Playlist 1/22/13

Crocodiles - No Black Clouds for Dee Dee - Endless Flowers (Frenchkiss)
The Kills - Heart Is a Beating Drum - Blood Pressures (Domino)
Desaparecidos - Backsell - Marikkkopa 7" (self)

Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra - Melody Dean - Theatre Is Evil (8ft)
Slam Dunk - Dying Breed - Welcome to Mimi (File Under: Music)
U.S. Girls - Jack - GEM (Fat Cat)

Darlings - Big Girl - Warma (Famous Class)
The Evens - This Other Thing - The Odds (Dischord)
Beat Happening - Grave Digger Blues - Black Candy (K)

The Babies - Alligator - Our House on the Hill (Woodsiest)
The Vaselines - Molly's Lips - The Way of the Vaselines (Sub Pop)
Guided by Voices - Waving at Airplanes - The Bears for Lunch (GBV)

Beauty Pill - Goodnight for Real - The Unsustainable Lifestyle (Dischord)
Io Echo - Shanghai Girls - Io Echo (IAMSOUND)
The Good Life - Your Birthday Present - Novena on a Nocturn (Better Looking)

Two Gallants - Sunday Souvenirs - The Bloom and the Blight (ATO)
Gruff Rhys - If We Were Words (we would rhyme) - Hotel Shampoo (Wichita)
American Analog Set - Magnificent Seventies - Through the 90s (Emperor Jones)

The Postal Service - Nothing Better (remix) - We Will Become Silhouettes (Sub Pop)
Robyn - Cry When You Get Older - Body Talk Pt 1 (Interscope)
Nightlands - Born to Love - Oak Island (Secretly Canadian)

Dirty Projectors - Simple Request - About to Die (Domino)
Wooden Wand - Dome Community People (Are Good People) - Blood Oaths of the New Blues (Fire)
Christopher Owens - Part of Me - Lysandre (Fat Possum)

Keren Ann - The Harder Ships of the World - s/t (Blue Note)
Bat for Lashes - Winter Fields - The Haunted Man (Capitol)
Joy Zipper - The Power of Alan Watts - s/t (Bar None)

Devendra Banhart - Michigan State - Oh Me Oh My... (Young Gods)
Social Studies - Terracur - Developer (Antenna Farm)
Lovers - I Believe in Outer Space - Star Lit Sunken Ship (Orange Twin)

Jim Guthrie - Problem with Solutions - Now, More than Ever (Three Gut)
The Magnetic Fields - I Die - I (Nonesuch)

Playlist 1/15/12

William Elliott Whitmore - Hell and High Water - Animals in the Dark (Anti)
Will Oldham - Do What You Will Do - Black/Rich Music (Royal Stable)
First Aid Kit - Ghost Town - The Big Black and the Blue (Wichita)

Laura Gibson - Come By Storm - Beasts of Seasons (Hush)
Elliott Smith - Cupid's Trick - Eitehr/Or (Kill Rock Stars)
Dirty Projectors - Here Til It Says I'm Not - About to Die (Domino)

Social Studies - Away for the Weekend - Developer (Antenna Farm)
Now It's Overhead - Type A - Dark Light Daybreak (Saddle Creek)
U.S.Girls - Jack - GEM (Fat Cat)

The Anniversary - The D in Detroit - Designing a Nervous Breakdown (Vagrant)
The Evens - This Other Thing - The Odds (Dischord)
Titus Andronicus - (I Am the) Electric Man - Local Business (XL)

The Babies - Slow Walkin - Our House on the Hill (Woodsiest)
The Amazing - Flashlight - Gentle Stream (Partisan)
Lawrence Arabia - Early Kneecapping - The Sparrow (Bella Union)

John Vanderslice - Emma Pearl - Time Travel Is Lonely (Barsuk)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Tenure Itch (Slumberland)
Blackbird Blackbird - Happy with You - Borcay Plant (Lavish Habits)

Broadcast - An Equestrian Outing - Berberian Sound Studio Ost (Warp)
The Promise Ring - The Deep South - Very Emergency (Jade Tree)
Los Campesinos! - By Your Hand - Hello Sadness (Wichita)

Cub - Magic 8 Ball - Box of Hair (Lookout!)
Seapony - Tell Me So - Falling (Hardly Art)
Yo La Tengo - Is that Enough - Fade (Matador)

Bat for Lashes - Rest Your Head - The Haunted Man (Capitol)
The Luyas - Fifty/Fifty - Animator (Dead Oceans)
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - This Year's Girl - This Year's Model (Ryko)

Rilo Kiley - Go Ahead - Take Offs and Landings (Barsuk)
Wooden Wand - Dungeon of Irons - Blood Oaths of the New Blues (Fire)
Hefner - The Hymn for the Alcohol - The Fidelity Wars (Beggars Banquet)

Bright Eyes - June on the West Coast - Letting off the Happiness (Saddle Creek)

Playlist 1/13/12

Mates of State - Fluke - Team Boo (Polyvinyl)
Matt & Kim - Good Ol' Fashion Nightmare - Grand (Fader)
Grouplove - Don't Say Oh Well - Grouplove EP (Canvasback)

Heavenly - Hearts & Crosses - P.U.N.K. Girl EP (K)
Beat Happening! - Our Secret - s/t (K)
Lois - Shy Town - Bet the Sky (K)

The Boy Least Likely to - I Keep Myself to Myself - The Law of the Playground (+1)
Los Campesinos! - My Year in Lists - Hold on Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
The Lucksmiths - Synchronised Sinking - Why that Doesn't Surprise Me (Clover)

Belle & Sebastian - Piazza, New York Catcher - Dear Catastrophe Waitress (Rough Trade)
Stars - The Night Starts Here - In Our Bedroom After the War (Arts & Crafts)
Sun Airway - American West - Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier (Dead Oceans)

Vivian Girls - I Heard You Say - Share the Joy (Polyvinyl)
Azure Ray - Nothing Like a Song - Hold on Love (Saddle Creek)
Warpaint - Set Your Arms Down - The Fool (Rough Trade)

The Decemberists - Annan Water - The Hazards of Love (Capitol)
Neko Case - Magpie to the Morning - Middle Cyclone (Anti-)
M Ward - Blake's View - Hold Time (Merge)

Two Gallants - Steady Rollin' - What the Toll Tells (Saddle Creek)
The Felice Brothers - Let Me Come Home - Mix Tape (New York Pro)
The Mountain Goats - Damn These Vampires - All Eternals Deck (Merge)

Tim Kasher - I'm Afraid I'm Going to Die Here - The Game of Monogamy (Saddle Creek)
Jenny and Johnny - My Pet Snakes - I'm Having Fun Now (Warner)
Eric Bachmann - Carrboro Woman - To the Races (Saddle Creek)

O'death - Look at the Sun - Outside (Ernest Jennings)
Rural Alberta Advantage - Under the Knife - Departing (Saddle Creek)
Crocodiles - All My Hate and My Hexes Are for You - Sleep Forever (Fat Possum)

Playlist 1/6/12

Tegan and Sara - Arrow - Vapor (Sire)
Casiokids - Fot I Hose - Topp Stemning Pa Lokal Bar (Polyvinyl)
Robyn - Fembot - Body Talk Pt. 1 (Interscope)

Foals - Total Life Forever - Total Life Forever (Sub Pop)
CSS - Rat Is Dead (Rage) - Donkey (Sub Pop)
Islands - No You Don't - Vapours (Anti-)

Band of Horses - Blue Beard - Infinite Arms (Fat Possum)
Tapes 'n Tapes - Time of Songs - Walk It Off (XL)
Stars - Theme from the Stars - A lot of Little Lies for the Sake of One Big Truth (Le Grand Magestery)

Gruff Rhys - Gwn Mi Wn - Yr Atal Genhedlaeth (Rough Trade)
Okkervil River - Calling and Not Calling My Ex - The Stand In's (Jagjaguwar)
Rilo Kiley - Does He Love You? - More Adventurous (Brute/Beaute)

Wolf Parade - Call It a Ritual - At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop)
The Black Keys - Psychotic Girl - Attack and Release (Nonesuch)
The Evens - Mt. Pleasant - s/t (Dischord)

Sleater-Kinney - Anonymous - Call the Doctor (Chainsaw)
Let's Wrestle - In Dreams - In the Court of Wrestling Let's (Merge)
Times New Viking - City on Drugs - Born Again Revisited (Matador)

Mary Timony - Friend to JC - Ex Hex (Lookout)
Petra Hayden - I Can See for Miles - Sings the Who Sell Out (Bar None)
David Bazan - Bless this Mess - Curse Your Branches (Barsuk)

She & Him - In the Sun - Volume Two (Merge)
Bright Eyes - I Woke Up with this Song in My Head this Morning - Lua EP (Saddle Creek)
Aloha - Moonless March - Home Acres (Polyvinyl)

DeVotchKa - Blessing in Disguise - A Mad & Faithful Telling (Anti-)
M Ward - You Still Believe in Me - Transistor Radio (Merge)
Dead Man's Bones - In the Room Where You Sleep - Dead Man's Bones (Anti-)

William Elliott Whitmore - When Push Comes to Love - Ashes to Dust (Southern)
Neko Case - Hex - The Tigers Have Spoken (Anti-)
Langhorne Slim - Be Set Free - Be Set Free (Kemado)

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)