The Playlist

In which a public radio programmer notes her musical and other inspirations

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...featuring The Playlist faves tUnE-yArDs, James Blake, Kurt Vile, Fleet Foxes, PJ Harvey, Bon Iver & Girls. Hear bits from each one of the 50 at the link.

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This week on the Playlist:

Tom Waits - Face to the Highway - Bad as Me - Anti- Blind Willies - title track - Needle, Feather, and a Rope - Diggory The Decemberists - Foregone - Long Live the King - Capitol Rebecca Pigeon - title track - Slingshot - Toy Canteen Matthew Sweet - When Love Lets Go I'm Falling - Modern Art - Missing Piece Girls - Forgiveness - Father, Son, Holy Ghost - True Panther Sounds Fountains of Wayne - Cold Comfort Flowers - Sky Full of Holes - Yep Roc John Gold - Thursday - A Flower in Your Head - Vagrant The Mekons - Calling All Demons - Ancient & Modern - Bloodshot Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - All Over Gently - Mirror Traffic - Matador The Barr Brothers - Held My Head - The Barr Brothers - Secret City Lake Street Dive - I Don't Really See You Anymore - self-titled - self-produced Nick Lowe - I Read A Lot - That Old Magic - Yep Roc Feist - The Circle Married the Line - Metals - Cherrytree/Interscope Lower Dens - Truss Me - Twin Hand Movement - Gnomonsong/Revolver My Brightest Diamond - Escape Routes - All Things Will Unwind - Asthmatic Kitty  PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder - Let England Shake - Vagrant  St Vincent - Surgeon - Strange Mercy - 4AD The Kooks - Taking Pictures of You - Junk of the Heart - Capitol Wilco - Dawned on Me - The Whole Love - Anti- Thurston Moore - Circulation - Demolished THoughts - Matador Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla - Inni - XL Mogwai - How to Be a Werewolf - Hardcore WIll Never Die, But You Will - Sub Pop Bon Iver - Lisbon, OH - Bon Iver - Jagjaguwar The Black Rabbits - So Long, Sophia - Hypno Switch - Rock Ridge/Silver Locket Sherrie Williams - I Need More Money - Out of the Dark - Electro-Fi Imelda May - Proud and Humble - Mayhem - Decca Leftover Cuties - Everyth8ing I Got - Places to Go - self-produced Will Galison - Just Because You Gotta Itch - Line Open - Waking Up Music Thanks for Listening, Bonnie Jean

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I love those guys.

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December is coming! This week's Playlist

Dear goodness me, is it almost the end of the year already? Here's what you will hear on the show this week - broadcasts at midnight!

St.Vincent - title track - Strange Mercy - 4AD Mogwai - White Noise - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will - Sub Pop Thurston Moore - In Silver Rain with a Paper Key - Demolished Thoughts - Matador Dave Stewart - One Way Ticket tot he Moon - The Blackbird Diaries - Surfdog Chadwick Stokes - Spider and Gioma - Simmerkane II - Ruff Shod Tom Waits - Talking at the Same Time - Bad as Me - Anti- PJ Harvey - The Last Living Rose - Let England Shake - Vagrant Matthew Sweet - Ladyfingers - Modern Art - Missing Piece Blind WIllies - Good and Faithful Servant - Needle, Feather, and a Rope - DIggory Alina Simone - My Love is a Mountain - Make Your Own Danger - self-produced The Barr Brothers - The Deacon's Son - THe Barr Brothers - Secret City The Jigsaw Seen - Woman Loves the Season - Winterland - Vibro-phone Girls - Vomit - Father, Son, Holy Ghost - True Panther Sounds City and Colour - Hope for Now - Little Hell - Vagrant Ryan Adams - Kindness - Ashes and Fire - Capitol Los Campesinos! - By Your Hand - Hello Sadness - Arts and Crafts The Kooks - How'd You Like That - Junk of the Heart - Capitol/Astralwerks The Black Rabbits - All Alone Again - Hypno Switch - Rock Ridge/Silver Locket Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Brain Gallop - Mirror Traffic - Matador The Mekons - Geeshie - Ancient & Modern - BLoodshot The Leftover Cuties - Sometimes - Places to Go - self-produced Will Galison - Bobby and Sally - Line Open - Waking Up Music Piers Faccini - And Still the Calling - My Wilderness - Six Degrees Marta Topferova - Night Sky - The Other Shore - World Village/Harmonia Mundi Mia Doi Todd - Paraty - Cosmic Ocean Ship - City Zen My Brightest Diamond - Ding Dang - All Things Will Unwind - Asthmatic Kitty Three Metre Day - Important Stories - Coasting Notes - self-produced Thanks for listening, Bonnie Jean 

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The Playlist for 11-24-11: your list of tunes

Happy thanksgiving! On tonight's show:

Sigur Ros - e-bow - Inni - XL Broken Bells - The High Road - self-titled - Columbia/Sony Mogwai - Letters to the Metro - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will - Sub Pop Peter Gabriel - The Rhythm of the Heat - New Blood - Realworld My Brightest Diamond - Reaching Through to the Other Side - All Things Will Unwind - Asthmatic Kitty Mia Doi Todd - Canto de Lemenja - Cosmic Ocean Ship - City Zen Records Piers Faccini - Say But Don't Say - My Wilderness - Six Degrees Thurston Moore - Blood Never Lies - Demolished Thoughts - Matador The Decemberists - E.Watson - Long Live the King - Capitol Alina Simone - Gunshots - Make Your Own Danger - self-produced The Barr Brothers - Lord, I Just Can't Keep From Crying - self-titled - Secret City JJ Grey & Mofro - Air - Brighter Days - Alligator Records The Soul of John Black - title track - Good Thang - Yellow Dog Records Lake Street Dive - Henriette - self-titled - Signature Sounds Blind Willies - Don't Let the Devil Steal Your Joy - Needle, Feather, and a Rope - Diggory Records Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Senator - Mirror Traffic - Matador The Black Rabbits - Twist - Hypno Switch - Rock Ridge Music Girls - Honey Bunny - Father, Son, Holy Ghost - True Panther Sounds The Kooks - Rosie - Junk of the Heart - Capitol Dum Dum Girls - Bedroom Eyes - Only in Dreams - Sub Pop John Gold - Honeymade - A Flower in Your Head - Vagrant City and Colour - Fragile Bird - Little Hell - Vagrant Wilco - Born Alone - The Whole Love - Anti- Rebecca Pigeon - I Loved No-One - Slingshot - Toy Canteen Leftover Cuties - I Would - Places to Go - self-produced Feist - Undiscovered First - Metals - Cerrytree/Interscope  and a wee bit of: Booker T Jones - The Hive - The Road From Memphis - Anti-

The fun starts at midnight!

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This week on The Playlist

Piers Faccini - That Cry - My Wilderness - Six Degrees Three Metre Day - Absecon Bay - Coasting Notes - self-produced Lower Dens - I Get Nervous - Twin-Hand Movement - Gnomonsong/Revolver City and Colour - Sorrowing Man - Little Hell - Vagrant Fountains of Wayne - Action Hero - Sky Full of Holes - Yep Roc My Brightest Diamond - We Added it Up - All Things Will Unwind - Asthmatic Kitty The Decemberists - Burying Davy - Long Live the King - Capitol Feist - Anti-Pioneer - Metals - Cherrytree/Interscope John Gold - We Get High - A Flower in Your Head - Vagrant Alina Simone - You Fade Away - Make Your Own Danger - self-produced Cold Play - Charlie Brown - Mylo Xyloto - Capitol Bon Iver - Calgary - Bon Iver - Jagjaguwar Mia Doi Todd - All My City - Cosmic Ocean Ship - City Zen Records Amos Lee - Arms of a Woman - Live from SoHo iTunes Session - Blue Note Thurston Moore - Illumine - Demolished Thoughts - Matador The Barr Brothers - The Devil's Harp - The Barr Brothers 2011 - Secret City Records Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Share the Red - Mirror Traffic - Matador Girls - Janie Marie - Father, Son, Holy Ghost - True Panther Sounds Booker T Jones - Walking Papers - The Road from Memphis - Anti- Betty Wright & the Roots - Old Songs - Betty Wright: The Movie - Ms B Records/S-Curve Records Lake Street Dive -  Funny Not to Care - self-titled - Self-produced Leftover Cuties - Not One - Places to Go -  self-produced Nina Ferraro - Take the Long Way Down - The Promise EP - self-produced Rebecca Pigeon - Is Anyone? - Slingshot - Toy Canteen Colin Hay - Send Somebody - Gathering Mercury - Lazy Eye/Compass Mogwai - Death Rays - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will - Sub Pop Thanks for listening, (listenable from KUSP's music player starting tomorrow morning) Bonnie Jean

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Just got tipped off to this charming series of music reviews. They captured my fancy with their take on a song from this year's The Cave Singers album, No Witch. 

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Who wore it better?

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Laura Veirs must have a baby

...Indeed she does. So of course here is her first album for kiddles, streaming until it's released at NPR.

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Preview: the playlist of tonight's show

The Playlist for 11-3-2011

Three Metre Day - I'm Like an Oak - Coasting Notes - #MD Bon Iver - Perth - Bon Iver - Jagjaguwar Mia Doi Todd - Summer Lover - Cosmic Ocean Ship - City Zen Records Piers Faccini - The Beggar and the Thief - My Wilderness - Six Degrees Addis Accoustic Project - Etitu Beredegen - Tewesta - Harmonia Mundi/World Village Blind Willies - Reprobate Mind - Needle Feather and a Rope - Diggory PJ Harvey - title track - Let England Shake - Vagrant Records The Kooks - title track (Happy) - Junk of the Heart - Capitol/Astralwerks John Gold - Vampire's Kiss - A Flower in Your Head - Vagrant The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love - iTunes Session Girls - Just a Song - Father, Son, Holy Ghost - True Panther Sounds Feist - Caught a Long Wind - Metals - Cherrytree/Interscope Alina Simone - Sun Kissed Slashes - Make Your Own Danger - self-produced City and Colour - Northern Wind - Little Hell - Vagrant Sondre Lerche - Living Dangerously - self-titled - Mona/Yep Roc Peter Gabriel - Mercy Street - New Blood - Realworld/EMI Chadwick Stokes - I Love Your Army - Simmerkane II - Ruff Shod Booker T. Jones - Progress (feat. Yin Yames) - The Road From Memphis - Anti- Leftover Cuties - Sunnyside - Places to Go - self-produced Fletcher's Castorians - Next Stop, Willoughby - Can You Stand the Excitement? - Sweet Debauchery Records Lake Street Dive - Neighbor Song - self-titled - Signature Sounds Imelda May - Kentish Town Waltz - Mayhem - Decca Nina Ferraro - The Promise - The Promise EP - self-produced Ella Washington - He Called Me Baby - self-titled - P&C/Sony Jimmy Lewis - How Long is a Heartache Supposed to Last - Still Wanna Be Black - Kent Soul] Black Velvet - Is It Me You Really Love - Dave Godin's Soul Treasures Vol 4 - Kent Soul Gladys Knight & the Pips - Giving Up - Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures Vol 4 - Kent Soul Thanks for Listening, Bonnie Jean

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Stephen Malkmus & the Kicks vid

Featuring Jack Black and Gary Cole. This is relevant because politics! (I just saw the Ides of March.) It's a bit crude though - WATCH OUT, FAMILIES!

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First Listen: Tom Waits' Bad as Me

Yaaay!

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I don't know you guys. I am concerned that a She and Him Christmas album may be way, way too cutsie. I loved Zooey Deschanel crooning in the Elf shower scene as much as the next lady.  I mean, she can sing, and she can hold her own when it matters most. But didn't you think She & Him Vol 2 was on the cutsie side? And now this show New Girl, where they've fluffed and curled her hair to an insane degree, probably so her eyes don't look so freakishly large? I guess, huh. Maybe I have a problem with cutsie. Come to think of it, cutsie groups are a Christmas album natural choice. I take it back. Carry on, A Very She & Him Christmas!

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I see what they did there.

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Christmast is Coming!

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This is all I've been listening to the past couple days. With instrumentation by the alt-classical yMusic Ensemble, which I am also going to have to check out now. NPR Music introduced me to Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond in the first place, when she performed in the Dark Was the Night Concert  and promptly gave me the tinglies. She also was the vocal highlight of the Decemberists' rock opera album, The Hazards of Love. The album you can hear from the link above, All Things Will Unwind, will be released October 18th. Until then, you can listen away to the whole thing, preview-style, at NPRMusic. 

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I caught wind of this on Videogum, where I learned some of the lyrics to this song. I had been humming along without paying much attention to what it means, but yep, it *does* appear to be about a school shooting over coveted shoes.