Sunday, May 15, 2011

Playlist 5/16/11

Okkervil River - Your Past Life as a Blast - I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar)
Jens Lekman - I Saw Her at the Anti War Demonstration - Oh You're So Silent, Jens (Secretly Canadian)
Gruff Rhys - If We Were Words (we would rhyme) - Hotel Shampoo (Wichita)

Thao & Mirah - Likable Man - Thao + Mirah (Kill Rock Stars)
The Prefect Vessels - Shade Tree Astronomy - Name Our Own Stars (Makeshift)
Belle & Sebastian - Sukie in the Graveyard - The Life Pursuit (Matador)

Let's Get Out of This Terrible Sandwich Shop - Chattanooga Kookoo - Listening (Roydale)
I'm From Barcelona - Always Spring - Forever Today (Mute)
Saturday Looks Good to Me - Money in the Afterlife - Fill Up the Room (K Records)

The Magnetic Fields - California Girls - Distortion (Nonesuch)
The Wombats - Tokyo (Vampires and Wolves) - This Modern Glitch (Warner)
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Laura Palmer's Prom - XXXX (Paper Bag)

The Ettes - Blood Red Blood - Do You Want Power (Take Root)
Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)
The Kills - DNA - Blood Pressures (Domino)

Of Montreal - Slave Translator - The Controller Sphere (Polyvinyl)
Sia - The Fight - We Are Born (Jive)
CSS - Rat Is Dead (Rage) - Donkey (Sub Pop)

LCD Soundsystem - Time to Get Away - Sound of Silver (DFA)
Lindi Ortega - All My Friends - Little Red Boots (Last Gang)
Mazes - Surf and Turf - A Thousand Heys (Fat Cat)

Kaki King - I Never Said I Love You - ...Until We Felt Red (Velour)
Girls in Trouble - Hunter/The Bee Lays Her Honey - s/t (JDub)
Karen Dalton - In the Evening - It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You Best (Koch)

Panda Bear - You Can Count on Me - Tomboy (Paw Tracks)
Dodos - Sleep - No Color (Frenchkiss)
Matt Sharp - All Those Dreams - s/t (In Music We Trust)

The Montgolfier Brothers - Koffee Pot Brass - Journey's End (Vespertine & Son)

Monday, May 9, 2011

Playlist 5/9/11

Boat - Last Cans of Paint - Songs that You May Not Like (Magic Marker)
The Windmills - Pounds, Shillings and Pence - Sunlight (Matinee)
Hands and Knees - Do You Really Need a Drummer? - Et Tu Fluffy? (Midriff)

Gruff Rhys - Christopher Columbus - Hotel Shampoo (Wichita)
Hunx and His Punx - Can We Get Together? - Too Young to Be in Love (Hardly Art)
The Happy Hollows - Lieutenant - Spells (self)

Mazes - Wait Anyway - A Thousand Heys (Fat Cat)
Thao and Mirah - Rubies and Rocks - Thao + Mirah
God Help the Girl - Come Monday Night - s/t (Matador)

Heavenly - Me and My Madness - The Decline and Fall of Heavenly (K)
Cub - Freaky - Box of Hair (Lookout!)
The Hissyfits - Baby - Letters from Frank (Top Quality Rock and Roll)

Black Keys - Everlasting Light - Brother (Nonesuch)
The Kills - Heart Is a Beating Drum - Blood Pressures (Domino)
The Strokes - Under Cover of Darkness - Angles (RCA)

The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Ballad of the RAA - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
The Felice Brothers - Fire at the Pageant - Celebration, Florida (Fat Possum)
The Builders and the Butchers - Vampire Lake - Salvation Is a Deep Dark Well (Gigantic)

Lindi Ortega - I'm No Elvis Presley - Little Red Boots (Last Gang)
Karen Elson - The Truth Is in the Dirt - The Ghost Who Walks (XL)
O'death - Black Dress - Outside (Ernest Jennings)

Movits! - Vad Dom An Sager - Sammy Davis Jr. (Comedy Central)
Cass McCombs - Buried Alive - Wit's End (Domino)
Monsters of Folk - Say Please - s/t (Shangri-La)

Mountain Goats - Birth of Serpents - All Eternals Deck (Merge)
Tim Williams - Murderous Air - Careful Love (Dovecote)
Okkervil River - Lay of the Last Survivor - I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar)

David Bazan - Curse Your Branches - Curse Your Branches (Barsuk)
Grizzly Bear - Cheerleader - Veckatimest (Warp)
Bob Nanna - Forgiveness - split w/Elizabeth Elmore (Troubleman Unlimited)

Monday, May 2, 2011

Playlist 5/2/11

Rural Alberta Advantage - The Breakup - Departing (Saddle Creek)
Matt & Kim - Dash After Dash - s/t (iheartcomix)
Gruff Rhys - Sensations in the Dark - Hotel Shampoo (Wichita)*

Ponytail - Honey Touches - Do Whatever You Want All of the Time (We Are Free)**
BOAT - Forver in Armitron - Dress Like Your Idols (Magic Marker)**
Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You - 13 Tales from Urban Bohemia (Captiol)

Vivian Girls - 16 Ways - Share the Joy (Polyvinyl)*
Smith Westerns - Weekend - Dye It Blonde (Fat Possum)
Beach Fossils - Distance - What a Pleasure (Captured Tracks)*

I'm from Barcelona - Charlie Parker - Forever Today (Mute)*
We Landed on the Moon - Boats - This Will Be One for the Books (self)
The Mountain Goats - The House that Dripped Blood - Tallahassee (4AD)

Neko Case - Deep Red Bells - Blacklisted (Bloodshot)
Felice Brothers - Love Me Tenderly - s/t (Team Love)
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Sink Ships - Cardinology (Lost Highway)

David Vandervelde - Old Turns - Waiting for the Sunrise (Secretly Canadian)
Tennis - Take Me Somewhere - Cape Dory (Fat Possum)
Rilo Kiley - With Arms Outstretched - The Execution of All Things (Saddle Creek)

Warpaint - Undertow - The Fool (Rough Trade)
The Whitsundays - Silent in the Wind - Saul (Friendly Fire)
Mason Proper - Out Dragging the River - Olly Oxen Free (Dovecote)

The Disappearing Act - It's Not Me Anymore - s/t (Tortilla)**
The Head and the Heart - Couer d'Alene - s/t (Sub Pop)**
Low - Try to Sleep - C'Mon (Sub Pop)*

O'Death - Ghost Head - Outside (Earnest Jennings)*
Jonny - Wich is Wich - s/t (Merge)*
Hunx and His Punx - Lovers Lane - Too Young to Be in Love (Hardly Art)*

Stereo Total - Du Bist Gut Zu Vogeln - Baby Ouh! (Kill Rock Stars)
Of Montreal - Like a Tourist - False Priest (Polyvinyl)

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Playlist 4/25/11

Mt. St. Helen's Vietnam Band - Anchors Dropped - s/t (Dead Oceans)
Bishop Allen - Dimmer - Grrr... (Dead Oceans)
Surf City - Headin' Inside - Surf City (Morr)

The Shaky Hands - We Are Young - Lunglight (Kill Rock Stars)
The Rikters - L.L.H.D. - Mistaken for Scientists (self)
BOAT - Landlocked - Dress Like Your Idols (Magic Marker)

Hotels - Trouble at the Consulate - On the Casino Floor (Hidden Shoal)
Belle & Sebastian - The Blues Are Still Blue - The Life Pursuit (Matador)
I'm From Barcelona - Come On - Forever Today (Mute)

Hunx and His Punx - Tonite Tonite - Too Young to Be in Love (Hardly Art)
The Strokes - Under Cover of Darkness - Angles (RCA)
Figurines - The Wonder - Skeleton (The Control Group)

The Boy Least Likely to - Monsters - The Best Party Ever (Too Young to Die)
The Weather Machines - The Latest in Company Brides - The Sound of Pseudo Science (Tigers Against Crime)
The Ravonettes - Recharge and Revolt - Raven in the Grave (Vice)

The Decks - What You Said - Breath and Bone (Tortoise)
Hefner - The Hymn for the Alcohol - The Fidelity Wars (Beggars)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Beware Your Only Friend - Beware (Drag City)

The Wood Brothers - Glad - Ways Not to Lose (Blue Note)
J. Mascis - Very Nervous and Love - Several Shades of Why (Sub Pop)
Tim Burgess - We All Need Love - I Believe (Koch)

The Mountain Goats - Beautiful Gas Mask - All Eternals Deck (Merge)
Agnes Obel - Beast - Philharmonics (PIAS Recordings)
Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti-)

The Head and the Heart - Lost in My Mind - The Head and the Heart (Sub Pop)
The Two Gallants - 16th Street Dozens - What the Toll Tells (Saddle Creek)
Kurt Vile - Jesus Fever - Smoke Ring for My Halo (Matador)

Maritime - People of London - Human Hearts (Dangerbird)
Bon Iver - Skinny Love - For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)
Beach Fossils - Calyer - What a Pleasure (Captured Tracks)

Vivian Girls - Sixteen Ways - Share the Joy (Polyvinyl)
The Naked Hearts - No One Nothing - These Knees (self)
Bibio - Light Sleep - Mind Broken (Warp)

Peter Bjorn & John - Second Chance - Gimme Some (Star Time)
Islands - Humans - Return to the Sea (Equator)
Lily Allen - Chinese - It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol)

Ladyhawke - Paris Is Burning - s/t (Modular)
Lykke Li - Get Some - Wounded Rhymes (Atlantic)
The Kills - Damned If She Do - Blood Pressures (Domino)

The Promise Ring - Living Around - Very Emergency (Jade Tree)
The Get Up Kids - Red Letter Day - Red Letter Day EP (Doghouse)
Alkaline Trio - You've Got So Far to Go - Maybe I'll Catch Fire (Asian Man)

Edith Piaf - Autumn Leaves - 30th Anniversary (EMI)
Conor Oberst - Milk Thistle - s/t (Merge)
Joan as Police Woman - Forever and a Year - The Deep Field (Play It Again Sam)

Sin Fang - Fall Down Slow - Summer Echoes (Morr)
M. Ward - Rave On - Hold Time (Merge)
Dodos - Don't Try and Hide It - No Color (French Kiss)

The Feelies - Nobody Knows - Here Before (Bar/None)
Kimya Dawson - Tire Swing - Remember that I Love You (K Records)
O'death - Black Dress - Outside (Earnest Jennings)

Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins - Happy - Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)
Okkervil River - Starry Stairs - The Stand In's (Jagjaguwar)
Low - You See Everything - C'Mon (Sub Pop)

CocoRosie - Grey Oceans - Grey Oceans (Sub Pop)
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Merge)
The Decemberists - Down by the Water - The King Is Dead (Capitol)

Monday, April 18, 2011

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)

Monday, April 11, 2011

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)

Monday, April 4, 2011

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)