Tonight’s playlist (1/22/12)

8:00pm
Ada Richards: I’m Drunk & I’m Real High (In The Spirit Of God)
Phantogram: Let Me Go
Young Marble Giants: The Man Amplifier
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: You Won’t Let Me Down Again
Spoon: The Underdog
The Black Keys: Gold On The Ceiling
Dianogah: Colby (Eternally in love with this band.)
tUnE-yArDs: Doorstep (Favorite song of tonight’s show. I feel like it rolls so many of my favorite song elements into one song.)
Those Darlins’: Tina Said
The Four Tops: Midnight Flower
Toro Y Moi: Go With You
Jessica Hernandez and the Deltas: In The City (Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr Remix)
Sgt Dunbar & the Hobo Banned: Life Learning Languages (PLAYING NEXT SAT. at EXIT DOME! )
Atlas Sound: Te Amo
Evan Dando: In The Grass All Wine Colored

9:00pm
Thurston Moore: January
James Hunter: People Gonna Talk
Sean Rowe: Wet
Faces on Film: Moon’s Row
Whiskeytown: Lo-Fi Tennessee Mountain Angel
Owls: The Lucky Ones
Wooden Birds: Criminals Win
Julie Doiron: Untitled
The Innocence Mission: Go
M. Ward: Rollercoaster
CANT: She Found a Way Out
Loney, Dear: A Band
PJ Harvey: The Last Living Rose
Sibylle Baier: William
Nik Freitas: Let It Be Known
Peggy Honeywell: Deadly Boredom

8:00pm
Wild Flag: Romance
Georgie James: More Lights
Atlas Sound: Lightworks
Peggy Sue: Song & Dance
Bosco Delray: Don Haps
Wye Oak: Civilian (This whole album is haunting. Somedays I forget it exists and then when I rediscover it I have to listen to it three times in a row to make up for lost time.)
Mice Parade: Do Your Eyes See Sparkles
Harlem: Someday Soon
Shannon And The Clams: The Cult Song
Milagres: Lost In The Dark
Common Grackle: Big Marquee
Grass Widow: Shadow
Wild Beasts: Deeper
Making Friendz: Situation
Handsome Furs: When I Get Back
Jónsi: Around Us

9:00
The Clientele: The Queen Of Seville
Destroyer: Kaputt (This album came out in early 2011 and one day in late 2011 I listened to it over and over again and loved it. All that time wasted….)
Hanne Hukkelberg: Conversion
Caitlin Rose: New York (I’ve taken this song and added it to a new playlist that I can’t believe I’ve never made: songs about New York City for when I miss it too much.)
The Wilderness of Manitoba: Hermit
St. Vincent: Champagne Year
Memphis: A Little Place in the Wilderness
Belle & Sebastian: We Rule The School
Brown Recluse: Golden Sun
Damon McMahon: Paradise Vacation
Bodies of Water: My Hips Won’t Let Me
Evan Dando: Hard Drive (Everything about this song makes sense to me no matter what time in my life I listen to it. The music. The lyrics. All of it.)
Rocky Votolato: Postcard From Kentucky
Mia Doi Todd: La Havana
Lovers: How Beautiful You Are

Picture note: On a walk

8:00pm
The Dodos: Companions
Johnny Cash: Long-Legged Guitar-Pickin’ Man
Woods: Military Madness
Neko Case: People Got A Lotta Nerve
Darlene Love: Wait Til’ My Bobby Gets Home
Jolie Holland: Remember (I almost didn’t play this song since it seems like her voice is about to sound “off” but then I realized that’s what makes it so exciting to listen to.)
My Morning Jacket: You Wanna Freak Out
Sharon Van Etten: Serpents
Langhorne Slim: Yer Wrong
Suckers: Martha
Shannon And The Clams: Tired Of Being Bad
Otis Redding: Change Gonna Come (Some days I wake up and feel this song coming true.)
Bishop Allen: The Lion & The Teacup
Dark Dark Dark: Heavy Heart
Ra Ra Riot: Oh, La
Big Deal: Chair
Evan Dando: It Looks Like You

9:00pm
The Walkmen: While I Shovel The Snow
Emiliana Torrini: At Least It Was
Yo La Tengo: Season Of The Shark
Bahamas: Try, Tried, Tryin’ (His voice nearly melts me every time I hear it.)
The National: Racing Like A Pro
Devon Sproule: The Well-Dressed Son To His Sweetheart
St. Vincent: Dilettante
Slumber Party: Hey Hey China
Band of Horses: Older
Darkness Falls: Noise On The Line
The Decemberists: January Hymn
Great Lake Swimmers: Concrete Heart
Sam Cooke: Only Sixteen
Laura Marling: Tap At My Window
Aloha: I’m In Trouble
José González: Save your day

Picture note: Cosmetics

Albums
In order of current level of obsession:
1. Cass McCombs: Humor Risk (Except for the last song called Mariah)
2. Atlas Sound: Parallax (I thought for sure when I first listend to this album that I would never listen to it again. Haha!)
3. Destroyer: Kaputt (Another album that took me 11 months to enjoy!)
4. James Blake: James Blake
5. Assateague: Good Morning Blues
6. Wye Oak: Civilian
7. Cults: Cults
8. Gillian Welch: The Harrow & The Harvest
9. The Cave Singers: No Witch
10. Feist: Metals
11. Eleanor Friedberger: Last Summer
12. Sean Rowe: Magic

Songs
All listened to a ton and listed in order of most plays:
1. Good Morning Blues by Assateague
2. The Wilhelm Scream by James Blake
3. The Suburbs by Mr. Little Jeans
4. The Circle Married the Line by Feist
5. Blue Jeans by Lana Del Rey
6. Knot in the Vine by Faces on Film
7. Let England Shake by PJ Harvey
8. Sadness is a Blessing by Lykke Li
9. Don’t Move by Phantogram
10. Cannons by Youth Lagoon
11. Undertow by Warpaint

8:00pm
The Lodger: The Good Old Days
Regina Spektor: Dance Anthem Of The 80’s
Little Scream: Red Hunting Jacket (Love how this song starts with the sound of a ghost haunting a house and then ascends into sounds that inspire stomping, clapping, and snapping. Like a recipe for a song to listen to when you’re really happy and want to dance around like crazy!)
PJ Harvey: Let England Shake
The Walkmen: In The New Year
Dum Dum Girls: Just a Creep
Harlem: Prairie My Heart
Le Tigre: Eau d’ Bedroom Dancing
Surfer Blood: I’m Not Ready
Saturday Looks Good to Me: Until the World Stops Spinning
Harper Simon: All I Have Are Memories
Gigi: No, My Heart Will Go On
Brilliant Colors: ‘Round Your Way
The Thermals: You Changed My Life
Cass McCombs: The Same Thing (The beat of this song has not failed to make me smile each time I hear it.)
Faces on Film: Knot In The Vine

9:00pm
Olof Arnalds: With Tomorrow/ I’m On Fire (Pretty sure my heart skips way too many beats when I listen to her sing this song.)
Luna: Happy New Year
Broadcast: Winter Now
Brad Senne: Sew The Scars
Jónsi: Gathering Stories
The Head And The Heart: Down In The Valley
Yo La Tengo: Our Way To Fall
Atlas Sound: Amplifiers
Allo Darlin’: Silver Dollars
Bill Callahan: Sycamore
Portland Cello Project: Tallymarks (Featuring Thao)
Tom Waits: New Year’s Eve
Bahamas: Whole Wide World
Bodies of Water: Ever With Us

Picture note:

Etta James: Something’s Got A Hold On Me
Eleanor Friedberger: Roosevelt Island
Au Revoir Simone: Fallen Snow
The Long Winters: Cinnamon
Sally Seltmann: Dream About Changing
Natalie Merchant: It Makes A Change
Noah And The Whale: 5 Years Time
The Mountain Goats: This Year
Gigi: No, My Heart Will Go On
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros: Home
Mr. Little Jeans: The Suburbs (Arcade Fire Cover)
Glasser: Home
Mirah: Engine Heart
The Alabama Shakes: I Found You
The Parlor: Tear Down the Coastline
Vivian Girls: Dance (If You Wanna)
Fleet Foxes: White Winter Hymnal
Connie Francis: I’m Gonna Be Warm This Winter
The Concretes: Warm Night
Eliza Doolittle: Skinny Genes
Cass McCombs: Love Thine Enemy
David Nzomo Trio: Kana Ngwenda (A Girl I Love)
Yo La Tengo: You Can Have It All
Say Hi: Take Ya’ Dancin’
My Robot Friend: By Your Side (Featuring Dean Wareham)
Little Dragon: Ritual Union
Feist: Mushaboom
Yael Naïm: Come Home
Otis Redding: Wonderful World
Emmylou Harris: Home Sweet Home
The Shins: We Will Become Silhouettes

This special show will be on again! Monday, 12/26, 6-8pm.

8:00pm
Noah and the Whale: Life is Life
PJ Harvey: Let England Shake (I think this is going to be on my list of favorite songs from 2011. And definitely on my list of favorite PJ Harvey songs.)
Magnolia Electric Co.: The Handing Down
Hanne Hukkelberg: Break My Body (Live)
The Drums: Let’s Go Surfing
The Films: Completely Replaceable
Minisnap: New Broom
Quilt: Cowboys in the Void
Neko Case: John Saw That Number
Ravens & Chimes: Eleventh Street
Atlas Sound: Mona Lisa
Darlings: Don’t Wanna Hang Out Tonight
The Head And The Heart: Honey Come Home
Deer Tick: Standing At The Threshold
Hellogoodbye: Getting Old
Library Voices: Generation Handclap

9:00pm
MaryLeigh & The Fauves: Song for My Lovelies (She’s playing at Exit Dome 5, 1/28! I’ll be there!)
Melaena Cadiz: The Wolf
Julie Doiron: The Longest Winter
Nick Drake: Rain
Rosie Thomas: Say Hello
Real Estate: Municipality
Mia Doi Todd: Courting
Kathleen Edwards: Empty Threat
Yellow Ostrich: I’ll Run
Friends: Feelin’ Dank
Mason Jennings: The Field
Dawn Landes: Money In The Bank
Nord Express: Sun Falls
Michael Hurley: Blue Mountain (I think I might listen to this song many, many times tomorrow. Once tonight wasn’t enough. When he sings I feel like I’m on a trip with him and it doesn’t matter where we’re going as long as he’s pointing out things he thinks are cool along the way.)
Meg Baird: Dear Companion

Picture note: Fancy floor

8:00pm
Kathleen Edwards: Sidecar
Yellow Ostrich: Hahahaohhoho
Darlings: Spit It Out
Lisa Hannigan: What’ll I Do
Friends: Friend Crush
Atlas Sound: Angel is Broken
David Karsten Daniels: Martha Ann
Peggy Sue: D.U.M.B.O.
JJ: And Now
The Fling: Nothing Makes Sense
St. Vincent: Surgeon
Treefight For Sunlight: Facing the Sun
Dawn Landes: Young Girl
Local Natives: Wide Eyes
Cat’s Eyes: Face In The Crowd
Alexander: A Million Years (I Found My Girl)
Joanna Newsom: Jackrabbits

9:00pm
Edith Piaf: La vie en rose (What is it about this song that makes it so nice to hear even though I don’t know what she’s saying? Tone! Maybe?)
MaryLeigh & The Fauves: Foolish Girl (So excited to see them at Exit Dome 5 on 1/28/12)
Mina Tindle: Plein Nord
Crooked Fingers: Heavy Hours
Girls: Saying I Love You
Thao & The Get Down, Stay Down: Yes, So On And So On
Alela Diane: Desire
Deer Tick: Choir Of Angels
Real Estate: Wonder Years
Quilt: Young Gold
Marissa Nadler: Puppet Master
Viking Moses: Little Bows
Other Lives: Old Statues
Edith Frost: The Very Earth
Darren Hanlon: Folk Insomnia

Picture note: Almost evening

8:00pm
Elk: Let’s Get Married
Real Estate: It’s Real
Lisa Hannigan: Knots
Billy Bragg & Wilco: Walt Whitman’s Niece
Girls: Honey Bunny
DeVotchKa: Back Luck Heels // Song I like best from tonight’s show.
Dum Dum Girls: Bedroom Eyes
Friends: I’m His Girl // Second favorite song of the night. Fun video here.
The Ettes: My Heart
Spirit Kid: The World Doesn’t Stop
Deerhoof: Hey I Can
Atlas Sound: The Shakes
The Donkeys: I Like The Way You Walk
Treefight For Sunlight: The Universe is a Woman
The Fling: Wanderingfoot
Dom: Telephone
The Elected: Look At Me Now
Spoon: Car Radio

9:00pm
The Jayhawks: Two Angels
Youth Lagoon: Cannons // This album is weaving its way into my favorites of 2011 list. Each time I remember to listen to it I wonder why I wasn’t already listening to it
Cass McCombs: Robin Egg Blue
Pinback: Fortress
Iron & Wine: Flightless Bird, American Mouth (Wedding Version)
Washed Out: Within and Without
Eleanor Friedberger: One-Month Marathon
Bonnie “Prince” Billy: No Match
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.: If It Wasn’t You
A.A. Bondy: When The Devil’s Loose
Crooked Fingers: The Counterfeiter
Case Studies: Dagger
Mazzy Star: Lay Myself Down // From a new little EP she just released.
Bahamas: Sunshine Blues

Picture note: Our Plaza

8:00pm
Cat Power: Free
Charles Bradley Feat. Menahan Street Band: The World (Is Going Up In Flames)
Allo Darlin’: My Heart is a Drummer (As if this song couldn’t get more cheery there’s an awesome video for it featuring two hearts playing ping pong with each other. Really! It’s here.)
The Drums: How It Ended
Cass McCombs: Love Thine Enemy (This new album is my new best friend and I added it to my list of favorite albums of 2011.)
Dan Auerbach: Whispered Words (He’s in The Black Keys and WEXT is giving away tickets to a “secret show” of theirs in New York City. You can enter to win here.)
Rachael Yamagata: The Way It Seems to Go
Fleet Foxes: Battery Kinzie
Gospel Music: Apartment
Ben Lee: When the Light Goes Out
Deer Tick: Main Street
Mr. Little Jeans: The Suburbs (Still one of my favorite songs of the year.)
Horrors: Still Life
Grass Widow: Uncertain Memory
Spectrals: You Can’t Live On Love Alone

9:00pm
The Fling: No Sleep
Dan Mangan: Leaves, Trees, Forest
Frankie Rose And The Outs: Memo
Laura Veirs: Tumblebee
Cloud Nothings: Forget You All The Time
Charlotte Gainsbourg: Master’s Hand
Elliott Smith: Pretty Mary K (Other Version)
Feist: Cicadas and Gulls
The Deep Dark Woods: Dear John
Real Estate: Green Aisles
Tom Waits: 3 Talking At The Same Time
Peggy Sue: Parking Meter Blues (Dedicated to the new parking meters coming soon in Albany.)
Fruit Bats: Beautiful Morning Light
Department Of Eagles: In Ear Park
Mazzy Star: Common Burn (Let’s put this on repeat forever.)