Playlist 1/25/10

O+S - We Do What We Want to - s/t (Saddle Creek)
Julie Doiron - All Their Broken Hearts - Heart & Crime (Jagjaguwar)
Girls in Trouble - Who Sent the Heat? - s/t (JDub)

Noah and the Whale - My Broken Heart - The First Days of Spring (Interscope)
Amy Millan - Day to Day - Masters of the Burial (Arts & Crafts)
The Heligoats - A Guide to the Outdoors - Goodness Gracious (Greyday)

The Literary Greats - Ruby Sapphire - Ocean, Meet the Valley (self)
The Bruces - What Do You Know About Home - The Shining Path (Secretly Canadian)
Beach House - Silver Soul - Teen Dream (Sub Pop)

Animal Collective - Bleed - Fall to Be Kind EP (Domino)
Sondre Lerche - Don't Look Now - Heartbeat Radio (Rounder)
Brazos - Kid - Phosphorescent Blues (Autobus)

The Salts - Go There - Broomstick Rock Star (self)
The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Deadroads - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
Langhorne Slim - So Glad I'm Coming Home - Be Set Free (Kemado)

Tim Williams - Stilts - Careful Love (Dovecote)
She and Him - In the Sun - single (Merge
God Help the Girl - God Help the Girl - s/t (Matador)

The Minor Leagues - Projections of a Person - This Story Is Old, I Know, But It Goes On (datawaslost)
Mr. Gnome - Hills, Valleys and Valium - Heave Yer Skeleton (El Marko)

Molina and Johnson - Twenty Cycles to the Ground - s/t (Secretly Canadian)
Jason Boesel - Hand of God - Husler's Son (Team Love)
David Bazan - Please, Baby, Please - Curse Your Branches (Barsuk)

Neko Case - The Next Time You Say Forever - Middle Cyclone (Anti-)
Andrew Bird - A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left - & the Mysterious Production of Eggs (Righteous Babe)
Vampire Weekend - California English - Contra (XL)

Islands - Tender Torture - Vapours (Anti-)
Red Wire Black Wire - No Honor Among Thieves - Robots & Roses (Tough Customer)
Boat - Lately (I've Been on My Back) - Setting the Paces (Magic Marker)

Lee and Willibee - Loves Not Worth It - North Carolina (Lost in the Woods)

Playlist 1/18/10

Colin Meloy - I've Changed My Plea to Guilty - Sings Morrisey (self)
She and Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? - Volume One (Merge)
Silver Jews - Animal Shapes - Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City)

Waco Brothers - Lincoln Town Car - Freedom and Weep (Bloodshot)
Mayday - Confession - Old Blood (Saddle Creek)
The Avett Brothers - Distraction #74 - Four Thieves Gone (Ramseur)

Molina & Johnson - Lenore's Lullaby - s/t (Secretly Canadian)
Pixies - Debaser - Doolittle (4AD)
The Cribs - We Were Aborted - Ignore the Ignorant (Warner)

Jay Reatard - Painted Shut - Matador Singles '08 (Matador)
Sleater-Kinney - Combat Rock - One Beat (KRS)
White Stripes - Hello Operator - DeStijl (V2)

Julian Casablancas - Ludlow St. - Phrazes for the Young (RCA)
Middle Distance Runner - The Wrong Hole - The Sun & Earth (Engine Room)

The Elected - San Francisco Via Chicago Blues - Lagniappe (Saddle Creek)
St. Thomas - Come My Way - Let's Grow Together (Racing)
Port O'Brien - My Will Is Good - Threadbare (TBD)

Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard - Willamine - One Fast Move Or I'm Gone (F-Stop)
Bright Eyes - Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh - Fevers & Mirrors (Saddle Creek)
The Kinks - Picture Book - The Village Green Preservation Society (Essential)

The Literary Greats - Oh Abilene - Ocean, Meet the Valley (self)
Annie - I Don't Like Your Band - Don't Stop (Smalltown Supersound)
Vampire Weekend - Giving Up the Gun - Contra (XL)

Mr. Gnome - Vampires - HeaveYer Skeleton (El Marko)
Brazos - Day Glo - Phosphorescent Blues (Autobus)
The Dodos - Ashley - Visiter (French Kiss)

Tom Waits - Singapore - Glitter & Doom Live (Anti-)

*w/Sarah-Sarah co-hosting

Playlist 1/11/10

Portland Cello Project -Mouth for War - The Thao and Justin Power Sessions (KRS)
The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Ballad of the RAA - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
John Vanderslice - Little Lost Boy - Time Travel Is Lonely (Barsuk)

Reverie Sound Revue - An Anniversary Away - s/t (Boompa)
Darling - We Are Strong - Burned by the Sun (Cardboard Sangria)
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of this Country - Let's Get Out of this Country (Merge)

We Were Promised Jetpacks - Conductor - These Four Walls (Fatcat)
The Like - What I Say and What I Mean - Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? (Geffen)
The Blakes - Don't Bother Me - s/t (Light in the Attic)

The Do - At Last - A Mouthful (Get Down)
Flight of the Conchords - Foux de Fafa - s/t (Sub Pop)
Smoosh - Free to Stay - Free to Stay (Barsuk)

The Boy Least Likely to - Monsters - The Best Party Ever (Too Young to Die)
The Magnetic Fields - (Crazy for You but) Not that Crazy - 69 Love Songs 2 (Merge)
Pernice Brothers - Overcome by Happiness - Overcome by Happiness (Sub Pop)

Nanook of the North - Israel and Palestine a solution - The Taby Tapes (A Hidden Agenda)
The Concretes - You Can't Hurry Love - s/t (Astralwerks)
Fruit Bats - The Hobo Girl - The Ruminant Band (Sub Pop)

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Am I Demon? - Ask Forgiveness EP (Drag City)
Jose Gonzalez - Killing for Love - In Our Nature (Mute)
Bon Iver - Lump Sum - For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)

Alberta Cross - Old Man Chicago - Broken Side of Time (ATO)
Langhorne Slim and the War Eagles - Diamonds and Gold - s/t (Kemado)
The Avett Brothers - Nothing Short of Thankful - Mignonette (Ramseur)

Old 97's - Smokers - Drag It Up (Nine West)
The Thermals - A Pillar of Salt - The Body, The Blood, The Machine (Sub Pop)
Joe Lally - Painfully Aware - Nothing Is Underrated (Dischord)

Simone White - Train Song - Yakiimo (Honest Jon's)
Capgun Coup - Ari Are We - Maudlin (Team Love)

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)