Playlist 5/31/10

MGMT - Song for Dan Treacy - Congratulations (Columbia)
The National - England - High Violet (4AD)
CocoRosie - Grey Oceans - Grey Oceans (Sub Pop)

Skybox - Morning After Cuts - Morning After Cuts (self)
Gogol Bordello - My Companjera - Trans-Continental Hustle (American)
Cursive - Once - The Recluse EP (Saddle Creek)

Sleater-Kinney - One Beat - One Beat (Kill Rock Stars)
The Magnetic Fields - Two Kinds of People - 69 Love Songs (Merge)
The Boy Least Likely to - The Boy with Two Hearts - The Law of the Playground (+1)

Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Merge)
Rilo Kiley - Three Hopeful Thoughts - Execution of All Things (Saddle Creek)
Hoots and Hellmouth - Three Penny Charm - The Holy Open Secret (Mad Dragon)

Feist - 1 2 3 4 - from Sesame Street
Sun Kil Moon - Four Fingered Fisherman - Tiny Cities (Caldo Verde)
Klaxons - Four Horsemen of 2012 - Myths of the Near Future (Geffen)

Matt & Kim - 5k - s/t (iheartcomix)
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Five Year Plan - Lose All Time (Paper Bag)
Fuijaya & Miyagi - Rook to Queen's Pawn Six - Lightbulbs (Deaf Dumb and Blind)

Jens Lekman - Tram # 7 to Heaven - When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog (Secretly Canadian)
The Brunettes - Super 8 - Holding Hands Feeding Ducks (Lil Chief Records)
Los Campesinos! - My Year in Lists - Hold On Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)

Moldy Peaches - Lucky Number Nine - s/t (Rough Trade)
All Girl Summer Fun Band - Down South, 10 Hours, I-5 - 2 (K Records)
David Byrne & Fatboy Slim - Eleven Days - Here Lies Love (Nonesuch)

Black Kids - I'm Not Going to Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You - Partie Traumatic (Columba)
LCD Soundsystem - Drunk Girls - This Is Happening (DFA)
Crystal Castles - Celestica - Crystal Castles II (Fiction)

Holy F**k - Red Lights - Latin (XL)
The Futureheads - Struck Dumb - The Chaos (Dovecote)
The New Pornographers - Valkyrie In The Roller Disco - Together (Matador)

The White Stripes - Conquest - Icky Thump (Warner)

Playlist 5/24/10

Kaki King - Communist Friends - Junior (Rounder)
Aloha - Moonless March - Home Acres (Polyvinyl)
Summer Cats - Wake Up - Songs for Tuesdays (Slumberland)

The Hold Steady - Rock Problems - Heaven Is Whenever (Vagrant)
Pulp - The Night that Minnie Timperley Died - We Love Life (Rough Trade)
British Sea Power - Something Wicked - The Decline of British Sea Power (Rough Trade)

Karl Blau - Put Me Back - Dance POSITIVE (Marriage)
LCD Soundsystem - I Can Change - This Is Happening (DFA)
New Young Pony Club - Stone - The Optimist (The Numbers)

Crystal Castles - Celestica - Crystal Castles II (Fiction)
Skybox - Trout - Morning After Cuts (self)
Ryan Adams - I See Monsters - Love Is Hell (UMG)

Snowglobe - Get It On - Little More Lived In (Makeshift)
No Kids - I Love the Weekend - Come Into My House (Tomlab)
Calvin Johnson & the Sons of the Soil - Booty Run - s/t (K Records)

Liz Isenberg - People Who Die in the Desert - Seaport Seaport Seaport (self)
Nurse & Soldier - North of Baltimore - Marginalia (Jagjaguwar)
City Lights - Hwy 99 - Burned Out Bright (Banter)

The National - Terrible Love - High Violet (4AD)
CocoRosie - Grey Oceans - Grey Oceans (Sub Pop)
Black Prarie - Red Rocking Chair - Feast of the Hunter's Moon (Sugar Hill)

Elliott Smith - Miss Misery - New Moon (KRS)
Wintersleep - New Inheritors - New Inheritors (self)
The Sadies - Whispering Circles - Darker Circles (Yep Roc)

Owen - Skin and Bones - The EP (Polyvinyl)
The Pastels - Vincente's Theme - The Last Great Wilderness (Geographic)
Bright Eyes - When the Curious Girl Realizes She's Under Glass - Fevers and Mirrors (Saddle Creek)

Playlist 5/17/10

New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream - Fantastic Playroom (Modular)
Architecture in Helsinki - Heart It Races - Heart It Races EP (Polyvinyl)
Islands - Tender Torture - Vapours (Anti-)

MGMT - Song for Dan Treacy - Congratulations (Columbia)
Foals - Total Life Forever - Total Life Forever (Sub Pop)
The Kissaway Trail - New Lipstick - Sleep Mountain (Bella Union)

CocoRosie - Lemonade - Grey Oceans (Sub Pop)
Skybox - Plastic Cups - Morning After Cups (self)
Los Campesinos! - The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)

Tilly and the Wall - Fell Down the Stairs - Wild Like Children (Team Love)
The New Pornographers - Crash Years - Together (Matador)
Boy Least Likely to - A Balloon on a Broken String - The Law of the Playground (+1)

The Lucksmiths - Midweek Midmorning - Naturaliste (Drive In)
Cut Off Your Hands - Oh Girl - You & I (Frenchkiss)
BOAT - We Want IT! We Want It - Setting the Paces (Magic Marker)

Reverie Sound Revue - You Don't Exist if I Don't See You - s/t (Boompa)
We All Have Hooks for Hands - Be Love, Be Wild - The Shape of Energy (Afternoon)
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Don't Haunt this Place - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)

She & Him - Lingering Still - Volume Two (Merge)
Jason Boesel - French Kissing - Hustler's Son (Team Love)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy & the Cairo Gang - The Sounds Are Always Begging - The Wonder Show of the World (Drag City)

Johnny Cash - Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream - American VI: Ain't No Grave (Columbia)
Old 97's - You Belong to My Heart - Wreck Your Life (Bloodshot)
The Whispertown 2000 - From the Start/Jamboree - Swim (Acony)

The Builders and the Butchers - Ten Miles Wide - s/t (Bladen County)
Jared Mees & the Grown Children - In the Fall - Caffeine, Alcohol, Sunshine and Money (Tender Loving Empire)
Murder by Death - On the Dark Streets Below - Good Morning, Magpie (Vagrant)

Jeremy Messersmith - Organ Donor - The Reluctant Graveyard (self)
Mikey De Lara - Unstoppable - Songs for Lulu (Big Sky)

Playlist 5/10/10

Okkervil River - For Real - For Real EP (Jagjaguwar)
Murder by Death - King of the Gutters, Prince of the Dogs - Goodmorning, Magpie (Vagrant)
The Swell Season - Feeling the Pull - Strict Joy (Anti-)

Valentiger - Under the Gun - Power Lines to Electric Times (self)
Kaki King - Falling Day - Junior (Rounder)
The Whitsundays - How Long Will You Go On? - Saul (Friendly Fire)

Oakley Hall - Living in Sin in the USA - Gypsum Strings (Brah)
Molina & Johnson - Twenty Cycles to the Ground - s/t (Secretly Canadian)
Shelly Short - Like Anything, It's Short - Captain Wildhorse (Hush)

Rotary Downs - Wild Pink in Super 8 - Cracked Maps & Blue Reports (Rookery)
Jeremy Messersmith - Organ Donor - The Reluctant Graveyard (self)
The Melody Unit - Clergy on Fire - Songs for the New American Century (self)

Systems Officer - East - Underslept (Temporary Residence)
Now, Now Every Children - Not One, But Two - Cars (Afternoon)
The Hold Steady - The Weekenders - Heaven Is Whenever (Vagrant)

The Literary Greats - Ruby Sapphire - Ocean, Meet the Valley (self)
Eagle and Talon - Kidnapped in the Yukon - EP (self)
Linfinity - Molly Mar of Rome - Martian's Bloom (American Myth)

Julie Peel - Sister - Near the Sun (American Laundromat)
The Decemberists - Yankee Bayonet - Crane Wife (Capitol)
Levi Fuller - The Mall of America - Colossal (BMI)

Elliott Smith - Kiwi Maddog 20/20 - Roman Candle (KRS)
King Creosote - Grace - Dream Brother: the Songs of Tim & Jeff Buckley (Ryko)
Harlem - Friendly Ghost - Hippies (Matador)

Let's Wrestle - My Arms Don't Bend that Way, Damn It! - In the Court of the Wrestling Let's (Merge)
Codeine Velvet Club - The Black Roses - s/t (Dangerbird)

The Boy Least Likely to - Monsters - The Best Party Ever (Too Young to Die)

Playlist 5/3/10

M. Ward - Radio Campaign - Transistor Radio (Merge)
William Elliott Whitmore - When Push Comes to Love - Ashes to Dust (Southern)
Two Gallants - The Prodigal Son - What the Toll Tells (Saddle Creek)

Johnny Cash - Redemption Day - American VI: Ain't No Grave (American)
Rilo Kilo - The Absence of God - More Adventurous (Brute/Beaute)
Harlan T. Bobo - Oh Boy - Sucker (Goner)

The Mattoid - Tinkli Vinkli - Eternifinty (Cleft)
Martha Wainwright - When the Day Is Short - Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole (Zoe)
La Strada - Baptism - New Home (Ernest Jennings Recording Co.)

The Russian Futurists - Still Life - Our Thickness (Upper Class)
The Whitsundays - You Fell for It - Saul (Friendly Fire)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Heaven Can Wait - IRM (Elektra)

Rotary Downs - Montrez-Vous - Cracked Maps & Blue Reports (Rookery Records)
Eels - Going Fetal - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations (Vagrant)
The Unicorns - Emasculate the Masculine - 2014 EP (Suicide Squeeze)

I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - I Want to Die in the Hot Summer - s/t (Emperor Jones)
Headphones - Pink and Brown - s/t (Suicide Squeeze)
Heavenly - C Is the Heavenly Option - Le Jardin de Heavenly (K Records)

Los Campesinos! - A Heat Rash In The Shape Of The Show Me State; Or, Letters From Me To Charlotte - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)
Bearsuit - Rodent Disco - Cat Spectacular! (Microindie)
Atom & His Package - Punk Rock Academy - A Society of People Named Elihu (Various)

Pinhead Gunpowder - Life During Wartime - Then Is the New Now (Lookout)
The Queers - Punk Rock Girls - Then Is the New Now (Lookout)
Tegan and Sara - Where Does the Good Go - So Jealous (Sanctuary)

Kaki King - Communist Friends - Junior (Rounder)
The Lodger - Time to Wait - Flashbacks (Slumberland)
Bettie Serveert - Hands Off - Attagirl (Minty Fresh)

The Wedding Present - Always the Quiet One - Take Fountain (Manifesto)
Inlets - Canteen - Inter Arbiter (Twosyllable)
She & Him - Thieves - Volume Two (Merge)

The Multiple Cat - Love Leave - The Golden Apple Hits (Plow City)
David Byrne & Fatboy Slim - Don't You Agree? - Here Lies Love (Nonesuch)

Playlist 4/26/10

Mineral – LoveLetterTypewriter - End Serenading (Krank!)
The Secret Stars – (whisper: eye) – s/t (Shrimper)
Quadron – Day – s/t (Plug Research)

Bric-a-Brac – You Deserve – 16 Luxury Units (Tchotchke)
She & Him - Gonna Get Along Without You Now - Volume Two (Merge)
Town & Country - Bookmobile - C'mon (Thrill Jockey)

Stephen Merritt - Poppyland - Soundtrack to Eban & Charley (Merge)
Storm and Stress - Micah Gaugh Sings All Is All - s/t (Touch & Go)
June of 44 - Does Your Heart Beat Slower - Four Great Points (Quarterstick)

Titus Andronicus - No Future Part Three: Escape from No Future - The Monitor (XL)
PJ Harvey - A Perfect Day for Elise - Is this Desire? (Island)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & the Cairo Gang - That's What Our Love Is - The Wonder Show of the World (Drag City)

Elliott Smith - Last Call - Roman Candle (Kill Rock Stars)
Azure Ray - November - November EP (Saddle Creek)
Sarah Shannon - Heaven Got Wider - s/t (Casa)

The Halo Benders - Lonesome Sundown - The Rebels Not In (K)
Black Prarie - A Prarie Mussette - Feast of the Hunters' Moon (Sugar Hill)
The Lesser Birds of Paradise - Boy (Song for K) - Isn't the Fall (Loose Thread)

Mirah - Mt. St. Helens - Advisory Committee (K)
Sparkel*Jets UK - Sorry - Bamboo Lounge (Smile/Crab Apple)
MGMT - Congratulations - Congratulations (Columbia)

Of Montreal - Nonpareil of Favor - Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl)
New Young Pony Club - Rapture - The Optimist (The Numbers)
A Block of Yellow - Are You Sure? - Do I Do (Around Sounds)

Harlem - Friendly Ghost - Hippies (Matador)
The Apples in Stereo - Told You Once - Travelers in Space and Time (Yep Roc)
The National Splits - The Audio Account - s/t (Kittridge)

The Grates - Feels Like Pain - Gravity Won't Get You High (Interscope)

Playlist 4/19/10

You Say Party! We Say Die! - Laura Palmer's Prom - XXXX (Paper Bag)
The XX - VCR - XX (XL)
Los Campesinos! - The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)

Frightened Rabbit - Nothing Like You - The Winter of Mixed Drinks (Fatcat)
Dum Dum Girls - Everybody's Out - I Will Be (Hozac)
Tacks, the Boy Disaster - Paris - Oh, Beatrice (self)

La Strada - Baptism - New Home (Ernest Jennings)
Broken Records - If Eilert Loevborg Wrote a Song, It Would Sound Like this - Until the Earth Begins to Part (4AD)
Devotchka - Sunrise on Cicero - Super Melodrama (Dago)

The Builders and the Butchers - Black Dresses - s/t (Bladden County)
Drakkar Sauna - Hello My Love Has Faded - Drakkansasauna (Marriage)
Ben Gibbard - Complicated (cover) - Various Live Tracks (self)

The Apples in Stereo - Dance Floor - Travelers in Time and Space (Yep Roc)
Future Island - Inch of Dust - In the Evening Air (Thrill Jockey)
The Animal Upstairs - Fail and Fall - Is Anybody Upstairs? (self)

Reverie Sound Revue - You Don't Exist If I Don't See You - s/t (Boompa)
Love Is All - Less than Thrilled - Two Thousand and Ten Injuries (Polyvinyl)
Anagram - Everything I Have - The Lights Went Up (Scenery)

MGMT - I Found a Whistle - Congratulations (Columbia)
Summer Cats - In June - Songs for Tuesdays (Slumberland)
Cut Off Your Hands - It Doesn't Matter - You & I (French Kiss)

Opal - Empty Box Blues - Early Records (Rough Trade)
Let's Wrestle - In Dreams - In the Court of the Wrestling Let's (Merge)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Troublesome Houses - The Wonder Show of the Year (Drag City)

Adam Stephens - Lead in Our Lungs - myspace (self)
Justin Townes Earle - Who Am I to Say - The Good Life (Bloodshot)
She & Him - Lingering Still - Volume Two (Merge)

Jason Boesel - French Kissing - Hustler's Son (Team Love)
Old 97's - You Belong to My Heart - Wreck Your Life (Bloodshot)
Jonsi - Go Do - Go (XL)

CocoRosie - Lemonade - Lemonade 7" (Sub Pop)