Playlist 2/22/10

Belle & Sebastian - The Blues Are Still Blue - The Life Pursuit (Matador)
Los Campesinos! - A Heat Rash in the Shape of the Show Me State; Or, Letters from Me to Charlotte - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)*
Shout Out Louds - Fall Hard - Work (Merge)*

Via Audio - Babies - Animalore (Undertow)*
Vampire Weekend - Cousins - Contra (XL)*
The Like - Under the Paving Stones - Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking (Geffen)

Silver Jews - Punks in the Beerlight - Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City)
Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins - Rise Up With Fists!!! - Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)
Fruit Bats - The Earthquake of '73 - Spelled in Bones (Sub Pop)

Colleen - Past the Long Black Land - Les Ondes Silencieuses (Leaf)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness - Summer in the Southeast (Sea Noble)
Mayday - Rock and Roll Can't Save Your Life - Bushido Karaoke (Saddle Creek)

Southerly - Harmony - Best Dressed and Expressionless (Fall)
Magnetic Fields - We Are Having a Hootenanny - Realism (Nonesuch)*
The Salt Miners - Spray Shellac - A Good Time to Be Had (Woodshed)

Okkervil River - You Can't Hold the Hand of the Rock and Roll Man - The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)
Salvador Santana - This Day (Belongs to You) - Keyboard City (Various Music)*
Lightspeed Champion - Marlene - Life Is Sweet! Nice to Meet You (Domino)*

Office - Company Calls - A Night at the Ritz (Scratchie)
Spoon - Nobody Gets Me But You - Transference (Merge)*
Boat - I Really Think You Should Rethink Your Life - Let's Drag Our Feet (Magic Marker)

Of Montreal - Suffer for Fashion - Suffer for Fashion EP (Polyvinyl)
My Robot Friend - The Short Game - Soft-Core (Double Feature)*
Architecture in Helsinki - Heart It Races - Heart It Races EP (Polyvinyl)

Arthur and Yu - Come to View (Song for Neil Young) - In Camera (Hardly Art)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Master's Hands - IRM (Elektra)*
Xiu Xiu - Dear God, I Hate Myself - Dear God I Hate Myself (KRS)*

Calexico and Iron & Wine - He Lays in the Reins - In the Reins (Touch & Go)
John Vanderslice - Exodus Damage - Pixel Revolt (Barsuk)

Playlist 2/15/10

The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?? - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner)
Art Brut - Fight! - Bang Bang Rock & Roll (Banana)
The White Stripes - Why Can't You Be Nicer to Me? - De Stijl (V2)

Editors - Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool - In this Light and on this Evening (Fader)
Cursive - Mothership, Mothership, Do You Read Me? - Burst and Bloom (Saddle Creek)
Los Campesinos! - A Heat Rash in the Shape of the Show Me State; Or, Letters from Me to Charlotte - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)

Hello Seahorse! - OK!...Lobster - Hoy a las Ocho (Magic Marker)
Heavenly - So? - P.U.N.K. Girl EP (K Records)
Dressy Bessy - Girl, You Shout! - s/t (Kindercore)

Boat - We Want It! We Want It! - Setting the Paces (Magic Marker)
Mirah - Oh! September - Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project (K Records)
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Laura Palmer's Prom - XXXX (Paper Bag Records)

The Love Me Nots - Fire & Pride - Upsidedown Insideout (Atomic A Go Go)
Jens Lekman - Do You Remember the Riots? - When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog (Secretly Canadian)
Magnetic Fields - You Must Be Out of Your Mind - Realism (Nonesuch)

Spoon - Is Love Forever? - Transference (Merge)
Conor Oberst - Souled Out!!! - s/t (Merge)
Jason Boesel - Was It, Man? - Hustler's Son (Team Love)

Lightspeed Champion - Edude Op.3 'Goodnight Michalek' - Life Is Sweet! Nice to Meet You (Domino)
The Good Life - Friction! - Lovers Need Lawyers EP (Saddle Creek)
Dan Black - U + Me = - ((un)) (The Hours)

Stereo Total - Hungry! - Do the Bambi (KRS)
My Robot Friend - The Short Game - Soft-Core (Double Feature)
!!! - Hello? Is This Thing on? - Louden Up Now (Touch & Go)

Pulp - Have You Seen Her Lately? - His 'n' Hers (Island)
Mumford & Sons - Thistle & Weeds - Sigh No More (Glassnote)
The Decemberists - July, July! - Castaways and Cutouts (Hush)

She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? - Vol. 1 (Merge)

Playlist 2/8/10

Azure Ray - Across the Ocean - Hold on Love (Saddle Creek)
Magnetic Fields - We Are Having a Hootenany - Realism (Nonesuch)
Beauty Pill - You Are Right to Be Afraid - You Are Right to Be Afraid (Dischord)

Los Campesinos! - The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)
Capgun Coup - A Liar in Texas in a Green Room in Memphis - Brought to You by Nebraskafish (TeamLove)
Blitzen Trapper - Sci-Fi Kid - Wild Mountain Nation (Lidkercow Ltd.)

Spoon - Is Love Forever? - Transference (Merge)
Russian Futurists - You Dot, Me Dot, T-Dot - Let's Get Ready to Crumble (Upperclass)
Stars - Romantic Comedy - Heart (Arts & Crafts)

Woodpigeon - Enchantee Janvier - Die Stadt Muzikaten (boompa)
Matt Sharp - Goodbye West Coast - Puckett's Versus the Country Boy (In Music We Trust)
Jason Boesel - French Kissing - Hustler's Son (Team Love)

Molina and Johnson - Don't take My Night From Me - s/t (Secretly Canadian)
Joanna Newsome - Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie - & the Y's Street Band EP (Drag City)
Meg Baird - River Song - Dear Companion (Drag City)

Charlotte Gainsbourg - The Songs that We Sing - 5:55 (Vice)
Mates of State - Fluke - Team Boo (Polyvinyl)
The Webstirs - Malaise - So Long (Ginger Records)

Saturday Looks Good to Me - You Work All Weekend - All Your Summer Songs (Polyvinyl)
The Sunny Era - A Cold Calculation - This Darkness of Love (Dobra Silenus)
Silver Jews - Trains Across the Sea - Starlite Walker (Drag City)

Old Shoe - Scrapper Jack - s/t (self)
Beach House - Zebra - Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
Four Tet - She Just Likes to Fight - There Is Love in You (Domino)

Patrick Cleandenim - Rocket to the Moon - Baby Comes Home (Ba Da Bing)
The Like Young - Snobs and Slobs - Art Contest (Parasol)
Midlake - Winter Dies - The Courage of Others (Bella Union)

Head of Femur - Curve that Byrd - Ringodom or Proctor (Greyday Productions)
Tokyo Police Club - Citizens of Tomorrow - A Lesson in Crime (Paper Bag Records)
Dean and Britta - Out Walking - S'Avventura (Jetset)

Playlist 2/1/10

Noa Babayof - At Your Death - From a Window to a Wall (Language of Stone)
Daniel Martin Moore - It's You - Stray Age (Sub Pop)
The Good Life - You Don't Feel Like Home to Me - Help Wanted Nights (Saddle Creek)

Lucinda Williams - Lonely Girls - Essence (Lost Highway)
Magnetic Fields - Everything Is One Big Christmas Tree - Realism (Nonesuch)
Willoughby - Intentions - I Know What You're Up to (Sargent)

Spoon - I Saw the Light - Transference (Merge)
Crooked Fingers - Your Control - Forfeit/Fortune (Constant Artists)
Family of the Year - Let's Go - Songbook (Washashore)

Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines - The Stand In's (Jagjaguwar)
Brazos - We Understand Each Other - Phosphorescent Blues (Autobus)
Miss Autopsy - Dead Loner Blues - Catepillar (Lens)

Handsome Family - All the Time in Airports - Last Days of Wonder (Carrot Top)
Mason Jennings - Your New Man - In the Ever (Brushfire)
Alberta Cross - Song Three Blues - Broken Side of Time (ATO)

Molina & Johnson - Almost Let You In - s/t (Secretly Canadian)
Beck - Chemtrails - Modern Guilt (DGC)
Unicycle Loves You - Highway Robbery - s/t (Highwheel)

Bishop Allen - Click, Click, Click, Click - The Broken String (Dead Oceans)
Vivian Girls - Where Do You Run to - s/t (In the Red)
Vampire Weekend - Holiday - Contra (XL)

Lucksmiths - Synchronized Sinking - Why that Doesn't Surprise Me (Drive In)
Woodpigeon - My Denial in Argyle - Die Stadt Muzikanten (Boompa)
Final Fantasy - Lewis Takes Action - Heartland (Domino)

Capgun Coup - Breaks No Heart of Mine - Maudlin (Team Love)
Taylor Hollingsworth - I'm a Runaway (New Orleans) - Tragic City (Brash Music)
Buffalo Tom - Tree House - Big Red Letter Day (Beggars Banquet)

Moldy Peaches - Anyone But You - s/t (Rough Trade)