8:00pm
Irma Thomas: Good to Me
Woods: Suffering Season
Hospitality: Betty Wang
Tom Waits: Get Lost
Dr. Dog: Lonesome
Alabama Shakes: I Found You
Evan Dando: Waking Up
Dum Dumb Girls: There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
Tennis: Robin
Audra Mae and The Almighty Sound: Ten Cent Pistol
Laura Gibson: La Grande
Damien Jurado: Working Titles
Cat Power: Maybe Not
DeVotchKa: You Love Me (One of my all-time favorite songs.)
Islands: Hallways
Dan Auerbach: My Last Mistake
The Books: The Story Of Hip-Hop

9:00
Winterpills: October
Joy Kills Sorrow: Wouldn’t Have Noticed
Lovers: Tonight
Vetiver: I Must Be In a Good Place Now
Slumber Party: Late Nite
Revolver: Leave Me Alone
Josh Ritter: Love is Making Its Way Back Home
Sharon Van Etten: Give Out
The Barr Brothers: Old Mythologies
Bonnie “Prince” Billy: You Don’t Love Me
The Sadies: Cut Corners
Wye Oak: Plains
Iron & Wine: Love Vigilantes
Viking Moses: I Will Always Love You
James: Lullaby

Picture note: My pretty crappy picture of Babe City at Valentine’s

The warm winter blues of February are melting away and it’s all because of this:
Langhorne Slim + Babe City = This Wednesday at Valentines

I think it may be a one-time chance to see Babe City, a group made up of queens of Hello Pretty City:
Olivia Quillio I call 2011 the year of Olivia Quillio. Every time I hear her sing I lose my breath for a second. I swear. Every time.
Caroline Corrigan Love getting lost in her voice when she sings with The Red Lions.
Meagan Duffy She stops time with her guitar solos.
MaryLeigh Roohan Still blown away by her performance at Exit Dome last month.

Show starts at 8 on Wednesday, 2/29 at Valentines. Bedtimes be damned…this week at least

8:00pm
Cults: Most Wanted
Deerhunter: Don’t Cry
Neverever: Wedding Day
Langhorne Slim: Say Yes (Playing this Wednesday night at Valentines and he sincerely sings cool things. Like right here.)
Dr. Dog: How Long Must I Wait (Playing Tuesday, March 20 Northern Lights. More info here. (It’s a WEXT show so it’s extra exciting!))
Sharon Van Etten: Warsaw
Shearwater: You As You Were
Winterpills: Rogue Highway (Possibly a perfect song…hand claps + boy voices + girl voices = joy)
Plants and Animals: Lightshow
Hospitality: All Day Today
St. Vincent: Cheerleader
Joy Kills Sorrow: New Man
Imperial Teen: Last To Know
Typhoon: Summer Home
Tennis: Origins
Delta Spirit: California
Basia Bulat: Before I knew

9:00
Atlas Sound: Parallax
William Fitzsimmons: Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
First Aid Kit: Emmylou (Tentatively placing this song in the 2012 faves folder.)
Luna: Teenage Lightning
Cass McCombs: Jonesy Boy
Frankie Rose: Pair Of Wings
Calexico: Two Silver Trees
Lovers: Let’s Stay Lost
Jessie Baylin: Holiday
Megafaun: You Are the Light
Whiskeytown: Somebody Remembers The Rose
Dry The River: Thou Art Loosed
Big Deal: Talk
Silver Swans: Secrets
High Highs: Open Season
The Barr Brothers: Ooh, Belle

Picture note: Pie

Langhorne Slim in Albany! TRUE!! Watch this video of him and then come see him for real with me on Wednesday, 2/29 at Valentines.

But here’s the best part: Babe City is the opening band. Who’s Babe City?

Olivia Quillio, Meagan Duffy, MaryLeigh (of MaryLeigh & the Fauves) and Caroline Corrigan (of The Red Lions)
=
ALL MY FAVORITE PARTS OF THE LOCAL MUSIC SCENE!

Langhorne is awesome, he’ll be great. But Babe City is truly the reason to come out to this show. On a Wednesday night. In the winter. They will make it like a summer weekend.

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8:00pm
Wlld Flag: Boom
Hospitality: The Birthday
Sgt Dunbar: Who Do You Love
First Aid Kit: Blue
Sleigh Bells: Rill Rill (If I could, I would tap dance to this song.)
The Magnetic Fields: Andrew in Drag (Considering making this one of my first favorite songs of 2012. Tenatitve. Tempting.)
Jawbox: Sound On Sound
Shannon And The Clams: Oh Louie
Dr. Dog: Ain’t It Strange (See ya on March 20 Dr. Dog!)
Women: Black Rice
Yo La Tengo: Tom Courtenay
Neverever: Mexicoco
High Highs: Horses
Eux Autres: You’re Alight
John K Samson: Cruise Night
Tennis: It All Feels the Same
CANT: The Edge

9:00
Lana Del Rey: Blue Jeans (Still loving this song. But sometimes tempted to let it go for a couple of months and then see what I think of it.)
Shimmering Stars: Sabians
MaryLeigh & The Fauves: Hate/Love (LOCAL 518!!! Who blew me away at Exit Dome last month. Still loving them alot.)
Little Joy: The Next Time Around
Langhorne Slim: Be Set Free (Big news about this guy! See up top for more info. And watch him on Letterman here.)
Sharon Van Etten: We Are Fine
Deerhunter: Helicopter
Damien Jurado: Museum of Flight
Washed Out: Before
The Carter Family: The Evening Bells Are Ringing
Jessica Lea Mayfield: In Your Heart
Megafaun: Real Slow
The Films: Something Familiar
Joy Kills Sorrow: Somewhere Over the Atlantic (Listening to this album every day and each time I listen to it I regret the time I lost by not listening to them sooner. They played some shows with Brown Bird that I really should’ve seen.)
Twerps: Bring Me Down
Elliott Smith: Junk Bond Trader

Picture note: Last night’s harmonium

I’ll be there! Party Horns NYC at Proctors next Saturday night. Brooklyn Qawwali Party is playing…not music that I normally listen to but that’s kind of why I’m excited. I think it’s going to make me want to dance.

8:00pm
The Barr Brothers: Lord, I Just Can’t Keep From Crying
Olivia Quillio: Lukewarm Action (Local 518 gem)
First Aid Kit: King of the World
Fleet Foxes: Tiger Mountain Peasant Song (Get lost in the First Aid Kit version of this song here.)
Hospitality: Friends Of Friends
Lower Dens: Brains (Listening to this song is addictive. I hope the full length is, too! It comes out May 1 and they play at Valentines on Sunday, 3/4. Score!)
Luna: Astronaut
St. Vincent: Cruel
The Films: Pour It Out
Dr. Dog: Unbearable Why (Can’t wait to see them at Northern Lights on Tuesday, 3/20)
Deerhunter: Memory Boy
The Big Pink: Stay Gold
Shimmering Stars: Sun’s Going Down
Bleached: Searching Through The Past
Dum Dum Girls: He Gets Me High
Frankie Rose: Know Me

9:00pm
Mina Tindle: Bells
Megafaun: Heretofore
Neverever: Baby Oil And Iodine
Porcelain Raft: Shapeless & Gone
Real Estate: Easy
Sharon Van Etten: Magic Chords
Fruit Bats: Picture of a Bird
Cass McCombs: To Every Man His Chimera (Still listening to this album everyday.)
Winterpills: Amazing Sky
Laura Gibson: Hands In Pockets
Brad Senne: Golden
Piers Faccini: My Wilderness
Mason Jennings: Going Back To New Orleans
The Innocence Mission: Spring
Best Coast: Crazy For You

Picture note: My old oven and stove

8:00pm
Grimes: Oblivion (This song is a trickster…the way it starts off sounds like a song I’d hate but then it turns into a song I can’t stop listening to and have to turn up beyond loud.)
Sambassadeur: Between The Lines
The Black Keys: Little Black Submarines
Deerhunter: Coronado (Happy to be loving this band. Which I never thought would happen.)
Vampire Weekend: One (Blake’s Got a New Face)
Eux Autres: Queen Turner
Beirut: East Harlem
The Films: Fingernails For Breakfast
The Love Language: Lalita
Wild Flag: Endless Talk
Dum Dum Girls: Wrong Feels Right
Camera Obscura: If Looks Could Kill
The Modern Lovers: Ride On Down The Highway
Brown Bird: Danger And Dread (I think it’s okay to declare that this is a Hello Pretty City classic. I stop myself from playing it every other week so that it sounds fresh when I do play it.)
Twerps: This Guy
Helium: Leon’s Space Song
The Rosebuds: Go Ahead

9:00
Porcelain Raft: Unless You Speak From Your Heart
Bodies of Water: You Know Me So Well
Josh Ritter: Galahad
Joy Kills Sorrow: Jason
Wilco: Someday Soon
Joanna Newsom: Good Intentions Paving Co.
The Carter Family: East Virgina Blues (Definitely a favorite song. Johnny sings it here.)
James Blake: The Wilhelm Scream
Piers Faccini: That Cry
Olof Arnalds : Close My Eyes
Nathaniel Rateliff: Boil & Fight
Caitlin Rose: Things Change
Big Deal: 13
Luna: Waiting On A Friend

Picture note: Pretty city parts

I’m still in awe of last night’s Exit Dome concert at WEXT. Seeing and hearing Maryleigh and the Fauves made me gasp. (I spent all day listening to the album over and over again.) The way she sings and how she sings it and the way her band plays…it was like seeing superstars in a shiny New York City venue. Can’t wait to see them again. Music here and photos here!

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Tonight’s playlist (1/29/12)
8:00
Wilco: I’m Always In Love
Mary Lou Lord: Driven Away
The Black Keys: Chop And Change
The Drums: Days
M83: Steve McQueen (Every time I hear this song I realize that I need to spend more time listening to this double album. It’s just that it’s so damn long! Two full lengths in one release! Daunting yet so catchy.)
Luna: California (All The Way)
Hot Chip: Alley Cats
Langhorne Slim: Rebel Side of Heaven (Coming to Albany 2/29! Pretty psyched.)
The Rosebuds: Bow to the Middle (If I ever have a dance party I will remembe to play this song.)
Serra: Devils Hearts Grow Gold
Feist: The Bad In Each Other (Anytime I listen to a song on this new album I get this momentary vision: five…ten…fifteen years from now I’ll still be listening to it, understanding it and appreciating it in ways I can’t predict just yet.)
matt pond PA: Fairlee
Eux Autres: My Love Will Not Let You Down
Veronica Falls: Stephen
Nurses: Fever Dreams
Smith Westerns: Still New

9:00
St. Vincent: Chloe In The Afternoon
Kurt Vile: St. Vincent
M. Ward: Transfiguration #1 (So nice to hear crickets. Perhaps this can be this week’s official song of winter so that it reminds us that summer really does exist.)
Cat Power: Baby Doll
Caitlin Rose: Spare Me
Grizzly Bear (With Victoria Legrand): Slow Life
PJ Harvey: On Battleship Hill
Damon McMahon: Hong Kong
Lykke Li: Hanging High
Olof Arnalds: Solitary Man
Sin Fang: Choir
Slender Shoulders: Close To Me (Local 518! Saw her last night at the Her Bandcamp page is here.)
Bon Iver: Beach Baby
Mia Doi Todd: Under the Sun
Belle & Sebastian: Mary Jo

Picture note: Looking up

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