Last night’s show had a bit of a quiet theme to it for a while, thanks to my nursing a headache for most of it. Â There was also a set of bluegrass songs, a tribute to the late, great Earl Scruggs.
Hear my delightful music selections every Friday night on Chicago’s own CHIRP Radio, from 8 – 10 pm Central time.
9:53 PM Mirrorring Fell Sound from Foreign Body (kranky)
9:49 PM St. Vincent Black Rainbow from Actor (4AD)
9:44 PM Carolina Chocolate Drops Why Don’t You Do Right? from Genuine Negro Jig (Nonesuch)
9:39 PM The Milk Carton Kids Michigan from Prologue (self-released)
9:35 PM Bowerbirds Walk the Furrows from The Clearing (Dead Oceans)
9:32 PM The Magnetic Fields When My Boy Walks Down The Street from 69 Love Songs, Vol. 2 (Merge)
9:27 PM JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound Baltimore Is the New Brooklyn from Beat of Our Own Drum (self-released)
9:24 PM Theresa Andersson Listen To My Heels from Street Parade (Basin Street)
9:20 PM Cursive Mama, I’m Swollen from Mama, I’m Swollen (Saddle Creek)
9:15 PM Miike Snow God Help This Divorce from Happy to You (Downtown)
9:10 PM Gabriel & The Hounds When We Die in South America from Kiss Full of Teeth (Ernest Jenning)
9:06 PM Quiet Company Jezebel or A Song About My Friend and that Whore He Dated from Songs for Staying In (self-released)
9:01 PM Wilco Jesus, Etc. from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)
8:58 PM Plants and Animals Lightshow from The End of That (Secret City)
8:54 PM Low Majesty / Magic from C’mon (Sub Pop)
8:50 PM Death Cab for Cutie Passenger Seat from Transatlanticism (Barsuk)
8:45 PM Julia Holter Moni Mon Amie from Ekstasis (RVNG)
8:42 PM Mar Caribe Turnstile Two-Step from Songs From Under the Flight Path (self-released)
8:39 PM Céu Retrovisor from Caravana Sereia Bloom (Six Degrees)
8:33 PM The Infamous Stringdusters When the Night Comes Around from Silver Sky (High Country)
8:30 PM Noam Pikelny Milford’s Reel from Beat the Devil and Carry a Rail (Compass)
8:26 PM Earl Scruggs Earl’s Breakdown from The Three Pickers (Rounder)
8:21 PM Jens Lekman Waiting for Kirsten from An Argument with Myself EP (Secretly Canadian)
8:17 PM Leona Naess Home from Leona Naess (Geffen)
8:13 PM Yann Tiersen I’m Gonna Live Anyhow from Skyline (ANTI-)
8:09 PM Aimee Mann Going Through The Motions from The Forgotten Arm (Superego)
8:05 PM Luke Roberts Every Time from The Iron Gates at Throop and Newport (Thrill Jockey)
8:00 PM Richard Shindell Transit from Somewhere Near Paterson (Signature Sounds)