Playlist 4/18/11

Bright Eyes - Well Whiskey - Lua (Saddle Creek)
Jenny & Johnny - Big Wave - I'm Having Fun Now (Warner)
O'death - Black Dress - Outside (Ernest Jennings)

The Builders & the Butchers - It Came from the Sea - Dead Reckoning (Badman Recording)
William Elliot Whitmore - From the Cell Door to the Gallows - Hymns for the Hopeless (Southern)
The Head and the Heart - Couer d'Alene - s/t (Sub Pop)

Low - Especially Me - C'mon - (Sub Pop)
Joan as Police Woman - Kiss the Specifics - The Deep End (Play It Again Sam)
Iron & Wine - The Night Descending - The Sea * the Rhythm (Sub Pop)

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Straight to You - Henry's Dream (Mute)
Azure Ray - Across the Ocean - Hold on Love (Saddle Creek)
Vivian Girls - I Heard You Say - Share the Joy (Polyvinyl)

Beach Fossils - Distance - What a Pleasure (Captured Tracks)
Mates of State - Ha Ha - Team Boo (Polyvinyl)
The Brunettes - Brunettes Against Bubblegum Youth - Structure and Cosmetics (Sub Pop)

I'm From Barcelona - Get in Line - Forever Today (Mute)
Le Tigre - Viz This Island (Universal)
New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream - Fantastic Playroom (Modular)

You Say Party! We Say Die! - Opportunity - Lose All Time (Paper Bag)
Sia - Clap Your Hands - We Are Born (Jive)
Hunx and his Punx - Keep Away from Johnny - Too Young to Be in Love (Hardly Art)

Brave Irene - Campfire - s/t (Slumberland)
BOAT - King Kong - Dress Like Your Idols (Magic Marker)
Lykke Li - Get Some - Wounded Rhymes (Atlantic)

The Kills - Heart Is a Beating Drum - Blood Pressures (Domino)
Cursive - Donkeys - Mama, I'm Swollen (Saddle Creek)
Jawbreaker - Into You Like a Train - Etc. (Blackball)

Against Me! - Don't Lose Touch - Searching for a Former Clarity (Fat Wreck)
The National - Available - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers (Brassland)

Playlist 4/11/11

Skybox - Morning After Cuts - Morning After Cuts (self)
The Shaky Hands - You're the Light - Lunglight (KRS)
Takka Takka - Silence - Migration (Ernest Jennings)

Noah and the Whale - Just Me Before We Met - Last Night on Earth (Mercury)
Ponytail - Flabbermouse - Do Whatever You Want All the Time (We Are Free)
The Boy Least Likely to - I Box Up All the Butterflies - The Law of the Playground (+1)

Lykke Li - Get Some - Wounded Rhymes (Atlantic)
Vivian Girls - Dance (If You Wanna) - Share the Joy (Polyvinyl)
Belle and Sebastian - Wrapped Up in Books - Books EP (Rough Trade)

Parenthetical Girls - Gut Symmetries - Entanglements (Tomlab)
The Decemberists - The Sporting Life - Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
Little Scream - The Lamb - The Golden Record (Secretly Canadian)

Agnes Obel - Just So - Pilharmonics (PIAS Recordings)
The Concretes - You Can't Hurry Love - s/t (Astralwerks)
Silver Jews - Suffering Jukebox - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)

Damion Suomi & the Minor Prophets - Holy Ghost - Go, and Sell All of Your Things (Hopeless)
The Devil Makes Three - Gracefully Face Down - Do Wrong Right (Milan)
Rank and File - Amanda Ruth - The Slash Years (Rhino)

The Avett Brothers - Nothing Short of Thankful - Mignonette (Ramseur)
J. Mascis - Not Enough - Several Shades of Why (Sub Pop)
Kurt Vile - Jesus Fever - Smoke Ring for My Halo (Matador)

Beach Fossils - Distance - What a Pleasure EP (Captured Tracks)
Maritime - People of London - Human Hearts (Dangerbird)
Boat - Kinda Scared of Love Affairs - Dress Like Your Idols (Magic Marker)

Los Campesinos! - Don't Tell Me to Do the Math(s) - Sticking Fingers into Sockets EP (Arts & Crafts)
Art Brut - DC Comics and Chocolate Milkshake - Vs. Satan (Downtown)
Jail - Everyone's Hip - That's How We Burn (Sub Pop)

The Kills - Heart Is a Beating Drum - Blood Pressures (Domino)
The Warmers - RSVP/In a Cadence - Wanted: More (Dischord)
The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Breakup - Departing (Saddle Creek)

Playlist 4/4/11

Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots pt. 1 - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner)
Jarvis Cocker - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time - s/t (Rough Trade)
Beach Fossils - What a Pleasure - What a Pleasure (EP) (Captured Tracks)

The Books - Free Translator - The Way Out (Temporary Residence Ltd)
O+S - Lonely Ghosts - s/t (Saddle Creek)
The Disappearing Act - Heart in a Jar - s/t (Tortilla)

Thomas Kivi - I Just Work Here - Crying Child (Greater Than)
Murder By Death - The Big Sleep - In Bocca al Lupo (East West)
The Goodnight Loving - It's a Long Way in a Bad Way - ...Supper Club (Dirtnap)

The Builders and the Butchers - Vampire Lake - Salvation Is a Deep Dark Well (Gigantic)
J Mascis - Too Deep - Several Shades of Why (Sub Pop)
Agnes Obel - Riverside - Philharmonics (PIAS Recordings)

Wye Oak - Civilian - Civilia (Merge)
Cursive/Eastern Youth - May Flowers - 8 Teeth to Eat You (Better Looking)
Beauty Pill - Terrible Things - The Unsustainable Lifestyle (Dischord)

Rural Alberta Advantage - Under the Knife - Departing (Saddle Creek)
Arcade Fire - Modern Man - The Suburbs (Merge)
Noah and the Whale - Just Me Before We Met - Last Night on Earth (Mercury)

Boat - Kinda Scared of Love Affairs - Dress Like Your Idols (Magic Marker)
Tender Trap - Fireworks - Dasette Dansette (Slumberland)
The Like - Release Me - Release Me (Downtown)

The Strokes - Under the Cover of Darkness - Angles (RCA)
STRFKR - Born - Reptilians (Polyvinyl)
Obits - You Gotta Lose - Moody, Standard and Poor (Sub Pop)

The Grates - Two Kinds of Right - Teeth Lost, Hearts Won (Thirty Tigers)
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band - The Roof - Where the Messengers Meet (Dead Oceans)
Like Bells - Spinning - Palma (Exitstencil)

La Sera - Beating Heart - s/t (Hardly Art)
At the Close of Every Day - Hallways - Zalig Zijn De Armen Van Geest (Loose Thread)
Azure Ray - Your Weak Hands - Burn and Shiver (WARM)

Playlist 3/28/11

The Lucksmiths - Synchronized Sinking - Why That Doesn't Surprise Me (Drive In)
Jens Lekman - The Opposite of Hallelujah - Night Falls Over Kortedala (Secretly Canadian)
Maria Taylor - Xanax - 11:11 (Saddle Creek)

Bright Eyes - Jejune Stars - The People's Key (Saddle Creek)
Thomas Kivi - Anything (Whistling Song) - Crying Child (Greater Than)
Anna Calvi - Desire - s/t (Domino)

Neko Case - People Got a Lot of Nerve - Middle Cycle (Anti)
J Mascis - Not Enough - Several Shades of Why (Sub Pop)
Langhorne Slim - I Ain't Proud - When the Sun's Gone Down (Narnack)

The Cash Brothers - Nebraska - How Was Tomorrow (Zoe)
Woodpigeon - My Denial in Argyle - Die Stadt Muzikaten (Boompa)
Papercuts - Winter Daze - Fading Parade (Sub Pop)

PJ Harvey - All and Everyone - Let England Shake (Vagrant)
Dead Weather - I Can't Hear You - Sea of Cowards (Third Man)
The Rural Alberta - Drain the Blood - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)

Los Campesinos! - A Heaat Rash in the Shape of the Show Me State; Or, Letters from Me to Charlotte - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)
Noah and the Whale - L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N. - Last Night on Earth (Mercury)

STRFKR - Born - Reptilians (Polyvinyl)
The Babies - All Things Come to Pass - s/t (Shrimper)
Islands - Creeper - Arm's Way (Anti)

Les Savy Fav - We'll Make a Lover of You - Inches (French Kiss)
Le Tigre - Mediocrity Rules - From the Desk of Mr Lady EP (Mr Lady)
Matt & Kim - Don't Slow Down - Grand (Fader)

Lily Allen - LDN - Alright, Still (EMI)
Yuck - The Wall - s/t (Fat Possum)
Kurt Vile - Puppet to the Man - Smoke Ring for My Halo (Matador)

Wye Oak - Hot as Day - Civilian (Merge)
Liz Phair - Divorce Song - Exile in Guyville (Matador)
The Magnetic Fields - Queen of the Savages - 69 Love Songs Disc 3 (Merge)

Playlist 3/21/11

M Ward - To Go Home - Post-War (Merge)
Tim Kasher - I'm Afraid I'm Gonna Die Here - The Game of Monogamy (Saddle Creek)
Yuck - Suicide Policeman - Yuck (Fat Possum)

The Extra Lens - Cruiserweights - Undercard (Merge)
Noah and the Whale - L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N. - Last Night on Earth (Mercury)
The Disappearing Act - Now That You're Gone - The Disappearing Act (Mercury)

Middle Brother - Daydreaming - Middle Brother (Partisan)
Lucinda Williams - Lonely Girls - Essence (Lost Highway)
The Cave Singers - Clever Creatures - No Witch (Jagjaguwar)

J Mascis - Listen to Me - Several Shades of Why (Sub Pop)
Two Gallants - The Prodigal Son - What the Toll Tells (Saddle Creek)
Jennifer O'Connor - Always in Your Mind - Here with Me (Matador)

Ra Ra Riot - Each Year - The Rhumb Line (Barsuk)
Giant Sand - Muck Machine - Provisions (Yep Roc)
Earlimart - Before It Gets Better - Hymn and Her (Majordomo)

Warpaint - Composure - The Fool (Rough Trade)
La Sera - Hold - La Sera (Hardly Art)
Dirty Projectors - No Intention - No Intention + Bitte Orca (Expanded Edition) (Domino)

Sun Airway - Waiting on You - Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier (Secretly Canadian)
Oh Land - Break the Chain - Oh Land (Epic)
PJ Harvey - The Glorious Land - Let England Shake (Vagrant)

Rural Alberta Advantage - The Breakup - Departing (Saddle Creek)
The Walkmen - Canadian Girl - You & Me (Gigantic)
Tegan and Sara - Don't Confess (this thing that breaks my heart) - If It Was You (Vapor)

Iron and Wine - Half Moon - Kiss Each Other Clean (Warner)
Papercuts - Do You Really Wanna Know - Fading Parade (Sub Pop)
Moldy Peaches - Anyone Else But You - Moldy Peaches (Rough Trade)

Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins - It Wasn't Me - Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)

Playlist 3/14/11

Dandy Warhols - Cool Scene - 13 Tales from Urban Bohemia (Capitol)
The Magnetic Fields - I Thought You Were My Boyfriend - I (Nonesuch)
DeVotchKa - All the Sand in All the Sea - 100 Lovers (Anti-)

The Rural Alberta Advantage - Muscle Relaxants - Departing (Saddle Creek)
The Cave Singers - Clever Creatures - No Witch (Jagjaguwar)
Wanda Jackson - You Know I'm No Good - The Party Ain't Over (Nonesuch)

Dinosaur Bones - Royalty - My Divider (Dine Alone)
Elvis Costello - I'm Not Angry - My Aim Is True (Rykodisc)
Vivian Girls - Where Do You Run to - s/t (In the Red)

New Young Pony Club - Jerk Me - Fantastic Playroom (Modular)
Robyn - Cry When You're Older - Body Talk Pt. 1 (Interscope)
Cut Copy - Take Me Over - Zonoscope (Modular)

Papercuts - Do You Really Wanna Know - Fading Parade (Sub Pop)
The Elected - Would You Come with Me - Sun, Sun, Sun (Sub Pop)
Bright Eyes - Firewall - The People's Key (Saddle Creek)

The Good Life - The Moon Red Handed - Novena on a Nocturn (Better Looking)
Iron and Wine - Half Moon - Kiss Each Other Clean (Warner)
Jessica Lea Mayfield - Grown Man - Tell Me (Nonesuch)

Thomas Kivi - I Just Work Here - Crying Child (Greater Than)
J Mascis - Listen to Me - Several Shades of Why (Sub Pop)
Arizona Amp and Alternator - Velvet and Pearl - s/t (Thrill Jockey)

Akron/Family - Don't Be Afraid, You're Already Dead - Love Is Simple (Young God)
Nico - The Fairest of the Seasons - Chelsea Girl (Polydor)
Against Me! - Don't Lose Touch - Searching for a Former Clarity (Fat Wreck)

Jawbreaker - Kiss the Bottle - Etc. (Blackball)
Braid - Milwaukee Sky Rocket - Frame and Canvas (Polyvinyl)
Lifetime - 25 Cent Giraffes - Jersey's Best Dancers (Jade Tree)

Playlist 3/7/11

Modern Lovers - Government Center - s/t (Rhino)
The Strokes - Last Night - The Modern Age EP (XL)
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Stamp - Departing (Saddle Creek) *

Marnie Stern - Transformer - This Is It (Kill Rock Stars)
Boat - We Want It! We Want It! - Setting the Paces (Magic Marker)
Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)

Smith Westerns - Weekend - Dye It Blonde (Fat Possum) **
Asobi Seksu - Perfectly Crystal - Flourescence (Polyvinyl) *
Final Fantasy - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead - Do You Trust Your Friends? (Arts & Crafts)

Foals - This Orient - Total Life Forever (Sub Pop)
Cut Copy - Where I'm Going - Zonoscope (Modular)**
Tennis - Take Me Somewhere - Cape Dory (Fat Possum)**

Wanda Jackson - Shakin' All Over - The Party Ain't Over (Nonesuch)**
Surfer Blood - Floating Vibes - Astro Coast (Kanine)
Warpaint - Undertow - The Fool (Rough Trade)

Best Coast - Our Deal - Crazy for You (Mexican Summer)
David Bazan - Curse Your Branches - Curse Your Branches (Barsuk)
Sean Rowe - Night - Magic (Anti-)

The Swell Season - Low Rising - Strictly Joy (Anti-)
The Forms - Steady Hand - Derealization (Ernest Jennings)
Bright Eyes - One for You, One for Me - The People's Key (Saddle Creek)

Wye Oak - Two Small Deaths - Civilian (Merge)
PJ Harvey - The Glorious Land - Let England Shake (Vagrant)
Animal Collective - Unsolved Mysteries - Strawberry Jam (Domino)

La Sera - Beating Heart - s/t (Hardly Art)
Fujiya & Miyagi - Ventriloquizzing - Ventriloquizzing (Yep Roc)
Broken Spindles - Introvert - Kiss/Kick (Blank.wav)

LCD Soundsystem - I Can Change - This Is Happening (DFA Records)
O+S - Permanent Scar - s/t (Saddle Creek)
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The Apples in Stereo - Go - The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone (Elephant 6/Spin Art)
Matt & Kim - Yeah Yeah - s/t (Iheartcomix)

The Pipettes - Pull Shapes - We Are the Pipettes (Memphis Industries)
The Brunettes - Obligatory Road Song - Structure and Cosmetics (Sub Pop)
Gruff Rhys - Candylion - Candylion (Team Love)

Dinosaur Bones - Point of Pride - My Divider (Dine Alone Recordings)
Yuck - Holing Out - s/t (Fat Possum)
Tristen - Heart and Hope to Die - Charlatans at the Garden Gate (American Myth)

The Cave Singers - Black Leaf - No Witch (Jagjaguwar)
Middle Brother - Me Me Me - Middle Brother (Partisan)
Toro Y Moi - How I Know - Underneath the Pine (Carpark)

Sondre Lerche - On the Tower - Two Way Monologue (Astralwerks)
Miniature Tigers - Egyptian Robe - Fortress (Modern Art)
Misha - Anaconda - Teardrop Sweetheart (Tomlab)

Deerhoof - Qui Dorm, Nomes Somia - vs. Evil (Polyvinyl)
Free Energy - Dream City - Stuck on Nothing (Astralwerks)
Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin - Sink/Let It Sway - Let It Sway (Polyvinyl)

Frank Turner - Live Fast Die Old - Poetry of the Deed (Epitaph)
Jared Mees & the Grown Children - 10:26 - Caffeine, Alcohol, Sunshine, Money (Tender Loving Empire)
Jessica Lea Mayfield - Somewhere in Your Heart - Tell Me (Nonesuch)

The Twilight Singers - Blackbird and the Fox - Dynamite Steps (Sub Pop)
Iron and Wine - Walking Far from Home - Kiss Each Other Clean (Warner)
David Vandervelde - Nothin' No - Nothin' No EP (Secretly Canadian)

DeVotchKa - 100 Other Lovers - 100 Lovers (Anti-)
The Get Up Kids - Rally 'Round the Fool - There Are Rules (Quality Hill)
The Anniversary - The D in Detroit - Designing a Nervous Breakdown (Vagrant)

Promise Ring - B Is for Bethlehem - Nothing Feels Good (Jade Tree)