Playlist for June 10, 2009

* = New Release

Fugazi - Big Mouth - 13 Songs
* Iggy Pop - Nice To Be Dead - Preliminaries
Sisters of Mercy - Dominion - Floodland
The Wipers - Nothing Left To Lose - The Best Of (by request)
* Sonic Youth - Anti-Orgasm - The Eternal
Hot Hot Heat - In Cairo - Make Up The Breakdown
Television Personalities - Dream the Sweetest Dreams - My Dark Places
* The Vaselines - Rosary Job (demo) - Enter the Vaselines
* Iron and Wine - Belated Promise Ring - Around the Well
* Yonlu - Katie Don't Be Depressed - A society in which no tear..
PJ Harvey - Angelene - Is This Desire?
* Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Little Shadow - It's Blitz!
* St. Vincent and The National - Sleep All Summer - 20 Years of Merge The Covers
* Passion Pit - Swimmin in the flood - Manners
The Cure - A Few Hours After This - Join the Dots (by request)
Low Flying Owls - Looks of a Killer - Low Flying Owls
Catherine Wheel - Black Metallic - Ferment
Lilys - Tone Bender - Precollection
* Papercuts - The Void - You Can Have What You Want
Monade - Mas Kind - A Few Steps More
* White Lies - Fifty On Our Foreheads - To Lose My Life
* Cardiac Party - Savvy Shoppers - Teen Challenge
Ladytron - Evil - Light and Magic
Phoenix - Rome - Wolfgang Amadeus
The Flesh - Death Connection - The Flesh
Pulp - Down by the River - Separations

Iggy Pop's "Nice to be Dead" from his 2009 album Preliminaires on EMI Records

Playlist for May 27, 2009

* = new release

* Neko Case - The Next Time You Say Forever
R.E.M. - Nightswimming
Psychic TV - Roman P.
Supergrass - Cheapskate
White Stripes - Hypnotize
Yo La Tengo - The Summer
The Shop Assistants - All that Ever Mattered
* Passion Pit - Make Light
The Beta Band - Out-Side
* Bruises - Chairlift
Rufus Wainwright - Rebel Prince
* The Mumblers - Dice in a Drawer
Ben Folds Five - Where's Summer B?
Mike Doughty - Move On (live)
Elf Power - All The Passengers
The Softies - I Love You More
The Books - Be Good To Them Always
Air - Playground Love
Nouvelle Vague - O Pamela
Gorillaz - Last Living Souls
Freezepop - Outer Space
* The Doves - Kingdom of Rust
The Submarines Ready or Not
Belle and Sebastian - Shoot the sexual athlete
The Charlatans - Here Comes a Soul Saver
Pony Up - Shut Up and Kiss Me
* Hands and Knees - O Great Pain
* Starfucker - Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Bjork/Cure - Hidden Forest (mashup)
* Junor Boys - Work

The Books - Be Good To Them Always
from their 2005 album Lost and Safe on TomLab Records

Playlist for May 20, 2009

Artist - Song - Album
* = New Release


Sugarcubes - Birthday - Life's Too Good
Passion Pit - Moths Wings - Manners
Of Montreal - Gallery Piece - Skeletal Lamping
Tracy + The Plastics - Henrietta - Culture for Pigeon
* Fischerspooner - Danse En France - Entertainment
Stereolab - Sudden Stars - Margerine
Here We Go Magic - Tunnelvision - Here We Go Magic
Shugo Tokumaru - Green Rain - Exit
Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood - Tom Tom Club
* Akron Family - River - Set Em WIld Set Em Free
Jarvis Cocker - Angela - Future Complications
Television - Prove It - Marquee Moon
Real Estate - Fake Blues - Demo
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys - Boys DOn't Cry
Stephen Malkmus - No More Shoes - Face The Truth
The Stranglers - Strange Little Girl - Peaches: Best of
Richard Hell - I'm Your Man - Time Disc 1
The Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love - Pieces of the people we love
An Horse - Camp Out - Rearrange Beds
Electromagnetic - Love You Into Pieces - Electromagnetic
May, Dent - Howard - The Good Feeling Music Of
Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham - Knives from Bavaria - L'Avventura
Au Revoir Simone - All or Nothing - Still Night Still Light
* Bat for Lashes - Good Love - Two Suns
Nouvelle Vague - In a Matter of Speaking - Nouvelle Vague
* Jeniferever - Concrete and glass - Spring Tides
* O+S - The Fox - O+S

Shugo Takumaru's "Green Rain" from his 2007/2008 album "Exit"

Playlist for May 13, 2009

Artist - Song - Album
* = New Release

* Fever Ray - When I Grow Up - Fever Ray
Interpol - Untitled - Trun On The Bright Lights
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry - Black Cherry
Sigur Ros - Gong - Takk
The Shins - Sea Legs - Wincing the night away
* Peter Bjorn and John - I want you - Living Thing
Devotchka - Ocean of Lust - Una Volta
Dr. Dog - Ain't it Strange - We All Belong
* Camera Obscura - Away With Murder - My Maudlin Career
Spoon - Don't You Evah - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Les Savy Fav - Dishonest Don Part II - The Cat and the Cobra
* Kasabian - LSF - West Ryder Sampler
Translator - Everywhere That I'm not - Heartbeats And Triggers
The Go Team - I Never Needed It Now So Much - Proof of Youth
Pinback - Avignon - Nautical Antiques
The Embers - I Walked All Night - Songs the Cramps Taught Us Vol 3`
Lou Reed - Temporary Thing - The Definitive Collection
The Fall - LA - This Nations Saving Grace
* The Decemberists - A Bower Scene - The Hazards of Love
Apples in Stereo - Where We Meet - Velocity of Sound
Dypsomaniaxe - All Women Are Bad - Songs the cramps taught us Vol 4
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Deanna - Tender Prey
* Northern State - Fingers - Remind me where the light is
Suede - So Young - Suede
Minus the Bear - absinthe party at the fly honey warehouse - Highly Refined Pirattes
* Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Dull Life - It's Blitz!
Dirty Projectors - Hyperballad - Enjoyed: Tribute to Bjork's "Post" - free download on stereogum
* Okkervil River - All You Little Suckers - Score! Merge Records 20th Anniversary


The Fall's "L.A." off 1985 album This Nation's Saving Grace

Playlist for 04/29/09

* = New release

Wire-Lowdown
Young Marble Giants - Cakewalking
Pop Will Eat Itself - Sick Little Girl
*The Vaselines - No Hope
Blonde Redhead - Publisher
Pete Yorn -Georgie Boy
*Vetiver -More of This
Barcelona - You're Not Far Off
Frank Black and the Catholics - 85 Weeks
*Hot Panda - Holes
Badly Drawn Boy - Stone on the Water
Film School - Not about a girl
Kaki King - Pull Me Out Alive
They Shoot Horses Dont They - Empty Head
Wolf Parade - Bang your Drum
*Yonlu- I know what it's like
The Sleepy Jackson - Acid in my heart
Low - Candy Girl
Nina Nastasia and Jim White - The Day I would Bury You
Enon - Candy
*Bright Eyes - Papa was a Rodeo
Electrelane - I Want to be The President
*Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Soft Shock
Tricky - School Gates
Faded Paper Figures- North By North
*Papercuts - The Machine Will Tell Us So
Broadcast - America's Boy
Beta Band- She's So Wonderful
Built to Spill - Car (by request)
*Fever Ray - Now's the only time I know
Butter 08 - Summer of 69


Kaki King's "Pull Me Out Alive" from her album Dreaming of Revenge

Playlist for 04/15/09

* = New Release

Earlimart - 1st Instant, Last Report
Galaxie 500 - King of Spain
Harlem Shakes - TFO
Sinead O'Conner - Emperors New Clothes
* Now Now Every Children - Sleep Through
Panda Bear - I'm Not
Deerhoof - Fresh Born
Magnetic Fields - Absolutley Cuckoo
* The Thermals - Now We Can See
Jonathan Richman - Grunion Run
Magic Castles - 10,100
* Mogwai - R U Still in 2 it - BBC Sessions
Beach House - Darling
Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
Andrew Bird - Fitz and Dizzyspells
Belle & Sebastian - Stars of Track and Field - BBC Sessions
* Beep Beep - Secrets of the Well
* Beep Beep - Return to Me
Slarrefenland - How Far Would you go?
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Jump Into My Mouth and Breathe the Stardust
Devendra Banhart - Wake Up Little Sparrow
PJ Harvey - You Come Through
Band of Horses - Window Blues
The Kills - Rodeo Town
Black Lips - Bad Kids
Kaiser Chiefs - Like it Too Much
Charlatans UK - Here Comes a Soul Saver
* Metric - Twilight Galazy
Animal Collective - Also Frightened
Edie Sedgewick - Molly Ringwald
* Psapp - Somwhere there is a record
* Psapp - Marshrat
* The New Pornographers - Hey Snow White

The New Pornographers covering one of my favorite Destroyer songs, "Hey Snow White," off 4AD's Dark Was The Night compilation.

New Day! New Time! New Name!

My new show "Between The Bars" is on Wednesdays 10pm-12am, starting April 15th.
Listen online or on the radio at 91.9fm.

I'm alternating weeks with "Tragic Carpet Ride" so if you don't find me, tune in the following week.