Friday was my birthday. Â If I had it my way, I would have played two hours of Andrew Bird songs, but alas.
Hear my delightful music selections every Friday night on Chicago’s own CHIRP Radio, from 8 – 10 pm Central time.
9:53 PM Errors Pleasure Palaces from Have Some Faith in Magic (Rock Action)
9:50 PM The Mountain Goats Psalms 40:2 from Life Of The World To Come (4AD)
9:43 PM Cate Le Bon Fold the Cloth from Cyrk (The Control Group)
9:38 PM The Milk Carton Kids Michigan from Prologue (self-released)
9:32 PM Heartless Bastards Parted Ways from Arrow (Partisan)
9:29 PM Neko Case Hold On, Hold On from Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (ANTI-)
9:25 PM Over the Rhine Cruel and Pretty from Ohio (Back Porch)
9:21 PM Polica Form from Give You the Ghost (Totally Gross National Product)
9:15 PM Lost in the Trees All Alone in an Empty House from All Alone in an Empty House (ANTI-)
9:09 PM Mucca Pazza Habibi from A Little Marching Band (self-released)
9:04 PM Los Nombres Untitled Instrumental from Los Nombres (Numero Group)
9:00 PM Brad Yoder Little War from Used (Reverie)
8:55 PM Trailer Trash Tracys Candy Girl from Ester (Domino)
8:50 PM Andrew Bird Dear Dirty from Fingerlings 3 (self-released)
8:45 PM The New Pornographers My Rights Versus Yours from Challengers (Matador)
8:40 PM Gotye Somebody That I Used To Know from Making Mirrors (Samples & Seconds)
8:38 PM Porcelain Raft Unless You Speak from Your Heart from Strange Weekend (Secretly Canadian)
8:33 PM Wovenhand The Threshingfloor from The Threshingfloor (Sounds Familyre)
8:29 PM Craig Finn Honolulu Blues from Clear Heart Full Eyes (Vagrant)
8:24 PM Vandaveer Fistful of Swoon from Divide & Conquer (Supply & Demand)
8:21 PM The Decemberists We Both Go Down Together from Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
8:17 PM Okkervil River Our Live Is Not A Movie Or Maybe from The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)
8:14 PM Shearwater Immaculate from Animal Joy (Sub Pop)
8:07 PM Jason Stein Quartet Gallop’s Gallop from The Story This Time (Delmark)
8:01 PM Rufus Wainwright Agnus Dei from Want Two (Geffen)