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.)

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