Playlist 12/30/12

Spoon - Got Yr Cherry Bomb - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)
The xx - Chained - Coexist (Young Turks)
Jets to Brazil - Starry Configurations - Orange Rhyming Dictionary (Jadetree)

Rainer Maria - Already Lost - Catastrophe Keeps Us Together (Grunion)
Rural Alberta Advantage - The Breakup - Departing (Saddle Creek)
Grouplove - Don't Say Oh Well - Grouplove EP (Canvasback)


Rilo Kiley - Science vs. Romance - Take Offs and Landings (Barsuk)
Architecture in Helsinki - Heart It Races - Heart It Races EP (Polyvinyl)
Twin Sister - I Want a House - Vampires with Dreaming Kids


Tilly & the Wall - All Kinds of Guns - Heavy Mood (Team Love)
Smoosh - Rock Song - Free to Stay (Barsuk)
The Pipettes - Guess Who Ran Off with the Milkman? - Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me EP (Memphis Industries)


Belle & Sebastian - It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career - The Boy with the Arab Strap (Matador)
Cub - Magic 8 Ball - Box of Hair (Lookout!)
La Sera - Sleeptalking - La Sera (Hardly Art)


Elliott Smith - Talking to Mary - New Moon (Kill Rock Stars)
M. Ward - Seashell Tale - End of Amnesia (Future Farmer)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Tel Que Tu Es - 5:55 (Because Music/Vice)


The White Stripes - Conquest - Icky Thump (Warner Bros)
The Builders and the Butchers - It Came from the Sea - Dead Reckoning (Badman)
Oakley Hall - Living in Sin in the USA - Gypsum Strings (Brah)


Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - The Big Guns - Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)
David Vandervelde - Nothin' No - Nothin' No EP (Secretly Canadian)
Iron & Wine - Me and Lazarus - Kiss Each Other Clean (Warner Bros)


The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely - Get Lonely (4AD)

Murder by Death - Shiola - In Bocca al Lupo (East West)
Bright Eyes - One for You, One for Me - The People's Key (Saddle Creek)

Owls - Anyone Can Have a Good Time - Owls (Jade Tree)
Les Savy Fav - New Teen Anthem - 3/5 (Frenchkiss)
American Analog Set - The Only One - Know By Heart (Tigerstyle)

Playlist 12/16/12

BEST OF 2012 (a compendium in no particular order by Ashley and Sarah)

Jack White - "Sixteen Saltines" - Blunderbuss (Third Man)
White Mystery - "Birthday" - Blood & Venom (S/R)
The Evens - "Wanted Criminals" - The Odds (Dischord)

Cursive - "The Sun and Moon" - I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek)
Titus Andronicus - "Upon Viewing Oregon's Landscape with the Flood of Detritus" - Local Business (XL)
Los Campesinos! - "Songs About Your Girlfriend" - Hello Sadness (Wichita)

Tilly and the Wall - "Love Riot" - Heavy Mood (Team Love)
Best Coast - "The Only Place" - The Only Place (Mexican Summer)
Teen - "Sleep Is Noise" - In Limbo (Carpark)

The Mynabirds - "Disarm" - Generals (Saddle Creek)
Tennis - "Take Me to Heaven" - Young & Old (Fat Possum)
Hospitality - "Friends of Friends" - Hospitality (Merge)

First Aid Kit - "King of the World" - The Lion's Roar (Wichita)
M. Ward - "Primitive Girl" - A Wasteland Companion (Merge)
The Tallest Man on Earth - "Little Brother" - There's No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans)

Jens Lekman - "The End of the World Is Bigger than Love" - I Know What Love Isn't (Secretly Canadian)
The Magnetic Fields - "Andrew in Drag" - Love at the Bottom of the Sea (Merge)
Chairlift - "I Belong in Your Arms" - Something (Kanine)

Lana Del Rey - "Dark Paradise" - Born to Die (Polydor)
Echo Lake - "Monday 5 AM" - Wild Peace (Slumberland)
Beach House - "New Year" - Bloom (Subpop)

Deerhoof - "The Trouble with Candyhands" - Breakup Song (Polyvinyl)
Dum Dum Girls - "Season in Hell" - End of Daze (Subpop)
Miike Snow - "Archipelago" - Happy to You (Universal Republic)

Sun Airway - "Wild Palms" - Soft Fall (Dead Oceans)
Fiona Apple - "Werewolf" - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do (Epic)
Justin Townes Earle - "Look the Other Way" - Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now (Bloodshot)

Two Gallants - "Broken Eyes" - The Bloom and the Blight (S/R)
Cat Power - "Sun" - Sun (Matador)
She & Him - "Baby, It's Cold Outside" - A Very She & Him Christmas (Merge)

Playlist 12/2/12

Tilly and the Wall - All Kinds of Guns - Heavy Mood (Team Love)
Islands - Tender Torture - Vapours (Anti-)
Sun Airway - Close - Soft Fall (Dead Oceans)

U.S. Girls - Down in the Boondocks - GEM (Fat Cat)
Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards - Lonerism (Modular)
O+S - Permanent Scar - s/t (Saddle Creek)

Guided by Voices - Hangover Child - The Bears for Lunch (GBV)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Higher than the Stars - Higher than the Stars EP (Slumberland)
The National - Wasp Nest - Cherry Tree (Brassland)

The Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism - s/t (8 Ft)
Desaparecidos - Backsell - Marikkkopa 7" (self)
Titus Andronicus - My Eating Disorder - Local Business (XL)

The Evens - Architects Sleep - The Odds (Dischord)
Slam Dunk - Dying Breed - Welcome to Miami (File Under: Music)
Ty Segall - Would You Be My Love - Twins (Drag City)

The Russian Futurists - Paul Simon - Our Thickness (Upper Class)
Tullycraft - Polaroids from Mars - Disenchanted Hearts Unite (Magic Marker)
Dirty Projectors - Here Til It Says I'm Not - About to Die (Domino)

Jens Lekman - A Man Walks into a Bar - You Are the Light (Secretly Canadian)
The Good Life - A New Friend - Album of the Year (Saddle Creek)
New Beard - Spinning - New Beard City (Shoulder Tap)

Bat for Lashes - All Your Gold - The Haunted Man
M Ward - There's a Key - A Wasteland Companion (Merge)
Angel Olsen - Acrobat - Half Way Home (Bathetic)

The Concretes - You Can't Hurry Love - s/t (Astralwerks)
Monsters of Folk - Say Please - s/t (Shangri-La)
Night Moves - Country Queen - Colored Emotions (Domino)

Cataldo - My Heart Is Calling/Following - Signal Flare (self)
The Swell Season - Low Rising - Strict Joy (Anti-)
Orenda Fink - Sister - Ask the Night (Saddle Creek)

Playlist 11/25/12

Los Campesinos! - Songs About Your Girlfriend - Hello Sadness (Wichita)
Cursive - The Sun and the Moon - I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek)
Titus Andronicus - Upon Viewing Oregon's Landscape with the Flood of Detritus - Local Business (XL)

Andrew WK - I Love NYC - I Get Wet (Island)
The Babies - Alligator - Our House on the Hill (Woodsiest)
Sic Alps - God Bless Her, I Miss Her - s/t (Drag City)

The Evens - Wanted Criminals - The Odds (Dischord)
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy - El Camino (Nonesuch)
Slam Dunk - Dying Breed - Welcome to Miami (File Under: Music)

San Cisco - Girls Do Cry - Awkward (Fat Possum)
The Flaming Lips - Lightning Strikes the Postman - Clouds Taste Metallic (Warner)
Guided by Voices - Hangover Child - The Bears for Lunch (GBV)

Hospitality - The Birthday - s/t (Merge)
Club 8 - Saturday Night Engine - Strangely Beautiful (Labrador)
Chairlift - Sidewalk Safari - Something (Kanine)

Sun Airway - Black Noise - Soft Fall (Dead Oceans)
Tame Impala - Be Above It - Lonerism (Modular)
The Amazing - International Hair - Gentle Stream (Partisan)

Fiona Apple - Every Single Night - The Idler Wheel... (Epic)
Bat for Lashes - Winter Fields - The Haunted Man (Capitol)
Stephin Merritt - Take Ecstacy with Me - Obscurities (Merge)

GRMLN - Relax Yourself (Dolphin Cry) - Explore (Carpark)
The Decemberists - Los Angeles I'm Yours - Her Majesty the Decemberists (KRS)
Oxes and Will Oldham - Strong Enough - 7" (Friends Records)

M Ward - Primitive Girl - A Wasteland Companion (Merge)
Jack White - Love Interruption - Blunderbuss (Third Man)
The Tallest Man on Earth - Little Brother - There's No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans)

Justin Townes Earle - Look the Other Way - Nothings Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now (Bloodshot)
Crooked Fingers - Bad Blood - Breaks in the Armor (Merge)
Angel Olsen - Can't Wait Until Tomorrow - Half Way Home (Bathetic)

Playlist 11/18/12

Let's Wrestle - There's a Rockstar in My Room - Nursing Home (Merge)
Braid - You Are the Reason - Closer to Closed (Polyvinyl)
Lawrence Arabia - Early Kneecapping - The Sparrow (Bella Union)

Emmy the Great - A Woman, a Woman, a Century of Sleep - Virtue (Close Harbour)
Seapony - What You Wanted - Falling (Hardly Art)
Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Heart in your Heartbreak - Belong (Slumberland)

The Helio Sequence - October - Negotiations (Sub Pop)
The xx - Try - Coexist (Young Turks)
Sun Airway - Laketop Swimmers - Soft Fall (Dead Oceans)

Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law - Cholla (Atlantic)
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - It's a Corporate World - It's a Corporate World (Warner)
Mister Heavenly - Pineapple Girl - Out of Love (Sub Pop)

Foster the People - Miss You - Torches (Columbia)
U.S. Girls - Jack - GEM (Fat Cat)
Brave Irene - Tangled Line - s/t (Slumberland)

Best Coast - Rhiannon - Just Tell Me that You Want Me (Hear Music)
The Heavenly States - The Story of - s/t (Future Farmer)
Jake Bugg - Two Fingers - s/t (Mercury)

Jens Lekman - She Just Don't Want to Be with You Anymore - I Know What Love Isn't (Secretly Canadian)
Simon Joyner - Flying Dreams - Lost with the Lights on (Secretly Canadian)
Angel Olsen - Can't Wait Until Tomorrow - Half Way Home (Bathetic)

David Dondero - The Living and the Dead - The Transient (Future Farmer)
Mountain Goats - Pigs that Ran Straightaway into the Water, Triumph of - We Shall All Be Healed (4AD)
Neva Dinova - What You Want - You May Already Be Dreaming (Saddle Creek)

Bat for Lashes - Winter Fields - The Haunted Man (Capitol)
San Cisco - Awkward - Awkward (Fat Possum)
Tame Impala - Be Above It - Lonerism (Modular)

New Beard - My People Are Around - New Beard City (Shoulder Tap)
John Vanderslice - Coming and Going on Easy Terms - Cellar Door (Barsuck)
M Ward - I'll Be Yr Bird - Transistor Radio (Merge)

Norfolk and Western - Terrified - Dusk in Cold Parlors (Hush)

Playlist 11/4/12

Noah and the Whale - My Broken Heart - The First Days of Spring (Interscope)
David Bazan - Bearing Witness - Curse Your Branches (Barsuk)
Jens Lekman - The End of the World Is Bigger than Love - I Know What Love Isn't (Secretly Canadian)

Christine Fellows - Phantom Pains - Paper Anniversary (Six Shooter)
Bat for Lashes - Rest Your Head - The Haunted Man (Capitol)
Sun Airway - American West - Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier (Dead Oceans)

Dum Dum Girls - I Got Nothing - End of Daze EP (Sub Pop)
Stars - Elevator Love Song - Heart (Arts & Crafts)
God Help the Girl - Come Monday Night - s/t (Matador)

Seapony - Be Alone - Falling (Hardly Art)
Tilly and the Wall - Echo My Love - Heavy Mood (Team Love)
The Do - At Last ! - A Mouthful (Get Down)

Warpaint - Shadows - The Fool (Rough Trade)
Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards - Lonerism (Modular)
Vivian Girls - You're My Guy - Everything Goes Wrong (In the Red)

The Decks - Search and Seizure - Breath and Bone (Tortoise)
Menomena - Heavy Is As Heavy Does - Moms (Barsuk)
Crocodiles - All My Hate and My Hexes Are For You - Sleep Forever (Fat Possum)

The Rural Alberta Advantage - Four Night Rider - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
Times New Viking - Move to California - Born Again Revisited (Matador)
Bob Mould - Fugue State - Silver Age (Merge)

Deerhoof - Flower - Breakup Song (Polyvinyl)
Night Moves - Country Queen - Colored Emotions (Domino)
Tim Williams - Right All Along - Careful Love (Dovecote)

M. Ward - Jailbird - Hold Time (Merge)
Jenny and Johnny - Big Wave - I'm Having Fun Now (Warner)
Dark Dark Dark - Last Time I Saw Joe - Who Needs Who (Supply & Demand)

San Cisco - Awkward - Awkward (Fat Possum)
The Good Life - Beaten Path - Black Out (Saddle Creek)
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - One of My Kind - One of My Kind

Playlist 10/28/12

Tilly and the Wall - Hey Rainbow - Heavy Mood (Team Love)
The Bracelets - Tug of War Match - s/t (Sector Five)
Dum Dum Girls - Trees and Flowers - End of Daze (Sub Pop)

Melody's Echo Chamber - You Won't Be Missing that Part of Me - s/t (Fat Possum)
Kings of Convenience - I'd Rather Dance with You - Riot on an Empty Street (Astralwerks)
Jens Lekman - I Want a Pair of Cowboy Boots - I Know What Love Isn't (Secretly Canadian)

Sunny Day Real Estate - Song About an Angel - Diary (Sub Pop)
Skating Club - Denver - s/t (Doubtful Guest)
Deerhoof - Mothball the Fleet - Breakup Song (Polyvinyl)

CocoRosie - Tekno Love Song - Noah's Ark (Touch & Go)
The xx - Swept Away - Coexist (Young Turks)
Dead Man's Bones - My Body's a Zombie for You - s/t (Anti-)

The Felice Brothers - Fire at the Pageant - Celebration Florida (Fat Possum)
Patti Smith - This Is the Girl - Banga (Columbia)
Johnny Cash - Ain't No Grave - American VI (American)

Night Moves - Country Queen - Colored Emotions (Domino)
Loretta Lynn - High on a Mountain Top - Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
Grizzly Bear - Gun-Shy - Shields (Warp)

Tame Impala - Apocalypse Dreams - Lonerism (Modular)
Cult of Youth - Man and Man's Ruin - Love Will Prevail (Sacred Bones)
Dark Dark Dark - Patsy Cline - Who Needs Who (Supply & Demand Music)

Now It's Overhead - Wonderful Scar - Now It's Overhead (Saddle Creek)
 Smart Went Crazy - Sugar in Your Gas Tank - Now We're Even (Dischord)
Titus Andronicus - My Eating Disorder - Local Business (XL Recordings)

Bugskull - Almost Blue - Phantasies and Sensations (Road Cone)
New Beard - My People are Around (Mugsy's Song) - New Beard City (Shoulder Tap)
St. Thomas - Like You Know - Let's Grow Together (Racing Junior)

Big Harp - Let Me Lend My Shoulder - White Hat (Saddle Creek)