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.)

8:00pm
The Drums: What You Were
Booker T. Jones: Down In Memphis
R.E.M.: Texarkana
Gospel Music: This Town Doesn’t Have Enough Bars For Both Of Us
Richard Swift: Whitman
Vetiver: You May Be Blue
Feist: Comfort Me
TV Girl: Lizzy Come Back to Life
Robyn: Hang With Me (So dancey, so good. I wonder if I’ll still like it in 2015.)
Marine Girls: Honey
Okkervil River: Your Past Life as a Blast (Listening to one Okkervil River song always makes me want to listen to another one and another one and on and on.)
Spectrals: Doing Time
The Coathangers: My Baby
Nethers: Three Hearts
Peter Wolf Crier: Playwright

9:00pm
The Kills: The Last Goodbye
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart: Anne With An E (Ready for a dose of My Bloody Valentine now.)
Diego Garcia: Under This Spell
Golden Ghost: Pried Up The Bark
The Deep Dark Woods: Sugar Mama
M83: Splendor
Rachael Yamagata: Stick Around
Andrew Bird: Night Sky
Loney, Dear: Loney Blues
Ben Lee: Deeper Into Dream
Angus & Julia Stone: Wasted
Grey Reverend: Road Less Travelled
The Blow with Richard Swift: S.O.S.
Peter Gabriel: Mercy Street (“…out in the boat, riding the water, riding the waves…on the sea.” Always feel so special singing along to this part.)
Red House Painters: Mistress

Picture note: Friend’s tuner

8:00pm
Architecture In Helsinki: Heart It Races
Surfer Blood: Drinking Problem
Supechunk: Driveway to Driveway
Veronica Falls: Found Love In A Graveyard
Class Actress: Weekend
Andrew Bird: Lull
Wooden Birds: Baby Jeans (Toe.Tapper.Finger.Snapper.)
The Alabama Shakes: I Found You (I’m ready to be obsessed with the grit in her voice. Move over Sharon Jones.)
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart: Even In Dreams
The Crystals: Then He Kissed Me
Generationals: Tell Me Now
Memphis: I Want The Lights On After Dark
Nikki Lane: Gone, Gone, Gone
Weekend: Hazel
Gardens & Villa: Star Fire Power

9:00pm
Jens Lekman: So This Guy At My Office
Chuck Berry: Havana Moon
Kathleen Edwards: Wapusk
Ben Sollee: How to see the sun rise
Twin Sister: Eastern Green
Devendra Banhart: Can’t Help But Smiling
Feist: How Come You Never Go There
Darren Hanlon: Butterfly Bones
Laura Marling: What He Wrote
Revolver: 2 A.M. Big Wish
Merle Haggard: Hungry Eyes
Soley: Smashed Birds
The Walkmen: Red Moon
Brown Bird: End Of Days
Tom Waits: Back in the Crowd (When I first heard this song it reminded me of another song but I can’t figure out which song! Can you?)
Arthur Russell: This Is How We Walk On The Moon

Picture note: Loading up the new radio/record player combo console

8:00pm
Generationals: Dirty Mister Dirty
The Crystals: He’s Sure The Boy I Love
Veronica Falls: Right Side Of My Brain
Jonathan Richman: The Girl Stands Up To Me Now
Andrew Bird: A Nervous Tic Motion Of The Head To The Left (Listening to lots of Andrew Bird these days in effort to relive the sensation of seeing him play at the Troy Saving Bank last month.)
Katie Dill: The Body’s Only Rental (Another version of this song here.)
Kurt Vile: In My Time
Julie Doiron: The Best Thing For Me
Tame Impala: Island Walking
Magnolia Electric Co.: The Dark Don’t Hide It
Twin Sister: Spain
Junip: Howl
Vetiver: Won’t Be Me
Laura Marling: Darkness Descends
Billy Bragg & Wilco: At My Window Sad And Lonely (From Mermaid Avenue album. I’m thinking that this whole thing could be considered entirely timeless.)
Other Lives: For 12

9:00pm
Grizzly Bear: While You Wait For The Others
Belle & Sebastian: The State I Am In
Damien Jurado: Ohio
The Low Anthem: To Ohio (Reprise)
The Innocence Mission: Since I Still Tell You My Every Day
The National: Runaway
Nick Lowe: Somebody Cares for Me
The Last Town Chorus: Wintering In Brooklyn
Megafaun with Heather McEntire: Hope You Know
Wooden Birds: Too Pretty To Say Please
Loney, Dear: Calm Down
Big Harp: Let Me Lend My Shoulder
P:ano: When You Garden In Your Garden
The Shins: Weird Divide
Jolie Holland: Honey Girl

Picture note: Sunny weekend

8:00pm
Laura Marling: All My Rage (From her new album which I hear differently each time I listen to it; probably adding it to the top 2011 listen. Maybe. Most likely.)
Wilco: A Creature I Don’t Know
Brown Bird: Thunder And Lightning
Lana Del Rey: Video Games
Buke And Gass: Sleep Gets Your Ghost
Generationals: Black and White
Neutral Milk Hotel: Ghost
The Cave Singers: All Land Crabs and Divinity Ghosts
Shimmering Stars: Nervous Breakdown
Mayer Hawthorne: Dreaming
Twin Sister: Bad Street
Youth Lagoon: Afternoon (Soft and subdued with a nice little beat to go along with each song on the full album.)
Those Darlins: Be Your Bro
Alexander: Let’s Win
Brilliant Colors: Hey Dan
The Love Language: Wilmont

9:00pm
Jens Lekman: An Argument With Myself
A.A. Bondy: The Heart is Willing
Feist: The Circle Married the Line
No Kids: For Halloween
Au Revoir Simone: Fallen Snow
Anders Parker: Airport Road
Anna Calvi: I’ll Be Your Man
Iron & Wine: No Moon
Mother McKenzie: Rattlesnakes and Bumblebees
Golden Ghost: When Worlds Collide (Moonscape #1)
Release The Sunbird: Everytime You Go
Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova: The Moon
Soley: I’ll Drown
Bonnie “Prince” Billy: Quail & Dumplings (Love the jauntiness of this song and how their voices wrap around each other. And hand claps!!!)
Mina Tindle: Echo

Picture note: What I saw in D.C.

8:00pm
Here We Go Magic: Backwards Time
Lana Del Rey: Blue Jeans (She’s so breathy! I’m finding her endlessly fun to listen to.)
The Drums: I Don’t Know How to Love (Their new album makes me miss listening to their old album.)
Shimmering Stars: I’m Gonna Try
The Rapture: Roller Coaster
Marketa Irglova: Go Back
Brown Bird: Blood Of Angels
Whiskeytown: Dancing With The Women At The Bar (Could put this one on repeat, going back and forth with the Lana Del Rey song.)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Maniac
Mina Tindle: To Carry Many Small Things
Vivian Girls: Trying to Pretend
The Goodnight Loving: Doesn’t Shake Me
Her Space Holiday: Anything For Progress
Loney, Dear: My Heart
Big Troubles: Sad Girls
Pearly Gate Music: I Woke Up
R.E.M.: Country Feedback (The album artwork is by some of my favorite artists; I had no idea they’d be my favorites when it first came out. All I remember of the sleeve is that it took forever to fold up all the lyrics and put them back into the cassette case.)

9:00pm
Nick Lowe: Sensitive Man
Laura Marling: Don’t Ask Me Why
Wilco: Open Mind
Lykke Li: Unrequited Love
The Wilderness of Manitoba: Native Tongue
Jonny Corndawg: Night Rider
Lisa Hannigan: Paper House
Youth Lagoon: 17
Megafaun with Adam Heathcott (Reactable Mobile): State / Meant
Julian Plenti: On The Esplanade
Daniel Martin Moore: Stray Age
Peter Gabriel: Flume
Julie Doiron: Me and My Friend
The Boswell Sisters: St. Louis Blues
Vic Chesnutt: You Are Never Alone

Picture note: My old backyard

8:00
The Drums: Book of Revelation
Regina: Unessa
Pet Lions: Sleeping
Brown Bird: Chairkickers
Big Troubles: She Smiles For Pictures
The Zombies: Don’t Cry For Me
Peter Wolf Crier: Settling It Off
Zola Jesus: Seekir
Mates Of State: Total Serendipity
Milagres: Halfway
Veronica Falls: Bad Feeling
Radiohead: House Of Cards (one of my all-time favorite songs)
Quilt: Penobska Oakwalk
Vivian Girls: Lake House
Wilco: Capitol City (kinda like an Albany ode)
Eleanor Friedberger: Owl’s Head Park

9:00
Family Of The Year: Chugjug
Dum Dum Girls: Coming Down
Marla Hansen: Hollow and Bold
My Morning Jacket: Wordless Chorus
Foals: Spanish Sahara
CANT: Answer
Wye Oak: Two Small Deaths
Luke Temple: More Than Muscle
Lisa Hannigan: Passenger
In the Family: In the Family
Pearly Gate Music: Gossamer Hair
Jono McCleery feat. Vashti Bunyan: Only
The Gentle Good: Ocean Is King

Picture note: Autumn hydrangea

Josh Ritter: To The Dogs Or Whoever (playing at The Egg on Friday night!)
Brown Recluse: March To Your Tomb
Beirut: Nantes
Magnet: The Gospel Song
Those Darlins: Boy
Dan Mangan: Post-War Blues
Real Estate: Beach Comber
The War On Drugs: Black Water Falls
Lux Perpetua: Creature from the Deep (Sometimes I listen to this on repeat, pretending that it’s a scary Halloween song)
Vivian Girls: Dance (If You Wanna)
Loney, Dear: Hard Days 1.2.3.4
Damien Jurado & Richard Swift: Crazy Like A Fox
Cults: Abducted (Still love this whole album even after loving it all summer)
Nurses: Trying To Reach You
The Feelies: Later On
Rose Melberg: Your Tears
House Of Wolves: 50’s
Wooden Birds: Struck By Lightning
Mark Mulcahy: Hurry Please Hurry
Peter Von Poehl: The Story Of The Impossible
Jens Lekman: Waiting for Kirsten
Carl Broemel: Heaven Knows
Beach House: Take Care
Caitlin Rose: Learnin To Ride
José González: Slow moves
A.A. Bondy: Surfer King (A song from his new album which I need to spend some quality time digging into)
Jolie Holland: The Devil’s Sake
Sufjan Stevens: The Avalanche
Teenage Mysticism: T.S.
Bonnie “Prince” Billy: Strange Form of Life
Sibylle Baier: Colour Green

Picture note: Postal eagle

8:00pm
Crooked Fingers: What Never Comes
Megafaun: Second Friend
Destroyer: Savage Night at the Opera
José González: Down The Line
Beirut: Port of Call
The Features: Lions
Lanie Lane: Ain’t Hungry
Unknown Mortal Orchestra: How Can U Luv Me
Seapony: I Never Would
Little Joy: No One’s Better Sake
Devon Williams: Revelations
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.: Simple Girl
The Rosebuds: Woods
Procedure Club: Feel Sorry For Me
I was a King: Nightwalking
Nurses: Wouldn’t Tell
Local Natives: Cards & Quarters

9:00
The Antlers: Rolled Together
R.E.M.: Cuyahoga
The Head And The Heart: Sounds Like Hallelujah
Beach House: Better Times
Bahamas: What’s Worse (This guy’s album “Pink Strat” is great)
Maria Taylor: Bad Idea?
We Are Jeneric: Murder of Crows (Local 518ers who rocked my world at Rest Fest this year)
The Raveonettes: Summer Moon
The Low Anthem: To Ohio
Diego Garcia: Separate Lives
Sufjan Stevens: Saul Bellow
Richard Buckner: Hindsight
Fleet Foxes: Montezuma
Psuedosix: Under The Waves
Teenage Mysticism: Bad Moods (Emotional Barbarism At The River) (He played at the Hello Pretty City concert in August)

Picture note: Public School 18, 43 Bertha Street, Albany

8:00
Girls Names: Séance On A Wet Afternoon
Ravens & Chimes: The House Where You Were Born
Cate Le Bon: Me Oh My
The National: Terrible Love
Veronica Falls: Bad Feeling
The Autumn Defense: Paradise
Regina: Jos Et Sa Soita
Dirty Projectors + David Byrne: Knotty Pine
The Cave Singers: Gifts and the Raft
Brown Recluse: Monday Moon (A new song from tonight’s show that I’d like to put on repeat)
The Dodos: Don’t Try And Hide It
Kevin Devine: The City Has Left You Alone
The War On Drugs: Brothers
Dan Mangan: Oh Fortune
Beirut: A Candle’s Fire
Port O’Brien: Love Me Through
Thao & The Get Down, Stay Down: Geography

9:00
Wilco: Radio Cure (The new Wilco album comes out this week. It sounds good and thoughtful.)
Eleanor Friedberger: Inn of the Seventh Ray
Connie Francis: Be Anything (But Be Mine)
Case Studies: My Silver Hand
Release The Sunbird: We’ll Begin Tomorrow (I’ll put this one on repeat, too! It’s new-ish.)
Woods: Pick Up
Ponies In The Surf: New Century Program
Gillian Welch: Hard Times
Iron & Wine: Friends They Are Jewels
The Boswell Sisters: Sleep, Come On and Take Me
Sufjan Stevens: Chicago
Meg Baird: All I Ever Wanted (An old favorite. Her new album came out last week but I haven’t heard it yet. I must fix that!)
House Of Wolves: There She Goes
Maggie Bjorklund: Intertwined
Pepper Rabbit: Tiny Fingers

Picture note: Dog show