Playlist 12/19/11

Swell Season - Low Rising - Strict Joy (Anti-)
Wilco - Born Alone - The Whole Love (Anti-)
Tim Kasher - Cold Love - The Game of Monogamy (Saddle Creek)

Los Campesinos! - By Your Hand - Hello Sadness (Witchita)
Gringo Star - Count Yer Lucky Stars - Count Yer Lucky Stars (Gigantic)
Bombay Bicycle Club - How Can You Swallow So Much - A Different Kind of Fix (A&M)

Matt & Kim - Dash After Dash - s/t (Iheartcomix)
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy - El Camino (Nonesuch)
The White Stripes - Hotel Yorba - White Blood Cells (Sympathy for the Record Industry)

The Oh Sees - Crushed Grass - Carrion Crawler/The Dream (In the Red)
The Atlas Sound - Te Amo - Parallax (4AD)
The Lucksmiths - Midweek Midmorning - Naturaliste (Drive In)

Jens Lekman - A Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill - Oh You're So Silent, Jens (Secretly Canadian)
Belle and Sebastian - The Blues Are Still Blue - The Life Pursuit (Matador)
Noah and the Whale - L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N. - Last Night on Earth (Mercury)

Kurt Vile - Life's a Beach - So Outta Reach (Matador)
The Decemberists - The Chimbly Sweep - Her Majesty the Decemberists (Kill Rock Stars)
Crooked Fingers - Bad Blood - Breaks in the Armor (Merge)

Richard Swift - Whitman - Walt Wolfman (Secretly Canadian)
She & Him - Baby, It's Cold Outside - A Very She & Him Christmas (Merge)
Rilo Kiley - Does He Love You? - More Adventurous (Brute Beaute)

Kate Bush - Wild Man - 50 Words for Snow (Anti)
Still Corners - The White Season - Creatures of an Hour (Sub Pop)
The Do - Leo Leo - Both Ways Open Jaws (Six Degrees)

Sondre Lerche - Private Caller - s/t (Yep Roc)
Superchunk - Learned to Surf - Majesty Shredding (Merge)
Art Brute - Pump Up the Volume - It's a Bit Complicated (Downtown)

The Boy Least Likely to - George and Andrew - Christmas Special
Best Coast - When I'm with You - Crazy for You (Mexican Summer)

Playlist 12/12/11

Belle and Sebastian - Write About Love - Write About Love (Matador)
Spectrals - You Can't Live on Love Alone - Bad Penny (Slumberland)
Sondre Lerche - Don't Be Shallow - Don't Be Shallow (Astralwerks)

Real Estate - Kinder Blumen - Days (Domino)
Rilo Kiley - Waves and Wires - Take Offs and Landings (Barsuk)
Okkervil River - Song About a Star - Down the River of Golden Dreams (Jagjaguwar)

Calvin Johnson - Rabbit Blood - Before the Dream Faded (K)
The Boy Least Likely to - George and Andrew - Christmas Special (Too Young to Die)
Fences - The Same Tattoos - s/t (Onto Entertainment)

The Flaming Lips - Lightning Strikes the Postman - Clouds Taste Metallic (Warner)
Kate Bush - Wild Man - 50 Words for Snow (Anti)
Dan Mangan - Post-War Blues - Oh Fortune (Arts & Crafts)

Crooked Fingers - The Counterfeiter - Breaks in the Armor (Merge)
Kurt Vile - It's Alright - Sou Outta Reach (Matador)
The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt - The Wild Hunt (Dead Oceans)

The Mountain Goats - Birth of Serpents - All Eternals Deck (Merge)
Gringo Star - Jessica - Count Yer Lucky Stars (Gigantic Music)
Bombay Bicycle Club - Take the Right One - A Different Kind of Fix (A&M)

American Analog Set - Million Young - Know By Heart (Tigerstyle)
Mr. Gnome - Ate the Sun - Madness in Miniature (El Marko)
Los Campesinos! - Songs About Your Girlfriend - Hello Sadness (Wichita)

Thee Oh Sees - Crushed Grass - Carrion Crawler/the Dream EP (In the Red)
The Dead Weather - I'm Mad - Sea of Cowards (Third Man)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Henry Lee - Murder Ballads (Mute)

Murder By Death - A Masters in Reverse Psychology - Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them (Eyeball)
O'death - Look at the Sun - Outside (Ernest Jennings)

Karen Elson - The Truth Is in the Dirt - The Ghost Who Walks (XL)
Twilight Singers - Papillon - Blackberry Belle (Birdman)
Richard Swift - Zombie Boogie - Walt Wolfman (Secretly Canadian)

Playlist 12/5/11

M Ward - Vincent O'Brien - Transfiguration of Vincent (Merge)
Ivy League - P is for Penelope - London Bridges EP (Twenty Seven)
Jenny and Johnny - Big Wave - I'm Having Fun Now (Warner)

Hindi Zahra - Ahiawa - Handmade (Our Soul)
She & Him - Lingering Still - Volume Two (Merge)
The Balky Mule - Range - The Length of the Rail (Fat Cat)

Real Estate - It's Real - Days (Domino)
Spectrals - You Don't Have to Tell Me - Bad Penny (Slumberland)
Best Coast - Crazy for You - Crazy for You (Mexican Summer)

Foster the People - Helena Beat - Torches (Columbia)
Stars - Ageless Beauty - Set Yourself on Fire (Arts & Crafts)
Superhuman Happiness - The Hounds - The Physical EP (Royal Potato Family)

Bombay Bicycle Club - Take the Right One - A Different Kind of Fix (A&M)
Kate Bush - Wild Man - 50 Words for Snow (Anti)
Casiokids - Gront Lys I Alle Ledo - Topp Stemming Pa Lokal Bar (Polyvinyl)

The Boy Least Likely to - The Boy Least Likely to Is a Machine - The Law of the Playground (+1)
Bearsuit - Cherryade - Cat Spectacular! (Microindie)
Los Campesinos! - Songs About Your Girlfriend - Hello Sadness (Wichita)

The Beets - You Don't Want Kids to Be Dead - Let the Poison Out (Hardly Art)
Mr. Gnome - We Sing Electric - Madness in Miniature (El Marko)
Robyn - Fembot - Body Talk Pt 1 (Konichiwa)

The Naked and Famous - Young Blood - Passive Me, Aggressive You (Universal)
Wavves - In the Sand - Life Sux (Ghost Ramp)
Let's Wrestle - We Are the Men You'll Grow to Love Soon - In the Court of Wrestling Let's (Merge)

Jaill - Everyone's Hip - That's How We Burn (Sub Pop)
Beck - Hell Yes - Guero (Interscope)
Stereo Total - Andy Warhol - Baby Ouh! (Kill Rock Stars)

A Northern Chorus - Watershed Divide - Bitter Hands Resign (Sonic Unyon)
Crooked Fingers - The Counterfeiter - Breaks in the Armor (Merge)
Dan Mangan - Leaves, Trees, Forest - Oh Fortune (Arts and Crafts)

Playlist 11/28/11

The Boy Least Likely to - Monsters - The Best Party Ever (Too Young to Die)
The Lucksmiths - The Great Dividing Range - Why That Doesn't Surprise Me (Drive-In)
My Brightest Diamond - She Does Not Brave the War (but She Saves the Day) - All Things Will Unwind (Asthmatic Kitty)

Feist - Caught a Long Wind - Metals (Cherrytree)
Real Estate - Kinder Blumen - Days (Domino)
The Wrens - Hopeless - The Meadowlands (Absolutely Kosher)

Sports - Side Effect of Talk - s/t (self)
Bombay Bicycle Club - How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep - A Different Kind of Fix (A&M)
Mirah Yom Tov & Ginger Brooks Takahishi - Oh September! - Songs From the Black Mountain Project (K Records)

Smoosh - Free to Stay - Free to Stay (Barsuk)
The Decemberists - Billy Liar - Her Majesty the Decemberists (Kill Rock Stars)
Oakley Hall - Lazy Susan - Gypsum Strings (Brah)

Grouplove - Love Will Save Your Soul - Never Trust a Happy Song (Atlantic)
Mates of State - The Kissaway - Team Boo (Polyvinyl)
Eagle and Talon - Kidnapped in the Yukon - EP (self)

Mr. Gnome - Ate the Sun - Madness in Miniature (El Marko)
Can't - Rises Silent - Dreams Come True (Terrible)
Superhuman Happiness - Oh, Tatiana - The Physical EP (Royal Potato Family)

Spectrals - You Don't Have to Tell Me - Bad Penny (Slumberland)
The Elected - San Francisco via Chicago Blues - Lagniappe (Saddle Creek)
M Ward - Radio Campaign - Transistor Radio (Merge)

Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti-)
Silver Jews - What Is Not But Could Be If - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)
Murder By Death - Shiola - In Bocca al Lupo (East West)

William Elliot Whitmore - Sometimes Our Dreams Float Like Anchors - Hymns for the Hopeless (Southern)
Mason Jennings - Memphis, Tennessee - In the Ever (Brushfire)

Langhorne Slim - Be Set Free - Be Set Free (Kemado)
Wilco - Standing O - The Whole Love (Anti-)
David Lynch - Good Day Today - Crazy Clown Time (PIAS)

Playlist 11/21/11

All Girl Summer Fun Band - Dear Mr. and Mrs. Troublemaker - 2 (K Records)
Matt and Kim - Dash After Dash - s/t (Iheartcomix)
Wolf Parade - Language City - At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop)

Sports - St. Christopher - Sports (self)
Gringo Star - Count Yer Lucky Stars - Count Yer Lucky Stars (Gigantic Music)
Real Estate - Easy - Days (Domino)

The Shins - We Will Become Silhouettes (Postal Service cover)- Such Great Heights (Sub Pop)
Grouplove - Lovely Cup - Never Trust a Happy Song (Atlantic)**
Los Campesinos! - By Your Hand - Hello Sadness (Arts and Crafts)

The Beets - Preso Voy - Let the Poison Out (Hardly Art)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps - Fever to Tell (Interscope)
New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream - Fantastic Playroom (Modular)

of Montreal - She's a Rejector - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)
LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing at My House - s/t (DFA)
CSS - Move - Donkey (Sub Pop)

The Rapture - Can You Find a Way? - In the Grace of Your Love (DFA)
The Faint - Sex Is Personal - Blank-Wave Arcade (Saddle Creek)
Ladyhawke - Paris Is Burning - s/t (Modular)

Cut Copy - Future - Bright Like Neon Love (Modular)
Foals - Two Steps Twice - Antidotes - (Sub Pop)
Superhuman Happiness - Oh, Tatiana - The Physical EP (Royal Potato Family)

Pujol - Mayday - Nasty, Brutish and Short (Saddle Creek)
Cursive - Bloody Murderer - The Ugly Organ (Saddle Creek)
David Lynch - So Glad - Crazy Clown Time (PIAS America)

Orenda Fink - Sister - Ask the Night (Saddle Creek)
Feist - How Come You Never Go There - Metals (Cherrytree)
Gruff Rhys - Candylion - Candylion (Team Love)

Pterodactyl - The Break - Spills Out (Brah)
Nick Drake - Time Has Told Me - Five Leaves Left (Hannibal)
Mirah - Oh! September - Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project (K Records)

Playlist 11/14/11

Bright Eyes - Falling Out of Love at This Volume - Saddle Creek Sampler (Saddle Creek)
The Ladybug Transistor - Three Days from Now - Can't Wait Another Day (Merge)
Spectrals - You Don't Have to Tell Me - Bad Penny (Slumberland)

Tennis - Take Me Somewhere - Cape Dory (Fat Possum)
Twin Sister - Badstreet - In Heaven (Domino)
The Rapture - Come Back to Me - In the Grace of Your Love (DFA)

Superhuman Happiness - The Hounds - The Physical EP (Royal Potato Family)
Jonti - Spooky Sport - Twirligig (Stonesthrow)
Papercuts - Do You Really Wanna Know - Fading Parade (Sub Pop)

Belle & Sebastian - Storytelling - Storytelling (Matador)
Shout Out Louds - Tonight I Have to Leave It - Tonight I Have to Leave It (Merge)
Pulp - Disco 2000 - Different Class (Island)

Grouplove - Tongue Tied - Never Trust a Happy Song (Atlantic)
Los Campesinos - By Your Hand - Hello Sadness (Arts & Crafts)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Let the Cool Goddess Rust Away - s/t (self)

The Beets - Now I Live - Let the Poison Out (Hardly Art)
Real Estate - Easy - Days (Domino)
Mr. Gnome - Madness in Miniature (El Marko)

Bombay Bicycle Club - Shuffle - A Different Kind of Fix (A&M)
Sports - Side Effect of the Talk - s/t (self)
Times New Viking - Downtown Eastern Bloc - Dancer Equired (Merge)

Titus Andronicus - No Future Part Three: Escape from No Future - The Monitor (XL)
Smart Went Crazy - Spy vs. Spy - Now We're Even (Dischord)
Spoon - The Agony of Laffitte - Agony of Laffitte (Saddle Creek)

Neutral Milk Hotel - Song Against Sex - On Avery Island (Merge)
Inspector Owl - Diffusion of Neurotransmitters Across the Synaptic Cleft - Patters of Nerve-Cell Action (Oh Nona)
Let's Wrestle - If I Keep on Loving You - Nursing Home (Merge)

Okkervil River - Rider - I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar)
Foster the People - Miss You - Torches (Columbia)
Feist - A Commotion - Metals (Cherrytree)

Playlist 11/6/11

The Dead Weather - The Difference Between Us - Sea of Cowards (Third Man)
Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications - Further Complications (Rough Trade)
Recover - Push Push - Ceci n 'est pas Recover (Fiddler)

Braid - Milwaukee Sky Rocket - Lucky to Be Alive (Glue Factory)
Jets to Brazil - You're the One I Want - Perfecting Loneliness (Jade Tree)
Sports - Saint Christopher - Sports (self?)

Warm Ghost - Myths on Rotting Ships - Narrows (Partisan)
Beck - Guess I'm Doing Fine - Sea Change (Geffen)
The Good Life - Always a Bridesmaid - Lovers Need Lawyers (Saddle Creek)

Tilly and the Wall - Fell Down the Stairs - Wild Like Children (Team Love)
Feist - The Bad in Each Other - Metals (Cherrytree)
Portland Cello Project - Tallymarks - The Thao and Justin Power Sessions (Kill Rock Stars)

Real Estate - It's Real - Days (Domino)
Dum Dum Girls - Bedroom Eyes - Only in Dreams (Sub Pop)
Bjork - Mutual Core - Biophilia (Nonesuch)

Of Montreal - Rapture Rapes the Muses - Satanic Panic in the Attic (Polyvinyl)
The Rapture - Come Back to Me - In the Grace of Your Love (DFA)
Les Savy Fav - Hold on to Your Genre - Inches (French Kiss)

Jens Lekman - I Saw Her at the Anti-War Demonstration - You Are the Light (Secretly Canadian)
My Brightest Diamond - Be Brave - All Things Will Unwind (Asthmatic Kitty)
Maria Taylor - Irish Goodbye - Lynn Teeter Flowers (Saddle Creek)

Laura Marling - All My Rage - A Creature I Don't Know (Virgin)
Dan Mangan - Leaves, Trees, Forest - Oh Fortune (Arts & Crafts)
David Bazan - Curse Your Branches - Curse Your Branches (Barsuk)

Wilco - Dawned on Me - The Whole Love (Anti-)
Oakley Hall - Rue the Blues - I'll Follow You (Merge)
The Builders and the Butchers - Vampire Lake - Salvation Is a Deep Dark Well (Gigantic)

Megafun - Real Slow - s/t (Hometapes)