What We Heard in May

5 weeks of playlists below, including everything I played on Beef Jerky Time in the merry month of May, 2010. Some favorites: Kissogram, Don Diablo, The Acorn, Treasure, We Have Band and Gayngs. Others seem very excited about new releases from Sleigh Bells & LCD Soundsystem, too.

4*28*10
Raqs Raqs Raqs Raqs: Kissogram
Garden Friends: Kissy Sellout
Friend of the Night: Teen Inc
Promises: The Morning Benders
Honey Trap: We Have Band
Superfast Jellyfish: Gorillaz
USA Boys: HEALTH
Living in America: Dom
F.X.N.C.: The Samps
All the Saints: Class Actress
In Ruins: Fol Chen
A More Perfect Union: Titus Andronicus
On Your Own: James Yuill
I Will Live on Islands: Josh Rouse
Gone at Last: Paul Simon & Phoebe Snow & the Jessy Dixon Singers
Buster Voodoo: Rodrigo & Gabriela

5*5*10
Good Evening: The Concretes
Real Love: Delorean
5 Rings: Keepaway
Faded High: Gayngs
Youth: Beach Fossils
The Cold World Melts: Soft Metals
Loxtep: Annuals
Take on Me (a-ha cover): A.C. Newman
You Didn't Love Me: Seinking Ships
A Million Miles: Don Diablo
Heat & Depression: Blank Dogs

5*12*10
Tell 'Em: Sleigh Bells
Weak for Me: Nite Jewel
Restoration: The Acorn
Get On, Me: The Brother Kite
Alley Cats: Hot Chip
The Devil's Crayon: Wild Beasts
Mexico: Common Loon
Talamak: Toro y Moi
Odessa: Caribou
Remembering Lena Horne:
Let the Little People Talk
Yesterday When I Was Young
A Lady Must Live
That's What Miracles Are All About

5*19*10
Love Will Tear Us Apart: Joy Division
Forget Me Not: Thieves Like Us
Bicycle: Memory Tapes
Westside!: Dillon Francis & DJ Ammo
O.N.E. (XXXChange remix): Yeasayer
Lina: Les Sins
Hustle (Bloc Party remix): Tunng
Holy Diver: Dio
Man on the Silver Mountain: Rainbow
Canada: Treasure
Lady Daydream: Twin Sister

5*26*10
Reel Around the Fountain: The Smiths
Forget Me Not: Thieves Like Us
Girls FM: Happy Birthday
Canada: Treasure
A Million Miles: Don Diablo
Honey Trap: We Have Band
Son of a Gun: The La's
Connected: Elastica
Sister Havana: Urge Overkill
Sissyneck: Beck
All My Friends: LCD Soundsystem
Youth: Beach Fossils
F.X.N.C.: The Samps