Playlist 10/31/11

Dead Man's Bones - Dead Parts - s/t (Anti-)
Zola Jesus - Avalanche - Conatus (Sacred Bones)
Mt. St. Helen's Vietnam Band - At Night - Where the Messengers Meet (Dead Oceans)

Times New Viking - It's a Culture - Dancer Equired (Merge)
Let's Wrestle - If I Keep on Loving You - Nursing Home (Merge)
Los Campesinos! - There Are Listed Buildings - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Maniac - Hysterical (V2)
The Black Keys - Howlin' for You - Brothers (Nonesuch)
Rural Alberta Advantage - The Breakup - Departing (Saddle Creek)

Noah & the Whale - Tonight's the Kind of Night - Last Night on Earth (Mercury)
Foster the People - Helena Beat - Torches (Columbia)
Sia - Clap Your Hands - We Are Born (Jive)

Beats Antique - Alto - Elektrafone (CIA)
The Rapture - Can You Find a Way? - In the Grace of Your Love (DFA)
Dum Dum Girls - Heartbeat (Take It Away) - Only in Dreams (Sub Pop)

Girls - Honey Bunny - Father, Son, Holy Ghost (True Panther Sounds)
Sun Airway - Actors - Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier (Dead Oceans)
Gruff Rhys - Sensations in the Dark - Hotel Shampoo (Wichita)

Tegan and Sara - Arrow - Sainthood (Vapor)
Boat - Lately...(I've Been on My Back) - Setting the Paces (Magic Marker)
Belle and Sebastian - I Want the World to Stop - Write About Love (Matador)

Jeremy Messersmith - Lazy Bones - The Reluctant Graveyard (self)
Mates of State - Sway - Mountaintops (Barsuk)
The Mountain Goats - Damn These Vampires - All Eternals Deck (Merge)

Feist - The Circle Married the Line - Metals (Cherrytree)
The Swell Season - Low Rising - Strict Joy (Anti-)
St. Vincent - Cheerleader - Strange Mercy (4AD)

My Brightest Diamond - Ding Dang - All Things Will Unwind (Asthmatic Kitty)
Big Harp - Everybody Pays - White Hat (Saddle Creek)
Wilco - Rising Red Lung - The Whole Love (Anti-)

Taylor Hollingsworth - Trail of Tears - Life with a Slow Ear (Team Love)
Monsters of Folk - Temazcal - Monsters of Folk (Shangri-La)
Erato - Call Your Girlfriend - Youtube (self)

Playlist 10/24/11

Wolf Parade - You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son - Apologies to the Queen Mary (Sub Pop)
Wild Flag - Glass Tambourine - s/t (Merge)
Rainer Maria - I'll Make You Mine - Keep Us Together (Grunion)

Shaky Hands - Let It Die - Let It Die (Kill Rock Stars)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Yesterday, Never - Hysterical (V2)
Mates of State - At Least I Have You - Mountaintops (Barsuk)

Stars - The Night Starts Here - In Our Bedroom After the War (Arts & Crafts)
Reptar - Blast Off - Oblangle Fizz Y'all (Vagrant)
My Brightest Diamond - Reaching Through to the Other Side - All Things Will Unwind (Athsmatic Kitty)

Dum Dum Girls - Just a Creep - Only in Dreams (Sub Pop)
The Concretes - Song for the Songs - In Color (EMI)
Kate Tucker and the Sons of Sweden - Saturday Night - s/t (Red Valise) **

The Good Life - Keely Aimee - Help Wanted Nights (Saddle Creek)
Sondre Lerche and the Faces Down Quartet - (You Knocked Me) Off My Feet - Duper Sessions (Astralwerks)
Kate Bush - Joanni - Aerial (Columbia)

Charlotte Gainsbourg - Trick - IRM (Columbia)
Twin Sister - Space Babe - In Heaven (Domino)
Feist - The Circle Married the Line - Metals (Cherrytree)

Jens Lekman - New Directions - An Argument with Myself (Secretly Canadian)
Family of the Year - Let's Go Down - Songbook (Washashore)
Patrick Watson - Drifters - Close to Paradise (Secret City)

The Decemberists - Calamity - The King Is Dead (Capitol)
The Wood Brothers - Atlas - Ways Not to Lose (Blue Note)
Laura Marling - All My Rage - A Creature I Don't Know (Virgin)

Wilco - Born Alone - The Whole Love (Anti)
Beirut - East Harlem - The Rip Tide (Pompeii)
Two Gallants - 16th Street Dozens - What the Toll Tells (Saddle Creek)

Johnny Cash - Redemption Day - American VI: Ain't No Grave (American)

Playlist 10/17/11

Boat - Free the Birds in the Stall - Songs that You Might Not Like (Magic Marker)
The White Stripes - The Union Forever - White Blood Cells (Sympathy for the Music Industry)
Dead Man's Bones - Pa Pa Power - s/t (Anti)

Cursive - Am I Not Yours? - 8 Teeth to Eat You (w/Eastern Youth) (Better Looking)
Alkaline Trio - Queen of Pain - split w/Hot Water Music (Jade Tree)
Wild Flag - Future Crimes - s/t (Merge)

Hey Mercedes - Eleven to Your Seven - Every Night Fireworks (Vagrant)
Emmy the Great - Iris - Virtue (Close Harbor)
Can't - Too Late. Too Far - Dreams Come True (Terrible)

Nurses - Fever Dreams - Dracula (Dead Oceans)
Girls - Jamie Marie - Father, Son, Holy Ghost (True Panther Sounds)
Dum Dum Girls - Just a Creep - Only in Dreams (Sub Pop)

The XX - Crystalised - XX (XL)
Sondre Lerche - I Guess It's Gonna Rain Today - Heartbeat Radio (Rounder)
The Magnetic Fields - Kiss Me Like You Mean It - 69 Love Songs (Merge)

The Lilys - Any Place I've Lived - A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns (SpinArt)
The Dandy Warhols - Cool Scene - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia (Capitol)
American Analog Set - Million Young - Know By Heart (Tiger Style)

Very Secretary - Best Possible Souvenir - Best Possible Souvenir (Mud)
Rilo Kiley - Wires and Waves - Take Offs and Landings (Barsuk)
St. Vincent - Chloe in the Afternoon - Strange Mercy (4AD)

Feist - Graveyard - Metals (Cherrytree)
Britt Daniel - Let the Distance Bring Us Together - split w/Bright Eyes (Post-Parlo)
Bob Dylan - Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands - Blonde on Blonde (Columbia)

Wilco - Dawned on Me - The Whole Love (Anti)
Langhorne Slim - Back to Wild - Be Set Free (Kemado)
David Dondero - The Living and the Dead - The Transient (Future Farmer)

Big Harp - Everybody Pays - White Hat (Saddle Creek)

Playlist 10/10/11

The Builders and the Butchers - It Came from the Sea - Dead Reckoning (Badman Recording)
William Elliott Whitmore - Hell or High Water - Animals in the Dark (Anti-)
M. Ward - Blake's View - Hold Time (Merge)

Mirah - Gone Are the Days - (a)spera (K Records)
Beirut - Vagabond - The Rip Tide (Pompeii)
DeVotchKa - 100 Other Lovers - 100 Lovers (Anti-)

The Mountain Goats - Damn These Vampires - All Eternals Deek (Merge)
The Front Bottoms - Legit Tattoo Gun - The Front Bottoms (Bar/None)
Laura Marling - All My Rage - A Creature I Don't Know (Ribbon Music)

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah - Grace (Sony)
Nurses - Extra Fast - Dracula (Dead Oceans)
Dum Dum Girls - Always Looking - Only in Dreams (Sub Pop)

The Like - Walk of Shame - Release Me (Downtown)
Grouplove - Love Will Save Your Soul - Never Trust a Happy Song (Atlantic)
Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks - Torches (Columbia)

Bright Eyes - I Woke Up with This Song in My Head This Morning - Lua EP (Saddle Creek)
Driftless Pony Club - Jackson Pollack Is Dead - Janel (Sector Five)
Bishop Allen - The Ancient Common Sense of Things - Grr... (Dead Oceans)

Weezer - In the Garage - Blue Album (DGC)
Saves the Day - Take Our Cars Now! - Ups & Downs (Vagrant)
Braid - You Are the Reason - Closer to Closed (Polyvinyl)

Wild Flag - Something Came Over Me - s/t (Merge)
Beauty Pill - I'm Just Gonna Close My Eyes for a Second - The Unsustainable Lifestyle (Dischord)
Emmy the Great - Dinosaur Sex - Virtue (Close Harbor)

Jens Lekman - A Promise - An Argument with Myself (Secretly Canadian)
St. Vincent - Champagne Year - Strange Mercy (4AD)
Noah and the Whale - L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N. - Last Night on Earth (Mercury)

The Drums - Money - Portamento (Frenchkiss)

Playlist 10/3/11

Langhorne Slim and the War Eagles - Diamonds and Gold - s/t (Kemado)
Loretta Lynn - Portland Oregon - Van Lear Rose (Island)
Justin Townes Earle - Hard Livin' - The Good Life (Blood Shot)

The Pine Hill Haints - Garden of the Dead - Ghost Dance (K Records)
Jenny and Johnny - Switchblade - I'm Having Fun Now (Warner)
Two Gallants - Steady Rollin' - What the Toll Tells (Saddle Creek)

Big Harp - Everybody Pays - White Hat (Saddle Creek)
St. Vincent - Cruel - Strange Mercy (4AD)
Toro Y Moi - I Can Get Love - Freaking Out (Carpark)

Sun Airway - American West - Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier (Dead Oceans)
Beach House - Gila - Devotion (Carpark)
Girls - Honey Bunny - Father, Son, Holy Ghost (True Panther Sounds)

Mister Heavenly - Hold My Hand - Out of Love (Sub Pop)
St. Thomas - You May Find a Treasure Everywhere - Let's Grow Together (Racing)
Her Space Holiday - Death of a Writer - s/t (No More Good Ideas)

Smith Westerns - End of the Night - Dye It Blonde (Fat Possum)
Wild Flag - Glass Tambourine - s/t (Merge)
Tsunami - Slugger - Deep End (Simple Machines)

Joe Lally - Skin + Bone - Nothing Is Underrated (Dischord)
The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Breakup - Departing (Saddle Creek)
Mates of State - Total Serendipity - Mountain Tops (Barsuk)

Jens Lekman - Waiting for Kirsten - An Argument with Myself (Secretly Canadian)
Bishop Allen - Corazon - The Broken String (Dead Oceans)
Stephen Malmus and the Jicks - No One Is (as I are be) - Mirror Traffic (Matador)

Beirut - A Candle's Fire - The Rip Tide (Pompeii)
DeVotchKa - Blessing in Disguise - A Mad & Faithful Telling (Anti-)
First Aid Kit - Heavy Storm - The Big Black and the Blue (Jagadamba)

Yellow Ostrich - Hold On - The Mistress (Barsuk)
No Kids - All Beaches Are Closed - Come into My House (Tomlab)