Playlist 2/22/10

Belle & Sebastian - The Blues Are Still Blue - The Life Pursuit (Matador)
Los Campesinos! - A Heat Rash in the Shape of the Show Me State; Or, Letters from Me to Charlotte - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)*
Shout Out Louds - Fall Hard - Work (Merge)*

Via Audio - Babies - Animalore (Undertow)*
Vampire Weekend - Cousins - Contra (XL)*
The Like - Under the Paving Stones - Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking (Geffen)

Silver Jews - Punks in the Beerlight - Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City)
Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins - Rise Up With Fists!!! - Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)
Fruit Bats - The Earthquake of '73 - Spelled in Bones (Sub Pop)

Colleen - Past the Long Black Land - Les Ondes Silencieuses (Leaf)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness - Summer in the Southeast (Sea Noble)
Mayday - Rock and Roll Can't Save Your Life - Bushido Karaoke (Saddle Creek)

Southerly - Harmony - Best Dressed and Expressionless (Fall)
Magnetic Fields - We Are Having a Hootenanny - Realism (Nonesuch)*
The Salt Miners - Spray Shellac - A Good Time to Be Had (Woodshed)

Okkervil River - You Can't Hold the Hand of the Rock and Roll Man - The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)
Salvador Santana - This Day (Belongs to You) - Keyboard City (Various Music)*
Lightspeed Champion - Marlene - Life Is Sweet! Nice to Meet You (Domino)*

Office - Company Calls - A Night at the Ritz (Scratchie)
Spoon - Nobody Gets Me But You - Transference (Merge)*
Boat - I Really Think You Should Rethink Your Life - Let's Drag Our Feet (Magic Marker)

Of Montreal - Suffer for Fashion - Suffer for Fashion EP (Polyvinyl)
My Robot Friend - The Short Game - Soft-Core (Double Feature)*
Architecture in Helsinki - Heart It Races - Heart It Races EP (Polyvinyl)

Arthur and Yu - Come to View (Song for Neil Young) - In Camera (Hardly Art)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Master's Hands - IRM (Elektra)*
Xiu Xiu - Dear God, I Hate Myself - Dear God I Hate Myself (KRS)*

Calexico and Iron & Wine - He Lays in the Reins - In the Reins (Touch & Go)
John Vanderslice - Exodus Damage - Pixel Revolt (Barsuk)

Playlist 2/15/10

The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?? - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner)
Art Brut - Fight! - Bang Bang Rock & Roll (Banana)
The White Stripes - Why Can't You Be Nicer to Me? - De Stijl (V2)

Editors - Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool - In this Light and on this Evening (Fader)
Cursive - Mothership, Mothership, Do You Read Me? - Burst and Bloom (Saddle Creek)
Los Campesinos! - A Heat Rash in the Shape of the Show Me State; Or, Letters from Me to Charlotte - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)

Hello Seahorse! - OK!...Lobster - Hoy a las Ocho (Magic Marker)
Heavenly - So? - P.U.N.K. Girl EP (K Records)
Dressy Bessy - Girl, You Shout! - s/t (Kindercore)

Boat - We Want It! We Want It! - Setting the Paces (Magic Marker)
Mirah - Oh! September - Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project (K Records)
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Laura Palmer's Prom - XXXX (Paper Bag Records)

The Love Me Nots - Fire & Pride - Upsidedown Insideout (Atomic A Go Go)
Jens Lekman - Do You Remember the Riots? - When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog (Secretly Canadian)
Magnetic Fields - You Must Be Out of Your Mind - Realism (Nonesuch)

Spoon - Is Love Forever? - Transference (Merge)
Conor Oberst - Souled Out!!! - s/t (Merge)
Jason Boesel - Was It, Man? - Hustler's Son (Team Love)

Lightspeed Champion - Edude Op.3 'Goodnight Michalek' - Life Is Sweet! Nice to Meet You (Domino)
The Good Life - Friction! - Lovers Need Lawyers EP (Saddle Creek)
Dan Black - U + Me = - ((un)) (The Hours)

Stereo Total - Hungry! - Do the Bambi (KRS)
My Robot Friend - The Short Game - Soft-Core (Double Feature)
!!! - Hello? Is This Thing on? - Louden Up Now (Touch & Go)

Pulp - Have You Seen Her Lately? - His 'n' Hers (Island)
Mumford & Sons - Thistle & Weeds - Sigh No More (Glassnote)
The Decemberists - July, July! - Castaways and Cutouts (Hush)

She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? - Vol. 1 (Merge)

Playlist 2/8/10

Azure Ray - Across the Ocean - Hold on Love (Saddle Creek)
Magnetic Fields - We Are Having a Hootenany - Realism (Nonesuch)
Beauty Pill - You Are Right to Be Afraid - You Are Right to Be Afraid (Dischord)

Los Campesinos! - The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)
Capgun Coup - A Liar in Texas in a Green Room in Memphis - Brought to You by Nebraskafish (TeamLove)
Blitzen Trapper - Sci-Fi Kid - Wild Mountain Nation (Lidkercow Ltd.)

Spoon - Is Love Forever? - Transference (Merge)
Russian Futurists - You Dot, Me Dot, T-Dot - Let's Get Ready to Crumble (Upperclass)
Stars - Romantic Comedy - Heart (Arts & Crafts)

Woodpigeon - Enchantee Janvier - Die Stadt Muzikaten (boompa)
Matt Sharp - Goodbye West Coast - Puckett's Versus the Country Boy (In Music We Trust)
Jason Boesel - French Kissing - Hustler's Son (Team Love)

Molina and Johnson - Don't take My Night From Me - s/t (Secretly Canadian)
Joanna Newsome - Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie - & the Y's Street Band EP (Drag City)
Meg Baird - River Song - Dear Companion (Drag City)

Charlotte Gainsbourg - The Songs that We Sing - 5:55 (Vice)
Mates of State - Fluke - Team Boo (Polyvinyl)
The Webstirs - Malaise - So Long (Ginger Records)

Saturday Looks Good to Me - You Work All Weekend - All Your Summer Songs (Polyvinyl)
The Sunny Era - A Cold Calculation - This Darkness of Love (Dobra Silenus)
Silver Jews - Trains Across the Sea - Starlite Walker (Drag City)

Old Shoe - Scrapper Jack - s/t (self)
Beach House - Zebra - Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
Four Tet - She Just Likes to Fight - There Is Love in You (Domino)

Patrick Cleandenim - Rocket to the Moon - Baby Comes Home (Ba Da Bing)
The Like Young - Snobs and Slobs - Art Contest (Parasol)
Midlake - Winter Dies - The Courage of Others (Bella Union)

Head of Femur - Curve that Byrd - Ringodom or Proctor (Greyday Productions)
Tokyo Police Club - Citizens of Tomorrow - A Lesson in Crime (Paper Bag Records)
Dean and Britta - Out Walking - S'Avventura (Jetset)

Playlist 2/1/10

Noa Babayof - At Your Death - From a Window to a Wall (Language of Stone)
Daniel Martin Moore - It's You - Stray Age (Sub Pop)
The Good Life - You Don't Feel Like Home to Me - Help Wanted Nights (Saddle Creek)

Lucinda Williams - Lonely Girls - Essence (Lost Highway)
Magnetic Fields - Everything Is One Big Christmas Tree - Realism (Nonesuch)
Willoughby - Intentions - I Know What You're Up to (Sargent)

Spoon - I Saw the Light - Transference (Merge)
Crooked Fingers - Your Control - Forfeit/Fortune (Constant Artists)
Family of the Year - Let's Go - Songbook (Washashore)

Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines - The Stand In's (Jagjaguwar)
Brazos - We Understand Each Other - Phosphorescent Blues (Autobus)
Miss Autopsy - Dead Loner Blues - Catepillar (Lens)

Handsome Family - All the Time in Airports - Last Days of Wonder (Carrot Top)
Mason Jennings - Your New Man - In the Ever (Brushfire)
Alberta Cross - Song Three Blues - Broken Side of Time (ATO)

Molina & Johnson - Almost Let You In - s/t (Secretly Canadian)
Beck - Chemtrails - Modern Guilt (DGC)
Unicycle Loves You - Highway Robbery - s/t (Highwheel)

Bishop Allen - Click, Click, Click, Click - The Broken String (Dead Oceans)
Vivian Girls - Where Do You Run to - s/t (In the Red)
Vampire Weekend - Holiday - Contra (XL)

Lucksmiths - Synchronized Sinking - Why that Doesn't Surprise Me (Drive In)
Woodpigeon - My Denial in Argyle - Die Stadt Muzikanten (Boompa)
Final Fantasy - Lewis Takes Action - Heartland (Domino)

Capgun Coup - Breaks No Heart of Mine - Maudlin (Team Love)
Taylor Hollingsworth - I'm a Runaway (New Orleans) - Tragic City (Brash Music)
Buffalo Tom - Tree House - Big Red Letter Day (Beggars Banquet)

Moldy Peaches - Anyone But You - s/t (Rough Trade)

Playlist 1/25/10

O+S - We Do What We Want to - s/t (Saddle Creek)
Julie Doiron - All Their Broken Hearts - Heart & Crime (Jagjaguwar)
Girls in Trouble - Who Sent the Heat? - s/t (JDub)

Noah and the Whale - My Broken Heart - The First Days of Spring (Interscope)
Amy Millan - Day to Day - Masters of the Burial (Arts & Crafts)
The Heligoats - A Guide to the Outdoors - Goodness Gracious (Greyday)

The Literary Greats - Ruby Sapphire - Ocean, Meet the Valley (self)
The Bruces - What Do You Know About Home - The Shining Path (Secretly Canadian)
Beach House - Silver Soul - Teen Dream (Sub Pop)

Animal Collective - Bleed - Fall to Be Kind EP (Domino)
Sondre Lerche - Don't Look Now - Heartbeat Radio (Rounder)
Brazos - Kid - Phosphorescent Blues (Autobus)

The Salts - Go There - Broomstick Rock Star (self)
The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Deadroads - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
Langhorne Slim - So Glad I'm Coming Home - Be Set Free (Kemado)

Tim Williams - Stilts - Careful Love (Dovecote)
She and Him - In the Sun - single (Merge
God Help the Girl - God Help the Girl - s/t (Matador)

The Minor Leagues - Projections of a Person - This Story Is Old, I Know, But It Goes On (datawaslost)
Mr. Gnome - Hills, Valleys and Valium - Heave Yer Skeleton (El Marko)

Molina and Johnson - Twenty Cycles to the Ground - s/t (Secretly Canadian)
Jason Boesel - Hand of God - Husler's Son (Team Love)
David Bazan - Please, Baby, Please - Curse Your Branches (Barsuk)

Neko Case - The Next Time You Say Forever - Middle Cyclone (Anti-)
Andrew Bird - A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left - & the Mysterious Production of Eggs (Righteous Babe)
Vampire Weekend - California English - Contra (XL)

Islands - Tender Torture - Vapours (Anti-)
Red Wire Black Wire - No Honor Among Thieves - Robots & Roses (Tough Customer)
Boat - Lately (I've Been on My Back) - Setting the Paces (Magic Marker)

Lee and Willibee - Loves Not Worth It - North Carolina (Lost in the Woods)

Playlist 1/18/10

Colin Meloy - I've Changed My Plea to Guilty - Sings Morrisey (self)
She and Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? - Volume One (Merge)
Silver Jews - Animal Shapes - Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City)

Waco Brothers - Lincoln Town Car - Freedom and Weep (Bloodshot)
Mayday - Confession - Old Blood (Saddle Creek)
The Avett Brothers - Distraction #74 - Four Thieves Gone (Ramseur)

Molina & Johnson - Lenore's Lullaby - s/t (Secretly Canadian)
Pixies - Debaser - Doolittle (4AD)
The Cribs - We Were Aborted - Ignore the Ignorant (Warner)

Jay Reatard - Painted Shut - Matador Singles '08 (Matador)
Sleater-Kinney - Combat Rock - One Beat (KRS)
White Stripes - Hello Operator - DeStijl (V2)

Julian Casablancas - Ludlow St. - Phrazes for the Young (RCA)
Middle Distance Runner - The Wrong Hole - The Sun & Earth (Engine Room)

The Elected - San Francisco Via Chicago Blues - Lagniappe (Saddle Creek)
St. Thomas - Come My Way - Let's Grow Together (Racing)
Port O'Brien - My Will Is Good - Threadbare (TBD)

Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard - Willamine - One Fast Move Or I'm Gone (F-Stop)
Bright Eyes - Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh - Fevers & Mirrors (Saddle Creek)
The Kinks - Picture Book - The Village Green Preservation Society (Essential)

The Literary Greats - Oh Abilene - Ocean, Meet the Valley (self)
Annie - I Don't Like Your Band - Don't Stop (Smalltown Supersound)
Vampire Weekend - Giving Up the Gun - Contra (XL)

Mr. Gnome - Vampires - HeaveYer Skeleton (El Marko)
Brazos - Day Glo - Phosphorescent Blues (Autobus)
The Dodos - Ashley - Visiter (French Kiss)

Tom Waits - Singapore - Glitter & Doom Live (Anti-)

*w/Sarah-Sarah co-hosting

Playlist 1/11/10

Portland Cello Project -Mouth for War - The Thao and Justin Power Sessions (KRS)
The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Ballad of the RAA - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
John Vanderslice - Little Lost Boy - Time Travel Is Lonely (Barsuk)

Reverie Sound Revue - An Anniversary Away - s/t (Boompa)
Darling - We Are Strong - Burned by the Sun (Cardboard Sangria)
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of this Country - Let's Get Out of this Country (Merge)

We Were Promised Jetpacks - Conductor - These Four Walls (Fatcat)
The Like - What I Say and What I Mean - Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? (Geffen)
The Blakes - Don't Bother Me - s/t (Light in the Attic)

The Do - At Last - A Mouthful (Get Down)
Flight of the Conchords - Foux de Fafa - s/t (Sub Pop)
Smoosh - Free to Stay - Free to Stay (Barsuk)

The Boy Least Likely to - Monsters - The Best Party Ever (Too Young to Die)
The Magnetic Fields - (Crazy for You but) Not that Crazy - 69 Love Songs 2 (Merge)
Pernice Brothers - Overcome by Happiness - Overcome by Happiness (Sub Pop)

Nanook of the North - Israel and Palestine a solution - The Taby Tapes (A Hidden Agenda)
The Concretes - You Can't Hurry Love - s/t (Astralwerks)
Fruit Bats - The Hobo Girl - The Ruminant Band (Sub Pop)

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Am I Demon? - Ask Forgiveness EP (Drag City)
Jose Gonzalez - Killing for Love - In Our Nature (Mute)
Bon Iver - Lump Sum - For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)

Alberta Cross - Old Man Chicago - Broken Side of Time (ATO)
Langhorne Slim and the War Eagles - Diamonds and Gold - s/t (Kemado)
The Avett Brothers - Nothing Short of Thankful - Mignonette (Ramseur)

Old 97's - Smokers - Drag It Up (Nine West)
The Thermals - A Pillar of Salt - The Body, The Blood, The Machine (Sub Pop)
Joe Lally - Painfully Aware - Nothing Is Underrated (Dischord)

Simone White - Train Song - Yakiimo (Honest Jon's)
Capgun Coup - Ari Are We - Maudlin (Team Love)