Monday, January 31, 2011

Playlist 1/31/11

Yonlu - The Boy with the Tiger - A Society in Which No Tear Is Shed Is Inconceivably Mediocre (Luka Bop)
Oberhofer - Dead Girls Dance - Away FRM U UP (self)
Sunset Rubdown - I'll Believe in Anything You'll Believe in Anything - Snake's Got a Leg EP (Sunset Rubdown)

Lookbook - Real Love - Minnesota Beatle Project V2 (Vega & the Current)
The Antlers - Shiva - Hopsice (Frenchkiss)
No Joy - You Girls Smoke Cigarettes? - Ghost Blonde (Kemado)

Fujiya & Miyagi - Cat Got Your Tongue - Ventriloquizzing (Yep Roc)
Goldfrapp - Rocket - Head First (Mute)
Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire - In Ghost Colours (Modular)

Foals - Total Life Forever - Total Life Forever (Sub Pop)
The Naked and Famous - Young Blood - Passive Me, Agressive You (Universal)
LCD Soundsystem - I Can Change - This Is Happening (DFA Records)

The Midnight Juggernauts - Winds of Fortune - The Crystal Axis (Siberia Records)
CSS - Move - Donkey (Sub Pop)
Robyn - Cry When You Get Older - Body Talk Pt. 1 (Interscope)

Of Montreal - Suffer for Fashion - Suffer for Fashion EP (Polyvinyl)
The Rapture - The Devil - Pieces of the People We Love (Universal)
Velella Velella - Glower Power - Atlantis Massif (self)

Office - Paralyzed Prince - A Night at the Ritz (Scratchie/New Line)
Matt & Kim - AM/FM Sound - Sidewalks (Fader)
The Like - Release Me - Release Me (Downtown)

April Smith and the Great Picture Show - Wow and Flutter - Songs from a Sinking Ship (self)
Lily Allen - LDN - Alright, Still (EMI)
Cage the Elephant - Always Something - Thank You, Happy Birthday (Jive)

The Decemberists - Down by the Water - The King Is Dead (Capitol)
The Parting Gifts - Strange Disposition - Strychnine Dandelion (In the Red)
False Positive - Strike Up the Band - s/t (One Mad Son)

Flaming Lips - Do You Realize - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner)

Monday, January 24, 2011

Playlist 1/24/11

William Elliot Whitmore - Sometimes Our Dreams Float Like Anchors - Hymns for the Hopeless (Southern)
Justin Townes Earle - Hard Livin' - The Good Life (Bloodshot)
The Pine Hill Haints - Garden of the Dead - Ghost Dance (K Records)

The Avett Brothers - Distraction #74 - Four Thieves Gone (Ramseur)
Karen Elson - The Truth Is in the Dirt - The Ghost Who Walks (XL)
Felice Brothers - Whiskey in My Whiskey - s/t (Team Love)

Murder By Death - A Masters in Reverse Psychology - Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them (Eyeball)
Daniel Martin Moore - In the Cool of the Day - In the Cool of the Day (Sub Pop)
Conor Oberst - Coyote Song - web release (self)

Lookbook - Real Love - Minnesota Beatle Project, Vol 2 (Vega & the Current)
April Smith & the Great Picture Show - Dixie Boy - Songs from a Sinking Ship (self)
Commerce - It Was Certain to Happen - The Things I Say vs. the Things I Mean (self)

Frank Turner - I Still Believe - Rock n' Roll EP (Epitaph)
Okkervil River - Calling and Not Calling My Ex - The Stand Ins (Jagjaguwar)
Broken Records - A Leaving Song - Let Me Come Home (4AD)

Cage the Elephant - Always Something - Thank You, Happy Birthday (Jive)
Streight Angular - Oh Oh Oh Baby - After and Before (Polk)
The Naked and Famous - Frayed - Passive Me, Aggressive You (Universal)

The Virgins - One Week of Danger - s/t (Atlantic)
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Baltimore - Real Emotional Trash (Matador)
Darwin Deez - Constellation - s/t (Lucky Number)

Belle & Sebastian - If You Find Yourself Caught in Love - Dear Catastrophe Waitress (Rough Trade)
Fiery Furnaces - My Dog Was Lost But Now He's Found - Blueberry Boat (Rough Trade)
Capgun Coup - Embalmed Tasting Lip Balm - Brought to You by Nebraskafish (Team Love)

The Decemberists - Come the War - The King Is Dead (Capitol)
Joe Lally - Skin & Bone - Nothing Is Underrated (Dischord)
Silver Jews - Punks in the Beerlight - Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City)

Lightspeed Champion - Waiting Game - Galaxy of the Lost (Domino)
False Positive - Wishing for Reason - s/t (One Mad Son Music)

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Playlist 1/17/11 - Twee Pop!Marathon

Tullycraft - Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's Too Stupid to Know About - Singles Collection (Darla)
Dressy Bessy - Just Like Henry - Pink Hearts Yellow Moons (Kindercore)
Summer Cats - Fulton Gurls - Songs for Tuesdays (Slumberland)

Shonen Knife - Twist Barbie - Let's Knife (Virgin)
Cub - My Flaming Red Bobsled - Come Out Come Out (Mint)
Heavenly - Atta Girl - P.U.N.K. Girl EP (K Records)

The Boy Least Likely to - I'm Glad I Hitched My Apple Wagon to Your Star - The Best Party Ever (Too Young to Die)
The Softies - I Can't Get No Satisfaction, Thank God - I's Love (K Records)

The Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me - We Are the Pipettes (Memphis)
I'm From Barcelona - Play and Rec - Let Me Introduce Myself (Mute)
Pony Up - Shut Up and Kiss Me - s/t (Dim Mak)

Tilly and the Wall - Beat Control - Beat Control 7" (Team Love)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction - s/t (Slumberland)
Papas Fritas - What Am I Supposed to Do? - Buildings and Grounds (Minty Fresh)

Apples in Stereo - Strawberry Fire - Her Wallpaper Reverie (spinART)
Hello Seahorse! - OK!...Lobster - Hoy a las Ocho (Magic Marker)
Of Montreal - Pancakes for One - Aldhils Arboretum (Kindercore)

Let's Wrestle - We Are the Men You'll Grow to Love Soon - In the Court of Wrestling Let's (Merge)
All Girl Summer Fun Band - Car Trouble - s/t (K Records)
Architecture in Helsinki - The Owls Go - Fingers Crossed (Bar None)

The Essex Green - Uniform - Cannibal Sea (Merge)
The Brunettes - The Record Store - Mars Loves Venus (Lil' Chief)
Cut Off Your Hands - Turn Cold - You & I (Frenchkiss)

Bis - Everybody Thinks Their Going to Get Theirs - The New Transistor Heroes (Grand Royal)
Boys' Star Library - On Tour with the Audio Sound - Single
Blast Off Country Style - All She Wants To Do Is Ride Her Bike - CMon and Blast Off Country Style (Teen Beat)

Josef K - Sorry for Laughing - The Only Fun in Town (Postcard Records)
The Lucksmiths - There Is a Light that Never Goes Out - Romantic and Square Is Hip and Aware (Matinee)
The Owls - I Want the Blindingly Cute to Confide in Me - The Owls (Jade Tree)

Los Campesinos! - Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats - Hold on Now Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
Hold Your Horses - 70 Million - internet (self)
Park Ave - All Boy Band - When Jaime Went to London We Broke Up (Urinine)

Belle and Sebastian - The Blues Are Still Blue - The Life Pursuit (Matador)
Smoosh - It's Not Your Day to Shine - She Like Electric (Pattern 25)
Lois - Sunrise Semester - Infinity Plus (self)

Starlight Mints - Rinky Dinky - Built on Squares (PIAS)
Calvin Johnson & the Sons of the Soil - Can We Kiss - s/t (K Records)
The Kinks - Picture Book - The Village Green Preservation Society (Essential)

Velocity Girl - Forgotten Favorite - 6 Song Comp (Slumberland)
Talulah Gosh - Test Card Girl - Backwash (K Records)
The Capricorns - The New Sound - In the Zone (Paroxysm)

The Rondelles - Like a Prayer - Shined Nickles and Loose Change (K Records)
Tiger Trap - Words and Smiles - s/t (K Records)
The Pastels - Get 'Round Town - Up for a Bit with the Pastels (Vevel)

The Aislers Set - Attraction Action Reaction - How I Learned to Write Backwards (Suicide Squeeze)
Troubled Hubble - Haircut - Broken Airplanes (The Magic Spot)
The Magnetic Fields - Take Ecstasy With Me - Oh, Merge (Merge)

The Tah-Dahs - Mix Tape = Love - Le Fun (Undeniable)
Tuscadero - Nancy Drew - The Pink Album (Teen Beat)
The Golden Synthetic Songbook - In the Sun - Happy Birthday to Me (Norman)

Ross Beach - Your Guitars - Happy Birthday to Me v2 (Norman)
Blueboy - Popkiss - One Two Twee
Primal Scream - Velocity Girl - Crystal Crescent

The Cardigans - Rise and Shine - Emmerdale (Stockholm)
Kisses - People Can Do the Most Amazing Things - The Heart of the Nightlife (This Is Music)

----- End of Marathon-----

She & Him - Thieves - Volume Two (Merge)

Darren Hanlon - If Only My Heart Were Made of Stone - I Will Love You at All (YepRoc)
Jenny and Johnny - Animal - I'm Having Fun Now (Warner)
Shaky Hands - Let It Die - Let It Die (Kill Rock Stars)

Kaki King - Communist Friends - Junior (Rounder)
The White Stripes - My Doorbell - Get Behind Me Satan (V2)
Jarvis Cocker - Black Magic - s/t (Rough Trade)

Driftless Pony Club - I Pinch Myself - Janel (Sector Five)
The Cribs - Hari Kari - Ignore the Ignorant (Warner)
Titus Andronicus - No Future Part Three: Escape from No Future - The Monitor (XL)

Los Campesinos! - A Heat Rash In The Shape of The Show Me State; Or, Letters From Me To Charlotte - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)
The Boy Least Likely To - The Boy Least Likely to Is a Machine - The Law of the Playground (+1)

The Like - Narcissus in a Red Dress - Release Me (Downtown)
Mirah - The Light - C'mon Miracle (K Records)
Stars - I Died So I Could Haunt You - The Five Ghosts (Vagrant)

Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position - The Magic Position (Tomlab)
Nancy Sinatra - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time - s/t (Attack)
The Tallest Man on Earth - King of Spain - The Wild Hunt (Dead Oceans)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Soft Shock - It's Blitz! (Interscope)
Art Brut - Emily Kane - Bang Bang Rock & Roll (Banana)
The Dead Weather - Die by the Drop - Sea of Cowards (Third Man)

You Say Party! We Say Die! - Opportunity - Lose All Time (Paper Bag)
Les Savy Fav - Lips n' Stuff - Root for Ruin (Frenchkiss)
Matt & Kim - Cameras - Sidewalks (Fader)

The Decemberists - Down by the Water - The King Is Dead (Capitol)
Jens Lekman - The End of the World Is Bigger than Love - Single
Robyn - Indestructible - Body Talk Part 2 (Cherrytree)

Coconut Records - West Coast - Nighttiming (Young Baby)
Kings of Convenience - I'd Rather Dance with You - Riot on an Empty Street (Astralwerks)
Keren Ann - Right Here & Right Now - Not Going Anywhere (Blue Note)

Beach House - Lover of Mine - Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
Dead Man's Bones - Pa Pa Power - S/T (ANTI-)

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Playlist 1/9/11 - Saddle Creek Marathon

Conor Oberst - You Should Be in Sweden - Water (Lumberjack)
Park Ave. - All Boy Band - When Jamie Went to London We Broke Up (Urinine)
Commander Venus - My Other Car Is a Spaceship - Do You Feel At Home? (Saddle Creek)

Bright Eyes - Saturday as Usual - A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995–1997 (Saddle Creek)
Bright Eyes - June on the West Coast - Letting off the Happiness (Saddle Creek)
Slowdown Virginia Whipping Stick Dead Space

Cursive - And the Bit Just Chokes Them - The Difference Between Houses and Homes (Saddle Creek)
Cursive - Tempest - The Storms of Early Summer (Saddle Creek)
Lullaby for the Working Class - Queen of the Long-Legged Insects - Blanket Warm (Bar None)

Sorry About Dresden - One Version of Events - The Convenience of Indecision (Saddle Creek)
The Faint - Some Incriminating Photographs - Media (Saddle Creek)
Bright Eyes - The Calendar Hung Itself - Fevers and Mirrors (Saddle Creek)

Bright Eyes - From a Balance Beam - There Is No Beginning to the Story EP (Saddle Creek)
Bright Eyes - You Will. you? Will. You? Will. You? Will. - Lifted... (Saddle Creek)
Neva Dinova & Bright Eyes - Spring Cleaning - One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels (Saddle Creek)

Neva Dinova - Did You Disappoint Your God? - s/t (Crank!)
M. Ward - To Go Home - Post War (Merge)
Desaparecidos - What's New for Fall - The Happiest Place on Earth EP (Saddle Creek)

89 Cubs - How to Prepare for Death - There Are Giants in the Earth (Slowdance)
Race for Titles - Trace the Steps - s/t (Redemption)
Bright Eyes - We Are Nowhere and It's Now - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (Saddle Creek)

Bright Eyes - I Must Belong Somewhere - Cassadaga (Saddle Creek)
Conor Oberst - Danny Callahan - s/t (Merge)
Jason Boesel - Hustler's Son - Hustler's Son (Team Love)

Taylor Hollingsworth - I Didn't Know It Was the Devil - Life with a Slow Ear (Team Love)
Nik Freitas - Sun Down - Sun Down (Team Love)
Conor Oberst - Coyote Song - promo (self)

Rilo Kiley - Wires and Waves - Take Offs and Landings (Barsuk)
Rilo Kiley - Hail to Whatever You Found in the Sunlight that Surrounds You - The Execution of All Things (Saddle Creek)
Rilo Kiley - Does He Love You? - More Adventurous (Brute/Beaute)

The Elected - Not Going Home - Sun, Sun, Sun (Sub Pop)
Pierre de Reeder - Shame on Love - s/t (Little Record Company)
Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins - The Big Guns - Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)

Rilo Kiley - 15 - Under the Black Light (Warner)
Jenny and Johnny - Switchblade - I'm Having Fun Now (Warner)
Tilly & the Wall - Fell Down the Stairs - Wild Like Children (Team Love)

The Berg Sans Nipple - Mystic Song - Along the Quai (Team Love)
Gruff Rhys - Candylion - Candylion (Team Love)
Dan McCarthy - Cassette Tape Massacre - Calamity Drenching (Team Love)

David Dondero - Rothko Chapel - Simple Love (Team Love)
Cursive - Making Friends and Acquaintances - Domestica (Saddle Creek)
Cursive - Tall Tales, Telltales - Burst and Bloom (Saddle Creek)

The Good Life - The Beaten Path - Black Out (Saddle Creek)
Mayday - Confessions - Old Blood (Saddle Creek)
Cursive - Driftwood: A Fairy Tale - The Ugly Organ (Saddle Creek)

The Good Life - Lovers Need Lawyers - Album of the Year (Saddle Creek)
Mayday - Sanding in Line at the Gates of Hell - Bushido Karaoke (Saddle Creek)
Cursive - Big Bang - Happy Hollow (Saddle Creek)

The Good Life - You Don't Feel Like Home to Me - Help Wanted Nights (Saddle Creek)
Cursive - In the Now - Mama, I'm Swollen (Saddle Creek)
Tim Kasher - Cold Love - The Game of Monogamy (Saddle Creek)

Azure Ray - November - November EP (Saddle Creek)
Now It's Overhead - Wonderful Scar - s/t (Saddle Creek)
Azure Ray - Nothing Like a Song - Hold on Love (Saddle Creek)

Now It's Overhead - Antidote - Fall Back Open (Saddle Creek)
Maria Taylor - Xanax - 11:11 (Saddle Creek)
Orenda Fink - Sister - Ask the Night (Saddle Creek)

Art in Manila - Our Addictions - s/t (Saddle Creek)
O+S - Toreador - s/t (Saddle Creek)
Azure Ray - Don't Leave My Mind - Drawing Down the Moon (Saddle Creek)

The Faint - Sex Is Personal - Blank-Wave Arcade (Saddle Creek)
The Faint - Agenda Suicide - Danse Macabre (Saddle Creek)
Broken Spindles - Move Away - Fullfilled/Complete (Saddle Creek)

The Faint - I Disappear - Wet From Birth (Saddle Creek)
Broken Spindles - Burn My Body - Inside/Absent (Saddle Creek)
The Faint - The Geeks Were Right - Fasciinatiion (blank.wav)

Beep Beep - The Fluorescent Lights - Business Casual (Saddle Creek)
Son, Ambulance - Paper Snowflake - Key (Saddle Creek)
Two Gallants - Prodigal Son - What the Toll Tells (Saddle Creek)

Eric Bachmann - Lonesome Warrior - To the Races (Saddle Creek)
Georgie James - Need Your Needs - Places (Saddle Creek)
Tokyo Police Club - In a Cave - Elephant Shell (Saddle Creek)

Land of Talk - Got a Call - Some Are Lakes (Saddle Creek)
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Ballad of the RAA (Saddle Creek)
Old Canes - Next Flood - Feral Harmonic (Saddle Creek)

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Losing 4 Winners - Summer of Fear (Saddle Creek)

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Playlist 1/3/11 - Animal Shapes! Marathon

The Wombats - Dedicated Bachelor - Everything Up to Now... (Digging)

Lyle, Lyle Crocodile (Read by Gwen Verdon) - The House on East 88th St.

Crocodiles - All My Hate and Hexes Are for You - Sleep Forever (Fat Possum)
Alligators - Thee Fort Night - Piggy & Cups (Applehouse)
The Octopus Project - A Phantasy - Hexadecagon (Peek-a-Boo)

Mussels - Cannon and a Clothesline - Little Voices (self)
The Frogs - C-R-Y -s/t (Moikai)
Frog Eyes - Stockades - Tears of the Valedictorian (Absolutely Kosher)

Wolf Eyes - A Million Years - Human Animal (Sub Pop)
Wolf Parade - Call It a Ritual - At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop)
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position - The Magic Position (Tomlab)

Peter and the Wolf - The Bonsai Tree - Lightness (The Worker's Institute)
Peter Wolf Crier - For Now - Inter-Be (Jagjaguwar)
Wolf Colonel - The Top Seven Singles Club - Vikings of Mint (K Records)

Organ Wolf - 3D Heavy Duty - I Didn't Come Her and I'm Not Leaving (self)
Guitar Wolf - Sky Star Jet - Golden Black (Narnack)
Howlin' Wolf - Down in the Bottom - s/t (Chess)

Lone Wolf - This Is War - The Devil and I (Bella Union)
Wolf & Cub - March of Clouds - Vessels (4AD)
Tiger Beat Wolf - The Rats - s/t (Hello Sir)

Miniature Tigers - Gold Skull - Fortress (Modern Art)
Paper Tiger - The Painter's Arm - Made Like Us (Doomtree)
Le Tigre - Fake French - Feminist Sweepstakes (Mr. Lady)

Vancougar - Philadelphia - Canadian Tuxedo (Mint Records)
Boy Lion - South York - Twisted Screws (MOC)
Pedro the Lion - I Am Always the One Who Calls - The Only Reason I Feel Secure (Jade Tree)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion - Gold Lion (Interscope)
The Multiple Cat - Love Leave - The Golden Apple Hits (Plow City)
Cat Power - Aretha, Sing One for Me - Jukebox (Matador)

Bat for Lashes - Pearl's Dream - Two Suns (Astralwerks)
Fruit Bats - Earthquake of '73 - Spelled in Bones (Sub Pop)
The Bats - Bells - At the National Grid (Magic Marker)

Bats and Mice - Sliding Scale - Believe It, Mammals (Lovitt)
Modest Mouse - History Sticks to Your Feet - No One's First and You're Next EP (Epic)
Mice Parade - In Between Times - What It Means to Be Left-Handed (Fat Cat)

Frightened Rabbit - Good Arms vs. Bad Arms - The Midnight Organ Fight (Fat Cat)
The Horse's Ha - The Piss Choir - Of the Cathmawr Yards (Hidden Agenda)
Horse Feathers - This Is What - House with No Home (Kill Rock Stars)

Band of Horses - The Funeral - Everything All the Time (Sub Pop)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Sail Away - Rust Never Sleeps (Reprise)
Rocking Horse Winner - When Songbirds Sing - Horizons (Equal)

They Shoot Horses Don't They - Sunlight - Boo Hoo Hoo Boo (Kill Rock Stars)
Foals - Olympic Airways - Antidotes (Sub Pop)
New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream - Fantastic Playroom (Modular)

Grizzly Bear - Plans (covered by Band of Horses) - Friend EP (Warp)
Grizzly Bear - He Hit Me - Friend EP (Warp)
Minus the Bear - Knights - Planet of Ice (Suicide Squeeze)

Hot Panda - Mindlessnesslessness - How Come I'm Dead? (Mint)
Panda Bear - I'm Not - Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
Firefox AK - Cardiac Arrest - Madame, Madame! (Minty Fresh)

Fleet Foxes - White Winter - s/t (Sub Pop)
El Perro del Mar - You Can't Steal a Gift - The Valley to the Stars (Control)
Frog Eyes - The Fox Speaks To His Wife Who Is Not Quite Sure - The Bloody Hand (Global Symphonic)

Moondoggies - Tidelands - Tidelands (Hardly Art)
Dr. Dog - The Breeze - Fate (Park the Van)
Langhorne Slim & the War Eagles - Diamonds and Gold - s/t (Kemado)

Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Born into a Light - Cardinology (Lost Highway)
Swans - Jim - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky (Young God)
Wild Birds & Peace Drums - Fight for Me - Rivers (The Control Group)

The Owls - Welcome to Monday - Daughters and Suns (Magic Marker)
Luke Doucet and the White Falcon - Cleveland - Blood's Too Rich (Six Shooter)
Doves - 10:03 - Kingdom of Rust (Astralwerks)

Ladyhawk - Night You're Beautiful - Shots (Jagjaguwar)
Swan Lake - Settle on Your Skin - Enemy Mine (Jagjaguwar)
Eagle and Talon - Tight Score - Thracian (self)

Deerhunter - Red Ink - Cryptograms (Kranky)
Deerhoof - Chatterboxes - The Runners Four (Kill Rock Stars)
Deer Tick - Standing at the Threshold - War Elephant (Feow!)

The Dragons - Food for My Soul - BFI (Ninja Tune)
Dragons Power Up! - Worm & Plow - Brace for Bloom (Guilt Ridden Pop)

---The End!---

Ben Gibbard - Complicated (cover) - live (self)
The Moldy Peaches - Anyone Else But You - Juno Soundtrack (Rhino)
The White Stripes - Jolene - Promo CD (self)

McCarthy Trenching - Single Ladies - Team Love Library (Team Love)
Bright Eyes - True Blue - Lua (Saddle Creek)
Noah and the Whale - 5 Years Time - Peaceful the World Lays Me Down (Cherry Tree)

The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia (Capitol)
The Modern Lovers - Government Center - s/t (Castle Us)
Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun - Viva Wisconsin (Shout Factory)

All Girl Summer Fun Band - Dear Mr. and Mrs. Troublemaker - 2 (K Records)
Les Savy Fav - Yawn, Yawn, Yawn - Inches (French Kiss)
MGMT - Kids - Oracular Spectacular (Sony)

Suburban Kids with Biblical Names - Loop Duplicate My Heart - #3 (Minty Fresh)
Matt & Kim - Yea Yeah - s/t (Downtown)