Playlist 1/4/10

Jens Lekman - The Wrong Hands - Oh You're so Silent, Jens (Secretly Canadian)
I'm from Barcelona - Paper Planes - Who Killed Harry Houdini? (Mute)
The Unicorns - Tuff Ghost - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? (Alien 8)

Shout Out Louds - Tonight I Have to Leave It - Tonight I Have to Leave It EP (Merge)
The Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me - Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me EP (Memphis Industries)
Annie - My Love Is Better - Don't Stop (Smalltown Supersound)

Silver Jews - Animal Shapes - Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City)
David Dondero - The Living and the Dead - The Transient (Future Farmer)
Willy Mason - Hard Hand to Hold - Where the Humans Eat (Team Love)

Molina & Johnson - Twenty Cycles to the Ground - s/t (Secretly Canadian)
Now, Now Every Children - Everyone You Know - Cars (Afternoon)
Great Lake Swimmers - Let's Trade Skins - Bodies and Minds (Secretly Canadian)

Port O'Brien - Leap Year - Threadbare (TBD)
Capgun Coup - Now That I'm Home - Maudlin (Team Love)
Animal Collective - What Would I Want? Sky - Fall Be Kind EP (Domino)

Vic Chestnutt - Feast in the Time of Plague - Skitter on Take-Off (Vapor)
Crooked Fingers - Under Pressure - Reservoir Songs EP
Jarvis Cocker - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time - s/t (Rough Trade)

Art Brut - Jealous Guy - It's a Bit Complicated (Banana Recordings)
Murder by Death - Masters of Reverse Psychology - Who Will Survive...? (Eyeball)
Neko Case - Wayfaring Stranger - The Tigers Have Spoken (Anti-)

Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Sink Ships - Cardinology (Lost Highway)
Lambchop - Slipped Dissolved and Loosed - Ohio (Merge)
Parker & Lily - I am a Gun - The Low Lows (Warm)

Greg Ashley - Pretty Belladona - Painted Garden (Birdman)
Bright Eyes - We Are Free Men - There Is No Beginning to the Story (Saddle Creek)
Wilco - What Light - Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch)

Shy Nobleman - Fireworks Tonight - How to Be Shy (Noble Times)

Playlist 12/21/09

Sondre Lerche and the Faces Down - Phantom Punch - Phantom Punch (Astralwerks)
Patrick Wolf - Accident & Emergency - The Magic Position (Tomlab)
Tegan and Sara - Northshore - Sainthood (Vapor)

The Salts - Go There - Broomstick Rockstar (self)
Smart Went Crazy - Sugar In Your Gas Tank - Now We're Even (Dischord)
Art Brut - Pump Up the Volume - It's a Bit Complicated (Downtown)

Sleater-Kinney - By the Time You're Twenty-Five - s/t EP (Kill Rock Stars)
Mucca Pazza - Chick Habit - A Little Marching Band (self)
Matt & Kim - It's a Fact (Printed Stained) - s/t (Iheartcomix)

Mr. Gnome - Plastic Shadow - Heave Yer Skeleton (El Marko)
Tempo No Tempo - Kilometer - Waking Heat (self)
Rainer Maria - Tinfoil - Past Worn Searching (Polyvinyl)

Neutral Milk Hotel - Song Against Sex - On Avery Island (Merge)
Willowz - I Know - Everyone (Dim Mak)
Th Olivia Tremor Control - Beneath the Climb - Presents: Singles & Beyond (Kindercore)

The Strokes - Meet Me in the Bathroom - Room on Fire (RCA)

Playlist 12/14/09

M. Ward - Radio Campaign - Transistor Radio (Merge)
PJ Harvey - The Life and Death of Mr. Badmouth - Uh Huh Her (Island)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Babe, You Turn Me On - The Lyre of Orpheus (Mute)

Port O'Brien - My Will Is Good - Threadbare (TBD)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Everything I Cannot See - 5:55 (Vice)
The Mountain Goats - The Window Song - Protein Sources of the Future...Now! - (3 BOS)

Charlemagne - Prisoner Of - s/t (Winterlander)
Kathy Greenholdt - Girl from Illinois - Lowly Violet (Self)
Neva Dinova - Yellow Datsun - The Hate Yourself Change (Sidecho)

William Elliott Whitmore - When Push Comes to Love - Ashes to Dust (Southern)
Animal Collective - On a Highway - Fall be Kind (EP) (Domino)
Devendra Banhart - Meet Me at Lookout Point - What Will Be (Warner)

Brazos - Avignon - Phosphorescent Blues (Autobus)
Rachel Goswell - Warm Summer Sun - Waves Are Universal (4AD)
CocoRosie - Madonna - La Maison de Mon Reve (Touch & Go)

Terror at the Opera - Let's Pretend - Snake Bird Blue (No Sides)
Bryan Scary & the Shredding Tears - Maria, St. Claire - Mad Valentines (Old Flame/Simian)
Camera Obscura - I Don't Do Crowds - Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi (Merge)

Cub - Cast a Shadow - Betti-Cola (Mint)
Mr. Gnome - Today Brings a Bomb - Heave Yer Skeleton (El Marko)
We All Have Hooks for Hands - Be Love, Be Wild - The Shape of Energy (Afternoon)

Tegan and Sara - Alligator - Sainthood (Vapor)
The Minor Leagues - Projections of a Person - This Story is Old, I Know, But It Goes On (Datawaslost)
Moldy Peaches - D2 Boyfriend - s/t (Rough Trade)

The Dodos - Fools - Visiter (French Kiss)
Middle Distance Runner - The Fury - The Sun & Earth (Engine Room)
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Not if You Were the Last Dandy on Earth - Tepid Peppermint Wonderland (Tee Pee)

Cursive - Once - The Recluse EP (Saddle Creek)

Playlist 11/23/09

Islands - Where There's a Will There's a Whalebone - Return to the Sea (Equator)
Mirah - The Forest - (a)spera (K Records)
Devendra Banhart - Can't Help But Smiling - What Will Be (Warner)

Girls in Trouble - Who Sent the Heat? - s/t (JDub)
Belle and Sebastian - Dylan in the Movies - The BBC Sessions (Matador)
1900s - A Will in Firm Fashion - Medium High EP (Parasol)

Hello Seahorse! - OK! Lobster - Hoy a las Ocho (Magic Marker)
Tegan and Sara - Night Watch - Sainthood (Vapor)
The Ettes - Red in Tooth and Claw - Do You Want Power (Take Root)

Boat - We Want It! We Want It! - Setting the Paces (Magic Marker)
Bishop Allen - The Ancient Common Sense of Things - Grr... (Dead Oceans)
Daniel Johnston - Queenie the Doggie - Is and Always Was (Eternal Yip Yap)

Hefner - The Hymn for the Cigarettes - The Fidelity Wars (Beggars Banquet)
The Naked Hearts - No One Nothing - These Knees (self)
Lullaby for the Working Class - The Sunset and the Electric Bill - I Never Even Asked for Light (Bar/None)

Mineral - LoveLetterTypewriter - End Serenading (Crank!)
Bric-a-Brac - You Deserve - 16 Luxury Units (Tchotchke)
Andrew Bird - Natural Disaster - Noble Beat (Fat Possum)

Lymbyc Systym - Interiors -Shutter Release (Mush)
M. Ward - Jailbird - Hold Time (Merge)
The Da Vincis - 50's Film - See You Tonight (Olympic)

A.C. Newman - The Heartbreak Rides - Get Guilty (Matador)
Julian Casablancas - 4 Chords of the Apocalypse - Phrazes for the Young (RCA)
Lou Barlow - The One I Call - Goodnight Unknown (Merge)

Neutral Milk Hotel - Communist Daughter - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Merge)
The Halo Benders - Virginia - The Rebels Not In (K)
The Butchies - More Rock More Talk - Population 1975: Butch Lesbian Rock (Mr. Lady)

Sleater Kinney - The Drama You've Been Craving - Dig Me Out (Kill Rock Stars)
Mt.St. Helens Vietnam Band - Dull Reason - s/t (Dead Oceans)
Pizzicato Five - One...Barbie Dolls - Everything Is Nice: Matador's 10th (Matador)

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)