Playlist 8/17/09

Rilo Kiley - Wires and Waves / Take Offs and Landings (Barsuk)
Art in Manilla - The Abomination / Set the Woods on Fire (Saddle Creek)
Cage the Elephant - Ain't No Rest for the Wicked / s/t (Jive)

The Builders and the Butchers - Bringin Home the Rain / s/t (Bladen County)
Drakkar Sauna - Icing Down Her Top / Drakkansauna (Marriage)
the Ravonettes - Red Tan / Pretty in Black (Columbia)

The Black Angels - The First Vietnamese War / Passover (Light in the Attic)
God Help the Girl - Come Monday Night / s/t (Matador)
Magnolia Electric Co. - Rock of Ages / Josephine (Secretly Canadian)

Choo Choo La Rouge - I'm a Truck / Black Clouds (Kiam)
Patterson Hood - I Understand Now / Murdering Oscar (Ruth St.)
Adam Stephens - Lead in Our Lungs / self released (self released)

Horse Feathers - Curs in the Weeds / House with No Home (Kill Rock Stars)
Fruit Bats - Singing Joy to the World / The Ruminant Band (Sub Pop)
Oneida - It Was a Wall / Rated O (Jagjaguwar)

Devil Makes Three - Do Wrong Right / Do Wrong Right (Milan)
Justin Townes Earle - The Good Life / The Good Life (Bloodshot)
Loretta Lynn - God's Country / Van Lear Rose (Interscope)

Monsters of Folk - The Sandman, the Brakeman and Me
David Dondero - The Real Tina Turner - The Transient (Future Farmer)
Beirut - Postcards from Italy / Gulag Orkestrar (Ba Da Bing!)

The Lesser Birds of Paradise - She's Got a Set of Wings / It Isn't the Fall (Loose Thread)
Starlight Mints - Zoomba / Change Remains (Barsuk)
The Do - On My Shoulders / A Mouthful (Get Down)

Life Without Buildings - Let's Get Out / Any Other City (Tugboat)
The Grates - Howl / Gravity Won't Get You High (Interscope)
Cut Off Your Hands - Oh Girl / You and I (French Kiss)

Plasticines - Barcelona / About Love (Nylon)
Nurses - What Then / Apple's Acre (Dead Oceans)

Playlist 8/10/09

Wilco - One Wing / Wilco (the Album) (Nonesuch)
Silver Jews - I'm Getting Back into Getting Back into You - Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City)
Theo Angell - Tenebrae / Tenebrae (Amish)

Two Gallants - The Prodigal Son / What the Toll Tells (Saddle Creek)
My Morning Jacket - Gideon / Z (ATO)
Cass McCombs - The Executioner's Song / Catacombs

Bright Eyes - From a Balance Beam / There Is No Beginning to the Story EP (Saddle Creek)
Gregory Pepper and His Problems - It Must Be True / With Trumpets Flaring (Fake Four Inc.)
Spoon - Anything You Want / Girls Can Tell (Merge)

Books on Tape - Bubblegum / Dinosaur Dinosaur (Alien 8)
Starlight Mints - Black Champaign / Change Remains (Barsuk)
Slant 6 - Double Edged Knife / Soda Pop * Rip Off (Dischord)

Jawbox - Motorist / For Your Own Special Sweetheart (Atlantic)
Girls Against Boys - Kicking the Lights / You Can't Fight What You Can't See (Jade Tree)
Generationals - When They Fight They Fight / Con Law (Park the Van)
Kickball - Shoulders / ABCKEFGHIJKickball (YoYo)

Mirah - Cold Cold Water / Advisory Committee (K Records)
The Do - Tammie / A Mouthful (Get Down)
Magnetic Fields - Two Characters in Search of a Country Song / Charm of the Highway Strip (Merge)

The Jealous Sound - Naïve / Kill Them with Kindness (Better Looking)
Discovery - Osaka Loop Line / LP (XL)
Windsor for Derby - E Song / Earnest Powrs + (Emporer Jones)

Colin Meloy - I've Changed My Plea to Guilty / Sings Morrissey (self)
Brian Glaze - Silver Ashes / Green Living (World Famous in SF)
Stars - Going, Going, Gone / Nightsongs (Her Grand Magestry)

Laura Gibson - Postures Bent / Beasts of Seasons (Hush)
Bats and Mice - Sliding Scale / Believe It, Mammals (Lovitt)
A Hawk and a Hacksaw - Vasilis Carries a Flaming Skull Through the Forest / Delivrance (Leaf)

Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes / More Adventurous (Brute/Beaute)

Playlist 8/8/09

William Elliot Whitmore - Who Stole the Soul - Animals in the Dark (Anti-)
M. Ward - Never Had Nobody Like You - Hold Time (Merge)
Fruit Bats - The Ruminant Band - The Ruminant Band (Sub Pop)

Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You - Middle Cyclone (Anti-)
Cass McCombs - Pregnant Pause - Dropping the Writ (Domino)
Magnolia Electric Co. - The Rock of Ages - Josephine (Secretly Canadian)

DeVotchKa - Undone - A Mad & Faithful Telling (Anti-)
Broken Records - Slow Parade - Until the Earth Begins to Part (4AD)
Now It's Overhead - Estranged - Dark Light Daybreak (Saddle Creek)

Beauty Pill - Terrible Things - The Unsustainable Lifestyle (Dischord)
Bombadil - Cold Runway - Tarpits and Canyonlands (Ramseur)
Okkervil River - Calling and Not Calling My Ex - The Stand In's (Jagjaguwar)

Bishop Allen - The Ancient Common Sense of Things - Grr... (Dead Oceans)
All Girl Summer Fun Band - Lipsmacker Kiss - Summer of '98 (Magic Marker)
Wye Oak - For Prayer - The Knot (Merge)

A.C. Newman - Drink to Me, Babe, Then - Slow Wonder (Matador)
Calexico - The News About William - Carried to Dust (Quarterstick)
Wilco - I'll Fight - Wilco (the Album) (Nonesuch)

Eric Bachmann - Lonesome Warrior - To the Races (Saddle Creek)
Neva Dinova - Clouds - You May Already Be Dreaming (Saddle Creek)
Patterson Hood - Pollyanna - Murdering Oscar (and Other Love Songs) (Ruth St.)

The Books - Mikey Bass - Thought for Food (Tomlab)
Tunng - Bricks - Good Arrows (Thrill Jockey)
Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips - I Deserve It - L'Avventura (Jetset)

God Help the Girl - Come Monday Night - s/t (Matador)
The National - Murder Me Rachael - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers (Brassland)
The Do - At Last! - A Mouthful (Get Down)

Gaglians - Modern African Queen - Monster Head Room (Woodsist)
Eels - Last Stop: This Town - Electro-shock Blues (Dreamworks)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Beware Your Only Friend - Beware (Drag City)

Los Campesinos! - Broken Heartbeats Sound like Breakbeats - Hold on Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
Hello Seahorse! - OK!...Lobster - Hoy a las Ocho (Magic Marker)
The Reputation - The Stars of Amateur Hour - s/t (Initial)

Stanley Ross - Cannibal - Here with Me (Nodak)
We Were Promised Jet Packs - Quiet Little Voices - These Four Walls (Fatcat)
Oneida - It Was a Wall - Rated O (Jagjaguwar)

Motel Motel - Dinosaur - New Denver (Rebel Group)
The Fiery Furnaces - The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry - Bitter Tea (Fat Possum)
Bitch & Animal - You Left Out - Sour Juice and Rhyme (Righteous Babe)

Cymbals Eat Guitars - ...And the Hazy Sea - Why There Are Mountains (self)
The Promise Ring - The Deep South - Very Emergency (Jade Tree)
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Dragonfly Pie - Real Emotional Trash (Matador)

Playlist 8/3/09

The Good Life - Your Birthday Present - Novena on a Nocturn (Better Looking)
Reverie Sound Revue - We Are the Opposite of Thieves - s/t (Boompa) HR
The Decemberists - My Mother Was... - 5 Songs (Hush Records)

Okkervil River - It Ends with a Fall - Down the River of Golden Dreams (Jagjaguwar)
Eric Bachmann - Lonesome Warrior - To the Races (Saddle Creek)
Magnetic Fields - I Don't Believe You - I (Nonesuch)

Bombadil - Oto the Bear - Tarpits and Canyonlands (Ramseur) LR
Rufus Wainwright - Do I Disappoint You - Release the Stars (Geffen)
Magnolia Electric Co. - The Rock of Ages - Josephine (Secretly Canadian) HR

Antony & the Johnsons - Her Eyes Are Underneath the Ground - The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian)
Megafaun - The Fade - Gather, Form & Fly (Hometapes) LR
My Morning Jacket - Golden - It Still Moves (Ato/RCA)

Broken Records - If the News Makes You Sad, Don't Watch It - Until the Earth Begins to Part (4AD) LR
Langhorne Slim & the War Eagles - Diamonds and Gold - s/t (Kemado)
Flaming Lips - Slow Nerve Action - Transmissions from Satelite Heart (Warner)

Devendra Banhart - Samba Vexillographica - Smokey Rolls... (XL)
Theo Angell - A Crime from the Vine - Tenebrae (Amish) HR
Olivia Tremor Control - Beneath the Climb - Presents: Singles and Beyond (Kindercore)

We Were Promised Jetpacks - This Is My House, This Is My Home - These Four Walls (Fatcat) LR
Fruit Bats - The Hobo Girl - The Ruminant Band (Sub Pop)
Tilly and the Wall - Cacophony - O (Team Love)

The Ladybug Transistor - Three Days from Now - Can't Wait Another Day (Merge)
Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange - Rainwater Cassette Exchange (Kranky) HR
Park Ave. - All Boy Band - When Jaimie Went to London... (Urinine)

Matt & Kim - Don't Slow Down - Grand (Fader)
Smart Went Crazy - Best & Final Offer - Now We're Even (Dischord)
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Indiana - Why There Are Mountains (self) HR

Braid - (Stawberry Ann) Switzerland - Movie Music v. (Polyvinyl)

Playlist 7/13/09

Flaming Lips - Lightning Strikes the Postman / Clouds Taste Metalic (Warner)
Magnolia Electric Co. - The Rock of Ages / Josephine (Candian)
John Vanderslice - Letters to the East Coast / Pixel Revolt (Barsuk)

Kimya Dawson - It's Been Raining / Hidden Vagenda (K Records)
Rufus Wainwright - April Fools / s/t (Dreamworks)
Pascal - Crazy / Hello My Name Is (Uvulittle)

Architecture in Helsinki - Heart It Races / Heart It Races EP (Polyvinyl)
Dirty Projectors - Temecula Sunrise / Bitte Orca (Domino)
The Hidden Cameras - Music Is My Boyfriend / Mississauga Goddamn (Rough Trade)

Young Fresh Fellows - Shake Your Magazine / I Think This Is (Yep Roc)
Head of Femur - Napoleon's Boots / Great Plains (Greyday)
Cage the Elephant - Sail to the Sun / s/t (Jive)

Death from Above 1979 - Go Home, Get Down / You're a Woman, I'm a Machine (Vice)
CocoRosie - Beautiful Boys / Noah's Ark (Touch & Go)
My Brightest Diamond - Freak Out / Bring Me the Workhorse (Asthmatic Kitty)

Eels - My Timing Is Off / Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire (Vagrant)
Mates of State - Starman / All Day (Polyvinyl)
Fruit Bats - Earthquake of '73 / Spelled in Bones (Sub Pop)

She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? / Volume One (Merge)
Rubies - Too Bright / Explode from the Center (Telle)
Okkervil River - You're Untied Again / Sleep and Wake-Up Songs (Jagjaguwar)

Weezer - Across the Sea / Pinkerton (DGC)
The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Deadroads / Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
Art Brut - Direct Hit / It's a Bit Complicated (Downtown)

Sons and Daughters - Fight / Love the Cup (Domino)
The Builders and the Butchers - Down in this Hole / Salvation Is a Deep Dark Well (Gigantic)
Of Montreal - Rapture Rapes the Muses / Satanic Panic in the Attic (Polyvinyl)

UUVVWWZ - Jap Dad / s/t (Saddle Creek)
City Center - Open/House / s/t (Type)

Playlist 7/6/09

Home - The Ballad of the RAA / Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
M. Ward - Jailbird / Hold Time (Merge)
Rosie Thomas - 2 Dollar Shoes / When We Were Small (Sub Pop)

The Lesser Birds of Paradise - Always the Sound / Space Between (Contraphonic)
Wilco - I'll Fight / Wilco (the album) (Nonesuch)
Hem - When I Was Drinking / Rabbit Songs (Bar None)

Bats and Mice - Undress Princess / Believe It, Mammals (Lovitt)
Beirut - Postcards from Italy / Gulag Orkestrar (Ba Da Bing)
The Builders and the Butchers - Down in this Hole / Salvation is a Deep dark Well (Gigantic)

William Eliot Whitmore - Hell or High Water / Animals in the Dark (Anti-)
Dresden Dolls - My Alcholic Friends / Yes Virginia (Roadrunner)
Dirty Projectors - Two Doves / Bitte Orca (Domino)

Bishop Allen - Dimmer / Grr… (Dead Oceans)
The White Stripes - Joleen / B-Sides Collection
UUVVWWZ - Trapezeus / s/t (Saddle Creek)

Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire - Tea & Thorazine / Oh! The Grandeur (Ryko)
Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You / Middle Cyclone (Anti-)
Whiskeytown - Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight / Strangers Almanac (Mood Food)

Tall Tall Trees - Heart Says Go / s/t (Good Neighbor)
Wheat - No One Ever Told Me / Home and Adams (Sugar Free)
Cub Country - St. Louis / High Uinta High (Jade Tree)

Tullycraft - Mental Obsession / Old Traditions, New Standards (Darla)
Reverie Sound Revue - We Are the Opposite of Theives / s/t (Broompa)
Camera Obscura - Roman Holiday / Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken (Merge)

The Microphones - Sand / It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water (K Records)
Clues - Approach the Throne / s/t (Constellation)
The National Splits - I Drive Alone / s/t (Kittridge)

Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange / Rainwater Casset Exchange (Kranky)
Rainer Maria - The Reason the Night Is Long / Look Now Look Again (Polyvinyl)
Silver Scooter - Morning View / When It Was as Good as Pillow Talk-compilation (Round Circle)

The Most Serene Republic - Heavens to Purgatory / …And the Ever Expanding Universe (Arts and Crafts)

Playlist 6/29/09

Arab Strap - The First Big Weekend - Ten Years of Tears (Chemikal Underground)
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position - The Magic Position (Tomlab)
Eels - Prizefighter - Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire (Vagrant)

Sunset Rubdown - Silver Moons - Dragonslayer (Jagjaguwar)
Sonic Youth - What We Know - The Eternal (Matador)
Lymbyc System - Astrology Days - Love Your Abuser (Mush)

Grizzly Bear - Cheerleader - Vekatimest (Warp)
Silver Jews - I'm Getting Back into Getting Back into You - Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City)
Cage the Elephant - Ain't No Rest for the Wicked - s/t (Jive)

Kate Bush - Rubberband Girl - The Red Shoes (Columbia)
Marnie Stern - Put All Your Eggs in One Basket and then Watch that Basket - In Advance of the Broken Arm (KRS)
Wooden Wand & the Fanishing Voice - Rot On - Buck Dharma (5RC)

Tom Waits - Heigh Ho - Orphans: Bastards (Anti-)
Devendra Banhart - Long Haired Child - Cripple Crow (XL)
The Builders and the Butchers - Devil Town - Salvation Is a Deep Dark Well (Gigantic)

Langhorne Slim - Honey Pie - Engine EP (V2)
Taylor Hollingsworth - Gambling Barroom Blues - Tragic City (Brash Music)
A Hawk and a Hacksaw - In the River - The Way the Wind Blows (Leaf)

Maria Taylor - Irish Goodbye - Lynn Teeter Flower (Saddle Creek)
Matt & Kim - It's a Fact (Printed Stained) - s/t (IHEARTCOMIX)
Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline) - s/t (Arts & Crafts)

Woods - Don't Pass on Me - At Rear House (Shrimper)
Popup - What's the Matter Now? - A Time and a Place (Team Love)
Jarvis Cocker - Angela - Further Complications (Rough Trade)

The Lemonheads - Dirty Robot - Varshons (The End)
Lily Allen - Everything's Just Wonderful - Alright, Still (EMI)
Viva Voce - Midnight Sun - Rose City (Barsuk)