Favorite Albums of 2013

Wanted to get my best albums (full lengths) of 2013 rundown, and associated playlist, up before I head south to Atlanta for holiday vacation. Expect a Best EP/7" list and set of favorite songs from this year that happen to be off albums just outside these two lists (was hard to pare things down) in the very near future.  I also will  be posting top 10 (ish) lists from some great people with impeccable taste over the next week or two.  So, with all that said, here's my top 25 for the year.

DPDC Best Albums of 2013 (w/ playlist)

1. Restorations - LP2
2. Arliss Nancy - Wild American Runners
3. Captain We're Sinking - The Future is Cancelled
4. Worship This! - Tomorrow I'll Miss You
5. Red City Radio - Titles
6. Two Cow Garage - The Death of the Self Preservation Society
7. Banquets - S/T
8. Jason Isbell - Southeastern
9. Signals Midwest - Light on the Lake
10. Broadcaster - A Million Hours
11. The Bootheel - Goat's Lodge
12. Donovan Wolfington - Stop Breathing
13. Mount Moriah - Miracle Temple
14. Doc Feldman & The LD50 - Sundowning at the Station
15. Nightmares for a Week - Civilian War
16. The Sky We Scrape - Divides
17. Iron Chic - The Constant One
18. Lemuria - The Distance is So Big
19. John Moreland - In the Throes
20. Elway - Leavetaking
21. Save Ends - Warm Hearts Cold Hands
22. Sundowner - Neon Fiction
23. Great Apes - Thread
24. Flatliners - Dead Language
25. Great Cynics - Like I Belong

Just missed: Austin Lucas, Little Big League, Jimmy Islip & The Ghosts, Swearin', Laura Stevenson and several others.

Friday Playlist - 12/20

Tracklist:
Captain We're Sinking - Beer Can / Frightened Rabbit - Holy / Big Eyes - Nothing You Could Say / Arliss Nancy - The Crease / Gateway District - Murakami Novels / Tim Easton - Dear Old Song & Dance / Teenage Bottlerocket - Go With The Flow / The Sky We Scrape - Invisible Hands / John K. Samson - Highway 1 West / Night Marchers - Loud Dumb and Mean / Lawrence Arms - Smokestacks / Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Codeine / Future Virgins - 60s Sweater / Damien Jurado - Arkansas / theHell - Vas Te Faire Foutre / Tenement - Stupid Werld / The Heelers - My Disease / Luther - The Second Star / Jawbreaker - Ashtray Monument / Tim Barry - 222

DPDC Friday Playlist - 12/20/13

Friday Playlist - 12/13

Long one to compensate for the 2 week layoff . . .

Tracklist:
Timeshares - Oh No Not That / Old Flings - Postcards / Ladyhawk - The Dugout / American Aquarium - Abe Lincoln / Dikembe - Apology Not Fucking Accepted / The Menzingers - Nice Things / Cloud Nothings - Fall In / Ex Friends - Kenzos / Chumped - Union Square / Signals Midwest - The Desert to Denver / Cheap Girls - Ft. Lauderdale / Porter and the Pollies - Fourth of July / Guided By Voices - Cut-Out Witch / Red Collar - Catch a Ride / Red City Radio - The Silence Between / Laura Stevenson - Runner / The Holy Mess - Goodbye 3713 (Must Have Been a Good One) / Superchunk - Punch Me Harder / Gaslight Anthem -1930 / Kid, You'll Move Mountains - Volts / Futurebirds - Ski Chalet / Failures' Union - Human Shield / Todd Farrell & The Dirty Birds - Year in Review / El Cantador - My Way / Swearin' - Kenosha / Great Lakes USA - I Sold My Liver Down the River / Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - The One Who Got Us Out / Alkaline Trio - Nose Over Tail / The Snips - Meeting Place / Milton Mapes - Everyone Around 

DPDC Friday Playlist - 12/13/13

Friday Playlist - 11/22

Tracklist:
Broadcaster - Jamie / Doc Dailey & Magnolia Devil - The Only Reason That I Know / Alkaline Trio - You're Dead / Iron Chic - Wolf Dix Rd. / Alone at 3am - Mexico / Frank Turner - Plain Sailing Weather / Elway - Prophetstown / Worship This! - Red Herring / Glossary - Hope and Peril / Weatherbox - My Head / Allison Weiss - How to Be Alone / California X - Sucker / Great Apes - Arms of Catastrophe / The Thermals - A Pillar of Salt / The Flatliners - Count Your Bruises / Broadway Calls - Give Up the Ghost / Cory Branan - Survivor Blues / Polar Bear Club - For Show / Sundowner - Poet of Trash / Dinosaur Jr. - Plans 

DPDC Friday Playlist 11/22/13

Friday Playlist - 11/15

Tracklist:

Restorations - Quit / Avail - S.R.O / The Evening Rig - Right Where She Wants Me / The District Attorneys - California Fire / Samiam - Ordinary Life / Ma Jolie - Brace, Smile / Title Fight - Where Am I? / Carpenter - Joan / Lucero - What Else Would You Have Me Be? / Sundials - Unpredictable / Arliss Nancy - Coals / Smoke or Fire - Hope & Anchor / I Am the Avalanche - Holy Fuck / Crusades - The Transport of Intrepid Souls / The Bootheel - Northsider / Plow United - Spindle / All Eyes West - One Less Arrow / Save Ends - Kurzweil / The Riot Before - Words Written Over Coffee / Truckstop Darlin' - South Carolina 

DPDC Friday Playlist - 11/15/13

Friday Playlist - 11/8

Tracklist:
Jawbox - Static / Apologies, I Have None - Sat in Vicky Park / Slobberbone - Trust Jesus / Great Cynics - Waster / Dexateens - Vengeance / Hot Water Music - Our Own Way / Telekinesis - Fever Chill / Drag the River - Wichita Skyline / Mind Spiders - The Steady / Lydia Loveless - All I Know / Banquets - Bums in the Breeze / Have Gun, Will Travel - The Show Must Go On / Chumped - Someday / Iron Chic - Bustin' (Makes Me Feel Good) / Swearin' - Dust in the Gold Sack / The National - Available / Nightlights - Are You the Keymaster? / The Sidekicks - Go! Go! Go! Green! Green! Green! / Pentimento - No One Lets You Know / I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House - Ghost 

DPDC Friday Playlist 11/8/13

Friday Playlist - 11/1

Tracklist:
Hold Steady - The Weekenders / Arms Aloft - This Bag is Not a Toy / Signals Midwest - 308 / Grand Champeen - To the Ides / Bangers - Wizard Wise / The Mendoza Line - Mysterious in Black / Muncie Girls - Sleepless / Woahnows - Grey Matters / Red City Radio - Purple Heart Paperweight / Band of Horses - Weed Party / The Swellers - Great Lakes State / Deer Tick - Chevy Express / Lifetime - Airport Monday Morning / The Henry Clay People - Andy Sings! / The Hotel Year - Still-Water Spectacle / JKutchma & The Five Fifths - Pastorals / The Slow Death - Hang Up the Phone / The Dopamines - 10 Stories / Wrinkle Neck Mules - Howard Johnson / John K. Samson - Grace General

DPDC Friday Playlist - 11/1/2013

Friday Playlist - Thursday Edition - 10/24

Tracklist:

Broadcaster - Wasting Time With You / Bob Mould - Silver Age / Arliss Nancy - Both Got Old / Rural Alberta Advantage - Muscle Relaxants / Banner Pilot - Red Line / Lauderdale - The Grant / Dead Mechanical - My Young Family / Smith Street Band - Ducks Fly Together / Jawbreaker - In Sadding Around / Gameday Regulars - Hearts and Bones / Alone at 3am - Factory / Lawrence Arms - The First Eviction Notice / Chad Price - Peachy Tuscadero / Captain, We're Sinking - Montreal / Sun Kil Moon - Lily and Parrots / Future Virgins - Old Harmony / Weezer - The Good Life / Two Cow Garage - Hey Cinderella / Bedford Falls - Connor / Joey Kneiser - Bruised Ribs 

DPDC Friday Playlist 10/25/13

Friday Playlist 10/18

Tracklist:
Red City Radio - Two Notes Shy of an Octave / Eastern Anchors - Far from OK / Tim Version - Shin Splints / The Flatliners - Tail Feathers / Brick Mower - Cheap Gasoline / Mule - Mississippi Breaks / Rocky Votolato - 20 Degrees / Ex Friends - Dirty Ben Franklin / Pavement - Summer Babe / Elway - One Flew West / Hold Steady - Chips Ahoy / LaGrecia - Filler / Lipstick Homicide - We'll Be OK / Burning Airlines - Outside the Aviary / Frank Turner - Poetry of the Deed / Limbeck - Tan + Blue / The Holy Mess - Cigarette Reflections / Laura Veirs - Black Gold Blues / The Weight - Dragged Back In / Hanalei - Moth to Flame 

DPDC Friday Playlist 10/18/13

Friday Playlist - 10/11

Tracklist:
Broadcaster - The Current / Sundials - 710 / Arliss Nancy - Directions Never Hold / Iron Chic - Spooky Action at a Distance / Teen Agers - Moving Forward / Football, Etc. - Goal / Tim Vantol - I Could Have Been a Dancer / Los Campesinos! - Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks / Nightmares for a Week - Let's Talk About Healing / Luther - The Glory Bees / Signals Midwest - In Tensions / Crazy Arm - Little Boats / Dinosaur Jr. - Almost Ready / Blacklist Royals - Howling at the Moonlight / Dikembe - I'm Gonna Deck Your Halls, Bub! / Paper Arms - The Heart Within / Roomrunner - Weird / Lemuria - Lick Your Lips / The Weakerthans - Aside / Osker - Animal / Uncle Tupelo - Punch Drunk / Smith Street Band - What's Changed / Cloud Nothings - Our Plans / Donovan Wolfington - American Spirits / Sundowner - Beautiful Ruins 

DPDC Friday Playlist 10/11/13

Friday Playlist - 10/4

Tracklist:
Kite Party - Arizona / Nothington - Stop Screaming / Criteria - Prevent the World / Attack in Black - Marriage / The National - Fashion Coat / Living Daylights - These Roads / John Moreland & The Black Gold Band - Ruin My Night / Ninja Gun - Red State Blues / River Jumpers - Five Doors Down / The Riot Before - Threat Level Midnight / The Steve Adamyk Band - Wait for you Number / American Aquarium - Savannah Almost Killed Me / Hostage Calm - Woke Up Next to a Body / Banquets - Big Big Waves / Fake Problems - ADT / Tigers Jaw - Crystal Vision / Japandroids - The House that Heaven Built / Heartsounds - The Song Inside Me / Alone at 3am - A Change is Coming / William Elliott Whitmore - Hell or High Water 

DPDC Friday Playlist 10/4/13

Friday Playlist - 9/27/13

Tracklist:
Red Collar - American Me / Old Flings - Choke / Allison Weiss - Don't Go / All Eyes West - Fact or Fiction?  / Nirvana - Very Ape / Diamond Youth - The Feeling / Worship This! - The Fear of Missing Out / Timeshares - Sarah, Send Your Driver / Truckstop Coffee - Gas Tank / Hold Steady - Stay Positive / American Steel - To the Sea / Aloha - Moonless March / The Dopamines - Public Domain / Yuck - Georgia / Centro-Matic - Reset Anytime / Great Lakes USA - No Boyfriends / The Get Up Kids - Holiday / Great Apes - Seventeen Years / Civil War Rust - Freight Train / Dead to Me - The Hands with Inherited Rings / The Brokedowns - This Cult is a Bummer / Johnny Foreigner - Champagne Girls I Have Known / Unwound - Demolished / The New Lows - Stove / NQ Arbuckle - Darkness Has Fallen

DPDC Friday Playlist 9/27/2013

Friday Playlist - 9/20

Tracklist:
Red City Radio - Drinking Yourself Into the Future / Evening Rig - Half Asleep / Placeholder - Stay Here / Bloc Party - Helicopter / Against Me! - Russian Spies / Lucero - And We Fell / Like Bats - 3814 Wirth Road / Elway - Tapout Endorsement: The Musical / The Cut Ups - The Wrong Side of the River / Larry and His Flask - Ebb and Flow / David Bazan - Gas and Matches / The Bronx - Torches / Dave Hause - We Could Be Kings / The Saint Catherines - We Used to Be in Love / Constantines - On to You / Red Animal War - Dark Country / Sebadoh - Defend Yr Self / Make Do and Mend - Oak Square / Butterfly Train - What's Falling About / Spoon - Jonathan Fisk / Two Cow Garage - Annie, Get Your Guns / Doc Feldman & The LD 50 - A Texas Moan 

DPDC Friday Playlist - 9/20/13

Friday Playlist - 9/13

Tracklist:
Arliss Nancy - Owen / Banner Pilot - Saltash Luck / The Thermals - I Don't Believe You / The Loved Ones - Living Will / Bomb the Music Industry! - 493 Ruth / Cloud Nothings - Fall In / Run, Forever - Sun Bruised / Glossary - American Bruises / Campaign - Old Friend / Balance and Composure - Kaleidoscope / Great Cynics - Ways Down / Drag the River - Losers / The Jazz June - The Scars to Prove It / Young Livers - Of Misery and Toil / Macon Greyson - Minnesota Weather Map / Ben Nichols - Toadvine / Smoke or Fire - Little Bohemia / Dead Mechanical - Scoop Me Up / Unrest - Cath Carroll / Have Gun, Will Travel - Take Me Home Alice

DPDC Friday Playlist 9/13/13

Friday Playlist - 9/6

Tracklist:
Sundowner - Cemetary West / Broadcaster - Anything You Never Heard / Riverboat Gamblers - Don't Bury Me . . . I'm Still Not Dead Yet / The Ergs - Jazz is like the New Coke / Parts & Labor - Nowheres Nigh / Andrew Jackson Jihad - Hate, Rain on Me / The Stereo State - As Honest as I Can Be / Farside - Statues of Snow / Five Eight - God Damn It Paul / State Champion - No Magic / Jon Snodgrass (w/ Chris Wollard) - Campaign Song '93 / Samiam - 80 West / The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction / New Bruises - There Was Only One Johnny Cash / Pity Sex - Drown Me Out / Cheap Girls - All My Clean Friends / The Taxpayers - Everything is Awful / Avail - McCarthy / Roman Candle - Woke Up This Morning / The Copyrights - 20 Feet Tall / Jimmy Islip (w/ Jon Snodgrass) - It Tastes Bitter / Direct Hit! - Home to You / Now, Now - Dead Oaks / Drive-by Truckers - Sounds Better in the Song 

DPDC Friday Playlist - 9/6/13

Friday Playlist - 8/30

Tracklist:

Fugazi - Back to Base / The Bootheel - Good Time / Austin Lucas - Let Me In / All Eyes West - Miss Medicine / Get Bent - On Excuses / The Front Bottoms - Skeleton / Team Dresch - She's Crushing My Mind / Vulture Whale - Take It Easier / Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945 / Lower Dens - Tea Lights / Restorations - When You're Older / Grade - A Year in the Past, Forever in the Future / Banquets - Lips to the Ground / Built to Spill - Carry the Zero / Little Big League - Lindsey / Belle & Sebastian - Me & The Major / Swearin' - Here to Hear / Gaslight Anthem - The Patient Ferris Wheel / Snakehealers - Roadside / Titus Andronicus - A More Perfect Union

DPDC Friday Playlist - 8/30/13 

Friday Playlist - 8/16

Tracklist:
Red City Radio - We are the Sons of Woody Guthrie / Two Cow Garage - Geri / Apologies, I Have None - 60 Miles / Fistful of Beard - 5th Ave / Worship This! - Summit Tower / The Flatliners - Here Comes the Treble / The Pollies - Something New / Todd Farrell - Take It Slow / Nightmares for a Week - Let's Talk About Healing / Dillinger Four - Who Didn't Kill Bambi? / You Blew It! - Terry vs. Tori / JKutchma & The Five Fifths - Teenage DMZ / Band of Horses - Laredo / Japandroids - Younger Us / John Moreland & The Dust Bowl Souls - Christmas Lights / Pentimento - Unless / American Steel - Every New Morning / Sharks - 'Til the Wonders Rise / Mischief Brew - Three Chord Circus / The Mountain Goats - Color in Your Cheeks 

DPDC Friday Playlist 8/16/13

Friday Playlist - 8/9

Tracklist:
American Aquarium - Burn.Flicker.Die / Waters - For the One / Hot Water Music - Trusty Chords / The Menzingers - I Can't Seem to Tell / Hostage Calm - Rebel Fatigues / Paul Westerberg - Let's Not Belong Together / Red Collar - American Me / The New Lows - Stove / Banner Pilot - Skeleton Key / Placeholder - Mary / Husker Du - Something I Learned Today / Neko Case - Man / The Red Hills - Trailers, Fires, and Trans Ams / Crimes - Something / The Hold Steady - Stay Positive / Downtown Struts - Anchors / Gameday Regulars - Kiss the Cup / Joyce Manor - Derailed / Okkervil River - Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe / Tim Barry - Moving on Blue

DPDC Friday Playlist - 8/9/13

Friday Playlist - 8/2

Tracklist:
Great Cynics - In The Valley / Dear Landlord - Three to the Beach / Save Ends - Time and Tarnish / Criteria - Me On Your Front Porch / Great Apes - Detonator / Lydia Loveless - Bad Way to Go / Jawbreaker - Busy / Restorations - Let's Blow Up The Sun / Alone at 3am - Mexico / The Takers - St. John's Son / Propagandhi - Resisting Tyrannical Government / Off With Their Heads - For the Four / Rocky Votolato - Suicide Medicine / Rainer Maria - Thought I Was / Rivalries - Built to Last / Ted Leo + The Pharmacists - The One Who Got Us Out / Latterman - 'Dozer Rage / Sundowners - Right Down Broadway / Teenage Bottlerocket - Go With The Flow / Slobberbone - Get Gone Again

DPDC Friday Playlist 8/2/13

Boston Bandcamp - Somos + Save Ends

In the interest of trying to post more routinely on the site again . . .

The signing of the former to Tiny Engines reminded me to tell you, Somos and Save Ends are a pair of bands from Boston you should probably start listening to today, if you aren't already. Parenthetically, and in all sincerity just get everything on Tiny Engines, past, present, and future.

Friday Playlist - 7/26

Tracklist:
Bedford Falls - St. Swithin's Day / Bangers - The Mitigation Committee / Mount Moriah - Bright Light / Donovan Wolfington - Die Alone / Austin Lucas - Alone in Memphis / The Holy Mess - World Renowned Bonafide Shitshow / Failure's Union - You Were Right / John K. Samson - When I Write My Master's Thesis / Lifetime - 25 Cent Giraffes / Elway - Salton Sea / Drag The River - Me & Joe Drove Out to California / Arliss Nancy - Pages / Johnny Foreigner - Yes! You Talk Too Fast / 500 Miles to Memphis - Shots / Connections - 1980 Called / The Night Marchers - Pain / Waxahatchee - Brother Bryan / Fifth Hour Hero - Cut Me Dead / Southern Bitch - Mark of the Beast / American Princes - Providence, RI

DPDC Friday Playlist - 7/26/13

Friday Playlist - 7/19

Tracklist:
88 Fingers Louie - Reparation / Worship This! - Jen, with 2 N's / Banner Pilot - Speed Trap / The Bootheel - Game Six / Nightmares for a Week - Bloodshot Monday / Guided By Voices - Motor Away / Lucero - Bikeriders / The Menzingers - Time Tables / Grabass Charlestons - Fall Guy / The Tim Version - Shin Splints / The Measure [sa] - Dullards and a Dreadful Pose / Look Mexico - You Stay. I Go. No Following / Cory Branan - The Corner / Arms Aloft - Irish Coffee / The Loved Ones - Jane / The Marked Men - A Little Time / The Weakerthans - Our Retired Explorer / Garden Variety - Rode (for Justin) / Run, Forever - Maritime States / Doc Feldmen & The LD50 - Bless This Mess 

DPDC Friday Playlist - 7/19/13

Friday Playlist - 7/12

Tracklist:
Carpenter - Just Another Friday Night / Timeshares - Woke Up in Grappler School / Allison Weiss - How to Be Alone / Shinobu - Regular Love Triangle / Superchunk - FOH / Kite Party - Welcome to Miami / White Lung - take the mirror / Forgetters - Hoop and Swan / Let It Go - Sluggish / Dad Punchers - Respiratory / Glossary - Natural State / Des Ark - No More Fighting Cats, OK? / Branden Barnett - Heart Won't Bend / The Draft - New Eyes Open / Paper Arms - Wrong Again / Shane Sweeney - When I Am Empty / Eastern Anchors - Herzog, Help Me / Roomrunner - Duno / Pinback - Non Photo-Blue / Tim Barry - 40 Miler

DPDC Friday Playlist 7/12/13

Friday Playlist - 7/5

Tracklist:
Worship This! - I, Human / Luther - Sunset, Sugar / Banquets - Paths / Muncie Girls - Kasper and Rainbow / Have Gun Will Travel - To the Victor Go The Spoils / Dinosaur Jr. - Pieces / Flatliners - Meanwhile, In Hell . . . / Paws - Catherine 1956 / Teen Getaway - Pessoa / Braid - Milwaukee Sky Rocket / Signals Midwest - The Quiet Persuader / JKutchma & The Five Fifths - Something Got in the Way / Heartless Bastards - The Mountain / Centro-Matic - Picking Up to Fast / Iron Chic - I Never Get Winded / Kid Dynamite - Never Met the Gooch / Hot Snakes - LAX / Dismemberment Plan - The City / No Age - Sleeper Hold / Richard Buckner - A Goodbye Rye

DPDC Friday Playlist 7/5/13

Friday Playlist - 6/28

Tracklist:
The Evening Rig - Never Been'er / Samiam - She Found You / Old Flings - Merry Go Round / The District Attorneys - The End / Elway - One Flew East / Lauderdale - Wasted Life / Ceremony - Adult / Cory Branan - Hell-bent and Heart-first / The Weight - St. Paul / Hot Water Music - Our Own Way / Arms Aloft - Doubledranopercocetnoice / Feist - Past in Present / Bohannons - In the End / The Slow Death - Phantom Limbs / Defiance Ohio - I Don't Want Solidarity if it Means Holding Hands With You / Great Lakes USA - No Boyfriends / Ivy League TX - Coalesce / Julie Doiron - Spill Yer Lungs / Archers of Loaf - Web in Front / Beach House - Norway

DPDC Friday Playlist 6/28/13

Friday Playlist - 6/21

Tracklist:
Arliss Nancy - Little Steve / Heartsounds - Everything's Going My Way / Dear Landlord - Park Bench / Lemuria - Chihuly / Superchunk - For Tension / Glocca Morra - Ya'll Boots Hats (Die Angry / Dillinger Four - Maximum Piss & Vinegar / Restorations - Neighborhood Song / Two Cow Garage - Brass Ring / The Cut Ups - Building Bridges / Jawbox - U-Trau / Deer Tick - Baltimore Blues No. 1 / Les Savy Fav - Patty Lee / Hold Tight! - A Cup, a Ship, a Speeder / Alone at 3am - From Any Bed / Alkaline Trio - Nose Over Tail / Wood Ear - Leghold / The Smith Street Band - I Want Friends / The Shins - Turn a Square / Hop Along - Laments

DPDC Friday Playlist - 6/21/13

Friday Playlist - 6/14

Tracklist:
Lucero - When You're Gone / JKutchma & The Five Fifths - February is My Finish Line / Civil War Rust - Diving / Piebald - American Hearts / Cut Teeth - Desert Vines / Attack in Black - Husbands / Avail - Fix / Dopamines - Public Domain / Fierce Brosnan - Sundays / Slingshot Dakota - Michael Jordan Saved My Life / New Bruises - There Was Only One Johnny Cash / Cheap Girls - A Lesser Rate / John Moreland - Nobody Gives a Damn About Songs Anymore / Jason Isbell - Flying Over Water / Torche - Kicking / House Boat - A Song In Which I Convince Myself to Stop Being Such a Fucking Idiot / Blacklist Royals - American Hearts / Tim Vantol - Hands Full of Dust / Truckstop Darlin' - Southern Ghosts / Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land 

DPDC Friday Playlist - 6/14/13

My Take on 2013 so far . . .

You might've noticed that I failed to post a "Quarterly Report" on the first three months of this year, akin to those I put up last year covering the better album releases, and I'm still on the fence about whether or not I'll compile something at month's end. Maybe I've been in a weird mood or haven't been paying close enough attention, but frankly I think it's because, while there have obviously been a bunch of very good albums released this year, nothing's really grabbed my attention to the extent many early 2012 releases did (that and i'm  pretty busy with life's usual responsibilities, and maybe a bit lazy outside of them).
The two major standout exceptions to me being, Mount Moriah - Miracle Temple and Restorations LP2 (oh and Break Ups - It's Complicated plus Gameday Regulars - Nobody Likes a Quitter on the EP front).

Well I think this week my attitude and perspective on the year is starting to shift.  Yesterday saw the release of three albums that will almost certainly end up in my 'Best of 2013' list, John Moreland's In the Throes Jason Isbell's Southeastern and JKutchma's Sundown U.S.A., and today I learned that the new Arliss Nancy - Wild American Runners is tracked. So in this renewed spirit I just want to run through a list of some of my other favorites of the year, that I've sold short by not mentioning to date.

In no particular order (maybe very roughly chronological).

The Bootheel - Goat's Lodge
Broadway Calls - Comfort, Distraction
Dorado - Anger Hunger Love and Fear of Death
RVIVR -  The Beauty Between
Sam Russo - Storm
Off With Their Heads - Home
Captain, We're Sinking - The Future is Cancelled
The Bronx - The Bronx IV
California X - California X
the bear - Overseas then Under
Alkaline Trio - My Shame is True
Gateway District - Old Wild Hearts
Nightmares for a Week - Civilian War
Laura Stevenson - Wheel
Pentimento - S/T
Plow United - Marching Band
El Cantador - Translation Wave
The Sky We Scrape - Divides
Banquets - S/T
Kurt Vile - Walkin on a Pretty Daze
Frank Turner - Tape Deck Heart
The Wild - Dreams are Maps
Worship This! - Tomorrow I'll Miss You
Little Big League - These are Good People
State Lines - For the Boats
Tim Vantol - If We Go Down, We Will Go Together!
Big Eyes - Almost Famous
National - Trouble Will Find Me
Jimmy Islip - The Wild West Riding
Portugal, The Man - Evil Friends
Daniel Romano - Come Cry With Me

Guess it's quite the list after all (still let me know what i'm missing).  Plus we can less than patiently look forward to upcoming stuff from Lemuria, Elway, Superchunk, Arliss Nancy (as mentioned), Two Cow Garage, Red City Radio, Austin Lucas, Flatliners, 500 Miles to Memphis, Neko Case etc etc etc.

John Moreland - In The Throes - Preview

Last Chance Records is set to release John Moreland's newest "In The Throes" this upcoming Tuesday, June 11 (same date they'll be releasing JKutchma's "Sundown, USA") and is currently offering a free stream (which you can check out below) and pre-order opportunity on its site here.  Moreland frankly does what he does just about as well anyone these days. Alot of Nebraska era Springsteen sound on this one. Don't miss out on it, and if you're currently without, get his previous releases.

 

Friday Playlist - 6/7

Tracklist:
Polar Bear Club - Drifting Thing / Hold Steady - The Weekenders / Smoke or Fire - Integrity / Make Do and Mend - Stay in the Sun / Lemuria - Helloing / Glossary - When We Were Wicked / Cursive - Art is Hard / American Aquarium - St. Mary's / Astpai - Heart to Grow / Latterman - "I Decided Not to do Them" / Big Eyes - Can't Catch a Break / Jawbreaker - Jinx Removing / Band of Horses - Weed Party / Face to Face - You Lied / Patty Hurst Shifter - When You Lie / Wooden Wand - Scorpion Glow / Weatherbox - Big News / Sun Kil Moon - Lily and Parrots / Joyce Manor - Derailed / Zoe Muth - You Only Believe Me When I'm Lying 

DPDC Friday Playlist 6/7/13

Friday Playlist - 5/31 - Lovey Anniversary Edition

So today's a unique Friday in that it marks my wife's and my 4th wedding anniversary.  In that spirit, today's playlist is a collaborative effort.

Tracklist
Mount Moriah - Lament / Rural Alberta Advantage - Muscle Relaxants / Menzingers - Sun Hotel / Doc Dailey & Magnolia Devil - Sunday School / Neko Case - Star Witness / Tenement - Stupid World / Broadway Calls - Open Letter / Paws - Jellyfish / Fistful of Beard - Bedroom Dance / Signals Midwest - Family Crest / Braid - Killing a Camera / Death Cab for Cutie - Cath . . . / Futurebirds - Happy Animals / Catfish Haven - Buying My Time / Caitlin Rose - Shanghai Cigarettes / Have Gun Will Travel - Freightliner / Cheap Girls - A Lesser Rate / Silkworm - Oh How We Laughed / Gaslight Anthem / Ben Nichols - Shelter

DPDC Friday Playlist - 05/31//13

Friday Playlist - 5/24

Tracklist:
Banner Pilot - Overwinter / Titus Andronicus - In a Big City / Wild Flag - Future Crimes / Arms Aloft - Solid Ground / All Eyes West - Help is on the Way / The War on Drugs - Baby Missiles / Against Me! - Occult Enemies / Seam - Bunch / State Lines - 5's on the Elephant / The Hold Steady - Slapped Actress / Gameday Regulars - Smoke Jumpers / The Holy Mess - Cold Goodbyes / Jim Ward - Broken Songs / Texas is the Reason - Back and to the Left / Rites of Spring - For Want Of / Hostage Calm - Don't Die on Me Now / Joe Pug - Speak Plainly Diana / The Flatliners - Eulogy / Title Fight - Stab / Have Gun Will Travel - Katherine Don't Fall Off the Wagon

DPDC Friday Playlist 5/24/13

Friday Playlist 5/17

Tracklist:
Arliss Nancy - Gb: The True Story / Sundials - Completely Broken / Tin Horn Prayer - Stumble / Dikembe - Apology Not Fucking Accepted / River Jumpers - Five Doors Down / Laura Stevenson - Runner / Fistful of Beard - White Bluff / The Wild - Dear Noah / Run, Forever - Maritime Status / Red City Radio - They Don't Make Gravel Roads Like They Used To / Rocky Votolato - Postcards from Kentucky / The Sky We Scrape - Southern Hosplitality / Nightmare Boyzzz - Go Away* / Jessica Lea Mayfield - The One That I Love Best                      

*By Request

DPDC Friday Playlist 5/17/13

Friday Playlist 5/10

Tracklist:
JKutchma & The Five Fifths - Teenage DMZ / Mount Moriah - Bright Light / Gaslight Anthem - Patient Ferris Wheel / Jawbreaker - Do You Still Hate Me? / Make Do and Mend - Night's the Only Time of Day / Waters - Take Me Out to the Coast / Luther - Heavy Money / The Snips - Digital Letter / Matt & Kim - Cutdown / Black Lips - Bone Marrow / Nude Beach - Cathedral Echoes / Teenage Bottlerocket - Go With the Flow / PJ Bond - Savannah / Old Flings - Postcards / Banquets - Paths / Tim Barry - Church of Level Track / Lauderdale - The Grant / Damien Jurado - Circus, Circus, Circus / Frank Turner - The Way I Tend to Be / Two Cow Garage - Jackson, Don't You Worry

DPDC Friday Playlist 5/10/13

Friday Playlist - 5/3

Back on schedule with the playlist this week . . .

Tracklist:
Johnny Foreigner - Salt, Pepa and Spinderella / Downtown Struts - Southpaw / Alone at 3am - Weekends at the Cape / Grass Giraffes - Better Alone / Lucero - I Can Get Us Out of Here / Glocca Morra - Ya'll Boots Hats? (Die Angry) / The Riot Before - Threat Level Midnight / Plants and Animals - The End of That / Red City Radio - Drinking Yourself into the Future / The Mendoza Line - Name Names / Austin Lucas - Sit Down / Arliss Nancy - Saint Forgot / Tedo Stone - Eastwood / The Evening Rig - Half Asleep / Campaign - Blue Pills and Whiskey / Slingshot Dakota - Gossip / Mosey West - To Tame / Pentimento - The Wind / The Weakerthans - Civil Twighlight / Bobby Bare Jr. - The Ending

DPDC Friday Playlist 5/3/13

Friday Playlist - 4/19

Tracklist:
Failure's Union - You Were Right / Futurebirds - The Light / White Buffalo - Hold the Line / Timeshares - From an Admirer Not Darryl / Duquette Johnson - Dancing Song / Lawrence Arms - Brick Wall Views / Captain We're Sinking - Montreal / AC Newman - Miracle Drug / Jets to Brazil - Sweet Avenue / John Moreland & The Dust Bowl Souls - Holy Ghost Haunted / I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House - Regrets and Greyhounds / The Shins - Turn a Square / Kurt Vile - KV Crimes / William Elliot Whitmore - Not Feeling Any Pain

DPDC Friday Playlist - 4/19/13

Friday Playlist - 4/12

Tracklist:
Dillinger Four - Suckers, Intl. Has Gone Public / the bear - Darlin' Boy / Japandroids - Continuous Thunder / Arkells - On Paper / Nightmares for a Week - Let's Talk About Healing / Ninja Gun - Nostradumbass / Off With Their Heads - I Am You / Anchor Arms - Girl and a Glacier / Smoke or Fire - Sleepwalking / Spider Bags - Waking Up Drunk / Hop Along - Sally II / Beach House - Norway / The National - Apartment Story / Water Liars - Sucker / JKutchma & The Five Fifths - Used to Believe 

DPDC Friday Playlist 4/12/13

Friday Playlist - 4/5

Tracklist:
None More Black - Under My Feet / Cheap Girls - A Lesser Rate / The Bootheel - Kickin' Dust / Wood Ear - Leave My Walls / Restorations - The Plan / Broadway Calls - Suffer the Kids / Arliss Nancy - 40s / Elway - Note to Self / Run, Forever - Maritime States / Dads - Get to the Beach! / Dear Landlord - Doormat / New Pornographers - The Jessica Numbers / Latterman - 'Dozer Rage / Futurebirds - MJB

DPDC Friday Playlist 4/5/13

Mid-week Playlist 4/3

A bit of an anomaly I know, but since I didn't get a playlist up this past Friday and I'm not sure I'll have the opportunity to post one this week either, I thought I hedge and cull together an interim batch of songs. Here you go . . .

Tracklist:
Restorations - New Old / District Attorneys - Worry About Your Health / Gateway District - Waves and Cars / Leatherface - Evo Pop / The Holy Mess - Cold Goodbyes / Laura Stevenson & The Cans - Peachy / Two Cow Garage - Skinny Legged Girl / Rivalries - Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better / Alkaline Trio - She Lied to the FBI / American Aquarium - St. Mary's / Heelers - I Don't Remember When / Frank Turner - Poetry of the Deed / The Dopamines - Basement / Glossary - Trembling Box

DPDC Mid-week Playlist 4/3/13

Friday Playlist - 3/22

Tracklist:
Sundials - 710 / The Hold Steady - You Can Make Him Like You / Rural Alberta Advantage - Muscle Relaxants / The Pollies - Rebel Man / Carpenter - Mean Things / Paul Westerberg - Don't Want Never / The Dexateens - FYFFE / Kid Dynamite - Bookworm / Blacklist Royals - Love in the Backseat / Constantines - On To You / Lucero - Last Night in Town / California X - Mummy / Dana Swimmer - Oh Sista Oh / Promise Ring - Is this Thing On? / Best Coast - Crazy for You / Some Dark Holler - Bar Tabs / Songs:Ohia - Blue Factory Flame

DPDC Friday Playlist - 3/22/13

Friday Playlist - 3/15

Tracklist:
Kite Party - Runner / Chris Wollard & The Ship Thieves - Heavy Rolling Thunder / Pentimento - Unless / The Smith Street Band - Get High, See Mice / Cloud Nothings - No Sentiment / Joel Plaskett Emergency - Time Flies / Nothington - Far to Go / Joshua Black Wilkins - Outshined / Great Cynics - In the Valley / Off With Their Heads - Start Walking / Jawbox - Spit-Bite / Alone at 3am - Grown an Ocean / The Henry Clay People - Working Part Time / Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires - Centreville / Arms Aloft - Sawdust City Soundclash / Julie Doiron - So Fast

DPDC Friday Playlist 3/15/13

Bands I've Been Missing

It occurs to me that lately I've been listening to good amount of stuff from recently retired bands (either temporarily or permanently).  The following few, which to the best of my knowledge are either done for or on hiatus, really stand out.  At least they made it count while they were around, and thankfully I'm pretty sure all these guys are busy with other projects.

THE RIOT BEFORE



PRISON BOOK CLUB






THE ONLY SONS

Friday Playlist - 3/8

Tracklist:
Jawbreaker - Seethruskin / Cory Branan - Hell-Bent and Heart-First / Mount Moriah - Bright Light / Red City Radio - Nathaniel Martinez / The Blacktop Cadence - Off Track / Teenage Kicks - Hearts of Darkness / Austin Lucas - Sleep Well / The Snips - Times / Gameday Regulars - Smoke Jumpers / Burning Airlines - Pacific 231 / Tigers Jaw - I Was Never Your Boyfriend / Centro-Matic - Monument Sails / Sundials - Completely Broken / The National - Abel / NQ Arbuckle - I Can See The Moon 

DPDC Friday Playlist 3/8/13

Mount Moriah - Miracle Temple - I Can't Put it Down

2013 has already been chockfull of fantastic full lengths and EPs (see Restorations, Dorado, El Cantador, California X, Broadway Calls, Waxahatchee, Water Liars, Gameday Regulars etc. etc.) but I can't say anything has really grabbed me thus far like Mount Moriah's 2nd LP Miracle Temple. 

I was certainly eagerly awaiting its February 26 release date after discovering and embracing their 2011 S/T debut far too late, but this thing has been even better than anticipated.  I rarely keep an album on repeatedly, but to say I've had this one in heavy rotation is a major understatement, it's even drawn some unique accompaniment from our 9 month old on multiple occassions.

I'll spare you an attempt at a drawn out description but there are range of well balanced influences going on here.  A country meets college/indie rock esque sound certainly is evidence of the band's roots and residence in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area.  I'm continually impressed by bands from the "triangle" and their albums keep landing in my favorites lists (recently Red Collar/J Kutchma, American Aquarium, Wood Ear etc.).

To keep this post from being needlessly lengthy, point is, you should buy this album and their debut, and should do so very soon.

A couple of tracks from the new one, and my favorite off of Mount Moriah below.

Also the band's currently on tour and will be at DC9 on Wednesday March 27.

The New Lows - EP for free

Orlando based The New Lows are offering a free digital download, "The Free EP," that includes alternate versions of tracks off some of their earlier albums The Low Road and Atlantic/Pacific. 

I've featured them on a few playlists and hopefully these guys are already on your radar, but if you aren't familiar they're sort of jangly punky indie pop that I'd maybe try to pigeonhole as Cheap Girls meet Ladyhawk. My lackluster description aside, I recommend you give em a shot and head over to their bandcamp site to pick up the EP. While you're there grab the 2012 full length I Couldn't Sleep, which landed on a number of people's year end best lists for good reason.  The balance of their catalog is also available.

Finally on the off chance you happen to be in Orlando tonight, Wednesday March 5, The New Lows are playing with another stellar band, Old Flings, from Asheville, NC (RIYL 90's indie/alt rock, Samiam) at some place called Orlando Nights.

Friday Playlist - 3/1

Tracklist:
Elway - Spent So Long / Jenny Owens Young - Pirates / Polar Bear Club - Living Saints / Cymbals Eat Guitars - Keep Me Waiting / Gaslight Anthem - We Came to Dance / The Front Bottoms - Looking Like You Just Woke Up / Glocca Morra - Anniversary Song / Dexateens - Naked Ground / Slingshot Dakota - Gossip / El Cantador - My Way / Everyone Everywhere - Turn & GO & Turn / Campaign - Blue Pills and Whiskey / Wild Flag - Something Came Over Me / Title Fight - Stab / Futurebirds - Ski Chalet / AA Bondy - Killed Myself When I Was Young

DPDC Friday Playlist 3/1/13

Friday Playlist - 2/22

Tracklist:
Dikembe - Librarians Kill for that Kind of Quiet / Against Me! - Thrash Unreal / John Moreland & The Dust Bowl Souls - Holy Ghost Haunted / Limbeck - I Wrote this Down / Off With Their Heads - Keep Falling Down / Lauderdale - Fireworks / Dead to Me - Undertow / Pixies - I Bleed / The Cut Ups - Building Bridges / Grand Champeen - Prince Albert / Living With Lions - Regret Song / Pinback - Non Photo-Blue / The Weight - Evergreen / Richard Buckner - Slept

DPDC Friday Playlist 02/22/13

Friday Playlist - 2/15

Tracklist:
Fugazi - Back to Base / Restorations - B / Swearin' - Movie Star / Glossary - Shaking Like a Flame / Signals Midwest - Family Crest / Nightmares for a Week - Veins / Red Collar - Pilgrim / American Steel - Every New Morning / Alkaline Trio - I Wanna Be a Warhol / The Whigs - Right Hand on My Heart / The Sky We Scrape - Southern Hospitality / Lucero - She's Just That Kinda Girl / Sundowner - As the Crow Flies / At the Drive-In - Rascuache / None More Black - We Dance on the Ruins of the Stupid Stage / The New Lows - Stove / Fistful of Beard - In the Casket / Jason Anderson - Wanting and Regret / The Living Daylights - Maybe Escapes / Sam Russo - Factory Rain

DPDC Friday Playlist 2/15/13

Laura Stevenson & The Cans - Runner EP

Laura Stevenson and The Cans have offered up a free stream of their new 7" Runner, which you'll assuredly want to head here to buy.  All 3 songs will be included on their upcoming full-length Wheel, slated for an April 23rd release on Don Giovanni Records.  Their 2011 album Sit Resist was firmly planted in my top 10 that year, so i'm anxiously awaiting the new one.

Friday Playlist - 2/8

Tracklist:
Weakerthans - Our Retired Explorer / Slobberbone - Bright Eyes Darkened / Attack in Black - Come What May / Luther - A Quiet Stretch of Weather / Aloha - Blackout / Laura Veirs - July Flame / The Sparklers - World's Fair / Lifetime - Irony is for Suckers / Gameday Regulars - Split the City / Banner Pilot - Write it Down / Blue Mountain - Let's Ride / Look Mexico - You Stay. I Go. No Following / The Joy Formidable - Cradle / Apache Relay - Mission Bells / Todd Farrell - Ain't My Year

DPDC Friday Playlist - 2/8/13

Revival Tour Documentary

Came across this brief retrospective documentary, with Chuck Ragan on The Revival Tour, last night. Very interesting watch! I'm regrettably yet to make it to one of these shows.



This year's tour, the sixth one,  kicks off on March 15th and features Ragan, Rocky Votolato, Dave Hause (Loved Ones), Tim McIlrath (Rise Against), Toh Kay (Streetlight Manifesto),  Jenny O, and Jenny Owen Youngs.  They'll be in DC at Black Cat on March 26th. I'm hopeful I will be too.  For full tour dates and tickets, visit the Revival Tour's website.

Return of the themed playlist - By the Numbers

Thought I'd revive the "themed" playlist since I haven't posted one in awhile.

Tracklist:
Laura Stevenson and the Cans - The Pretty One / Jessica Lea Mayfield - The One that I Love Best / Jr. Juggernaut / Another Two Weeks / Luther - Two Anglers / Broadway Calls - Three Weeks / Dear Landlord - Three to the Beach / The Heat Tape - Four Track Mind / Off With Their Heads - For the Four / Minus the Bear - Let's Play Guitar in a Five Guitar Band / State Lines - 5's on the Elephant / 500 Miles to Memphis - Six Foot Hole / The Bootheel - Game Six / Sunny Day Real Estate - Seven / The Riot Before - Numero Seven / Against Me! - 8 Full Hours of Sleep / Frightened Rabbit - Square 9 / The Sidekicks - The 9th Place / Beach House - 10 Mile Stereo / The Black Keys 10 A.M. Automatic / Gatorface - Armageddon at Eleven / Lifter Puller - 11th Ave Freezout / Rogue Wave - Chicago x 12 / Braid - A Dozen Roses / Have Gun Will Travel - Thirteen Miles to Empty / Avail - Sanctuary 13 / Drive By Truckers - Feb 14 / Big Kids - Pier 14 Locals / Uncle Tupelo - Fifteen Keys / Josh Small - 15/20 / Lucero - Sixteen / Phantogram - 16 Years / Junior Battles - Seventeen / Wrinkle Neck Mules - 17 Years More / McDougall - 18 Days of Rain / Lauderdale - Eighteen / Duquette Johnson - Oh! 19 / Kid Dynamite - Table 19 / The Copyrights - 20 Feet Tall / Rocky Votolato - 20 Degrees

DPDC Playlist By Numbers

Friday Playlist - 2/1

Playlist:
Lawrence Arms - An Evening of Extraordinary Circumstance / Banquets - 377 / The Evening Rig - The Steve McQueens / Arliss Nancy - The Crease / Sundials - Mosby Blues / Two Cow Garage - Not Your Friends / Centro-Matic - Truth Flies Out / Wilco - I'm A Wheel / Cory Branan - Bad Man / The Wonder Years - Came Out Swinging / Royal Headache - Down the Lane / Wood Ear - Wasteland / The Flatliners - Count Your Bruises / Bedford Falls - St. Swithin's Day / Japandroids - Continuous Thunder

DPDC Friday Playlist 2/1/13

Friday Playlist - 1/25

Tracklist:
American Aquarium - Savannah Almost Killed Me / Dillinger Four - Shiny Things is Good / Oxford Collapse - Please Visit Your National Parks / The Bootheel - Northsider / Drive By Truckers - Birthday Boy / Avail - August / Broadway Calls - Open Letter / Archers of Loaf - Might / The Scandals - Mountain Ave. / Hostage Calm - On Both Eyes / Have Gun Will Travel - To the Victor Go the Spoils / Titus Andronicus - In a Big City / Dear Landlord - High Fives / Black Wine - Burlap / Chris Wollard & The Ship Thieves - Exception / Alone at 3am - A Change is Coming

DPDC Friday Playlist 1/25/13

Friday Playlist - 1/18

Tracklist:
Joyce Manor - Bride of Usher / Boston Spaceships - Come on Baby Grace / Banner Pilot - Skeleton Key / Dorado - Molotovs / Tenement - Stupid Werld / Doc Dailey & Magnolia Devil - Sunday School / Parkas - Toronto Enough Tonight / Samiam - Ordinary Life / Paint Branch - Brighton Beach / Hot Water Music - Hit or Miss / Water Liars - Whoa Back / The Menzingers - Who's Your Partner / Timeshares - Damn Near By Beer / Tim Barry - Tacoma

DPDC Friday Playlist 1/18/13

Friday Playlist - 1/11

Tracklist:
Arliss Nancy - Front Seat / Dinosaur Jr. - Almost Ready / Red City Radio - Two for Flinching / Micah Schnabel - Throwing Rocks at the Sun / The District Attorneys - The End / The New Lows - Ghost / Alkaline Trio - Message from Kathleen / Truckstop Darlin' - Sad Sweet Songs / Money/Paper/Hearts - Pretty Pamphlets / The Evens - King of Kings / John K. Samson - Highway 1 West / White Lung - Take the Mirror / The Snips - Blood Maps / Lucero - Hey Darlin' do You Gamble? / Jen Buxton - Don't Change Your Plans

DPDC Friday Playlist - 1/11