Playlist 6/22/09

Jens Lekman - You Are the Light / When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog (Secretly Canadian)
St. Vincent - Laughing with a Mouth of Blood / Actor (4AD)
Hanalei - Josh & Sara's Belated Wedding Present / We Are All Natural Disasters (Thick)

The Good Life - Notes in His Pocket / Album of the Year (Acoustic Bonus Disc) (Saddle Creek)
Laura Veirs - Icebound Stream / Carbon Glacier (Nonesuch)
Like Bells - Nothing Collapses / s/t (Exit Stencil)

Tortoise - Gigantes / Beacons of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey)
Tilly and the Wall - Let It Rain / Wild Like Children (Team Love)
Portland Cello Project - Hungry Liars / The Thao and Justin Power Sessions (Kill Rock Stars)

Takka Takka - One Foot in the Well (the optimists were wrong) / Migration (Ernest Jenning Records)
Okkervil River - Singer Songwriter / The Stand In's (Jagjaguwar)
Eels - Fresh Blood / Hombro Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire

Cut Copy - Bright Neon Payphone / Bright Light Neon Love (Modular)
CSS - Rat Is Dead (Rage) / Donkey (Sub Pop)
Call and Response - Colors Bleed / Winds Take No Shape (Badman)

Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is the Move / Bitte Orca (Domino)
The Fiery Furnaces - Spaniolated / Blueberry Boat (Rough Trade)
Snowglobe - Nothing I Can Do / No Need to Light a Night Light on a Night Like Tonight…EP (Makeshift)

Bachelorette - Instructions for Insomniacs / My Electric Family (Drag City)
Lambchop - Nothing But a Blur from a Bullet Train / Aw C'mon (Merge)
Belle and Sebastian - Wrapped Up in Books / Books EP (Rough Trade)

Jarvis Cocker - Caucasian Blues / Futher Complications (Rough Trade)
Viva Voce - Tornado Alley / Rose City (Barsuk)
My Morning Jacket - Hopefully / Acoustic Citsuoca (ATO)

Old Time Relijun - The Door I Came Through Has Been Closed (but I keep trying) / Lost Light (Secretly Canadian)
The Born Again Floozies - Dumb It Down Now / Street Music (Triple R)

Playlist 6/15/09

The Horse's Ha - Heiress / Of the Cathmawr Yards (Hidden Agenda)
The Rosebuds - Kicks in the Schoolyard / …Make Out (Merge)
The Pastels - Get 'Round Town / Up for a Bit with the Pastels (Vevel)

Belle and Sebastian - I Love My Car / I'm Waking Up to Us EP (Matador)
Hopewell - Worried Mind / Good Good Desperation (Tee Pee)
Heavenly - Lemonhead Boy / Heavenly vs. Satan (K Records)

Velocity Girl - Gilded Stars / Gilded Stars (Sub Pop)
The Robot Ate Me - Tied to the Car / They Ate Themselves (Swim Slowly)
Clues - Approach the Throne / s/t (Constellation)

The Stratford 4 - Hydroplane / The Revolt Against Tired Noise (Jetset)
Elbow - Not a Job / Cast of Thousands (V2)
Iron and Wine - Belated Promise Ring / Around the Well (Sub Pop)

Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band - Air Mattress / Outer South (Merge)
Neva Dinova - It's Worse When You're Young / s/t (Crank!)
Owen - Good Deeds / No Good for No One (Polyvinyl)

The Wunder Years - Crush Fatal / Living Tomorrow Today (Asian Man)
Hey Mercedes - Our Weekend Starts on Wednesday / Every Night Fireworks (Vagrant)
Haymarket Riot - Tasting a Good Movie / Bloodshot Eyes (Thick)

Native - Alpacastan / We Delete; Erase (Sargent House)
Dan Andriano - Let the Stars Play / Split w/ Mike Felumlee (Double Zero)
Alexa Woodward - Plants / Speck (self-released)

Cursive - Bloody Murderer / The Ugly Organ (Saddle Creek)
Sorry About Dresden - A Losing Season / The Convenience of Indecision (Saddle Creek)
Sufjan Stevens - Year of the Ox / Enjoy Your Rabbit (Athsmatic Kitty)

Grizzly Bear - About Face / Vekatimest (Warp)
Pavement - My First Mine / Slanted and Enchanted (Matador)
Pulp - Mis-Shapes / Different Class (Island)

Brian Jonestown Massacre - This Is Why You Love Me / Love EP (TVT)
Mannequin Men - (Who Is) Alice Golden / Lose Your Illusion, Too (Flameshovel)
Dirty Projectors - Two Doves / Bitte Orca (Domino)

Playlist 6/8/09

Los Campesinos! - Don't Tell Me to Do the Maths - Sticking Fingers into Sockets EP (Arts & Crafts)
Popup - What's the Matter Now? - A Time and a Place (Team Love)
Bishop Allen - The Ancient Common Sense of Things - Grr… (Dead Oceans)

Of Montreal - Everything Disappears When You Come Around - Cherry Peel (BarNone)
Lucksmiths - Edward Sandwhich Hand - Happy Secret (Lucky 6)
Lily Allen - The Fear - It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol)

The Slant - Love within My Sins - Slanted Eyes-Slanted Hearts (Self-Released)
City Center - Open/House - City Center (Type)
Will Oldham - Do What You Will Do - Black/Rich Music (Drag City)

Hefner - The Weight of the Stars - The Fidelity Wars (Beggars Banquet)
M. Ward - Jailbird - Hold Time (Merge)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Everything I Cannot See - 5:55 (Because Music/Vice)

David Vandervelde - Nothin' No - Nothin' No EP (Secretly Canadian)
Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band - Big Black Nothing - Outer South (Merge)
DeVotchKa - The Enemy Guns - How It Ends (Cicero)

St. Vincent - Actor Out of Work - Actor (4AD)
Blitzen Trapper - Sci-Fi Kid - Wild Mountain Nation (Lidkercow Ltd.
Laura Veirs - Saltbreakers - Saltbreakers (Nonesuch)

Adam Franklin - It Hurts to See You Go - Spent Bullets (Second Motion)
Apples in Stereo - Ruby - Her Wallpaper Reverie (spinART)
Jenny Owens Young - Led to the Sea - Transmitter Failure (Nettwerk)

William Elliott Whitmore - Hell or High Water - Animals in the Dark (Anti-)
Silver Jews - How to Rent a Room - The Natural Bridge (Drag City)
The Wooden Birds - Quit You Once - Magnolia (Barsuk)

Lonely Dear - I Was Only Going Out - Dear John (Polyvinyl)
Lullaby for the Working Class - Asleep on the Subway - Song (Bar-None)
Spoon - The Minor Tough - A Series of Sneaks (Elektra)

Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications - Further Complications (Rough Trade)
The Kinks - All Day and All of the Night - To the Bone (Grapevine)
Grizzley Bear - Two Weeks - Beckatimest (Warp)

Playlist 6/1/09

Jarvis Cocker - Angela - Further Complications (Rough Trade) *HR*
Cursive - Once - The Recluse EP (Saddle Creek)
Jawbreaker - Busy - Unfun (Shredder)

A.C. Newman - Come Crash - Slow Wonder (Matador)
Patti Smith - My Blakean Year - Trampin' (Columbia)
American Music Club - Western Sky - California (Demon)

Bricolage - Flowers of Deceit - s/t (Slumberland) *LR*
Weezer - In the Garage - Blue Album Deluxe Re-Issue (DGC)
Harlem Shakes - Technicolor Health - Technicolor Health (Gigantic) *LR*

The Beauty Pill - Terrible Things - The Unsustainable Lifestyle (Dischord)
The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Really Love You Anymore - I (Nonesuch)
Jolie Holland - Amen - Escondida (Anti-)

Ryan Adams - Anybody Wanna Take Me Home - Love Is Hell (UMG)
Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band - Slowly (Oh So Slowly) - Outer South (Merge)
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues / Live at Folsom Prison (Columbia)

Nora O'Connor - Bottoms / Til the Dawn (Bloodshot)
PJ Harvey - You Came Through / Uh Huh Her (Island)
St Vincent - Laughing with a Mouth of Blood / Actor

The Coat Hangers - Time Passing / Scramble (Suicide Squeeze)
The Soviettes - Channel X / LP II (Adeline)
Atom and His Package - Punk Rock Academy / A Society of People Named Elihu (Mountain)

Stereo Total - LA, CA, USA / Monokini (Kill Rock Stars)
French Kicks - The Falls / Trial of the Century (Star Time)
The Unicorns - The Unicorns: 2014 / 2014 EP (Suicide Squeeze)

Les Sans Culottes - Garcon Culotte (The Saucy Boy) / Fixation Orale (Aeronaut)
Tapes 'n Tapes - 50s Parking / s/t (Ibid)
Bettie Seveert - Healthy Sick / Palomine (Matador)

The Books - There Is No There There / Lemon of Pink (Tomlab)
Devendra Banhart - White Reggae Troll / Causes 2 (Waxploitation)
Woods - Rain On / Songs of Shame (Shrimper)

Raising the Fawn - Gwendolyn / The North Sea (Sonic Unyon)
Bob Dylan - Jolene / Together Through Life (Columbia)

5/18/09

The Brunettes - Brunettes Against Bubblegum Youth / Structure and Cosmetics (Sub Pop)
Architecture in Helsinki - Like It or Not / Places Like This (Polyvinyl)
Camera Obscura - The Sweetest Thing / My Maudlin Career (4AD)

The Decemberists - After the Bombs (Live) / Causes2 (Waxploitation)
Okkervil River - Our Live Is Not a Movie or Maybe / The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)
Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band - Big Black Nothing / Outer South (Merge)

Tunng - Hands / Good Arrows (Thrill Jockey)
The Owls - Welcome to Monday / Daughters and Suns (Magic Marker)
Saturday Looks Good to Me - (Even if You Die on the) Ocean / Fill Up the Room (K Records)

Bat for Lashes - Pearl's Dream / Two Sons (Astralwerks)
The Magnetic Fields - Zombie Boy / Distortion (Nonesuch)
Bon Iver - Skinny Love / For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)

Iron and Wine - Dearest Forsaken / Around the Well (Sub Pop)
Devotchka - Undone / A Mad and Faithful Telling (Anti-)
She & Him - Change Is Hard / Volume One (Merge)

The Good Life - You Don't Feel Like Home to Me / Help Wanted Nights (Saddle Creek)
John Vanderslice - Tremble and Tear / Romanian Names (Dead Oceans)
Cat Power - Aretha, Sing One for Me / Jukebox (Matador)

Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Am I Demon? / Ask Forgiveness EP (Drag City)
Joe Lally - Skin and Bone / Nothing Is Underrated (Dischord)
Boy in Static - Toy Baby Grand / Candy Cigarette (Fake Four Inc)

Art Brut - Twist and Shout / vs. Satan (Downtown)
Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! / Sticking Fingers into Sockets (Arts & Crafts)
The Coat Hangers - Stop Stomp Stompin / Scramble (Suicide Squeeze)

New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream / Fantastic Playroom (Modular)
Crocodiles - Soft Skull (In My Room) - Summer of Hate (Fat Possum)

Playlist 5/11/09

Jenny Lewis - Carpetbaggers / Acid Tongue (Warner)
Sally Timms - Dreaming Cowboy / Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments (Bloodshot)
McCarthy Trenching - Single Ladies (Cover) (Team Love Records)

Conor Oberst - Nikorette / Outer South (Merge)
Willy Mason - Hard Hand to Hold / Where the Humans Eat (Team Love)
Bill Callahan - All Thoughts Are Prey to Some Beast / Sometimes I Wish I Were an Eagle (Drag City)

The Good Life - The Beaten Path / Black Out (Saddle Creek)
Lambchop - I Can Hardly Spell My Name / Is a Woman (Merge)
The Lesser Birds of Paradise - Always the Sound / Space Between (Contraphonic)

Jenny Owen Youngs - Led to the Sea / Rransmitter Failure (Nettwerk)
Bat for Lashes - Sleep Alone / Two Suns (Astralwerks)
Wake the President - You Can't Change that Boy / You Can't Change that Boy (Magic Marker)

Lucksmiths - Edward, Sandwhich Hand / Happy Secret (Drive-In)
Smoosh - La Pump / She Like Electric (Pattern 25)
Panda Bear - Track Two / Young Prayer (Paw Tracks)

Devotchka - Such a Lovely Thing / How It Ends (Cicero)
My Brightest Diamond - Golden Star / Bring Me the Workhorse (Asthmatic Kitty)
Tom Waits - How It's Gonna End / Real Gone (Anti-)

Jarvis Cocker - Black Magic / s/t (Rough Trade)
The Thermals - Now We Can See / Now We Can See (Kill Rock Stars)
The Reputation - The Stars of Ameture Hour / s/t (Initial)

The Lawrence Arms - Nebraska / split w/Shady View Terrace (Asian Man)
Art Brut - Twist & Shout / vs. Satan (Downtown)
Camera Obscura - You Told a Lie / My Maudlin Career (4AD)

Mirah - Make It Hot / Advisory Committee (K Records)
Cryptacize - What You Can't See Is / Mythomania (Athsmatic Kitty)
June of 44 - Five Bucks in My Pocket / Anahata (Gestalt Rock)

Years - Kids Toy Love Affair / s/t (Arts & Crafts)

Playlist 5/4/09

Anathallo - Northern Lights / Canopy Glow (Anticon)
Son, Ambulance - Katie Come True / Oh Holy Fools (Saddle Creek)
CocoRosie - Madonna / La Maison de Mon Reve (Touch & Go)

Bill Cllahan - My Friend / Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle (Drag City)
Olivia Tremor Control - A Sleepy Company / Black Foliage V. 1 (Cloud)
Patrick Wolf - Pigeon Song / Lycanthropy (Tomlab)

Blake Miller - When the Sky Turns to Black / Burn Tape (Exitstencil)
Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945 / In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Merge)
Akron/Family - Many Ghosts / Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free (Dead Oceans)

Canasta - Slow Down Chicago / Find the Time (Broken Middle C)
Woods - The Number / Songs of Shame (Shrimper)
Loretta Lynn - Portland Oregon / Van Lear Rose (Interscope)

The Devil Makes Three - Gracefully Facedown / Do Wrong Right (Milan)
Pomegranites - The Southern Ocean / Everybody, Come Outside! (Lujo)
Of Montreal - Let's Do Everything for the First Time Forever / Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies (Kindercore)

Art Brut - Slap Dash for No Cash / Art Brut vs. Satan (Downtown)
Volcano, I'm Still Excited - Shouting Across the Water / s/t (Polyvinyl)
Heavenly - Itchy Chin / The Decline and Fall of Heavenly (K Records)

Mates of State - Like U Crazy / Bring It Back (Barsuk)
Crocodiles - Refuse Angels / Summer of Hate (Fat Possum)
New Order - Age of Consent / 20 Years of... (Reprise)

Pulp - Lipgloss / His 'n Hers (Ilsand)
The Music Lovers - A Word From Your Fashion Editor / Masculine Feminine (Le Grand Magistery)
Not Rebecca - Blender / Rocketship to Canada (Johanns Face)

Hefner - Hold Me Closer / We Love the City (Too Pure)
John Vanderslice - Tremble and Tear / Romanian Names (Dead Oceans)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Am I Demon? - Ask Forgiveness EP (Drag City)