Playlist 4/12/10

David Dondero - Less than the Air - The Transient (Future Farmer)
Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You - Middle Cyclone (Anti)
She & Him - Ridin' in My Car - Volume 2 (Merge)

Avett Brothers - and It Spread - I and Love and You (Columbia)
Simon Joyner - Birds of Spring - Lost with the Lights on (Jagjaguwar)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Troublesome Houses - The Wonder Show of the World (Drag City)

Hollow Paw - Little Shaver - Quit and/or Fight (Sub Pop)
Wilco - What Light - Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch)
Frightened Rabbit - Things - The Winter of Mixed Drinks (Fatcat)

Rural Alberta Advantage - Edmonton - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
L'Spaerow - The Pharmacists - s/t (Lucid)
Evelyn Evelyn - Evelyn Evelyn - Evelyn Evelyn (11 Records/8ft Records)

Seabear - Leafmask - We Built a Fire (Slumberland)
The Elected - Sun, Sun, Sun - Sun, Sun, Sun (Sub Pop)
Mates of State - The Re-arranger - Re-Arrange Us (Barsuk)

BOAT - I Really, Really Think You Should Rethink Your Life - Let's Drag Our Feet (Magic Marker)
Marine Research - Hopefulness to Hopelessness - Sounds from the Gulf Stream (K Records)
Let's Wrestle - We Are the Men You'll Grow to Love Soon - In the Court of Wrestling Let's (Merge)

Love Is All - Bigger Bolder - Two Thousand and Ten Injuries (Polyvinyl)
Titus Andronicus - Richard II - The Monitor (XL)
Liars - Proud Evolution - Sisterworld (Mute)

Seafood - Desert Stretched Before the Sun - When Do We Start Fighting... (Nettwerk)
Elliott Smith - No Name #3 - Roman Candle (KRS)
Great Lake Swimmers - Let's Trade Skins - Bodies and Minds (MISRA)

Denison Witmer - Brass Buttons - Recovered (Fugitive)
Nymb - (inhaling fumes) - So, This Is How It Is (Suburban Sprawl)
Elf Power - Let the Serpent Sleep - Creatures (SpinART)

Bright Eyes - Easy/Lucky/Free - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (Saddle Creek)

Playlist 4/5/10

Silver Jews - Suffering Jukebox - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)
She & Him - Thieves - Volume Two (Merge)
Crooked Fingers - Don't Say a Word - Red Devil Dawn (Merge)

Seabear - Leafmask - We Built a Fire (Slumberland)
Ox - La City - Dust Bowl Revival (Second Nature)
Giant Sand - Without a Word - Provisions (Yep Roc)

Evelyn Evelyn - My Space - s/t (11 Records/8ft. Records)
Arcade Fire - Crown of Love - Funeral (Merge)
Zykos - Above the Map - s/t (Post Parlo)

The Bundles - Pirates Declare War - s/t (K Records)
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Gentleman - Rush to Relax (Goner)
Rotary Downs - Montrez-Vous - Cracked Maps & Blue Reports (Rookery)

Pas/Cal - The Bronze Beached Boys (c'mon let's go) - The Handbag Memoirs (Le Grand Magistery)
Tilly & the Wall - Let It Rain - Wild Like Children (Team Love)
Art of Fighting - Give Me Tonight - Wires (3 Beads of Sweat)

Tuung - October - And Then We Saw Land (Thrill Jockey)
Jens Lekman - Tram #7 to Heaven - When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog (Secretly Canadian)
Stephen Malkmus - Mama - Face the Truth (Matador)

Elliott Smith - Last Call - Roman Candle (KRS)
Johnny Cash - Ain't No Grave - Ain't No Grave (American Recordings)
Saint Milkweed - Couldn't Hold on to You - s/t (Sparrow Down)

Town & Country - I Am So Very Cold - C'mon (Thrill Jockey)
Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore - Dear Companion - Dear Companion (Sub Pop)
The Mountain Goats - Dinu Lipatti's Bones - The Sunset Tree (4AD)

Petra Haden - Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand - Sings the Who Sell Out (Bar None)
Adam Green - Gemstones - Gemstones (Rough Trade)
The Lucksmiths - Harmonicas and Trams - Why that Doesn't Surprise Me (Drive-In)

Playlist 3/29/10

Hoots and Hellmouth - You and All of Us - The Holy Open Secret (MAD Dragon)*
Mason Jennings - Ain't No Friend of Mine - Blood of Man (Brushfire)
Titus Andronicus - The Future Part Three: Escape from No Future - The Monitor (XL)

Dum Dum Girls - Bhang Bhang, I'm a Burnout - I Will Be (Hozac)
P.J. Harvey - A Perfect Day Elise - Is This Desire? (Island)
Jonathan Richman - I Can Hear Her Fighting with Herself - I'm So Confused (Vapor)

Beck - Guess I'm Doing Fine - Sea Change (Geffen)
Seldom - You've Heard It All Before - Romance (Casa)
She & Him - Gonna Get Along Without You Now - Volume Two (Merge)

Jolie Holland - Adieu False Heart - Springtime Can Kill You (Anti-)
The Prom - Under the Same Stars - Under the Same Stars (Barsuk)
Amy Milan - Bruised Ghosts - Masters of the Burial (Arts & Crafts)

Bright Eyes - From a Balance Beam - LIFTED or... (Saddle Creek)
Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore - Sweet Marie - Dear Companion (Sub Pop)
Lou Barlow - Song of the Tall Poppy - Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox (Merge)

Nico - I'll Keep It with Mine - Chelsea Girl (Polydor)
Jared Mees & the Grown Children - Oh No Oh My God - Caffeine, Alcohol, Sunshine, Money (Tender Loving Empire)*
The XX - Crystalised - XX (XL)

Boy Eats Drum Machine - Gold in the Hills - Hoop + Wire (Tender Loving Empire)
Drink Up Buttercup - Pink Sunshine - Born and Thrown on a Hook (Yep Roc)
The Lexington Arrows - Better Without You - Cut Me Loose (self)

Let's Wrestle My Arms Don't Bend That Way, Damnit! In the Court of Wrestling Let's (Merge)
Aloha - Cold Storage - Home Acres (Polyvinyl)
Alkaline Trio - If You Had a Bad Time - split w/One Man Army (BYO)

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Tuberculoids Arrive in Hop - The Brutalist Bricks (Matador)
Jawbreaker - Save Your Generation - Live 4/30/1996 (Blackball)
Jeremy Enigk - In a Look - OK Bear (Lewis Hollow Records)

Girls in Trouble - Secrets/You're Always Watching - s/t (JDub Records)
Wow & Flutter - Eclipse - Golden Touch (Jealous Butcher)

Playlist 3/22/10

Paper Airplane - Missing - MiddleMarch (All Hail)
Flight of the Conchords - Robots - s/t (Sub Pop)
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Dead Right - Perishing (Polyvinyl)

Field Music - Measure - Measure (Memphis Industries)
Aloha - Microviolence - Homes Acres (Polyvinyl)
All Girl Summer Fun Band - Trajectory - Looking Into It (AGSFB Music)

Los Campesinos - Don't Tell Me to Do the Math(s) - Sticking Fingers into Sockets (Arts & Crafts)
Les Savy Fav - New Teen Anthem - 3/5 (Frenchkiss)
Boy Eats Drum Machine - We Make Our Own Light - Hoop + Wire (Tender Loving Empire)

Wolf Parade - Call It a Ritual - At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop)
Yukon Blonde - Loyal Man - s/t (Nevado)
Liars - Proud Evolution - Sisterworld (Mute)

Capgun Coup - Social Security Number - Brought to You by Nebraska Fish (Team Love)
Grizzly Bear - Knife - Yellow House (Warp)
Rilo Kiley - The Absence of God - More Adventurous (Brute/Beaute)

The Dimes - Letters in the Sea - The Silent Generation (Pet Marmoset)
Pas/Cal - O Honey We're Ridiculous - I Was Raised on Matthew... (Le Grand Magistery)
Black Kids - I'm Making Eyes at You - Partie Traumatic (Columbia)

Rogue Wave - Good Morning - Permalight (Brushfire)
Tender Forever - Doves vs. Pigeons - Wider (K)
Josiah Wolf - Master Cleanse (California) - Jet Lag (Anticon)

Joanna Newsom - '81 - Have One on Me (Drag City)
The Gunshy - October 11, 1945 - There's No Love in This War (Latest Flame)
Johnny Cash - Ain't No Grave - American VI: Ain't No Grave (American)

Two Gallants - Steady Rollin - What the Toll Tells (Saddle Creek)
Laura Viers - To the Country - Saltbreakers (Nonesuch)
David Vandervelde - California Breezes - Waiting for the Sunrise (Secretly Canadian)

Shearwater - Corridors - The Golden Archipelago (Matador)
Langhorne Slim - The Honeymoon - and the War Eagles (Kemado)

Playlist 3/14/10

Karl Blau - What's Not to Fall in Love with - Dance POSITIVE (Marriage)
Broken Bells - The Mall and Misery - s/t (Columbia)
Anagram - Shelter Street - The Lights Went Up (Scenery)

Silver Lakes - Wake Me Up - The Great Pretenders (self)
Shout Out Louds - Fall Hard - Work (Merge)
Lonely, Dear - And I Won't Cause Anything At All - Lonely, Noir (Sub Pop)

Field Music - Measure - Measure (Memphis Industries)
Yukon Blonde - Loyal Man - s/t (Nevado Records)
Nanook of the North - Israel and Palestine a Solution - The Taby Tapes (A Hidden Agenda)

The Secret History - Sweden - s/t (Foxyboy)
Animal - How Bout Now - Light Trucks (Executive Bird)
Adam Green - Lockout - Minor Love (Fat Possum)

Noisettes - Count of Monte Christo - What's the Time Mr. Wolf (Universal)
Mucca Pazza - Habibi - A Little Marching Band (self)
Arcade Fire - The Well and the Lighthouse - Neon Bible (Merge)

Bright Eyes - Four Winds - Cassadaga (Saddle Creek)
Taylor Hollingsworth - Duct Taped Heart - Tragic City (Brash Music)
Sean Hayes - So Down - Run Wolves Run (self)

Two Gallants - Nothing to You - The Throes (Alive)
Shearwater - Corridors - The Golden Archipelago (Matador)
Jay Brannan - Soda Shop - Shortbus Soundtrack (Team Love)

AM - Darker Days - Future Sons and Daughters (Filter)
Sam Phillips - All Night - A Boot and a Shoe (Nonesuch)
Four Tet - Reversing - There Is Love in You (Domino)

Haley Bonar - Fox and Hound - Lure the Foxes (Afternoon)
Martha Wainwright - How Soon - Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole (Zoe)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Me and Jane Doe - IRM (Elektra)

The Evens - Mt. Pleasant Isn't - s/t (Dischord)
The Clean - Too Much Violence - Anthology (Merge)

Playlist 3/8/10

Dead Man's Bones - Paper Ships - s/t (Anti-)
The Sixth Great Lake - Across the Northern Border - Up the Country (Kindercore)
Amy Ray - Lucystoners - Stag (Daemon)

The Rural Alberta Advantage - Drain the Blood - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Glory - XXXX (Paper Bag Records)
Vivian Girls - Can't Get Over You - Everything Goes Wrong (In the Red)

Title Tracks - Every Little Bit Hurts - It was Easy (Earnest Jennings)
Braid - Please Drive Faster - Movie Music v1 (Polyvinyl)
Hefner - The Cure for Evil - We Love the City (Too Pure)

Spoon - I Saw the Light - Transference (Merge)
Fang Island - Treeton - s/t (Sargent House)
Brazos - Tell - Phosphorescent Blues (Autobus)

Joanna Newsom - Soft as Chalk - Have One on Me (Drag City)
Animal Collective - My Girls - Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
Nick Drake - Hazy Jane II - Bryter Layter (Hannibal)

M Ward - Jailbird - Hold Time (Merge)
Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore - Dear Companion - Dear Companion (Sub Pop)
Old Canes - Black Hill Chapel - Feral Harmonic (Saddle Creek)

Lucinda Williams - Lonly Girls - Essence (Lost Highway)
The Maryjanes - Vertigo - Flame (Flat Earth)
Sean Hayes - Gunnin - Run Wolves Run (Self)

Sondre Lerche - Heartbeat Radio - Heartbeat Radio (Rounder)
Adam Green - What Makes Him Act So Bad - Minor Love (Fat Possum)
The Ruby Suns - Two Humans - Fight Softly (Sub Pop)

Cast Spells - Potted Plant - Bright Works and Batons (Sargent House)
Foals - Spanish Sahara - Total Life Forever (not out yet) (Sub Pop)
Yeasayer - Madder Red - Old Blood (Secretly Canadian)

Neutral Milk Hotel - Song Against Sex - On Avery Island (Merge)

Playlist 3/1/10

William Elliott Whitmore - Hell or High Water - Animals in the Dark (Anti-)
Meg Baird - River Song - Dear Companion (Drag City)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Master's Hands - IRM (Elektra)

Raising the Fawn - Top to Bottom - The North Sea (Sonic Unyon)
Mount Eerie w/Julie Doiron & Fred Squire - What? - Lost Wisdom (PW Elverum & Suns)
Been Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore - Something, Somewhere, Sometime - Dear Companion (Sub Pop)

She & Him - This Is Not a Test - Vol. 1 (Merge)
Lonely Dear - I Was Only Going Out - Dear John (Polyvinyl)
The Magnetic Fields - We Are Having a Hootenanny - Realism (Nonesuch)

Valleys - Santiago - Sometimes Water Kills People (Semprini)
Now It's Overhead - Profile - Fall Back Open (Saddle Creek)
Spoon - Written in Reverse - Transference (Merge)

Title Tracks - Every Little Bit Hurts - It Was Easy (Ernest Jennings)
Mr. Gnome - Sit Up and Hum - Heave Yer Skeleton (El Marko)
The Happy Hollows - We Will Find You - Spells (self)

Commander Venus - We'll Always Have Paris - The Uneventful Vacation (Thick/Wind Up)
Rainer Maria - The Reason the Night Is Long - Anyone in Love with You (Already Knows) (Polyvinyl)
The Anniversary - The D in Detroit - Designing a Nervous Breakdown (Vagrant)

Promise Ring - Why Did We Ever Meet - Nothing Feels Good (Jade Tree)
Los Campesinos! - Plan A - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)
My Robot Friend - Waiting - Soft-Core (Double Feature)

Lightspeed Champion - There's Nothing Underwater - Life Is Sweet! Nice to Meet You! (Domino)
Xiu Xiu - Cumberland Gap - Dear God I Hate Myself (KRS)
Flaming Lips - Turn It On - Transmissions from the Satellite Heart (Warner)

The Album Leaf - We Are - A Chorus of Storytellers (Sub Pop)
Islands - Vapours - Vapours (Anti-)
Beauty Pill - Terrible Things - Unsustainable Lifestyle (Dischord)

Rebecca Gates - I Received a Levitation - Ruby Series (Badman)
Tindersticks - Don't Ever Get Tired - Can Our Love (Beggars Banquet)