Playlist 5/21/13

Tilly and the Wall - I Believe in You - Heavy Mood (Team Love)
Jenny Lewis and Eric Burdon - Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - True Blood Soundtrack v.4 (ATO)
Hollerado - Fake Drugs - Record in a Bag (Royal Mountain)

Sleater-Kinney - Rollercoaster - The Woods (Sub Pop)
Generationals - I Used to Let You Get to Me - Heza (Polyvinyl)
The Reputation - The Stars of Amateur Hour - s/t (Initial)

The Strokes - Slow Animals - The Comedown Machine (RCA)
!!! - One Girl/One Boy - Thr!!!ler (Warp)
Friendly Fires - Hawaiian Air - Pala (XL)

Fops - Solid Copper Huntress - Yeth Yeth Yeth (Monotreme)
San Cisco - Awkward - Awkward (Fat Possum)
Charli XCX - Black Roses - True Romance (IAMSOUND)

Hope of the States - The Black Amnesias - The Lost Riots (Epic)
The Flaming Lips - You Are Alone - The Terror (Bella Union)
Tim Kasher - Stranger than Strangers - My Favorite Songwriters (Five One)

Beck - Lazy Flies - Mutations (DGC)
April Smith and the Great Picture Show - Dixie Boy - Songs from a Sinking Ship (self)
The Besnard Lakes - The Specter - Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO (Jagjaguwar)

Tame Impala - Apocalypse Dreams - Lonerism (Modular)
Small Black - No Stranger - Limits of Desire (Jagjaguwar)
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - I Want to Die in the Hot Summer - s/t (Emperor Jones)

She & Him - Turn to White - Volume 3 (Merge)
The Decemberists - Down by the Water - The King Is Dead (Capitol)
Cult of Youth - A New Way (Version) - Love Will Prevail (Sacred Bones)

First Aid Kit - Ghost Town - The Big Black and the Blue (Jagadamba)
Junip - Your Life Your Call - s/t (Mute)
Bright Eyes - Loose Leaves - There Is No Beginning to the Story (Saddle Creek)

Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra - Melody Dean - Theater Is Evil (8 ft.)
Rilo Kiley - Runnin' Around - RKives (Little Record Co.)

Playlist 5/14/13

The Promise Ring - The Deep South - Very Emergency (Jade Tree)
Cursive - Am I Not Yours? - 8 Teeth to Eat You (Better Looking)
The Kills - Cheap and Cheerful - Midnight Bloom (Domino)

Palma Violets - Best of Friends - 180 (Rough Trade)
White Fence - Beat - Cyclops Recap (Castle Face)
Spoon - The Way We Get By - Kill the Moonlight (Merge)

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - We Can't Help You - Real Emotional Trash (Merge)
British Sea Power - A Trip Out - Do You Like Rock Music? (Rough Trade)
The White Stripes - Apple Blossom - De Stijl (v2)

CSS - Rat Is Dead (Rage) - Donkey (Sub Pop)
Shout Out Louds - Burn - Optica (Merge)
Hot Chip - Bendable Poseable - Made in the Dark (DFA)

The Foals - Olympic Airways - Antidotes (Sub Pop)
Architecture in Helsinki - Like It or Not - Like It or Not EP (Polyvinyl)
Thee Oh Sees - Maze Fancier - Floating Coffin (Castle Face)

Julian Lynch - Cairos Kelly II - Lines (Underwater Peoples)
Golden Grrrls - Date It - Golden Grrrls (Slumberland)
The 1900s - Whole of the Law - Plume Delivery (Parasol)

Los Campesinos! - Knee Deep at ATP - Hold on Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
Hello Seahorse! - No Encontre Nada - Hoy a las Ocho (Magic Marker)
She & Him - I Could've Been Your Girl - Volume 3 (Merge)

Rilo Kiley - All the Drugs - RKives (Little Record Co.)
Coupleskate - Bless the Bees - Don't Scare the Horses (self)
Colin Meloy - Pregnant Again for the Last Time - Sings Morrissey (self)

All-Time Quarterback - Dinner at Eight in the Suburbs - s/t (Barsuk)
Pas/Cal - O Honey We're Ridiculous - I Was Raised on Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura (Le Grand Magistery)
The Besnard Lakes - Colour Your Lights In - Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO (Jagjaguwar)

DeVotchKa - Basso Profundo - A Mad & Faithful Telling (Anti)
Neko Case - The Next Time You Say Forever - Middle Cyclone (Anti)
Low - Just Make It Stop - The Invisible Way (Sub Pop)

Jim Guthrie - So Small - Now, More than Ever (Three Gut)
Caveman - Where's the Time - s/t (Fat Possum)

Playlist 5/7/13

Braid - I'm Afraid of Everything - Lucky to Be Alive (Glue Factory)
Desaparecidos - $$$$ - Read Music/Speak Spanish (Saddle Creek)
The Evens - All These Governors - s/t (Dischord)

Generationals - I Used to Let You Get to Me - Heza (Polyvinyl)
Wavves - Dog - Afraid of Heights (Warner)
Titus Andronicus - Richard II - The Monitor (XL)

The Clean - Are You Really on Drugs? - Mister Pop (Merge)
Neutral Milk Hotel - King of Carrot Flowers pts 2+3 - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Merge)
The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Deadroads - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)

The Strokes - Slow Animals - The Comedown Machine (RCA)
Shout Out Louds - Blue Ice - Optica (Merge)
LCD Soundsystem - I Can Change - This Is Happening (DFA)

Jarvis Cocker - I Never Said I Was Deep - Further Complications (Rough Trade)
The National - Sorrow - High Violet (4AD)
The Flaming Lips - Try to Explain - The Terror (Bella Union)

Amy Milan - Bruised Ghosts - Masters of the Burial (Arts & Crafts)
Cayucas - A Summer Thing - Bigfoot (Secretly Canadian)
Mirah - Nobody Has to Stay - C'mon Miracle (K)

Colleen Green - Time in the World - Sock It to Me (Hardly Art)
Youth Lagoon - Third Dystopia - Wondrous Bughouse (Fat Possum)
Fruit Bats - The Hobo Girl - The Ruminant Band (Sub Pop)

Hanalei - Hopeful Hands - Hurricane We (Everyday)
Moldy Peaches - Lucky Number Nine - s/t (Rough Trade)
The Theater Fire - Swashbuckler Blues - Matter and Light (self)

Conor Oberst - Breezy - Gentleman's Pact (self)
Rilo Kiley - Draggin' Around - RKives (Little Record Co.)
Weezer - The Good Life - Pinkerton (DGC)

The Pastels - Up for a Bit - Up for a Bit with the Pastels (Vevel)

Playlist 4/30/13

Islands - Creeper - Arm's Way (Anti-)
Bleached - Next Stop - Ride Your Heart (Dead Oceans)
The Whitsundays - The Ways of the Sweettalking Boys - s/t (Friendly Fire)

Mates of State - The Re-arranger - Re-Arrange Us (Barsuk)
Wild Belle - Take Me Away - Isles (Columbia)
Marshmallow Coast - Darkside of the Moon - Ride the Lightning (Misra)

Colleen Green - Every Boy Wants a Normal Girl - Sock It to Me (Hardly Art)
Les Sans Culottes - Allo Allo (Hello I Love You) - Fixation Orale (Aeronaut)
Tegan and Sara - I Was a Fool - Heartthrob (Warner)

Sun Airway - Laketop Swimmers - Soft Fall (Dead Oceans)
Shout Out Louds - Burn - Optica (Merge)
!!! - Fine Fine Fine - Thr!!!er (Warp)

Seapony - Be Alone - Falling (Hardly Art)
Weezer - In the Garage - Blue Album (DGC)
Paula Kelley - All Request Hour - Nothing/Everything (Stop, Pop and Roll)

Wolf Parade - Call It a Ritual - At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop)
The Black Keys - Strange Times - Attack & Release (Nonesuch)
Titus Andronicus - (I Am the) Electric Man - Local Business (XL)

Jenny O - Lazy Jane - Automechanic (Holy Trinity)
M Ward - There's a Key - A Wasteland Companion (Merge)
Rilo Kiley - Dragin' Around - RKives (Little Record Co.)

The Gunshy - July 3, 1944 - There's No Love in this War (Latest Flame)
Loretta Lynn - Portland Oregon - Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
Neva Dinova - What You Want - You May Already Be Dreaming (Saddle Creek)

Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Am I Demon? - Ask Forgiveness (Drag City)
Caveman - In the City - s/t (Fat Possum)
Youth Lagoon - The Bath - Wonderous Bughouse (Fat Possum)

Slim Cessena's Auto Club - Children of the Lord - Cipher (Alternative Tentacles)
Jolie Holland - Amen - Escondida (Anti-)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Wide Lovely Eyes - Push the Sky Away (Bad Seed Ltd.).

Playlist 4/23/13

Tilly and the Wall - Let It Rain - Wild like Children (Team Love)
The Lucksmiths - T-shirt Weather - Where Were We? (Matinee)
Dressy Bessy - Dressed the Part - Holler and Stomp (Transdreamer)

Tegan and Sara - I Was a Fool - Heartthrob (Warner)
Wild Belle - It's too Late - Isles (Columbia)
Cayucas - A Summer Thing - Bigfoot (Secretly Canadian)

The Raincoats - Fairytale in the Supermarket - s/t (Geffen)
Rilo Kiley - American Wife - RKives (Little Record Co).
 Amnestory - North - s/t (Portia)

All-Time Quarterback - Dinner at Eight in the Suburbs - s/t (Barsuk)
 Au Revior Simone - Fallen Snow - The Bird of Music (Moshi Moshi Music)
The Boy Least Likely to - I Box Up All the Butterflies - The Law of the Playground (+1)

Devendra Banhart - Your Fine Petting Duck - Mala (Nonesuch)
O+S - Flowers Turn to Fire - Record Store Day 7" (Saddle Creek)
Youth Lagoon - Dropla - Wondrous Bughouse (Fat Possum)

 Broken Spindles - Birthday - Inside/Absent (Saddle Creek)
Foals - Inhaler - Holy Fire (Warner)
Crystal Castles - Celestica - Crystal Castles II (Fiction)

Shout Out Louds - Burn - Optica (Merge)
Cut Copy - Eternity One Night Only - In Ghost Colors (Modular)
Palma Violets - Tom the Drum - 180 (Rough Trade)

The Dead Weather - I Can't Hear You - Sea of Cowards (Third Man)
Wax Idols - The Scent of Love - Discipline + Desire (Slumberland)
Crocodiles - I Wanna Kill - Summer of Hate (Fat Possum)

Southerly - Harmony - Best Dressed and Expressionless (Fall)
Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside - Party Kids - Untamed Beast (Partisan)
Blake Miller - Long Hair - Burn Tape (Exitstencil)

Low - Holy Ghost - The Invisible Ghost (Sub Pop)

Playlist 4/16/13 - Gendered Band Names

She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? - Volume One (Merge)
Paul the Girl - Don't You Know Who I Am? - Electro-Magnetic Blues (Inconvenient)
Golden Grrrls - Past Tense - s/t (Slumberland)

God Help the Girl - Come Monday Night - Gold Help the Girl (Matador)
Boy in Static - Where It Ends - Violet (Mush)
She Is So Beautiful, She Is So Doomed - Days - s/t (Science of Sound)

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Low - Holy Ghost - The Invisible Way (Sub Pop)
Villagers - Nothing Arrived - Awayland (Domino)

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Caveman - Over My Head - s/t (Fat Possum)
Dum Dum Girls - Bhang Bhang, I'm a Burnout - I Will Be (Sub Pop)
Girls - Lauren Marie - Album (True Panther Sounds)

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Bleached - Next Stop - Ride Your Heart (Dead Oceans)
Colleen Green - Every Boy Wants a Normal Girl - Sock It to Me (Hardly Art)
Vivian Girls - Where Do You Run to - s/t (In the Red)

Her Space Holiday - Forever and a Day - The Past Presents the Future (Wichita)
Fear of Men - Mosaic - Early Fragments (Kanine)
All Girl Summer Fun Band - Dreamy You - Summer of '98 (Magic Marker)

The Boy Least Likely to - My Tiger My Heart - The Best Party Ever (Too Young to Die)
The Tallest Man on Earth - There's No Leaving Now - There's No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans)
Girls Names - Hypnotic Regression - The New Life (Slumberland)

Sons and Daughters - Johnny Cash - Love the Cup (Domino)
Girl Talk - That's My DJ - Night Ripper (Illegal Art)
Boy from Brazil - High Heels, Go-Go Boots and Platform Shoes - Pointless Shoes (Tigerland)

Brazilian Girls - Nouveau American - New York City (Verve)
Parenthetical Girls - A Song for Ellie Greenwich - Entanglements (Tomlab)
The Men - Without a Face - New Moon (Sacred Bones)

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Palma Violets - We Found Love - 180 (Rough Trade)
The Besnard Lakes - People of the Sticks - Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO (Jagjaguwar)
Akron/Family - Sand Time - Sub Verses (Dead Oceans)

Devendra Banhart - Fur Hildegard von Bingen - Mala (Nonesuch)
Rilo Kiley - I'll Get You There - RKives (Little Record Co.)

Playlist 4/9/13

Caribou - Leave House - Swim (Merge)
Best Coast - Crazy for You - Crazy for You (Mexican Summer)
The Russian Futurists - These Seven Notes - Our Thickness (Upper Class)

inc. - Black Wings - No World (XL)
Colleen Green - Time in the World - Sock It to Me (Hardly Art)
Martial Canterel - Playfair - You Today

The Strokes - Tap Out - The Comedown Machine (RCA)
Menomena - Taos - Mines (Barsuk)
The Dead Weather - Gasoline - Sea of Cowards (Third Man)

Wild Belle - Another Girl - Isles (Columbia)
Pavement - Frontwards - Slanted and Enchanted (Matador)
The Raincoats - Fairytale in the Supermarket - s/t (Geffen)

Beauty Pill - You Are Right to Be Afraid - You Are Right to be Afraid (Dischord)
Los Campesinos! - A Heat Rash in the Shape of the Show Me State; or, Letters From Me to Charlotte - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)
Slumber Party - On-T.V. - 3 (KRS)

Anagram - Shelter Street - The Lights Went Up (Scenery)
Rilo Kiley - Emotional - RKives (Little Record Co.)
Okkervil River - It Ends with a Fall - Down the River of Golden Dreams (Jagjaguwar)

Devendra Banhart - Fur Hildegard von Bingen - Mala (Nonesuch)
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Calloused Fingers Won't Make You Strong, Edith Wong - Twinkle Echo (Tomlab)
Casiokids - Min Siste Dag - Topp Stemning Pa Lokal Bar (Polyvinyl)

Olof Arnalds - German Fields - Sudden Elevation (One Little Indian)
The Cave Singers - No Tomorrows - Naomi (Jagjaguwar)
Black Prairie - Red Rocking Chair - Feast of the Hunter's Moon (Sugar Hill)

Two Gallants - Two Days Short Tomorrow - The Throes (Alive)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Wide Lovely Eyes - Push the Sky Away (Bad Seed  Ltd)
Azure Ray - Nothing Like a Song - Hold on Love (Saddle Creek)

The Good Life - A New Friend - Album of the Year (Saddle Creek)