Monday, December 29, 2008

Playlist 12/29/08

This week's show is basically my end of the year countdown, as it were. Listen at WLUW.org

Bob Mould - Who Needs to Dream - District Line (Anti-)
Langhorne Slim & the War Eagles - Diamonds and Gold - s/t (Kemado)
Bon Iver - Skinny Love - For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)

Tilly and the Wall - Cacophony - O (Team Love)
Wolf Parade - Call It a Ritual - At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop)
Flight of the Conchords - Robots - s/t (Sub Pop)

Blitzen Trapper - Sleepy Time in the Western World - Furr (Sub Pop)
Tobacco - Tape Eater - Fucked Up Friends (Anticon)
Ladyhawke - Manipulating Women - s/t (Modular)

The Faint - The Geeks Were Right - Fasciinatiion (blak.wav)

The Magnetic Fields - California Girls - Distortion (Nonesuch)
Okkervil River - Calling and Not Calling My Ex - The Stand In's (Jagjaguwar)
The Sea and Cake - Fuller Moon - Car Alarm (Thrill Jockey)

Justin Townes Earle - The Good Life - The Good Life (Bloodshot)
David Vandervelde - Old Turns - Waiting for the Sunrise (Secretly Canadian)
Horse Feathers - Curs in the Weeds - House with No Name (Kill Rock Stars)

Daniel Martin Moore - It's You - Stray Age (Sub Pop)
Pas/Cal - O Honey We're Ridiculous - I Was Raised on... (Le Grand Magistery)
Silver Jews - What Was Not but Could Be If - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)

Islands - Abominal Snow - Arm's Way (Anti-)
Born Again Floozies - Dumb It Down Now - Street Music (Triple R Records)
CSS - Rat Is Dead - Donkey (Sub Pop)

Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire - In Ghost Colours (Modular)
Saint Milkweed - Couldn't Hold on to You - s/t (Sparrow Down)
She & Him - This Is Not a Test - Volume One (Merge)

Port O'Brien - I Woke Up Today - All We Could Do Was Sing (self)
Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend - Partie Traumatic (Columbia)
The Faint - The Geeks Were Right - Fasciinatiion (blank.wav)

Conor Oberst - Souled Out!!! - s/t (Merge)
Devotchka - Undone - A Mad and Faithful Telling (Anti-)
Los Campesinos - Knee Deep at ATP - Hold on Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)

Monday, December 22, 2008

Playlist 12/22/08

1. Jens Lekman - A Postcard to Nina - Night Falls Over Kortedala (Secretly Canadian)
2. Los Campesinos - This Is How You Spell... - Hold On Now Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
3. Rilo Kiley - 15 - Under the Blacklight (Warner)

4. Islands - Pieces of You - Arm's Way (Anti-)
5. Okkervil River - A Hand to Hold the Scene - The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)
6. Of Montreal - ID Engager - Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl)

7. Pulp - The Day After the Revolution - This Is Hardcore (Island)
8. Flight of the Conchords - Ladies of the World - s/t (Sub Pop)
10. Wolf Parade - Call It a Ritual - Live at Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop)

11. Foals - Cassius - Antidotes (Sub Pop)
12. Ladyhawke - Paris Is Burning - s/t (Modular)
13. The Faint - I Treat You Wrong - Fasciinatiion (blank.wav)

14. Cut Copy - Lights and Music - In Ghost Colors (Modular)
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15. Stephen Malkmus - Baltimore - Real Emotional Trash (Matador)
16. Department of Eagles - No One Does It Like You - In Ear Park (4AD)
17. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - You Remind Me of Something - Lie Down... (Drag City)

18. The Sea and Cake - All in Throws - On Tour (Thrill Jockey)
19. She Is So Beautiful/She Is So Blonde - Days - s/t (Science of Sleep)
20. The Apples in Stereo - Hold on to this Day - Electronic Projects for Musicians (Yep Roc)

21. Tuung - Bricks - Good Arrows (Thrill Jockey)
22. Cat Power - I Believe in You - Jukebox (Matador)
23. Devendra Banhart - The Other Woman - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon (XL)

24. She and Him - Sentimental Heart - Volume One (Merge)
25. David Dondero - The Real Tina Turner - Shooting at the Sun... (Future Farmer)
26. Justin Townes Earle - Hard Livin' - The Good Life (Bloodshot)

27. Tom Waits - Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis - Used Songs (Elektra)

Monday, December 15, 2008

Playlist 12/15/08

Pixies – Here Comes Your Man – Doolittle (4AD)
Drakkar Sauna – Glissade Presse - Drakkansasauna
Of Montreal - Gallery Piece - Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl)

Little Joy – With Strangers – s/t (Rough Trade)
The Grates – Trampoline - The Ouch, The Touch (Dew Process)
Skybox – Various Kitchen Utensils – Arco Iris (Self)

Ladyhawke – Magic – s/t (Modular)
CSS – Alcohol – s/t (Sub Pop)
Richard Hell – Chinese Rocks – Time (Matador)

The Rosebuds – Border Guards – Life Like (Merge)
Los Campesinos - You'll Need Those Fingers for Crossing - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (Arts and Crafts)
Hey Mercades – Knowing When to Stop – Loses Control (Vagrant)

Belle and Sebastian – The State I Am in – BBC Sessions (Matador)
Tarkio – Mountains of Mourne - Omnibus
Mekons – Prince of Darkness – Honky Tonkin (Quarterstick)

Bob Dylan - The Times They Are Changin' - The Times They Are Changin' (Columbia)
Murder By Death - Comin' Home - Red of Tooth and Claw (Vagrant)
Department of Eagles - No One Does It Like You - In Ear Park (4AD)

Mavis Staples - Down in Mississippi - Live: Hope at the Hideout (Anti)
Maria Taylor - Ladyluck - Savannah Drive (Nettwerk)
Robbie Fulks - Every Kind of Music But Country - Country Love Songs (Bloodshot)

Benoit Piolard - Ragged Tint - Temper (Kranky)
Two Gallants - the Hand that Held Me Down - s/t (Saddle Creek)
Johnny Cash - Don't Take Your Guns to Town - Murder (Columbia)

Anthallo - Sleeping Torpor - Canopy Glow (Anticon)
Stars – Elevator Love Song – Heart (Arts and Crafts)
Resplendent - Wings Beneath the Sills - Wings Beneath the Sills (self)

Monday, December 8, 2008

Playlist 12/8/08

Songs: Ohia – Love Leaves Its Abusers - Axxes & Ace (Secretly Canadian)
Great Lake Swimmers – Falling Into the Sky – Bodies and Minds (Misra)
The Rosebuds – In the Backyard – Life Like (Merge)

Belle & Sebastian – Like Dylan in the Movies – The BBC Sessions (Matador)
Tilly & the Wall – Bessa – Wild Like Children (Team Love)
Los Campesinos - It's Never that Easy Though, Is It? - We Are Beautiful... (Arts & Crafts)
Bob Nanna – Forgiveness – split w/Elizabeth Elmore (Troubleman Unlimited)

Crooked Fingers – Give and Be Taken – Forfeit/Fortune (Constant Artists)
The Concretes – You Can’t Hurry Love – s/t (Astralwerks)
The Carter Family – Coal Miner’s Blues – Country Music Hall of Fame (MCA)
Mountain Goats – Cotton – We Shall All Be Healed (4AD)

Crystal Stilts – Shattered Shine – Alight of Night (Sub Pop)
Pinebender – Well Calibrated Moral Compass – The High Price of Living… (Lovitt)
Benoit Pioulard – The Loom Pedal – Temper (Kranky)
CocoRosie – Tekno Lovesong – Noah’s Ark (Touch & Go)
Kate Bush – The Big Sky – Hounds of Love (EMI)

Ted Leo/Pharmacists – Parallel or Together – The Tyranny of Distance (Lookout)
Silver Jews – I’m Getting Back Into… – Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City)
Department of Eagles – No One Does It Like You – In Ear Park (4AD)

Mount Eerie (w/Julie Doiron & Fred Squire) – Voice in Headphones – Lost Wisdom (?)
Maria Taylor – The Ballad of Sean Folley – Lynn Teeter Flowers (Saddle Creek)
The Fiery Furnaces – The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry – Bitter Tea (Fat Possum)
Jawbreaker – Shield Your Eyes – Bivouac (Tupelo)

Ladyhawke – Paris Is Burning – s/t (Modular)
My Brightest Diamond - Golden Star - Bring Me the Workhorse (Asthmatic Kitty)
Of Montreal – For Our Elegant Castle – Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl)
Pulp – Do You Remember the First Time? – His ‘n’ Hers (Island)

Seaweed - Start With - Nowcore! The Punk Rock Evolution (K-tel)

Monday, December 1, 2008

Playlist 12/1/08

El Guincho – Palmitos Park – Alegranza (XL Recordings)
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I’m From – Houdini - Who Killed Harry Houdini (Mute)
Of Montreal – An Eluardian Instance – Skeletal Landing (Polyvinyl)
Dressy Bessy – In Your Headphones - Holler and Stomp (Transdreamer)
Magnetic Fields - California Girls - Distortion (Nonesuch)
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Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Sink Ships - Cardinology (Lost Highway)
Sonic Youth - Total Trash - Daydream Nation (Universal)
Les Savy Fav - Comes&Goes - Let's Stay Friends (Frenchkiss)
Let's Get Out ... - Chattanooga Kookoo - Listening (Roydale)
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Mekons - Diamonds - Natural (Quarterstick/Touch&Go)
Castanets - Prettiest Chain - City of Refuge (Asmathic Kitty)
Crooked Fingers - Luisa's Bones - Forfeit/Fortune (Constant Artists)
Brightblack Morning Light - Hologram Buffalo - Motion to Rejoin (Matador)
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Peter von Poehl - The Story of the Impossible - Going to Where the Tea Trees Are (Bella Union)
Paper Airplane - This One's For Us - Middlemarch (All Hail)
Los Campesinos! - You!Me!Dancing! - Sticking Fingers into Sockets (Arts & Crafts)
The Ruby Suns - Kenya Dig It? - Sea Lion (Sub Pop)
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Damon & Naomi - Stars Never Fade - Within These Walls (20/20/20)
Bon Iver - re:Stacks - For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)
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The Pine Hill Haints - St. James Infirmary Blues - Ghost Dance (K Records)
Devotchka - Blessing in Disguise - A Mad and Faithful Telling (Anti-)
Little Joy - No One's Better Sake - Little Joy (Rough Trade)
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - We Can't Help You - Real Emothional Trash (Matador)
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The Good Life - Keely Aimee - Help Wanted Nights (Saddle Creek)
Megapuss - To the Love Within - Surfing (Vapor)
Camper Van Beethoven - Pictures of Matchstick Men - Popular Songs (Cooking Vinyl)
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Wolf Parade - Call It a Ritual - At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop)
Los Campesinos - Miserabilia - We Are Beautiful We Are Doomed (Arts & Crafts)

Monday, November 24, 2008

Playlist 11/24/08

Flaming Lips - Thank You Jack White - Fight Test (Warner)
The Halo Benders - Love Travels Faster - The Rebels Not In (K Records)
Mates of State - Ha Ha - Team Boo (Polyvinyl)
Los Campesinos - Knee Deep at ATP - Hold On Now Youngster (Arts and Crafts)

Nada Surf - Blizzard of '77 - Let Go (Barsuk)
The Mountain Goats - Song for an Old Friend - Bitter Melon Farm (3 Beads of Sweat)
The Boy Least Likely to - Fur as Soft as Fur - Best Party Ever (Too Young to Die)
Dirty Projectors - On the Beach - Slaves' Graves and Ballads (Happy Happy Bday to Me)

Vivian Girls - Where Do You Run to - s/t (In the Red)
Jarvis Cocker - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time - s/t (Rough Trade)
Crooked Fingers - Cannibals - Forfeit/Fortune (Constant Artists)
Swans - Power and Sacrifice - White Light...(Young God)

Decemberists - I Was Meant for the Stage - Her Majesty... (KRS)
She and Him - Take It Back - Volume One (Merge)
Mayday - Come Home - Old Blood (Saddle Creek)
Justin Townes Earle - Hard Livin' - The Good Life (Bloodshot)

Ryan Adams - Go Easy - Cardinology (Lost Highway)
M Ward - Vincent O'Brien - The Transfiguration of Vincent (Merge)
Kimya Dawson - Caving In - Remember that I Love You (K Records)
Tom Waits - How's It Gonna End - Real Gone (Anti)

David Byrne - The Great Western Road - Lead Us Not Into Temptation (Thrill Jockey)
The Sea and Cake - Weekend - Car Alarm (Thrill Jockey)
Songs: Ohia - I've Been Riding with the Ghost - Magnolia Electric Co. (Secretly Canadian)
Joanna Newsom - This Side of the Blue - The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City)

Wilco - I Am trying To Break Your Heart - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)
Azure Ray - The Devil's Feet - Hold on Love (Saddle Creek)

Monday, November 17, 2008

Playlist 11/17/08

Tom Waits – Innocent When You Dream – Beautiful Maladies (Island)
Jenny Lewis – Carpetbaggers –Acid Tongue (Warner)
Mason Proper – Downpour – Olly Oxenfree (Dovecote)
Crooked Fingers – Run, Lieutenant, Run – Forfeit/Fortune (Constant)

Tom Gabel – Harsh Realms - Heart Burns (Sire)
Frontier Ruckus – The Deep Yard Dream – The Orion Songbook (Quite Scientific)
Sally Timms – Cry Cry Cry – Cowboy Sally’s Twilight Laments (Bloodshot)

Buddy Holly – Take Your Time – Buddy Holly Collection (MCA)
Tegan & Sara – City Girl – If It Was You (Vapor)
I’m From Barcelona – Paper Planes – Who Killed Harry Houdini (Mute)
Lucksmiths – Synchronized Sinking – Why That Doesn’t Surprise Me (Clover)

The M’s – Break Our Bones – S/T (Brillante)
David Byrne & Brian Eno – Strange Overtones – Everything That Happens (Todomundo)
Arab Strap – One Day After School – Philophobia (Matador)

Postal Service – Such Great Heights – Give Up (Sub Pop)
Camera Obscura – Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken – Lloyd I’m Ready… (Merge)
Marnie Stern – Simon Says – This Is It (KRS)

Deerhoof – The Tears and Music of Love – Offended Maggie (KRS)
The Handsome Family – Sunday Morning Coming Down – Smothered & Covered (Bloodshot)

The Sea and Cake – Window Sills – Car Alarm (Thrill Jockey)
The Good Life – The Beaten Path – Black Out (Saddle Creek)
Leonard Cohen – A Bunch of Lonesome Heroes – Songs from a Room (CBS)

Eleanor Murray – Electric Sky – For Cedar (Anonymous Monk)
Pavement – Loretta’s Scars – Slanted and Enchanted (Matador)
Owen – In the Morning, Before Work – the EP (Polyvinyl)
Blitzen Trapper – Saturday – Furr (Sub Pop)