May 2015 – Hello Cruel World

381 Alexa Wiley & The Wilderness

This was the first live Hello Cruel World in-studio recorded for XRAY.FM!

Loudon Wainwright III – Times Is Hard – 10 Songs For The New Depression (Proper, 2010)
Laura Veirs – America – Warp And Weft (Raven Marching Band, 2013)
Mountain Goats – Steal Smoked Fish – Steal Smoked Fish 7” Single (Merge, 2012)

Alexa Wiley & The Wilderness – Must Be Birds – Alexa Wiley & The Wilderness (self, 2015)

Alexa Wiley & The Wilderness live in-studio:
– She Dreams
– How Does It Feel?
– Lost Is The Wild Inside

The Magnetic Fields – You Must Be Out Of Your Mind – Realism (Nonesuch, 2010)
Juliana Hatfield – Needle In The Hay (Elliott Smith) – I Saved Latin! A Tribute To Wes Anderson (American Laundromat, 2014)
Brandi Carlisle – The Chain (Fleetwood Mac) –

380 double feature

Sufjan Stevens – Should’ve Known Better – Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty, 2015)
Fred Thomas – Monster Movie – All Are Saved (Polyvinyl, 2015)
Joanne Robertson – Halls – Black Moon Days (Feeding Tube, 2015)

Jake Kelly – Talking In Corners – what a quiet fistfightfireworks display (Materials To Outlet, 2015)
Richard Thompson – I Misunderstood – Acoustic Classics (Beeswing Inc., 2014)
Serafina Steer – Island Odyssey – The Moths Are Real (Stolen Recordings, 2013)
Fred Thomas – Monster Movie – All Are Saved (Polyvinyl, 2015)

Kristin Hersh – The Cuckoo – Record Store Day 2015 Single (Heliospheric, 2015)
Nina Nastasia & Jim White – You Follow Me (FatCat, 2007)
Damien Jurado – Gasoline Drinks – Now That I’m In Your Shadow (Secretly Canadian, 2006)

Mike Doughty – Light Will Keep Your Heart Beating In The Future – Stellar Motel (MRI, 2014)
The Moonshine – Secret (Radio Edit) – Secret Digital Single (self, 2015)
Billy Bragg – Strange Things Happen – The Peel Album (Strange Fruit, 1991)

Bob Dylan – Thunder On The Mountain – Modern Times (Columbia, 2007)

379 rapelling in

Daniel Johnston – Some Things Last A Long Time – Welcome To My World (High Wire, 2006)
Jose Gonzalez – With The Ink Of A Ghost – Vestiges & Claws (Mute, 2015)
Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield – Let’s Get Lost – Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield Sing Elliott Smith (Ramseur, 2015)

The Weepies – River From The Sky – Sirens (Nettwerk, 2015)
Lotte Kestner – World In My Eyes – Covering Depeche Mode EP (self, 2015)
Alela Diane – The Way We Fall – About Farewell (Rusted Blue, 2013)

Shoeshine Blue – Rust On The Bills – Tell Yourself It’s Only The Weather EP (bandcamp, 2012)
Waxahatchee – Half Moon – Ivy Tripp (Merge, 2015)
Sharon Van Etten – I Don’t Want To Let You Down – I Don’t Want To Let You Down EP (Jagjaguwar, 2015)
The John Doe Thing – Willamette – Kissingsohard (Forward, 1995)
Nick Delffs – David Cain And Mrs. Ella – Home Recordings EP (bandcamp, 2015)

Blake Mackey – Matter Of Time – Blake Mackey (self-released, 2013)
The Decemberists – Better Not Wake The Baby – What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World (Capitol, 2015)

378 best 2015 so far

Courtney Barnett – Kim’s Caravan – Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom + Pop, 2015)
Sir Richard Bishop – International Zone – Tangier Sessions (Drag City, 2015)
Jessica Pratt – Strange Melody – On Your Own Love Again (Drag City, 2015)

Elvis Perkins – The Passage Of The Black Gene – I, Aubade (MIR, 2015)
Ezza Rose – Amelie – When The Water’s Hot (self, 2015)
Laura Marling – False Hope – Short Movie (Ribbon Music, 2015)

Alexa Wiley & The Wilderness – Must Be Birds – Alexa Wiley & The Wilderness (self, 2015)
Tom Brosseau – Hard Luck Boy – Perfect Abandon (Tin Angel, 2015)
Anne-Marie Sanderson – Lilac Time – Shadow & Sparks EP (self, 2015)

Alialujah Choir – From The Ground – Big Picture Show (Jealous Butcher, 2015)
Alasdair Roberts – This Uneven Thing – Alasdair Roberts (Drag City, 2015)
Kaki King – Anthropomorph – The Neck Is A Bridge To The Body (Short Stuff, 2015)