March 2011 Playlist -- Metaphors, Son

Ryan Adams - "Damn Sam"
  "Damn, Sam. I love a woman that rains"

The Magnetic Fields - "The Book of Love"
  "The Book of Love is long and boring / no one can lift the damn thing"

The Mountain Goats - "International Small Arms Traffic"
  "Our love is like the boarder between Greece and Albania"

Okkervil River - "A Stone"
  "You love the hallowest tone / you love a stone"

Andrew Bird - "Sovay"
  "And then a word washed to shore"

The Castanets - "You are the blood"
  "You are the blood flowing through my fingers"

Thee More Shallows - "House Breaks"
  "If You stay awake in this dream, in this dream you're going to die"

Anathallo - "John J. Audubon"
  "Our stories all just sink below the mess of wake the millions of paddled palms our cupped hands make."

Cloud Cult - "Everybody Here Is a Cloud"
  "Everybody Here Is a Cloud / Everybody here will evaporate"

Bon Iver - "Flume"
  "Only love is all maroon / gluey feathers on a flume / Sky is womb"

The National - "Anyone's Ghost"
  "Walk through the Manhattan valleys of the dead / Didn't want to be your ghost"

February 2011 Playlist - A Horse Is a Horse Is a Horse, of Course

There will be a horse in my backyard very shortly. So here for February is a horse-themed mix to prepare me for all those horse-centric moments of the near future.

January 2011 Playlist - Ride the New Year Waves

Cold Cave - "Life Magazine (Delorean Remix)"
Tree Wave - "Sleep" [Mp3 via official band site]
Crystal Castles vs. Health - "Crimewave"
Washed Out - "New Theory"
The Crystal Stilts - "Love is a Wave" [Mp3 via stereogum]
Wavves - "Baseball Cards"
The Drums - "Let's Go Surfing"
Surfer Blood - "Floating Vibes"
Ducktails - "Killn' The Vibe (Ft. Panda Bear)"
The Shins - "Black Wave"
The Decemberists - "The Wanting Comes in Waves"

December 2010 Playlist--Don't Lose The Chill

Here are some *chill* songs I've been sober-living to this month.

1. Glasser - "Home"
2. The National - "Bloodbuzz Ohio" [Mp3 via Pitchfork]
3. CEO - "Come With Me"
4. Crystal Castles -"Not In Love ft. Robert Smith"
5. The Russian Futurists - "Let's Get Ready to Crumble"
6. Fleet Foxes - "Mykonos"
7. Wild Nothing - "China Town"
8. Twin Shadow - "Castles in the Snow" [Mp3 via Pitchfork]
9. Passion Pit - "The Reeling"
10. Neon Indian - "Terminally Chill"
11. Washed Out - "Feel it All Around" [Mp3 via Pitchfork]
12. Gorillaz - "On Melancholy Hill"

November 2010 Playlist

YouTube playlists for the win.  Here are some old and new songs I am enjoying in November 2010.

1.  Caribou - "Odessa" - (Free at Amazon)
2.  Delorean - "Real Love"
3.  Candy Claws - "Sunbeam Show"
4.  M83 - "We Own the Sky"
5.  Deastro - "Light Powered"
6.  Sufjan Stevens - "All for Myself"
7.  The Tallest Man on Earth - "Like the Wheel"  - (Free at Amazon)
8.  Shearwater - "Rooks"
9.  DM Stith - "Pitty Dance"
10. Wilco and Billy Bragg (and Guthrie) - "Remember the Mountain Bed"
11. Jens Leckman - "Shirin"