Playlist 12/30/12

Spoon - Got Yr Cherry Bomb - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)
The xx - Chained - Coexist (Young Turks)
Jets to Brazil - Starry Configurations - Orange Rhyming Dictionary (Jadetree)

Rainer Maria - Already Lost - Catastrophe Keeps Us Together (Grunion)
Rural Alberta Advantage - The Breakup - Departing (Saddle Creek)
Grouplove - Don't Say Oh Well - Grouplove EP (Canvasback)


Rilo Kiley - Science vs. Romance - Take Offs and Landings (Barsuk)
Architecture in Helsinki - Heart It Races - Heart It Races EP (Polyvinyl)
Twin Sister - I Want a House - Vampires with Dreaming Kids


Tilly & the Wall - All Kinds of Guns - Heavy Mood (Team Love)
Smoosh - Rock Song - Free to Stay (Barsuk)
The Pipettes - Guess Who Ran Off with the Milkman? - Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me EP (Memphis Industries)


Belle & Sebastian - It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career - The Boy with the Arab Strap (Matador)
Cub - Magic 8 Ball - Box of Hair (Lookout!)
La Sera - Sleeptalking - La Sera (Hardly Art)


Elliott Smith - Talking to Mary - New Moon (Kill Rock Stars)
M. Ward - Seashell Tale - End of Amnesia (Future Farmer)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Tel Que Tu Es - 5:55 (Because Music/Vice)


The White Stripes - Conquest - Icky Thump (Warner Bros)
The Builders and the Butchers - It Came from the Sea - Dead Reckoning (Badman)
Oakley Hall - Living in Sin in the USA - Gypsum Strings (Brah)


Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - The Big Guns - Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)
David Vandervelde - Nothin' No - Nothin' No EP (Secretly Canadian)
Iron & Wine - Me and Lazarus - Kiss Each Other Clean (Warner Bros)


The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely - Get Lonely (4AD)

Murder by Death - Shiola - In Bocca al Lupo (East West)
Bright Eyes - One for You, One for Me - The People's Key (Saddle Creek)

Owls - Anyone Can Have a Good Time - Owls (Jade Tree)
Les Savy Fav - New Teen Anthem - 3/5 (Frenchkiss)
American Analog Set - The Only One - Know By Heart (Tigerstyle)

Playlist 12/16/12

BEST OF 2012 (a compendium in no particular order by Ashley and Sarah)

Jack White - "Sixteen Saltines" - Blunderbuss (Third Man)
White Mystery - "Birthday" - Blood & Venom (S/R)
The Evens - "Wanted Criminals" - The Odds (Dischord)

Cursive - "The Sun and Moon" - I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek)
Titus Andronicus - "Upon Viewing Oregon's Landscape with the Flood of Detritus" - Local Business (XL)
Los Campesinos! - "Songs About Your Girlfriend" - Hello Sadness (Wichita)

Tilly and the Wall - "Love Riot" - Heavy Mood (Team Love)
Best Coast - "The Only Place" - The Only Place (Mexican Summer)
Teen - "Sleep Is Noise" - In Limbo (Carpark)

The Mynabirds - "Disarm" - Generals (Saddle Creek)
Tennis - "Take Me to Heaven" - Young & Old (Fat Possum)
Hospitality - "Friends of Friends" - Hospitality (Merge)

First Aid Kit - "King of the World" - The Lion's Roar (Wichita)
M. Ward - "Primitive Girl" - A Wasteland Companion (Merge)
The Tallest Man on Earth - "Little Brother" - There's No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans)

Jens Lekman - "The End of the World Is Bigger than Love" - I Know What Love Isn't (Secretly Canadian)
The Magnetic Fields - "Andrew in Drag" - Love at the Bottom of the Sea (Merge)
Chairlift - "I Belong in Your Arms" - Something (Kanine)

Lana Del Rey - "Dark Paradise" - Born to Die (Polydor)
Echo Lake - "Monday 5 AM" - Wild Peace (Slumberland)
Beach House - "New Year" - Bloom (Subpop)

Deerhoof - "The Trouble with Candyhands" - Breakup Song (Polyvinyl)
Dum Dum Girls - "Season in Hell" - End of Daze (Subpop)
Miike Snow - "Archipelago" - Happy to You (Universal Republic)

Sun Airway - "Wild Palms" - Soft Fall (Dead Oceans)
Fiona Apple - "Werewolf" - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do (Epic)
Justin Townes Earle - "Look the Other Way" - Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now (Bloodshot)

Two Gallants - "Broken Eyes" - The Bloom and the Blight (S/R)
Cat Power - "Sun" - Sun (Matador)
She & Him - "Baby, It's Cold Outside" - A Very She & Him Christmas (Merge)

Playlist 12/2/12

Tilly and the Wall - All Kinds of Guns - Heavy Mood (Team Love)
Islands - Tender Torture - Vapours (Anti-)
Sun Airway - Close - Soft Fall (Dead Oceans)

U.S. Girls - Down in the Boondocks - GEM (Fat Cat)
Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards - Lonerism (Modular)
O+S - Permanent Scar - s/t (Saddle Creek)

Guided by Voices - Hangover Child - The Bears for Lunch (GBV)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Higher than the Stars - Higher than the Stars EP (Slumberland)
The National - Wasp Nest - Cherry Tree (Brassland)

The Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism - s/t (8 Ft)
Desaparecidos - Backsell - Marikkkopa 7" (self)
Titus Andronicus - My Eating Disorder - Local Business (XL)

The Evens - Architects Sleep - The Odds (Dischord)
Slam Dunk - Dying Breed - Welcome to Miami (File Under: Music)
Ty Segall - Would You Be My Love - Twins (Drag City)

The Russian Futurists - Paul Simon - Our Thickness (Upper Class)
Tullycraft - Polaroids from Mars - Disenchanted Hearts Unite (Magic Marker)
Dirty Projectors - Here Til It Says I'm Not - About to Die (Domino)

Jens Lekman - A Man Walks into a Bar - You Are the Light (Secretly Canadian)
The Good Life - A New Friend - Album of the Year (Saddle Creek)
New Beard - Spinning - New Beard City (Shoulder Tap)

Bat for Lashes - All Your Gold - The Haunted Man
M Ward - There's a Key - A Wasteland Companion (Merge)
Angel Olsen - Acrobat - Half Way Home (Bathetic)

The Concretes - You Can't Hurry Love - s/t (Astralwerks)
Monsters of Folk - Say Please - s/t (Shangri-La)
Night Moves - Country Queen - Colored Emotions (Domino)

Cataldo - My Heart Is Calling/Following - Signal Flare (self)
The Swell Season - Low Rising - Strict Joy (Anti-)
Orenda Fink - Sister - Ask the Night (Saddle Creek)

Playlist 11/25/12

Los Campesinos! - Songs About Your Girlfriend - Hello Sadness (Wichita)
Cursive - The Sun and the Moon - I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek)
Titus Andronicus - Upon Viewing Oregon's Landscape with the Flood of Detritus - Local Business (XL)

Andrew WK - I Love NYC - I Get Wet (Island)
The Babies - Alligator - Our House on the Hill (Woodsiest)
Sic Alps - God Bless Her, I Miss Her - s/t (Drag City)

The Evens - Wanted Criminals - The Odds (Dischord)
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy - El Camino (Nonesuch)
Slam Dunk - Dying Breed - Welcome to Miami (File Under: Music)

San Cisco - Girls Do Cry - Awkward (Fat Possum)
The Flaming Lips - Lightning Strikes the Postman - Clouds Taste Metallic (Warner)
Guided by Voices - Hangover Child - The Bears for Lunch (GBV)

Hospitality - The Birthday - s/t (Merge)
Club 8 - Saturday Night Engine - Strangely Beautiful (Labrador)
Chairlift - Sidewalk Safari - Something (Kanine)

Sun Airway - Black Noise - Soft Fall (Dead Oceans)
Tame Impala - Be Above It - Lonerism (Modular)
The Amazing - International Hair - Gentle Stream (Partisan)

Fiona Apple - Every Single Night - The Idler Wheel... (Epic)
Bat for Lashes - Winter Fields - The Haunted Man (Capitol)
Stephin Merritt - Take Ecstacy with Me - Obscurities (Merge)

GRMLN - Relax Yourself (Dolphin Cry) - Explore (Carpark)
The Decemberists - Los Angeles I'm Yours - Her Majesty the Decemberists (KRS)
Oxes and Will Oldham - Strong Enough - 7" (Friends Records)

M Ward - Primitive Girl - A Wasteland Companion (Merge)
Jack White - Love Interruption - Blunderbuss (Third Man)
The Tallest Man on Earth - Little Brother - There's No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans)

Justin Townes Earle - Look the Other Way - Nothings Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now (Bloodshot)
Crooked Fingers - Bad Blood - Breaks in the Armor (Merge)
Angel Olsen - Can't Wait Until Tomorrow - Half Way Home (Bathetic)

Playlist 11/18/12

Let's Wrestle - There's a Rockstar in My Room - Nursing Home (Merge)
Braid - You Are the Reason - Closer to Closed (Polyvinyl)
Lawrence Arabia - Early Kneecapping - The Sparrow (Bella Union)

Emmy the Great - A Woman, a Woman, a Century of Sleep - Virtue (Close Harbour)
Seapony - What You Wanted - Falling (Hardly Art)
Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Heart in your Heartbreak - Belong (Slumberland)

The Helio Sequence - October - Negotiations (Sub Pop)
The xx - Try - Coexist (Young Turks)
Sun Airway - Laketop Swimmers - Soft Fall (Dead Oceans)

Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law - Cholla (Atlantic)
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - It's a Corporate World - It's a Corporate World (Warner)
Mister Heavenly - Pineapple Girl - Out of Love (Sub Pop)

Foster the People - Miss You - Torches (Columbia)
U.S. Girls - Jack - GEM (Fat Cat)
Brave Irene - Tangled Line - s/t (Slumberland)

Best Coast - Rhiannon - Just Tell Me that You Want Me (Hear Music)
The Heavenly States - The Story of - s/t (Future Farmer)
Jake Bugg - Two Fingers - s/t (Mercury)

Jens Lekman - She Just Don't Want to Be with You Anymore - I Know What Love Isn't (Secretly Canadian)
Simon Joyner - Flying Dreams - Lost with the Lights on (Secretly Canadian)
Angel Olsen - Can't Wait Until Tomorrow - Half Way Home (Bathetic)

David Dondero - The Living and the Dead - The Transient (Future Farmer)
Mountain Goats - Pigs that Ran Straightaway into the Water, Triumph of - We Shall All Be Healed (4AD)
Neva Dinova - What You Want - You May Already Be Dreaming (Saddle Creek)

Bat for Lashes - Winter Fields - The Haunted Man (Capitol)
San Cisco - Awkward - Awkward (Fat Possum)
Tame Impala - Be Above It - Lonerism (Modular)

New Beard - My People Are Around - New Beard City (Shoulder Tap)
John Vanderslice - Coming and Going on Easy Terms - Cellar Door (Barsuck)
M Ward - I'll Be Yr Bird - Transistor Radio (Merge)

Norfolk and Western - Terrified - Dusk in Cold Parlors (Hush)

Playlist 11/4/12

Noah and the Whale - My Broken Heart - The First Days of Spring (Interscope)
David Bazan - Bearing Witness - Curse Your Branches (Barsuk)
Jens Lekman - The End of the World Is Bigger than Love - I Know What Love Isn't (Secretly Canadian)

Christine Fellows - Phantom Pains - Paper Anniversary (Six Shooter)
Bat for Lashes - Rest Your Head - The Haunted Man (Capitol)
Sun Airway - American West - Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier (Dead Oceans)

Dum Dum Girls - I Got Nothing - End of Daze EP (Sub Pop)
Stars - Elevator Love Song - Heart (Arts & Crafts)
God Help the Girl - Come Monday Night - s/t (Matador)

Seapony - Be Alone - Falling (Hardly Art)
Tilly and the Wall - Echo My Love - Heavy Mood (Team Love)
The Do - At Last ! - A Mouthful (Get Down)

Warpaint - Shadows - The Fool (Rough Trade)
Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards - Lonerism (Modular)
Vivian Girls - You're My Guy - Everything Goes Wrong (In the Red)

The Decks - Search and Seizure - Breath and Bone (Tortoise)
Menomena - Heavy Is As Heavy Does - Moms (Barsuk)
Crocodiles - All My Hate and My Hexes Are For You - Sleep Forever (Fat Possum)

The Rural Alberta Advantage - Four Night Rider - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
Times New Viking - Move to California - Born Again Revisited (Matador)
Bob Mould - Fugue State - Silver Age (Merge)

Deerhoof - Flower - Breakup Song (Polyvinyl)
Night Moves - Country Queen - Colored Emotions (Domino)
Tim Williams - Right All Along - Careful Love (Dovecote)

M. Ward - Jailbird - Hold Time (Merge)
Jenny and Johnny - Big Wave - I'm Having Fun Now (Warner)
Dark Dark Dark - Last Time I Saw Joe - Who Needs Who (Supply & Demand)

San Cisco - Awkward - Awkward (Fat Possum)
The Good Life - Beaten Path - Black Out (Saddle Creek)
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - One of My Kind - One of My Kind

Playlist 10/28/12

Tilly and the Wall - Hey Rainbow - Heavy Mood (Team Love)
The Bracelets - Tug of War Match - s/t (Sector Five)
Dum Dum Girls - Trees and Flowers - End of Daze (Sub Pop)

Melody's Echo Chamber - You Won't Be Missing that Part of Me - s/t (Fat Possum)
Kings of Convenience - I'd Rather Dance with You - Riot on an Empty Street (Astralwerks)
Jens Lekman - I Want a Pair of Cowboy Boots - I Know What Love Isn't (Secretly Canadian)

Sunny Day Real Estate - Song About an Angel - Diary (Sub Pop)
Skating Club - Denver - s/t (Doubtful Guest)
Deerhoof - Mothball the Fleet - Breakup Song (Polyvinyl)

CocoRosie - Tekno Love Song - Noah's Ark (Touch & Go)
The xx - Swept Away - Coexist (Young Turks)
Dead Man's Bones - My Body's a Zombie for You - s/t (Anti-)

The Felice Brothers - Fire at the Pageant - Celebration Florida (Fat Possum)
Patti Smith - This Is the Girl - Banga (Columbia)
Johnny Cash - Ain't No Grave - American VI (American)

Night Moves - Country Queen - Colored Emotions (Domino)
Loretta Lynn - High on a Mountain Top - Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
Grizzly Bear - Gun-Shy - Shields (Warp)

Tame Impala - Apocalypse Dreams - Lonerism (Modular)
Cult of Youth - Man and Man's Ruin - Love Will Prevail (Sacred Bones)
Dark Dark Dark - Patsy Cline - Who Needs Who (Supply & Demand Music)

Now It's Overhead - Wonderful Scar - Now It's Overhead (Saddle Creek)
 Smart Went Crazy - Sugar in Your Gas Tank - Now We're Even (Dischord)
Titus Andronicus - My Eating Disorder - Local Business (XL Recordings)

Bugskull - Almost Blue - Phantasies and Sensations (Road Cone)
New Beard - My People are Around (Mugsy's Song) - New Beard City (Shoulder Tap)
St. Thomas - Like You Know - Let's Grow Together (Racing Junior)

Big Harp - Let Me Lend My Shoulder - White Hat (Saddle Creek)

Playlist 10/21/12

Sondre Lerche and the Faces Down Quartet - Phantom Punch - Phantom Punch (Astralwerks)
Jens Lekman - The End of the World Is Bigger than Love - I Know What Love Isn't (Secretly Canadian)
Maria Taylor - Irish Goodbye - Lynn Teeter Flowers (Saddle Creek)

Cat Power - Manhattan - Sun (Matador)
The Lucksmiths - Synchronized Sinking - Why That Doesn't Surprise Me (Drive-In)
Olivia Tremor Control - Fireplace - Presents: Singles & Beyond (Kindercore)

Dum Dum Girls - Lord Knows - End of Daze EP (Sub Pop)
Marnie Stern - Put All Your Eggs in One Basket and then Watch that Basket - In Advance of Broken Arms (Kill Rock Stars)
Tilly and the Wall - Heavy Mood - Heavy Mood (Team Love)

Matt and Kim - It's a Fact (Printed Stained) - s/t (iheartcomix)
The William Blakes - On Fire - Wayne Coyne (Last Gang Records)
of Montreal - Suffer for Fashion - Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)

Deerhoof - The Trouble with Candyhands - Breakup Song (Polyvinyl)
The Helio Sequence - October - Negotiations (Sub Pop)
LCD Soundsystem - New York I Love You But... - Sound of Silver (DFA)

The Ravonettes - Curse the Night - Observator (Vice)
The xx - Try - Coexist (Young Turks)
Lucinda Williams - Fancy Funeral - West (Lost Highway)

Colin Meloy - Bandit Queen - Colin Meloy Sings Live (KRS)
Taylor Hollingsworth - Duct Tape Heart - Tragic City (Brash)
Dark Dark Dark - Tell Me - Who Needs Who (Supply & Demand)

David Byrne and St. Vincent - The One Who Broke Your Heart - Love this Giant (4AD)
John Cale - Hemingway - Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood (Domino)
Bob Dylan - Early Roman Kings - Tempest (Columbia)

Shovels and Rope - Boxcar - s/t (Our House)
Jason Boesel - Hustler's Son - Hustler's Son (Team Love)
Whiskey Town - Reasons to Lie - Pneumonia (Lost Highway)

Felice Brothers - Whiskey in My Whiskey - s/t (Team Love)

Playlist 10/14/12

Happy birthday Ashley's mom!

Crocodiles - "My Surfing Lucifer" - Endless Flowers (French Kiss)
Dum Dum Girls - "Lord Knows" - End of Daze (Sub Pop)
The XX - "Chained" - Coexist (Young Turks)

TEEN - "Charlie" - In Limbo (Carpark)
Beach House - "Norway" - Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
Kaptein Kaliber - "Liste Liste Liste" - Young Aspiring Professionals sampler (YAP)

Jens Lekman - "Waiting for Kirsten" - An Argument with Myself (Secretly Canadian)
Rilo Kiley - "Portions for Foxes" - More Adventurous (Brute/Beaute)
The Postal Service - "Clark Gable" - Give Up (Sub Pop)

Tilly and the Wall - "All Kinds of Guns" - Heavy Mood (Team Love)
Robyn - "Dancing on My Own" - Body Talk Pt 1 (Interscope)
Deerhoof - "The Trouble with Candyhands" - Breakup Songs (Polyvinyl)

Hello Seahorse! - "No Encontre Nada" - Hoy A Las Ocho (Magic Marker)
Los Campesinos! - "This is How You Spell 'Hahaha, We Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics'" - Hold on Now, Youngster... (Arts & Crafts)
Seapony - "Tell Me So" - Falling (Hardly Art)

Bis - "Punk Rock Points" - Music for a Stranger World (Lookout!)
The Raveonettes - "Curse the Night" - Observator (Vice)
Cat Power - "Silent Machine" - Sun (Matador)

Menomena - "Capsule" - Moms (Barsuk)
Minus the Bear - "Lies and Eyes" - Infinity Overhead (Dangerbird)
The Decemberists - "The Rake's Song" - The Hazards of Love (Capitol)

Neko Case - "Rated X" - The Tigers Have Spoken (Anti-)
Bright Eyes/Neva Dinova - "I'll Be Your Friend" - One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels (crank!)
The Tallest Man on Earth - 1904 - There's No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans)

M Ward - Stars of Leo - Hold Time (Merge)
Bob Dylan - Soon After Midnight - Tempest (Columbia)

Playlist 10/7/12

Foals - Olympic Airwaves - Antidotes (Sub Pop)
Tilly and the Wall - Thick as Thieves (edited) - Heavy Mood (Team Love)
Los Campesinos! - We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives - Sticking Fingers into Sockets EP (Arts and Crafts)

Seapony - Tell Me So - Falling (Hardly Art)
Shaky Hands - Never Fine - Let It Die (Kill Rock Stars)
The Ravonettes - Curse the Night - Observator (Vice)

The xx - Try - Coexist (Young Turks)
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Don't Haunt this Place - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
The Builders and the Butchers - Vampire Lake - Salvation Is a Deep, Dark Well (Gigantic)

Dead Man's Bones - In the Room Where You Sleep - s/t (Anti-)
Bob Dylan - Narrow Way - Tempest (Columbia)
Justin Townes Earle - Look the Other Way - Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now (Bloodshot)

Maria Taylor - Time Lapse Lifeline - Ladyluck (Nettwerk)
Cat Power - Cherokee - Sun (Matador)

Playlist 9/30/12

Office - Company Calls - A Night at the Ritz (Scratchie)
You Say Party! - Opportunity - Lose All the Time (Paper Bag)
CSS - How I Became Paranoid - Donkey (Sub Pop)

Stepdad - Mystery in the Faking - Wildlife Pop (Black Bell)
New Young Pony Club - The Bomb - Fantastic Playground (Modular)
Tilly and the Wall - All Kinds of Guns - Heavy Mood (Team Love)

Mates of State - The Re-arranger - Re-arrange Us (Barsuk)
TEEN - Better - In Limbo (Carpark)
Wild Nothing - This Chain Won't Break - Nocturne (Captured Tracks)

Tender Forever - Doves Vs. Pigeons - Wider (K)
The Brunettes - Brunettes Against Bubblegum Youth - Structure and Cosmetics (Sub Pop)
Cat Power - Sun - Sun (Matador)

Keren Ann - Caspia - s/t (Blue Note)
David Byrne  and St. Vincent - I Should Watch TV - Love this Giant (4AD)
Oxford Collapse - The Birthday Wars - Bits (Sub Pop)

Nada Surf - Whose Authority - Lucky (Barsuk)
Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra - Melody Dean - Theater Is Evil (8 Ft.)
Times New Viking - Faces on Fire - Rip It Off (Matador)

Menomena - Boton - Moms (Barsuk)
The Black Keys - Psychotic Girl - Attack & Release (Nonesuch)
Red Kross - Meet Frankenstein - Researching the Blues (Merge)

Silver Jews - What Is Not But Could Be If - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Ohio River Boat Song - Greatest Palace Music (Drag City)
Grizzly Bear - Sleeping Ute - Shields (Warp)

Sean Rowe - Joe's Cult - The Salesman and the Shark (Anti)
Conor Oberst - Souled Out - s/t (Merge)
Shannon Wright - Birds - Over the Sun (Quarterstick)

The Bird Names - New Mexico - Wooden Lake/Sexual Diner (Unsound)
Patti Smith - Jubilee - Trampin' (Columbia)
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes - Mature Themes (4AD)

Playlist 9/23/12

Cursive - I Couldn't Love You - Mama, I'm Swollen (Saddle Creek)
Braid - (Strawberry Ann) Switzerland - Movie Music Vol 1 (Polyvinyl)
Textbook - Better Late than Never - The Great Salk Creek (Playing Field)

The Lawrence Arms - 100 Resolutions - Cocktails and Dreams (Asian Man)
Thee Oh Sees - Floods New Light - Putrifiers II (In the Red)
Amanda Palmer - Massachusetts Avenue - Theater Is Evil (8 Ft)

Divine Fits - My Love Is Real - A Thing Called Divine Fits (Merge)
Empires - Surrender - Garage Hymns (self)
Black Pistol Fire - Bombs and Bruises - Big Beat '59 (Rifle Bird)

Twerps - Through the Day - s/t (Chapter)
Alkaline Trio - If You Had a Bad Time... - BYO Split Series v.5 (BYO)
The Decemberists - The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid - The Hazards of Love (Capitol)

Bright Eyes - Make War - Lifted... (Saddle Creek)
First Aid Kit - King of the World - The Lion's Roar (Witchita)
Lawrence Arabia - Traveling Shoes - The Sparrow (Bella Union)

Cat Power - 3,6,9 - Sun (Matador)
Jens Lekman - I'm Leaving You Because I Don't Love You - Night Falls Over Kortedala (Secretly Canadian)
David Byrne and St. Vincent - I Should Watch TV - Love this Giant (4AD)

DIIV - Human - Oshin (Captured Tracks)
Ida - This Water - Will You Find Me (Tiger Style)
The Aislers Set - Hit the Snow - The Last Match (Slumberland)

She and Him - Riding in My Car - Volume Two (Merge)
Fiona Apple - Every Single Night - The Idler Wheel (Epic)
Grizzly Bear - Gun-Shy - Shields (Warp)

Arab Strap - Aries the Ram - Elephant Shoe (Jetset)
William Elliott Whitmore - When Push Comes to Love - Ashes to Dust (Southern)
Sean Rowe - The Lonely Maze - The Salesman and the Shark (Anti)

M. Ward - Radio Campaign - Transistor Radio (Merge)
Carrousel - 14 - 27 Rue de Mi'chelle (self)

Playlist 9/16/12

The Kills - Cheap and Cheerful - Midnight Boom (Domino)
Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra - Massachusettes Avenue - Theater Is Evil (8Ft Records)
Corin Tucker Band - Kill My Blues - Kill My Blues (KRS)

Thee Oh Sees - Flood's New Light - Putrifiers II (In the Red)
The Twerps - Bring Me Down - s/t (Chapter)
Titus Andronicus - My Time Outside the Womb - The Airing of Grievances (XL)

Times New Viking - Faces on Fire - Rip It Off (Matador)
Hot Chip - Now There Is Nothing - In Our Heads (Domino)
Islands - Creeper - Arm's Way (Anti-)

Stepdad - Jungle - Wildlife Pop (Black Bell)
Miniature Tigers - Last Night's Fake Blood - Tell It to the Volcano (Hardly Art)
Foals - The French Open - Antidotes (Warner)

of Montreal - Cato As a Pun - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)
Tilly and the Wall - Tall Tall Grass - O (Team Love)
Carrousel - 14 - 27 Rue de Mi'chelle (self)

Pas/Cal - Oh Honey We're Ridiculous - I Was Raised... (Le Gran Magistery)
Boy Least Likely to - Every Goliath Has Its David - Law of the Playground (+1)
Belle and Sebastian - Wrapped Up in Books - Books EP (Rough Trade)

Georgie James - Look Me Up - Places (Saddle Creek)
Nanook of the North - Phonecall - The Taby Tapes (A Hidden Agenda)
The Daredevil Christopher Wright - Divorce - The Nature of Things (File Under: Music)

David Byrne and St. Vincent - Weekend in the Dust - Love This Giant (4AD)
Lawrence Arabia - The 03 - The Sparrow (Bella Union)
Little Barrie - How Come - King of the Waves (Tummy Touch)

DIIV - Human - Oshin (Captured Tracks)
Cold Specs - Heavy Hands - I Predict a Graceful Explosion (Broken Hertz)
Two Gallants - Broken Eyes - The Bloom and the Blight (ATO)

Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - One of My Kind - One of My Kind (Team Love)
Langhorne Slim - Diamonds and Gold - and the War Eagles (Kemado)
Justin Townes Earle - What Do You Do When You're Lonesome - The Good Life (Bloodshot)

Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Am I Demon? - Ask Forgiveness EP (Drag City)

Playlist 9/9/12

Foals - Spanish Sahara - Total Life Forever (Sub Pop)
The Faint - I Treat You Wrong - Fasciinatiion (blank.wav)
Robyn - Cry When You Get Older - Body Talk pt 1 (Interscope)

Black Kids - Listen to Your Body Tonight - Partie Traumatic (Columbia)
Stereo Total - Andy Warhol - Baby Ouh! (Kill Rock Stars)
Jens Lekman - I Saw Her in the Anti-War Demonstration - You Are the Light EP (Secretly Canadian)

Red Kross - Choose to Play - Researching the Blues (Merge)
Skybox - Plastic Cup - Morning After Cuts (self)
Tilly and the Wall - Reckless - Wild Like Children (Team Love)

Lawrence Arabia - Traveling Shoes - The Sparrow (Bella Union)
Fang Island - Sisterly - Major (Sargent House)
The Dead Weather - Gasoline - Sea of Cowards (Third Man)

Thee Oh Sees - Hang a Picture - Putrifiers II (In the Red)
The Orwells - Halloween All Year - Remember When (Autumn Tone)
Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications - Further Complications (Rough Trade)

Let's Wrestle - If I Keep on Loving You - Nursing Home (Merge)
Art Brut - The Replacements - vs. Satan (Downtown)
Archers of Loaf - Harnessed in Slums - Vee Vee Reissue (Merge)

Rainer Maria - Hell and High Water - A Better Version of Me (Polyvinyl)
Fiona Apple - Daredevil - The Idler Wheel... (Epic)
Dusted - (into the) Atmosphere - Total Dust (Hand Drawn Dracula)

Cold Specks - Heavy Hands - I Predict a Graceful Explosion (Broken Hertz)
Carrousel - You Only Love Yourself - 27 Rue de Mi'chelle (self)
Bright Eyes - Approximate Sunlight - The People's Key (Saddle Creek)

Wilco - The Late Greats - A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)
Sonny and the Sunsets - I See the Void - Longtime Companion (Polyvinyl)
Two Gallants - Crow Jane - The Throes (Alive)

The Swell Season - High Horses - Strict Joy (Anti-)
The Daredevil Christopher Wright - Divorce (The Nature of Things)

Playlist 8/26/12

Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl - Pussy Whipped (Kill Rock Stars)
Sleater-Kinney - You're No Rock and Roll Fun - All Hands on the Bad One (Kill Rock Stars)
All Girl Summer Fun Band - Grass Skirt - Summer of '98 (Magic Marker)

The Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me - Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me EP (Cherry Tree)
Coupleskate - Friends in Pharmacies - Don't Scare the Horses (self)
Team Dresch - Don't Try Suicide - Captain My Captain (Chainsaw)

Fiona Apple - Werewolf - The Idler Wheel... (Epic)
Echo Lake - Last Song of the Year - Wild Peace (Slumberland)
Karen Elson - Gold Dust Woman - Just Tell Me that You Want Me - A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac (Hear Music)

Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - The Big Guns - Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)
First Aid Kit - Emmylou - The Lion's Roar (Wichita)
Dusted - Centuries of Sleep - Total Dust (Hand Drawn Dracula)

Dirty Projectors - About to Die - Swing Lo Magellan (Domino)
WEAVE! - Calypso - New Funk Romance EP (Neurotic Yell)
The Kills - Black Balloon - Black Balloon EP (Domino)

Tegan and Sara - Living Room - If It Was You (Vapor)
Stars - What I'm Trying to Say - Set Yourself on Fire (Arts & Crafts)
Deep Time - Clouds - Deep Time (Hardly Art)

Beach House - Norway - Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
Vivian Girls - Where Do You Run To? - Vivian Girls (In the Red)
The Like - Walk of Shame - Release Me (Downtown)

Paul and Linda McCartney - Ram On - Ram (Reissue) (MPL)
Neko Case - Loretta - The Tigers Have Spoken (ANTI-)
The Decemberists - Song For Myla Goldberg - Her Majesty, the Decemberists (Kill Rock Stars)

The Tallest Man on Earth - Wind and Walls - There's No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans)
Loretta Lynn - Portland Oregon - Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
Jack White - Love Interruption - Blunderbuss (Third Man)

The Black Belles - Howl at the Moon - The Black Belles (Third Man)
Archers of Loaf - Harnessed in Slums - Vee Vee Reissue (Merge)
Fang Island - Seek It Out - Major (Sargent House)

The Vintage Caravan - Let's Get It On - Made in Iceland V (Iceland Music export)

Playlist 8/19/12

The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots pt 1 - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner)
Neko Case - Magpie to the Morning - Middle Cyclone (Anti)
Woodie Guthrie - Hard Travlin' - Woody at 100 (Smithsonian Folkways)

Ani DiFranco - Hypnotized - Reprieve (Righteous Babe)
Fiona Apple - Werewolf - The Idler Wheel (Epic)
Dead Man's Bones - Pa Pa Power - s/t (Anti)

2:54 - Creeping - s/t (Fat Possum)
Echo Lake - Monday 5AM - Wild Peace (Slumberland)
Titus Andronicus - A More Perfect Union - The Monitor (XL)

Let's Wrestle - We Are the Men You'll Grow to Love Soon - In the Court of Wrestling Let's (Merge)
Ty Segall Band - The Bag I'm in - Slaughterhouse (In the Red)
JEFF the Brotherhood - Country Life - Hypnotic Nights (Infinity Cat)

The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Ballad of the RAA - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
Canasta - Slow Down Chicago - We Were Set Up (Broken Middle C)
Crocodiles - No Black Clouds for Dee Dee - Endless Flowers (French Kiss)

The Young - White Clouds - Dub Egg (Matador)
Los Campesinos! - Songs About Your Girlfriend - Hello Sadness (Wichita)
Tullycraft - Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's too Stupid to Know About - Old Traditions, New Standards (Darla)

God Help the Girl - Perfection Is a Hipster - s/t (Matador)
Hello Seahorse - Ok! Lobster - Hoy a las Ocho (Magic Marker)
The Lucksmiths - There Is a Boy that Never Goes Out - Naturaliste (Drive In)

Hot Chip - Now There Is Nothing - In Our Heads (Domino)
Passion Pit - Two Veils to Hide My Face - Gossamer (Columbia)
Rufus Wainwright - California - Roses (Dreamworks)

The Magnetic Fields - You Must Be Out of Your Mind - Realism (Nonesuch)
Grouplove - Don't Say Oh Well - s/t EP (Canvasback)
Lily Allen - 22 - It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol)

The Fruit Bats - The Hobo Girl - The Ruminant Band (Sub Pop)
Saturday Looks Good to Me - You Work All Weekend - All Your Summer Songs (Polyvinyl)
Sonny and the Sunsets - Children of the Beehive - Longtime Companion (Polyvinyl)

Playlist 8/12/12

Sleater-Kinney - I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone - Call the Doctor (Kill Rock Stars)
The Kills - Heart Is a Beating Drum - Blood Pressures (Domino)
The Wanton Looks - Get Thru to You - s/t (Naughty Eyes)

The Rural Alberta Advantage - Four Night Rider - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
The Unicorns - I Was Born (a Unicorn) - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? (Alien 8)
Hot Chip - Now There Is Nothing - In Our Heads (Domino)

LCD Soundsystem - Us V Them - Sound of Silver (DFA)
Le Tigre - Eau D'Bedroom Dancing - s/t (Mr. Lady)
M.I.A. - Galang - Arular (XL)

Passion Pit - Mirrored Sea - Gossamer (Columbia)
Soundtrack of Our Lives - Where's the Rock - Throw It to the Universe (Yep Roc)
Jeff the Brotherhood - Sixpack - Nyphotic Nights (Infinity Cat/Warner Bros)

Ty Segall Band - I Bought My Eyes - Slaughterhouse (In The Red)
Desaparecidos - MariKKKopa - MariKKKopa (Self released? We don't know!)
Patti Smith - This Is The Girl - Banga (Columbia)

Mark Ronson f/t Amy Winehouse - Valerie - Version (RCA)
The Decemberists - The Sporting Life - Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - The Big Guns - Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)

Sonny and the Sunsets - I See the Void - Longtime Companion (Polyvinyl)
Silver Jews - Animal Shapes - Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City)
Justin Townes Earle - Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now - Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now (Bloodshot)

Jon Langford and His Sadies - Little Vampires - Mayor of the Moon (Bloodshot)
Neko Case - Margaret Vs. Pauline - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti)
Bright Eyes - We Are Nowhere and It's Now - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (Saddle Creek)

Beachwood Sparks - Tarnished Gold - Tarnished Gold (Sub Pop)
The Walkmen - The Witch - Heaven (Fat Possum)
Fiona Apple - Werewolf - The Idler Wheel... (Epic)

Tilly and the Wall - Beat Control - Beat Control 7" (Team Love)
Los Campesinos! - We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives - We Throw Parties 7" (Wichita)

Playlist 8/5/12

The Mynabirds - Disaster - Generals (Saddle Creek)
La Sera - Break My Heart - Sees the Light (Hardly Arts)
Tennis - Take Me Somewhere - Cape Dory (Fat Possum)

All Time Quarterback - Dinner at Eight in the Suburbs - s/t (Barsuk)
Magic Trick - Torture - Ruler of the Night (Hardly Art)
The Ditty Bops - Sister Kate - s/t (Warner)

The Decemberists - The Sporting Life - Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
Mucca Pazza - Boss Taurus - Safety Fifth (Electric Cowbell)
Architecture in Helsinki - Heart It Races - Places Like This (Polyvinyl)

2:54 - Revolving - s/t (Fat Possum)
Suckers - Chinese Braille - Candy Salad (French Kiss)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Got to Let Go - Stage Whisper (Elektra)

Rainer Maria - Ears Ring - Ears Ring EP (Polyvinyl)
Cursive - The Sun and Moon - I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek)
Fang Island - Seek It Out - Major (Sargent House)

Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness - Hello Sadness (Wichita)
Desaparecidos - Backsell - Marikkkopa 7" (self)
The Kills - Cat Claw - Keep On Your Mean Side (Rough Trade)

Crocodiles - No Black Clouds for Dee Dee - Endless Flowers (French Kiss)
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy - El Camino (Nonesuch)
Jack White - Love Interruption - Blunderbuss (Third Man)

First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar - The Lion's Roar (Wichita)
Dusted - Centuries of Sleep - Total Dust (Hand Drawn Dracula)

The Handsome Family - Sunday Morning Coming Down - Smothered and Covered (Bloodshot)
Giant Sand - Undiscovered Country - Tucson (Fire)
Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys - It's Not Easy Being Green - Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down (Bloodshot)

Beachwood Sparks - Tarnished Gold - Tarnished Gold (Sub Pop)
Woody Guthrie - Hard Travelin' - Woody at 100 (Smithsonian Folkways)
Ani DiFranco - Life Boat - Which Side Are You On? (Righteous Babe)

Fiona Apple - Valentine - The Idler Wheel... (Epic)
Patti Smith - April Fool - Banga (Columbia)

Playlist 7/29/12

Sleater Kinney - One Beat - One Beat (Kill Rock Stars)
Against Me! - Thrash Unreal - New Wave (Sire)
Crocodiles - My Surfing Lucifer - Endless Flowers (French Kiss)

Fang Island - Sisterly - Major (Sargent House)
The Black Keys - No Trust - Thickfreakness (Fat Possum)
The White Stripes - Hello Operator - DeStijl (V2)

The Wanton Looks - Get Thru to You - s/t (Naughty Eyes)
Los Campesinos! - We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives - Sticking Fingers into Sockets (Arts & Crafts)
Suckers - George - Candy Salad (Frenchkiss)

Hot Chip - Now There Is Nothing - In Our Heads (Domino)
The Walkmen - We Can't Be Beat - Heaven (Fat Possum)
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - Corrina, Corrina - One of My Kind (Team Love)

Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe - The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position - The Magic Position (Tomlab)
Stars - The Night Starts Here - In Our Bedroom After the War (Arts & Crafts)

La Sera - How Far We've Come Now - Sees the Light (Hardly Art)
White Arrows - Get Gone - Dry Land Is Not a Myth (Votiv)
Devendra Banhart - Tonada Yanomaminista - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon (XL)

Islands - This Is Not a Song - A Sleep and A Forgetting (Anti-)
The Good Life - Keeley Aimee - Help Wanted Nights (Saddle Creek)
Bat for Lashes - Trophy - Fur and Gold (Echo)

Cold Specks - Winter Solstice - I Predict a Graceful Explosion (Broken Hertz)
Fruit Bats - When You Love Somebody - Mouthfuls (Sub Pop)
Justin Townes Earle - Look the Other Way - Nothings Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now (Bloodshot)

Beachwood Sparks - Forget the Song - Tarnished Gold (Sub Pop)
Giant Sand - Lost Love - Tucson (Fire)
Iron and Wine - Boy with a Coin - The Shepherd's Dog (Sub Pop)

Nick Drake - Time Has Told Me - Five Leaves Left (Hannibal)

Playlist 7/22/12

Promise Ring - The Deep South - Very Emergency (Jade Tree)
Braid - Milwaukee Sky Rocket - Frame and Canvas (Polyvinyl)
Los Campesinos! - Songs About Your Girlfriend - Hello Sadness (Wichita)

Crocodiles - Sunday (Psychic Conversation #9) - Endless Flowers (French Kiss)
Ty Segall Band - Tell Me What's Inside Your Heart - Slaughterhouse (In the Red)
Art Brut - Pump Up the Volume - It's a Bit Complicated (Downtown)

Jeff the Brotherhood - Sixpack - Hypnotic Nights (Infinity Cat)
Pujol - Reverse Vampire - United States of Being (Saddle Creek)
Jens Lekman - You Are the Light - You Are the Light EP (Secretly Canadian)

The Magnetic Fields - Washington, DC - 69 Love Songs (Merge)
Tullycraft - Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's Too Stupid to Know About  - Old Traditions, New Standards (Darla)
of Montreal - Tim I Wish You Were Born a Girl - Cherry Peel (Bar None)

Tallest Man on Earth - 1904 - There's No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans)
Beachwood Sparks - Mollusk - Tarnished Gold (Sub Pop)
Wilco - The Late Greats - A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)

Mayday - Captain - Old Blood (Saddle Creek)
Two Gallants - You Losin' Out - The Throes (Alive)
Jenny and Johnny - Big Wave - I'm Having Fun Now (Warner)

Patti Smith - This Is The Girl - Banga (Columbia)
The Mynabirds - Disarm - Generals (Saddle Creek)
Fiona Apple - Valentine - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do (Epic)

Bright Eyes - Approximate Sunlight - The People's Key (Saddle Creek)
Best Coast - How They Want Me To Be - The Only Place (Kemado)
Belle & Sebastian - Like Dylan in the Movies - BBC Sessions (Matador)

At the Close of Every Day - The Glory of Ignorance - Zalig Zijn De Armen Van Geest (Loose Thread)
The Good Life - Inmates - Album of the Year (Saddle Creek)
The Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism - S/T (8 Ft.)

All the Monsters - The Monster Mash

Playlist 7/15/12

Times New Viking - Move to California - Born Again Revisited (Matador)
Electric Owl - Put the Candle Back - Ain't Too Bright (Vagrant)
Crocodiles - No Black Clouds for Dee Dee - Endless Flowers (French Kiss)

Best Coast - No One Like You - The Only Place (Kemado)
Coupleskate - Bless the Bees - Don't Scare the Horses (self)
Lily Allen - Chinese - It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol)

LCD Soundsystem - You Wanted a Hit - This Is Happening (DFA)
Robyn - Cry When You Get Older - Body Talk Pt. 1 (Interscope)
Foster the People - Helena Beat - Torches (Columbia)

Bobby Conn - Afterschool - Macaroni (Fire)
Dinosaur Feathers - Young Bucks - Whistle Tips (Ernest Jennings)
Hot Chip - These Chains - In Our Heads (Domino)

Casiokids - Verdens Storste Land - Topp Stmming Pa Lokal Bar (Polyvinyl)
Dirty Projectors - Gun Has No Trigger - Swing Lo Magellan (Domino)
Beachwood Sparks - Tarnished Gold - Tarnished Gold (Sub Pop)

Johnny Cash - Ain't No Grave - American VI: Ain't No Grave (American)
Neko Case - I Wish I Was the Moon - Blacklisted (Anti)
Two Gallants - Steady Rollin' - What the Toll Tells (Saddle Creek)

Langhorne Slim - Be Set Free - Be Set Free (Kemado)
The Mynabirds - Disaster - Generals (Saddle Creek)
The Toure-Raichel Collective - Ane Nahatka  - The Tel Aviv Session (Cumbancha)

Yppah - Some Have Said - Eighty One (Ninja Tune)
Bright Eyes - June on the West Coast - Letting Off the Happiness (Saddle Creek)
Hefner - Hymn for the Alcohol - The Fidelity Wars (Beggar's Banquet)

Fiona Apple - Valentine - The Idler Wheel... (Epic)
CocoRosie - Lemonade - Grey Oceans (Sub Pop)
The Swell Season - Feeling the Pull - Strict Joy (Anti)

Patti Smith - April Fool - Banga (Columbia)

Playlist 7/8

Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You - Partie Traumatic (Columbia)
CSS - Let's Reggae All Night - Donkey (Sub Pop)
Tilly and the Wall - Cacophony - O (Team Love)

The Ting Tings - Keep Your Head - We Started Nothing (Columbia)
Health - Triceratops - Disco (Lovepump Unlimited)
Breton - Interference - Other People's Problems (Fat Cat)

Moonface - Teary Eyes and Bloody Lips - With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery (Jagjaguwar)
Black Keys - Howlin' For You - Brothers (Nonesuch)
Crocodiles - No Black Clouds for Dee Dee - Endless Flowers (French Kiss)

Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Being Bad Feels Pretty Good - You Have No Idea What You Are Getting Yourself Into (Almost Gold)
Hot Chip - These Chains - In Our Heads (Domino)

Best Coast - Dreaming My Life Away - The Only Place (Mexican Summer)
Pomegranates - Ezekiel - Heaven (Modern Outsider)
Mates of State - The Re-arranger - Re-arrange Us (Barsuk)

Pas/Cal - Oh Honey, We're Ridiculous - I Was Raised on Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura (Le Grand Magistery)
Beck - Walls - Modern Guilt (DGC)
Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines - The Stand Ins (Jagjaguwar)

The Mynabirds - Disarm - Generals (Saddle Creek)
Patti Smith - Nine - Banga (Columbia)
Conor Oberst - Danny Callahan - s/t (Merge)

Beachwood Sparks - Mollusk - Tarnished Gold (Sub Pop)
Luke Doucet and the White Falcon - First Day (in the New Hometown) - Blood's Too Rich (Six Shooter)
Fiona Apple - Regret - The Idler Wheel... (Epic)

Silver Jews - Suffering Jukebox - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)
Jens Lekman - Waiting for Kristen - An Argument with Myself (Secretly Canadian)
Lee Ranaldo - Lost - Between the Times and the Tides (Matador)

Esperanza Spalding - Crowned and Kissed - Radio Music Society (Heads Up)

Playlist 7/1/12

Sun Airway - American West - Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier (Dead Oceans)
Best Coast - The Only Place - The Only Place (Kemado)
Lower Dens - Brains - Nootropics (Ribbon)

War Paint - Bees - The Fool (Rough Trade)
Fujiya & Miyagi - OK - Ventriloquizzing (Yep Roc)
Matt & Kim - Cameras - Sidewalks (Fader)

The Naked and Famous - Young Blood - Passive Me, Aggressive You (Universal)
Robyn - Cry When You Get Older - Body Talk Pt. 1 (Interscope)
Hot Chip - These Chains - In Our Heads (Domino)

Sia - Clap Your Hands - We Are Born (Jive)
Raven and Chimes - Division Street - Holiday Live (Better Looking)
The Mynabirds - Radiator Sister - Generals (Saddle Creek)

Yppah - Blue Schwinn - Eighty One (Ninja Tune)
Crocodiles - Sunday (Psychic Conversation #9) - Endless Flowers (French Kiss)
Fawn - Hurricane Fire - Coastlines (Quite Scientific)

Jail - Everyone's Hip - That's How We Burn (Sub Pop)
Cub - What the Water Gave Me - Betti-Cola (Mint)
Los Campesinos! - Allez Les Blues - Heatrash #3 (self)

Tegan and Sara - I Know I Know I Know - So Jealous (Sanctuary)
April Smith and the Great Picture Show - Dixie Boy - Songs from a Sinking Ship (self)
M Ward - Primitive Girl - Primitive Girl 7" (Merge)

Jenny Lewis - Carpet Baggers - Carpet Baggers 7" (Rhino)
Fiona Apple - Regret - The Idler Wheel... (Epic)
Bright Eyes - We Are Nowhere and It's Now - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (Saddle Creek)

The Extra Lens - How I Left the Ministry - Undercard (Merge)
The Decemberists - Down by the Water - The King Is Dead (Capitol)
Andrew Bird - Fake Palindromes - ...& the Mysterious Production of Eggs (Righteous Babe)

Lost in the Trees - A Room Where Your Paintings Hang - All Alone in an Empty House (Trekky)

Playlist 6/24/12

Art Brut - Twist and Shout - Art Brut Vs. Satan (Downtown)
Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring - Romance is Boring (Arts & Crafts)
Times New Viking - It's a Culture - Dancer Equired (Merge)

Best Coast - Dreaming My Life Away - The Only Place (Mexican Summer)
Crocodiles - You Are Forgiven - Endless Flowers (French Kiss)
Vivian Girls - Where Do You Run To - Vivian Girls (In the Red)

Boat - I Really, Really Think You Should Rethink Your Life - Let's Drag Our Feet (Magic Marker)
The Walkmen - The Witch - Heaven (Fat Possum)

Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You - Middle Cyclone (Anti-)
Jack White - Sixteen Saltines - Blunderbuss (Third Man)
Wanda Jackson - You Know I'm No Good - The Party Ain't Over (Third Man)

St. Thomas - Come My Way - Let's Grow Together - The Comeback of St. Thomas (Racing)
DeVotchKa - The Enemy Guns - How It Ends (Cicero)
Big Harp - White Hat - White Hat (Saddle Creek)

Delta Spirit - Empty House - s/t (Rounder)
Yppah - Some Have Said - Eighty One (Ninja Tune)
First Aid Kit - King of the World - The Lion's Roar (Wichita)

Sondre Lerche - Private Caller - s/t (Yep Roc)
The Magnetic Fields - I Thought You Were My Boyfriend - I (Nonesuch)
Hot Chip - How Do You Do? - In Our Hearts (Domino)

Bobby Conn - More Than You Need - Macaroni (Thrill Jockey)
Foster the People - Helena Beat - Torches (Columbia)
Beach House - Lazuli - Bloom (Sub Pop)

Lower Dens - Candy - Nootropics (Ribbon)
Cat Power - Sea of Love - The Covers Record (Matador)
She & Him - This Is Not a Test - Volume One (Merge)

Raven and Chimes - Night - Holiday Life (Better Looking)
The Good Life -  Keely Aimee - Help Wanted Nights (Saddle Creek)
Weezer - The World Has Turned and Left Me Here - The Blue Album (Geffen)

The Decemberists - The Chimbly Sweep - Her Majesty the Decemberists (Kill Rock Stars).

Playlist 6/17/12

First Aid Kit - Blue - The Lion's Roar (Wichita)
Wilco - What Light - Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch)
The Decemberists - We Both Go Down Together - Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)

Jens Lekman - I Saw Her in the Anti-War Demonstration - You Are the Light EP (Secretly Canadian)
Yppah - Blue Schwinn - Eighty One (Ninja Tune)
Emily Wells - Johnny Cash's Mama's House - Mama (Partisan)

Best Coast - No One Like You - The Only Place (Mexican Summer)
Crocodiles - Sunday (Psychic Conversation #9) - Endless Flowers (French Kiss)
Titus Andronicus - A More Perfect Union - The Monitor (XL)

Jack White - Hypocritical Kiss - Blunderbuss (Third Man)
Los Campesinos! - Songs About Your Girlfriend - Hello Sadness (Wichita)
Beach House - New Year - Bloom (Subpop)

Kings of Convenience - Riot On an Empty Street - Declaration of Dependence (Astralwerks)
The Concretes - You Can't Hurry Love - s/t (Astralwerks)
Robyn - Dancing on My Own - Body Talk Pt. 1 (Interscope)

Kindness - Swingin' Party - World, You Need a Change (Casablanca)
Santigold - This Isn't Our Parade - Master of My Make Believe (Atlantic)
The Rapture - In the Grace of Your Love - In the Grace of Your Love (DFA)

Les Savy Fav - Yawn, Yawn, Yawn - Inches (French Kiss)
Hot Chip - Now There Is Nothing - In Our Heads (Domino)
Secret Music - T.O.Y.S. - s/t (Black Bells)

Hospitality - Friends of Friends - Hospitality (Merge)
Raven and Chimes - Division Street - Holiday Life (Better Looking)
Gruff Rhys - Sophie Softly - Hotel Shampoo (Wichita)

Canasta - Slow Down Chicago - We Were Set Up (Broken Middle C)
Mark Ronson - Valerie - Version (RCA)
The Walkmen - The Witch - Heaven (Fat Possum)

The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Breakup - Departing (Saddle Creek)
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat - Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)

Playlist 6/10/12

Boat - Illustrate the History - Let's Drag Our feet (Magic Marker)
The Reputation - Bottle Rocket Battles - To Force a Fate (Lookout)
Against Me! - The Ocean - New Wave (Sire)

Alkaline Trio - If You Had a Bad Time - BYO Split Series v5 (w/One Man Army) (BYO)
Jack White - Love Interruption - Blunderbuss (Third Force)
Cursive - Am I Not Yours? - 8 Teeth to Eat You (Better Looking)

Kindness - Swingin' Party - World, You Need a Change of Mind (Casablanca)
Beach House - Wild - Bloom (Sub Pop)
Father John Misty - Funtimes in Babylon - Fear Fun (Sub Pop)

The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Really Love You Anymore - I (Nonesuch)
Jim Guthrie - Problem with Solutions - Now, More than Ever (Three Gut)
Lee Ranaldo - Lost - Between the Times and Tides (Matador)

Yppah - Blue Schwinn - Eighty One (Ninja Tune)
Arthur and Yu - Absurd Heroes Manifestos - In Camera (Hardly Art)
Saturday Looks Good to Me - Idiots - Cold Colors EP (Polyvinyl)

Belle & Sebastian - Black and White United - Storytelling (Matador)
Au - Solid Gold - Both Lights (Hometapes)
Bright Eyes - From a Balance Beam - There Is No Beginning to the Story (Saddle Creek)

The Lucksmiths - A Downside to the Upstairs - Where Were We? (Matinee)
Willis Earl Beal - Bright Copper Noon - Acousmatic Sorcery (XL)
Azure Ray - Raining in Athens - Burn and Shiver (Warm)

Kaia - World's Greatest Haircut - Oregon (Mr. Lady)
Loretta Lynn - Portland Oregon - Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
Shovels and Rope - Kitchen Hallway - Daytrotter (Daytrotter)

John Langford - The Country Is Young - All the Fame of Lofty Deeds (Bloodshot)
Mayday - Captain - Old Blood (Saddle Creek)
Oakley Hall - Rue the Blues - I'll Follow You (Merge)

Breton - Governing Correctly - Other People's Problems (Fat Cat)
Dinosaur Feathers - Betcha - Whistle Tips (Ernest Jennings)

Playlist 6/3/12

Arcade Fire - Month of May - The Suburbs (Merge)
Crocodiles - All My Hate and My Hexes Are for You - Sleep Forever (Fat Possum)
Yukon Blonde - Sweet Dee - Tiger Talk (Dine Alone)

Mt. St. Helen's Vietnam Band - At Night - Where the Messengers Meet (Dead Oceans)
Jack White - I'm Shakin' - Blunderbuss (Third Man)
Spiritualized - Hey Jane - Sweet Heart, Sweet Light (Fat Possum)

Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love - Singles Going Steady (IRS)
The Kills - Cat Claw - Keep on Your Mean Side (Rough Trade)
Delta Spirit - California - s/t (Rounder Records)

Dinosaur Feathers - SURPRISE - Whistle Tips (Ernest Jenning)
The Dead Weather - Hang You From the Heavens - Third Man Records Singles v.1 (Third Man)
The Candyland Riots - Silver Screen - Stereonucleosis EP (self)

Father John Misty - I'm Writing a Novel - Fear Fun (Sub Pop)
Wild Birds & Peace Drums - Fight for Me - Rivers (Control Group)
Beach House - The Hours - Bloom (Sub Pop)

Kindness - House - World, You Need a Change (Casablanca)
Miike Snow - Archipelago - Happy to  You (Universal Republic)
All Girl Summer Fun Band - Lipsmacker Kiss - Summer of '98 (Magic Marker)

Tender Trap - Do You Want a Boyfriend? - Dasette Dansette (Slumberland)
 Best Coast - Crazy for You - Crazy for You (Mexican Summer)
 Jenny and Johnny - Big Wave - I'm Having Fun Now (Warner)

Raven and Chimes - Division Street - Holiday Life (Better Looking)
Breton - Electrician - Other People's Problems (Fat Cat)
Upstairs Downstairs - Pessimist - Inland and Out (Gazebo)**

The Lucksmiths - The Shipwreck Coast - Naturaliste (Drive In)
Darren Hanlon - Folk Insomnia - I Will Love You at All (YepRoc)
Okkervil River - It Ends with a Fall - Down the River of Golden Dreams (Secretly Canadian)

Tim Kasher - Strays - The Game of Monogamy (Saddle Creek)
Land of Talk - Blangee Blee - Cloak and Cipher (Saddle Creek)

Playlist 5/20/12

Gruff Rhys - Candylion - Candylion (Team Love)Here We Go Magic - Hard to Be Close - A Different Ship (Secretly Canadian)S. Carey - Inspir - Hoyas (Jagjaguwar)
Tanlines - Brothers - Mixed Emotions (True Panther)

Miike Snow - Devil's Work - Happy to You (Universal Republic)Secret Music - T.O.Y.S. - s/t (Black Belles)
Young Prisms - To Touch You - In Between (Kanine)

Lily Allen - LDN - Alright, Still (Capitol)New Young Pony Club - Lost a Girl - The Optimist (Pias America)
Pulp - Disco 2000 - Different Class (Island)

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart - 20 Years of New Order (Warner)The Foals - Total Life Forever - Total Life Forever (Sub Pop)
Klaxons - Golden Skans - Myths of the Near Future (Geffen)

Amy Winehouse - Valerie - Back to Black (Universal Import)Paloma Faith - Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful - Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful (Epic)
Kate Bush - Running Up that Hill - Left of the Dial (Rhino)

Arab Strap - If There's No Hope for Us - Last Romance (Transdreamer)Belle & Sebastian - Get Me Away from Here I'm Dying - If You're Feeling Sinister (Matador)
Heavenly - I Fell in Love Last Night - One Two Twee (K)

Noah and the Whale - Shape of My Heart - Peaceful the World Lays Me Down (Interscope)
Boy Least Likely to - I'm Glad I Hitched My Applewagon to Your Star - The Best Party Ever (Too Young to Die)
Los Campesinos! - Don't Tell Me to Do the Math(s) - Hold On Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)


Art Brut - The Replacements - vs. Satan (Downtown)
Let's Wrestle - If I Keep on Loving You - Nursing Home (Merge)
Jarvis Cocker - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time - s/t (Rough Trade)


Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing - Black Market Music (Virgin)
Nick Drake - Been Smoking Too Long - Time of No Reply (Hannibal)
The Swell Season - Feeling the Pull - Strict Joy (Anti)


Bright Eyes - Drunk Kid Catholic - Noise Floor (Saddle Creek)

Playlist 5/13/12

Belle and Sebastian - I Want the World to Stop - Write About Love (Matador)
The Lucksmiths - Midweek Midmorning - Naturaliste (Drive In)
Saturday Looks Good to Me - You Work All Weekend - All Your Summer Songs (Polyvinyl)

The Like - Walk of Shame - Release Me (Downtown)
The Decemberists - My Mother Was a Chineese Trapeeze Artist - 5 Songs (Hush)
Cotton Jones - Somehow to Keep It Going - Tall Hours in the Glowstream (Suicide Squeeze)


Willis Earl Beal - Take Me Away - Acousmatic Sorcery (XL)
Land of Talk - Cloak and Cipher - Cloak and Cipher (Saddle Creek)
Father John Misty - Every Man Needs a Companion - Fear Fun (Sub Pop)

Here We Go Magic - Hard to Be Close - A Different Ship (Secretly Canadian)
First Aid Kit - Heavy Storm - The Big Black and the Blue (Jagadamba)
Dinosaur Feathers - Young Bucks - Whistle Tips (Ernest Jennings)

Esperanza Spalding - Crowned and Kissed - Radio Music Society (Heads Up International)
Alabama Shakes - Hold On - Boys and Girls (ATO)
Jack White - Love Interruption - Blunderbuss (Third Man)

Tim Kasher - Cold Love - The Game of Monogamy (Saddle Creek)
Against Me! - The Ocean - New Wave (Sire)
Women - China Steps - Public Strain (Jagjaguwar)

The Shins - Bait and Switch - Port of Morrow (Columbia)
Au - Epic - Both Lights (Home Tapes)
Art Brut - Pump Up the Volume - It's a Bit Complicated (Downtown)

Wolf Parade - This Heart's On Fire - Apologies to the Queen Mary (Sub Pop)
Modest Mouse - Perpetual Motion Machine - No One's First and You're Next EP (Epic)
The Naked and Famous - Frayed - Passive Me, Aggressive You (Universal)

Thieves Like Us - Really Like to See You Again - Really Like to See You Again EP
Sun Airway - American West - Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier (Dead Oceans)
Miike Snow - Archipelago - Happy to You (Universal Repulbic_

Playlist 5/7/12

Mates of State - Like You Crazy - Bring It Back (Barsuk)
Islands - Where There's A Will (There's a Whalebone) - Return to the Sea (Equator)
Miike Snow - Paddling Out - Happy to You (Universal Republic)

Tanlines - Brothers - Mixed Emotions (True Panther)
We All Have Hooks for Hands - Be Love, Be Wild - The Shape of Energy (Afternoon Records)
Tegan and Sara - Arrow - Sainthood (Vapor)

Fanfarlo - Lenslife - Rooms Filled with Light (Canvasback)
Iron and Wine - Devil Never Sleeps - The Shepherd's Dog (Sub Pop)
Heavenly - C Is the Heavenly Option - Le Jardin de Heavenly (K)

Matt and Kim - Lessons Learned - Grand (Fader)
The Men - Please Don't Go Away - Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)
Young Prisms - Floating in Blue -In Between (Kanine Records)

Raven and Chimes - Arrow - Holiday Life (Better Looking)
Kaki King - Yellowcake - ...Until We Felt Red (Velour)
Hefner - Hymn for the Alcohol - The Fidelity Wars (Beggar's Banquet)

Elliott Smith - First Timer - New Moon (Kill Rock Stars)
Au - Solid Gold - Both Lights (Hometapes)
Sunny Day Real Estate - 5/4 - LP2 (Sub Pop)

Bright Eyes - June on the West Coast - Letting off the Happiness (Saddle Creek)
Andrew Bird - Lazy Projector - Break It Yourself (Mom +Pop)
Willis Earl Beal - Away My Silent Lover - Acousmatic Sorcery (XL)

Langhorne Slim - Cinderella - Be Set Free (Kemado
M Ward - Rave On - Hold Time (Merge)
William Elliott Whitmore - Hell or High Water - Animals in the Dark (Anti-)

Meg Baird - Riverhouse in Tinicum - Dear Companion (Drag City)
O'Death - Crawl Through Snow - Broken Hymns Limbs and Skin (Kemado)
Yukon Blonde - Sweet Dee - Tiger Talk (Dine Alone)

Playlist 4/30/12

Belle & Sebastian - Piazza New York Catcher - Dear Catastrophe Waitress (Rough Trade)
Los Campesinos! - A Heat Rash... - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)
Calvin Johnson - The Leaves of Tea - Before the Dream Faded (K)

Weezer - In the Garage - Blue (DGC)
Papercuts - Well I Don't - We Are All Awesome (Antenna Farm)
AU - Solid Gold - Both Lights (Home Tapes)

Dinosaur Feathers - Young Bucks - ? (?)
Secret Music - T.O.Y.S. - ? (?)
The Shins - The Rifle's Spiral - Port of Morrow (Columbia)

Miike Snow - Devil's Work - Happy to You (Universal Republic)
Oxford Collapse - The Boys Go Home - A Good Ground (themselves)
Alabama Shakers - Rise to the Sun - Boys and Girls (ATO)

The Kills - Heart Is a Beating Drum - Blood Pressure (Domino)
Childish Gambino - You See Me - Camp (Glass Note) -request
The Black Keys - Next Girl - Brothers (Nonesuch)

Cursive - Once - The Recluse EP (Saddle Creek)
Spiritualized - Get What You Deserve - Sweet Heart, Sweet Light (Fat Possum)
Fanfarlo - Tightrope - Rooms Filled w/Light (Atlantic)

Devendra Banhart - I Love that Man - Cripple Crow (XL)
CocoRosie - Beatiful Boys - Noah's Ark (Touch and Go)
Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats - Veneer (Parasol)

Andrew Bird - Give It Away - Break It Yourself (Mom & Pop)
Willis Earl Beal - Monotony - Acousmatic Sorcery (XL)
Simone Felice - Ballad of Sharon Tate - s/t (Team Love)

First Aid Kit - This Old Routine - The Lion's Roar (Wichita)
M Ward - Primitive Girl - A Wasteland Companion (Merge)
Mayday - Rock and Roll Can't Save Your Life - Bushido Karaoke (Saddle Creek)

Annie Hayden - Starring the Movies - The Enemy of Love (Merge)

Playlist 4/23/12

Art Brut - Twist and Shout - Art Brut vs. Satan (Downtown)
Let's Wrestle - If I Keep on Loving You - Nursing Home (Merge)
Times New Viking - Ever Falling in Love - Dancer Equired (Merge)

 Rural Alberta Advantage - Two Lovers - Departing (Saddle Creek)
Against Me! - Borne on the FM Waves of the Heart - New Wave (Sire)
The Shins - Bait and Switch - Port of Morrow (Columbia)

Fanfarlo - Lenslife - Rooms Filled with Light (Atlantic)
Miike Snow - Devil's Work - Happy to You (Universal Republic)
Field Music - A New Town - Plumb (Memphis Industries)

of Montreal - Suffer for Fashion - Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer (Polyvinyl)
Foster the People - Waste - Torches (Columbia)

Yppah - Blue Schwinn - Eighty One (Ninja Tune)
Secret Music - Top Drop - s/t (Black Belles)
Stars - The Night Starts Here - In Our Bedroom After the War (Arts & Crafts)

The Brunettes - Brunettes Against Bublegum Youth (Sub Pop)
Casiokids - Verdens Stroste Land - Topp Stemning Pa Lokal Bar (Polyvinyl)
Los Campesinos! - This Is How You Spell... - Hold On Now Youngster (Arts & Crafts)

The Boy Least Likely to - Every Goliath Has Its David - The Law of the Playground (+1)
Jens Lekman - The Opposite of Hallelujah - Night Falls Over Kortedala (Secretly Canadian)


Bowerbirds - In the Yard - The Clearing (Dead Oceans)
Willis Earl Beal - Evening's Kiss - Acousmatic Sorcery (XL)
The Mountain Goats - Damn These Vampires - All Eternals Deck (Merge)

David Dondero - The Living and the Dead - The Transient (Future Farmer)
M Ward - Roll Over Beethoven - Primitive Girl 7" (Merge)
Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You - Middle Cyclone (Anti)

Andrew Bird - Lazy Projector - Break It Yourself (Mom+Pop)

Playlist 4/16/12

Nick Drake - The Thoughts of Mary Jane - Five Leaves Left (Hannibal)
The Swell Season - Feeling the Pull - Strict Joy (Anti-)
M Ward - Watch the Show - A Wasteland Companion (Merge)

Andrew Bird - Lusitania - Break It Yourself (Mom + Pop)
Willis Earl Beal - Evening's Kiss - Acousmatic Sorcery (XL Recordings)
The Decemberists - This Is Why We Fight - The King Is Dead (Capitol)

Mirah Yom Tov & Ginger Brooks Takahishi - Oh! September - Songs from the Black Mountain Project (K Records)
Tegan and Sara - Arrow - Sainthood (Vapor)

The Men - Candy - Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)
Fanfarlo - Tunguska - Rooms Filled with Light (Atlantic)
Sufjan Stevens - All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace! - Michigan (Asthmatic Kitty)

Raven and Chimes - Past Lives - Holiday Life (Better Looking)
Esperanza Spalding - Cinnamon Tree - Radio Music Society (Heads Up International)
Old Canes - Intro - Feral Harmonic (Saddle Creek)

Devendra Banhart - Angelika - What Will Be (Warner)
First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar - The Lions' Roar (Wichita)
O+S - New Life - s/t (Saddle Creek)

Miike Snow - Enter the Joker's Lair - Happy to You (Universal Republic)
Islands - Heartbeat - Vapours (Anti)
Tanlines - Brothers - Mixed Emotions (True Panther)

Ava Luna - Sequential Holdings - Ice Level (Infinite Best)
Dandy Warhols - The Last High - Welcome to the Monkey House (Capitol)
Beauty Pill - You, Yes You - You Are Right to Be Afraid (Dischord)

Broken Social Scene - Almost Crimes - You Forgot It in People (Arts & Crafts)
Foreign Born - Blood Oranges - Person to Person (Secretly Canadian)
Au - Today/Tonight - Both Lights (Hometapes)

Delta Spirit - Otherside - s/t (Rounder)
Lee Ranaldo - Shouts

Playlist 4/9/12

The Anniversary - The D in Detroit - Designing a Nervous Breakdown (Vagrant)
Cursive - The Sun and Moon - I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek)
The White Stripes - Conquest - Icky Thump (Warner)

Sleigh Bells - Never Say Die - Reign of Terror (Mom + Pop)
Pontiak - The North Coast - Echo Ono (Thrill Jockey)
Dirty Ghosts - Steamboat to Concord - Metal Moon (Last Gang)

LCD Soundsystem - New York I Love You but... - Sound of Silver (DFA)
Miike Snow - Archipelago - Happy to You (Universal Republic)
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position - The Magic Position (Tomlab)

Fanfarlo - Lenslife - Rooms Filled with Light (Canvasback)
Feist - The Park - The Reminder (Interscope)
David Vandervelde - Nothin' No - Nothin' No EP (Secretly Canadian)

Joanna Newsom - Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie - & the Ys Street Band (Drag City)
M Ward - To Go Home - To Go Home EP (Merge)
Ben and Vesper - An Honest Bluff - All This Could Kill You (Sounds Familyre)

Thurston Moore - The Shape Is in a Trance - Trees Outside of the Academy (Estatic Peace)
Perfume Genius - Normal Song - Put Your Back N 2 It (Matador)
Cocorosie - Japan - The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn (Touch and Go)

Tom Waits - Hope I Don't Fall in Love with You - Early Years Vol II (Manifesto)
Maria Taylor - Smile and Wave - Lynn Teeter Flowers (Saddle Creek)
Andrew Bird - Eyeoneye - Break It Yourself (Mom + Pop)

Bat for Lashes - Trophy - Fur and Gold (Echo)
Bowerbirds - Walk the Furrows - The Clearing (Dead Oceans)
Bright Eyes - I Must Belong Somewhere - Cassadaga (Saddle Creek)

Damien Jurado - Nothing Is the News - Maraqopa (Secretly Canadian)
Low - Belarus - Drums and Guns (Sub Pop)
Hospitality - The Birthday - s/t (Merge)

Memoryhouse - The Kids Were Wrong -

Playlist 4/2/12

Pavement - Frontwards - Slanted and Enchanted Reissue (Matador)
Cursive - Drunken Birds - I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek)
French Kicks - Oh Fine - The Trial of the Century (Star Time)

Marnie Stern - The Devil Is in the Details - This Is It... (Kill Rock Stars)
Fanfarlo - Lenslife - Rooms Filled with Light (Canfavasback)
Olivia Tremor Control - Hideaway - Black Foliage Vol. 1 (Cloud)

The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia (Capitol)
The Psychadelic Furs - Heartbreak Beat - Midnight to Midnight (Sony)
Foster the People - Helena Beat - Torches (Columbia)

Black Kids - Listen to Your Body Tonight - Partie Traumatic (Columbia)
The Black Keys - Ten Cent Pistol - Brothers (Nonesuch)
The Shins - Simple Song - Port of Morrow (Columbia)

TOPS - Turn Your Love Around - Tender Opposites (Artbus)
Evean Voytas - You Don't Even Know Where It's At - Feel Me (Dovecote)
Chairlift - I Belong in Your Arms - Something (Kanine)

First Aid Kit - Heavy Storm - The Big Black and the Blue (Jagadamba)
M Ward - To Go Home - Post-War (Merge)
Bowerbirds - Brave World - The Clearing (Dead Oceans)

Andrew Bird - Lusitania - Break It Yourself (Mom + Pop)
Now It's Overhead - Fall Back Open - Fall Back Open (Saddle Creek)
Bright Eyes/Neva Dinova - I Know You - One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels Reissue (Saddle Creek)

Damien Jurado - Nothing Is the News - Mariqopa (Secretly Canadian)
Vetiver - Angels' Share - s/t (DiChristina)
Perfume Genius - Normal Song - Put Your Back N 2 It (Matador)

The Decemberists - Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) - Crane Wife (Capitol)
Okkervil River - Calling and Not Calling My Ex - The Stand In's (Jagjaguwar)
Good Field - Something's Different - s/t (self)

The Magnetic Fields - God Wants Us to Wait - Love at the Bottom of the Sea (Merge)

Playlist 3/26/12

The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Deadroads - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications - Further Complications (Rough Trade)
Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness - Hello Sadness (Wichita)

Cursive - The Sun and Moon - I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek)
Sleater-Kinney - I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone - Call the Doctor (Chainsaw)
The Black Keys - Sister - El Camino (Nonesuch)

The Evens - Around the Corner - s/t (Dischord)
The Builders and the Butchers - Vampire Lake - Salvation Is a Deep Dark Well (Gigantic)
Dead Man's Bones - Pa Pa Power - s/t (Anti)

The Felice Brothers - Fire at the Pageant - Celebration Florida (Fat Possum)
Beth Jeans Houghton and the Hooves of Destiny - Atlas - Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose (Mute)
Good Field - Something's Different - s/t (self)

Neva Dinova - Yellow Datsun - The Hate Yourself Change (Sideecho)
Colin Meloy - Dracula's Daughter & Wonder - Sings Live! (Jealous Butcher)
David Bazan - Please, Baby, Please - Curse Your Branches (Pirate)

Andrew Bird - Polynation - Break It Yourself (Mom + Pop)
Bowerbirds - In the Yard - The Clearing (Dead Oceans)
Petra Hayden - Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand - Sings the Who Sell Out (Bar None)

Tennis - My Better Self - Young & Old (Fat Possum)
Chairlift - Sidewalk Safari - Something (Kanine)
Islands - Never Go Solo - A Sleep and A Forgetting (Anti)

The Magnetic Fields - Andrew in Drag - Love at the Bottom of the Sea (Merge)
Frankie Rose - Night Swim - Interstellar (Slumberland)
The Postal Service - We Will Become Silhouettes - We Will Become Silhouettes (Sub Pop)

Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead - Set Yourself on Fire (Arts & Crafts)
Rilo Kiley - Love and War (11/11/46) - More Adventurous (Brute Beaute)
Boat - We Want It We Want It - Setting the Paces (Magic Marker)

M Ward - Hi Fi - Transistor Radio (Merge)

Playlist 3/19/12

Los Campesinos! - Knee Deep at ATP - Hold On Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
Georgie James - Look Me Up - Places (Saddle Creek)
Flight of the Conchords - Business Time - s/t (Sub Pop)

Of Montreal - Malefic Dowry - Paralytic Stalks (Polyvinyl)
Foals - Balloons - Antidotes (Sub Pop)
Islands - Hallways - A Sleep and A Forgetting (Anti)

The Black Keys - Money Maker - El Camino (Nonesuch)
The Warmers - Wanted: More - Wanted: More (Dischord)
Dirty Ghosts - Ropes That Way - Metal moon (Last Gang)

Pontiak - The North Coast - Echo Ono (Thrill Jockey)
Jens Lekman - The Opposite of Hallelujah - Night Falls Over Kortedala (Secretly Canadian)
Let's Get Out of This Terrible Sandwich Shop - Chattanooga Kookoo - Listening (Roydale)

Belle & Sebastian - Wrapped Up in Books - Books (Rough Trade)
Kelly Stoltz - The Birmgingham Eccentric - Circular Sounds (Sub Pop)
Andrew Bird - Give It Away - Break It Yourself (Mom & Pop)

DeVotchKa - Blessing in Disguise - A Mad & Faithful Telling (Anti)
Bright Eyes - Approximate Sunlight - The People's Key (Saddle Creek)
She & Him - You Really Got a Hold on Me - Volume One (Merge)

Bowerbirds - In the Yard - The Clearing (Dead Oceans)
Chairlift - Ghost Tonight - Something (Kanine)
Tennis - Robin - Young & Old (Fat Possum)

The Decemberists - The Soldiering Life - Her Majesty... (Kill Rock Stars)
Grand Archives - Sleepdriving - s/t (Sub Pop)
Frightened Rabbit - Fast Blood - The Midnight Organ Fight (Fat Cat)

Perfume Genius - Take Me Home - Put Your Back N 2 It (Matador)
Wilco - The Late Greats - A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)
Langhorne Slim - Tipping Point - & the War Eagles (Kemado)

Justin Townes Earle - The Good Life - The Good Life (Bloodshot)
Scout Niblett - No-ones Wrong - I Am (Secretly Canadian)
David Byrne - Body in a River - Lead Us Not into Temptation (Thrill Jockey)

The Magnetic Fields - Andrew in Drag - Love at the Bottom of the Sea (Merge)
Y La Bamba - Court the Storm - Court the Storm (Tender Loving Empire)

Playlist 3/12/12

Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe - The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)
Jens Lekman - Waiting for Kirsten - An Argument with Myself (Secretly Canadian)
Tennis - Origins - Young & Old (Fat Possum)

The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Really Love You Anymore - I (Nonesuch)
Mister Heavenly - Reggae Pie - Out of Love (Sub Pop)
Bowerbirds - Brave World - The Clearing (Dead Oceans)

The Good Life - Always a Bridesmaid - Lovers Need Lawyers (Saddle Creek)
Boat - I Really, Really Think You Should Rethink Your Life - Let's Drag Our Feet (Magic Marker)
Islands - Never Go Solo - A Sleep & A Forgetting (Anti)

Chairlift - I Belong in Your Arms - Something (Kanine)
Howler - This One's Different - America Give Up (Rough Trade)
Rival Sons - All Over the Road - Pressure & Time (Earache Records)

Wild Flag - Glass Tambourine - s/t (Merge)
The White Stripes - 300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues - Icky Thump (Warner)
sports - Side Effect of Talk - s/t (self)

The Black Keys - Sister - El Camino (Nonesuch)
Times New Viking - Ever Falling in Love - Dancer Equired (Merge)
Dum Dum Girls - Just a Creep - Only in Dreams (Sub Pop)

Let's Wrestle - If I Keep on Loving You - Nursing Home (Merge)
Cursive - Eulogy for No Name - I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek)
Taylor Hollingsworth - I Didn't Know It Was the Devil - Life with a Slow Ear (Team Love)

Big Harp - Nadine - White Hat (Saddle Creek)
Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, Yim Yames - VD City - New Multitude (Rounder)
First Aid Kit - Emmylou - The Lion's Roar (Witchita)

William Elliott Whitmore - Let's Do Something Impossible - Field Songs (Anti)
Shovels and Rope - Boxcar - Daytrotter (Daytrotter)
Ryan Adams - This House Is Not for Sale - Love Is Hell (UMG)

Iron and Wine - Kingdom of the Animals - Boy with a Coin EP (Sub Pop)
Cate Le Bon - The Man I Wanted - Cyrk (The Control Group)
Good Field - Our Roofless Home - s/t (self)

Playlist 3/5/12

Les Savy Fav - Yawn, Yawn, Yawn - Inches (French Kiss)
The Like - He's Not a Boy - Release Me (Downtown)
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy - El Camino (Nonesuch)

The Dodos - Black Night - No Color (French Kiss)
Tegan and Sara - I Know I Know I Know I Know - So Jealous (Sanctuary)
Chairlift - Guilty as Charged - Something (Kanine)

Ex Norwegian - Sky Diving - Sketch (Dying Van Gogh)
Nihiti - Golden Pavilion - Faced with Splendor (Lo Bit Landscapes)
Tennis - Take Me to Heaven - Young & Old (Fat Possum)

Jarvis Cocker & Richard Hawley - The Cheat - Total Lee! (Astralwerks)
Rilo Kiley - The Absence of God - More Adventurous (Brute Beaute)
The Magnetic Fields - The Queen of the Savages - 69 Love Songs (Merge)

Bowerbirds - In the Yard - The Clearing (Dead Oceans)
John Vanderslice - Sea Salt - White Wilderness (Dead Oceans)
These United States - The Great Rivers - What Lasts (United Interests)

Damien Jurado - Reel to Reel - Maraqopa (Secretly Canadian)
O'death - Ghost Head - Outside (Ernest Jennings)
Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, Yim Yames - Talking Empty Bed Blues - New Multitudes (Rounder)

First Aid Kit - King of the World - The Lion's Roar (Wichita)
The Decemberists - Down by the Water - The King Is Dead (Captiol)
Murder by Death - A Masters in Reverse Psychology - Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them (Eyeball)

Twilight Singers - Martin Eden - Blackberry Belle (Birdman)
Dark Dark Dark - Daydreaming - Wild Go (Supply & Demand)
Sharon Van Etten - Serpents - Tramp (Jagjaguwar)

Jenny & Johnny - Big Wave - I'm Having Fun Now (Warner)
Jon Langford & Skull Orchard - 1234Ever - Old Devils (Bloodshot)
Swans - My Birth - My Father Will Guide Me Up Rope to the Sky (Young God)

Cate Le Bon - Fold the Cloth - Cyrk (The Control Group)
Pilots at Sea - Stars - Pilots at Sea EP (Double Six)

Playlist 2/27/12

The Dead Weather - Die by the Drop - Sea of Cowards (Third Man)
Titus Andronicus - A More Perfect Union - The Monitor (XL)
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy - El Camino (Nonesuch)

The Black Belles - Howl at the Moon - The Black Belles (Third Man)
Cursive - The Sun and Moon - I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek)
Foxy Shazam - Welcome to the Church of Rock and Roll - The Church of Rock and Roll (IRS)

Pontiak - Across the Steppe - Echo Ono (Thrill Jockey)
Sleater-Kinney - Jumpers - The Woods (Sub Pop)
Shearwater - Animal Life - Animal Joy (Sub Pop)

Antony and the Johnsons - Fistful of Love - I Am a Bird Now (Secretly Canadian)
Jens Lekman - You Are the Light - You Are the Light EP (Secretly Canadian)
Magneta Lane - The Constant Lover - The Constant Lover (Paper Bag)

Tullycraft - Polaroids from Mars - Disenchanted Hearts Unite (Magic Marker)
We All Have Hooks for Hands - Be Love, Be Wild - The Shape of Energy (Afternoon)
Call and Response - Colors Bleed - Winds Take No Shape (Badman)

First Aid Kit - Emmylou - The Lion's Roar (Witchita)
Molina and Johnson - Twenty Cycles to the Ground - Molina & Johnson (Secretly Canadian)
Rise Against - Swing Life Away - Siren Songs of the Counterculture (Geffen)

Jared Mees and the Grown Children - Excellent Time - Caffeine, Alcohol, Sunshine, Money (Tender Loving Empire)
Ani DiFranco - Life Boat - Which Side Are You On? (Righteous Babe)
Cate Le Bon - The Man I Wanted - Cyrk (The Control Group)

Ex Norwegian - Sky Diving - Sketch (Dying Van Gogh)
Laura Gibson - Milk-Heavy, Pollen-Eyed - La Grande (Barsuk)
The Swell Season - Feeling the Pull - Strict Joy (Anti)

The Good Life - You Don't Feel Like Home to Me - Help Wanted Nights (Saddle Creek)
The Concretes - You Can't Hurry Love - s/t (Astralwerks)
Tennis - Norway - Teen Dream (Sub Pop)

Tennis - Origins - Young & Old (Fat Possum)

Playlist 2/20/12

LCD Soundsystem - New York I Love You But... - Sound of Silver (DFA)
The Flaming Lips - Flight Test - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner)
Wilco - Standing O - The Whole Love (Anti)

First Aid Kit - King of the World - The Lion's Roar (Witchita)
Neko Case - Teenage Feeling - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti)
Billy Bragg - There Is Power in a Union - Talking with the Taxman About Poetry (Elecktra)

Heartless Bastards - Got to Have Rock and Roll - Arrow (Artisan)
Cate Le Bon - The Man I Wanted - Cyrk (Control Group)
The Magnetic Fields -We Are Having a Hootenanny - Realism (Nonesuch)

The Lucksmiths - There Is a Boy that Never Goes Out - Naturaliste (Drive-In)
Hello Seahorse! - Ok!...Lobster - Hoy a Las Ocho (Magic Marker)
Los Campesinos! - Don't Tell Me to Do the Math(s) - Sticking Fingers into Sockets (Arts & Crafts)

Cursive - Drunken Birds - I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek)
The White Stripes - Hotel Yorba - White Blood Cells (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
The Black Keys - Money Maker - El Camino (Nonesuch)

Art Brut - Direct Hit - It's a Bit Complicated (Downtown)
Foxy Shazam - Welcome to the Church of Rock and Roll - The Church of Rock and Roll (IRS)
Rival Sons - All Over the Road - Pressure and Time (Earache)

Tennis - My Bitter Self - Young & Old (Fat Possum)
Neon Indian - Polish Girl -
MGMT - Electric Feel - Oracular Spectacular (Columbia)

Air - Parade - Le Voyage Dans La Lune (Astralwerks)
Ben Kweller - Mean to Me - Go Fly A Kite (The Noise Co.)
Sleater-Kinney - Combat Rock - One Beat (Kill Rock Stars)

Belle and Sebastian - I Want to the World to Stop - Write About Love (Matador)
She & Him - Ridin' in My Car - Volume Two (Merge)
Saturday Looks Good to Me - Meet Me by the Water - All Your Summer Songs (Polyvinyl)

Jenny & Johnny - Animal - I'm Having Fun Now (Warner)
Robyn - Cry When You Get Older - Body Talk Pt. 1 (Interscope)
Black Belles - Howl at the Moon - s/t (Third Man)

Playlist 2/13/12

The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Ballad of the RAA - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
Braid - Please Drive Faster - Lucky to Be Alive (Glue Factory)
Rainer Maria - The Contents of Lincoln's Pockets - Anyone in Love with You (Already Knows) (Polyvinyl)

Los Campesinos! - Baby I Got the Death Rattle - Hello Sadness (Wichita)
Times New Viking - City on Drugs - Born Again Revisited (Matador)
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy - El Camino (Nonesuch)

Rival Sons - All Over the Road - Pressure & Time (Earache)
Rockets - Madeline - s/t (Creative Vibes)
The Black Belles - Howl at the Moon - The Black Belles (Third Man)

Stereo Total - Miau Miau - s/t (Bobsled)
Nada Surf - No Snow on the Mountain - Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy (Barsuk)
Guided by Voices - We Won't Apologize for the Human Race - Let's Go Eat the Factory (GBV inc)

Dead Man's Bones - In the Room Where You Sleep - s/t (Anti-)
CocoRosie - By Your Side - La Maison de Mon Reve (Touch & Go)
Nimoy and Shatner - Mr. Tambourine Man - Spaced Out (Universal)

Annie Hayden - Hip Hurray - The Enemy of Love (Merge)
Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monologue - Two Way Monologue (Astralwerks)
Oxford Collapse - The Boys Go Home - A Good Ground (Themselves)

Ben Kweller - Gossip - Go Fly a Kite (The Noise Co.)
Ani DiFranco - Unworry - Which Side Are You On? (Righteous Babe)
Silver Jews - I'm Getting Back into Getting Back into You - Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City)

Bright Eyes/Neva Dinova - I'll Be Your Friend - One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels (Crank!)
David Bazan - Curse Your Branches - Curse Your Branches (Barsuk)
Hindi Zahra - Kiss and Thrills - Handmade (Our Souls)

The Swell Season - Feeling the Pull - Strict Joy (Anti-)
Simon Joyner - Birds of Spring - Lost with the Lights On (Jagjaguwar)
M. Ward - Vincent O'Brien - The Transfiguration of Vincent (Merge)

First Aid Kit - King of the World - The Lion's Roar (Witchita)
Good Field - These Dreams - s/t (self)
Cate Le Bon - Falcon Eyed - Cryk (Control Group)





Karen Dalton

Playlist 2/6/12

Javelin - Oh! Centra - No Mas (Luaka Bop)
BOAT - Forever in Armitron - Dress Like Your Idols (Magic Marker)
Tegan and Sara - You Wouldn't Like Me - So Jealous (Sanctuary)

The Do - The Calendar - Both Ways Open Jaws (Six Degrees)
Ex Norwegian - Sky Diving - Sketch (Dying Van Gogh)
Rockets - Madeline - s/t (Creative Vibe)

Rilo Kiley - Does He Love You? - More Adventurous (Brute Beaute)
Noah & the Whale - Tonight's the Kind of Night - Last Night on Earth (Mercury)
First Aid Kit - Emmylou - The Lion's Roar (Witchita)

Neva Dinova - Yellow Datsun - The Hate Yourself Change (Sidecho)
O'death - Black Dress - Outside (Ernest Jennings)
Ani DiFranco - Life Boat - Which Side Are You On? (Righteous Babe)

The Mountain Goats - Damn These Vampires - All Eternals Deck (Merge)
Laura Gibson - La Grande - La Grande (Barsuk)
Jens Lekman - I Saw Her at the Anti-War Demonstration - You Are the Light (Secretly Canadian)

Okkervil River - For Real - Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguwar)
Tennis - Take Me Somewhere - Cape Dory (Fat Possum)
Kathleen Edwards - Empty Threat - Voyageur (Rounder)

Stars - What I'm Trying to Say - Set Yourself on Fire (Arts & Crafts)
Porcelain Raft - Is It Too Deep for You? - Strange Weekend (Secretly Canadian)
Islands - Rough Gem - Return to the Sea (Equator)

The Promise Ring - The Deep South - Very Emergency (Jade Tree)
Nada Surf - Let the Fight Do the Fighting - Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy (Barsuk)
She & Him - Lingering Still - Volume Two (Merge)

Belle & Sebastian - I Want the World to Stop - Write About Love (Matador)
The Evens - Mt. Pleasant Isn't - s/t (Dischord)
The Black Keys - Gold on the Ceiling - El Camino (Nonesuch)

Sleater Kinney - I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone - Call the Doctor (Chainsaw)
Mutts - Real Bright - Pray for Rain (self)
Rival Sons - Only One - Pressure & Time (Earache)

Playlist 1/30/12

Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications - Further Complications (Rough Trade)
Parenthetical Girls - A Song for Ellie Greenwich - Entanglements (Tomlab)
Placebo - Ashtray Heart - Battle for the Sun (Vagrant)

John Cale - Whaddya Mean by That - EP: Extra Playful (Double Six)
The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - Castles of Wales - ...and the Horse You Rode in on (Bloodshot)
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy - El Camino (Nonesuch)

Ex Norwegian - Girl with the Mustache - Sketch (Dying Van Gogh)
Nada Surf - When I Was Young - Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy (Barsuk)
The Anniversary - Outro in No Minor - Designing a Nervous Breakdown (Vagrant)

Cursive - Fairytales Tell Tales - Burst and Bloom (Saddle Creek)
Ben Kweller - Jealous Girl - Go Fly a Kite (The Noise Co.)
The Multiple Cat - Slapped by the Invisible Hand - The Golden Apple Hits (Plow City)

Fruit Bats - Hobo Girl - The Ruminant Band (Sub Pop)
Los Campesinos! - Don't Tell Me to Do the Math(s) - Sticking Fingers into Sockets (Arts & Crafts)
The Dandy Warhols - I Am Over It - Welcome to the Dollhouse (Capitol)

God Help the Girl - God Help the Girl - God Help the Girl (Matador)
The Do - The Wicked and the Blind - Both Ways Open Jaws (Six Degrees)
Portland Cello Project - Mouth for War - The Thao and Justin Power Sessions (Kill Rock Stars)

Kathleen Edwards - A Soft Place to Land - Voyageur (Rounder)
Pilots at Sea - Passing Trains - Pilots at Sea (self)
Nihiti - Golden Pavilion - Faced with Splendor (Lo Bit Landscapes)

The Autumns - Thieves in Blue - Le Carillon (Abalsom)
Atlas Sound - Te Amo - Parallax (4AD)
David Bazan - Bless this Mess - Curse Your Branches (Barsuk)

Wilco - Standing O - The Whole Love (Anti)
The Decemberists - Down by the Water - The King Is Dead (Capitol)
The Builders and the Butchers - Barcelona - Salvation Is a Deep Dark Well (Gigantic)

Ani DiFranco - Life Boat - Which Side Are You On? (Righteous Babe)

Playlist 1/23/12

O+S - New Life - O+S (Saddle Creek)
Sun Airway - American West - Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier (Dead Oceans)
Foals - Olympic Airways - Antidotes (Sub Pop)

Foster the People - Helen Beat - Torches (Columbia)
Superhuman Happiness - Oh, Tatiana - The Physical EP (Royal Potato Family)
Los Campesinos! - Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats - Hold on Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)

Against Me! - Thrash Unreal - New Wave (Sire)
The Dead Milkmen - Fauxhemia - The King in Yellow (self)
Gringo Star - Shadow - Count Yer Lucky Stars (Gigantic)

The Do - Slippery Slope - Both Ways Open Jaws (Six Degrees)
Nada Surf - Waiting for Something - Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy (Barsuk)
Guided by Voices - We Won't Apologize for the Human Race - Let's Go Eat the Factory (GBV Inc)

Rural Alberta Advantage - Two Lovers - Departing (Saddle Creek)
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band - At Night - Where the Messengers Meet (Dead Oceans)
The Magnetic Fields - Zombie Boy - Distortion (Nonesuch)

Ani DiFranco - Life Boat - Which Side Are You On? (Righteous Babe)
The Swell Season - High Horses - Strict Joy (Anti)
The Extra Lens - Rockin' Rockin' Twilight of the Gods - Undercard (Merge)

Wilco - Capitol City - The Whole Love (anti)
Dan Mangan - Post War Blues - Oh Fortune (Arts & Crafts)
Crooked Fingers - The Counerfeiter - Breaks in the Armor (Merge)

Conor Oberst - Moab - s/t (Merge)
Laura Gibson - The Fire - La Grande (Barsuk)
Ben Kweller - Jealous Girl - Go Fly a Kite (The Noise Group)

Langhorne Slim and the War Eagles - Diamonds and Gold - s/t (Kemado)
Maria Taylor - Time Lapse Lifeline - Lady Luck (Nettwerk)

Playlist 1/8/12

DeVotchKa - We're Leaving - How It Ends (Cicero)
The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Really Love You Anymore - I (Nonesuch)
The Brunettes - Brunettes Against Bubblegum Youth - Structure and Cosmetics (Sub Pop)

Stars - The Night Starts Here - In Our Bedroom After the War (Arts & Crafts)
Robyn - Fembot - Body Talk Pt. 1 (Interscope)
Stereo Total - Andy Warhol - Baby Ouh! (Kill Rock Stars)

LCD Soundsystem - You Wanted a Hit - This Is Happening (DFA)
Les Savy Fav - Meet Me in the Dollar Bin - Inches (French Kiss)
Cut Copy - Lights and Music - In Ghost Colors (Modular)

Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks - Torches (Columbia)
Los Campesinos! - By Your Hand - Hello Sadness (Wichita)
Braid - Please Drive Faster - Lucky to Be Alive (Glue Factory)

Alkaline Trio - Cooking Wine - Singles (Asian Man)
The Lawrence Arms - The Northside, the L&L and Any # of Crappy Apartments - A Guided Tour of Chicago (Asian Man)
Jawbreaker - Sea Foam Green - Etc. (Blackball)

Against Me! - We Laugh at Danger (and Break All the Rules) - Reinventing Axle Rose (No Idea)
Desaparecidos - Mall of America - Read Music, Speak Spanish (Saddle Creek)
Empires - Modern Love - Howl (self)

The Black Keys - Howlin' for You - Brothers (Nonesuch)
Modest Mouse - Satin in a Coffin - Good News for People Who Love Bad News (Capitol)
Titus Andronicus - No Future Part Three: Escape from No Future - The Monitor (XL)

Spoon - Rhythm and Soul - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)
Beauty Pill - Lifeguard in Wintertime - The Unsustainable Lifestyle (Dischord)
Rainer Maria - Hell and High Water - Hell and High Water (Polyvinyl)

The Flaming Lips - Lightning Strikes the Postman - Clouds Taste Metallic (Warner)
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Rise Up with Fists!! - Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)
The Decemberists - Red Right Ankle - Her Majesty... (Kill Rock Stars)

Shovels and Rope - Boxcar - Daytrotter Session (Daytrotter)
McCarthy Trenching - I Am Not Long for This World - s/t (Team Love)
Mayday - Booze and Pills - Bushido Karaoke (Saddle Creek)

Loretta Lynn - Portland Oregon - Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
Silver Jews - Punks in the Beerlight - Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City)
Jonathan Rice - It Is Best to Keep It All Inside - Further North (Reprise)

Karen Elson - The Ghost Who Walks - The Ghost Who Walks (XL)
Johnny Cash - Redemption Day - American VI: Ain't No Grave (American)
Two Gallants - Threnody in B Minor - What the Toll Tells (Saddle Creek)

O'Death - Black Dress - Outside (Ernest Jennings)
Crooked Fingers - The Counterfeiter - Breaks in the Armor (Merge)
Murder By Death - Shiola - In Bocca Al Lupo (East West)

The Felice Brothers - Don't Wake the Scarecrow - s/t (Team Love)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Am I Demon? - Ask Forgiveness (Drag City)
Okkervil River - The Valley - I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar)

Boat - (I'm a) Donkey for Your Love - Let's Drag Our Feet (Magic Marker)
I'm From Barcelona - Always Spring - Forever Today (Mute)
Let's Wrestle - If I Keep on Loving You - Nursing Home (Merge)

Yuck - Holing Out - s/t (Fat Possum)
Wolf Parade - You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son - Apologies to the Queen Mary (Sub Pop)
Neutral Milk Hotel - King of Carrot Flowers (pt. 2 and 3) In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Merge)

Mr. Gnome - Ate the Sun - Madness in Miniature (El Marko)
Atlas Sound - Te Amo - Parallax (4AD)
Real Estate - Out of Tune - Days (Domino)

The Tallest Man on Earth - Kids on the Run - The Wild Hunt (Dead Oceans)
The Good Life - You Don't Feel Like Home to Me - Help Wanted Nights (Saddle Creek)
Sports - St. Christopher - s/t (self)

Bombay Bicycle Club - How Can You Swallow So Much - A Different Kind of Fix (A&M)