Today's playlist kicks off with one of the best songs of 2009 from one of the best albums of 2009, "The Blackest Purse" from Why?'s long-awaited release, Eskimo Snow, which officially drops tomorrow, September 22. Also featured is a recent single from Why? recorded with the band Themselves.

Following Why? is the title song from The Pains of Being Pure At Heart's new EP Higher Than The Stars. Next up is a London teen band - and latest buzz band from UK - known as The XX with their song "Basic Space," off their debut LP due out tomorrow, and their new cover version of a Womack Womack tune.

Guster chimes in with a cover version of Belle & Sebastian's classic indie pop song "Boy With the Arab Strap." Also check out an acoustic alternative take from Beck's Modern Guilt, and a Beck cover of a classic Velvet Underground song.

Plus, check out fresh tracks from new releases by French garage rockers Jack of Heart and songs from Fool's Gold, Hunters Run!, The Mary Onettes, First Rate People, The Music Tapes, Hallelujah the Hills, The Get Up Kids, Rollercoaster Project, Panther, Forro in the Dark, Will Hoge, Beaujolais and more.

"The Blackest Purse" - Why? from Eskimo Snow (2009)
"Canada" - Why? and Themselves (2009)

"Higher Than The Stars" - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart from Higher Than The Stars EP (2009)

"Basic Space" - The XX from s/t debut (2009)
"Teardrops" (Womack and Womack) - The XX, single (2009)

"Boy With The Arab Strap" (Belle & Sebastian) - Guster from archive.org

"Gamma Ray" (Acoustic) - Beck, acoustic versions from Modern Guilt (2009)
"I'll Be Your Mirror" (Velvet Underground) - Beck (2009)

"Jack of Heart Wicked Guy" - Jack of Heart from s/t debut (2009)

"Surprise Hotel" - Fool's Gold from s/t debut (2009)

"If I Had Half a Chance" - Hunters, Run! from EP2 (2009)

"Puzzles" - The Mary Onettes from Puzzles (2009)

"For the Planet Pluto" - The Music Tapes from Clouds and Tornadoes (2009)

"Classic Tapes" - Hallelujah the Hills from Colonial Drones (2009)

"Perro Loco" - Forro in the Dark from Light A Candle (2009)

"The Rain Becomes the Clouds" - Emanuel and the Fear from s/t EP (2009)

"Sufferer" - Devon Williams from Sufferer (2009)

"Holiday" - The Get Up Kids from Something To Write Home About (2009)

"What Happened" - Rollercoaster Project from Revenge (2009)
"Hoods Up" - Rollercoaster Project from Revenge (2009)

"Love Is Sold" - Panther from Entropy (2009)

"Even If It Breaks Your Heart" - Will Hoge from The Wreckage (2009)

"All My Exorcisms" - Beaujolais from Admiration (2009)

"Locked in the Basement" - Fredrik from Trilogi (2009)

"Goodbye Sweet Youth, Goodbye" - Greycoats from Setting Fire to the Great Unknown (2009)

Labels: New Releases