Playlist 3/29/10

Hoots and Hellmouth - You and All of Us - The Holy Open Secret (MAD Dragon)*
Mason Jennings - Ain't No Friend of Mine - Blood of Man (Brushfire)
Titus Andronicus - The Future Part Three: Escape from No Future - The Monitor (XL)

Dum Dum Girls - Bhang Bhang, I'm a Burnout - I Will Be (Hozac)
P.J. Harvey - A Perfect Day Elise - Is This Desire? (Island)
Jonathan Richman - I Can Hear Her Fighting with Herself - I'm So Confused (Vapor)

Beck - Guess I'm Doing Fine - Sea Change (Geffen)
Seldom - You've Heard It All Before - Romance (Casa)
She & Him - Gonna Get Along Without You Now - Volume Two (Merge)

Jolie Holland - Adieu False Heart - Springtime Can Kill You (Anti-)
The Prom - Under the Same Stars - Under the Same Stars (Barsuk)
Amy Milan - Bruised Ghosts - Masters of the Burial (Arts & Crafts)

Bright Eyes - From a Balance Beam - LIFTED or... (Saddle Creek)
Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore - Sweet Marie - Dear Companion (Sub Pop)
Lou Barlow - Song of the Tall Poppy - Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox (Merge)

Nico - I'll Keep It with Mine - Chelsea Girl (Polydor)
Jared Mees & the Grown Children - Oh No Oh My God - Caffeine, Alcohol, Sunshine, Money (Tender Loving Empire)*
The XX - Crystalised - XX (XL)

Boy Eats Drum Machine - Gold in the Hills - Hoop + Wire (Tender Loving Empire)
Drink Up Buttercup - Pink Sunshine - Born and Thrown on a Hook (Yep Roc)
The Lexington Arrows - Better Without You - Cut Me Loose (self)

Let's Wrestle My Arms Don't Bend That Way, Damnit! In the Court of Wrestling Let's (Merge)
Aloha - Cold Storage - Home Acres (Polyvinyl)
Alkaline Trio - If You Had a Bad Time - split w/One Man Army (BYO)

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Tuberculoids Arrive in Hop - The Brutalist Bricks (Matador)
Jawbreaker - Save Your Generation - Live 4/30/1996 (Blackball)
Jeremy Enigk - In a Look - OK Bear (Lewis Hollow Records)

Girls in Trouble - Secrets/You're Always Watching - s/t (JDub Records)
Wow & Flutter - Eclipse - Golden Touch (Jealous Butcher)

Playlist 3/22/10

Paper Airplane - Missing - MiddleMarch (All Hail)
Flight of the Conchords - Robots - s/t (Sub Pop)
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Dead Right - Perishing (Polyvinyl)

Field Music - Measure - Measure (Memphis Industries)
Aloha - Microviolence - Homes Acres (Polyvinyl)
All Girl Summer Fun Band - Trajectory - Looking Into It (AGSFB Music)

Los Campesinos - Don't Tell Me to Do the Math(s) - Sticking Fingers into Sockets (Arts & Crafts)
Les Savy Fav - New Teen Anthem - 3/5 (Frenchkiss)
Boy Eats Drum Machine - We Make Our Own Light - Hoop + Wire (Tender Loving Empire)

Wolf Parade - Call It a Ritual - At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop)
Yukon Blonde - Loyal Man - s/t (Nevado)
Liars - Proud Evolution - Sisterworld (Mute)

Capgun Coup - Social Security Number - Brought to You by Nebraska Fish (Team Love)
Grizzly Bear - Knife - Yellow House (Warp)
Rilo Kiley - The Absence of God - More Adventurous (Brute/Beaute)

The Dimes - Letters in the Sea - The Silent Generation (Pet Marmoset)
Pas/Cal - O Honey We're Ridiculous - I Was Raised on Matthew... (Le Grand Magistery)
Black Kids - I'm Making Eyes at You - Partie Traumatic (Columbia)

Rogue Wave - Good Morning - Permalight (Brushfire)
Tender Forever - Doves vs. Pigeons - Wider (K)
Josiah Wolf - Master Cleanse (California) - Jet Lag (Anticon)

Joanna Newsom - '81 - Have One on Me (Drag City)
The Gunshy - October 11, 1945 - There's No Love in This War (Latest Flame)
Johnny Cash - Ain't No Grave - American VI: Ain't No Grave (American)

Two Gallants - Steady Rollin - What the Toll Tells (Saddle Creek)
Laura Viers - To the Country - Saltbreakers (Nonesuch)
David Vandervelde - California Breezes - Waiting for the Sunrise (Secretly Canadian)

Shearwater - Corridors - The Golden Archipelago (Matador)
Langhorne Slim - The Honeymoon - and the War Eagles (Kemado)

Playlist 3/14/10

Karl Blau - What's Not to Fall in Love with - Dance POSITIVE (Marriage)
Broken Bells - The Mall and Misery - s/t (Columbia)
Anagram - Shelter Street - The Lights Went Up (Scenery)

Silver Lakes - Wake Me Up - The Great Pretenders (self)
Shout Out Louds - Fall Hard - Work (Merge)
Lonely, Dear - And I Won't Cause Anything At All - Lonely, Noir (Sub Pop)

Field Music - Measure - Measure (Memphis Industries)
Yukon Blonde - Loyal Man - s/t (Nevado Records)
Nanook of the North - Israel and Palestine a Solution - The Taby Tapes (A Hidden Agenda)

The Secret History - Sweden - s/t (Foxyboy)
Animal - How Bout Now - Light Trucks (Executive Bird)
Adam Green - Lockout - Minor Love (Fat Possum)

Noisettes - Count of Monte Christo - What's the Time Mr. Wolf (Universal)
Mucca Pazza - Habibi - A Little Marching Band (self)
Arcade Fire - The Well and the Lighthouse - Neon Bible (Merge)

Bright Eyes - Four Winds - Cassadaga (Saddle Creek)
Taylor Hollingsworth - Duct Taped Heart - Tragic City (Brash Music)
Sean Hayes - So Down - Run Wolves Run (self)

Two Gallants - Nothing to You - The Throes (Alive)
Shearwater - Corridors - The Golden Archipelago (Matador)
Jay Brannan - Soda Shop - Shortbus Soundtrack (Team Love)

AM - Darker Days - Future Sons and Daughters (Filter)
Sam Phillips - All Night - A Boot and a Shoe (Nonesuch)
Four Tet - Reversing - There Is Love in You (Domino)

Haley Bonar - Fox and Hound - Lure the Foxes (Afternoon)
Martha Wainwright - How Soon - Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole (Zoe)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Me and Jane Doe - IRM (Elektra)

The Evens - Mt. Pleasant Isn't - s/t (Dischord)
The Clean - Too Much Violence - Anthology (Merge)

Playlist 3/8/10

Dead Man's Bones - Paper Ships - s/t (Anti-)
The Sixth Great Lake - Across the Northern Border - Up the Country (Kindercore)
Amy Ray - Lucystoners - Stag (Daemon)

The Rural Alberta Advantage - Drain the Blood - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Glory - XXXX (Paper Bag Records)
Vivian Girls - Can't Get Over You - Everything Goes Wrong (In the Red)

Title Tracks - Every Little Bit Hurts - It was Easy (Earnest Jennings)
Braid - Please Drive Faster - Movie Music v1 (Polyvinyl)
Hefner - The Cure for Evil - We Love the City (Too Pure)

Spoon - I Saw the Light - Transference (Merge)
Fang Island - Treeton - s/t (Sargent House)
Brazos - Tell - Phosphorescent Blues (Autobus)

Joanna Newsom - Soft as Chalk - Have One on Me (Drag City)
Animal Collective - My Girls - Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
Nick Drake - Hazy Jane II - Bryter Layter (Hannibal)

M Ward - Jailbird - Hold Time (Merge)
Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore - Dear Companion - Dear Companion (Sub Pop)
Old Canes - Black Hill Chapel - Feral Harmonic (Saddle Creek)

Lucinda Williams - Lonly Girls - Essence (Lost Highway)
The Maryjanes - Vertigo - Flame (Flat Earth)
Sean Hayes - Gunnin - Run Wolves Run (Self)

Sondre Lerche - Heartbeat Radio - Heartbeat Radio (Rounder)
Adam Green - What Makes Him Act So Bad - Minor Love (Fat Possum)
The Ruby Suns - Two Humans - Fight Softly (Sub Pop)

Cast Spells - Potted Plant - Bright Works and Batons (Sargent House)
Foals - Spanish Sahara - Total Life Forever (not out yet) (Sub Pop)
Yeasayer - Madder Red - Old Blood (Secretly Canadian)

Neutral Milk Hotel - Song Against Sex - On Avery Island (Merge)

Playlist 3/1/10

William Elliott Whitmore - Hell or High Water - Animals in the Dark (Anti-)
Meg Baird - River Song - Dear Companion (Drag City)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Master's Hands - IRM (Elektra)

Raising the Fawn - Top to Bottom - The North Sea (Sonic Unyon)
Mount Eerie w/Julie Doiron & Fred Squire - What? - Lost Wisdom (PW Elverum & Suns)
Been Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore - Something, Somewhere, Sometime - Dear Companion (Sub Pop)

She & Him - This Is Not a Test - Vol. 1 (Merge)
Lonely Dear - I Was Only Going Out - Dear John (Polyvinyl)
The Magnetic Fields - We Are Having a Hootenanny - Realism (Nonesuch)

Valleys - Santiago - Sometimes Water Kills People (Semprini)
Now It's Overhead - Profile - Fall Back Open (Saddle Creek)
Spoon - Written in Reverse - Transference (Merge)

Title Tracks - Every Little Bit Hurts - It Was Easy (Ernest Jennings)
Mr. Gnome - Sit Up and Hum - Heave Yer Skeleton (El Marko)
The Happy Hollows - We Will Find You - Spells (self)

Commander Venus - We'll Always Have Paris - The Uneventful Vacation (Thick/Wind Up)
Rainer Maria - The Reason the Night Is Long - Anyone in Love with You (Already Knows) (Polyvinyl)
The Anniversary - The D in Detroit - Designing a Nervous Breakdown (Vagrant)

Promise Ring - Why Did We Ever Meet - Nothing Feels Good (Jade Tree)
Los Campesinos! - Plan A - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)
My Robot Friend - Waiting - Soft-Core (Double Feature)

Lightspeed Champion - There's Nothing Underwater - Life Is Sweet! Nice to Meet You! (Domino)
Xiu Xiu - Cumberland Gap - Dear God I Hate Myself (KRS)
Flaming Lips - Turn It On - Transmissions from the Satellite Heart (Warner)

The Album Leaf - We Are - A Chorus of Storytellers (Sub Pop)
Islands - Vapours - Vapours (Anti-)
Beauty Pill - Terrible Things - Unsustainable Lifestyle (Dischord)

Rebecca Gates - I Received a Levitation - Ruby Series (Badman)
Tindersticks - Don't Ever Get Tired - Can Our Love (Beggars Banquet)

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)