What do you say we go and get a beer?

This may be the world's most perfect indie-pop song. It's possible.

It's been a weird day...

Playlist for 3-11-10

After a week off to gallavant around New York, I return triumphant to fill the need for college radio to play Belle and Sebastian songs. Don't lie. You missed me so hard.

Things that Are Square 3-11-10

(*) = New release

Mariee Sioux - Two Tongues - Faces in the Rocks

(*) Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Co. - Have One On Me
Daniel Johnston - Etiquette - Continued Story
Phosphorescent - Reasons to Quit - To Willie
Akron/Family - Everyone Is Guilty - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free

David Bazan - Hard to Be - Curse Your Branches
The Antlers - Kettering - Hospice
The National - Mistaken for Strangers - Boxer
(*) Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land - The Winter ofMixed Drinks

(*) Pavement - Spit on a Stranger - Quarantine the Past
Belle and Sebastian - The Stars of Track and Field - If You're Feeling Sinister
Jens Lekman - No Time for Breaking Up - The Opposite of Hallelujah
(*) Happy Birthday - Girls FM - Happy Birthday

The Drums - Saddest Summer - It's Summertime!
(*) Xiu Xiu - Chocolate Makes You Happy - Dear God, I Hate Myself
Wild Beasts - Hooting & Howling - Two Dancers (For Jessica in Santa Ana, CA)
Destroyer - New Ways of Living - Your Blues

(*) Titus Andronicus - A More Perfect Union - The Monitor
Les Savy Fav - Raging in the Plague Age - Let's Stay Friends
The Olivia Tremor Control - NYC-25 - Dusk at Cubist Castle
Françoise Hardy - Suzanne - Comment Te Dire Adieu

(*) Toro y Moi - Blessa - Causers of This
The Books - Tokyo - The Lemon of Pink
Why? - Early Whitney - Oaklandazulasylum

Jesus/sex/drinking

Fact: Willie Nelson is a better songwriter than most of the artists in your album library.
Fact: Phosphorescent's album of Willie Nelson covers, "To Willie," has been stuck in my CD player for a while.

For debate: Willie Nelson: Country Music:: Spiritualized: Rock Music

Discuss.

I'm a Lebowski, you're a Lebowski

I've been listening to a ton of David Bazan, spent the last week near Greenwich Village, and watched The Dude win an Oscar last night. This song is a great culmination of the last week.

Playlist for 2-25-10

Happy Friday, folks,

And a happier friday to me. In 12 hours, I'm going to be on a plane to NYC for a week of drinking, eating, Akron/Family-ing and the like. It's gonna be boss. Yeah. I say "boss." Wanna fight about it? (Related note: Jessica of "Eloquent Noise" will be subbing my show next week, due to my NYC-ing. Tune in. It'll be fine.)

Things that Are Square 2-25-10

(*) = New release

Akron/Family - Moment - Akron/Family & The Angels of Light

Parts & Labor - Fractured Skies - Mapmaker
Math the Band - Tour de Friends - Don't Worry
The Mae Shi - Lamb and Lion - Hlllyh
Man Man - Harpoon Fever (Queequeg's Playhouse) - Rabbit Habits

(*) Jaguar Love - Polaroids and Red Wine - Hologram Jams
Le Tigre - Eau d'Bredoom Dancing - Le Tigre
The Raincoats - Lola - The Raincoats
(*) Clare & the Reasons - Murder, They Want Murder - Arrow (For Neha in Irvine, CA)
(*) Holly Miranda - Forest Green, Oh Forest Green - The MagiciansPrivate Library

The xx - Intro - XX
Low - Sunflower - Things We Lost in the Fire
Parenthetical Girls - Oh Daughter/Disaster - Safe As Houses
(*) Xiu Xiu - Gray Death - Dear God, I Hate Myself

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Lay Me Low - Let Love In
Okkervil River - Maine Island Lovers - Down the River of Golden Dreams
The Lucksmiths - The Year of Driving Languorously - Spring a Leak
(*) Sambassadeur - Stranded - European

(*) Los Campesinos! - Coda: A Burn Scar in the Shape of the SoonerState - Romance Is Boring
The Decemberists - Everything I Try to Do, Nothing Seems to Turn OutRight - Billy Liar
Frightened Rabbit - Good Arms vs Bad Arms - The Midnight Organ Fight
James Chadwick - The Wooden Floor - Worried Noodles

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Gardenia - Real Emotional Trash
Andrew Bird - Tables and Chairs - Andrew Bird and the MysteriousProduction of Eggs
The Mountain Goats & John Vanderslice - Surrounded - Moon Colony Bloodbath
Destroyer - Farrar, Straus & Giroux (Sea of Tears) - Streethawk: A Seduction

Broken Social Scene - Handjobs for the Holidays - Broken Social Scene

(Insert Milton Reference)