Playlist 6/19/11

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Baltimore - Real Emotional Trash (Matador)
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band - At Night - Where the Messengers Meet (Dead Oceans)
Times New Viking - No Room to Live - Dancer Equired (Merge)

The Walkmen - I Lost You - You & Me (Gigantic)
The Coathangers - Trailer Park Boneyard - Larceny & Old Lace (Suicide Squeeze)
The Black Keys - Everlasting Light - Brothers (Nonesuch)

Let's Wrestle - In Dreams Part II - Nursing Home (Merge)
Fucked Up - Turn the Season - David Comes to Life (Matador)
Art Brut - The Replacements - Art Brut vs. Satan (Downtown)

Modest Mouse - Perpetual Motion Machine - No One's First and You're Next EP (Epic)
The Shaky Hands - A New Parade - Lunglight (Kill Rock Stars)
Making Friendz - Situation - Social Life (Last Bummer)

Wolf Parade - Call It a Ritual - At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop)
Stereo Total - Andy Warhol - Baby Ouh! (Kill Rock Stars)
Islands - Creeper - Arm's Way (Anti)

LCD Soundsystem - You Wanted a Hit - This Is Happening (DFA)
Foals - Olympic Airwaves - Antidotes (Sub Pop)
The Naked and Famous - Punching in a Dream - Passive Me, Aggressive You (Universal)

Cut Copy - Lights and Music - In Ghost Colours (Modular)
Friendly Fires - Hawaiian Air - Pala (XL)
Radical Dads - New Age Dinosaur - Mega Rama (Uninhabitable Mansions)

Cults - Go Outside - s/t (Columbia)
Sondre Lerche - Private Caller - s/t (Yep Roc)
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - When I Open My Eyes - It's a Corporate World (Warner)

Jeff the Brotherhood - Bummer - We are the Champions (Infinity Cat)
Balkans - Troubled and Done - Balkans (Double Phantom)
Born Again Floozies - Dumb It Down Now - Street Music (Triple R)

Jukebox the Ghost - Carrying - Everything Under the Sun (Yep Roc)
The Like - Walk of Shame - Release Me (Downtown)
Los Campesinos! - Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats - Hold on Now, Youngster (Arst & Crafts)

The Boy Least Likely to - I Keep Myself to Myself - The Law of the Playground (+1)
Tilly and the Wall - Tall Tall Grass - O (Team Love)
Chad VanGaalen - Sara - Diaper Island (Sub Pop)

Matt Pond PA - Love to Get Used - Spring Fools (Altitude)
Death Cab for Cutie - You Are a Tourist - Codes and Keys (Atlantic)
The Antlers - Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out - Burst Apart (French Kiss)

Beach Fossils - Calyer - What a Pleasure (Captured Tracks)
Warpaint - Bees - The Fool (Rough Trade)
Wild Beasts - Reach a Bit Further - Smother (Domino)

PJ Harvey & John Parish - The Chair - A Woman A Man Walked By (Island)
The Way It Is - Fell in Love with a Carbomber - Be Still My Beating (Bull Independence)
Jenny & Johnny - Big Wave - I'm Having Fun Now (Warner)

The Extra Lens - Only Existing Footage - Undercard (Merge)
Dodos - Sleep - No Color (Frenchkiss)
Okkervil River - Your Past Life as a Blast - I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar)

My Morning Jacket - First Light - Circuital (ATO)
Neva Dinova - Apocalypse - You May Already Be Dreaming (Saddle Creek)
Thurston Moore - Circulation - Demolished Thoughts (Matador)

Jeremy Messersmith - A Girl, a Boy and a Graveyard - The Reluctant Graveyard (self)
Langhorne Slim - Diamonds and Gold - s/t (Kemado)
Justin Townes Earle - What Do You Do When You're Lonesome - The Good Life (Bloodshot)

Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Evergreen - Cardinology (Lost Highway)
Frank Turner - If Ever I Stray - England Keep My Bones (Epitaph)
Vetiver - Worse for Wear - The Errant Charm (Sub Pop)

Tim Kasher - I'm Afraid I'm Gonna Die Here - The Game of Monogamy (Saddle Creek)

Playlist 6/13/11

BOAT - Kinda Scared of Love Affairs - Dress Like Your Idols (Magic Marker)
Gruff Rhys - Sophie Softly - Hotel Shampoo (Wichita)
She & Him - Ridin' in My Car - Volume Two (Merge)

Dressy Bessy - Baby Six String - s/t (Kindercore)
Of Montreal - Slave Translator - The Controller Sphere (Polyvinyl)
Let's Wrestle - I Will Not Give in - Nursing Home (Merge)

White Stripes - My Doorbell - Get Behind Me Satan (V2)
Pulp - Bad Cover Version - We Love Life (Rough Trade)
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - Simple Girl - It's a Corporate World (Warner)

Thao & Mirah - Likable Man - Thao + Mirah (Kill Rock Stars)
Okkervil River - We Need a Myth - I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar)
Jens Lekman - Another Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill - Oh You're So Silent, Jens (Secretly Canadian)

The Tallest Man on Earth - King of Spain - The Wild Hunt (Dead Oceans)
Skybox - Plastic Cups - Morning After Cuts (self)
Times New Viking - It's a Culture - Dancer Equired (Merge)

The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots pt. 1 - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner)
Bright Eyes - Haile Selassie - The People's Key (Saddle Creek)
Tennis - Take Me Somewhere - Cape Dory (Fat Possum)

Best Coast - Bratty B - Crazy for You (Mexican Summer)
Beach Fossils - What a Pleasure - What a Pleasure EP (Captured Tracks)
Le Butcherettes - The Actress that Ate Rousseau - Sin Sin Sin (Rodriguez-Lopez Productions)

Paleo - Holly Would - Fruit of the Spirit (Partisan)
Matt & Kim - Yea Yeah - s/t (Iheartcomix)
The Wombats - Our Perfect Disease - This Modern Glitch (Bright Antenna)

Radical Dads - Recklessness - Mega Rama (Uninhabitable Mansions)
Park Ave - She's an Actress? - When Jamie Went to London, We Broke Up (Urinine)
The Decemberists - This Is Why We Fight - The King Is Dead (Captitol)

The Mountain Goats - The Anglo-Saxons - Ghana (Beads of Sweat)
Shovels and Rope - Boxcar - Daytrotter (Daytrotter)

Playlist 6/6/11

Fruit Bats - Born in the 70s - Spelled in Bones (Sub Pop)
Cass McCombs - Buried Alive - Wit's End (Domino)
Okkervil River - We Need a Myth - I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar)

Magnetic Fields - Seduced and Abandoned - Realism (Nonesuch)
The Beach Boys - Add Some Music to Your Day - Sunflower (Capitol)
Citizens Here and Abroad - Stranger - Waving, Not Drowning (Turn)

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - Simple Girl - It's a Corporate World (Warner)
Jim Guthrie - Problem with Solutions - Now, More than Ever (Three Gut)
Spoon - The Way We Get By - Kill the Moonlight (Merge)

Gruff Rhys - Sensations in the Dark - Hotel Shampoo (Wichita)
Le Butcherettes - Riko's Smooth Talking Mother - Sin Sin Sin (Rodriguez-Lopez Productions)
Let's Wrestle - If I Keep on Loving You - Nursing Home (Merge)

The Ghost - The Skin We Shed Has Stories to Tell - This Pen Is a Weapon (Some)
Alkaline Trio - If You Had a Bad Time - BYO Split Series Vol 5 w/One Man Army (BYO)
Milky Wimpshake - Dialling Tone - Lovers Not Fighters (Troubleman)

L'Spaerow - Front Step City - s/t (Lucid)
Times New Viking - It's a Culture - Dancer Equired (Merge)
Radical Dads - Alondra Rainbow Under Attack - Mega Rama (Uninhabitable Mansions)

Figurines - Lucky to Love - s/t (Control Group)
Wild Beasts - Albatross - Smother (Domino)
Friendly Fires - True Love - Pala (XL)

Of Montreal - Slave Translator - The Controller Sphere (Polyvinyl)
Mayday - Booze & Pills - Bushido Karaoke (Saddle Creek)
Murder By Death - Flamenco's Fucking Easy - Like the Exorcist But More Breakdancing (Eyeball)

Elk City - Smile - Hold Tight the Ropes (WARM)
Patsy Cline - In Care of the Blues - s/t (MCA)
Shovels and Rope - Boxcar - Daytrotter Sessions (Daytrotter)

Iron & Wine - Boy with a Coin - The Shepherd's Dog (Sub Pop)
Two Gallants - Steady Rollin - What the Toll Tells (Saddle Creek)
Howe Home - The Nashville Sound - The Listener (Thrill Jockey)

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)