CSS- Left Behind (Donkey, Sub Pop)
Chemical Brothers- Galvanize (Brotherhood compilation, EMI)
Keane- Spiralling (Perfect Symmetry, Interscope)
Snow Patrol- Take Back the City (A Hundred Million Suns, Polydor)
Miniature Tigers- Cannibal Queen (Tell It To The Volcano, Modern Art)
Jeremy Messersmith- Miracles (The Silver City, Princess)
Death Vessel- Jitterakadie (Nothing Is Precious Enough For You, Sub Pop)
The Broken West- Gwen, Now and Then (Now or Heaven, Merge)
Apostle of Hustle- Fast Pony for Victor Jara (National Anthem of Nowhere, Arts & Crafts)
Calexico- Victor Jara's Hands (Carried to Dust, Quarterstick)
Marianne Dissard- Merci De Rien Du Tout (L'Entredeux, Trop Expres)
Jolie Holland- Mexico City (The Living and the Dead, Anti-)
The Dutchess & the Duke- Reservoir Park (She's the Dutchess, He's the Duke, Hardly Art)
Twilight Hotel- Viva La Vinyl (Highway Prayer, )
Fleet Foxes- White Winter Hymnal (Fleet Foxes, Sub Pop)
Blitzen Trapper- Gold For Bread (Furr, Sub Pop)
TV On The Radio- Dancing Choose (Dead Science, Touch and Go)
Oasis- The Shock of the Lightning (Dig Out Your Soul, Big Brother/Reprise)
Frightened Rabbit- The Modern Leper (The Midnight Organ Fight, Fat Cat)
Captain of Industry- Face Full of a Head Full of Hair (The Bronze, All Hail)
Chad VanGaalen- Inside the Molecules (Soft Airplane, Sub Pop)
Joseph Arthur- Dream of the Eternal Life (Crazy Rain EP, Lonely Astronaut)
Amanda Palmer- Astronaut: A Short History of Nearly Nothing (Who Killed Amanda Palmer?, Roadrunner)
Lykke Li- Little Bit (Youth Novels, Atlantic)
My Brightest Diamond- Apples (A Thousand Sharks' Teeth, Asthmatic Kitty)
Brendan Canning- Churches Under the Stairs (Something For All Of Us, Arts & Crafts)
Los Campesinos!- My Year in Lists (Hold On Now Youngster, Arts & Crafts)
One For the Team- A Better Job (Build It Up, Afternoon)

Summer Hiatus

The Director's Cut is on hiatus Monday, August 4th through Monday, August 18th. It will return with more brand-new music on Monday, August 25th, from 1-3pm.

Director's Cut- 7/28/2008

CSS- Give Up (Donkey, Sub Pop)
!!!- Me and Giuliani Down By the Schoolyard (Louden Up Now, Touch & Go)
Kevin Drew- Frightening Lives (Spirit If..., Arts&Crafts)
Brendan Canning- Churches Under the Stairs (Something For All Of Us, Arts&Crafts)
Paul Weller- Echoes Round the Sun (22 Dreams, Yep Roc)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds- Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, Mute)
British Sea Power- Waving Flags (Do You Like Rock Music?, Rough Trade)
Mike Doughty- Busting Up a Starbucks (Haughty Melodic, ATO)
Bodies of Water- Water Here (A Certain Feeling, Secretly Canadian)
Danielson- Did I Step On Your Trumpet (Ships, Secretly Canadian)
The Gutter Twins- Idle Hands (Saturnalia, Sub Pop)
Joseph Arthur- Killer's Knife (Crazy Rain, Lonely Astronaut)
Jose Gonzalez- Time To Send Someone Away (In Our Nature, Peacefrog)
Final Fantasy- Song Song Song (He Poos Clouds, Tomlab)
Caribou- Melody Day (Andorra, Merge)
Asobi Seksu- Thursday (Citrus, Friendly Fire)
Deerhoof- +81 (Friend Opportunity, Kill Rock Stars)
*Black Kids- I'm Making Eyes At You (Partie Traumatic, AlmostGold)
Beck- Walls (Modern Guilt, DGC)
^East River Pipe- Druglife (What Are You On?, Merge)
Bowerbirds- Dark Horse (Hymns For a Dark Horse, Dead Oceans)
Devendra Banhart- Seahorse (Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, XL)
The Dutchess & the Duke- Armageddon Song (She's the Dutchess, He's the Duke, Hardly Art)
St. Vincent- The Apocalypse Song (Marry Me, Beggars Banquet)
Times New Viking- End of All Things (Rip It Off, Matador)
*Oxford Collapse- The Birthday Wars (Bits, Sub Pop)
*Marching Band- Gorgeous Behavior (Spark Large, U&L)
*Margot & the Nuclear So and So's- Bookworm (The Daytrotter Sessions EP, Epic)

*denotes new music this week
^denotes requested music

Director's Cut- 7/21/08 Playlist

Apostle of Hustle- National Anthem of Nowhere (National Anthem of Nowhere; Arts&Crafts)
The Dutchess & the Duke- Strangers (She's the Dutchess, He's the Duke; Hardly Art)
*Son Ambulance- A Girl in New York City (Someone Else's Deja Vu; Saddle Creek)
Ryan Adams- New York, New York (Gold; Lost Highway)
The Hold Steady- Constructive Summer (Stay Positive; Vagrant)
I'm From Barcelona- Treehouse (Let Me Introduce My Friends; Mute)
Architecture in Helsinki- Heart It Races (Places Like This; Polyvinyl)
Of Montreal- Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games (The Sunlandic Twins; Polyvinyl)
*CSS- Move (Donkey; Sub Pop)
Discovery- Can You Discover (Discovery; NXTLVL)
*Black Kids- Hurricane Jane (Partie Traumatic; AlmostGold)
Hercules & Love Affair- Raise Me Up (Hercules & Love Affair; Mute)
Bowerbirds- In Our Talons (Hymns For a Dark Horse; Dead Oceans)
Beirut- Cherbourg (The Flying Club Cup; Ba Da Bing)
Bon Iver- Flume (For Emma, Forever Ago; Jagjaguwar)
Brendan Canning- Possible Grenade (Something For All Of Us; Arts&Crafts)
Beck- Modern Guilt (Modern Guilt; DGC)
Gnarls Barkley- Charity Case (The Odd Couple; Downtown/Atlantic)
The Fratellis- Mistress Mabel (Here We Stand; Island)
*The Ting Tings- Great DJ (We Started Nothing; Columbia)
*Sundayrunners- Elected (Sundayrunners; Machine)
The New Pornographers- Adventures in Solitude (Challengers; Matador)
Fleet Foxes- Sun It Rises (Fleet Foxes; Sub Pop)
*Bodies of Water- Under the Pines (A Certain Feeling; Secretly Canadian)
The Polyphonic Spree- Diamonds/Mild Devotion to Majesty (Together We're Heavy; Hollywood)
New Buffalo- Recovery (The Last Beautiful Day; Arts&Crafts)
The Young Republic- Isis (12 Tales From Winter City; End of the Road)
Shearwater- Rooks (Rook; Matador)
Bound Stems- Happens To Us All Otherwise (The Family Afloat- advance; Flameshovel)

* denotes new music this week