water / Advisory Committee (K Records)
The Do - Tammie / A Mouthful (Get Down)
Magnetic Fields - Two Characters in Search of a Country Song / Charm of the Highway Strip (Merge)

The Jealous Sound - Naïve / Kill Them with Kindness (Better Looking)
Discovery - Osaka Loop Line / LP (XL)
Windsor for Derby - E Song / Earnest Powrs + (Emporer Jones)

Colin Meloy - I've Changed My Plea to Guilty / Sings Morrissey (self)
Brian Glaze - Silver Ashes / Green Living (World Famous in SF)
Stars - Going, Going, Gone / Nightsongs (Her Grand Magestry)

Laura Gibson - Postures Bent / Beasts of Seasons (Hush)
Bats and Mice - Sliding Scale / Believe It, Mammals (Lovitt)
A Hawk and a Hacksaw - Vasilis Carries a Flaming Skull Through the Forest / Delivrance (Leaf)

Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes / More Adventurous (Brute/Beaute)

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Playlist 8/8/09

William Elliot Whitmore - Who Stole the Soul - Animals in the Dark (Anti-)
M. Ward - Never Had Nobody Like You - Hold Time (Merge)
Fruit Bats - The Ruminant Band - The Ruminant Band (Sub Pop)

Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You - Middle Cyclone (Anti-)
Cass McCombs - Pregnant Pause - Dropping the Writ (Domino)
Magnolia Electric Co. - The Rock of Ages - Josephine (Secretly Canadian)

DeVotchKa - Undone - A Mad & Faithful Telling (Anti-)
Broken Records - Slow Parade - Until the Earth Begins to Part (4AD)
Now It's Overhead - Estranged - Dark Light Daybreak (Saddle Creek)

Beauty Pill - Terrible Things - The Unsustainable Lifestyle (Dischord)
Bombadil - Cold Runway - Tarpits and Canyonlands (Ramseur)
Okkervil River - Calling and Not Calling My Ex - The Stand In's (Jagjaguwar)

Bishop Allen - The Ancient Common Sense of Things - Grr... (Dead Oceans)
All Girl Summer Fun Band - Lipsmacker Kiss - Summer of '98 (Magic Marker)
Wye Oak - For Prayer - The Knot (Merge)

A.C. Newman - Drink to Me, Babe, Then - Slow Wonder (Matador)
Calexico - The News About William - Carried to Dust (Quarterstick)
Wilco - I'll Fight - Wilco (the Album) (Nonesuch)

Eric Bachmann - Lonesome Warrior - To the Races (Saddle Creek)
Neva Dinova - Clouds - You May Already Be Dreaming (Saddle Creek)
Patterson Hood - Pollyanna - Murdering Oscar (and Other Love Songs) (Ruth St.)

The Books - Mikey Bass - Thought for Food (Tomlab)
Tunng - Bricks - Good Arrows (Thrill Jockey)
Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips - I Deserve It - L'Avventura (Jetset)

God Help the Girl - Come Monday Night - s/t (Matador)
The National - Murder Me Rachael - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers (Brassland)
The Do - At Last! - A Mouthful (Get Down)

Gaglians - Modern African Queen - Monster Head Room (Woodsist)
Eels - Last Stop: This Town - Electro-shock Blues (Dreamworks)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Beware Your Only Friend - Beware (Drag City)

Los Campesinos! - Broken Heartbeats Sound like Breakbeats - Hold on Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
Hello Seahorse! - OK!...Lobster - Hoy a las Ocho (Magic Marker)
The Reputation - The Stars of Amateur Hour - s/t (Initial)

Stanley Ross - Cannibal - Here with Me (Nodak)
We Were Promised Jet Packs - Quiet Little Voices - These Four Walls (Fatcat)
Oneida - It Was a Wall - Rated O (Jagjaguwar)

Motel Motel - Dinosaur - New Denver (Rebel Group)
The Fiery Furnaces - The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry - Bitter Tea (Fat Possum)
Bitch & Animal - You Left Out - Sour Juice and Rhyme (Righteous Babe)

Cymbals Eat Guitars - ...And the Hazy Sea - Why There Are Mountains (self)
The Promise Ring - The Deep South - Very Emergency (Jade Tree)
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Dragonfly Pie - Real Emotional Trash (Matador)

Monday, August 3, 2009

Playlist 8/3/09

The Good Life - Your Birthday Present - Novena on a Nocturn (Better Looking)
Reverie Sound Revue - We Are the Opposite of Thieves - s/t (Boompa) HR
The Decemberists - My Mother Was... - 5 Songs (Hush Records)

Okkervil River - It Ends with a Fall - Down the River of Golden Dreams (Jagjaguwar)
Eric Bachmann - Lonesome Warrior - To the Races (Saddle Creek)
Magnetic Fields - I Don't Believe You - I (Nonesuch)

Bombadil - Oto the Bear - Tarpits and Canyonlands (Ramseur) LR
Rufus Wainwright - Do I Disappoint You - Release the Stars (Geffen)
Magnolia Electric Co. - The Rock of Ages - Josephine (Secretly Canadian) HR

Antony & the Johnsons - Her Eyes Are Underneath the Ground - The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian)
Megafaun - The Fade - Gather, Form & Fly (Hometapes) LR
My Morning Jacket - Golden - It Still Moves (Ato/RCA)

Broken Records - If the News Makes You Sad, Don't Watch It - Until the Earth Begins to Part (4AD) LR
Langhorne Slim & the War Eagles - Diamonds and Gold - s/t (Kemado)
Flaming Lips - Slow Nerve Action - Transmissions from Satelite Heart (Warner)

Devendra Banhart - Samba Vexillographica - Smokey Rolls... (XL)
Theo Angell - A Crime from the Vine - Tenebrae (Amish) HR
Olivia Tremor Control - Beneath the Climb - Presents: Singles and Beyond (Kindercore)

We Were Promised Jetpacks - This Is My House, This Is My Home - These Four Walls (Fatcat) LR
Fruit Bats - The Hobo Girl - The Ruminant Band (Sub Pop)
Tilly and the Wall - Cacophony - O (Team Love)

The Ladybug Transistor - Three Days from Now - Can't Wait Another Day (Merge)
Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange - Rainwater Cassette Exchange (Kranky) HR
Park Ave. - All Boy Band - When Jaimie Went to London... (Urinine)

Matt & Kim - Don't Slow Down - Grand (Fader)
Smart Went Crazy - Best & Final Offer - Now We're Even (Dischord)
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Indiana - Why There Are Mountains (self) HR

Braid - (Stawberry Ann) Switzerland - Movie Music v. (Polyvinyl)