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