Playlist 3/26/12

The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Deadroads - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications - Further Complications (Rough Trade)
Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness - Hello Sadness (Wichita)

Cursive - The Sun and Moon - I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek)
Sleater-Kinney - I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone - Call the Doctor (Chainsaw)
The Black Keys - Sister - El Camino (Nonesuch)

The Evens - Around the Corner - s/t (Dischord)
The Builders and the Butchers - Vampire Lake - Salvation Is a Deep Dark Well (Gigantic)
Dead Man's Bones - Pa Pa Power - s/t (Anti)

The Felice Brothers - Fire at the Pageant - Celebration Florida (Fat Possum)
Beth Jeans Houghton and the Hooves of Destiny - Atlas - Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose (Mute)
Good Field - Something's Different - s/t (self)

Neva Dinova - Yellow Datsun - The Hate Yourself Change (Sideecho)
Colin Meloy - Dracula's Daughter & Wonder - Sings Live! (Jealous Butcher)
David Bazan - Please, Baby, Please - Curse Your Branches (Pirate)

Andrew Bird - Polynation - Break It Yourself (Mom + Pop)
Bowerbirds - In the Yard - The Clearing (Dead Oceans)
Petra Hayden - Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand - Sings the Who Sell Out (Bar None)

Tennis - My Better Self - Young & Old (Fat Possum)
Chairlift - Sidewalk Safari - Something (Kanine)
Islands - Never Go Solo - A Sleep and A Forgetting (Anti)

The Magnetic Fields - Andrew in Drag - Love at the Bottom of the Sea (Merge)
Frankie Rose - Night Swim - Interstellar (Slumberland)
The Postal Service - We Will Become Silhouettes - We Will Become Silhouettes (Sub Pop)

Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead - Set Yourself on Fire (Arts & Crafts)
Rilo Kiley - Love and War (11/11/46) - More Adventurous (Brute Beaute)
Boat - We Want It We Want It - Setting the Paces (Magic Marker)

M Ward - Hi Fi - Transistor Radio (Merge)

Playlist 3/19/12

Los Campesinos! - Knee Deep at ATP - Hold On Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
Georgie James - Look Me Up - Places (Saddle Creek)
Flight of the Conchords - Business Time - s/t (Sub Pop)

Of Montreal - Malefic Dowry - Paralytic Stalks (Polyvinyl)
Foals - Balloons - Antidotes (Sub Pop)
Islands - Hallways - A Sleep and A Forgetting (Anti)

The Black Keys - Money Maker - El Camino (Nonesuch)
The Warmers - Wanted: More - Wanted: More (Dischord)
Dirty Ghosts - Ropes That Way - Metal moon (Last Gang)

Pontiak - The North Coast - Echo Ono (Thrill Jockey)
Jens Lekman - The Opposite of Hallelujah - Night Falls Over Kortedala (Secretly Canadian)
Let's Get Out of This Terrible Sandwich Shop - Chattanooga Kookoo - Listening (Roydale)

Belle & Sebastian - Wrapped Up in Books - Books (Rough Trade)
Kelly Stoltz - The Birmgingham Eccentric - Circular Sounds (Sub Pop)
Andrew Bird - Give It Away - Break It Yourself (Mom & Pop)

DeVotchKa - Blessing in Disguise - A Mad & Faithful Telling (Anti)
Bright Eyes - Approximate Sunlight - The People's Key (Saddle Creek)
She & Him - You Really Got a Hold on Me - Volume One (Merge)

Bowerbirds - In the Yard - The Clearing (Dead Oceans)
Chairlift - Ghost Tonight - Something (Kanine)
Tennis - Robin - Young & Old (Fat Possum)

The Decemberists - The Soldiering Life - Her Majesty... (Kill Rock Stars)
Grand Archives - Sleepdriving - s/t (Sub Pop)
Frightened Rabbit - Fast Blood - The Midnight Organ Fight (Fat Cat)

Perfume Genius - Take Me Home - Put Your Back N 2 It (Matador)
Wilco - The Late Greats - A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)
Langhorne Slim - Tipping Point - & the War Eagles (Kemado)

Justin Townes Earle - The Good Life - The Good Life (Bloodshot)
Scout Niblett - No-ones Wrong - I Am (Secretly Canadian)
David Byrne - Body in a River - Lead Us Not into Temptation (Thrill Jockey)

The Magnetic Fields - Andrew in Drag - Love at the Bottom of the Sea (Merge)
Y La Bamba - Court the Storm - Court the Storm (Tender Loving Empire)

Playlist 3/12/12

Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe - The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)
Jens Lekman - Waiting for Kirsten - An Argument with Myself (Secretly Canadian)
Tennis - Origins - Young & Old (Fat Possum)

The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Really Love You Anymore - I (Nonesuch)
Mister Heavenly - Reggae Pie - Out of Love (Sub Pop)
Bowerbirds - Brave World - The Clearing (Dead Oceans)

The Good Life - Always a Bridesmaid - Lovers Need Lawyers (Saddle Creek)
Boat - I Really, Really Think You Should Rethink Your Life - Let's Drag Our Feet (Magic Marker)
Islands - Never Go Solo - A Sleep & A Forgetting (Anti)

Chairlift - I Belong in Your Arms - Something (Kanine)
Howler - This One's Different - America Give Up (Rough Trade)
Rival Sons - All Over the Road - Pressure & Time (Earache Records)

Wild Flag - Glass Tambourine - s/t (Merge)
The White Stripes - 300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues - Icky Thump (Warner)
sports - Side Effect of Talk - s/t (self)

The Black Keys - Sister - El Camino (Nonesuch)
Times New Viking - Ever Falling in Love - Dancer Equired (Merge)
Dum Dum Girls - Just a Creep - Only in Dreams (Sub Pop)

Let's Wrestle - If I Keep on Loving You - Nursing Home (Merge)
Cursive - Eulogy for No Name - I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek)
Taylor Hollingsworth - I Didn't Know It Was the Devil - Life with a Slow Ear (Team Love)

Big Harp - Nadine - White Hat (Saddle Creek)
Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, Yim Yames - VD City - New Multitude (Rounder)
First Aid Kit - Emmylou - The Lion's Roar (Witchita)

William Elliott Whitmore - Let's Do Something Impossible - Field Songs (Anti)
Shovels and Rope - Boxcar - Daytrotter (Daytrotter)
Ryan Adams - This House Is Not for Sale - Love Is Hell (UMG)

Iron and Wine - Kingdom of the Animals - Boy with a Coin EP (Sub Pop)
Cate Le Bon - The Man I Wanted - Cyrk (The Control Group)
Good Field - Our Roofless Home - s/t (self)

Playlist 3/5/12

Les Savy Fav - Yawn, Yawn, Yawn - Inches (French Kiss)
The Like - He's Not a Boy - Release Me (Downtown)
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy - El Camino (Nonesuch)

The Dodos - Black Night - No Color (French Kiss)
Tegan and Sara - I Know I Know I Know I Know - So Jealous (Sanctuary)
Chairlift - Guilty as Charged - Something (Kanine)

Ex Norwegian - Sky Diving - Sketch (Dying Van Gogh)
Nihiti - Golden Pavilion - Faced with Splendor (Lo Bit Landscapes)
Tennis - Take Me to Heaven - Young & Old (Fat Possum)

Jarvis Cocker & Richard Hawley - The Cheat - Total Lee! (Astralwerks)
Rilo Kiley - The Absence of God - More Adventurous (Brute Beaute)
The Magnetic Fields - The Queen of the Savages - 69 Love Songs (Merge)

Bowerbirds - In the Yard - The Clearing (Dead Oceans)
John Vanderslice - Sea Salt - White Wilderness (Dead Oceans)
These United States - The Great Rivers - What Lasts (United Interests)

Damien Jurado - Reel to Reel - Maraqopa (Secretly Canadian)
O'death - Ghost Head - Outside (Ernest Jennings)
Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, Yim Yames - Talking Empty Bed Blues - New Multitudes (Rounder)

First Aid Kit - King of the World - The Lion's Roar (Wichita)
The Decemberists - Down by the Water - The King Is Dead (Captiol)
Murder by Death - A Masters in Reverse Psychology - Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them (Eyeball)

Twilight Singers - Martin Eden - Blackberry Belle (Birdman)
Dark Dark Dark - Daydreaming - Wild Go (Supply & Demand)
Sharon Van Etten - Serpents - Tramp (Jagjaguwar)

Jenny & Johnny - Big Wave - I'm Having Fun Now (Warner)
Jon Langford & Skull Orchard - 1234Ever - Old Devils (Bloodshot)
Swans - My Birth - My Father Will Guide Me Up Rope to the Sky (Young God)

Cate Le Bon - Fold the Cloth - Cyrk (The Control Group)
Pilots at Sea - Stars - Pilots at Sea EP (Double Six)

Playlist 2/27/12

The Dead Weather - Die by the Drop - Sea of Cowards (Third Man)
Titus Andronicus - A More Perfect Union - The Monitor (XL)
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy - El Camino (Nonesuch)

The Black Belles - Howl at the Moon - The Black Belles (Third Man)
Cursive - The Sun and Moon - I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek)
Foxy Shazam - Welcome to the Church of Rock and Roll - The Church of Rock and Roll (IRS)

Pontiak - Across the Steppe - Echo Ono (Thrill Jockey)
Sleater-Kinney - Jumpers - The Woods (Sub Pop)
Shearwater - Animal Life - Animal Joy (Sub Pop)

Antony and the Johnsons - Fistful of Love - I Am a Bird Now (Secretly Canadian)
Jens Lekman - You Are the Light - You Are the Light EP (Secretly Canadian)
Magneta Lane - The Constant Lover - The Constant Lover (Paper Bag)

Tullycraft - Polaroids from Mars - Disenchanted Hearts Unite (Magic Marker)
We All Have Hooks for Hands - Be Love, Be Wild - The Shape of Energy (Afternoon)
Call and Response - Colors Bleed - Winds Take No Shape (Badman)

First Aid Kit - Emmylou - The Lion's Roar (Witchita)
Molina and Johnson - Twenty Cycles to the Ground - Molina & Johnson (Secretly Canadian)
Rise Against - Swing Life Away - Siren Songs of the Counterculture (Geffen)

Jared Mees and the Grown Children - Excellent Time - Caffeine, Alcohol, Sunshine, Money (Tender Loving Empire)
Ani DiFranco - Life Boat - Which Side Are You On? (Righteous Babe)
Cate Le Bon - The Man I Wanted - Cyrk (The Control Group)

Ex Norwegian - Sky Diving - Sketch (Dying Van Gogh)
Laura Gibson - Milk-Heavy, Pollen-Eyed - La Grande (Barsuk)
The Swell Season - Feeling the Pull - Strict Joy (Anti)

The Good Life - You Don't Feel Like Home to Me - Help Wanted Nights (Saddle Creek)
The Concretes - You Can't Hurry Love - s/t (Astralwerks)
Tennis - Norway - Teen Dream (Sub Pop)

Tennis - Origins - Young & Old (Fat Possum)

Playlist 2/20/12

LCD Soundsystem - New York I Love You But... - Sound of Silver (DFA)
The Flaming Lips - Flight Test - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner)
Wilco - Standing O - The Whole Love (Anti)

First Aid Kit - King of the World - The Lion's Roar (Witchita)
Neko Case - Teenage Feeling - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti)
Billy Bragg - There Is Power in a Union - Talking with the Taxman About Poetry (Elecktra)

Heartless Bastards - Got to Have Rock and Roll - Arrow (Artisan)
Cate Le Bon - The Man I Wanted - Cyrk (Control Group)
The Magnetic Fields -We Are Having a Hootenanny - Realism (Nonesuch)

The Lucksmiths - There Is a Boy that Never Goes Out - Naturaliste (Drive-In)
Hello Seahorse! - Ok!...Lobster - Hoy a Las Ocho (Magic Marker)
Los Campesinos! - Don't Tell Me to Do the Math(s) - Sticking Fingers into Sockets (Arts & Crafts)

Cursive - Drunken Birds - I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek)
The White Stripes - Hotel Yorba - White Blood Cells (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
The Black Keys - Money Maker - El Camino (Nonesuch)

Art Brut - Direct Hit - It's a Bit Complicated (Downtown)
Foxy Shazam - Welcome to the Church of Rock and Roll - The Church of Rock and Roll (IRS)
Rival Sons - All Over the Road - Pressure and Time (Earache)

Tennis - My Bitter Self - Young & Old (Fat Possum)
Neon Indian - Polish Girl -
MGMT - Electric Feel - Oracular Spectacular (Columbia)

Air - Parade - Le Voyage Dans La Lune (Astralwerks)
Ben Kweller - Mean to Me - Go Fly A Kite (The Noise Co.)
Sleater-Kinney - Combat Rock - One Beat (Kill Rock Stars)

Belle and Sebastian - I Want to the World to Stop - Write About Love (Matador)
She & Him - Ridin' in My Car - Volume Two (Merge)
Saturday Looks Good to Me - Meet Me by the Water - All Your Summer Songs (Polyvinyl)

Jenny & Johnny - Animal - I'm Having Fun Now (Warner)
Robyn - Cry When You Get Older - Body Talk Pt. 1 (Interscope)
Black Belles - Howl at the Moon - s/t (Third Man)

Playlist 2/13/12

The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Ballad of the RAA - Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
Braid - Please Drive Faster - Lucky to Be Alive (Glue Factory)
Rainer Maria - The Contents of Lincoln's Pockets - Anyone in Love with You (Already Knows) (Polyvinyl)

Los Campesinos! - Baby I Got the Death Rattle - Hello Sadness (Wichita)
Times New Viking - City on Drugs - Born Again Revisited (Matador)
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy - El Camino (Nonesuch)

Rival Sons - All Over the Road - Pressure & Time (Earache)
Rockets - Madeline - s/t (Creative Vibes)
The Black Belles - Howl at the Moon - The Black Belles (Third Man)

Stereo Total - Miau Miau - s/t (Bobsled)
Nada Surf - No Snow on the Mountain - Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy (Barsuk)
Guided by Voices - We Won't Apologize for the Human Race - Let's Go Eat the Factory (GBV inc)

Dead Man's Bones - In the Room Where You Sleep - s/t (Anti-)
CocoRosie - By Your Side - La Maison de Mon Reve (Touch & Go)
Nimoy and Shatner - Mr. Tambourine Man - Spaced Out (Universal)

Annie Hayden - Hip Hurray - The Enemy of Love (Merge)
Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monologue - Two Way Monologue (Astralwerks)
Oxford Collapse - The Boys Go Home - A Good Ground (Themselves)

Ben Kweller - Gossip - Go Fly a Kite (The Noise Co.)
Ani DiFranco - Unworry - Which Side Are You On? (Righteous Babe)
Silver Jews - I'm Getting Back into Getting Back into You - Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City)

Bright Eyes/Neva Dinova - I'll Be Your Friend - One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels (Crank!)
David Bazan - Curse Your Branches - Curse Your Branches (Barsuk)
Hindi Zahra - Kiss and Thrills - Handmade (Our Souls)

The Swell Season - Feeling the Pull - Strict Joy (Anti-)
Simon Joyner - Birds of Spring - Lost with the Lights On (Jagjaguwar)
M. Ward - Vincent O'Brien - The Transfiguration of Vincent (Merge)

First Aid Kit - King of the World - The Lion's Roar (Witchita)
Good Field - These Dreams - s/t (self)
Cate Le Bon - Falcon Eyed - Cryk (Control Group)





Karen Dalton