Playlist 4/16/12

Nick Drake - The Thoughts of Mary Jane - Five Leaves Left (Hannibal)
The Swell Season - Feeling the Pull - Strict Joy (Anti-)
M Ward - Watch the Show - A Wasteland Companion (Merge)

Andrew Bird - Lusitania - Break It Yourself (Mom + Pop)
Willis Earl Beal - Evening's Kiss - Acousmatic Sorcery (XL Recordings)
The Decemberists - This Is Why We Fight - The King Is Dead (Capitol)

Mirah Yom Tov & Ginger Brooks Takahishi - Oh! September - Songs from the Black Mountain Project (K Records)
Tegan and Sara - Arrow - Sainthood (Vapor)

The Men - Candy - Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)
Fanfarlo - Tunguska - Rooms Filled with Light (Atlantic)
Sufjan Stevens - All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace! - Michigan (Asthmatic Kitty)

Raven and Chimes - Past Lives - Holiday Life (Better Looking)
Esperanza Spalding - Cinnamon Tree - Radio Music Society (Heads Up International)
Old Canes - Intro - Feral Harmonic (Saddle Creek)

Devendra Banhart - Angelika - What Will Be (Warner)
First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar - The Lions' Roar (Wichita)
O+S - New Life - s/t (Saddle Creek)

Miike Snow - Enter the Joker's Lair - Happy to You (Universal Republic)
Islands - Heartbeat - Vapours (Anti)
Tanlines - Brothers - Mixed Emotions (True Panther)

Ava Luna - Sequential Holdings - Ice Level (Infinite Best)
Dandy Warhols - The Last High - Welcome to the Monkey House (Capitol)
Beauty Pill - You, Yes You - You Are Right to Be Afraid (Dischord)

Broken Social Scene - Almost Crimes - You Forgot It in People (Arts & Crafts)
Foreign Born - Blood Oranges - Person to Person (Secretly Canadian)
Au - Today/Tonight - Both Lights (Hometapes)

Delta Spirit - Otherside - s/t (Rounder)
Lee Ranaldo - Shouts

Playlist 4/9/12

The Anniversary - The D in Detroit - Designing a Nervous Breakdown (Vagrant)
Cursive - The Sun and Moon - I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek)
The White Stripes - Conquest - Icky Thump (Warner)

Sleigh Bells - Never Say Die - Reign of Terror (Mom + Pop)
Pontiak - The North Coast - Echo Ono (Thrill Jockey)
Dirty Ghosts - Steamboat to Concord - Metal Moon (Last Gang)

LCD Soundsystem - New York I Love You but... - Sound of Silver (DFA)
Miike Snow - Archipelago - Happy to You (Universal Republic)
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position - The Magic Position (Tomlab)

Fanfarlo - Lenslife - Rooms Filled with Light (Canvasback)
Feist - The Park - The Reminder (Interscope)
David Vandervelde - Nothin' No - Nothin' No EP (Secretly Canadian)

Joanna Newsom - Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie - & the Ys Street Band (Drag City)
M Ward - To Go Home - To Go Home EP (Merge)
Ben and Vesper - An Honest Bluff - All This Could Kill You (Sounds Familyre)

Thurston Moore - The Shape Is in a Trance - Trees Outside of the Academy (Estatic Peace)
Perfume Genius - Normal Song - Put Your Back N 2 It (Matador)
Cocorosie - Japan - The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn (Touch and Go)

Tom Waits - Hope I Don't Fall in Love with You - Early Years Vol II (Manifesto)
Maria Taylor - Smile and Wave - Lynn Teeter Flowers (Saddle Creek)
Andrew Bird - Eyeoneye - Break It Yourself (Mom + Pop)

Bat for Lashes - Trophy - Fur and Gold (Echo)
Bowerbirds - Walk the Furrows - The Clearing (Dead Oceans)
Bright Eyes - I Must Belong Somewhere - Cassadaga (Saddle Creek)

Damien Jurado - Nothing Is the News - Maraqopa (Secretly Canadian)
Low - Belarus - Drums and Guns (Sub Pop)
Hospitality - The Birthday - s/t (Merge)

Memoryhouse - The Kids Were Wrong -

Playlist 4/2/12

Pavement - Frontwards - Slanted and Enchanted Reissue (Matador)
Cursive - Drunken Birds - I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek)
French Kicks - Oh Fine - The Trial of the Century (Star Time)

Marnie Stern - The Devil Is in the Details - This Is It... (Kill Rock Stars)
Fanfarlo - Lenslife - Rooms Filled with Light (Canfavasback)
Olivia Tremor Control - Hideaway - Black Foliage Vol. 1 (Cloud)

The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia (Capitol)
The Psychadelic Furs - Heartbreak Beat - Midnight to Midnight (Sony)
Foster the People - Helena Beat - Torches (Columbia)

Black Kids - Listen to Your Body Tonight - Partie Traumatic (Columbia)
The Black Keys - Ten Cent Pistol - Brothers (Nonesuch)
The Shins - Simple Song - Port of Morrow (Columbia)

TOPS - Turn Your Love Around - Tender Opposites (Artbus)
Evean Voytas - You Don't Even Know Where It's At - Feel Me (Dovecote)
Chairlift - I Belong in Your Arms - Something (Kanine)

First Aid Kit - Heavy Storm - The Big Black and the Blue (Jagadamba)
M Ward - To Go Home - Post-War (Merge)
Bowerbirds - Brave World - The Clearing (Dead Oceans)

Andrew Bird - Lusitania - Break It Yourself (Mom + Pop)
Now It's Overhead - Fall Back Open - Fall Back Open (Saddle Creek)
Bright Eyes/Neva Dinova - I Know You - One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels Reissue (Saddle Creek)

Damien Jurado - Nothing Is the News - Mariqopa (Secretly Canadian)
Vetiver - Angels' Share - s/t (DiChristina)
Perfume Genius - Normal Song - Put Your Back N 2 It (Matador)

The Decemberists - Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) - Crane Wife (Capitol)
Okkervil River - Calling and Not Calling My Ex - The Stand In's (Jagjaguwar)
Good Field - Something's Different - s/t (self)

The Magnetic Fields - God Wants Us to Wait - Love at the Bottom of the Sea (Merge)

Playlist 3/26/12

The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Deadroads - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications - Further Complications (Rough Trade)
Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness - Hello Sadness (Wichita)

Cursive - The Sun and Moon - I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek)
Sleater-Kinney - I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone - Call the Doctor (Chainsaw)
The Black Keys - Sister - El Camino (Nonesuch)

The Evens - Around the Corner - s/t (Dischord)
The Builders and the Butchers - Vampire Lake - Salvation Is a Deep Dark Well (Gigantic)
Dead Man's Bones - Pa Pa Power - s/t (Anti)

The Felice Brothers - Fire at the Pageant - Celebration Florida (Fat Possum)
Beth Jeans Houghton and the Hooves of Destiny - Atlas - Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose (Mute)
Good Field - Something's Different - s/t (self)

Neva Dinova - Yellow Datsun - The Hate Yourself Change (Sideecho)
Colin Meloy - Dracula's Daughter & Wonder - Sings Live! (Jealous Butcher)
David Bazan - Please, Baby, Please - Curse Your Branches (Pirate)

Andrew Bird - Polynation - Break It Yourself (Mom + Pop)
Bowerbirds - In the Yard - The Clearing (Dead Oceans)
Petra Hayden - Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand - Sings the Who Sell Out (Bar None)

Tennis - My Better Self - Young & Old (Fat Possum)
Chairlift - Sidewalk Safari - Something (Kanine)
Islands - Never Go Solo - A Sleep and A Forgetting (Anti)

The Magnetic Fields - Andrew in Drag - Love at the Bottom of the Sea (Merge)
Frankie Rose - Night Swim - Interstellar (Slumberland)
The Postal Service - We Will Become Silhouettes - We Will Become Silhouettes (Sub Pop)

Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead - Set Yourself on Fire (Arts & Crafts)
Rilo Kiley - Love and War (11/11/46) - More Adventurous (Brute Beaute)
Boat - We Want It We Want It - Setting the Paces (Magic Marker)

M Ward - Hi Fi - Transistor Radio (Merge)

Playlist 3/19/12

Los Campesinos! - Knee Deep at ATP - Hold On Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
Georgie James - Look Me Up - Places (Saddle Creek)
Flight of the Conchords - Business Time - s/t (Sub Pop)

Of Montreal - Malefic Dowry - Paralytic Stalks (Polyvinyl)
Foals - Balloons - Antidotes (Sub Pop)
Islands - Hallways - A Sleep and A Forgetting (Anti)

The Black Keys - Money Maker - El Camino (Nonesuch)
The Warmers - Wanted: More - Wanted: More (Dischord)
Dirty Ghosts - Ropes That Way - Metal moon (Last Gang)

Pontiak - The North Coast - Echo Ono (Thrill Jockey)
Jens Lekman - The Opposite of Hallelujah - Night Falls Over Kortedala (Secretly Canadian)
Let's Get Out of This Terrible Sandwich Shop - Chattanooga Kookoo - Listening (Roydale)

Belle & Sebastian - Wrapped Up in Books - Books (Rough Trade)
Kelly Stoltz - The Birmgingham Eccentric - Circular Sounds (Sub Pop)
Andrew Bird - Give It Away - Break It Yourself (Mom & Pop)

DeVotchKa - Blessing in Disguise - A Mad & Faithful Telling (Anti)
Bright Eyes - Approximate Sunlight - The People's Key (Saddle Creek)
She & Him - You Really Got a Hold on Me - Volume One (Merge)

Bowerbirds - In the Yard - The Clearing (Dead Oceans)
Chairlift - Ghost Tonight - Something (Kanine)
Tennis - Robin - Young & Old (Fat Possum)

The Decemberists - The Soldiering Life - Her Majesty... (Kill Rock Stars)
Grand Archives - Sleepdriving - s/t (Sub Pop)
Frightened Rabbit - Fast Blood - The Midnight Organ Fight (Fat Cat)

Perfume Genius - Take Me Home - Put Your Back N 2 It (Matador)
Wilco - The Late Greats - A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)
Langhorne Slim - Tipping Point - & the War Eagles (Kemado)

Justin Townes Earle - The Good Life - The Good Life (Bloodshot)
Scout Niblett - No-ones Wrong - I Am (Secretly Canadian)
David Byrne - Body in a River - Lead Us Not into Temptation (Thrill Jockey)

The Magnetic Fields - Andrew in Drag - Love at the Bottom of the Sea (Merge)
Y La Bamba - Court the Storm - Court the Storm (Tender Loving Empire)

Playlist 3/12/12

Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe - The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)
Jens Lekman - Waiting for Kirsten - An Argument with Myself (Secretly Canadian)
Tennis - Origins - Young & Old (Fat Possum)

The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Really Love You Anymore - I (Nonesuch)
Mister Heavenly - Reggae Pie - Out of Love (Sub Pop)
Bowerbirds - Brave World - The Clearing (Dead Oceans)

The Good Life - Always a Bridesmaid - Lovers Need Lawyers (Saddle Creek)
Boat - I Really, Really Think You Should Rethink Your Life - Let's Drag Our Feet (Magic Marker)
Islands - Never Go Solo - A Sleep & A Forgetting (Anti)

Chairlift - I Belong in Your Arms - Something (Kanine)
Howler - This One's Different - America Give Up (Rough Trade)
Rival Sons - All Over the Road - Pressure & Time (Earache Records)

Wild Flag - Glass Tambourine - s/t (Merge)
The White Stripes - 300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues - Icky Thump (Warner)
sports - Side Effect of Talk - s/t (self)

The Black Keys - Sister - El Camino (Nonesuch)
Times New Viking - Ever Falling in Love - Dancer Equired (Merge)
Dum Dum Girls - Just a Creep - Only in Dreams (Sub Pop)

Let's Wrestle - If I Keep on Loving You - Nursing Home (Merge)
Cursive - Eulogy for No Name - I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek)
Taylor Hollingsworth - I Didn't Know It Was the Devil - Life with a Slow Ear (Team Love)

Big Harp - Nadine - White Hat (Saddle Creek)
Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, Yim Yames - VD City - New Multitude (Rounder)
First Aid Kit - Emmylou - The Lion's Roar (Witchita)

William Elliott Whitmore - Let's Do Something Impossible - Field Songs (Anti)
Shovels and Rope - Boxcar - Daytrotter (Daytrotter)
Ryan Adams - This House Is Not for Sale - Love Is Hell (UMG)

Iron and Wine - Kingdom of the Animals - Boy with a Coin EP (Sub Pop)
Cate Le Bon - The Man I Wanted - Cyrk (The Control Group)
Good Field - Our Roofless Home - s/t (self)

Playlist 3/5/12

Les Savy Fav - Yawn, Yawn, Yawn - Inches (French Kiss)
The Like - He's Not a Boy - Release Me (Downtown)
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy - El Camino (Nonesuch)

The Dodos - Black Night - No Color (French Kiss)
Tegan and Sara - I Know I Know I Know I Know - So Jealous (Sanctuary)
Chairlift - Guilty as Charged - Something (Kanine)

Ex Norwegian - Sky Diving - Sketch (Dying Van Gogh)
Nihiti - Golden Pavilion - Faced with Splendor (Lo Bit Landscapes)
Tennis - Take Me to Heaven - Young & Old (Fat Possum)

Jarvis Cocker & Richard Hawley - The Cheat - Total Lee! (Astralwerks)
Rilo Kiley - The Absence of God - More Adventurous (Brute Beaute)
The Magnetic Fields - The Queen of the Savages - 69 Love Songs (Merge)

Bowerbirds - In the Yard - The Clearing (Dead Oceans)
John Vanderslice - Sea Salt - White Wilderness (Dead Oceans)
These United States - The Great Rivers - What Lasts (United Interests)

Damien Jurado - Reel to Reel - Maraqopa (Secretly Canadian)
O'death - Ghost Head - Outside (Ernest Jennings)
Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, Yim Yames - Talking Empty Bed Blues - New Multitudes (Rounder)

First Aid Kit - King of the World - The Lion's Roar (Wichita)
The Decemberists - Down by the Water - The King Is Dead (Captiol)
Murder by Death - A Masters in Reverse Psychology - Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them (Eyeball)

Twilight Singers - Martin Eden - Blackberry Belle (Birdman)
Dark Dark Dark - Daydreaming - Wild Go (Supply & Demand)
Sharon Van Etten - Serpents - Tramp (Jagjaguwar)

Jenny & Johnny - Big Wave - I'm Having Fun Now (Warner)
Jon Langford & Skull Orchard - 1234Ever - Old Devils (Bloodshot)
Swans - My Birth - My Father Will Guide Me Up Rope to the Sky (Young God)

Cate Le Bon - Fold the Cloth - Cyrk (The Control Group)
Pilots at Sea - Stars - Pilots at Sea EP (Double Six)