Playlist 10/26/09

William Elliot Whitmore – One Man’s Shame – Song of the Blackbird (Southern)
Mason Jennings – Black Wind Blowing – Blood of Man (Brushfire)
Neko Case – The Virginian – The Virginian (Bloodshot)

Robbie Fulks – It’s Always Raining Somewhere – Georgia Hard (Yep Roc)
The Avett Brothers – Tin Man – I and Love and You (Columbia)
Johnny Cash – Don’t Take Your Guns to Town – Murder (Columbia)

Two Gallants – Steady Rollin’ – What the Toll Tells (Saddle Creek)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Where the Wild Roses Grow – Murder Ballads (Mute)
Dead Man’s Bones – Lose Your Soul – s/t (Anti-)

Murder by Death – Shiola – In Bocca al Lupo
Against Me – Walking Is Still Honest – Reinventing Axle Rose (No Idea)
Gogol Bordello – Wanderlust King – Live From Axis Mundi (Side One Dummy)

Dresden Dolls – Coin Operated Boy – A Is for Accident (8 Ft.)
The XX- Chrystalized – XX (XL)
Bat for Lashes – What’s a Girl to Do? – Fur and Gold (Echo)

Patrick Watson – Luscious Life – Close to Paradise (Secret City)
Islands – Oh Foreigner – Vapours (Anti-)
Great Lake Swimmers – When It Flows – Bodies and Minds (Secretly Canadian)

The Black Heart Procession – Drugs – Six (Temporary Residence)
Tim Williams – Murderous Air – Careful Love (Dovecote)
Monsters of Folk – The Sandman, the Brakeman and Me – s/t (Shangri-La Music)

Old Canes – Black Hill Chapel – Feral Harmonic (Saddle Creek)
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – O Let It Be – Summer in the Southeast (Sea Note)
Grizzly Bear – Don’t Ask – Horn of Plenty (Kanine)

Scotland Yard Gospel Choir – Tear Down the Opera House – I bet you say that to all the boys (SYGC)
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players – What Will the Corporation Do? – Vintage Slide Collections from Seattle vol 1 (Bar None)

Jose Gonzalez – Heartbeats – Veneer (Parasol)
Sufjan Stevens – They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!!... – Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)
CocoRosie – Tekno Love Song – Noah’s Ark (Touch & Go)

Playlist 10/19/09

Langhorne Slim - Land of Dreams - Be Set Free (Kemado)
David Vandervelde - Nothing No - The Moonstation House Band (Secretly Canadian)
Beck - Black Tambourine - Guero (Interscope)

Dead Man's Bones - Pa Pa Power - s/t (Anti-)
Noah and the Whale - My Door Is Always Open - The First Days of Spring (Interscope)
Simon Joyner - Flying Dreams - Lost with the Lights On (Secretly Canadian)

Vic Chestnutt - Chinaberry Tree - At the Cut (Constellation)
Monsters of Folk - Say Please - s/t (Shangri-La)
Wilco - The Late Greats - A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)

The Avett Brothers - Kick Drum Heart - I and Love and You (Columbia)
Okkervil River - Black - Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguwar)
Regina Spektor - Ode to Divorce - Soviet Kitsch (Sire)

Stars - Sleep Tonight - Set Yourself on Fire (Arts & Crafts)
Islands - The Drums - Vapours (Anti-)
The Icicles - La Ti Da - Arrival and Departures (Microindie)

Tullycraft - Polaroids from Mars - Disenchanted Hearts Unite (Magic Marker)
Matt & Kim - Yeah Yeah - s/t (IHeartComix)
Vivian Girls - Tell the World - s/t (In the Red)

Electric Tickle Machine - Somethin Else - Blew It Again (self)
Beep Beep - I Am the Secretary - Business Casual (Saddle Creek)
MGMT - Electric Feel - Oracular Spectacular (Columbia)

Russian Futurists - Paul Simon - Our Thickness (Upper Class)
alaska! - Krystal Korpse - Rescue Through Tomahawk (Altitude)
Califone - Funeral Singers - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (Dead Oceans)

The Decemberists - Eli the Barrow Boy - Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
Times New Viking - No Time, No Hope - Born Again Revisited (Matador)
The Clean - All Those Notes - Mister Pop (Merge)

Owen - Amnesia and Me - New Leaves (Polyvinyl)
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Don't Haunt this Place - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
The Evens - Mt. Pleasant Isn't - s/t (Dischord)

Playlist 10/12/09

God Save the Girl - Come Monday Morning - s/t (Matador)
Sondre Lerche - Words & Music - Heartbeat Radio (Rounder)
Vivan Girls - Where Do You Run to - s/t (In the Red)

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction - s/t (Slumberland)
Islands - Tender Torture - Vapours (Anti-)
Mates of State - So Many Ways - Bring It Back (Barsuk)

Boy Least Likely to - Every Goliath Has It's David - The Law of the Playground (+1)
The Born Again Floozies - Dumb It Down Now - Street Music (Triple R)
The Do - The Bridge Is Broken - A Mouthful (Get Down)

Pulp - Bad Cover Version - We Love Life (Rough Trade)
The Ravonettes - Breaking into Cars - In and Out of Control (Vice)
The Grates - The Biggest and Longest Adventure Ever - Teeth Lost, Hearts Won (Thirty Tigers)

The Castanets - Worn From the Fight (with fireworks) - Texas Rose, the Thaw & the Beasts (Asthmatic Kitty)
Yo La Tengo - Avalon or Someone Very Similar - Popular Songs (Matador)
Los Campesinos! - This Is How You Spell... - Hold on Now, Youngster... (Arts and Crafts)

The 1900s - When I Say Cohen - Medium High EP (Parasol)
Mason Jennings - Pittsburgh - Blood of Man (Brushfire)
Monsters of Folk - Baby Boomer - s/t (Shangri-La)

Mayday - Pilot - Old Blood (Saddle Creek)
The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - Tear Down the Opera House - ...and the Horse You Rode in on (Bloodshot)
The White Stripes - Hello Operator - DeStijl (V2)

Electric Tickle Machine - Part of Me - Blew It Again (Self)
Takka Takka - Lion in the Waves - Migration (Ernest Jenning)
Sea Wolf - Turn the Dirt Over - White Water, White Bloom (Dangerbird)

Rivers Cuomo - The Prettiest Girl in the Whole Wide World - Alone II (DGC)
The Happy Hollows - Silver - Spells (self)
The Black Kids - Look At Me (When I Rock Wichoo) - Partie Traumatic (Columbia)

Music Go Music - Explorers of the Heart - Expressions (Secretly Canadian)
Orenda Fink - Sister - Ask The Night (Saddle Creek)

Playlist 10/5/09

Orenda Fink - The Garden - Ask the Night (Saddle Creek)
The Magnetic Fields - California Girls - Distortion (Nonesuch)
St. Vincent - Laughing with a Mouth of Blood - Actor (4AD)

Amy Millan - Day to Day - Masters of teh Burial (Arts & Crafts)
Sondre Lerche - Easy to Persuade - Heartbeat Radio (Rounder)
Dirty on Purpose - Your Summer Dress - Hallelujah Sirens (North Street)

Magnolia Electric Co. - Rock of Ages - Josephine (Secretly Canadian)
The Concretes - Change in the Weather - In Color (EMI)
Elvis Costello & the Imposters - Drum and Bone - Momofuku (Lost Highway)

Darlings - Eviction Party - Yeah I Know (Famous Class)
The Scottland Yard Gospel Choir - ...and the Horse You Rode in on - atHYRio (Bloodshot)
We Were Promised Jetpacks - Quiet Little Voices - These Four Walls (Fatcat)

David Bazan - Please, Baby, Please - Curse Your Branches (Barsuk)
Monsters of Folk - Map of the World - s/t (Shangri-La Music)
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Sleep All Day - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)

Langhorne Slim - For a Little While - Be Set Free (Kemado)
The Builders and the Butchers - Down in this Hole - Salvation is a Deep Dark Well (Gigantic)
The Avett Brothers - Ill with Want - I and Love and You (Columbia)

Pas/Cal - Summer Is Almost Here - I Was Raised on... (Le Grand Magisery)
Hands and Knees - Do You Really Need a Drummer? - Et Tu Fluffy? (Midriff)
Tilly and the Wall - Tall Tall Grass - O (Team Love)

The Grates - Two Kinds of Right - Teeth Lost, Hearts Won (Thirty Tigers)
Think About Life - What the Future Might Be - s/t (Alien 8)
Vivian Girls - Can't Get Over You - Everything Goes Wrong (In the Red)

Let's Get Out of this Terrible Sandwhich Shop - Chattanooga Kookoo - Listening (Roydale)
The Battle Royale - Our Thoughts Are A'Pourin - Wake Up, Thunderbabe (Afternoon)
The XX - Islands s/t (XL)

Owen - Amnesia and Me - New Leaves (Polyvinyl)
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - The Charging Sky - Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)
The Owls - Channel - Daughters and Suns (Magic Marker)

Playlist 9/28/09

Wavves - So Bored - s/t (Fat Possum)
Times New Viking - Faces on Fire - Rip It Off (Matador)
The Clean - Are You Really on Drugs? - Mister Pop (Merge)

Guided by Voices - Tractor Rape Chain - Bee Thousand (Scat)
Jay Reatard - Before I Was Caught - Watch Me Fall (Matador)
Cursive - Gentleman Caller - The Ugly Organ (Saddle Creek)

Pulp - Pencil Skirt - Different Class (Island)
Beaujolais - Night of a Thousand Firsts - Admirations (Parasol)
El Guapo - Ocean and Sky - Fake French (Dischord)

Brazilian Girls - Tourist Trap - Talk to La Bomb (Verve)
The Lexington Arrows - Better Without You - Cut Me Loose (self)
The Raveonettes - D.R.U.G. - In and Out of Control (Vice)

Saturday Looks Good to Me - You Work All Weekend - All Your Summer Songs (Polyvinyl)
The Boy Least Likely to - A Balloon on a Broken String - The Law of the Playground (+1)
The Lucksmiths - Take this Lying Down - Naturaliste (Drive-in)

Matt Pond PA - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Winter Songs (Altitude)
The Hidden Cameras - I Want Another Enema - Mississuaga Goddamn (Rough Trade)
Mosquitos - Reason to Live - III (Bar None)

The Dodos - Small Deaths - Time to Die (Frenchkiss)
The Fruit Bats - Lazy Eye - Mouthfuls (Sub Pop)
Mason Jennings - Black Wind Blowing - Blood of Man (Brushfire)

Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips - I Deserve It - L'Avventura (Jetset)
Steve Shifffman & The Land of No - Tweed Skirt - s/t (Tiny Beast)
Evan Dando - In the Grass All Wine Colored - Baby I'm Bored (Breath of Salt Water/Bar None)

Amy Millan - I Will Follow You into the Dark - Masters of the Burial (Arts & Crafts)
Nick Drake - The Thoughts of Mary Jane - Five Leaves Left (Hannibal)
Timber Timbre - Trouble Comes Knocking - s/t (Arts & Crafts)

Monsters of Folk - Baby Boomer - s/t (Shangri-LA Music)
Robbie Fulks - (I Love) Nickles and Dimes - Country Love Songs (Bloodshot)
Cass McCombs - So Damn Pure - Not the Way EP (Monitor)

Playlist 9/21/09

Jessica Baliff - The Hiding Place - s/t (Kranky)
Iron and Wine - The Rooster Moans - The Creek Drank the Cradle (Sub Pop)
Wolf Colonel - Citizen's Arrest - Something/Everything (K)

The Frames - Santa Maria - For the Birds (Overcoat Recordings)
The Mountain Goats - First Few Desperate Hours - Tallahassee (4AD)
Old Tme Relijun - Giant Boat - Uterus and Fire (K)

David Bazan - Please, Baby, Please - Curse Your Branches (Barsuk)
My Morning Jacket - Anytime - Z (ATO)
Liam Finn & Eliza James - Long Way to Go - Champagne in Seashells (Yep Roc)

Cat Power - Speak for Me - You Are Free (Matador)
The Bruces - After Hours - The War of the Bruces (Misra)
Britt Daniel - You Get Yours - split w/Bright Eyes (Post-Parlo)

Beaujolais - I'm Splitting in Two - Admirations (Parasol)
Rilo Kiley - With Arms Outstretched - The Execution of All Things (Saddle Creek)
The Dodos - Longform - Time to Die (French Kiss)

Karl Blau - Into the Nada - Beneath Waves (K Records)
Neil Halstead - Two Stones in My Pocket - Sleeping on Roads (4AD)
The Apples in Stereo - That's Something I Do - Velocity of Sound (SpinART)

Yo La Tengo - Avaon or Someone Very Similar - Popular Songs (Matador)
Jenny Toomey - Cheat - Tempting (Misra)
Soccer Team - We Closed a Record Store - Volunteered Civility and Professionalism (Dischord)

Sunny Day Real Estate - 5/4 - LP2 Remastered (Sub Pop)
Teenage Fanclub - 120 Minutes - Thirteen (DGC)
Darlings - Tease - Yeah I Know (Famous Class)

Tegan and Sara - Living Room - If It Was You (Vapor)
The Clean - Rubber Soul - Mister Pop (Merge)
The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - One Night Stand - ...and the Horse You Rode in on (Bloodshot)

Playlist 9/7/09

Islands - Creeper - Arm's Way (Anti-)
Black Kids - I'm Making Eyes at You - Partie Traumatic (Columbia)
CSS - Rat Is Dead (Rage) - Donkey (Sub Pop)

Of Montreal - Suffer for Fashion - Suffer for Fashion EP (Polyvinyl)
The Do - Tammie - A Mouthful (Get Down)
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Being Bad Feels Pretty Good - You Have No Idea What You Are Getting Yourself Into (Almost Gold)

Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! - Sticking Fingers into Sockets (Arts & Crafts)
The Bicycles - Oh No, It's Love - Oh No, It's Love (Fuzzy Logic)
The Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me - Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me EP (Memphis Industries)

The Born Again Floozies - We Got the Power - Street Music (Triple R)
No Kids - I Love the Weekend - Come into My House (Tomlab)
Sondre Lerche - Don't Look Now - Heartbeat Radio (Rounder)

The Envy Corps - Screen Test - Kid Gloves EP (self-released)
Fruit Bats - the Hobo Girl - The Ruminant Band (Sub Pop)
David Bazan - Bless this Mess - Curse Your Branches (Pirate!)

Blitzen Trapper - Going Down - Black River Killer EP (Sub Pop)
Head of Femur - Napoleon's Boots - Great Plains (Greyday)
Timber Timbre - Magic Arrow - s/t (Arts & Crafts)

The Reigning Sound - Trash Talk - Love and Curses (In the Red)
Editors - Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors - An End Has a Start (Fader)
Okkervil River - A Hand to Take Hold of the Scene - The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)

Takka Takka - The Takers - Migration (Ernest Jenning Records)
Lights - Can You Hear Me - Rights (Drag City)
St. Vincent - Paris Is Burning - Marry Me (Beggars Banquet)

Cage the Elephant - Tiny Little Robots - s/t (Jive)
The Builders and the Butchers - Barcelona - Salvation Is a Deep Dark Well (Gigantic)
Devil Makes Three - Help Yourself - Do Wrong Right (Milan)

The Handsome Family - When You Whispered - Honey Moon (Carrot Top)
Cast Spells - War Story Hellos - Bright Works and Batons (Sargent House)