Playlist 5/30/11

Robyn - Dancing on My Own - Body Talk pt. 1 (Interscope)
Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Girl of 1,000 Dreams - Belong (Slumberland)
Art Brut - Direct Hit - It's Complicated (Downtown)

Times New Viking - Downtown Eastern Bloc - Dancer Equired (Merge)
The White Stripes - Conquest - Icky Thump (Warner Bros.)
The Kills - Heart Is a Beating Drum - Blood Pressures (Domino)

Poly Styrene - I Luv Ur Sneakers - Generation Indigo (Future Noise Music)
Street Chant - You Do the Maths - Means (Arch Hill Records)
Los Campesinos! - Don't Tell Me to Do the Math(s) - Sticking Fingers into Sockets (Arts & Crafts)

I'm From Barcelona - Charlie Parker - Forever Today (Mute)
Mirah - Oh September - Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project (K)
Rural Alberta Advantage - The Breakup - Departing (Saddle Creek)

Talulah Gosh - Bringing Up Baby - Backwash (K)
Coupleskate - Bless the Bees - Don't Scare the Horses (self)
Lindi Ortega - I'm No Elvis Presley - Little Red Boots (Last Gang)

Justin Townes Earle - Hard Livin' - The Good Life (Bloodshot)
Neko Case - Loretta - The Tigers Have Spoken (Anti)
Johnny Cash - Ain't No Grave - American VI: Ain't No Grave (American)

Thao & Mirah - Folks - Thao + Mirah (Kill Rock Stars)
Charlotte Gainsburg - Tel Que Tu Est - 5:55 (Vice)
Okkervil River - Your Past Life as a Blast - I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar)

Gruff Rhys - Sensations in the Dark - Hotel Shampoo (Wichita)
Jens Lekman - Postcard to Nina - Night Falls Over Kortedala (Secretly Canadian)
Pulp - Disco 2000 - Different Class (Island)

Hunx and His Punx - Keep Away from Johnny - Too Young to Be in Love (Hardly Art)
The Wombats - Tokyo (Vampires and Wolves) - The Modern Glitch (Bright Antenna)
Los Campesions! - Romance Is Boring - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)

Hello Seahorse! - The Island Trip - Hoy a las Ocho (Magic Marker)

Playlist 5/23/11

Rilo Kiley - Wires and Waves - Take Offs and Landings (Barsuk)
Okkervil River - Rider - I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar)
The Decemberists - Los Angeles, I'm Yours - Her Majesty the Decemberists (Kill Rock Stars)

I'm From Barcelona - Charlie Parker - Forever Today (Mute)
The Lucksmiths - Myopic Friends - Where Were We? (Matinee)
Gruff Rhys - Conservation Conversation - Hotel Shampoo (Wichita)

The Prefect Vessels - To All These Big Brothers - Name Our Own Stars (Makeshift)
The Wombats - Our Perfect Disease - The Modern Glitch (Bright Antenna)
Let's Wrestle - We Are the Men You'll Grow to Love soon - In the Court of Wrestling Let's (Merge)

The Hells - He's the Devil (but I love him so) - s/t (Artrocker)
Poly Styrene - White Gold - Generation Indigo (Future Noise)
She & Him - Gonna Get Along Without You Now - Volume Two (Merge)

The Good Life - Album of the Year - Album of the Year acoustic (Saddle Creek)
Cat Power - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Covers Record (Matador)
Iron & Wine - The Sea & the Rhythm - The Sea & the Rhythm (Sub Pop)

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Death to Everyone - I See a Darkness (Palace)
Thao & Mirah - Likeable Man - Thao + Mirah (Kill Rock Stars)
The Sandwitches - Heavy Times - Mrs. Jones Cookies (Turn Up)

Mary Lou Lord - His Indie World - Mary Lou Lord EP (Kill Rock Stars)
Fleet Foxes - Bedouin Dress - Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop)
Chad VanGaalen - Sara - Diaper Island (Sub Pop)

Panda Bear - You Can Count on Me - Tomboy (Paw Tracks)
We Were Promised Jet Packs - This Is My House, This Is My Home - These Four Walls (Fatcat)
Bright Eyes - The Center of the World - Fevers & Mirrors (Saddle Creek)

Kristin Hersh - Sno Cat - The Grotto (4AD)
Dodos - Sleep - No Color (Frenchkiss)
Capgun Coup - My Tears Cure Cancer - Brought to You by Nebraska Fish (Team Love)

The Do - At Last! - A Mouthful (Get Down)

Playlist 5/16/11

Okkervil River - Your Past Life as a Blast - I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar)
Jens Lekman - I Saw Her at the Anti War Demonstration - Oh You're So Silent, Jens (Secretly Canadian)
Gruff Rhys - If We Were Words (we would rhyme) - Hotel Shampoo (Wichita)

Thao & Mirah - Likable Man - Thao + Mirah (Kill Rock Stars)
The Prefect Vessels - Shade Tree Astronomy - Name Our Own Stars (Makeshift)
Belle & Sebastian - Sukie in the Graveyard - The Life Pursuit (Matador)

Let's Get Out of This Terrible Sandwich Shop - Chattanooga Kookoo - Listening (Roydale)
I'm From Barcelona - Always Spring - Forever Today (Mute)
Saturday Looks Good to Me - Money in the Afterlife - Fill Up the Room (K Records)

The Magnetic Fields - California Girls - Distortion (Nonesuch)
The Wombats - Tokyo (Vampires and Wolves) - This Modern Glitch (Warner)
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Laura Palmer's Prom - XXXX (Paper Bag)

The Ettes - Blood Red Blood - Do You Want Power (Take Root)
Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)
The Kills - DNA - Blood Pressures (Domino)

Of Montreal - Slave Translator - The Controller Sphere (Polyvinyl)
Sia - The Fight - We Are Born (Jive)
CSS - Rat Is Dead (Rage) - Donkey (Sub Pop)

LCD Soundsystem - Time to Get Away - Sound of Silver (DFA)
Lindi Ortega - All My Friends - Little Red Boots (Last Gang)
Mazes - Surf and Turf - A Thousand Heys (Fat Cat)

Kaki King - I Never Said I Love You - ...Until We Felt Red (Velour)
Girls in Trouble - Hunter/The Bee Lays Her Honey - s/t (JDub)
Karen Dalton - In the Evening - It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You Best (Koch)

Panda Bear - You Can Count on Me - Tomboy (Paw Tracks)
Dodos - Sleep - No Color (Frenchkiss)
Matt Sharp - All Those Dreams - s/t (In Music We Trust)

The Montgolfier Brothers - Koffee Pot Brass - Journey's End (Vespertine & Son)

Playlist 5/9/11

Boat - Last Cans of Paint - Songs that You May Not Like (Magic Marker)
The Windmills - Pounds, Shillings and Pence - Sunlight (Matinee)
Hands and Knees - Do You Really Need a Drummer? - Et Tu Fluffy? (Midriff)

Gruff Rhys - Christopher Columbus - Hotel Shampoo (Wichita)
Hunx and His Punx - Can We Get Together? - Too Young to Be in Love (Hardly Art)
The Happy Hollows - Lieutenant - Spells (self)

Mazes - Wait Anyway - A Thousand Heys (Fat Cat)
Thao and Mirah - Rubies and Rocks - Thao + Mirah
God Help the Girl - Come Monday Night - s/t (Matador)

Heavenly - Me and My Madness - The Decline and Fall of Heavenly (K)
Cub - Freaky - Box of Hair (Lookout!)
The Hissyfits - Baby - Letters from Frank (Top Quality Rock and Roll)

Black Keys - Everlasting Light - Brother (Nonesuch)
The Kills - Heart Is a Beating Drum - Blood Pressures (Domino)
The Strokes - Under Cover of Darkness - Angles (RCA)

The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Ballad of the RAA - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
The Felice Brothers - Fire at the Pageant - Celebration, Florida (Fat Possum)
The Builders and the Butchers - Vampire Lake - Salvation Is a Deep Dark Well (Gigantic)

Lindi Ortega - I'm No Elvis Presley - Little Red Boots (Last Gang)
Karen Elson - The Truth Is in the Dirt - The Ghost Who Walks (XL)
O'death - Black Dress - Outside (Ernest Jennings)

Movits! - Vad Dom An Sager - Sammy Davis Jr. (Comedy Central)
Cass McCombs - Buried Alive - Wit's End (Domino)
Monsters of Folk - Say Please - s/t (Shangri-La)

Mountain Goats - Birth of Serpents - All Eternals Deck (Merge)
Tim Williams - Murderous Air - Careful Love (Dovecote)
Okkervil River - Lay of the Last Survivor - I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar)

David Bazan - Curse Your Branches - Curse Your Branches (Barsuk)
Grizzly Bear - Cheerleader - Veckatimest (Warp)
Bob Nanna - Forgiveness - split w/Elizabeth Elmore (Troubleman Unlimited)

Playlist 5/2/11

Rural Alberta Advantage - The Breakup - Departing (Saddle Creek)
Matt & Kim - Dash After Dash - s/t (iheartcomix)
Gruff Rhys - Sensations in the Dark - Hotel Shampoo (Wichita)*

Ponytail - Honey Touches - Do Whatever You Want All of the Time (We Are Free)**
BOAT - Forver in Armitron - Dress Like Your Idols (Magic Marker)**
Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You - 13 Tales from Urban Bohemia (Captiol)

Vivian Girls - 16 Ways - Share the Joy (Polyvinyl)*
Smith Westerns - Weekend - Dye It Blonde (Fat Possum)
Beach Fossils - Distance - What a Pleasure (Captured Tracks)*

I'm from Barcelona - Charlie Parker - Forever Today (Mute)*
We Landed on the Moon - Boats - This Will Be One for the Books (self)
The Mountain Goats - The House that Dripped Blood - Tallahassee (4AD)

Neko Case - Deep Red Bells - Blacklisted (Bloodshot)
Felice Brothers - Love Me Tenderly - s/t (Team Love)
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Sink Ships - Cardinology (Lost Highway)

David Vandervelde - Old Turns - Waiting for the Sunrise (Secretly Canadian)
Tennis - Take Me Somewhere - Cape Dory (Fat Possum)
Rilo Kiley - With Arms Outstretched - The Execution of All Things (Saddle Creek)

Warpaint - Undertow - The Fool (Rough Trade)
The Whitsundays - Silent in the Wind - Saul (Friendly Fire)
Mason Proper - Out Dragging the River - Olly Oxen Free (Dovecote)

The Disappearing Act - It's Not Me Anymore - s/t (Tortilla)**
The Head and the Heart - Couer d'Alene - s/t (Sub Pop)**
Low - Try to Sleep - C'Mon (Sub Pop)*

O'Death - Ghost Head - Outside (Earnest Jennings)*
Jonny - Wich is Wich - s/t (Merge)*
Hunx and His Punx - Lovers Lane - Too Young to Be in Love (Hardly Art)*

Stereo Total - Du Bist Gut Zu Vogeln - Baby Ouh! (Kill Rock Stars)
Of Montreal - Like a Tourist - False Priest (Polyvinyl)

Playlist 4/25/11

Mt. St. Helen's Vietnam Band - Anchors Dropped - s/t (Dead Oceans)
Bishop Allen - Dimmer - Grrr... (Dead Oceans)
Surf City - Headin' Inside - Surf City (Morr)

The Shaky Hands - We Are Young - Lunglight (Kill Rock Stars)
The Rikters - L.L.H.D. - Mistaken for Scientists (self)
BOAT - Landlocked - Dress Like Your Idols (Magic Marker)

Hotels - Trouble at the Consulate - On the Casino Floor (Hidden Shoal)
Belle & Sebastian - The Blues Are Still Blue - The Life Pursuit (Matador)
I'm From Barcelona - Come On - Forever Today (Mute)

Hunx and His Punx - Tonite Tonite - Too Young to Be in Love (Hardly Art)
The Strokes - Under Cover of Darkness - Angles (RCA)
Figurines - The Wonder - Skeleton (The Control Group)

The Boy Least Likely to - Monsters - The Best Party Ever (Too Young to Die)
The Weather Machines - The Latest in Company Brides - The Sound of Pseudo Science (Tigers Against Crime)
The Ravonettes - Recharge and Revolt - Raven in the Grave (Vice)

The Decks - What You Said - Breath and Bone (Tortoise)
Hefner - The Hymn for the Alcohol - The Fidelity Wars (Beggars)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Beware Your Only Friend - Beware (Drag City)

The Wood Brothers - Glad - Ways Not to Lose (Blue Note)
J. Mascis - Very Nervous and Love - Several Shades of Why (Sub Pop)
Tim Burgess - We All Need Love - I Believe (Koch)

The Mountain Goats - Beautiful Gas Mask - All Eternals Deck (Merge)
Agnes Obel - Beast - Philharmonics (PIAS Recordings)
Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti-)

The Head and the Heart - Lost in My Mind - The Head and the Heart (Sub Pop)
The Two Gallants - 16th Street Dozens - What the Toll Tells (Saddle Creek)
Kurt Vile - Jesus Fever - Smoke Ring for My Halo (Matador)

Maritime - People of London - Human Hearts (Dangerbird)
Bon Iver - Skinny Love - For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)
Beach Fossils - Calyer - What a Pleasure (Captured Tracks)

Vivian Girls - Sixteen Ways - Share the Joy (Polyvinyl)
The Naked Hearts - No One Nothing - These Knees (self)
Bibio - Light Sleep - Mind Broken (Warp)

Peter Bjorn & John - Second Chance - Gimme Some (Star Time)
Islands - Humans - Return to the Sea (Equator)
Lily Allen - Chinese - It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol)

Ladyhawke - Paris Is Burning - s/t (Modular)
Lykke Li - Get Some - Wounded Rhymes (Atlantic)
The Kills - Damned If She Do - Blood Pressures (Domino)

The Promise Ring - Living Around - Very Emergency (Jade Tree)
The Get Up Kids - Red Letter Day - Red Letter Day EP (Doghouse)
Alkaline Trio - You've Got So Far to Go - Maybe I'll Catch Fire (Asian Man)

Edith Piaf - Autumn Leaves - 30th Anniversary (EMI)
Conor Oberst - Milk Thistle - s/t (Merge)
Joan as Police Woman - Forever and a Year - The Deep Field (Play It Again Sam)

Sin Fang - Fall Down Slow - Summer Echoes (Morr)
M. Ward - Rave On - Hold Time (Merge)
Dodos - Don't Try and Hide It - No Color (French Kiss)

The Feelies - Nobody Knows - Here Before (Bar/None)
Kimya Dawson - Tire Swing - Remember that I Love You (K Records)
O'death - Black Dress - Outside (Earnest Jennings)

Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins - Happy - Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)
Okkervil River - Starry Stairs - The Stand In's (Jagjaguwar)
Low - You See Everything - C'Mon (Sub Pop)

CocoRosie - Grey Oceans - Grey Oceans (Sub Pop)
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Merge)
The Decemberists - Down by the Water - The King Is Dead (Capitol)

Playlist 4/18/11

Bright Eyes - Well Whiskey - Lua (Saddle Creek)
Jenny & Johnny - Big Wave - I'm Having Fun Now (Warner)
O'death - Black Dress - Outside (Ernest Jennings)

The Builders & the Butchers - It Came from the Sea - Dead Reckoning (Badman Recording)
William Elliot Whitmore - From the Cell Door to the Gallows - Hymns for the Hopeless (Southern)
The Head and the Heart - Couer d'Alene - s/t (Sub Pop)

Low - Especially Me - C'mon - (Sub Pop)
Joan as Police Woman - Kiss the Specifics - The Deep End (Play It Again Sam)
Iron & Wine - The Night Descending - The Sea * the Rhythm (Sub Pop)

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Straight to You - Henry's Dream (Mute)
Azure Ray - Across the Ocean - Hold on Love (Saddle Creek)
Vivian Girls - I Heard You Say - Share the Joy (Polyvinyl)

Beach Fossils - Distance - What a Pleasure (Captured Tracks)
Mates of State - Ha Ha - Team Boo (Polyvinyl)
The Brunettes - Brunettes Against Bubblegum Youth - Structure and Cosmetics (Sub Pop)

I'm From Barcelona - Get in Line - Forever Today (Mute)
Le Tigre - Viz This Island (Universal)
New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream - Fantastic Playroom (Modular)

You Say Party! We Say Die! - Opportunity - Lose All Time (Paper Bag)
Sia - Clap Your Hands - We Are Born (Jive)
Hunx and his Punx - Keep Away from Johnny - Too Young to Be in Love (Hardly Art)

Brave Irene - Campfire - s/t (Slumberland)
BOAT - King Kong - Dress Like Your Idols (Magic Marker)
Lykke Li - Get Some - Wounded Rhymes (Atlantic)

The Kills - Heart Is a Beating Drum - Blood Pressures (Domino)
Cursive - Donkeys - Mama, I'm Swollen (Saddle Creek)
Jawbreaker - Into You Like a Train - Etc. (Blackball)

Against Me! - Don't Lose Touch - Searching for a Former Clarity (Fat Wreck)
The National - Available - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers (Brassland)