Playlist 5/30/11

Robyn - Dancing on My Own - Body Talk pt. 1 (Interscope)
Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Girl of 1,000 Dreams - Belong (Slumberland)
Art Brut - Direct Hit - It's Complicated (Downtown)

Times New Viking - Downtown Eastern Bloc - Dancer Equired (Merge)
The White Stripes - Conquest - Icky Thump (Warner Bros.)
The Kills - Heart Is a Beating Drum - Blood Pressures (Domino)

Poly Styrene - I Luv Ur Sneakers - Generation Indigo (Future Noise Music)
Street Chant - You Do the Maths - Means (Arch Hill Records)
Los Campesinos! - Don't Tell Me to Do the Math(s) - Sticking Fingers into Sockets (Arts & Crafts)

I'm From Barcelona - Charlie Parker - Forever Today (Mute)
Mirah - Oh September - Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project (K)
Rural Alberta Advantage - The Breakup - Departing (Saddle Creek)

Talulah Gosh - Bringing Up Baby - Backwash (K)
Coupleskate - Bless the Bees - Don't Scare the Horses (self)
Lindi Ortega - I'm No Elvis Presley - Little Red Boots (Last Gang)

Justin Townes Earle - Hard Livin' - The Good Life (Bloodshot)
Neko Case - Loretta - The Tigers Have Spoken (Anti)
Johnny Cash - Ain't No Grave - American VI: Ain't No Grave (American)

Thao & Mirah - Folks - Thao + Mirah (Kill Rock Stars)
Charlotte Gainsburg - Tel Que Tu Est - 5:55 (Vice)
Okkervil River - Your Past Life as a Blast - I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar)

Gruff Rhys - Sensations in the Dark - Hotel Shampoo (Wichita)
Jens Lekman - Postcard to Nina - Night Falls Over Kortedala (Secretly Canadian)
Pulp - Disco 2000 - Different Class (Island)

Hunx and His Punx - Keep Away from Johnny - Too Young to Be in Love (Hardly Art)
The Wombats - Tokyo (Vampires and Wolves) - The Modern Glitch (Bright Antenna)
Los Campesions! - Romance Is Boring - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)

Hello Seahorse! - The Island Trip - Hoy a las Ocho (Magic Marker)

Playlist 5/23/11

Rilo Kiley - Wires and Waves - Take Offs and Landings (Barsuk)
Okkervil River - Rider - I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar)
The Decemberists - Los Angeles, I'm Yours - Her Majesty the Decemberists (Kill Rock Stars)

I'm From Barcelona - Charlie Parker - Forever Today (Mute)
The Lucksmiths - Myopic Friends - Where Were We? (Matinee)
Gruff Rhys - Conservation Conversation - Hotel Shampoo (Wichita)

The Prefect Vessels - To All These Big Brothers - Name Our Own Stars (Makeshift)
The Wombats - Our Perfect Disease - The Modern Glitch (Bright Antenna)
Let's Wrestle - We Are the Men You'll Grow to Love soon - In the Court of Wrestling Let's (Merge)

The Hells - He's the Devil (but I love him so) - s/t (Artrocker)
Poly Styrene - White Gold - Generation Indigo (Future Noise)
She & Him - Gonna Get Along Without You Now - Volume Two (Merge)

The Good Life - Album of the Year - Album of the Year acoustic (Saddle Creek)
Cat Power - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Covers Record (Matador)
Iron & Wine - The Sea & the Rhythm - The Sea & the Rhythm (Sub Pop)

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Death to Everyone - I See a Darkness (Palace)
Thao & Mirah - Likeable Man - Thao + Mirah (Kill Rock Stars)
The Sandwitches - Heavy Times - Mrs. Jones Cookies (Turn Up)

Mary Lou Lord - His Indie World - Mary Lou Lord EP (Kill Rock Stars)
Fleet Foxes - Bedouin Dress - Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop)
Chad VanGaalen - Sara - Diaper Island (Sub Pop)

Panda Bear - You Can Count on Me - Tomboy (Paw Tracks)
We Were Promised Jet Packs - This Is My House, This Is My Home - These Four Walls (Fatcat)
Bright Eyes - The Center of the World - Fevers & Mirrors (Saddle Creek)

Kristin Hersh - Sno Cat - The Grotto (4AD)
Dodos - Sleep - No Color (Frenchkiss)
Capgun Coup - My Tears Cure Cancer - Brought to You by Nebraska Fish (Team Love)

The Do - At Last! - A Mouthful (Get Down)

Playlist 5/16/11

Okkervil River - Your Past Life as a Blast - I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar)
Jens Lekman - I Saw Her at the Anti War Demonstration - Oh You're So Silent, Jens (Secretly Canadian)
Gruff Rhys - If We Were Words (we would rhyme) - Hotel Shampoo (Wichita)

Thao & Mirah - Likable Man - Thao + Mirah (Kill Rock Stars)
The Prefect Vessels - Shade Tree Astronomy - Name Our Own Stars (Makeshift)
Belle & Sebastian - Sukie in the Graveyard - The Life Pursuit (Matador)

Let's Get Out of This Terrible Sandwich Shop - Chattanooga Kookoo - Listening (Roydale)
I'm From Barcelona - Always Spring - Forever Today (Mute)
Saturday Looks Good to Me - Money in the Afterlife - Fill Up the Room (K Records)

The Magnetic Fields - California Girls - Distortion (Nonesuch)
The Wombats - Tokyo (Vampires and Wolves) - This Modern Glitch (Warner)
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Laura Palmer's Prom - XXXX (Paper Bag)

The Ettes - Blood Red Blood - Do You Want Power (Take Root)
Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)
The Kills - DNA - Blood Pressures (Domino)

Of Montreal - Slave Translator - The Controller Sphere (Polyvinyl)
Sia - The Fight - We Are Born (Jive)
CSS - Rat Is Dead (Rage) - Donkey (Sub Pop)

LCD Soundsystem - Time to Get Away - Sound of Silver (DFA)
Lindi Ortega - All My Friends - Little Red Boots (Last Gang)
Mazes - Surf and Turf - A Thousand Heys (Fat Cat)

Kaki King - I Never Said I Love You - ...Until We Felt Red (Velour)
Girls in Trouble - Hunter/The Bee Lays Her Honey - s/t (JDub)
Karen Dalton - In the Evening - It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You Best (Koch)

Panda Bear - You Can Count on Me - Tomboy (Paw Tracks)
Dodos - Sleep - No Color (Frenchkiss)
Matt Sharp - All Those Dreams - s/t (In Music We Trust)

The Montgolfier Brothers - Koffee Pot Brass - Journey's End (Vespertine & Son)

Playlist 5/9/11

Boat - Last Cans of Paint - Songs that You May Not Like (Magic Marker)
The Windmills - Pounds, Shillings and Pence - Sunlight (Matinee)
Hands and Knees - Do You Really Need a Drummer? - Et Tu Fluffy? (Midriff)

Gruff Rhys - Christopher Columbus - Hotel Shampoo (Wichita)
Hunx and His Punx - Can We Get Together? - Too Young to Be in Love (Hardly Art)
The Happy Hollows - Lieutenant - Spells (self)

Mazes - Wait Anyway - A Thousand Heys (Fat Cat)
Thao and Mirah - Rubies and Rocks - Thao + Mirah
God Help the Girl - Come Monday Night - s/t (Matador)

Heavenly - Me and My Madness - The Decline and Fall of Heavenly (K)
Cub - Freaky - Box of Hair (Lookout!)
The Hissyfits - Baby - Letters from Frank (Top Quality Rock and Roll)

Black Keys - Everlasting Light - Brother (Nonesuch)
The Kills - Heart Is a Beating Drum - Blood Pressures (Domino)
The Strokes - Under Cover of Darkness - Angles (RCA)

The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Ballad of the RAA - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
The Felice Brothers - Fire at the Pageant - Celebration, Florida (Fat Possum)
The Builders and the Butchers - Vampire Lake - Salvation Is a Deep Dark Well (Gigantic)

Lindi Ortega - I'm No Elvis Presley - Little Red Boots (Last Gang)
Karen Elson - The Truth Is in the Dirt - The Ghost Who Walks (XL)
O'death - Black Dress - Outside (Ernest Jennings)

Movits! - Vad Dom An Sager - Sammy Davis Jr. (Comedy Central)
Cass McCombs - Buried Alive - Wit's End (Domino)
Monsters of Folk - Say Please - s/t (Shangri-La)

Mountain Goats - Birth of Serpents - All Eternals Deck (Merge)
Tim Williams - Murderous Air - Careful Love (Dovecote)
Okkervil River - Lay of the Last Survivor - I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar)

David Bazan - Curse Your Branches - Curse Your Branches (Barsuk)
Grizzly Bear - Cheerleader - Veckatimest (Warp)
Bob Nanna - Forgiveness - split w/Elizabeth Elmore (Troubleman Unlimited)

Playlist 5/2/11

Rural Alberta Advantage - The Breakup - Departing (Saddle Creek)
Matt & Kim - Dash After Dash - s/t (iheartcomix)
Gruff Rhys - Sensations in the Dark - Hotel Shampoo (Wichita)*

Ponytail - Honey Touches - Do Whatever You Want All of the Time (We Are Free)**
BOAT - Forver in Armitron - Dress Like Your Idols (Magic Marker)**
Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You - 13 Tales from Urban Bohemia (Captiol)

Vivian Girls - 16 Ways - Share the Joy (Polyvinyl)*
Smith Westerns - Weekend - Dye It Blonde (Fat Possum)
Beach Fossils - Distance - What a Pleasure (Captured Tracks)*

I'm from Barcelona - Charlie Parker - Forever Today (Mute)*
We Landed on the Moon - Boats - This Will Be One for the Books (self)
The Mountain Goats - The House that Dripped Blood - Tallahassee (4AD)

Neko Case - Deep Red Bells - Blacklisted (Bloodshot)
Felice Brothers - Love Me Tenderly - s/t (Team Love)
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Sink Ships - Cardinology (Lost Highway)

David Vandervelde - Old Turns - Waiting for the Sunrise (Secretly Canadian)
Tennis - Take Me Somewhere - Cape Dory (Fat Possum)
Rilo Kiley - With Arms Outstretched - The Execution of All Things (Saddle Creek)

Warpaint - Undertow - The Fool (Rough Trade)
The Whitsundays - Silent in the Wind - Saul (Friendly Fire)
Mason Proper - Out Dragging the River - Olly Oxen Free (Dovecote)

The Disappearing Act - It's Not Me Anymore - s/t (Tortilla)**
The Head and the Heart - Couer d'Alene - s/t (Sub Pop)**
Low - Try to Sleep - C'Mon (Sub Pop)*

O'Death - Ghost Head - Outside (Earnest Jennings)*
Jonny - Wich is Wich - s/t (Merge)*
Hunx and His Punx - Lovers Lane - Too Young to Be in Love (Hardly Art)*

Stereo Total - Du Bist Gut Zu Vogeln - Baby Ouh! (Kill Rock Stars)
Of Montreal - Like a Tourist - False Priest (Polyvinyl)