Playlist 8/29/11

LCD Soundsystem - You Wanted a Hit - This Is Happening (DFA Records)
Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks - Torches (Columbia)**
Metronomy - Corrine - The English Riviera (Because)

CSS - Let's Reggae All Night - Donkey (Sub Pop)
Yacht - Love in the Dark - Shangri-La (DFA Records)
Crystal Castles - Celestica - Crystal Castles II (Fiction)

Washed Out - Echoes - Within and Without (Sub Pop)
Tilly and the Wall - Beat Control - Beat Control 7" (Team Love)
Foals - Total Life Forever - Total Life Forever (Sub Pop)

Skybox - Morning After Cuts - Morning After Cuts (self)
Mister Heavenly - Wise Men - Out of Love (Sub Pop)
Her Space Holiday - Black Cat Balloons - s/t (No More Good Ideas)

Let's Wrestle - My Arms Don't Bend that Way, Damn It! - In the Court of Wrestling Let's (Merge)
Boat - Come with Me, We'll Win - Let's Drag Our Feet (Magic Marker)
Los Campesinos! - There Are Listed Buildings - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)

Karen Elson - The Truth Is in the Dirt - The Ghost Who Walks (XL)
The Kills - Heart Is a Beating Drum - Blood Pressures (Domino)
The Black Keys - Everlasting Light - Brothers (Nonesuch)

Wolf Parade - You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son - s/t (Expo)
Braid - Universe or Worse - Closer to Closed (Polyvinyl)
The Radio Dept. - Heaven's on Fire - Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002-2010 (Labrador)

Yellow Ostrich - Hold On - The Mistress (Barsuk)
Fink - Warm Shadow - Perfect Darkness (Ninja Tune)
Kyle Andrews - Make Me Feel Human - Robot Learn Love (Elephant Lady)

Marissa Nadler - Alabaster Queen - s/t (Box of Cedar)
Azure Ray - Nothing Like a Song - Hold on Love (Saddle Creek)
The Swell Season - Low Rising - Strict Joy (Anti-)

Two Gallants - The Prodigal Son - What the Toll Tells (Saddle Creek)

Playlist 8/22/11

M. Ward - Right in the Head - Post War (Merge)
Neko Case - People Got a Lotta Nerve - Middle Cyclone (Anti-)
Langhorne Slim - Land of Dreams - Be Set Free (Kemado)

David Dondero - The Living and the Dead - The Transient (Future Farmer)
Her Space Holiday - Come on All You Soldiers - s/t (No More Good Ideas)
Yellow Ostrich - Hold On - The Mistress (Barsuk)

Kyle Andrews - Make Me Feel Human - Robot Learn Love (Elephant Lady)
Gold Leaves - Cruel/Kind - The Ornament (Hardly Art)
Fink - Warm Shadow - Prefect Darkness (Ninja Tune)

Mister Heavenly - Reggae Pie - Out of Love (Sub Pop) **
The Fiery Furnaces - Lost at Sea - The End Is Near (Thrill Jockey)
Hello Seahorse! - Ok!...Lobster - Hoy a las Ocho (Magic Marker)

Fruit Bats - The Hobo Girl - The Ruminant Band (Sub Pop)
Belle & Sebastian - Like Dylan in the Movies - The BBC Sessions (Matador)
The Do - At Last! - A Mouthful (Get Down)

Amy Millan - I Will Follow You into the Dark - Masters of the Burial (Arts & Crafts)
Marissa Nadler - In Your Lair, Bear - s/t (Box of Cedar)
The Library - I Still Believe - The King of Silverlake (Maggadee)

PJ Harvey - The Words that Maketh Murder - Let England Shake (Vagrant)
They Might Be Giants - Celebration - Join Us (Idlewild)
Brilliant Colors - Telephone Stories - Again and Again (Slumberland)

Yuck - Stutter - s/t (Fat Possum)
The Dodos - This Is a Business - Time to Die (Frenchkiss)
Moonface - Loose Heart = Loose Plan - Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped (Jagjaguwar)

Braid - You Are the Reason - Closer to Closed (Polyvinyl)
The Promise Ring - Best Looking Boys - Boys + Girls (Jadetree)
The Strokes - Metabolism - Angles (RCA)

Bishop Allen - Dimmer - Grr... (Dead Oceans)
Parenthetical Girls - A Song for Ellie Greenwich - Entanglements (Tomlab)

Playlist 8/15/11

Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines - The Stan In's (Jagjaguwar)
I'm From Barcelona - Mingus - Who Killed Harry Houdini? (Mute)
Washed Out - Eyes Be Closed - Within and Without (Sub Pop)

Moonface - Loose Heart = Loose Plan - Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped (Jagjaguwar)
Handsome Furs - Damage - Sound Kapital (Sub Pop)
Vetiver - Wonder Why - The Errant Charm (Sub Pop)

Kickdrums - Trouble Coming Everyday - Meet Your Ghost (self)
Shimmer Kids Underpop Association - Like Candy, Like Poison - The Natural Riot (Hidden Agenda)
The Court and Spark - Berliners - Hearts (Absolutely Kosher)

Tunng - Hands - Good Arrows (Thrill Jockey)
Devendra Banhart - Cristobol - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon (XL)
Bon Iver - Calgary - s/t (Jagjaguwar)

Rosie Thomas - I Play Music - Only With Laughter Can You Win (Sub Pop)
The Magnetic Fields - Kiss Me Like You Mean It - 69 Love Songs Disc 2 (Merge)
Cat Power - Blue - Jukebox (Matador)

William Elliott Whitmore - Let's Do Something Impossible - Field Songs (Anti-)
Tim Kasher - Strays - The Game of Monogamy (Saddle Creek)
Mister Heavenly - Diddy Eyes - Out of Love (Sub Pop)

Brilliant Colors - Telephone Stories - Again and Again (Slubmerland)
Chad Valley - Shell Suite - Equitorial Ultravox (Rough Trade)
The Vaccines - Blow It Up - What Did You Expect from the Vaccines? (Columbia)

Memory Tapes - Today Is Our Life - Player Piano (Carpark)
Sons & Daughters - Split Lips - This Gift (Domino)
April Smith - Dixie Boy - Songs from a Sinking Ship (self)

Rasputina - Incident in a Medical Clinic - Oh Perilous World (Filthy Bonnet)
Dresden Dolls - My Alcoholic Friends - Yes Virigina... (Roadrunner)
The Vaselines - The Devil's Inside Me - Sex with an X (Sub Pop)

Playlist 8/8/11

of Montreal - She's a Rejector - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)
Islands - Rough Gem - Return to the Sea (Equator)
The Do - At Last ! - A Mouthful (Get Down)

The Berg Sans Nipple - Along the Quai - Along the Quai (Team Love)
Kickdrums - Trouble Coming Everyday - Meet Your Ghost (self)
Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks - Torches (Startime International)

Summer Cats - In June - Songs for Tuesdays (Slumberland)
Hands and Knees - Midnight in the Applefield - Et Tu Fluffy? (Midriff)
Mucca Pazza - Habibi - A Little Marching Band (self)

Noisettes - Don't Give Up - What's the Time Mr. Wolf (Universal)
The Kills - Getting Down - Midnight Boom (Domino)
Jarvis Cocker - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time - Jarvis Cocker Rough Trade)

The Rural Alberta Advantage - Sleep All Day - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
Taylor Hollingsworth - Like a Cave - Tragic City (Brash Music)
Bombadil - Cold Runway - Tarpits and Canyons (Ramseur)

David Bazan - Bless This Mess - Curse Your Branches (Barsuk)
The XX - Heart Skipped a Beat - XX (XL)
Devendra Banhart - Baby - What Will Be (Warner)

Orenda Fink - Sister - Ask the Night (Saddle Creek)
David Vandervelde - Nothin' No - Nothin' No EP (Secretly Canadian)
Elvis Costello - Sulphur to Sugarcane - Secret, Profane and Sugarcane (Hear Music)

Paul Dempsey - Ramona Was a Waitress - Everything Is True (Sony)
Marissa Nadler - Daisy, Where Did You Go? - s/t (Box of Cedar)
My Brightest Diamond - From the Top of the World - A Thousand Shark's Teeth (Asthmatic Kitty)

The Decemberists - Down by the Water - The King Is Dead (Capitol)
Jesca Hoop - Feast of the ?Heart - Hunting My Dress (Vanguard)
She & Him - You Really Got a Hold on Me - Volume One (Merge)

Belle & Sebastian - Wrapped Up in Books - Dear Catastrophe Waitress (Rough Trade)

Playlist 8/1/11

Stereo Total - Miau Miau - s/t (Bobsled)
Cults - Abduction - s/t (Sony)
New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream - Fantastic Playroom (Modular)

Handsome Furs - What About Us? - Sound Kapital (Sub Pop)
The Vaccines - Wolf Pack - What Do You Expect From The Vaccines? (Columbia)
Kickdrums - Perfect World - Meet Your Ghost (self)

The Black Keys - Howlin' For You - Brothers (Nonesuch)
Las Rayas Blancas (The White Stripes) - Conquista - 7" (Third Man)
Thee Oh Sees - A Wall, A Centruy 2 - Castlemania (In the Red)

Jeff the Brotherhood - Bummer - We Are the Champions (Infinity Cat)
Rainer Maria - Hell and High Water - Hell and High Water 7" (Polyvinyl)
Jenny Lewis - Carpetbaggers - Carpetbaggers 7" (Warner)

Silver Jews - Punks in the Beerlight - Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City)
Jared Mees & the Grown Children - In the Fall - Caffeine, Alcohol, Sunshine, Money (Tender Loving Empire)
Damion Suomi & the Minor Prophets - I Hope You Die Sad and Alone - Go, And Sell All of Your Things (Hopeless)

Jonathan Rice - We're All Stuck Out in the Desert - Further North (Reprise)
The Felice Brothers - The Captain's Wife - Mix Tape (New York Pro)
William Elliott Whitmore - Get There From Here - Field Songs (Anti-)

Murder By Death - In the Branches - Split w/ The Builders and the Butchers (self)
The Builders and the Butchers - Until the Morale Improves the Beatings Will Continue - Split w/Murder By Death (self)
Frank Turner - One Foot Before the Other - England Keep My Bones (Epitaph)

Paul Dempsey - Fast Friends - Everything Is True (Sony)
Jason Boesel - Burned Out and Busted - Hustler's Son (Team Love)
The Lucksmiths - Music to Hold Hands to - Why That Doesn't Surprise Me (Drive In)

The Good Life - Keely Aimee - Help Wanted Nights (Saddle Creek)
The Boy Least Likely to - I Keep Myself to Myself - The Law of the Playground (+1)
Los Campesinos! - There Are Listed Buildings - Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)

Memory Tapes - Wait in the Dark - Player Piano (Carpark)
Washed Out - Far Away - Within and Without (Sub Pop)
Bright Eyes - From a Balance Beam - There Is No Beginning to the Story (Saddle Creek)

Playlist 7/05/11

Andrew Bird - A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left - & the Mysterious Production of Eggs (Righteous Babe)
Sondre Lerche - Go Right Ahead - s/t (Yep Roc)
Patrick Wolf - Teignmouth - Wind in the Wires (Tomlab)

Maria Taylor - Time Lapse Lifeline - Lady Luck (Nettwerk)
Marissa Nadler - Mr. John Lee Revisited - s/t (Box of Cedar)
William Elliot Whitmore - Field Songs - Field Songs (Anti-)

The Library - Sheila - s/t (self)
Kimya Dawson - Singing Machine - Hidden Vagenda (K Records)
Colin Meloy - Pregnant for the Last Time - Sings Morrissey (self)

M Ward - Four Hours in Washington - Transistor Radio (Merge)
Gardens and Villa - Cruise Ship - s/t (Secretly Canadian)
Washed Out - Amor Fati - Within and Without (Sub Pop)

The Postal Service - We Will Become Silhouettes - We Will Become Sillhouettes (Sub Pop)
Stars - Reunion - Set Yourself on Fire (Arts & Crafts)
Sleater-Kinney - Little Babies - Dig Me Out (Kill Rock Stars)

BOAT - Forever in Armitron - Dress Like Your Idols (Magic Marker)
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Loyal to My Sorrowful Country - Sharkbite Sessions (iTunes)
Dodos - Black Night - No Color (Frenchkiss)

Cursive - Making Friends and Acquaintances - Domestica (Saddle Creek)
Jawbreaker - Boxcar - Live 4/30/1996 (Blackball)
Thee Oh Sees - Corrupted Coffin - Castelmania (in the Red)

Matt & Kim - Don't Slow Down - Grand (Fader)
Abe Vigoda - The Reaper - Reviver (PPM)
Ty Segall - I Can't Feel It - Goodbye Bread (Drag City)

Felice Brothers - Fire at the Pageant - Celebration, Florida (Fat Possum)
Cults - Go Outside - s/t (Columbia)
Com Truise - Cathode Girls - Galactic Melt (Dead Oceans)

Chad Valley - Shapeless - s/t EP (self)
tUnE-yArDs - Bizness - WHOKILL (4AD)

Playlist 7/18/11

The Boy Least Likely to - Monsters - The Best Party Ever (Too Young to Die)
Tennis - Take Me Somewhere - Cape Dory (Fat Possum)
Sun Airway - Waiting on You - Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier (Secretly Canadian) 11122

Cults - Go Outside - s/t (Columbia) 11398
Com Truise - Cathode Girls - Galactic Melt (Dead Oceans)
Little Dragon - Nightlight - Ritual Union (Peacefrog)

Battles - Ice Cream - Gloss Drop (Warp)
Lovers - Don't You Want It - Dark Light (Badman) 11141
Cut Copy - Where I'm Going - Zonoscope (Modular)

The Radio Dept. - Heaven's on Fire - Clinging to a Scheme (Labrador)
The Naked and Famous - Punching in a Dream - Passive Me, Aggressive You (Universal)
Sondre Lerche - Private Caller - s/t (Yep Roc)

Making Friendz - Don't Make Me Cry - Social Life (Last Bummer)
Blonde Redhead - Here Sometimes - Penny Sparkle (4AD)
Jens Lekman - Black Cab - Maple Leaves EP (Secretly Canadian)

Paul Dempsey - Ramona Was a Waitress - Everything Is True (EMI)
Death Cab For Cutie – You Are a Tourist - Codes and Keys (Atlantic)
Eric Bachmann - The Mysterious Death of Robert Tower - Short Careers (Merge)

DeVotchKa - 100 Other Lovers - 100 Lovers (Anti-)
Taylor Hollingsworth - When I Was a Boy - Life with a Slow Ear (Team Love)
William Elliott Whitmore - Let's Do Something Impossible - Field Songs (Anti-)

The Mountain Goats - Your Belgian Things - We Shall All Be Healed (4AD)
Charlemagne - Prisoner Of - Charlemagne (Winterlander)
My Morning Jacket - First Light - Circuital (ATO)

Bon Iver - Calgary - Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)
Destroyer - This Night - This Night (Merge)
Dodos - Sleep - No Color (French Kiss)