Playlist 11/16/09

Harmonica Pocket - Lemonbomb - Birds Falling from the Sky (The Free Music Project)
Belle & Sebastian - Ease Your Feet in the Sea - The Boy with the Arab Strap (Matador)
The Physics of Meaning - Like White Blood Filling a Black Earth - Snake Charmer and Destiny at the Stroke of Midnight (Buhanan)

Maria Taylor - Ladyluck - Lady Luck (Nettwerk)
Boat - Reverie - Setting the Paces (Magic Marker)
Tegan and Sara - The Ocean - Sainthood (Vapor)

The Dodos - Red and Purple - Visiter (French Kiss)
Devendra Banhart - Baby - What Will Be (Warner)
Argyle Johansen - Spanish Girls in Amsterdam - s/t (self)

The Bird and the Bee - My Love - Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future (Blue Note)
Talulah Gosh - I Cant Get No Satisfaction (Thank God) - Backwash (K)
Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard - Breath Our Iodine - One Fast MOve or I"m Gone (F-stop)

Vic Chestnutt - Unpacking My Suitcase - Skitter on Take-Off (Vapor)
Golden Boots - Makebelieve - Winter of Our Discotheque (Park the Van)
Dutchess/Duke - Living This Life Makes It Hard - Sunset/Sunrise (Hardly Art)

Lambchop - Slipped, Dissolved and Loosed - Ohio (Merge)
The Anniversary - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Designing a Nervous Breakdown (Vagrant)
Wolf Parade - Shine a Light - s/t (Sub Pop)

Sons & Daughters - Johnny Cash - Love the Cup (Domino)
We All Have Hooks for Hands - Made Up of Tiny Lights - The Shape of Energy (Afternoon)
The Like Young - Dead Eyes - Last Secrets (Polyvinyl)

O+S - Permanent Scar - s/t (Saddle Creek)
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms - Psychic Chasms (Lefse)
Islands - Disarming the Car Bomb - Vapours (Anti-)

Lee and Willibee - Throwing Stones at Manhattan - North Carolina (Lost in the Woods)
Daniel Johnston - Mind Movies - Is and Always Was (Eternal Yip Yap)
Texas Is the Reason - The Day's Refrain - Do You Know Who You Are? (Revelation)

Utah! - What Good Are You...to Me? - Zoo Sounds and Destructovision (Arborvitae)
Cursive - Mothership, Mothership, Do You Read Me? - Burst and Bloom (Saddle Creek)

Playlist 11/9/09

Colin Meloy - I've Changed My Plea to Guilty - Sings Morrissey (self)
Noah and the Whale - My Broken Heart - The First Days of Spring (Interscope)
Martha Wainwright - When the Day Is Short - Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole (Zoe)

Vic Chestnutt - Flirted with You All My Life - At the Cut (Constellation)
Amy Millan - Bruised Ghosts - Masters of the Burial (Arts and Crafts)
M. Ward - Yr Bird - Transistor Radio (Merge)

St. Vincent - Marrow - Actor (4AD)
Atlas Sound - Walkabout - Logos (Kranky)
Trembling Blue Stars - All Eternal Things - The Seven Autumn Flowers (Bar None)

Patrick Watson - Big Bird in a Small Cage - Wooden Arms (Secret City)
Devendra Banhart - Hotel St. Sebastian (demo) - Leaves of Life (Borne!)
We All Have Hooks for Hands - Be Love, Be Wild - The Shape of Energy (Afternoon)

Boat - Lately...(I've Been on My Back) - Setting the Paces (Magic Marker)
The Frames - Fake - Burn the Maps (Anti)

We Were Promised Jetpacks - This Is My House, This Is My Home - These Four Walls (Fat Cat)
Orenda Fink - Why Is the Night Sad - Ask the Night (Saddle Creek)
Bob Nanna/The City on Film - I'd Rather Be Wine Drunk - My Favorite Songwriters (Five One)
Tall Tall Trees - Heart Says Go - s/t (Good Neighbor)

Castanets - My Heart - Texas Rose, the Thaw, & the Beasts (Asthmatic Kitty)
Iron and Wine - Love and Some Verse - Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)
The Clean - Thumbs Off - Anthology (Merge)

Drummer - Feel Good Together - Feel Good Together (Audio Eagle)
The Ghost Is Dancing - Rogues & Heroes - Battles On (Sonic Unyon)
Jellyfish - New Mistake - Spilt Milk (Charisma)

Tegan and Sara - You Wouldn't Like Me - So Jealous (Sanctuary)
The Ettes - I'll Be Your Lover (but I can't be your baby) - Do You Want Power (Take Root)
Bryan Scary & the Shredding Tears - The Garden - Mad Valentines (Simian/Old Flame)

Jarvis Cocker - Angela - Further Complications (Rough Trade)
Rilo Kiley - Love and War (11/11/46) - More Adventurous (Brute/Beaute)

Playlist 11/2/09

Tim Williams - Stilts - Careful Love (Dovecote)
Mates of State - Fluke - Team Boo (Polyvinyl)
Unicycle Loves You - We Got Animals - s/t (Highwheel)

Headlights - Wisconsin Beaches - Wildlife (Polyvinyl)
John Vanderslice - Friend in a Cloud pt 2 - The Life and Death of an American Fourtracker (Barsuk)
Israel Darling - Billy Walker - Dinosaur Bones & Mechanical Hands (Engine Room)

The Decemberists - Clementine - Castaways and Cutouts (Hush)
Quiet Kid - Imbecilica - Ibecilica (self)
Joan of Arse - Sharpening Their Oars - Distant Hearts, a Little Closer (Flameshovel)

Owen - Brown Hair in a Bird's Nest - New Leaves (Polyvinyl)
Jenny Toomey - Tempting - Tempting (Misra)
What Made Milwaukee Famous - The Right Place - What Doesn't Kill Us (Barsuk)

The Ettes - Blood Red Blood - Do You Want Power (Take Root Records)
The Blakes - Don't Bother Me - s/t (Light in the Attic)
Elf Power - Why Can't I Touch It - Nothing's Going to Happen (Orange Twin Recording Co.)

Guided By Voices - Appology in Advance - Earthquake Glue (Matador)
Jawbreaker - Sea Foam Green - Etc. (Blackball)
Eastern Youth - Hands Tucked Away in My Pockets - What You Can See From Your Place (Five One Inc.)

Lungfish - Nation Saving Song - Love Is Love (Dischord)
Raveonettes - Breaking into Cars - In and Out of Control (Vice)
The Happy Hollows - Silver - Spells (self)

Fuck Buttons - Phantom Limb - Tarot Sport (ATP)
Islands - Devout - Vapours (Anti-)
Andrew Bird - Action/Adventure - Weather Systems (Righteous Babe)

Sea Wolf - O Maria! - White Water, White Bloom (Dangerbird)
Deer Tick - Art Isn't Real (City of Sin) - War Elephant (Feow!)
Whiskey and Co. - Clocks and Spoons - Leaving the Nightlife (No Idea)

Scout Niblett - I'll Be a Prince (shhh) - I Am (Secretly Canadian)\
Ladyhawk - I Don't Always Know What You're Saying - Shots (Jagjaguwar)

Playlist 10/26/09

William Elliot Whitmore – One Man’s Shame – Song of the Blackbird (Southern)
Mason Jennings – Black Wind Blowing – Blood of Man (Brushfire)
Neko Case – The Virginian – The Virginian (Bloodshot)

Robbie Fulks – It’s Always Raining Somewhere – Georgia Hard (Yep Roc)
The Avett Brothers – Tin Man – I and Love and You (Columbia)
Johnny Cash – Don’t Take Your Guns to Town – Murder (Columbia)

Two Gallants – Steady Rollin’ – What the Toll Tells (Saddle Creek)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Where the Wild Roses Grow – Murder Ballads (Mute)
Dead Man’s Bones – Lose Your Soul – s/t (Anti-)

Murder by Death – Shiola – In Bocca al Lupo
Against Me – Walking Is Still Honest – Reinventing Axle Rose (No Idea)
Gogol Bordello – Wanderlust King – Live From Axis Mundi (Side One Dummy)

Dresden Dolls – Coin Operated Boy – A Is for Accident (8 Ft.)
The XX- Chrystalized – XX (XL)
Bat for Lashes – What’s a Girl to Do? – Fur and Gold (Echo)

Patrick Watson – Luscious Life – Close to Paradise (Secret City)
Islands – Oh Foreigner – Vapours (Anti-)
Great Lake Swimmers – When It Flows – Bodies and Minds (Secretly Canadian)

The Black Heart Procession – Drugs – Six (Temporary Residence)
Tim Williams – Murderous Air – Careful Love (Dovecote)
Monsters of Folk – The Sandman, the Brakeman and Me – s/t (Shangri-La Music)

Old Canes – Black Hill Chapel – Feral Harmonic (Saddle Creek)
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – O Let It Be – Summer in the Southeast (Sea Note)
Grizzly Bear – Don’t Ask – Horn of Plenty (Kanine)

Scotland Yard Gospel Choir – Tear Down the Opera House – I bet you say that to all the boys (SYGC)
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players – What Will the Corporation Do? – Vintage Slide Collections from Seattle vol 1 (Bar None)

Jose Gonzalez – Heartbeats – Veneer (Parasol)
Sufjan Stevens – They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!!... – Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)
CocoRosie – Tekno Love Song – Noah’s Ark (Touch & Go)

Playlist 10/19/09

Langhorne Slim - Land of Dreams - Be Set Free (Kemado)
David Vandervelde - Nothing No - The Moonstation House Band (Secretly Canadian)
Beck - Black Tambourine - Guero (Interscope)

Dead Man's Bones - Pa Pa Power - s/t (Anti-)
Noah and the Whale - My Door Is Always Open - The First Days of Spring (Interscope)
Simon Joyner - Flying Dreams - Lost with the Lights On (Secretly Canadian)

Vic Chestnutt - Chinaberry Tree - At the Cut (Constellation)
Monsters of Folk - Say Please - s/t (Shangri-La)
Wilco - The Late Greats - A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)

The Avett Brothers - Kick Drum Heart - I and Love and You (Columbia)
Okkervil River - Black - Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguwar)
Regina Spektor - Ode to Divorce - Soviet Kitsch (Sire)

Stars - Sleep Tonight - Set Yourself on Fire (Arts & Crafts)
Islands - The Drums - Vapours (Anti-)
The Icicles - La Ti Da - Arrival and Departures (Microindie)

Tullycraft - Polaroids from Mars - Disenchanted Hearts Unite (Magic Marker)
Matt & Kim - Yeah Yeah - s/t (IHeartComix)
Vivian Girls - Tell the World - s/t (In the Red)

Electric Tickle Machine - Somethin Else - Blew It Again (self)
Beep Beep - I Am the Secretary - Business Casual (Saddle Creek)
MGMT - Electric Feel - Oracular Spectacular (Columbia)

Russian Futurists - Paul Simon - Our Thickness (Upper Class)
alaska! - Krystal Korpse - Rescue Through Tomahawk (Altitude)
Califone - Funeral Singers - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (Dead Oceans)

The Decemberists - Eli the Barrow Boy - Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
Times New Viking - No Time, No Hope - Born Again Revisited (Matador)
The Clean - All Those Notes - Mister Pop (Merge)

Owen - Amnesia and Me - New Leaves (Polyvinyl)
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Don't Haunt this Place - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
The Evens - Mt. Pleasant Isn't - s/t (Dischord)

Playlist 10/12/09

God Save the Girl - Come Monday Morning - s/t (Matador)
Sondre Lerche - Words & Music - Heartbeat Radio (Rounder)
Vivan Girls - Where Do You Run to - s/t (In the Red)

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction - s/t (Slumberland)
Islands - Tender Torture - Vapours (Anti-)
Mates of State - So Many Ways - Bring It Back (Barsuk)

Boy Least Likely to - Every Goliath Has It's David - The Law of the Playground (+1)
The Born Again Floozies - Dumb It Down Now - Street Music (Triple R)
The Do - The Bridge Is Broken - A Mouthful (Get Down)

Pulp - Bad Cover Version - We Love Life (Rough Trade)
The Ravonettes - Breaking into Cars - In and Out of Control (Vice)
The Grates - The Biggest and Longest Adventure Ever - Teeth Lost, Hearts Won (Thirty Tigers)

The Castanets - Worn From the Fight (with fireworks) - Texas Rose, the Thaw & the Beasts (Asthmatic Kitty)
Yo La Tengo - Avalon or Someone Very Similar - Popular Songs (Matador)
Los Campesinos! - This Is How You Spell... - Hold on Now, Youngster... (Arts and Crafts)

The 1900s - When I Say Cohen - Medium High EP (Parasol)
Mason Jennings - Pittsburgh - Blood of Man (Brushfire)
Monsters of Folk - Baby Boomer - s/t (Shangri-La)

Mayday - Pilot - Old Blood (Saddle Creek)
The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - Tear Down the Opera House - ...and the Horse You Rode in on (Bloodshot)
The White Stripes - Hello Operator - DeStijl (V2)

Electric Tickle Machine - Part of Me - Blew It Again (Self)
Takka Takka - Lion in the Waves - Migration (Ernest Jenning)
Sea Wolf - Turn the Dirt Over - White Water, White Bloom (Dangerbird)

Rivers Cuomo - The Prettiest Girl in the Whole Wide World - Alone II (DGC)
The Happy Hollows - Silver - Spells (self)
The Black Kids - Look At Me (When I Rock Wichoo) - Partie Traumatic (Columbia)

Music Go Music - Explorers of the Heart - Expressions (Secretly Canadian)
Orenda Fink - Sister - Ask The Night (Saddle Creek)

Playlist 10/5/09

Orenda Fink - The Garden - Ask the Night (Saddle Creek)
The Magnetic Fields - California Girls - Distortion (Nonesuch)
St. Vincent - Laughing with a Mouth of Blood - Actor (4AD)

Amy Millan - Day to Day - Masters of teh Burial (Arts & Crafts)
Sondre Lerche - Easy to Persuade - Heartbeat Radio (Rounder)
Dirty on Purpose - Your Summer Dress - Hallelujah Sirens (North Street)

Magnolia Electric Co. - Rock of Ages - Josephine (Secretly Canadian)
The Concretes - Change in the Weather - In Color (EMI)
Elvis Costello & the Imposters - Drum and Bone - Momofuku (Lost Highway)

Darlings - Eviction Party - Yeah I Know (Famous Class)
The Scottland Yard Gospel Choir - ...and the Horse You Rode in on - atHYRio (Bloodshot)
We Were Promised Jetpacks - Quiet Little Voices - These Four Walls (Fatcat)

David Bazan - Please, Baby, Please - Curse Your Branches (Barsuk)
Monsters of Folk - Map of the World - s/t (Shangri-La Music)
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Sleep All Day - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)

Langhorne Slim - For a Little While - Be Set Free (Kemado)
The Builders and the Butchers - Down in this Hole - Salvation is a Deep Dark Well (Gigantic)
The Avett Brothers - Ill with Want - I and Love and You (Columbia)

Pas/Cal - Summer Is Almost Here - I Was Raised on... (Le Grand Magisery)
Hands and Knees - Do You Really Need a Drummer? - Et Tu Fluffy? (Midriff)
Tilly and the Wall - Tall Tall Grass - O (Team Love)

The Grates - Two Kinds of Right - Teeth Lost, Hearts Won (Thirty Tigers)
Think About Life - What the Future Might Be - s/t (Alien 8)
Vivian Girls - Can't Get Over You - Everything Goes Wrong (In the Red)

Let's Get Out of this Terrible Sandwhich Shop - Chattanooga Kookoo - Listening (Roydale)
The Battle Royale - Our Thoughts Are A'Pourin - Wake Up, Thunderbabe (Afternoon)
The XX - Islands s/t (XL)

Owen - Amnesia and Me - New Leaves (Polyvinyl)
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - The Charging Sky - Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)
The Owls - Channel - Daughters and Suns (Magic Marker)