Playlist 1/30/12

Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications - Further Complications (Rough Trade)
Parenthetical Girls - A Song for Ellie Greenwich - Entanglements (Tomlab)
Placebo - Ashtray Heart - Battle for the Sun (Vagrant)

John Cale - Whaddya Mean by That - EP: Extra Playful (Double Six)
The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - Castles of Wales - ...and the Horse You Rode in on (Bloodshot)
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy - El Camino (Nonesuch)

Ex Norwegian - Girl with the Mustache - Sketch (Dying Van Gogh)
Nada Surf - When I Was Young - Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy (Barsuk)
The Anniversary - Outro in No Minor - Designing a Nervous Breakdown (Vagrant)

Cursive - Fairytales Tell Tales - Burst and Bloom (Saddle Creek)
Ben Kweller - Jealous Girl - Go Fly a Kite (The Noise Co.)
The Multiple Cat - Slapped by the Invisible Hand - The Golden Apple Hits (Plow City)

Fruit Bats - Hobo Girl - The Ruminant Band (Sub Pop)
Los Campesinos! - Don't Tell Me to Do the Math(s) - Sticking Fingers into Sockets (Arts & Crafts)
The Dandy Warhols - I Am Over It - Welcome to the Dollhouse (Capitol)

God Help the Girl - God Help the Girl - God Help the Girl (Matador)
The Do - The Wicked and the Blind - Both Ways Open Jaws (Six Degrees)
Portland Cello Project - Mouth for War - The Thao and Justin Power Sessions (Kill Rock Stars)

Kathleen Edwards - A Soft Place to Land - Voyageur (Rounder)
Pilots at Sea - Passing Trains - Pilots at Sea (self)
Nihiti - Golden Pavilion - Faced with Splendor (Lo Bit Landscapes)

The Autumns - Thieves in Blue - Le Carillon (Abalsom)
Atlas Sound - Te Amo - Parallax (4AD)
David Bazan - Bless this Mess - Curse Your Branches (Barsuk)

Wilco - Standing O - The Whole Love (Anti)
The Decemberists - Down by the Water - The King Is Dead (Capitol)
The Builders and the Butchers - Barcelona - Salvation Is a Deep Dark Well (Gigantic)

Ani DiFranco - Life Boat - Which Side Are You On? (Righteous Babe)

Playlist 1/23/12

O+S - New Life - O+S (Saddle Creek)
Sun Airway - American West - Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier (Dead Oceans)
Foals - Olympic Airways - Antidotes (Sub Pop)

Foster the People - Helen Beat - Torches (Columbia)
Superhuman Happiness - Oh, Tatiana - The Physical EP (Royal Potato Family)
Los Campesinos! - Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats - Hold on Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)

Against Me! - Thrash Unreal - New Wave (Sire)
The Dead Milkmen - Fauxhemia - The King in Yellow (self)
Gringo Star - Shadow - Count Yer Lucky Stars (Gigantic)

The Do - Slippery Slope - Both Ways Open Jaws (Six Degrees)
Nada Surf - Waiting for Something - Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy (Barsuk)
Guided by Voices - We Won't Apologize for the Human Race - Let's Go Eat the Factory (GBV Inc)

Rural Alberta Advantage - Two Lovers - Departing (Saddle Creek)
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band - At Night - Where the Messengers Meet (Dead Oceans)
The Magnetic Fields - Zombie Boy - Distortion (Nonesuch)

Ani DiFranco - Life Boat - Which Side Are You On? (Righteous Babe)
The Swell Season - High Horses - Strict Joy (Anti)
The Extra Lens - Rockin' Rockin' Twilight of the Gods - Undercard (Merge)

Wilco - Capitol City - The Whole Love (anti)
Dan Mangan - Post War Blues - Oh Fortune (Arts & Crafts)
Crooked Fingers - The Counerfeiter - Breaks in the Armor (Merge)

Conor Oberst - Moab - s/t (Merge)
Laura Gibson - The Fire - La Grande (Barsuk)
Ben Kweller - Jealous Girl - Go Fly a Kite (The Noise Group)

Langhorne Slim and the War Eagles - Diamonds and Gold - s/t (Kemado)
Maria Taylor - Time Lapse Lifeline - Lady Luck (Nettwerk)

Playlist 1/8/12

DeVotchKa - We're Leaving - How It Ends (Cicero)
The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Really Love You Anymore - I (Nonesuch)
The Brunettes - Brunettes Against Bubblegum Youth - Structure and Cosmetics (Sub Pop)

Stars - The Night Starts Here - In Our Bedroom After the War (Arts & Crafts)
Robyn - Fembot - Body Talk Pt. 1 (Interscope)
Stereo Total - Andy Warhol - Baby Ouh! (Kill Rock Stars)

LCD Soundsystem - You Wanted a Hit - This Is Happening (DFA)
Les Savy Fav - Meet Me in the Dollar Bin - Inches (French Kiss)
Cut Copy - Lights and Music - In Ghost Colors (Modular)

Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks - Torches (Columbia)
Los Campesinos! - By Your Hand - Hello Sadness (Wichita)
Braid - Please Drive Faster - Lucky to Be Alive (Glue Factory)

Alkaline Trio - Cooking Wine - Singles (Asian Man)
The Lawrence Arms - The Northside, the L&L and Any # of Crappy Apartments - A Guided Tour of Chicago (Asian Man)
Jawbreaker - Sea Foam Green - Etc. (Blackball)

Against Me! - We Laugh at Danger (and Break All the Rules) - Reinventing Axle Rose (No Idea)
Desaparecidos - Mall of America - Read Music, Speak Spanish (Saddle Creek)
Empires - Modern Love - Howl (self)

The Black Keys - Howlin' for You - Brothers (Nonesuch)
Modest Mouse - Satin in a Coffin - Good News for People Who Love Bad News (Capitol)
Titus Andronicus - No Future Part Three: Escape from No Future - The Monitor (XL)

Spoon - Rhythm and Soul - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)
Beauty Pill - Lifeguard in Wintertime - The Unsustainable Lifestyle (Dischord)
Rainer Maria - Hell and High Water - Hell and High Water (Polyvinyl)

The Flaming Lips - Lightning Strikes the Postman - Clouds Taste Metallic (Warner)
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Rise Up with Fists!! - Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)
The Decemberists - Red Right Ankle - Her Majesty... (Kill Rock Stars)

Shovels and Rope - Boxcar - Daytrotter Session (Daytrotter)
McCarthy Trenching - I Am Not Long for This World - s/t (Team Love)
Mayday - Booze and Pills - Bushido Karaoke (Saddle Creek)

Loretta Lynn - Portland Oregon - Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
Silver Jews - Punks in the Beerlight - Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City)
Jonathan Rice - It Is Best to Keep It All Inside - Further North (Reprise)

Karen Elson - The Ghost Who Walks - The Ghost Who Walks (XL)
Johnny Cash - Redemption Day - American VI: Ain't No Grave (American)
Two Gallants - Threnody in B Minor - What the Toll Tells (Saddle Creek)

O'Death - Black Dress - Outside (Ernest Jennings)
Crooked Fingers - The Counterfeiter - Breaks in the Armor (Merge)
Murder By Death - Shiola - In Bocca Al Lupo (East West)

The Felice Brothers - Don't Wake the Scarecrow - s/t (Team Love)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Am I Demon? - Ask Forgiveness (Drag City)
Okkervil River - The Valley - I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar)

Boat - (I'm a) Donkey for Your Love - Let's Drag Our Feet (Magic Marker)
I'm From Barcelona - Always Spring - Forever Today (Mute)
Let's Wrestle - If I Keep on Loving You - Nursing Home (Merge)

Yuck - Holing Out - s/t (Fat Possum)
Wolf Parade - You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son - Apologies to the Queen Mary (Sub Pop)
Neutral Milk Hotel - King of Carrot Flowers (pt. 2 and 3) In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Merge)

Mr. Gnome - Ate the Sun - Madness in Miniature (El Marko)
Atlas Sound - Te Amo - Parallax (4AD)
Real Estate - Out of Tune - Days (Domino)

The Tallest Man on Earth - Kids on the Run - The Wild Hunt (Dead Oceans)
The Good Life - You Don't Feel Like Home to Me - Help Wanted Nights (Saddle Creek)
Sports - St. Christopher - s/t (self)

Bombay Bicycle Club - How Can You Swallow So Much - A Different Kind of Fix (A&M)

Playlist 1/1/12

Jenny and Johnny - Committed - I'm Having Fun Now (Warner)
Tilly and the Wall - Reckless - Wild Like Children (Team Love)
She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? - Volume One (Merge)

Belle & Sebastian - Piazza, New York Catcher - Dear Catastrophe Waitress (Rough Trade)
Dressy Bessy - Baby Six String - s/t (Kindercore)
The Boy Least Likely to - Fur Soft As Fur - The Best Party Ever (Too Young to Die)

Weezer - My Name Is Jonas - Blue Album (DGC)
The Decemberists - The Mariner's Revenge Song - Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
The Mountain Goats - The Anglo-Saxons - Ghana (Beads of Sweat)

"Neil Young" - Whip My Hair - Jimmy Fallon Show (Jimmy Fallon Show)
Devendra Banhart - Michigan State - Oh Me Oh My... (Young God)
CocoRosie - Lemonade - Grey Oceans (Sub Pop)

The White Stripes - 300 MPH Torrential Outpour Blues - Icky Thump (Warner)
The Black Keys - Howlin' for You - Brothers (Nonesuch)
The Builders and the Butchers - It Came from the Sea - Dead Reckoning (Badman)

Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You - Middle Cyclone (Anti)
Bright Eyes - One for You, One for Me - The People's Key (Saddle Creek)
Rilo Kiley - With Arms Outstretched - The Execution of All Things (Saddle Creek)

Mark Ronson f/t Amy Winehouse - Valerie - Version (RCA)
Pulp - Bad Cover Version - We Love Life (Rough Trade)
Art Brut - Emily Kane - Bang Bang Rock & Roll (Banana)

Skybox - Morning After Cuts - Morning After Cuts (self)
Times New Viking - Ever Falling in Love - Dancer Equired (Merge)
Sun Airway - American West - Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier (Dead Oceans)

Matt & Kim - AM/FM Sound - Sidewalks (Fader)
CSS - Let's Reggae All Night - Donkey (Sub Pop)
The Faint - I Treat You Wrong - Fasciinatiion (blank.wav)

LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge - s/t (DFA)
Future Bible Heroes - Losing Your Affection - The Lonely Robot (Instinct)
Le Tigre - Don't Drink Poison - This Island (Universal)

Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You - Partie Traumatic (Atlantic)
Jens Lekman - Pocketful of Money - Oh You're So Silent, Jens (Secretly Canadian)

Yo La Tengo - Cherry Chapstick - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (Matador)
Club 8 - Boyfriends Stay - s/t (A Hidden Agenda)
Viva Voce - Believer - Get Yr Blood Sucked Out (Barsuk)

Saturday Looks Good to Me - Meet Me By the Water - All Your Summer Songs (Polyvinyl)
Kings of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street - Declaration of Dependence (Astralwerks)
Lucksmiths - There Is a Boy that Never Goes Out - Naturaliste (Drive In)

The Good Life - Inmates - Album of the Year (Accoustic) (Saddle Creek)
Tegan and Sara - Living Room - If It Was You (Vapor)
Los Campesinos! - My Year in Lists - Hold on Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)

Hello Seahorse! - Ok Lobster - Hoy a las Ocho (Magic Marker)
Let's Wrestle - We Are the Men You'll Grow to Love Soon - In the Court of Wrestling Let's (Merge)
Mirah - Oh September! - Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project (K Records)

Best Coast - Our Deal - Crazy for You (Mexican Summer)
Foals - Two Steps Twice - Antidotes (Sub Pop)
Flight of the Concords - Robots - Flight of the Concords (Sub Pop)

Belle and Sebastian - The Blues Are Still Blue - The Life Pursuit (Matador)
Rufus Wainwright - California - Poses (Dreamworks)
DeVotchKa - Along the Way - A Mad and Faithful Telling (Anti)

Justin Townes Earle - Hard Livin - The Good Life (Bloodshot)
Jeremy Messersmith - Organ Donor - The Reluctant Graveyard (self)
The Dead Weather - Hustle and Cuss - Sea of Cowards (Third Man)

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)