Playlist 4/27/09

Bright Eyes - Papa Was a Rodeo / Score! Twenty Years of Merge the Covers Album (Merge)
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone / Middle Cyclone (Anti-)
Cordero - Don't Let Them Destroy You / En Este Momento (Bloodshot)

Ferraby Lionheart - Put Me in Your Play / Catch the Brass Ring (Nettwerk)
Akron/Family - I'll Be on the Water / s/t (Young God)
The Devil Makes Three - Help Yourself / Do Wrong Right (Milan)

Langhorne Slim - I Will / When the Sun's Gone Down (Narnak)
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint - International Echo / The River in Reverse (Verve Forecast)
Lily Allen - Everyone's At It / It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol)

Flight of the Conchords - The Most Beautiful Girl (in the Room) / s/t (Sub Pop)
The Brunettes - The Record Store / Mars Loves Venus (Lil' Chief)
Art Brut - DC Comics and Chocolate Milkshake / Vs. Satan (Downtown)

The Bicycles - Sweet Petit / Oh No, It's Love (Fuzzy Logic)
Crocodiles - Soft Skull (in My Room) / Summer of Hate (Fat Possum)
Crystal Antlers - Until the Sun Dies (Part One) / Tentacles (Touch & Go)

Mice Parade - Steady as She Goes / Bem Vinda Vontade (Bubble Core)
The Love of Everything - I Love All You Guys Slow / Split w/Mt. Eerie (Record Label)
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love / The Hazards of Love (Capitol)

PJ Harvey - April / A Woman and a Man Walked By (Island)
Eagle and Talon - Ice Life / Thracian (Self-Released)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Dull Life / It's Blitz (Interscope)

Sleater Kinney - I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone / Call the Doctor (Chainsaw)
Lifetime - Rodeo Clown / Hello Bastards (re-issue) (Jade Tree)
Split Lip - For the Love of a Wounded Woman / For the Love of the Wounded (Doghouse)

Chamberlain - Drums & Shotguns / Fate's Got a Driver (Doghouse)
Gang of Four - Not Great Men / Return the Gift (v2)
The Thermals - We Were Sick / Now We Can See (Kill Rock Stars)

The Ditty Bops - Wishful Thinking / s/t (Warner)
Smoosh - Find a Way / Free to Stay (Barsuk)
Secadora - Bedroom / Little Pieces of Paper (Keiki)

Playlist 4/20/09

Devendra Banhart - Michigan State - Oh Me Oh My... (Young Gods)
Elf Power - Nothing's Going to Happen - Nothing's Going to Happen (Young Twin)
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow - European Boys - Vintage Slide (Bar None)

Still Flyin - Following the Itinerary - Never Gonna Touch the Ground (Ernest Jennings)
Telepathe - So Fine - Dance Mother (I Am Sound)
Stars - Life Effect - Heart (Arts & Crafts)

Fruit Bats - Black Bells (Make Me Ok) - Echolocation (Perishable)
Jens Lekman - Someone to Share My Life With - Maple Leaves (Secretly Canadian)
Fever Ray - Now's the Only Time I Know - s/t (Mute)

Now It's Overhead - Wonderful Scar - s/t (Saddle Creek)
Blake Miller - In the Danger - Burn Tape (Exitstencil)
Neva Dinova - At Least the Pain Is Real - s/t (Crank!)

Daniel Johnston - Love Forever - Rejected Unknown (Gammon)
Mirah - Country of the Future - (a)spera (K Records)
Murder By Death - That Crown Doesn't Make You a Prince - Who Will Survive... (Eyeball)

Nico - You Forgot to Answer - The End (Island)
Crooked Fingers - Angelina - Red Devil Dawn (Merge)
Doves - The Greatest Denier - Kingdom of Rust (Astralwerks)

Pavement - Loretta's Scars - Slanted & Enchanted (Matador)
Rainer Maria - Ears Ring - Long Knives Drawn (Polyvinyl)
Alligators - Original Fear - Piggy & Cups (Applehouse)

The Pastels - Automatically Yours - Up for a Bit with the Pastels (Vevel)
Mosquitoes - Boombox - s/t (Bar None)
The Robot Ate Me - A Harp (and how you cut my strings) - They Ate Themselves (Swim Slowly)

Dan Deacon - Build Voice - Bromst (Car Park)
Pas/Cal - The Bronze Beached Boys (C'mon Let's Go) - The Handbag Memoirs - (Le Grand Magistary)
Boy Least Likely to - Saddle Up - Law of the Playground (+1)

Pomegranites - The Southern Ocean - Everybody, Come Outside (Lujo)
The Like Young - Snobs & Slobs - Art Contest (Parasol)
The Foals - Cassius - Antidotes (Sub Pop)

Playlist 4/13/09

The Russian Futurists - You Dot, Me Dot, T Dot / Let's Get Ready to Crumble (MAPL)
Bishop Allen - The Ancient Common Sense of Things / Grr…(Dead Oceans)
Les Sans Culottes - Allo Allo / Fixation Orale (Aeronaut)

I Was A King - Golden Years / s/t (Control Group)
Moldy Peaches - Who's Got the Crack / s/t (Rough Trade)
Dean & Britta - I Deserve It / L'Avventura (Jetset)

Sufjan Stevens - Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid) / Michigan (Sounds Familyre)
Stars - My Favourite Book / In Our Bedroom… (Arts & Crafts)
Rufus Wainwright - 14th Street - Want One (Dreamworks)

Alligators - Where Does It Hide? / Piggy & Cups (Applehouse)
Sparrow - Streets Paved with Gold / s/t (Overcast)
Boy Least Likely to - Every Goliath Has Its David / The Law of the Playground (+1)

Los Campesinos! - Drop It Doe Eyes / Hold on Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Dull Life / It's Blitz (Interscope)
of Montreal - Suffer for Fashion / Suffer for Fashion EP (Polyvinyl)

The Natural History - Watch This House / Beat Beat Heartbeat (Startime International)
John Vanderslice - The Parade / Emerald City (Barsuk)
American Analog Set - It's All About Us / The Golden Band (Emperor Jones)

Shannon Wright - You Baffle Me / Let in the Light (Quarterstick)
Animal Collective - My Girls / Merriweather Post Pavillion (Domino)
Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen / Mama, I'm Swollen (Saddle Creek)

Beauty Pill - You Are Right to Be Afraid / You Are Right to Be Afraid (Dischord)
A.C. Newman - Miracle Drug / Slow Wonder (Matador)
Handsome Furs - All We Want, Baby, Is Everything / Face Control (Sub Pop)

The Flaming Lips - The Magician vs. the Headache / Hit to Death in the Future Head (Warner)
Bird Names - Live Longer than We Want to / Sings the Browns (Upset the Rhythm)
Richard Swift - Halleluja, Good Night / The Atlantic Ocean (Secretly Canadian)

M. Ward - Rave On / Hold Time (Merge)
Doves - Birds Flew Backwards / Kingdom of Rust (Astralwerks)

Playlist 4/6/09

M. Ward - To Go Home / To Go Home EP (Merge)
Belle & Sebastian - My Wandering Days Are Over / Tigermilk (Matador)
The Boy Least Likely to - I Box Up All the Butterflies / The Law of the Playground (+1)

The Lucksmiths - Synchronised Sinking / Why That Doesn't Surprise Me (Clover Records)
Bishop Allen - The Ancient Common Sense of Things / Grr…(Dead Oceans)
The Coat Hangers - Pussy Willow / Scramble (Suicide Squeeze)

Bird Names - People Should Get More Aware / Sings the Browns (Upset the Rhythm)
Dan Deacon - Of the Mountains / Bromst (Carpark)
Olivia Tremor Control - Jumping Fences / Dusk a Cubist Castle (Flydaddy)

Mates of State - The Re-arranger / Re-arrange Us (Barsuk)
Islands - Jogging Gorgeous Summer / Return to the Sea (Equator)
Of Montreal - My Friend Will Be Me / The Gay Parade (Bar-None)

Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You / Partie Traumatic (Atlantic)
The Faint - I Treat You Wrong / Fasciinatiion (blank.wav)
MGMT - Electric Feel / Oracular Spectacluar (Columbia)

Beep Beep - Secrets for the Well / Enchanted Islands (Saddle Creek)
Broken Spindles - The Talk / Kiss/Kick (Blank.wav)
Wavves - Beach Demon / s/t (Fat Possum)

Promise Ring - Why Did We Ever Meet / Nothing Feels Good (Jade Tree)
Alligators - If You Want to / Piggy & Cups (Applehouse)
Vermont - Indiana Jones / Living Together (Kindercore)

Seaweed - Brand New Order / Oh, Merge (10 Yr. Anniversary) (Merge)
Braid - Raddish White Icicle / Movie Music V. 1 (Polyvinyl)
The Decemberists - The Rake's Song / Hazards of Love (Capitol)

William Elliot Whitmore - Hell or High Water / Animals in the Dark (Anti-)
Devotcka - You Love Me / How It Ends (Cicero)
Fever Ray - If I Had a Heart / Fever Ray (Mute)

Conshafter - You Cannot Save Your Love - Bombs Away Baby! (Dark Epiphany)

Playlist 3/30/09

Cursive - I Couldn't Love You / Mama I'm Swollen (Saddle Creek)
Billy Bragg - You Woke Up My Neighborhood / Don't Try This at Home (Elektra)
British Sea Power - Appologies to Insect Life / The Decline of British Sea Power (Rough Trade)

Swan Lake - Settle on Your Skin / Enemy Mine (Jagjaguwar)
Blitzen Trapper - Sci-Fi Kid / Wild Mountain Nation (Lidkercow Ltd.)
Calvin Johnson - Lies Goodbye / s/t (K Records)

David Vandervelde - Feet of a Liar / Nothin No EP (Secretly Canadian)
The Appleseed Cast - An Army of Fireflies / Sagamatha (Militia Group)
Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - She Just Wants to Move / I Bet You Say that to All the Boys (Fashion Brigade)

Bishop Allen - Rooftop Brawl / Grr…(Dead Oceans)
Whiskey & Co. - Clocks and Spoons / Leaving the Nightlife (No Idea)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - The Songs that We Sing / 5:55 (Vice)

The Sea and Cake - Up on Crutches / Everybody (Thrill Jockey)
The Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me / Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me EP (Memphis Industries)
Jeremy Jay - In this Lonely Town / Slow Dance (K Records)

Art Brut - People in Love / It's a Bit Complicated (Downtown)
Lily Allen - Him / It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol)
Life at Sea - Speedometers and Cigarettes / Is There a Signal Coming (Lucid Records)

The Get Up Kids - Better Half / iTunes Exclusive EP (iTunes)
Head of Femur - Curve that Byrd / Ringdom or Proctor (Greyday Productions)
David Dondero - The Living and the Dead / The Transient (Future Farmer)

The National - Murder Me Rachel / Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers (Brassland)
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love / The Hazards of Love (Capitol)
Okkervil River - It Ends with a Fall / Down the River of Golden Dreams (jagjaguwar)

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love / Hounds of Love (EMI)
Lady Sovereign - Bang Bang / Jigsaw (Midget)
!!! - Dear Can / Louden Up Now (Touch & Go)

Beep Beep - I Am the Secretary / Business Casual (Saddle Creek)
The Long Blondes - Once and Never Again / Someone To Drive You Home

Playlist 3/23/09

Neko Case - The Next Time you Say Forever - Middle Cyclone (Anti-)
The Album Leaf - Wishful Thinking - Into the Blue Again (Sub Pop)
Spoon - Anticipation - The Way We Get By (12xu)

Lonely Dear - I Was Only Going Out - Dear John (Polyvinyl)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I Don't Belong to Anyone - Beware (Drag City)
Silver Jews - Time Will Break the World - Bright Flight (Drag City)

Fruit Bats - Seaweed - Mouthfuls (Sub Pop)
The Sea and Cake - The Argument - The Fawn (Thrill Jockey)
Morrisey - I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris - Years of Refusal (Decca)

Hum - If You Are to Bloom - Downward Is Heavenward (RCA)
The Aislers Set - Attraction Action Reaction - How I Learned to Write Backwards (Suicide Squeeze)
Mirah - Gone Are the Days - (a)spera (K Reecords)

His & Her Vanities - The Shocking Truth - s/t (The Science of Sound)
Dressy Bessy - Gloria Days - Little Music (Kindercore)
In Ink Please - If You Don't Like It, Throw It in the Rhine - Formica Table for Two (Fall)

Azure Ray - For the Sake of the Song - s/t (Saddle Creek)
Bishop Allen - The Ancient Common Sense of Things - Grr…(Dead Oceans)
Jim O'Rouke - Therefore I Am - Insignificance (Drag City)

The Golden Hours - My Feet Beneath the Water / Spooky EP (Eggy)
Desaparecidos - Man and Wife, the Latter (Damaged Goods) - Read Music/Speak Spanish
Jawbreaker - Save Your Generation - Dear You (DGC)

Pinehurst Kids - Shepherd to Lost Sheep - Bleed It Dry (Barbaric)
Richard Hell - Love Comes in Spurts - Time (Matador)
Cursive - I Couldn't Love You - Mama, I'm Swollen (Saddle Creek)

Wavves - So Bored - s/t (Fat Possum)
Hefner - The King of Summer - Dead Media (Too Pure)
Asobi Seksu - Familiar Light - Hush (Polyvinyl)

International Espionage! - Free For All - Transmissions (Noise to Infinity)
Matt and Kim - I Wanna - Grand (Fader)
Broken Spindles - Introvert - Kiss/Kick (Blank.wav)

Playlist 3/16/09

Rilo Kiley - Go Ahead - Take Offs and Landings (Barsuk)
Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You - Middle Cyclone (Anti-) LR
Mayday - Booze and Pills - Bushido Karaoke (Saddle Creek)

M. Ward - Rave On - Hold Time (Merge) HR
Andrew Bird - Fiery Crash - Armchair Apocrypha (Fat Possum)
Merle Haggard - My Baby's Just Like Money - Roots v 1 (Anti-)

Langhorne Slim - Electric Love Letter - When the Sun's Gone Down (Narnack)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Death Final - Beware (Drag City) LR
Dan Auerbach - Trouble Weighs a Ton - Keep It Hid (Nonesuch) HR

Mirah - Gone Are the Days - (a)spera (K Records) HR
Bat for Lashes - Tahiti - Fur and Gold (Echo)
Stephen Merritt - The Ugly Little Duck - Showtunes (Nonesuch)

She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? - Volume One (Merge)
Smog - Let's Move to the Country - Knock Knock (Drag City)
Tom Waits - We're All Mad Here - Alice (Anti-)

Tegan & Sara - Living Room - If It Was You (Vapor)
Sondre Lerche - It's Over - Two Way Monologue (Virgin)
The Natural History - It's a Law - Beat Beat Heartbeat (Startime International)

Les Savy Fav - Yawn, Yawn, Yawn - Inches (French Kiss)
Dirty Projectors - Winter Is Here - The Glad Fact (Western Vinyl)
The Handsome Furs - All We Want, Baby, Is Everything - Face Control (Sub Pop) HR

Foals - Olympic Airwaves - Antidotes (Sub Pop)
Okkervil River - You Can't Hold the Hand of a Rock and Roll Man - The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)
Hello Seahorse! - Cassette - Hoy a las Ocho (Magic Marker) LR

The Boy Least Likely to - I'm Glad I Hitched My Apple Wagon To Your Star - The Best Party Ever (Too Young to Die)
Mountain Goats - Against Agamemnon - Bitter Melon Farm (3 Beads of Sweat)
Lungfish - Nation Saving Song - Love Is Love (Dischord)

Against Me! - We Laugh at Danger (and break all the rules) - Reinventing Axle Rose (No Idea)
Heartless Bastards - Be So Happy - The Mountain (Fat Possum) HR
Cursive - Donkeys - Mama I'm Swollen (Saddle Creek)

Bon Iver - Beach Baby - Blood Bank EP (Jagjaguwar) HR
Grizzly Bear - Deep Blue Sea - Dark Was the Night (4AD) LR