Playlist for 9/15/13

8:00am (+ 8:00pm!)
Paul Simon:  The Obvious Child

The Cave Singers: Have to Pretend

Tame Impala: Mind Mischief
Rose Maddox: Wild Wild Young Men (Probably my favorite song of the show. She has the best yodelyelp.)
Jessica Hernandez and the Deltas: In The City

IO Echo: EcstasyGhost

Happy Birthday: Girls FM
Dum Dum Girls: Teardrops on My Pillow
Jim Guthrie: Nighttime/Anytime (it's alright)
Phosphorescent: Ride On / Right On
Legs: Go Ask Your Mother
English Singles: Ordinary Girls
Devendra Banhart: Long Haired Child
Kids On A Crime Spree: I Don't Want To Call You Baby, Baby
Jonny Fritz: Wrong Crowd
Foxygen: San Francisco
Yo La Tengo: You Can Have It All

9:00 (+ 9:00pm!)
Major Lazer: Jessica (feat. Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend)

Eliza Doolittle: Missing
James Blake: Retrograde
Emiliana Torrini: Honeymoon Child (She has a new album out but I'll can't let go of loving "Fisherman's Woman" from 2005.)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Wide Lovely Eyes
Camera Obscura: Careless Love
powerdove: Under Awnings
Junip: Line of Fire
Marissa Nadler: The Sun Always Reminds Me Of You
Kurt Vile: KV Crimes
Laura Stevenson: Runner
Shovels & Rope: Johnny 99
Jessica Lea Mayfield: Blue Skies Again
Johnny Cash: Send A Picture Of Mother
Chairlift: Frigid Spring

Playlist for 9/8/13 show

8:00am (+ 8:00pm!)

Luna: Thank You for Sending Me an Angel

Gold Motel: We're On The Run

Okkervil River: White

The Sadies: Another Day Again

Lord Huron: Ends Of The Earth

First Aid Kit: Sailor Song (Here's their live set and interview with Chris Wienk at WEXT.)

Bleached: When I Was Yours

Kids On A Crime Spree: Sweet Tooth

Beach Fossils: Clash The Truth

The Parting Gifts: Bound To Let Me Down

Ariel + the Undertow: Kindness from Strangers

Pants Yell!: Marble Staircase

Chromatics: Cherry

Volcano Choir: Byegone

Real Estate: Beach Comber

Foals: Out Of The Woods

Slumber Party: You've Gone Too Far

9:00 (+ 9:00pm!)

Golden Suits: Swimming in 99 (You gotta see this video. It combines my favorite things. NYC, books, and jangle pop)

Panda Bear: Ponytail (Just added them to list of bands I used to hate and now I like.)

Alela Diane: Rose & Thorn

Lightning Dust: Fire Me Up

Department Of Eagles: No One Does It

A.A. Bondy: To The Morning

Snake Eyes: Snake Eyes

Harry Nilsson: Good Old Desk (live on the BBC)

Pure Bathing Culture: Dream the Dare

Aden: Pop Song

Valerie June: Twined & Twisted

Yo La Tengo: Pushin' Against A Stone

Assateague: Good Morning Blues

The Staves: Gone Tomorrow

Ponies In The Surf: Poor Jenny

Andrew Bird: Action/AdventurePicture note: Last day at the track

Playlist for 9/1/13 show

8:00am (+ 8:00pm!)

Beck: Youthless

Sufjan Stevens: Adlai Stevenson

Panda Bear: Comfy In Nautica

Broadcast: Tears In The Typing Pool

Beirut: Bandenburg

The Cave Singers: Gifts and the Raft

Man Man: Head On

The Parlor: Tear Down The Coastline

Beach House: 10 Mile Stereo

Lord Huron: Brother

Valerie June: You Can't Be Told (This Sam Cooke cover is pretty special.)

Telekinesis: Power Lines

Pants Yell!: We've Got History

Papercuts: Take The 227th Exit

DIANA: Foreign Installation

Twin Steps: Son of Sam

9:00 (+ 9:00pm!)

Mia Doi Todd: Autumn

The Moondoggies: Empress of the North

Edith Frost: The Very Earth

Beachwood Sparks: Earl Jean

Willy Mason: Talk Me Down(Still listening to this new album every day and keeping this song as my favorite.)

Peaking Lights: Subterranean Brainblow

Shudder To Think: Mom's Mercedes

Revolver: Calm Down

Ben Kweller: Gypsy Rose

Lily & Madeleine: In The Middle (There's another good song from their new album here.)

The Tallest Man On Earth: Bright Lanterns

Brightblack Morning Light: All We Have Broken Shines

Cotton Jones: Sail Of The Silver Morning

Kurt Vile: Wakin on a Pretty Day

Paradise Island: We Ate Until We Ate It All

Playlist for 8/25/13 show

8:00am (+ 8:00pm!)

Mariee Sioux: Buried In Teeth

Chairlift: I Belong In Your Arms

Fruit Bats: Heart Like an Orange

Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside: Do Me Right

Dum Dum Girls: Bedroom Eyes

Mother McKenzie: You in the Gutter and ME

Veronica Falls: Falling Out

Scientific Maps: Let Them See The Cables (I became this song's biggest fan when I heard them play it at Rest Fest in 2011. Here's the lineup for this year's Rest Fest.)

Okkervil River: It Was My Season

Yo La Tengo: Is That Enough

Lou Doillon: Questions and Answers

Allo Darlin': Silver Dollars

Brown Bird: Bow For Blade

The National: Fits Of Reason

Golden Grrrls: Take Your Time

Coke Weed: Back To Soft (Not only are they from Maine but they are from Bar Harbor, Maine! I saw lots of shooting stars when I lived there for two summers.)

9:00 (+ 9:00pm!)

Lady Lamb The Beekeeper: Rooftop

The Moondoggies: Lead Me On

Yellowbirds: What's Out There

Simon & Garfunkel: The Boxer

Dave Rawlings Machine: Sweet Tooth

Valerie June: Somebody To Love (I still can't stop listening to this album. It's on my "Best of 2013" list five times! (haha.) The way she opened her song on Letterman last week gave me 10 second goosebumps.) 

Belle & Sebastian: We Rule The School

Jim Guthrie: Turn Me On

Eleanor Friedberger: I Am The Past

Bessie Smith: Backwater Blues

The Milk Carton Kids: Hope Of A Lifetime

Soko: The Ash & Clay

Telekinesis: Symphony

Eels: Little Bird

Picture note: Corner of New Scotland and Quail

Playlist for 8/18/13 show

8:00am (+ 8:00pm!)

Dent May: Let Them Talk

Alex Winston: Fire Ant

Le Tigre: My My Metrocard

Okkervil River: Stay Young

Coke Weed: Anklet

The Mynabirds: Wash It Out

The Shivers: Kisses

Carl Smith: Kisses Don't Lie

Alela Diane: Of Many Colors

The Middle East: Land Of The Bloody Unknown

Mia Doi Todd: My Baby Lives in Paris

Lord Huron: I Will Be Back One Day (Their entire performance from the 2013 Newport Folk Festival is here for free! I want to sit and daydream to it and not do anything else.)

Pure Bathing Culture: Pendulum

Beachwood Sparks: Forget the Song

Young Dreams: Dream Alone, Wake Together

Minisnap: Rehash

9:00 (+ 9:00pm!)

Deer Tick: Art Isn't Real (City of Sin)

Soko: How Are You

Shudder To Think: Dominoes

Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Wai

Laura Gibson: Down by the Riverside

My Morning Jacket: True Love Ways

Camera Obscura: New Year's Resolution

Songs: Ohia: Back On Top

Laura Stevenson: Journey to the Center of the Earth

Foxygen: Shuggie

Alexi Murdoch: All My Days

Viking Moses & Golden Ghost: Carousel (Just saw him play in Kingston a few weeks ago and as always, his performance stunned me. Here's a little video I made of him playing in New York last fall.)

Night Beds: Wanted You In August

Mount Moriah: Younger Days

Norah Jones Feat. M. Ward: Blue Bayou

Rose Melberg: Cast Away The Clouds

Picture note: Neil Young album that I had never heard and really, really liked!

Playlist for 8/11/13 show

8:00am (+ 8:00pm!)

Okkervil River: Calling And Not Calling My Ex

Veronica Falls: Bad Feeling

Speedy Ortiz: No Below

Sufjan Stevens: Dear Mr. Supercomputer

La Luz: Brainwash

Petra Haden: Psycho Prelude

Iron & Wine: Singers and the Endless Song

Tennis: Origins

The Dodos: Don't Stop

Real Estate: Snow Days

Lisa Hannigan: Knots

Bill Callahan: Eid Ma Clack Shaw

Man Man: Head On (Headliners for this year's Rest Feston Saturday, 9/7.)

Bleached: Outta My Mind

Mikal Cronin: Peace Of Mind

Bodies of Water: Triplets

9:00 (+ 9:00pm!)

Cat Power: Maybe Not

Sean Rowe: Night

OMD: Souvenir

Wampire: Trains

Sonny & The Sunsets: Mutilator

The Boswell Sisters: Shuffle Off to Buffalo

The Radio Dept.: Peace Of Mind

Hand Habits: It Doesn't Matter

Ariel + the Undertow: Only in French

Calexico: Hush

Seapony: What You See

A.A. Bondy: I Can See The Pines Are Dancing

Yo La Tengo: Two Trains

Damien Jurado & Richard Swift: If The Sun Stops Shinin'

Le Tigre: Eau d' Bedroom Dancing

Playlist for 8/4/13 show

8:00am (+ 8:00pm!)

Seapony: Dreaming

Eleanor Friedberger: She's A Mirror

Legs: Two Colours

Yo La Tengo: Nothing To Hide

Y La Bamba: Oh February

Anna von Hausswolff: Mountains Crave

Shannon And The Clams: Heads or Tails

Junip: Your Life Your Call

Bleached: Looking For a Fight

Arctic Monkeys: Do I Wanna Know?

Luna: California (All The Way)

Spectrals: Let Me Cave In

Young Dreams: First Days of Something

Phosphorescent: Ride On / Right On

Lower Dens: Lamb

Rodriguez: Sugar Man

9:00 (+ 9:00pm!)

Red House Painters: Summer Dress (So day-dreamy, an obligatory song for when I start to see the end of summer. Kind of like how it feels on the last day of vacation on the beach.)

Devendra Banhart: Never Seen Such Good Things

Slumber Party: I Never Dreamed

Sonny & The Sunsets: Path of Orbit

Shugo Tokumaru: Katachi

Antony: Landslide

Fleet Foxes: Someone You'd Admire

Soko: I Thought I Was An Alien

James Blake: Retrograde

John Grant: GMF (Definitely listen to the fuck-laden version here.)

Cayucas: Will The Thrill (I know they're playing at Pearl Palooza but I think they should play on a boat floating down the Hudson after work one day of what's left of this summer.)

The Staves: Pay Us No Mind

Lord Huron: I Will Be Back One Day

Camera Obscura: Desire Lines

Perfume Genius: Normal Song

Mirah/Ginger Takahashi: While We Have The Sun

Picture note: Jukebox at the South End Tavern in Troy