Your Retro Career Melted

To celebrate its 50th album release, Saddle Creek will release a two-disc compilation, Saddle Creek 50, on April 8th. The fine folks that brought you artists like The Faint and Cursive (quick plug: check out our interview with Cursive!) have lined up quite an impressive set of tracks for the release -- one previously released song and one unreleased nugget each from 11 different artists. You know where to click for the tracklist. In addition, the discs will feature multimedia content, namely the 45 short films posted on Saddle Creek's website last year.

Disc 1:
1. The Faint - Worked Up So Sexual
2. The Faint - Take Me to the Hospital
3. Now It's Overhead - Wonderful Scar
4. Now It's Overhead - Dark Cycle
5. Rilo Kiley - With Arms Outstretched
6. Rilo Kiley - Jenny, You're Barely Alive
7. Cursive - The Martyr
8. Cursive - Nonsense
9. Son, Ambulance - A Book Laid on Its Binding
10. Son, Ambulance - The Moral of Rosa, Parolee

Disc 2:
1. Desaparecidos - Man and Wife, The Latter (Damaged Goods)
2. Desaparecidos - Popn' Off at the F
3. The Good Life - I Am an Island
4. The Good Life - Aftercrash
5. Azure Ray - November
6. Azure Ray - Beautiful Things Can Come from the Dark
7. Sorry About Dresden - Sick and Sore
8. Sorry About Dresden - People Have Parties
9. Mayday - Captain
10. Mayday - Pond Love
11. Bright Eyes - Something Vague
12. Bright Eyes - One Foot in Front of the Other