8:00pm
Hot Chip: Ready For The Floor
Alabama Shakes: Hold On
The Walkmen: I’m Never Bored (The photo on the cover of this album is one of my favorites. It’s the first thing I think of when I listen to their songs.)
The Avett Brothers: Will You Return
Veronica Falls: Beachy Head
Bishop Allen: Rooftop Brawl
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse Feat. Julian Casablancas: Little Girl
Male Bonding: Before It’s Gone
Rogue Wave: Permalight
Dum Dum Girls: I Will Be
Ravens & Chimes: Past Lives
The Inspirational Gospel Singers: The Same Thing It Took
Patrick Watson: Into Giants
Megafaun: Carolina Days
Horse Feathers: So Long
Feist: Limit To Your Love (Even though I like this song very much it reminds me of the waiting room at the dentist office when I was a little kid. Except now I actually like the music I’m hearing because I’m pretending it’s Feist!)

9:00
Built To Spill: Nowhere Lullaby
Her Space Holiday: The Bullet, The Battle, The Trigger, The Barrel And Me
Joanna Newsom: Sprout and the Bean
James Blake: A Case of You
Carissa’s Weird: Drunk with the Only Saints I Know
House Of Wolves: Jealous
Damien Jurado: Rachel & Cali
Mirel Wagner: No Hands
Nobody & The Mystic Chords of Memory: Broaden A New Sound (This song is on the Hello Pretty City list of “favorite songs of all time.” I still remember the first time I played it on the radio.)
Fats Waller: Ain’t Misbehavin’
The Long Winters: Seven
Allo Darlin’: Tallulah
Nord Express: Wealth Of Nations
Olson & Louris: Saturday Morning On Sunday Street
Shudder To Think Feat. Nina Persson: Appalachian Lullaby
Porcelain Raft: Shapeless & Gone

Picture note: Plaza water

8:00pm
Alex Winston: Fire Ant
Great Lake Swimmers: Easy Come Easy Go
Ravens & Chimes: In Rooms
Damien Jurado: Letters & Drawings
Alabama Shakes: Hang Loose
Dr. John: Revolution
The Arcade Fire: Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
Crystal Stilts: Flying Into The Sun (Frankie Rose was in this band, too. Her solo show at Valentines last Thursday was perfect: sweaty, for real, sounding as good as the album, and inspiring. I feel a little like I’m still there when look at Keep Albany Boring’s pictures and review.)
Wilco: Hate It Here
Allo Darlin’: Capricornia (Save the video for this song when you need to smile.)
Moonface: Teary Eyes And Bloody Lips (I like singing along to this lyric: Teary eyes and bloody lips / Make you look like Stevie Nicks)
Hospitality: Eighth Avenue
Delta Spirit: Money Saves
Young Hines: Don’t Break My Fall
Sharon Van Etten: Leonard

9:00pm
Horse Feathers: Pacific Bray
Grimes: Symphonia IX (my wait is u) (I listened to this on the bus the other day and couldn’t resist dancing to it. But only on the inside. Okay, well maybe a little on the outside, too. )
Grizzly Bear: Knife
The City Never Sleeps: Happen Again (They’re playing at Tulip Fest this Saturday!)
Jessie Baylin: Hurry Hurry
Joy Kills Sorrow: Reservations
Islands: In A Dream (It Seemed Real)
Emily Wells: Johnny Cash’s Mama’s House
Lost in the Trees: Golden Eyelids
M. Ward: Clean Slate
Nikki Lane: Blue Star in the Sky
Josh Ritter: Make Me Down
Bowerbirds: This Year
P:ano: It Feels Alright
Patrick Watson: The Quiet Crowd (This is from his new album which I’m really liking.)

Picture note: My bike

8:00pm
Frankie Rose: Gospel/Grace (She’s playing this Thursday, 5/3, downstairs at Valentines. Relive the enchantment of this song in the video here. I hope she brings that pretty moon with her. If you go I’ll see you there!)
Peter Bjorn & John: Let’s Call It Off
The Aislers Set: Through The Swells
Okkervil River: Pop Lie
King Tuff: Hole In My Head
matt pond PA: Foreign Bedrooms
Tennis: Dreaming
Giant Gorilla Dog Thing: Law Of The Land (This is my first favorite track and I’m in love with it. I’m trying to listen to it enough times so that I can rap along. Get their album for free here.)
Crystal Stilts: Through The Floor
Dr. John: Big Shot
Hooray for Earth: Rolling Nectarine
Imperial Teen: Don’t Know How You Do It
Young Marble Giants: Radio Silents
The Thermals: I Called Out Your Name
Bombay Bicycle Club: Ghost
Loney, Dear: The City, The Airport
Brent Gorton: From Where I’m Standing
Jaill: On the Beat

9:00
Hospitality: Sleepover
Keren Ann: All The Beautiful Girls
Fenster: Blue To White
Merle Haggard: Sing Me Back Home
Washed Out: Far Away
Sharon Van Etten: Ask
Songs: Ohia: Nervous Bride
Frankie Rose And The Outs: Save Me (A cool interview with her in what seems to be her own apartment and at 1:01 she does this understated rock-out to her own song. Can’t wait to see her do it live on Thursday at Valentines.)
Helium: Cosmic Rays
Damien Jurado: Everyone A Star
Mirel Wagner: No Death
Shearwater: Run the Banner Down
Nick Drake: Road
John K Samson: The Last And
Emily Wells: Piece of It
Rosary Beard: All Perfect Light And Promises (A new acoustic project from Matthew Carefully and Hunter Sagehorn of Alta Mira. Read a sweet little article on them here. And they’re playing their new album, “Halfmoon Fever” with the excellent Winterpills on Friday, 5/4, at Steamer No. 10 Theatre. Info on the show here.)

Picture note: Nice to see

Passion Pit at Northern Lights tomorrow night! I hope they play my favorite song.

9:00
Elliott Smith: Alameda (I look at the cover of this album and can hear all of the songs in my head. Maybe it will be the first album I buy for my new record player! Yes!)
Edith Frost: Albany Blues
Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs: The Only One
Dr. Dog: The Breeze
First Aid Kit: The Lion’s Roar
Yann Tiersen: Le Moulin
Damien Jurado: Life Away From The Garden
Gillian Welch: Down Along The Dixie Line
Babe City: Mary Don’t You Weep (Video of this song here. They play the Behemoth Music Festival at The Putnam Den on Friday, May 4.)
Antony And The Johnsons: Fistful of Love
Sean Rowe: The Walker
Mirah: Telephone Wires
Emily Wells: Darlin’
Langhorne Slim: Blown Your Mind
JBM: Cleo’s Song

Picture note: Walking past the park

8:00pm
Wolf Parade: Language City
The Magnetic Fields: Your Girlfriend’s Face
Atlas Sound: Modern Aquatic Nightsongs
Neko Case: Dirty Knife
Ferraby Lionheart: Pocketknife
The Parting Gifts: My Baby Tonight
Cass McCombs: Meet Me At the Mannequin Gallery
Young Prisms: Dead Flowers
JD McPherson: North Side Gal (I’d be in heaven if I could listen to rock and soul like this all day, every day. It’s my number one favorite kind of music.)
Babe City: Wait Weight
Damien Jurado: Reel To Reel
José González: Heartbeats
Chains of Love: Mistake Lover
Shearwater: Open Your Houses
The Films: God Bless Your Heart
Helium: Ocean Of Wine

9:00
Daniel Rossen: Up On High
Little Joy: Unattainable
Beach House: Walk in the Park
James Blake: To Care (Like You) (One of my favorite albums of 2011. Still liking it in 2012
The Innocence Mission: Song For Tom (I call the years before I knew about this band the “lost years”. Watch the magic in this live version of this song. And prepare to never be the same again.)
Brown Bird: Mabel Grey
Cryptacize: No Coins
Andrew Bird: Night Sky
Lost In The Trees: Red
Anya Marina: Hot Button
The Barr Brothers: Let There Be Horses
Emily Wells: Passenger
Bon Iver: Flume
Lambchop: Never My Love
The Ink Spots: When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano

Picture note: Flyin

9:00
Real Estate: It’s Real
The Shins: It’s Only Life
Justin Townes Earle: Down On the Lower East Side
Serra: Under the Trees
Silver Swans: House Of Blood
Grandaddy: Yeah Is What We Had
Morphine: In Spite of Me (Out of the blue one day I was driving and realized that I was sad that Mark Sandman won’t sing any new songs for Morphine. Because he died. I’m thankful for this song. Very thankful.)
The Watson Twins: How Am I To Be
Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring For My Halo
The Parlor: You’re In My Eye (From their swell new album. You can listen to the whole thing here.)
Damien Jurado: Maraqopa
Jeff Hanson: Nothing Would Matter at All
Chairlift: Turning
Fenster: White To Red
Magnolia Electric Co.: The Rock Of Ages
Keren Ann: The Harder Ships Of The World

Picture note: Magic egg tree

They used to be called “We Are Jeneric.” Now they are “The Parlor” and they shocked my heart at last year’s Restoration Festival. (Their performance was passionate and breathtaking.) Their new cd is great and I can’t wait to hear these new songs played live right in front of me this coming Saturday, 4/7 at Valentines.

9:00
Fenster: Fantasy II
Justin Townes Earle: Am I That Lonely Tonight? (Songs like this one, that sing about the radio and/or pinball, are my faves.)
The Magnetic Fields: All She Cares About Is Mariachi
Au Revoir Simone: A Violent Yet Flammable World
Bowerbirds: Overcome With Light
Memoryhouse: All Our Wonder (I had a tough time getting into this album but  this song is starting to get me into it. I really like the name of the band and that makes me really want to get into the music.)
Akron/Family: I’ll Be On The Water
Andrew Bird: Lusitania
Frankie Rose: Apples For The Sun (At Valentines May 3 (a Thursday!))
Sam Cooke: You’re Always On My Mind
Islands: Cold Again
Cat Power: Fool
Josh Ritter: Darlin’
TOPS: Rings of Saturn
Laura Gibson: Red Moon
Nick Drake: Winter Is Gone

Picture note: Awesome poster with tons of my favorite color (yellow) by Phil Pascuzzo

8:00pm
Tennis: Origins
Yo La Tengo: You Can Have It All (One of my all-time favorite songs. I like hearing it come after the new Tennis song. They flow.)
Heartless Bastards: Out At Sea
The Parlor: Tear Down The Coastline (They used to be We Are Jeneric, remember that name? Now they are The Parlor and they have a new album and party that we’re all invited to to celebrate it on Saturday, 4/7, at Valentine’s.)
Chairlift: Met Before
Fenster: Oh Canyon
The Magnetic Fields: Goin’ Back to the Country
Bowerbirds: Death Wish
The Heavenly States: Model Son
Damien Jurado: Tornado
Grimes: Oblivion (The official video to the Hello Pretty City year of dancing. At first I thought it was like old school Madonna meets Chinese restaurant mood music. Now I can’t stop listening to this song I guess that means that this combo really, really works for me. This guy’s cover is good, too!)
Terry Malts: Tumble Down
Akron/Family: River
MaryLeigh & The Fauves: Freezing
The Slits: Instant Hit
Wilco: War On War

9:00
Frankie Rose: Daylight Sky (Valentines! 5/3…a Thursday!)
Doug Martsch: Reel Around the Fountain
Islands: No Crying
Delta Spirit: Yamaha
TOPS: Evening
Cass McCombs: Robin Egg Blue
Luna: New Haven Comet
Claps: Eyes Remain
The Barr Brothers: The Devil’s Harp
Langhorne Slim: Diamonds and Gold (All the words to this song are important. He’s a magic songwriter.)
Sara Lov: Well I Wonder
Plants and Animals: Before
Winterpills: January Rain
My Best Friend: In Ghostlike Fading

Picture note: Window

8:00pm
The Besties: Our Days in Kansas
The Shivers: I Want You Back
Islands: Can’t Feel My Face
Dr. Dog: Do the Trick (Playing at Northern Lights this Tuesday, songs start at 8. Info here, see you there!)
Tennis: Traveling
The Cave Singers: No Prosecution If We Bail (Why do I love this song? Because of those yelps! Or are they yawps?)
Bowerbirds: Sweet Moment
Bodies of Water: Open Rhythms
Terry Malts: Something About You
Shearwater: Breaking the Yearlings
Veronica Falls: Misery
Frankie Rose: Night Swim (Coming to Valentines on May 3!)
First Aid Kit: King of the World
Extra Classic: Congo Rebel (Light reggae seems perfect for springtime dreaming.)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra: Ffunny Ffriends (Not a song I would normally play but this seemed perfect to play really loud with the car windows all the way open on a day like today.)
Langhorne Slim: Restless
Cut Copy: Where I’m Going

9:00
Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves Of Destiny: Dodecahedron
Grizzly Bear: All We Ask
Laura Cantrell: When The Roses Bloom Again
Quilt: Children of Light
Silver Swans: Around You
Mazzy Star: Common Burn
Crushed Stars: Brighter Now
Dan Auerbach: When The Night Comes
Beach House: Zebra
Damien Jurado: So On, Nevada
Grimes: Genesis
The Ink Spots: If I Didn’t Care
Laura Gibson: Skin Warming Skin
Heartless Bastards: So Quiet
Charlotte Gainsbourg: In The End

Picture note: Puzzle

8:00pm
Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves Of Destiny: Atlas
Veronica Falls: The Box
Spent: Ready OK
Lower Dens: Brains (Hearing this song while I drive makes me go many miles over the speed limit. So glad that she stopped in Albany a last week. Added to my favorite songs of 2012.)
Flash & The Memphis Casuals: Uptight Tonight (I love songs that sound like this. I need to find more of them.)
Shearwater: Animal Life (This new album already made my list of favorite albums of 2012.)
Tender Trap: Grand National
Dr. Dog: Heavy Light (Seeing them at Northern Lights on Tuesday, 3/20.)
Phoenix: Lisztomania
Laura Gibson: The Fire
Frankie Rose: Gospel / Grace (She’s coming to Albany in May!)
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart: Heart In Your Heartbreak (Going to spend some time with this band’s music this week. I think it might make summer come along faster.)
Eli “Paperboy” Reed: Tell Me What I Wanna Hear
Smith Westerns: Imagine Pt. 3
The Shivers: Used To Be
Damien Jurado: This Time Next Year

9:00
Winterpills: Minxy
Youth Lagoon: Afternoon (The whistling and fuzziness in this song delight me. Makes me smile and stomp my foot every time I hear it. I think I should make it my official “driving home from work” song.)
Sebadoh: Not A Friend
First Aid Kit: New Year’s Eve
High Highs: Flowers Bloom
Real Estate: Out Of Tune
Josh Ritter: See Me Through
Islands: Lonely Love
Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, Yim Yames: Fly High
The Mountain Goats: Damn These Vampires
Porcelain Raft: Picture
Fleet Foxes: Bedouin Dress
Evan Dando: All My Life
Ane Brun: Gillian (She plays it live on tv here. It’s a beaut.)
Release The Sunbird: Best Thing For Me

Picture note: !!!!