Brighten the Corners

Join Corner Music Director Jeff Sweatman Tuesdays at 10pm for 2 hours of the best new music, indie bands and a few choice older cuts to keep everyone honest. We call it Brighten The Corners and we're not necessarily looking for the next big thing, just the next great thing...a never ending search. Here's our playlist archive:

WCNR Brighten the Corners 3-9-10 (Show 155)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Jeff Beck w/ Joss Stone – “I Put a Spell on You”/Emotion & Commotion (out 4/13)

Wanda Jackson w/ Jack White – “You Know I’m No Good”/single out ??

The Bird & The Bee – “Heard It On the Radio”/Interpreting… A Tribute to Hall & Oates (out 3/23)

Chieftains w/ Ry Cooder – “Cancion Mixteca”/San Patricio (out today)

Alberta Cross – “Old Man Chicago”/Broken Side of Time (out today, in Cville w/ Ben Harper 4/22)

Gorillaz – “Stylo”/Plastic Beach (out today)

Broken Bells – “Vaporize”/s/t (out today)

Audra Mae – “The River”/Haunt EP (in town for exclusive Corner show 3/24)

John Cale – “Dying on the Vine”/happy 68^th b’day!

Lana Mir – “I Wanna Be Adored”/Goodbye Girl EP

Peter Gabriel – “The Power of the Heart”/Scratch My Back

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – “The Mighty Sparrow”/The Brutalist Bricks (out today)

~11pm~

MGMT – “Flash Delirium”/Congratulations (out 4/13)

Love – “Alone Again Or”/1967 (Arthur Lee born 3/7/45)

Frightened Rabbit – “Nothing Like You”/The Winter of Mixed Drinks (out today)

David Ford – “She’s Not the One For Me”/Let the Hard Times Roll (in Cville 3/20)

Landon Pigg – “Take A Chance”/The Boy Who Never (in Cville 3/12)

V.V. Brown – “Travelling Like the Light”/title track (out 3/30, in Cville 3/22)

David Byrne & Fatboy Slim w/ Santigold – “Please Don’t”/Here Lies Love (out 4/6)

Angelique Kidjo w/ Bono and John Legend – “Move On Up”/Oyo (out 4/6)

Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings – “I Learned the Hard Way”/title track (out 4/6)

Smashing Pumpkins – “Widow Wake My Mind”/Teargarden By Kaleidyscope Vol. 1 (out 4/20)

Rogue Wave – “Good Morning (The Future)”/Permalight

Josh Rouse – “I Will Live On Islands”/El Turista (out today)

~12mid~

Shearwater – “Black Eyes”/The Golden Archipelago

The Morning Benders – “Promises”/Big Echo (out today)

Aloha – “Seachlight”/Home Acres (out today)

Miles Kurosky (ex-of Beulah) – “An Apple For An Apple”/The Desert of Shallow Effects (out today)

Anais Mitchell (feat. Ani DiFranco) – “I Raise My Cup To Him”/Hadestown (out today)

Townes Van Zandt – “To Live is to Fly”/1972 (TVZ born 3/7/44)

Patty Larkin (feat. Suzanne Vega) – “Pablo Neruda”/25 (out today)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – “Beat the Devil’s Tattoo”/title track (out today)

Pavement – “Summer Babe (Winter Version)”/Quarantine The Past: The Best of Pavement (out today)

The Living Sisters – “Double Knots”/Love To Live (out 3/30)

Happy Birthday – “Girls FM”/s/t (out 3/16)

Ben Harper & Relentless7 – “Under Pressure”/Live From The Montreal Int’l Jazz Festival (out today, in Cville 4/22)

Sparklehorse – “It’s A Wonderful Life”/2001 (R.I.P. Mark Linkous)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 3-2-10 (Show 154)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Angelique Kidjo w/ Bono and John Legend – “Move On Up”/Oyo (out 4/6)

Sierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars – “Living Stone”/Rise & Shine (out 3/23)

Blind Boys of Alabama w/ Lou Reed – “Jesus”/Duets (Lou’s 68^th b’day today!)

Smashing Pumpkins – “Widow Wake My Mind”/Teargarden By Kaleidyscope Vol. 1 (out 4/20)

That One Guy – “Luck Bean”/Packs A Wallop! (free show in C’ville 3/3)

Fang Island – “Daisy”/s/t

Shearwater – “Black Eyes”/The Golden Archipelago

Jakob Dylan – “Nothing But the Whole Wide World”/Women & Country (out 4/6)

Frightened Rabbit – “Nothing Like You”/The Winter of Mixed Drinks (out 3/9)

Dr. Dog – “Stranger”/Shame, Shame (out 4/6)

Robert Smith – “Very Good Advice”/Almost Alice (out today)

Everybody Was in the French Resistance…Now! – “Billie’s Genes”/s/t

Hot Rats – “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)”/Turn Ons

~11pm~

Peter Gabriel – “The Power of the Heart”/Scratch My Back (a Lou Reed cover)

Lou Reed – “Satellite of Love”/1972

The New Pornographers – “Your Hands (Together)”/Together (out 5/4)

Groove Armada (w/ Bryan Ferry)– “Shameless”/Black Light (out today)

Gorillaz – “Stylo”/Plastic Beach (out 3/9)

Fyfe Dangerfield – “When You Walk in the Room”/Fly Yellow Moon (out 3/16)

Lightspeed Champion – “Marlene”/Life is Sweet! Nice to Meet You

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – “The Mighty Sparrow”/The Brutalist Bricks (out 3/9)

Biffy Clyro – “Mountains”/Only Revolutions (unsure of U.S. release date)

Codeine Velvet Club – “Hollywood”/s/t (out 4/6)

Holly Miranda – “Forest Green, Oh Forest Green”/The Magician’s Private Library

Lana Mír – “I Wanna Be Adored”/Goodbye Girl EP

~12mid~

Mumford & Sons – “Little Lion Man”/Sigh No More

Joe Pug – “Messenger”/title track (in C’ville 3/8 w/ Justin Townes Earle)

Justin Townes Earle – “I’m Leaving You This Lonesome Song”/Corner Lounge version from Aug. ‘09

WCNR Brighten the Corners 2-23-10 (Show 153)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

St. Vincent – “Laughing With A Mouth Full of Blood”/in town tonight!

Dawes – “When My Time Comes”/in town 2/25 w/ Cory Chisel

Cory Chisel & the Wandering Sons – “Born Again”/in town 2/25 w/ Dawes

Drive-By Truckers – “Working This Job”/The Big To-Do (out 3/16, in Cville 2/26 & 27)

The New Pornographers – “Your Hands (Together)”/Together (out 5/4)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – “Beat the Devil’s Tattoo”/title track (out 3/9)

Mumford & Sons – “Little Lion Man”/Sigh No More

Johnny Cash – “Ain’t No Grave”/American VI (out today)

Peter Gabriel – “The Power of the Heart”/Scratch My Back

She & Him – “In the Sun”/Vol. 2 (out 3/23)

Gorillaz – “Stylo”/Plastic Beach (out 3/9)

The Hours – “Ali In the Jungle”/new EP on iTunes

Carolina Chocolate Drops – “Hit ‘Em Up Style”/Genuine Negro Jig

~11pm~

Grace Potter & the Nocturnals – “White Rabbit”/Almost Alice

Band of Skulls – “Friends”/Twilight soundtrack

White Rabbits – “Rudie Fails”/Corner Lounge version (coming back to Cville in April!)

Smashing Pumpkins – “Widow Wake My Mind”/Teargarden By Kaleidyscope Vol. 1

Shout Out Louds – “Fall Hard”./Work (out today)

Zeus – “Marching Through Your Head”/Say Us (out today)

Goldfrapp – “Rocket”/Head First (out 3/23, single out 3/9)

Dan Black – “Symphonies”/((un))

Everybody Was in the French Resistance…Now! – “Billie’s Genes”/s/t

Groove Armada – “Look Me In the Eye Sister”/Black Light (out 3/2)

Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore – “Something, Somewhere, Sometime”/Dear Companion

Clem Snide – “Walmart Parking Lot”/The Meat of Life (out today)

Quasi – “Now What”/American Gong (out today)

Magnetic Fields – “You Must Be Out Of Your Mind”/Realism

David Ford – “She’s Not the One For Me”/Let the Hard Times Roll (Corner-sponsored show here 3/20)

V.V. Brown – “Crying Blood”/Travelling Like the Light (out 3/30, in Cville 3/22)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 2-16-10 (Show 152)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

The Verbs – “Hey Hey Uh-Huh”/Trip (Steve Jordan + Meegan Voss)

The Who – “I’m Free”/Greatest Hits Live (iTunes exclusive collection)

Len Price 3 – “Pictures”/Pictures

Greg Laswell (feat. Ingrid Michaelson) – “Take Everything”/??

Patty Larkin (feat. Suzanne Vega) – “Pablo Neruda”/25 (out 3/9)

Preservation Hall Jazz Band w/ Andrew Bird – “Shake It and Break It”/Preservation (out today)

Patty Griffin – “Move Up”/Downtown Church

Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore – “Only A Song”/Dear Companion (out today)

Backyard Tire Fire – “Good To Be”/title track (out today)

Drive-By Truckers – “Working This Job”/The Big To-Do (out 3/16, in Cville 2/26, 27)

The Whigs – “Kill Me Carolyne”/In The Dark (out 3/16) care-oh-LEAN

Magnetic Fields – “You Must Be Out Of Your Mind”/Realism

Scott Lucas & The Married Men – “Crosshairs”/George Lassos The Moon (out today)

~11pm~

She & Him – “In the Sun”/Vol. 2 (out 3/23)

The Hours – “Ali In the Jungle”/new EP on iTunes

Josh Rouse – “I Will Live On Islands”/El Turista (out 3/9)

Biffy Clyro – “Mountains”/Only Revolutions (unsure of U.S. release date)

Frightened Rabbit – “Swim Until You Can’t See Land”/The Winter of Mixed Drinks (out 3/9)

Twin Atlantic – “What is Light? Where Is Laughter?”/Vivarium

Massive Attack (feat. Hope Sandoval) – “Paradise Circus”/Heligoland

Peter Gabriel – “Flume”/Scratch My Back (out today, no service yet L)

Shout Out Louds – “Fall Hard”./Work (out 2/23)

Basia Bulat – “Go On”/Heart of My Own

Anais Mitchell (feat. Justin Vernon aka Bon Iver) – “Wedding Song”/Hadestown (out 3/9)

Field Music – “Them That Do Nothing”/s/t (out today)

Midlake – “Children of the Grounds”/The Courage of Others

~12mid~

Juliana Hatfield – “Faith in Our Friends”/Peace & Love (out today)

The Antlers – “Bear”/Hospice

Mumford & Sons – “Little Lion Man”/Sigh No More (out today)

Gil Scott-Heron - “Me and the Devil”/I’m New Here

Johnny Cash – “Ain’t No Grave”/American VI (out 2/23)

Eric Bibb – “Booker’s Guitar”/title track

Carolina Chocolate Drops – “Hit ‘Em Up Style”/Genuine Negro Jig (out today)

K-OS – “I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman”/Yes! (unsure of U.S. release date)

The Soft Pack – “C’Mon”/s/t

Lucero – “Sounds of the City”/2009 (in C’ville 2/20! Never got service on this major-label release either)

Jimi Hendrix – “Bleeding Heart”/Valleys of Neptune (out 3/9) Elmore James song

WCNR Brighten the Corners 2-9-10 (Show 151)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Peter Gabriel – “Flume”/Scratch My Back (out 2/16, turns 60 Saturday!)

Sade – “Soldier of Love”/title track (out today)

Here We Go Magic – “Only Pieces”/2009 (*Bonnaroo artist + coming to Cville w/ White Rabbits in April)

Josh Rouse – “I Will Live On Islands”/El Turista (out 3/9)

Josh Ritter – “Change of Time”/So Runs the World Away (out 5/4)

She & Him – “In the Sun”/Vol. 2 (out 3/23)*

Shout Out Louds – “Fall Hard”./Work (out 2/23)

Hot Chip – “One Life Stand”/title track (out today)

Yeasayer – “Ambling Alp”/Odd Blood (out today)

Phantogram – “When I’m Small”/Eyelid Movies (out today)

Massive Attack – “Saturday Come Slow”/Heligoland (out today)

The Soft Pack – “C’Mon”/s/t

~11pm~

Vampire Weekend – “Holiday”/Contra

OK Go – “This Too Shall Pass”/Of the Blue Colour of the Sky

Preservation Hall Jazz Band w/ Yim Yames – “Louisiana Fairytale”/Preservation (out 2/16)

Galactic (w/ Allen Toussaint) – “Bacchus”/Ya-Ka-May (yay for The Saints!)

Gil Scott-Heron - “I’m New Here”/I’m New Here (out today)

Ozomatli – “It’s Only Paper”/Fire Away (out 4/20)*

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – “Even Heroes Have to Die”/The Brutalist Bricks (out 3/9)

Allison Moorer – “The Broken Girl”/Crows (out today)

Patty Griffin – “Never Grow Old”/Downtown Church (w/ Buddy Miller)

The Watson Twins – “Devil in You”/Talking to You, Talking To Me (out today)

Birdlips – “Tracks on Repeat”/awesome local duo doing a farewell show 2/12 before moving to SF!

Beach House – “Used To Be”/Teen Dream

Magnetic Fields – “You Must Be Out Of Your Mind”/Realism

~12mid~

Field Music – “Measure”/s/t (out 2/16)

Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore – “Something, Somewhere, Sometime”/Dear Companion (out 2/16)

Rogue Wave – “Good Morning (The Future)”/Permalight (out 3/2)

Charlotte Gainsbourg (feat. Beck) – “Trick Pony”/IRM

A.L.O. – “Man of the World”/title track (out today)

Scott Lucas & The Married Men – “Crosshairs”/George Lassos The Moon (out 2/16)

Malachai – “Snowflake”/Ugly Side of Love

Stevie Wonder – “I Wish”/1976 (another Bonnaroo artist!)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Johnny Cash – “Ain’t No Grave”/American VI (out 2/23)

Ryan Bingham – “The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)”/Oscar-nominated today

Gil Scott-Heron - “Me and the Devil”/I’m New Here (out 2/9)

Jimi Hendrix – “Bleeding Heart”/Valleys of Neptune (out 3/9)

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – “Even Heroes Have to Die”/The Brutalist Bricks (out 3/9)

Findlay Brown – “Love Will Find You”/title track

Rogue Wave – “Good Morning (The Future)”/Permalight (out 3/2)

Malachai – “Snowflake”/Ugly Side of Love (out today)

Corinne Bailey Rae – “Paris Nights/New York Mornings”/The Sea

Reni Lane – “Place For Us”/Ready (out 3/16)

Magnetic Fields – “You Must Be Out Of Your Mind”/Realism

Ben Sollee (w/ Carrie Rodriguez) – “Only A Song”/Corner Lounge version from 1/31 (new cd out 2/16)

Backyard Tire Fire – “Good To Be”/title track (out 2/16)

~11pm~

Gorillaz – “Stylo”/Plastic Beach (out 3/9)

Phantogram – “When I’m Small”/Eyelid Movies (out 2/9)

The Album Leaf – “Falling From The Sun”/A Chorus of Storytellers (out today)

The Soft Pack – “Answer To Yourself”/s/t (out today!)

Mumford & Sons – “Little Lion Man”/Sigh No More (out 2/16)

Sarah Blasko – “All I Want”/As Day Follows Night (import)

Kate Maki – “In Comes The Light”/Two Song Wedding

Vampire Weekend – “Cousins”/Contra

Iron & Wine – “Free Until They Cut Me Down”/2005 (in town for sold-out show Friday!)

Midlake – “Acts of Man”/The Courage of Others (out today)

Charlotte Gainsbourg (feat. Beck) – “IRM”/IRM

Clem Snide – “Walmart Parking Lot”/The Meat of Life (out 2/23)

OK Go – “This Too Shall Pass”/Of the Blue Colour of the Sky

Retribution Gospel Choir – “Hide It Away”/2

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – “Beat the Devil’s Tattoo”/title track (out 3/9)

~12mid~

The Watson Twins – “Devil in You”/Talking to You, Talking To Me (out 2/9)

V.V. Brown – “Shark in the Water”/Travelling Like the Light (out 3/30)

Yeasayer – “Ambling Alp”/Odd Blood (out 2/9)

Citizen Cope – “Healing Hands”/The Rainwater LP (out 3/2)

Drive-By Truckers – “Working This Job”/The Big To-Do (out 3/16, in Cville 2/26, 27)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 1-26-10 (Show 149)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Gorillaz – “Stylo”/Plastic Beach (out 3/9)

Hot Chip – “One Life Stand”/title track (out 2/9)

Neon Trees – “Animal”/Habits (out 3/23)

Vampire Weekend – “Run”/Contra

The Soft Pack – “C’Mon”/s/t (out 2/2)

The Whigs – “Kill Me Carolyne”/In The Dark (out 3/16) care-oh-LEAN

Drive-By Truckers – “Working This Job”/The Big To-Do (out 3/16, in Cville 2/26, 27)

Clem Snide – “Walmart Parking Lot”/The Meat of Life (out 2/23)

Big Star – “Watch the Sunrise”/1972 (Keep an Eye on the Sky 2009 box set)

Assembly of Dust (feat. Richie Havens) – “All That I Am Now”/Some Assembly Required

Kate Maki – “In Comes The Light”/Two Song Wedding

Basia Bulat – “Go On”/Heart of My Own (out today) Bah-sha Boo-laht

Midlake – “Acts of Man”/The Courage of Others (out 2/2)

John Lennon – “I’m Losing You”/1980 Anthology box set demo version w/ Cheap Trick!

~11pm~

Jay Reatard – “Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle”/Nirvana In Utero tribute album tba

Beach House – “Norway”/Teen Dream (out today)

Retribution Gospel Choir – “Hide It Away”/2 (out today)

Spoon – “Is Love Forever?”/Transference

Patty Griffin – “Wade in the Water”/Downtown Church (out today)

Carrie Rodriguez – “50s French Movie”/Live in Louisville (in Cville 1/31)

Ben Sollee – “A Change is Gonna Come”/2008 (in town with Carrie 1/31!)

Findlay Brown – “Love Will Find You”/title track

The Hotrats – “Damaged Goods”/Turn Ons (Gang of Four cover)

Jay-Z w/ Rihanna, The Edge & Bono – “Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)”/Hope For Haiti Telethon

Kraftwerk – “Metal on Metal”/1977 (Trans Europe Express re-issue 2009)

Magnetic Fields – “You Must Be Out Of Your Mind”/Realism (out today)

Superchunk – “Sister”/1992 ltd. Edition Teriyaki Asthma 7” (thanks to my new USB turntable!)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 1-19-10 (Show 148)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Alejandro Escovedo – “The Anchor”/new song! recorded in Corner Lounge 1/17/10

Ellis Paul – “Jukebox On My Grave”/Corner Lounge version from 1/12/10; new album out now

Sonos – “Wicked Game”/Corner Lounge version from 1/13/10

RJD2 – “1976”/2004 (in Cville 1/21, gave away tix)

Spoon – “Trouble Comes Running”/Transference (out today, on Tonight Show tonight!)

Editors – “Papillion”/In This Light and On This Evening (out today)

The Hotrats – “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)”/Turn Ons (out today)

Galactic – “Heart of Steel” (feat. Irma Thomas)/Ya-Ka-May (out 2/9)

Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe – “Brother’s Keeper”/title track

Patty Griffin – “House of Gold”/Downtown Church (out 1/26)

Citizen Cope – “Healing Hands”/The Rain Water LP (out 2/9)

Black Rebel Motorcyle Club – “Weapon of Choice”/Live

Cheap Trick – “Everyday You Make Me Crazy”/The Latest (in Cville 1/22)

~11pm~

Neon Trees – “Animal”/Habits (out 3/23)

The Soft Pack – “Answer To Yourself”/s/t (out 2/2)

Broken Bells – “The High Road”/s/t (out 3/9)

RJD2 – “Games You Can Win” (feat. Kenna)/The Colossus (out today, in Cville 1/21, gave away tix)

Drive-By Truckers – “Working This Job”/The Big To-Do (out 3/16)

Dawn Landes – “Young Girl”/Sweet Heart Rodeo (out today)

Kate Maki – “In Comes The Light”/Two Song Wedding

Jamie Cullum – “Wheels”/The Pursuit (out 3/2)

Vampire Weekend – “White Sky”/Contra

Assembly of Dust (feat. Richie Havens) – “All That I Am Now”/Some Assembly Required

Basia Bulat – “Go On”/Heart of My Own (out 1/26)

~12am~

Midlake – “Acts of Man”/The Courage of Others (out 2/2)

Matthew Ryan – “Your Museum”/Dear Lover (out 2/16)

Eels – “End Times”/End Times (out today)

Rufus Wainwright w/ his mom Kate McGarrigle – “Lowlands Away”/RIP Kate (2/6/46-1/18/10)

Jay Reatard – “Always Wanting More” and “My Reality”/RIP Jay (5/1/80-1/13/10)

Cheap Trick – “Elo Kiddies”/1977 (Rick Nielsen phone interview 1/21 before his 5-song DJ set at 3pm!)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 1-12-10 (Show 147)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Neon Trees – “Animal”/Habits (out 3/23)

Blackgold – “Shine”/Rush

V.V. Brown – “Shark in the Water”/Travelling Like the Light (out 2/9)

The Soft Pack – “Answer To Yourself”/s/t (out 2/2)

Crash Kings – “Mountain Man”/s/t

Charlotte Gainsbourg (feat. Beck) – “Heaven Can Wait”/Irm (out 1/26)

Beck (w/ Wilco & Feist) – “Broken Heart”/beck.com Record Club (covering Skip Spence’s Oar LP)

Seven Worlds Collide (Wilco+Radiohead+Marr+Finn) – “Too Blue”/The Sun Came Out

Jamie Cullum – “Wheels”/The Pursuit (out 3/2)

Ringo Starr – “Walk With You” (w/ Paul McCartney)/Y Not (out today, on Jimmy Fallon tonight w/ Ben Harper & Relentless7 and Central Virginia’s own Ann Marie Calhoun on violin!)

Allison Moorer – “The Broken Girl”/Crows (out 2/9)

Alejandro Escovedo – “Castanets”/2001 (in town Sunday – and in-studio!)

Beach House – “Norway”/Teen Dream (out 1/26)

~11pm~

Sonos – “Everything In Its Right Place”/Sonosings (in town 1/13 – and in-studio!)

Broken Bells – “The High Road”/s/t (out 3/9)

Yeasayer – “Ambling Alp”/Odd Blood (out 2/9)

Vampire Weekend – “Giving Up The Gun”/Contra (out today)

Basia Bulat – “Go On”/Heart of My Own (out 1/26)

Backyard Tire Fire – “Good To Be”/title track (out 2/16, in Cville 4/16)

Watson Twins – “Devil In You”/Talking to You, Talking To Me (out 2/9)

Freedy Johnston – “It’s Gonna Come Back To You”/Rain on the City (out today)

Dawn Landes – “Young Girl”/Sweet Heart Rodeo (out 1/19)

Moby – “One Time We Lived” (acoustic version)/Wait For Me Deluxe

RJD2 – “Games You Can Win” (feat. Kenna)/The Colossus (in Cville 1/21)

Laura Veirs – “Carol Kaye” (w/ Jim James)/July Flame (out today)

Eels – “A Line in the Dirt”/End Times (out 1/19)

~12mid~

Metric – “Gold Guns Girls”/Fantasies

White Denim – “I Start To Run”/Fits

Red Pens – “Hung Out”/Reasons (out 2/16)

Citizen Cope – “Healing Hands”/The Rain Water LP (out 2/9)

Galactic – “Heart of Steel” (feat. Irma Thomas)/Ya-Ka-May (out 2/9)

Alejandro Escovedo – “Sister Lost Soul”/in town Sunday 1/17– and in-studio!

WCNR Brighten the Corners 1-5-10 (Show 146)

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~10pm~

Broken Bells – “The High Road”/s/t (out 3/9)

Moby – “One Time We Lived”/Wait For Me Deluxe

Dirty Projectors – “Stillness is the Move”/Bitte Orca (2009 honorable mention-song)

Vampire Weekend – “Cousins”/Contra (out 1/12/10, on Letterman tonight)

Vic Chesnutt – “Steve Willoughby”/1992 West of Rome (re-issued 2004)

Watson Twins – “Devil In You”/Talking to You, Talking To Me (out 2/9)

Dawn Landes – “Young Girl”/Sweet Heart Rodeo (out 1/19)

Miike Snow – “Silvia”/s/t

Grizzy Bear – “Two Weeks”/Veckatimest (2009 honorable mention-song)

Stardeath and White Dwarfs – “New Heat”/The Birth (2009 honorable mention-song)

Red Pens – “Hung Out”/Reasons (out 2/16)

Laura Veirs – “Wide-Eyed, Legless”/July Flame (out 1/12/10)

Animal Collective – “What Would I Want? Sky”/Fall Be Kind EP (09 hon. mention-band)

~11pm~

Citizen Cope – “Healing Hands”/The Rain Water LP (out 2/9)

Jamie Cullum – “Wheels”/The Pursuit (out 3/2)

Audra Mae – “The River”/Haunt EP (from Oklahoma, Judy Garland is her great aunt)

John Hiatt – “The Open Road”/title track (out 3/2)

Vic Chesnutt – “Sleeping Man (Syd version)”/1992 Drunk (re-issued 2004)

Beach House – “Norway”/Teen Dream (out 1/26)

The Soft Pack – “Answer To Yourself”/s/t (out 2/2)

Hot Chip – “One Life Stand”/title track (out 2/9)

Sharam feat. Kid Cudi w/ Patsy Cline – “She Came Along”/Get Wild (not sure if/when it’s out in U.S.)

Allison Moorer – “The Broken Girl”/Crows (out 2/9/10)

Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens – “What Have You Done”/What Have You Done, My Brother?

(09 honorable mention-album)

Freedy Johnston – “It’s Gonna Come Back To You”/Rain on the City (out 1/12)

Ringo Starr – “Walk With You” (w/ Paul McCartney)/Y Not (out 1/12)

Vic Chesnutt – “Aunt Avis”/1992 Drunk (bonus track on 2004 re-issue)

See below for way more ’09 Honorable Mentions than I had time for this week…

Ramona Falls – “I Say Fever”/Intuit

Those Darlins – “Red Light Love”/s/t

The Veils – “The Letter”/Sun Gangs

Kasabian – “Fire”/West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

Placebo – “For What It’s Worth”/Battle For The Sun

Deer Tick – “Easy”/Born On Flag Day

Modest Mouse - No One’s First and You’re Next

Meat Puppets – “Rotten Shame”/Sewn Together

Nine Inch Nails – “Not So Pretty Now”/free EP at ninja2009.com

Wolfmother – “New Moon Rising”/Cosmic Egg

Alice in Chains – “Check My Brain”/Black Gives Way to Blue

Doves – Kingdom of Rust

Maria Taylor – “Timelapse Lifeline”/LadyLuck

Buddy & Julie Miller – “Gasoline and Matches”/Written in Chalk

Ben Harper & Relentless7 – “Fly One Time”/White Lies for Dark Times

White Rabbits – “Percussion Gun” and “Right Where They Left”/It’s Frightening

Soulsavers - Broken

As Tall As Lions – “In Case of Rapture”

The Temper Trap – “Sweet Disposition”

Patterson Hood – “I Understand Now”/Murdering Oscar (and other love songs)

Steve Earle – “Lungs”/Townes

Great Northern – “Houses”/Remind Me Where the Light Is

It was a banner year for live albums too, with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, and Tift Merritt among those I found great. And it was awesome to see The Woodstock Experience series finally give a proper release to Sly & The Family Stone’s full Woodstock set, coinciding with the 40^th anniv. of the legendary festival.

Kudos to Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, and Built to Spill (among other indie legends) for continuing to do that thing they each do so well…

Cheers to Lisa Hannigan and The Features, 2 of my favs from 2008 that got released stateside and got re-released in 2009, respectively…

And congrats to Merge on their anniversary year too! Compilations and concert celebrations galore J

While I don’t think I can help that my tolerance/attention span for new music isn’t getting any greater in my old age (I’d like to think it’s still way higher than the typical person my age!), I’m still trying to at least not be set in my ways, if that makes any sense. As everybody from the band down the street to the bands I’ve loved for 20-30 years not only keeps making music, but keeps releasing that music for consumption….let’s hope the quality-to-quantity ratio is an ever-improving one in the years to come. Carry on, ye wayward sons & daughters!

WCNR Brighten the Corners 12-29-09 (Show 145)

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~10pm~

Favorite albums of the year 2009! (no particular order til the top 10)

My Brightest Diamond – “Feelin’ Good”/Dark Was the Night benefit cd

Seven Worlds Collide – “Too Blue” (feat. Johnny Marr & Neil Finn)/The Sun Came Out benefit cd

The National – “Ashamed of the Story I Told”/Ciao My Shining Star-The Songs of Mark Mulcahy

Beck – “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat”/War Child presents: Heroes

The Soft Pack – “Future Rock”/The Muslims EP

The xx – “Islands”/xx

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Heads Will Roll”/It’s Blitz!

Cage the Elephant – “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked”/s/t

Heartless Bastards – “Out At Sea”/The Mountain

Micachu & The Shapes – “Golden Phone”/Jewellery

Regina Spektor – “Blue Lips”/Far

Wilco – “You Never Know”/Wilco (The Album)

Jackson 5 – “I’ll Be There (Minus Mix)”/posthumous release

~11pm~

Eels – “Prizefighter”/Hombre Lobo

Iggy Pop – “She’s A Business”/Preliminaires

PJ Harvey & John Parish – “Black Hearted Love”/A Woman A Man Walked By

#10 Justin Townes Earle – “Can’t Hardly Wait”/Midnight at the Movies

#9 M. Ward – “Never Had Nobody Like You”/Hold Time

#8 Neko Case – “People Got A Lotta Nerve”/Middle Cyclone

#7 Amy Millan – “Towers”/Masters of the Burial

#6 Mason Jennings – “Ain’t No Friend of Mine”/Blood Of Man

#5 Pearl Jam – “Got Some”/Backspacer

#4 Metric – “Gimme Sympathy”/Fantasies

#3 Monsters of Folk – “Dear God (Sincerely M.O.F.)”/s/t

#2 Gossip – “Heavy Cross”/Music For Men

#1 Avett Brothers – “Slight Figure of Speech” & “Ten Thousand Words”/I and Love and You

And as a 2009 p.s., The Beatles – “In My Life”

WCNR Brighten the Corners 12-22-09 (Show 144)

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~10pm~

Favorite songs of the year 2009! (no particular order til the last 3)

The Heavy – “How You Like Me Now?”/The House That Dirt Built

Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings – “Take Me With U”/Spin Magazine’s Purplish Rain tribute

N.A.S.A. – “Money” (feat. David Byrne & Chuck D)/The Spirit of Apollo

Thom Yorke – “All For the Best”/Ciao My Shining Star-The Songs of Mark Mulcahy

Iron & Wine – “Love Vigilantes”/Around the Well

Headless Heroes – “True Love Will Find You in the End”/The Silence of Love

The Cinnamon Band – “Buena Vista”/EP title track (local duo that toured w/ Handsome Furs)

Sons of Bill – “Joey’s Arm”/backstage at Bonnaroo 2009 (local band that also played ACL fest)

Brandi Carlile – “Dreams”/Give Up The Ghost

Weezer – “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To”/Raditude

Anna Ternheim – “What Have I Done”/Leaving On A Mayday

Peaches – “Talk To Me”/I Feel Cream

Ida Maria – “Oh My God”/Fortress Round My Heart

~11pm~

Ani DiFranco – “November 5, 2008”/brand new song she did in Corner Lounge in March!

Morwenna Lasko & Jay Pun – “Machine Gun” (Corner Lounge version)/Chioggia Beat (local duo)

Honey Dewdrops – “Bluest Blue Eyes”/If the Sun Will Shine (local duo)

Echo & The Bunnymen – “Think I Need It Too”/The Fountain

Blind Boys of Alabama – “Perfect Peace”(w/ Toots Hibbert)/Duets

Bill Callahan – “Eid Ma Clack Shaw”/Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Spinnerette - “Baptized By Fire”/s/t

Them Crooked Vultures – “New Fang”/s/t

Middle Class Rut – “I Guess You Could Say”

Miike Snow – “Animal”/Miike Snow

The xx – “Crystalised”/xx

Flight of the Conchords – “Hurt Feelings”/I Told You I Was Freaky

The Soft Pack – “Extinction”/The Muslims EP

Dawes – “When My Time Comes”/North Hills

3-Gossip – “8^th Wonder”/Music For Men

2-White Denim – “I Start To Run”/Fits

1-Pearl Jam – “The Fixer”/Backspacer

WCNR Brighten the Corners 12-15-09 (Show 143)

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~10pm~

The Waterboys – “Fisherman’s Blues”/1988 (Mike Scott’s 51^st b’day 12/14)

Audra Mae – “The River”/Haunt EP (from Oklahoma, Judy Garland is her great aunt)

Allison Moorer – “The Broken Girl”/Crows (out 2/9/10)

Laura Viers – “Wide-Eyed, Legless”/July Flame (out 1/12/10)

The Soft Pack – “Answer To Yourself”/s/t (out Feb. 2010)

Crash Kings – “Mountain Man”/Crash Kings

MuteMath – “Spotlilght”/Armistice

Beach House – “Norway”/Teen Dream (out 1/26)

Sade – “Soldier of Love”/title track (out 2/8)

Molina and Johnson – “Almost Let You In”/s/t

Dawes – “When My Time Comes”/North Hills

Dutch – “Just Before The Rain”/full length out 2010

Blakroc – “Hope You’re Happy”/s/t (feat. Black Keys + Q-Tip, Billy Danze & Nicole Wray)

Transfer – “Losing Composure”/Future Selves

~11pm~

Keith Richards – “Run Run Rudolph”/he’s 66 on 12/18!

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – “Ain’t No Chimneys In the Projects”/2009 original

Donavon Frankenreiter – “The First Noel”

Vampire Weekend – “Cousins”/Contra (out 1/12/10)

The Big Pink – “Dominos”/A Brief History of Love

The Heavy – “How You Like Me Now?”/The House That Dirt Built

Zero 7 – “Mr. McGee”/Yeah Ghost

Norah Jones – “That’s What I Said (The NYC Remix by Adrock and Mike D)”/Chasing Pirates Remix EP (out 1/12/10)

Massive Attack – “Splitting The Atom”/title track to EP (full out Feb 2010)

Spoon – “Written in Reverse”/Transference (out 1/19/10)

The xx – “Crystalised”/xx

The Law – “Don’t Stop, Believe”/A Measure of Wealth

Flying Machines – “On A Whim”/s/t

PT Walkley – “Somebody”/Mr. Macy Wakes Alone

Randy Newman – “Sail Away”/The People Speak soundtrack

WCNR Brighten the Corners 12-8-09 (Show 142)

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~10pm~

John Doe & Exene Cervenka – “See How We Are”/The People Speak (out today)

Tom Waits – “Live Circus”/Glitter & Doom Live (happy 60^th b’day 12/7!)

RJD2 – “Games You Can Win” (feat. Kenna)/The Colossus (in Cville 1/21)

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – “Ain’t No Chimneys In the Projects”/in Cville 12/12!

Spoon – “Written in Reverse”/Transference (out 1/19/10)

The Suburbs – “Love is the Law”/1984 R.I.P. Bruce Allen (died yesterday at 54)

The Law – “Don’t Stop, Believe”/A Measure of Wealth

Vampire Weekend – “Cousins”/Contra (out 1/12/10)

Zero 7 – “Mr. McGee”/Yeah Ghost

Groove Armada – “I Won’t Kneel (Bloody Beetroots Remix)”/Black Light (out in Feb.)

Rob Halford – “Winter Song”/Winter Songs (yes, it’s Mr. Judas Priest covering an Ingrid/Sara B song!)

http://www.metalgodrecords.com/ramp/

~11pm~

Lissie – “Little Lovin’”/Why You Runnin’ EP (on Black Keys’ old label, Fat Possum)

Blakroc – “Ain’t Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo)”/s/t (feat. Black Keys + Mos Def & Jim Jones)

Sade – “Soldier of Love”/title track (out 2/8)

Sinead O’Connor – “You Made Me The Thief of Your Heart (live)”/2003 (she’s 43 today)

The Soft Pack – “Answer To Yourself”/s/t (out Feb. 2010)

Dutch – “Just Before The Rain”/full length out 2010

Beach House – “Norway”/Teen Dream (out 1/26)

Dawes – “When My Time Comes”/North Hills

Transfer – “Losing Composure”/Future Selves

Molina and Johnson – “Almost Let You In”/s/t

Chief – “Mighty Proud”/single out now, full out spring 2010 on Domino Records

John Lennon – “Remember”/1970 (died 12/8/80)

Paul McCartney – “Here Today”/Good Evening, New York City (new live cd/dvd)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 12-1-09 (Show 141)

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~10pm~

The Soft Pack – “Answer To Yourself”/s/t (out Feb. 2010)

Chief – “Mighty Proud”/single out now, full out spring 2010 on Domino Records

The Ettes – “Take It With You”/Do You Want Power

Bad Lieutenant (feat. Bernard Sumner) – “Sink or Swim”/Never Cry Another Tear

Flying Machines – “On A Whim”/s/t

BrakesBrakesBrakes – “Don’t Take Me To Space (Man)”/Touchdown

We Were Promised Jetpacks – “Quiet Little Voices”/These Four Walls

The Twilight Sad – “Interrupted”/Forget the Night Ahead

The Black Heart Procession – “Rats”/Six

Los Campesinos! – “These Are Listed Buildings”/Romance Is Boring (out 1/26/10)

Sally Seltman – “Harmony To Your Heartbeat”/Heart That’s Pounding (out 4/6/10)

Shuggie Otis – “Inspiration Information”/1974 (turned 56 11/30!)

~11pm~

Peter Bjorn & John – “Summer Breeze”/Malaria No More (Seals & Crofts cover on digital-only benefit cd)

Lissy Trullie – “Ready For the Floor”/Self-Taught Learner (Hot Chip cover)

Taken By Trees – “My Boys”/East of Eden (Animal Collective cover)

Loch Lomond – “Holiday”/Night Bats EP (Bee Gees cover)

Inara George – “Right As Wrong”/Accidental Experimental

Vampire Weekend – “Cousins”/Contra (out 1/12/10)

Them Crooked Vultures – “New Fang”/s/t

Blakroc – “Ain’t Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo)”/s/t (feat. Black Keys + Mos Def & Jim Jones)

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – “I’m Not Gonna Cry”/Daptone Gold comp. (in Cville 12/12!)

Lissie – “Little Lovin’”/Why You Runnin’ EP (on Black Keys’ old label, Fat Possum)

Spoon – “Written in Reverse”/Transference (out 1/19/10)

Metric – “Gold Guns Girls”/Fantasies

~12mid~

The Law – “Don’t Stop, Believe”/A Measure of Wealth

Tori Amos – “Star of Wonder”/Midwinter Graces

J.J. Cale – “Crazy Mama”/1971 (turns 71 12/5)

Monsters of Folk – “Losin Yo Head”/s/t

WCNR Brighten the Corners 11-24-09 (Show 140)

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~10pm~

Spoon – “Written in Reverse”/Transference (out 1/19/10)

Vampire Weekend – “Cousins”/Contra (out 1/12/10)

Tegan & Sara - “Hell”/Sainthood

Them Crooked Vultures – “New Fang”/s/t

Metric – “Gold Guns Girls”/Fantasies

Julian Casablancas – “Out of the Blue”/Phrazes for the Young

Anya Marina – “Satellite Heart”/Twilight: New Moon soundtrack

Editors – “Papillon”/In This Light and On This Evening (out 1/19/10)

The Law – “Don’t Stop, Believe”/A Measure of Wealth

Crash Kings – “Mountain Man”/Crash Kings

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – “Good”/2008 (in town 11/27 co-headlining opening of new venue!)

The Big Pink – “Dominos”/A Brief History of Love

Great Northern – “Story”/Remind Me Where The Light Is

~11pm~

Peter Bjorn & John – “Summer Breeze”/Malaria No More (digital-only benefit cd)

Tori Amos – “Star of Wonder”/Midwinter Graces

The National – “Ashamed of the Story I Told”/Ciao My Shining Star (tribute/benefit cd)

Yeasayer – “Ambling Alp”/Odd Blood (out Feb. 2010)

Flaming Lips – “Convinced of the Hex”/Embryonic

tUnE-yArDs – “Sunlight”/Bird-Brains

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – “I’m Not Gonna Cry”/Daptone Gold comp. (out today, in Cville 12/12!)

The Heavy – “How You Like Me Now?”/The House That Dirt Built

Tom Waits – “Green Grass”/Glitter & Doom Live (out today)

Los Cenzontles w/ David Hidalgo & Taj Mahal – “No Work”/American Horizon

Relient K – “Therapy”/Forget and Not Slow Down

~12mid~

White Denim – “I Start To Run”/Fits

Bad Lieutenant (feat. Bernard Sumner) – “Dynamo”/Never Cry Another Tear

Bowerbirds – “House of Diamonds”/Upper Air (in C’ville 11/27)

Flight of the Conchords – “Carol Brown”/I Told You I Was Freaky

Gogol Bordello – “American Wedding”/Live from Axis Mundi (in C’ville 12/31!)

Monsters of Folk – “Whole Lotta Losin’”/s/t

WCNR Brighten the Corners 11-17-09 (Show 139)

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~10pm~

Dawes – “Love is All I Am”/Corner Lounge version from yesterday!

Peter Bradley Adams – “For You”/Traces

J. Tillman – “How Much Mystery”/2007 (Fleet Foxes drummer at UVA Chapel 11/19)

tUnE-yArDs – “Sunlight”/Bird-Brains (out today)

Bjork – “All Is Full Of Love”/1997 (by far her most-streamed song on imeem.com; she turns 44 11/21)

Inara George – “Oh My Love”/Accidental Experimental

The Cribs – “We Share The Same Skies”/Ignore the Ignorant

Echo & The Bunnymen – “Think I Need It Too”/The Fountain

Bad Lieutenant (feat. Bernard Sumner) – “Sink or Swim”/Never Cry Another Tear

Mayer Hawthorne – “The Ills”/A Strange Arrangement

Ryan Shaw – “Get Previous”/In Between EP

The Heavy – “How You Like Me Now?”/The House That Dirt Built

~11pm~

Sara Watkins – “All This Time”/s/t 2009 (in C’ville 11/19 for Corner-sponsored show)

Infamous Stringdusters – “I Wonder”/s/t 2008 (in C’ville 11/19 for Corner-sponsored show)

Dave Rawlings Machine – “To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)”/A Friend of A Friend (out today)

Them Crooked Vultures – “Scumbag Blues”/s/t (out today)

Willowz – “Repetition”/Everyone (out today)

The Big Pink – “Dominos”/A Brief History of Love

Metric – “Gold Guns Girls”/Fantasies

Crash Kings – “Mountain Man”/Crash Kings

Vampire Weekend – “Cousins”/”/Contra (out 1/12/10)

Yeasayer – “Ambling Alp”/Odd Blood (out Feb. 2010)

Great Northern – “Story”/Remind Me Where The Light Is

The Law – “Don’t Stop, Believe”/A Measure of Wealth

~12mid~

The xx – “Crystalised”/xx

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – “I’m Not Gonna Cry”/Daptone Gold comp. (out 11/24, in Cville 12/12!)

Jeff Buckley – “Everybody Here Wants You”/born 11/17/66, died in 97

Carrie Rodriguez – “50’s French Movie”/Live In Louisville

Tom Waits – “Such A Scream”/Glitter & Doom Live (out 11/24)

Graham Parker – “Endless Night”/1980 w/ Springsteen (GP turns 59 11/18)

Basement Jaxx w/ Santigold – “Saga”/Scars

BrakesBrakesBrakes – “Don’t Take Me To Space (Man)”/Touchdown

The Swimmers – “Nervous Wreck”/People Are Soft

Los Cenzontles w/ David Hidalgo & Taj Mahal – “Best of Me”/American Horizon

Chuck Prophet – “Let Freedom Ring!”/title track

Gordon Lightfoot – “The Way I Feel”/1967-Cowboy Junkies covered this on ’03 tribute (he’s 71 11/17!)

Monsters of Folk – “Baby Boomer”/s/t (what a show in Richmond last week!)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 11-10-09 (Show 138)

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~10pm~

Dave Rawlings Machine – “It’s Too Easy”/A Friend of A Friend (out 11/17)

Monsters of Folk – “Dear God (Sincerely M.O.F.)”/s/t (in Richmond tonight!)

XTC – “Dear God”/1986 (Andy Partridge b’day tmrw)

White Denim – “I Start To Run”/Fits
Gossip – “Heavy Cross”/Music For Men

The Features – “Lions”/Some Kind of Salvation

Julian Casablancas – “11^th Dimension”/Phrazes for the Young

Tegan & Sara - “Hell”/Sainthood

Switchfoot – “Mess of Me”/Hello Hurricane (out today)

Them Crooked Vultures – “New Fang”/s/t (out 11/17)

The xx – “Crystalised”/xx

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – “I’m Not Gonna Cry”/Daptone Gold comp. (out 11/24, in Cville 12/12!)

Blind Boys of Alabama – “Perfect Peace”(w/ Toots Hibbert)/Duets

Neil Young – “Prime of Life”/b’day later this week!

~11pm~

Tom Waits – “Get Behind The Mule”/Glitter & Doom Live (out 11/24)

Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard – “These Roads Don’t Move”

Built To Spill – “Hindsight”/

Devendra Banhart – “Goin’ Back”/What Will We Be

WPA – “Always Have My Love”/

Langhorne Slim – “Say Yes”/Be Set Free (in Cville 11/16)

Dawes – “When My Time Comes”/North Hills (in C’ville w/ Langhorne)

Joss Stone – “Free Me”

The Swell Season – “Low Rising”/Strict Joy
Alela Diane feat. Alina Hardin – “Bowling Green”/new EP

Paul McCartney – “(I Want To) Come Home”/Everybody’s Fine (movie out 12/4)

Grant-Lee Phillips – “Good Morning Happiness”/Little Moon

The Big Pink – “Dominos”/A Brief History of Love

WCNR Brighten the Corners 11-3-09 (Show 137)

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~10pm~

The Downer Party – “Where We Went Wrong”/Ego-Driven Lust Creatures (for election day!)

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – “I’m Not Gonna Cry”/Daptone Gold compilation (out 11/24)

Corey Harris – “My Song”/blu.black (hometown show in C’ville 11/4)

Manu Chao – “Clandestino”/Baionarena (live 2-cd & dvd out 11/17)

Paul McCartney – “(I Want To) Come Home”/Everybody’s Fine (movie out 12/4)

Tom Waits – “Make It Rain”/Glitter & Doom Live (out 11/24)

The Swell Season – “Feeling the Pull”/Strict Joy

The Low Anthem – “To Ohio”/Oh My God, Charlie Darwin (in C’ville 11/10)

Langhorne Slim – “Say Yes”/Be Set Free (in Cville 11/16)

Dawes – “When My Time Comes”/North Hills (in C’ville w/ Langhorne)

Morrissey – “Ganglord”/Swords (b-sides collection out today)

Spring Tigers – “New Improved Formula”/s/t mini-LP

Bad Religion – “Leaders & Followers”/1994 b-side (for election day & recent openers for Pearl Jam)

~11pm~

Them Crooked Vultures – “New Fang”/s/t (out 11/17)

Gossip – “8^th Wonder”/Music For Men

Devo – “Gut Feeling”/Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (re-issue out today)

Editors – “Papillon”/In This Light and On This Evening (out 1/19/10)

Julian Casablancas – “Left & Right in the Dark”/Phrazes for the Young (out today)

The xx – “Crystalised”/xx

Yeasayer – “Ambling Alp”/Odd Blood (out Feb. 2010)

The Big Pink – “Dominos”/A Brief History of Love

Flight of the Conchords – “Hurt Feelings”/I Told You I Was Freaky

Blind Boys of Alabama – “Perfect Peace”(w/ Toots Hibbert)/Duets

The Mother Hips – “One Way Out”/Pacific Dust

~12mid~

Grant-Lee Phillips – “Older Now”/Little Moon

Devendra Banhart – “Goin’ Back”/What Will We Be

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis – “Going Up The Country”/s/t

Oh My God – “My Own Adventure”/The Night Undoes The Work of the Day

Weezer – “I Don’t Want To Let You Go”/Raditude (out today)

Tegan & Sara - “Hell”/Sainthood

Nirvana – “Molly’s Lips (live)”/Bleach 20^th Aniv. Deluxe Edition (out today, as is Live at Reading cd/dvd)

Band of Skulls – “Friends”/Twilight New Moon soundtrack

Amy Millan – “Bruised Ghosts”/Masters of the Burial (in DC 11/8!)

Still Life Still – “Pastel”/Girls Come Too

Headlights – “I Don’t Mind At All”/Wildlife

The Features – “Lions”/Some Kind of Salvation

Social Distortion – “Let It Be Me”/1990 (another Pearl Jam opener from last week that’s still kickin’!)

Flaming Lips – “The Ego’s Last Stand”/Embryonic

WCNR Brighten the Corners 10-27-09 (Show 136)

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~10pm~

Them Crooked Vultures – “New Fang”/s/t (out 11/17)

Wolfmother – “New Moon Rising”/Cosmic Egg (out today)

Morningwood – “Best of Me”/Diamonds & Studs (out today, on Kimmel tonight)

R.E.M. – “Living Well Is the Best Revenge”/Live at the Olympia (2cd/1dvd out today)

Devendra Banhart – “Goin’ Back”/What Will We Be (out today)

Blind Boys of Alabama – “Perfect Peace”(w/ Toots Hibbert)/Duets (out today)

Joss Stone – “Free Me”/Colour Me Free!

Julian Casablancas – “11^th Dimension”/Phrazes for the Young (out 11/3) (on Conan tonight!)

Florence & The Machine – “Rabbit Heart”/Lungs (on Letterman tonight!)

Tegan & Sara - “Hell”/Sainthood (out today)

Thievery Corporation – “The Numbers Game”/2008 (in C’ville 10/29)

Zero 7 – “Medicine Man”/Yeah Ghost

Massive Attack – “Splitting The Atom”/title track to new EP

~11pm~

Thom Yorke – “Hearing Damage”/Twilight New Moon soundtrack

The Swell Season – “The Rain”/Strict Joy (out today)

Derek Webb – “Cobra Con”/Stockholm Syndrome

Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard – “California Zephyr”/One Fast Move Or I’m Gone

Vampire Weekend – “Horchata”/Contra (out 1/12/10)

Morrissey – “Good Looking Man About Town”/Swords (b-sides collection out 11/3)

Built to Spill – “Hindsight”/There Is No Enemy

Nirvana – “About A Girl (live)”/Bleach 20^th Anniv. Deluxe Edition (out 11/3)

Nirvana – “On A Plain (live)”/Live at Reading (cd/dvd out 11/3)

White Denim – “I Start To Run”/Fits

The Law – “Don’t Stop, Believe”/A Measure of Wealth

Langhorne Slim – “Say Yes”/Be Set Free (in Cville 11/16)

Mike Doughty – “Nectarine (Part Two)”/Sad Man Happy Man (in C’ville 10/28)

Flight of the Conchords – “Rambling Through The Avenues of Time”/I Told You I Was Freaky

Spring Tigers – “New Improved Formula”/s/t mini-LP

Gossip – “8^th Wonder”/Music For Men

WCNR Brighten the Corners 10-20-09 (Show 135)

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~10pm~

Sea Wolf – “The Violet Hour”/Twilight New Moon soundtrack

Erin McKeown – “Santa Cruz”/Hundreds of Lions (in C’ville 10/21 w/ Jill Sobule)

Flaming Lips – “Silver Trembling Hands”/Embryonic

Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard – “These Roads Don’t Move”/One Fast Move Or I’m Gone (out today)

Spiral Stairs – “Cold Change”/The Real Feel (out today)

Kings of Convenience – “Boat Behind”/Declaration of Dependence (out today)

Flight of the Conchords – “We’re Both in Love With A Sexy Lady”/I Told You I Was Freaky (out today)

Chromeo – “Night By Night”/greenlabelsound.com

We Were Promised Jetpacks. – “Quiet Little Voices”/These Four Walls

Crash Kings – “Mountain Man”/Crash Kings

Tiesto ft. Emily Haines of Metric – “Knock You Out”/Kaleidoscope

BrakesBrakesBrakes – “Don’t Take Me To Space (Man)”/Touchdown

~11pm~

Tegan & Sara - “Hell”/Sainthood (out 10/27)

St. Vincent – “Marrow”/Actor

School of Seven Bells – “Prince of Peace”/Alpinisms (digital deluxe version)

Vampire Weekend – “Horchata”/Contra (out 1/12/10)

Imaad Wasif – “Priestess”/The Voidist

Echo & The Bunnymen – “Think I Need It Too”/The Fountain

White Denim – “I Start To Run”/Fits (out today…would love to hear the full!)

Gossip – “8^th Wonder”/Music For Men

The xx – “Islands”/xx (out today)

The Swell Season – “Feeling the Pull”/Strict Joy (out 10/27)

Two Hours Traffic – “Territory”/title track

Dawes – “Love is All I Am”/North Hills

Built To Spill – “Hindsight”/There Is No Enemy

Via Tania – “Wonder Stranger”/Moon Sweet Moon (out today)

The Autumn Defense – “Paradise”/Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy

Seven Worlds Collide – “Too Blue” (Johnny Marr w/ Neil Finn)/The Sun Came Out

(Neil Finn phoner and My Corner Playlist 5-song guest DJ segment airs 2:45-3:15pm Friday!)

Spain – “I’m Still Free”/7” and digital single out 12/15

WCNR Brighten the Corners 10-13-09 (Show 134)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

(a little before 10 – Iron Horse’s bluegrass “Wherever I May Roam” for Metallica- in C’ville 10/17!)

~Gordon Gano phone interview~

Gordon Gano & The Ryans – “Man in the Sand”/Under the Sun

~full Gordon interview in Corner Lounge Listening Room at 1061thecorner.com~

Vampire Weekend – “Horchata”/Contra (out 1/12/10)

Norah Jones – “Chasing Pirates”/The Fall (out 11/17)

Loudon Wainwright III – “High Wide & Handsome”/The Charlie Poole Project (in C’ville 10/16)

Robert Cray Band – “Trouble & Pain”/This Time (in C’ville 10/17)

Tegan & Sara - “Hell”/Sainthood (out 10/27)

Echo & The Bunnymen – “Think I Need It Too”/The Fountain

White Denim – “I Start To Run”/Fits (out 10/20)

Built To Spill – “Hindsight”/There Is No Enemy

The Swell Season – “The Rain”/Strict Joy (out 10/27)

Lyle Lovett – “Natural Forces”/title track (out 10/20)

The Heavy – “How You Like Me Now?”/The House That Dirt Built (out today)

~11pm~

Erin McKeown – “Santa Cruz”/Hundreds of Lions (out today; in C’ville 10/21 w/ Jill Sobule)

Dawn Landes – “Romeo” (Corner Lounge version!)/Sweetheart Rodeo (out in US in January)

Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard – “These Roads Don’t Move”/One Fast Move Or I’m Gone (out 10/20)

Mountain Goats – “Genesis 3:23”/Life of the World To Come

Thao With The Get Down Stay Down – “Know Better Learn Faster”/title track (out today)

Lou Barlow – “Gravitate”/Goodnight Unknown

We Were Promised Jetpacks. – “Ships With Holes Will Sink”/These Four Walls

BrakesBrakesBrakes – “Don’t Take Me To Space (Man)”/Touchdown

Chuck Prophet – “Let Freedom Ring!”/title track (out 10/27)

Thrice – “In Exile”/Beggars

MuteMath – “The Nerve”/Armistice

Richard Thompson – “I’ll Never Give It Up”/2007 (in C’ville with Loudon W 10/16)

Temper Trap – “Sweet Disposition”/Conditions (out today)

~12m~

Gossip – “8^th Wonder”/Music For Men

The Rifles – “The Great Escape”/Great Escape

Julian Casablancas – “11^th Dimension”/Phrazes for the Young (out 11/3)

Free Energy – “Free Energy”/single out now

The Cribs – “Cheat On Me”/Ignore the Ignorant (out ??)

The Raveonettes – “Last Dance”/In and Out of Control

A Place to Bury Strangers – “In Your Heart”/Exploding Head

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart “Higher Than the Stars”/title track to new EP

Kings of Convenience – “Boat Behind”/Declaration of Dependence (out 10/20)

Taken By Trees – “My Boys”/East of Eden (Animal Collective cover)

Sonos – “Enjoy the Silence”/SonoSings (Depeche Mode cover)

Grant Lee Phillips – “Nightbirds”/Little Moon (out today)

Rickie Lee Jones – “Old Enough” (w/ Ben Harper)/Balm in Gilead (out 11/10; in C’ville 10/20)

Chromeo – “Night By Night”/greenlabelsound.com

Flaming Lips – “I Can Be a Frog” (w/ Karen O)/Embryonic (out today)

Karen O and The Kids – “Worried Shoes”/Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack (movie out this wknd)

WCNR Brighten The Corners 10-6-09 (Show 133)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Dawn Landes – “Romeo”/Sweetheart Rodeo (out in US in January; in C’ville 10/8)

Lou Barlow – “Don’t Apologize”/Goodnight Unknown (out today)

Rickie Lee Jones – “Old Enough” (w/ Ben Harper)/Balm in Gilead (out 11/10; in C’ville 10/20)

Julian Casablancas – “11^th Dimension”/Phrazes for the Young (out 11/3)

Air – “Eat My Beat”/Love 2 (out today)

Thao With The Get Down Stay Down – “Know Better Learn Faster”/title track (out 10/13)

Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard – “These Roads Don’t Move”/One Fast Move Or I’m Gone (out 10/20)

Morwenna Lasko & Jay Pun – “Machine Gun”/Chioggia Beat (awesome local duo; new cd out today!)

N’Dambi – “The World Is A Beat”/Pink Elephant (out today)

A Fine Frenzy – “Blow Away”/I know we’ve already added it, but I got a request! Hallelujah, a listener!

Gossip – “Heavy Cross”/Music For Men (out today)

Gordon Gano & The Ryans – “Man in the Sand”/Under the Sun

Proclaimers – “Free Market”/Notes & Rhymes

~11pm~

White Denim – “I Start To Run”/Fits (out 10/20)

The Rifles – “The Great Escape”/Great Escape

Two Hours Traffic – “Territory”/Territory

School of Seven Bells – “My Cabal (early mix 07)”/Alpinisms (digital deluxe version out 10/13)

The Swimmers – “Nervous Wreck”/People Are Soft (out 11/3)

Headlights – “I Don’t Mind At All”/Wildlife (out today)

Built To Spill – “Hindsight”/There Is No Enemy (out today)

Trampled By Turtles – “Empire”/Duluth (out 11/4)

Dawes – “Love Is All I Am”/North Hills (in C’ville 11/16 w/ Langhorne Slim)

Orenda Fink – “Why is the Night Sad”/Ask The Night (out today)

Wolfmother – “New Moon Rising”/Cosmic Egg (out 10/27)

Mission of Burma – “1,2,3,Partyy!”/The Sound The Speed The Light (out today)

Free Energy – “Free Energy”/single out now

~12m~

Relient K – “Forget and Not Slow Down”/title track (out today)

Temper Trap – “Sweet Disposition”/Conditions (out 10/13)

Generationals – “Nobody Could Change Your Mind”/Con Law

As Tall As Lions – “You Can’t Take It With You”/title track (meant to play “In Case of Rapture”- d’oh!)

Patty Griffin – “The Best is Yet to Come”/title track to new Cy Coleman tribute

Erin McKeown – “Santa Cruz”/Hundreds of Lions (out 10/13; in C’ville 10/21 w/ Jill Sobule)

Mirah – “Country of the Future”/(A)spera (in C’ville 10/12!!)

The xx – “Islands”/xx (out 10/20)

Southern Culture on the Skids – “Whole Lotta Things”/1996 (in C’ville 10/8)

Tegan & Sara - “Hell”/Sainthood (out 10/27)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 9-29-09 (Show 132)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Avett Brothers – “And It Spread”/I and Love and You (out today)

Thom Yorke – “All For the Best”/Ciao My Shining Star-The Songs of Mark Mulcahy (out today)

7 Worlds Collide–“Red Wine Bottle” (Liam Finn w/ Wilco rhythm section, Neil Finn & Johnny Marr)/

The Sun Came Out Oxfam benefit (out today)

Echo & The Bunnymen – “Think I Need It Too”/The Fountain (out today)

U2 – “Out of Control”/1980 (in town 10/1!!!)

Zero 7 – “Medicine Man”/Yeah Ghost (out today)

Muse – “Resistance”/The Resistance (opening for U2 here 10/1!!!)

~quick interview clip with Matt from Muse…full phone interview 9/30 at 245pm, followed by Matt’s My Corner Playlist (5-song DJ set) at 3pm!

Alice in Chains – “Check My Brain”/Black Gives Way To Blue (out today)

Paramore – “Ignorance”/Brand New Eyes (out today)

Regina Spektor - “Eet”/Far (in DC 9/30!)

Jupiter One – “Flaming Arrow”Sunshower (opening for Regina tomorrow)

~11pm~

Foo Fighters – “Wheels”/Greatest Hits (out 11/3)

Snow Patrol – “Just Say Yes”/Up to Now (out 11/10?)

Mike Doughty – “You Should Be Doubly Gratified”/Sad Man Happy Man (out 10/6, in Cville 10/28)

Lou Barlow – “The One I Call”/Goodnight Unknown (out 10/6)

Orenda Fink – “High Ground” (w/ Isaac Brock)/Ask The Night (out 10/6)

Air – “Eat My Beat”/Love 2 (out 10/6)

The XX – “Crystalised”/XX (out 10/6)

Julian Casablancas – “11^th Dimension”/Phrazes for the Young (out 10/20)

Gordon Gano & The Ryans – “Man in the Sand”/Under the Sun

Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions – “Trouble”/Through the Devil Softly (out today)

Langhorne Slim – “Say Yes”/Be Set Free (out today, in Cville 11/16)

The Ettes – “No Home”/Do You Want Power (out today)

The Cribs – “Cheat On Me”/Ignore the Ignorant (out ??)

~12mid~

Muse – “Time is Running Out”/2003

U2 – “Exit”/1987

WCNR Brighten the Corners 9-22-09 (Show 131)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

(a little before 10) Decemberists – “The Engine Driver”/2005

~Corner Lounge phone interview with Chris Funk of The Decemberists

Decemberists – “The Rake’s Song”

~more Funk interview (full session coming soon to Corner Lounge Listening Room at 1061thecorner.com)

Laura Veirs – “Don’t Lose Yourself”/2007 (gave away tix for Decemberists w/ L Veirs show 9/24)

Monsters of Folk – “The Right Place”/s/t (out today)

Amy Millan – “Finish Line”/ Masters of the Burial (out today)

Sea Wolf – “Dew in the Grass”/White Water, White Bloom (out today)

Mike Doughty – “You Should Be Doubly Gratified”/Sad Man Happy Man (out 10/6)

Gordon Gano & The Ryans – “Man in the Sand”/Under the Sun

Pearl Jam – “Got Some”/Backspacer (out as of Sunday)

The Ettes – “No Home”/Do You Want Power (out 9/29)

Julian Casablancas – “11^th Dimension”/Phrazes for the Young (out 10/20)

~11pm~

Jim Carroll – “It Goes”/1998 (short spoken word piece)

Jim Carroll w/ Pearl Jam & Chris Friel – “Catholic Boy”/1995 Basketball Diaries soundtrack

The Books – “Smells Like Content”/2005 (gave away tix to their 9/25 C’ville show)

Grant Lee Phillips – “Good Morning Happiness”/Little Moon (out 10/13)

Greg Laswell – “The Killing Moon”/Covers EP (out 10/6)

Echo & The Bunnymen – “Think I Need It Too”/The Fountain (out 9/29)

Richard Hawley – Don’t Get Hung Up In Your Soul”/Truelove’s Gutter (out today)

Orenda Fink – “Half-Light”/Ask The Night (out 10/6)

Honey Dewdrops – “Bluest Blue Eyes”/If the Sun Will Shine (Scottsville, VA duo with national acclaim!)

Avett Brothers – “Laundry Room”/I and Love and You (out 9/29)

Noisettes – “Never Forget You”/Wild Young Hearts (out today)

~12mid~

Lou Barlow – “Too Much Freedom”/Goodnight Unknown (out 10/6)

Mountain Goats – “Genesis 3:23”/Life of the World To Come (out 10/6)

Islands – “Devout”/Vapours (out today)

The Dodos – “Fables”/Time to Die

The XX – “Crystalised”/XX (out 10/6)

Manic Street Preachers – “Jackie Collins Existential Question Time”/Journal For Plague Lovers

Times New Viking – “No Time, No Hope”/Born Again Revisited (out today)

Yo La Tengo – “By Two’s”/Popular Songs

Fiona Apple – “Why Try To Change Me Now”/The Best Is Yet To Come: The Songs of Cy Coleman

The Raveonettes – “Last Dance”/In and Out of Control (out 10/6)

The Big Pink – “Velvet”/A Brief History of Love (out today)

Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe – “Shake It Out”/Brother’s Keeper

One Eskimo – “Kandi”/s/t (out today)

Vic Chesnutt – “Little Man”/Ciao My Shining Star-The Songs of Mark Mulcahy (out 9/29)

7 Worlds Collide–“Learn To Crawl” (w/ Neil & Liam Finn)/The Sun Came Out Oxfam benefit (9/29)

Leonard Cohen – “Tower of Song”/happy belated 75^th! (9/21)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 9-15-09 (Show 130)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Say Anything – “Hate Everyone”/s/t (out 11/3)

Sunny Day Real Estate – “Shadows”/Diary re-issue (out today)

Muse – “Undisclosed Desires”/The Resistance (out today, in C’ville 10/1 w/ U2!!!)

Jupiter One – “Flaming Arrow”/Sunshower (out today)

Mason Jennings – “Lonely Road”/Blood of Man (out today)

Mike Doughty – “You Should Be Doubly Gratified”/Sad Man Happy Man (out 10/6)

Jolie Holland – “Mexico City”/2008 (in C’ville 9/20)

Langhorne Slim – “Say Yes”/Be Set Free (out 9/29, in Cville 11/16)

The National – “Ashamed of the Story I Told”/Ciao My Shining Star-The Songs of Mark Mulcahy (9/29)

Jay Reatard – “Can’t Do It Anymore”/Watch Me Fall

Florence & The Machine – “Rabbit Heart”/Lungs (out 10/20)

~11pm~

Death Cab for Cutie – “Meet Me On The Equinox”/Twilight: New Moon (out 10/20, movie out 11/20)

The Swell Season – “Low Rising”/Strict Joy (out 10/27)

Speech Debelle – “Better Days” (feat. Micachu)/Speech Therapy (UK Mercury Prize winner)

WPA – “End This Now”/Works Progress Administration (out today)

Monsters of Folk – “Say Please”/s/t (out 9/22)

Taken By Trees – “Watch the Waves”/East of Eden

Blk Jks – “Lakeside”/After Robots

Rain Machine – “Hold You Holy”/s/t (out 9/22) feat. Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio

Soulsavers – “Death Bells”/Broken (out now online) feat. Mark Lanegan & Gibby Haynes

A Place To Bury Strangers – “In Your Heart”/Exploding Head (out 10/6)

Lissy Trullie – “Boy Boy”/Self-Taught Learner (out 10/20)

~12mid~

Grand Archives – “Left For All The Strays”/Keep In Mind Frankenstein (out today)

Amy Millan – “Towers”/ Masters of the Burial (out 9/22)

One Eskimo – “Kandi”/s/t (out 9/22)

7 Worlds Collide–“3 Worlds Collide”/The Sun Came Out Oxfam benefit (9/29)

Fugazi – “Long Division”/1991

WCNR Brighten the Corners 9-8-09 (Show 129)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

The Swell Season – “Low Rising”/Strict Joy (out 10/27)

Beatles – “Love You To”/Revolver 1966

Beatallica – “Masterful Mystery Tour”/2009 title track (that’s right- The Beatles + Metallica! lol)

A Fine Frenzy – “Blow Away”/Bomb in a Birdcage (out today)

As Tall As Lions – “In Case of Rapture”/You Can’t Take It With You

Golden Silvers – “Please Venus”/True Romance

Taken By Trees – “My Boys”/East of Eden (out today)

Orba Squara – “All the Colors (Picture Perfect)”/The Trouble With Flying (out 10/27)

WPA – “I Go To Sleep”/Works Progress Administration (out 9/15)

Beatles – “I’m Only Sleeping”/Revolver 1966

Robert Pollard – “I Felt Revolved”/Elephant Jokes

Echo & The Bunnymen – “Think I Need It Too”/The Fountain (out 9/29)

~11pm~

7 Worlds Collide–“Don’t Forget Me” (some Wilco + J. Marr)/The Sun Came Out Oxfam benefit (9/29)

Thom Yorke – “All For the Best”/Ciao My Shining Star-The Songs of Mark Mulcahy (out 9/29)

Liam Finn & Eliza Jane – “Long Way To Go”/Champagne in Seashells EP

A.A. Bondy – “I Can See The Pines Are Dancing”/When the Devil’s Loose

Mason Jennings – “Sunlight”/Blood of Man (out 9/15)

Ramona Falls – “I Say Fever”/Intuit

The Heavy – “How You Like Me Now?”/The House That Dirt Built (out 10/13)

Monsters of Folk – “The Sandman, The Brakeman and Me”/s/t (out 9/22)

Yo La Tengo – “If It’s True”/Popular Songs (out today)

The Temper Trap – “Sweet Disposition”/Conditions (out 10/13)

~12mid~

Soulsavers – “Can’t Catch The Train”/Broken (out now online)

Sea Wolf – “Turn the Dirt Over”/White Water, White Bloom (out 9/22)

Ladyhawke – “Oh My”/s/t (special edition bonus track)

These United States – “I Want You To Keep Everything”/Everything Touches Everything

Polvo – “The Pedlar”/In Prism (out today)

The Clean – “Tensile”/Mister Pop (out today)

Langhorne Slim – “Say Yes”/Be Set Free (out 9/29, in Cville 11/16)

Joshua James – “In the Middle”/Build Me This (out 9/22)

Amy Millan – “I Will Follow You Into The Dark”/ Masters of the Burial (out 9/22)

Wild Beasts – “Empty Nest”/Two Dancers (out today)

Beatles – “Dear Prudence”/1968 White Album (my overall favorite Beatles song!)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 9-1-09 (Show 128)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Rhett Miller – “If It’s Not Love”/Rhett Miller (awesome CL session from 8/29 airs at 4pm Saturday!)

White Rabbits – “Rudie Fails (Corner Lounge version)”/awesome CL session 8/26!

Division Day – “Reservoir”/Visitation

Langhorne Slim – “Say Yes”/Be Set Free (out 9/29, in Cville 11/16)

Mason Jennings – “Lonely Road”/Blood of Man (out 9/15)

Liam Finn & Eliza Jane – “Long Way To Go”/Champagne in Seashells EP (out today)

7 Worlds Collide–“What Could Have Been” (Wilco + Neil Finn)/The Sun Came Out Oxfam benefit (9/29)

Anna Ternheim – “What Have I Done”/Leaving On A Mayday

The Heavy – “How You Like Me Now?”/The House That Dirt Built (out 10/13)

MuteMath – “The Nerve”/Armistice

John Fogerty feat. Bruce Springsteen – “When Will I Be Loved”/Rides Again (out today)

Brandi Carlile – “Dreams”/Give Up The Ghost (out 10/6)

Monsters of Folk – “Dear God (Sincerely M.O.F.)”/s/t (out 9/22)

~11pm~

Fun. – “All The Pretty Girls”/Aim and Ignite (members of The Format/Anathallo/Steel Train)

Jupiter One – “Flaming Arrow”/Sunshower (out 9/15)

Golden Silvers – “No. 9 Blues (True Romance)”/True Romance (unsure of US release date)

Raveonettes – “Last Dance”/In and Out of Control (out 10/6)

Weezer – “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To”/Raditude (out 10/27)

Apples In Stereo – “Please”/#1 Hits Explosion (out today)

A Fine Frenzy – “Blow Away”/Bomb in a Birdcage (out 9/8)

Ramona Falls – “I Say Fever”/Intuit

Soulsavers – “All the Way Down”/Broken (out now online)

Black Crowes – “I Ain’t Hiding”/Before the Frost…Until The Freeze (out today)

Drive-By Truckers – “Rebels”/The Fine Print (oddities & rarities, out today)

~12mid~

Koko Taylor – “Let the Good Times Roll”/1978 (Alligator Records now servicing radio digitally!)

A.A. Bondy – “I Can See The Pines Are Dancing”/When the Devil’s Loose (out today)

Amy Millan – “Old Perfume”/ Masters of the Burial (out 9/22)

The Temper Trap – “Sweet Disposition”/Conditions (out 10/13)

As Tall As Lions – “In Case of Rapture”/You Can’t Take It With You (out 8/18)

Manic St. Preachers – “Me and Stephen Hawking”/Journal For Plague Lovers (unsure of US release date)

Julian Plenti – “Games for Days”/Julian Plenti Is…Skyscraper (Paul Banks from Interpol)

Mew – “Beach”/No More Stories Are Told Today…

Echo & The Bunnymen – “Think I Need It Too”/The Fountain (out 9/29)

David Bazan – “Bless This Mess”/Curse Your Branches (out today)

Florence and the Machine – “Kiss With A Fist”/Lungs

Brookville – “Goodbye”/Broken Lights (out 9/29)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 8-25-09 (show 127)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Amy Millan – “Bruised Ghosts” (w/ Feist)/ Masters of the Burial (out 9/22)

Will Hoge – “Even If It Breaks Your Heart”/The Wreckage (out 9/29)

Soulsavers – “Unbalanced Pieces”/Broken (out now online)

Raveonettes – “Last Dance”/In and Out of Control (out 10/6)

The Big Pink – “Velvet”/A Brief History of Love (out 9/22)

Brendan Benson – “Don’t Wanna Talk”/My Old, Familiar Friend

Arctic Monkeys – “Crying Lightning”/Humbug (out today)

Big Star – “When My Baby’s Beside Me”/Keep An Eye on the Sky box set (out 9/15)

Apples In Stereo – “Please”/#1 Hits Explosion (out 9/1)

The Fiery Furnaces – “The End is Near”/I’m Going Away

White Rabbits – “Rudie Fails”/It’s Frightening

The Cinnamon Band – “Buena Vista”/title track (the above 3 bands together in Cville 8/26!)

~11pm~

The Postmarks – “Go Jetsetter (James Iha Remix)”/Memoirs At the End of the World (Dig) (cd out today)

Imogen Heap – “Earth”/Ellipse (out today)

Matisyahu – “One Day”/Light (out today)

Mason Jennings – “Lonely Road”/Blood of Man (out 9/15)

Delbert McClinton – “When She Cries At Night”/Acquired Taste

Sea Wolf – “White Water, White Bloom”/White Water, White Bloom (out 9/22)

Brandi Carlile – “Dreams”/Give Up The Ghost (out 10/6)

John Fogerty feat. Bruce Springsteen – “When Will I Be Loved”/The Blue Ridge Rangers… (out 9/1)

Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers – “Prairie Dog Town”/Levitate (out 9/15)

Monsters of Folk – “Say Please”/s/t (out 9/22)

Robert Pollard – “Stiff Me”/Elephant Jokes

Weezer – “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To”/Raditude (out 10/27)

Yo La Tengo – “Nothing to Hide”/Popular Songs (out 9/8)

~12mid~

Noisettes – “Never Forget You”/Wild Young Hearts (out 9/22)

Radiohead – “These Are My Twisted Words”/free single from radiohead.co.uk

Fink – “Sort of Revolution”/title track (out 9/15)

7 Worlds Collide – “What Could Have Been” (feat. Wilco & Neil Finn)/The Sun Came Out Oxfam benefit (out 9/29) ~happy 42^nd b’day to Jeff Tweedy this week!

Vandaveer – “Resurrection Mary”/Divide & Conquer (out today)

Girl Talk phone interview MegaMix (interview snippets plus highlights from Feed the Animals)

(Greg did a free show last weekend at the basketball arena for UVA students…hear the full interview in the Corner Lounge listening room at 1061thecorner.com)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 8-18-09 (Show 126)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Brandi Carlile – “Dreams”/Give Up The Ghost (out 10/6)

Gregory Alan Isakov (w/ Brandi Carlile) – “Virginia May”/This Empty Northern Hemisphere

Vandaveer – “Resurrection Mary”/Divide & Conquer (out 8/25)

These United States – “I Want You To Keep Everything”/Everything Touches Everything (out 9/1)

Weezer – “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To”/Raditude (out 10/27)

Brendan Benson – “Poised and Ready”/My Old, Familiar Friend (out today)

Radiohead – “These Are My Twisted Words”/free single from radiohead.co.uk

The Temper Trap – “Sweet Disposition”/Conditions (out 10/13)

MuteMath – “Spotlight (remix)”/Armistice (out today)

Wolfmother – “New Moon Rising”/Cosmic Egg (out 10/13)

Muse – “Uprising”/The Resistance (out 9/15)

Sly & the Family Stone – “Stand!(live)”/The Woodstock Experience (40^th anniv. was this past weekend)

~11pm~

Alice in Chains – “Check My Brain”/Black Gives Way To Blue (out 9/29)

Ida Maria w/ Iggy Pop – “Oh My God”/stream at spin.com (new single version out 8/31)

Julian Plenti – “Games for Days”/Julian Plenti Is…Skyscraper (Paul Banks from Interpol)

Robert Pollard – “Stiff Me”/Elephant Jokes

Sea Wolf – “Wicked Blood”/White Water, White Bloom (out 9/22)

David Bazan – “Bless This Mess”/Curse Your Branches (out 9/1)

As Tall As Lions – “In Case of Rapture”/You Can’t Take It With You (out today)

Flaming Lips – “Silver Trembling Hands”/Embryonic (out 9/29)

Anna Ternheim – “What Have I Done”/Leaving On A Mayday

Olivia Broadfield – “The Weight”/Eyes Wide Open

Bill Callahan – “Eid Ma Clack Shaw”/Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

~12mid~

Datarock – “True Stories”/Red (out 8/31) how does David Byrne not get a songwriting credit on this song?

Jay Reatard – “It Ain’t Gonna Save Me”/Watch Me Fall (out today)

3^rd Eye Blind – “Don’t Believe A Word”/Ursa Major (out today)

Ha Ha Tonka – “Walking On The Devil’s Backbone”/Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South (we’re sponsoring a benefit concert at Devil’s Backbone Brewing Co. this Saturday!)

Monsters of Folk – “Say Please”/s/t (out 9/22)

Cave Singers – “Leap”/Welcome Joy (out today)

Yo La Tengo – “Nothing to Hide”/Popular Songs (out 9/8)

Arctic Monkeys – “Red Right Hand (live)”/Crying Lightning b-side, Nick Cave cover

Rodrigo Y Gabriela – “Buster Voodoo”/11:11 (out 9/8, in DC 10/26, 27)

Joe Henry – “This Is My Favorite Cage”/Blood From Stars (out today)

Delbert McClinton – “People Just Love To Talk”/Acquired Taste (out today)

Janis Joplin – “Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)”/live version from new The Woodstock Experience cd

WCNR Brighten the Corners 8-11-09 (Show 125)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Seven Worlds Collide – “Hazel Black”/The Sun Came Out (out 9/29) feat. KT Tunstall & Neil Finn

Seven Worlds Collide – “Too Blue”/see above…feat. Johnny Marr & Neil Finn (Jeff Tweedy co-wrote)

Blue Roses – “I Am Leaving”/Blue Roses

Will Hoge – “Even If It Breaks Your Heart”/The Wreckage (out 9/29)

Phish – “Backwards Down the Number Line”/Joy (out 9/8, at Merriweather Post 8/15)

Rodrigo Y Gabriela – “Buster Voodoo”/11:11 (out 9/8, in DC 10/26, 27)

Robert Pollard – “Stiff Me”/Elephant Jokes (out today)

Reigning Sounds – “Brake It”/Love and Curses (out today)

The Features – “Lions”/Some Kind of Salvation

Patrick Wolf – “Hard Times”/The Bachelor (out today)

Golden Silvers – “True No. 9 Blues (True Romance)”/True Romance

Anna Ternheim – “What Have I Done”/Leaving On A Mayday (out today)

~11pm~

Bat for Lashes – “Daniel”/Two Suns (930 club DC 8/15)

Imelda May – “Johnny Got A Boom Boom”/Love Tattoo (out today)

Joe Jackson – “Don’t Wanna Be Like That”/1979 (he’s 55 today)

Robert Cray Band – “Trouble & Pain”/This Time (out today)

Mindy Smith – “Highs & Lows”/Stupid Love (out today)

Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johannsen – “Relator”/Break Up (out 9/15) ree-LAY-ter

La Roux – “Bulletproof”/s/t

As Tall As Lions – “In Case of Rapture”/You Can’t Take It With You (out 8/18)

Throw Me The Statue – “Ancestors”/Creaturesque

The Temper Trap – “Sweet Disposition”/Conditions (out 10/13)

Spinnerette – “All Babes Are Wolves”/s/t

Bottle Rockets – “Hard Times”/Lean Forward (out today)

Mason Jennings – “Ain’t No Friend of Mine”/Blood of Man (out 9/15) GREAT album!!!

~12mid~

Weird Al Yankovic – “CNR”/Internet Leaks EP

Muse – “Uprising”/The Resistance (out 9/15)

Little Boots – “New In Town”/Hands

Brendan Benson – “A Whole Lot Better”/My Old, Familiar Friend (out 8/18)

Correatown – “Nightlight”/Spark.Burn.Fade.

Radiohead – “Harry Patch (in memory of)”/new charity single in honor of England’s last living WWI vet, who died at the age of 111 (!) last week

WCNR Brighten the Corners 8-4-09 (Show 124)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Muse – “Uprising”/The Resistance (out 9/15)

Flaming Lips – “Silver Trembling Hands”/Embryonic (out 9/29)

Modest Mouse – “Perpetual Motion Machine”/No One’s First, And You’re Next (out today)

Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johannsen – “Relator”/Break Up (out 9/15)

Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions – “Trouble”/Through the Devil Softly (out 9/15)

Amy Millan – “Finish Line”/Masters of the Burial (out 9/22)

Robert Cray Band – “Trouble & Pain”/This Time (out 8/11)

Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers – “Prairie Dog Town”/Levitate (out 9/15)

Monsters of Folk – “Say Please”/s/t (out 9/22)

Yim Yames – “My Sweet Lord”/Tribute To EP (out today) what’s up with the alias, Jim James?

Japandroids - “Wet Hair”/Post-Nothing (out today)

Brendan Benson – “A Whole Lot Better”/My Old, Familiar Friend (out 8/18)

~11pm~

La Roux – “Bulletproof”/s/t

Little Boots – “New In Town”/Hands

Ladyhawke – “My Delirium”/s/t

Arctic Monkeys – “Crying Lightning”/Humbug (out 8/25)

Julian Plenti – “Games for Days”/Julian Plenti Is…Skyscraper (Paul Banks from Interpol) out today

Justin Townes Earle – “Can’t Hardly Wait”/Midnight at the Movies (in town Sunday w/ Big Surprise Tour)

These United States – “I Want You To Keep Everything”/Everything Touches Everything (out 9/1)

Juliette Lewis – “Fantasy Bar”/Terra Incognita (out 9/1) in DC w/ Pretenders, Cat Power 8/14

Noisettes – “Never Forget You”/Wild Young Hearts (out 9/22)

A.A. Bondy – “When the Devil’s Loose”/title track (out 9/1)

Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons – “Born Again”/Death Won’t Send A Letter (out 9/29)

Fruit Bats – “The Ruminant Band”/title track (out today)

Bat for Lashes – “Daniel”/Two Suns (930 club DC 8/15)

The Postmarks – “Go Jetsetter (James Iha Remix)”/Memoirs at the End of the World (Dig) (out 8/25)

The Big Pink – “Velvet”/A Brief History of Love (out 9/22)

Gossip – “Heavy Cross”/Music for Men (out 10/6 on cd)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 7-28-09 (Show 123)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Highlights of ’09 so far show!

Wilco – “Wilco (The Song)” (backstage at Bonnaroo version!)

The Features – “Still Lost” (Corner Lounge version from May)

Heartless Bastards – “The Mountain” (Corner Lounge version from February)

Spinnerette – “Baptized By Fire”

Gossip – “Heavy Cross”

Iggy Pop – “She’s A Business”

The Dead Weather – “Hang You Up From the Heavens” (widget on BTC page at 1061thecorner.com)

PJ Harvey & John Parish – “Black Hearted Love”

Amy Lavere – “Nightengale” (Corner Lounge version from January)

Leonard Cohen – “Dance Me To the End of Love” (live) (got to see him in NYC at Radio City!)

Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings – “Take Me With U”/Spin Magazine’s Purplish Rain tribute

Middle Class Rut – “I Guess You Could Say”

Beck – “Sunday Morning” (Velvet Underground cover from beck.com)

~11pm~

The Cinnamon Band – “Buena Vista”/local duo that’s toured with Handsome Furs!

Sons of Bill – “Broken Bottles” (backstage at Bonnaroo 09 version) local band playing ACL in October!

Ani DiFranco – “November 5, 2008”/brand new song she did in Corner Lounge in March!

Metric – “Gimme Sympathy”

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Heads Will Roll”

Eels – “Prizefighter”

Peaches – “Talk To Me”

M. Ward – “Rave On”

Monsters of Folk – “Say Please”/s/t (out 9/22)

Neko Case – “People Got a Lotta Nerve” (backstage at Bonnaroo 09 version)

Jessica Lea Mayfield – “For Today” (made my 1^st trek to the Orange Peel in Asheville to see her in Feb.)

Band of Horses – “A Song For You” (backstage at Bonnaroo 09 Gram Parsons cover)

Pearl Jam – “The Fixer”/Backspacer (out 9/20)

Ida Maria – “Oh My God”

WCNR Brighten the Corners 7-21-09 (Show 122)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Corner Lounge visit with Good Old War

~songs performed were “Coney Island” and “Looking For Shelter”

Pearl Jam – “The Fixer”/Backspacer (out 9/20)

Bottle Rockets – “Way It Used To Be”/Lean Forward (out 8/11)

Sonic Youth – “Antenna”/The Eternal

The Heavy – “Sixteen”/The House That Dirt Built (2^nd album due this fall)

Monsters of Folk – “Say Please”/s/t (out 9/22)

Lemonheads – “I Just Can’t Take It Anymore”/Varshons (gave away signed copies & posters!)

Black Francis – “All In My Mind”/New Tales to Tell: A Tribute to Love & Rockets (out 8/18)

Thom Yorke – “It’s All For the Best”/Ciao My Shining Star tribute/benefit for Mark Mulcahy (out 9/29) (from stereogum.com)

~11pm~

Depeche Mode – “Hole To Feed”/Sounds of the Universe (in DC 7/28)

Imogen Heap – “First Train Home”/Ellipse (out 8/25)

Little Boots – “New in Town”/Illuminations (gave away download codes!)

Julian Plenti – “Games for Days”/Julian Plenti Is…Skyscraper (Paul Banks from Interpol) out 8/4

The Postmarks – “Go Jetsetter (James Iha remix)”/Memoirs at the End of the World (out 8/18)

Grand Duchy – “Seeing Stars”/Petits Fours

Kate Schutt – “Blackout”/Telephone Game

White Lies – “Death”/To Lose My Life…

Joe Henry – “Death to the Storm”/Blood From Stars (8/18)

Death – “Freakin’ Out”/…For the Whole World to See (70s Detroit funk/punk/garage or internet hoax? lol)

Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs – “Go All The Way”/Under the Covers Vol. 2 (out today)

~12mid~

Ladyhawke – “My Delirium”/s/t

Zero 7 – “Medicine Man”/Yeah Ghost (out 9/8)

Death Cab For Cutie – “Little Bribes”/The Open Door EP

Arctic Monkeys – “Crying Lightning”/Humbug (out 8/25)

Bat For Lashes – “Daniel”/Two Suns (2009 Mercury Prize nominees have just been announced)

Mindy Smith – “Highs & Lows”/Stupid Love (out 8/11)

Paul McCartney – “Great Day”/Funny People OST (I’m seeing Sir Paul live for the first time Aug. 1^st!)

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – “Cardinal Rules”/I’m seeing the LA-StL game on vacation 7/27

(from catbirdseat.org)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 7-14-09 (Show 121)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Avett Brothers – “I and Love and You”/title track (out 9/29)

Beck – “Orphans”/acoustic version just posted at beck.com

Levon Helm – “When I Go Away”/Electric Dirt

Ladyhawke – “My Delirium”/s/t

Plastiscines – “You’re No Good”/About Love (out 8/4)

Gossip – “Heavy Cross”/title track (out now digitally)

Brendan Benson – “Don’t Wanna Talk”/My Old, Familiar Friend (out 8/18)

The Features – “Lions”/Some Kind of Salvation

Spinnerette – “All Babes Are Wolves”/s/t

Mew – “Repeaterbeater”/No More Stories (out 8/25)

The Veils – “Three Sisters”/Sun Gangs

Kate Earl – “Melody”/Introducing Kate Earl

A Fine Frenzy – “Blow Away”/Bomb in a Birdcage (out 9/8)

~11pm~

Good Old War – “Looking For Shelter”/Only Way To Be Alone (in Corner Lounge 7/21)

Yo La Tengo – “Periodically Double or Triple”/Popular Songs (out 9/8)

The Rentals – “Song of Remembering”/Songs About Time

Throwing Muses – “Not Too Soon”/1991 (Tanya Donelly is 43 today)

Amy Millan – “Bruised Ghosts”/Masters of the Burial (out 9/8) I got this song free from amazon.com

Fiery Furnaces – “The End is Near”/I’m Going Away (out today)

White Rabbits – “Percussion Gun”/It’s Frightening (in C’ville 8/26 w/ Fiery Furnaces!)

Peaches – “Lose You”/I Feel Cream

Little Boots – “New in Town”/Illuminations

Lavender Diamond – “Purple Rain”/Purplish Rain: Spin Magazine tribute (25^th anniv. this month)

Harry & The Potters – “I Am A Wizard”/couldn’t resist before the midnight premiere!

Arctic Monkeys – “Crying Lightning”/Humbug (out 8/25)

~12mid~

Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey – “Widescreen World”/Here and Now

The Minus 5 – “Vintage Violet”/Killingsworth

David Mead – “Last Train Home”/Almost and Always

The Dead Weather – “Treat Me Like Your Mother”/Horehound (out today)

Todd Snider – “Bring ‘Em Home”/The Excitement Plan

Jayhawks – “Settled Down Like Rain”/Music From the North Country anthology

Woody Guthrie – “Hard Times”/born 7/14/1912

WCNR Brighten the Corners 7-7-09 (Show 120)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Arctic Monkeys – “Crying Lightning”/Humbug (out 8/25)

Spoon – “Got Nuffin’”/new single

David Bowie – “Anyway Anyhow Anywhere”/Kohl’s Cares for Kids all covers cd I just bought for $5

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – “Take Me With U”/Purplish Rain: Spin Magazine tribute

Black Crowes – “I Ain’t Hiding”/Before the Frost… (out 9/1)

The Heavy – “Sixteen”/The House That Dirt Built (out in Sept?)

Imelda May – “Johnny Got A Boom Boom”/Love Tatto (out 8/11)

Beck – “Femme Fatale”/Record Club at beck.com (Beck turns 39 tomorrow)

Piers Faccini – “Save a Place For Me”/Two Grains of Sand (out 9/22)

Discovery – “Orange Shirt”/LP (out today)

Joy Division – “Transmission”/1980 (new Factory Records digital boxset)

~11pm~

Dinosaur Jr. – “Over It”/Farm

Modest Mouse – “Autumn Beds”/new single out now, No One’s First and You’re Next (out 8/4)

Lemonheads – “Fragile”/Varshons

Moby – “Pale Horses”/Wait For Me

Holy Ghost! – “I Will Come Back”/new single

Patrick Wolf – “Hard Times”/The Bachelor (out 8/11)

A Fine Frenzy – “Blow Away”/Bomb in a Birdcage (out 9/8)

Ingrid Michaelson – “Maybe”/Everybody (out 8/25, in C’ville 9/19!)

Avett Brothers – “I and Love and You”/title track (out 9/29, live in Richmond 7/10!)

Good Old War – “Looking For Shelter”/Only Way To Be Alone

Son Volt – “Down to the Wire”/American Central Dust (out today)

Those Darlins – “Red Light Love”/s/t (out today)

Yo La Tengo – “Periodically Double or Triple”/Popular Songs (out 9/8)

~12mid~

Broken Records–“If the News Makes You Sad, Don’t Watch It”/Until the Earth Begins To Part (out today)

Stardeath and White Dwarves – “New Heat”/The Birth

The Veils – “Three Sisters”/Sun Gangs

Levon Helm – “When I Go Away”/Electric Dirt

Marcy Playground – “Good Times”/Leaving Wonderland…In A Fit of Rage (out today, in C’ville soon)

Sly & The Family Stone – “Love City”/The Woodstock Experience

WCNR Brighten the Corners 6-30-09 (show 119)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Moby – “Pale Horses”/Wait For Me (out today)

Dark Night of the Soul – “The Man Who Played God”/Danger Mouse+Sparklehorse+David Lynch+Nina Persson

Middle Class Rut – “I Guess You Could Say”/25 Years EP

Future of the Left – “The Hope That House Built”/Travels with Myself and Another

Broken Records – “If the News Makes You Sad, Don’t Watch It”/Until the Earth Begins To Part (out 7/7)

Micachu & The Shapes – “Golden Phone”/Jewellry

Little Boots – “New in Town”/Hands (out now in UK)

Spinnerette – “Baptized By Fire”/s/t

Bad Veins – “Gold and Warm”/s/t

Blondie – “X Offender”/1976 (their 1^st single) Debbie Harry turns 64 tomorrow

Noisettes – “Never Forget You”/Wild Young Hearts (out in Sept??)

Jenny Lewis – “Sing A Song For Them”/Acid Tongue (in Richmond 7/3)

Heartless Bastards – “Out At Sea”/backstage at Bonnaroo ’09 version (opening for Jenny Lewis)

~11pm~

Spoon – “Got Nuffin’”/new single out today

Cheap Trick – “When the Lights Are Out”/The Latest

Jet – “She’s A Genius”/Shaka Rock (out 8/25)

Dinosaur Jr. – “Pieces”/Farm

Tortoise – “Prepare Your Coffin”/Beacons of Ancestorship

Son Volt – “Dynamite”/American Central Dust (out 7/7)

Magnolia Electric Co. – “The Rock of Ages”/Josephine

Grand Duchy – “Seeing Stars”/Petits Fours

Handsome Furs – “All We Want, Baby, Is Everything”/Face Control

The Cinnamon Band – “Buena Vista”/title track of new EP (awesome local duo on tour w/ H Furs!)

Kasabian – “Underdog”/West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

Electronic – “Getting Away With It”/1989 (digital Factory box set out on iTunes now, elsewhere 7/7)

~12mid~

Astrid Williamson – “Reach” (Corner Lounge version)/did 3 CL songs for us 6/25/09!

Tiny Vipers – “Dreamer”/Life on Earth

Stardeath and White Dwarves – “New Heat”/The Birth

Those Darlins – “Red Light Love”/s/t (out 7/7)

Good Old War – “Looking For Shelter”/Only Way To Be Alone

Crosby Loggins – “Seriously”/Time To Move

The Rural Alberta Advantage – “Don’t Haunt This Place”/Hometowns

Placebo – “The Never-Ending Why”/Battle For the Sun

Blaqk Audio - “No New Tale To Tell”/New Tales to Tell: Love & Rockets tribute (out 8/18)

B-52s – “Mesopotamia”/1982 (produced by David Byrne) Fred Schneider is 58 on 7/1!

Shivaree – “Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough”/2007

Chris Cornell – “Billie Jean”/2007

Michael Jackson (The Jacksons) – “Can You Feel It”/1980 Triumph album

The Duke & The King – “If You Ever Get Famous”/Nothing Gold Can Stay (out 8/4)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 6-23-09 (Show 118)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Regina Spektor – “The Sword & The Pen”/Far (bonus track on deluxe edition, out today)

Beck - “Sunday Morning”/VU cover available at beck.com Record Club…awesome idea!
Sonic Youth – “Poison Arrow”/The Eternal (16^th studio album) (Steve Shelley is 47 today!)

Discovery – “Orange Shirt”/LP (out 7/7) (Rostam of Vampire Weekend & Wes of Ra Ra Riot)

Lemonheads – “Dirty Robot”/Varshons (out today) Arling & Cameron cover feat. Kate Moss

Deer Tick – “Easy”/Born On Flag Day (out today)

Spinal Tap – “Cups & Cakes”/Back From the Dead (came out last week)

Weird Al Yankovic – “Craigslist”/Internet Leaks EP (out 8/25)

Misfits – “She”/1985 (Glenn Danzig is 54 today)

Those Darlins – “Red Light Love”/s/t (out 7/7)

Dinosaur Jr. – “Your Weather”/Farm (out today)

Eels – “What’s A Fella Gotta Do”/Hombre Lobo

Stardeath and White Dwarves – “New Heat”/The Birth

~11pm~

Wilco – “You & I”(feat. Feist)/Wilco (The Album) (out 6/30) (new record for BTC info parentheses!)

Bowerbirds – “House of Diamonds”/Upper Air (out 7/7)

Dirty Projectors – “Two Doves”/Bitte Orca

A Fine Frenzy – “Blow Away”/Bomb in a Birdcage (out 9/8)

Radiohead – “Bangers & Mash”/In Rainbows disc 2 (now available at radiohead.com)

Crystal Method – “Come Back Clean”(feat. Emily Haines & Samantha Maloney)/Divided By Night

Jason Lytle – “Yours Truly, The Commuter”/title track

Phoenix – “Lasso”/Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Future of the Left – “The Hope That House Built”/Travels with Myself and Another (out today)

Noisettes – “Never Forget You”/Wild Young Hearts (out in August)

Spinnerette – “Baptized By Fire”/s/t (out today)

Middle Class Rut – “I Guess You Could Say”/25 Years EP

Bad Veins – “Gold and Warm”/s/t (out 7/21)

~12mid~

God Help The Girl – “Come Monday Night”/God Help The Girl (out today)

Tortoise – “Prepare Your Coffin”/Beacons of Ancestorship (out today)

Robotanists – “Wait A Minute Here”/Close Down the Woods EP

Other Lives – “Paper Cities”/s/t

Patterson Hood – “The Range War”/Murdering Oscar (and other love songs) (out today)

The Mars Volta – “Since We’ve Been Wrong”/ Octohedron (out today)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 6-16-09 (Show 117)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

A Fine Frenzy – “Blow Away”/Bomb in a Birdcage (out 9/8)

Noisettes – “Never Forget You”/Wild Young Hearts (out in August)

Chairlift – “Bruises”/backstage at Bonnaroo 2009

God Help The Girl – “Come Monday Night”/God Help The Girl (out 6/23)

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Third Eye Blind – “Don’t Believe A Word”/Ursa Major (out 8/18)

Ben Harper & Relentless 7 – “Fly One Time”/White Lies for Dark Times

Ingrid Michaelson – “Maybe”/Everybody (out in August)

Wilco – “Solitaire”/backstage at Bonnaroo 2009

Wilco – “Wilco (The Song)”/backstage at Bonnaroo 2009 (both tracks on Wilco (The Album) out 6/23)

Dirty Projectors – “Two Doves”/Bitte Orca

Cotton Jones – “Little Ashtray in the Sun”/Paranoid Cocoon

The Antlers – “Shiva”/Hospice

~11pm~

Birdlips – “Tracks on Repeat (Corner Lounge version)”/download studio version at monkeyclaus.org

~the above 3 bands are on a bill together 6/17 in Cville and we gave away a pair of tix~

Sonic Youth – “No Way”/The Eternal (16^th studio album)

Dinosaur Jr. – “Over It”/Farm (out 6/23)

Lemonheads – “I Just Can’t Take It Anymore”/Varshons (out 6/23) Gram Parsons cover

~is this album title like Lawrence Welk saying “versions”???~

Neko Case – “Middle Cyclone”/backstage at Bonnaroo 2009

Sons of Bill – “Joey’s Arm”/backstage at Bonnaroo 2009 (cd release show 6/19 in Cville!)

Deer Tick – “Easy”/Born On Flag Day (out 6/23)

Eels – “Prizefighter”/Hombre Lobo

Bowerbirds – “House of Diamonds”/Upper Air (out 7/7)

Discovery – “Orange Shirt”/LP (out 7/7) (Rostam of Vampire Weekend & Wes of Ra Ra Riot)

Tiny Masters of Today – “Pop Chart”/Skeletons (out today)

The Features – “Still Lost”/backstage at Bonnaroo 2009

~12am~

Band of Horses – “A Song For You”/backstage at Bonnaroo 2009 (Gram Parsons cover)

Amadou & Mariam – “Africa”/backstage at Bonnaroo 2009

WCNR Brighten the Corners 6-9-09 (Show 116)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Sonic Youth – “Antenna”/The Eternal (out today) 16^th studio album

Kasabian – “Fire”/West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (out today)

Yeasayer – “2080”/2007 (tried to give away tix to 6/11 show in C’ville, no takers…naysayers!)

Rhett Miller – “I Need To Know Where I Stand”/s/t (out today)

Charlie Mars – “Listen to the Darkside”/Like A Bird, Like A Plane (out today)

Mos Def – “Casa Bey”/The Ecstatic (out today)

Scratch – “Too Late”(feat. Damon Albarn & Talib Kweli)/Loss 4 Wordz

Miike Snow – “Animal”/Miike Snow (out today)

Passion Pit – “The Reeling”/Manners (‘Roo 09)

Guided By Voices – “June Salutes You!”/1996 b-side (feat. Kim Deal)

Deer Tick – “Easy”/Born On Flag Day (out 6/23)

~11pm~

Grizzly Bear – “Two Weeks”/Veckatimest (‘Roo 09)

White Rabbits – “Percussion Gun”/It’s Frightening (‘Roo 09)

Cage the Elephant – “Drones in the Valley”/s/t (‘Roo 09)

Dirty Projectors – “Stillness Is the Move”/Bitte Orca (out today, ‘Roo 09)

Chairlift – “Bruises”/Does You Inspire You (‘Roo 09)

Murs – “Can It Be”/2008 (‘Roo 09)

Patterson Hood – “I Understand Now”/Murdering Oscar (and other love songs) (out 6/23) (‘Roo 09)

AA Bondy – “American Hearts”/2008 (‘Roo 09)

Iggy Pop – “She’s A Business”/Preliminaires

Mars Volta – “Since We’ve Been Wrong”/Octohedron (out 6/23) (‘Roo 09)

Placebo – “For What It’s Worth”/Battle For The Sun (out today)

~12mid~

Mindy Smith – “Highs and Lows”/Stupid Love (out 8/11)

Butterfly Boucher – “Gun For A Tongue”/Scary Fragile

Son Volt – “Down to the Wire”/American Central Dust (out 7/7)

Lemonheads – “Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye” (w/ Liv Tyler)/Varshons (out 6/23)

Alela Diane – “Every Path”/To Be Still

Elizabeth & The Catapult – “Taller Children”/title track (out today)

Richard Swift – “The Atlantic Ocean”/title track

Jarvis Cocker – “Further Complications.”/title track

Viva Voce – “Die A Little”/Rose City

Metric – “Help, I’m Alive”/Fantasies

Devo – “Gut Feeling/(Slap Your Mammy)”/1978 (Pearl Jam swiped the chorus for their new song)

WCNR Brighten the Corner Playlist 6-2-09 (Show 115)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

K’Naan – “Wavin’ Flag”/Troubadour

Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens – “What Have You Done”/What Have You Done, My Brother?

The Impressions – “People Get Ready”/1965 Curtis Mayfield R.I.P. (born 6/3/42)

Medeski Martin & Wood – “Free Go Lily”/Radiolarians I (in Richmond Thursday, gave away tix!)

Son Volt – “Down to the Wire”/American Central Dust (out 7/7)

Micachu & The Shapes – “Lips”/Jewellery

Paolo Nutini – “Candy”/Sunny Side Up (out today)

Iggy Pop – “She’s A Business”/Preliminaires (out today)

Dirty Projectors – “Stillness Is the Move”/Bitte Orca (out 6/9)

Elvis Costello – “I Felt the Chill (co-written w/ Loretta Lynn)” /Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (out today)

Steve Earle – “Loretta”/Townes (in C’ville 6/6)

Spinnerette – “Baptized By Fire”/s/t (6/23)

~11pm~

Rancid – “Last One To Die”/Let the Dominoes Fall (out today)

Easy Star All-Stars – “A Day in the Life”/Easy Star’s Lonely Hearts Dub Band (in C’ville 6/5)

Modest Mouse – “Satellite Skin”/single out now (digital & ltd. edition vinyl)

Eels – “In My Dreams”/Hombre Lobo (out today)

Deer Tick – “Easy”/Born On Flag Day (out 6/23)

Patterson Hood – “Grandaddy”/Murdering Oscar (and other love songs) (out 6/23)

Hoots and Hellmouth – “What Good Are Plowshares If We Use Them Like Swords”/the holy open secret (out today)

Marshall Crenshaw – “Live and Learn”/Jaggedland (out today)

The Sounds – “No One Sleeps When I’m Awake”/Crossing the Rubicon (out today)

Psychedelic Furs – “All That Money Wants”/1988 (Richard Butler is 53 Friday 6/5)

PJ Harvey & John Parish – “Black Hearted Love”/A Woman A Man Walked By (in DC 6/5!)

Jeff Buckley – “Grace (live on BBC Late Show 1995)”/Grace Around the World (cd/dvd out today)

{His death anniversary was last Friday, 5/29/97}

Neil Young – “Mr. Soul (mono version)”/Archives Vol. 1 (10-disc box set out today)

Pearl Jam – “Got Some”/thanks hulu.com (Tonight Show w/ Conan O’Brien performance from last night)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 5-26-09 (Show 114)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Corner Lounge interview with Tom Peloso of Modest Mouse! (thelastsaturdayoftheyear.com)

He played “The Leaves and the Trees” acoustic

And we played “The Last Saturday of the Year” off his EP of the same name

Modest Mouse – “Satellite Skin”/new ltd. ed. orange vinyl 7-inch out today!

Helio Sequence – “Keep Your Eyes Ahead”/early 2008 (in Cville 5/29 w/ Tom Peloso opening!)

Grizzly Bear – “Two Weeks”/Veckatimest (out today)

Phoenix – “1901”/Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (out today)

Viva Voce – “Rose City”/Rose City (out today)

Eels – “Prizefighter”/Hombre Lobo (out 6/2)

White Rabbits – “Percussion Gun”/It’s Frightening

Lenny Kravitz – “Sittin’ on Top of the World” & “Let Love Rule”/(20^th anniv. edition)Lenny’s 45 today

~11pm~

Iron & Wine – “Homeward, These Shoes”/Around the Well

Headless Heroes – “Here Before”/The Silence of Love

Patterson Hood – “I Understand Now”/Murdering Oscar (and other love songs) (out 6/23)

Wilco – “You Never Know”/Wilco (The Album) (out 6/30)

Son Volt – “Down to the Wire”/American Central Dust (out 7/7)

Uncle Tupelo – “Whiskey Bottle”/1990 (about the town I lived in for 15 years, Columbia, Missouri!)

Spinnerette – “Baptized By Fire”/s/t (6/23)

The Sounds – “No One Sleeps When I’m Awake”/Crossing the Rubicon (out 6/2)

Dirty Projectors – “Stillness Is the Move”/Bitte Orca (out 6/9)

Regina Spektor – “Blue Lips”/Far (out 6/23)

So Many Dynamos – “New Bones”/Loud Wars (out 6/2)

Alternate Routes – “Ain’t No Secret”/A Sucker’s Dream

~12mid~

Todd Snider – “Slim Chance”/The Excitement Plan (out 6/9)

Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women – “Nana and Jimi”/s/t (out today)

Neil Finn – “Fall at Your Feet” (acoustic)/Neil’s 51 May 27!

Butterfly Boucher – “Gun For A Tongue”/Scary Fragile (out 6/2)

Howling Bells – “Cities Burning Down”/Radio Wars

War Tapes – “Dreaming of You”/The Continental Divide (out today)

Peaches – “Talk To Me”/I Feel Cream

Micachu & The Shapes – “Just In Case”/Jewellery

Siouxsie & The Banshees – “Cities in Dust”/1986 (Siouxsie is 51 May 27!)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 5-19-09 (Show 113)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Regina Spektor – “Laughing With”/Far (out 6/23)

Wilco – “You Never Know”/Wilco (The Album) (out 6/30)

The Sounds – “No One Sleeps When I’m Awake”/Crossing the Rubicon (out 6/2)

311 – “Hey You”/Uplifter (out 6/2) by request!

Scratch – “Too Late” (feat. Damon Albarn & Talib Kweli)/Loss 4 Wordz (out 5/26)

Street Sweeper Social Club – “100 Little Curses”/s/t (out 6/16)

Helmet – “Unsung”/1992 (Page Hamilton’s 49^th b’day yesterday)

Spinnerette – “Baptized By Fire”/s/t (6/23)

Meat Puppets – “Rotten Shame”/Sewn Together

Sonic Youth – “Sacred Trickster”/The Eternal (out 6/9)

~11pm~

Ramones – “I Believe in Miracles”/1989 (Joey Ramone born this day in 1951)

White Rabbits – “Percussion Gun”/It’s Frightening (out today)

Jarvis Cocker – “Angela”/“Further Complications” (out today)

Iron & Wine – “Serpent Charmer” & “Waitin’ For A Superman”/Around the Well (out today)

~was it too expensive to put track numbers on there anywhere?????? arg

~it also helps to cue up the right disc when it’s a 2-cd set…hahaha

The Breeders – “Chances Are”/Fate To Fatal EP (Bob Marley cover)

Wood Brothers – “Up Above My Head”/title track (sort of out now, larger distribution 6/9)

Devo – “Freedom of Choice”/1980 (Mark Mothersbaugh’s 59^th b’day yesterday)

Placebo – “For What It’s Worth”/Battle for the Sun (out 6/9)

The Photo Atlas – “Jealous Teeth”/To Silently Provoke the Ghost EP

Shout Out Out Out Out – “How Do I Maintain pt. 2”/Reintegration Time

Tori Amos – “Mary Jane”/Abnormally Attracted to Sin (out today)

Polly Scattergood – “Please Don’t Touch”/s/t (out today)

Grizzly Bear – “Two Weeks”/Veckatimest (out 5/26)

~12mid~

Headless Heroes – “Just Like Honey”/The Silence of Love (out today)

The Features – “Still Lost”/Corner Lounge version from last week!

Fastball – “Soul Radio”/Corner Lounge version from last week!

M. Ward – “Let My Love Open the Door”/2005 (Pete Townshend’s 64^th bday 5/19)

Pearl Jam – “Baba O’Riley”/Live in KC, 2003 (another 1 for Pete & in honor of the Tonight Show news!)

(that’s me on backup vox…along with a few thousand other rain-soaked die-hards)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 5-12-09 (Show 112)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Supersuckers – “Marie”/1995 (in town tonight!)

Eels – “Fresh Blood”/Hombre Lobo (out 6/2)

Sunriser – “Save the World”/Is This A Good Life? (dropped off by a listener this week! from Toronto)

The Photo Atlas – “Jealous Teeth”/To Silently Provoke the Ghost

The Features – “Drawing Board”/Some Kind of Salvation (in Cville 5/13!!!!)

The Vaselines – “Son of a Gun”/Enter the Vaselines deluxe edition

White Rabbits – “Percussion Gun”/It’s Frightening (out 5/19)

Steve Earle – “Lungs”/Townes (out today, in Cville 6/6)

Iron & Wine – “Love Vigilantes”/Around the Well (out 5/19)

The Wooden Birds – “Sugar”/Magnolia (out today)

Cracker – “Turn On Tune In Drop Out With Me”/Sunrise in the The Land of Milk & Honey

Sam Roberts – “Detroit ’67”/Love at the End of the World

Headless Heroes – “True Love Will Find You in the End”/The Silence of Love

~11pm~

David Byrne/Brian Eno – “The River”/2008 (both celebrating b’days later this week!)

Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers – “Astral Plane”/1976 (also a b’day later this week)

The Soft Pack – “Extinction”/The Muslims

Grizzly Bear – “Two Weeks”/Veckatimest (out 5/26)

Bloc Party – “Biko”/Intimacy Remixed (out today)

Playing for Change – “Biko”/Songs Around the World

RJD2 – “Wherever”/Causes 2

Grand Duchy – “Black Suit”/Petits Fours (feat. Frank Black & his wife!)

Jonatha Brooke & Davy Knowles (of Back Door Slam) – “Taste of Danger”/The Works

The Hard Lessons – “Wedding Ring”/Arms Forest

Placebo – “For What It’s Worth”/Battle for the Sun (out 6/9)

The Crystal Method – “Come Back Clean” (feat. Emily Haines!)/Divided By Night (out today)

~12mid~

Cut off Your Hands – “Happy As Can Be”/You & I

The Horrors – “Mirror’s Image”/Primary Colours

Great Northern – “Story”/Remind Me Where The Light Is

Kasabian – “Fire”/West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (out 6/9)

Jarvis Cocker – “Angela”Further Complications (out 5/19)

Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band – “Nikorette”/Outer South

Meaghan Smith – “I Know”(Corner Lounge version from 5/8)/The Cricket’s Quartet EP

Leonard Cohen – “I’m Your Man”/Live in London (NYC 5/16!!)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 5-5-09 (Show 111)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Years – “The Major Lift”/Years (out today)

Patrick Watson – “Beijing”/Wooden Arms (out today)

Grizzly Bear – “Two Weeks”/Veckatimest (out 5/26)

Beach Boys – “Fallin’ In Love”/Summer Love Songs (prev. unreleased D. Wilson song on comp out 5/19)

Leonard Cohen – “Suzanne”/Live in London (at Merriweather Post Pavillion 5/11, NYC 5/16!!)

St. Vincent – “Actor Out of Work”/Actor (out today)

Placebo – “For What It’s Worth”/Battle for the Sun (out 6/9)

Sonic Youth – “Sacred Trickster”/The Eternal (out 6/9)

Kasabian – “Fire”/West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (out 6/9)

Gnarls Barkley – “Mystery Man”/Causes 2 (out today)

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – “It Hurts to Be Alone”/Causes 2 (out today)

Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band – “Nikorette”/Outer South (out 5/5)

The Features – “Drawing Board”/Some Kind of Salvation (in Cville 5/13!!!!)

Metric – “Gimme Sympathy”/Fantasies

~11pm~

New York Dolls – “Cause I Sez So”/title track (out today)

The Datsuns – “So Long”/Headstunts

Cracker – “Turn On Tune In Drop Out With Me”/Sunrise in the The Land of Milk & Honey (out today)

Bat For Lashes – “I’m On Fire”/2006

Elvis Costello – “Brilliant Disguise”/Kojak Variety bonus track 1995

Cowboy Junkies – “State Trooper”/200 More Miles Live 1995

~other, newer Boss covers in sterling YouTube quality sound at brucespringsteen.net~

Iron & Wine – “Love Vigilantes”/Around the Well (out 5/19)

Headless Heroes – “True Love Will Find You in the End”/The Silence of Love

Beck – “He’s A Mighty Good Leader”/One Foot in the Grave re-issue

Ben Harper & Relentless 7 – “Fly One Time”/White Lies for Dark Times (out today)

Yusuf – “Thinking ‘Bout You”/Roadsinger (out today)

Hoots & Hellmouth – “What Good Are Plowshares If We Use Them Like Swords”/The Holy Open Secret

Jeremy Enigk – “Restart”/OK Bear

Steve Earle – “Lungs”/Townes (out 5/12, in Cville 6/6)

Neil Young – “Off the Road”/Fork in the Road

Little Willie G. – “She’s About A Mover”/Keep Your Soul: A Tribute To Doug Sahm (Cinco De Mayo!)

Peaches – “Talk To Me”/I Feel Cream (out 5/5)

Echo & The Bunnymen – “Do It Clean”/Ian McCulloch’s 50 today!

WCNR Brighten the Corners 4-28-09 (show 110)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Bob Dylan – “It’s All Good”/Together Through Life (out today)

Steve Earle – “Lungs”/Townes (out 5/12, in Cville 6/6)

Street Sweeper Social Club – “100 Little Curses”/s/t (out 6/16)

Jane’s Addiction – “Mountain Song (Radio Tokyo Demo)”/A Cabinet of Curiosities boxset

Concrete Blonde – “It’s Only Money”/1989 (IRS Digital campaign)

The Cinnamon Band – “Buena Vista”/title track to new EP (Staunton, VA band & Handsome Furs tourmates!) http://www.myspace.com/cinnamonband

White Lies – “To Lose My Life”/To Lose My Life…

White Rabbits – “Right Where They Left”/It’s Frightening (out 5/19)

Peaches – “Talk To Me”/I Feel Cream (out 5/5)

William Orbit – “Into the Paradise”/1993 (IRS Digital campaign)

Great Northern – “Houses”/Remind Me Where the Light Is (out today)

~11pm~

Jason Lytle – “Yours Truly, The Commuter”/title track (out 5/19)

Grand Duchy – “Black Suit”/Petits Fours (feat. Frank Black & his wife!)

Sonic Youth – “Sacred Trickster”/The Eternal (out 6/9) happy 56^th to Kim Gordon today!!

Art Brut – “Alcoholics Unanimous”/Art Brut vs. Satan

Band of Skulls – “I Know What I Am”/Baby Darling Doll Face Honey

The Features – “The Temporary Blues”/Some Kind of Salvation (in Cville 5/13!!!!)

Over the Rhine – “Happy With Myself?”/1994 (IRS Digital campaign)

The Hold Steady – “Chips Ahoy”/A Positive Rage (live cd/dvd)

Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band – “Nikorette”/Outer South (out 5/5)

Placebo – “For What It’s Worth”/Battle for the Sun (out 6/9)

Metric – “Gold Guns Girls”/Fantasies

Hey Champ – “Cold Dust Girl”/full-length release tba

Flight of the Conchords – “Hurt Feelings”/I Told You I Was Freaky (release tba)

~12mid~

Major Lazer – “Hold The Line”/Guns Don’t Kill People…Lazers Do (out 6/16)

Bat For Lashes – “A Forest”/Cure cover from Daniel The Remixes, etc.

Melody Gardot – “Who Will Comfort Me”/My One and Only Thrill (out today)

Allen Toussaint – “St. James Infirmary”/The Bright Mississippi

St. Vincent – “Actor Out of Work”/Actor (out 5/5)

Meat Puppets – “Rotten Shame”/Sewn Together (out 5/12)

Neil Young – “Light a Candle”/Fork in the Road

WCNR Brighten the Corners 4-21-09 (Show 109)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Sonic Youth – “Sacred Trickster”/The Eternal (out 6/9)

Stooges – “I Wanna Be Your Dog”/1969 (Iggy’s 62 today!)

Hotel Lights – “Nobody Let You Down”/Darren Jessee of Ben Folds 5 in C. Lounge 4/23

Tift Merritt – “Stray Paper”/Buckingham Solo (in C. Lounge 4/22)

Flight of the Conchords – “Hurt Feelings”/I Told You I Was Freaky (release tba)

Pet Shop Boys – “Love etc.”/Yes, Pet Shop Boys.

Empire of the Sun – “Walking on a Dream”/title track

Phoenix – “1901”/Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (out 5/25)

Art Brut – “Alcoholics Unanimous”/Art Brut vs. Satan (out today)

St. Vincent – “Actor Out of Work”/Actor (out 5/5)

Peter, Bjorn & John – “It Don’t Move Me”/Living Thing

Band of Skulls – “I Know What I Am”/Baby Darling Doll Face Honey

Cage the Elephant – “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked”/s/t (out today)

Meat Puppets – “Rotten Shame”/Sewn Together (out 5/12)

Metric – “Help, I’m Alive”/Fantasies

~11pm~

Miike Snow – “Animal”/single out now (full out 6/9)

Jason Lytle – “Yours Truly, The Commuter”/title track (out 5/19)

Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band – “Nikorette”/Outer South (out 5/5)

The Cure – “In Between Days”/1985 Robert Smith’s 50 today!

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – “The Numbered Head”/20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers!

(R. Pollard cover)

Silversun Pickups – “The Royal We”/Swoon

Eulogies – “Eyes on the Prize”/Here Anonymous

Great Northern – “Houses”/Remind Me Where the Light Is (out 4/28)

Peaches – “Talk To Me”/I Feel Cream (out 5/5)

Nico Vega – “Burn Burn”/s/t

Amadou & Mariam – “Sabali”/Welcome To Mali

Flaming Lips w/ Stardeath & White Dwarfs – “Borderline”/Covered, A Revolution in Sound: WB Records

~12mid~

Sinead O’Connor – “Night Nurse” (Gregory Isaac cover)/I Do Not Want…re-issue (out today)

Rhett Miller – “I Need to Know Where I Stand”/s/t (out 6/9)

Sara Watkins – “Any Old Time” (Jimmie Rodgers cover)/s/t

Lucero – “Nights Like These”/2002 (in town tonight, packed show letting out about now!)

O+S – “Permanent Scar”/O+S

White Lies – “To Lose My Life”/To Lose My Life…

Bat For Lashes – “Daniel”/Two Suns

The Veils – “The Letter”/Sun Gangs

Cowboy Junkies – “Sun Comes Up, It’s Tuesday Morning” (Corner Lounge version)

Michael Timmins turned 50 4/21!

The Cinnamon Band – “Buena Vista”/title track to new EP (Staunton, VA band & Handsome Furs tourmates!) http://www.myspace.com/cinnamonband

WCNR Brighten the Corners 4-14-09 (Show 108)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Superchunk – “Learned To Surf”/Leaves in the Gutter EP

Ryan Adams – “Like A Fool” (Superchunk song)/20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers!

Bright Eyes – “Papa Was A Rodeo”(Magnetic Fields song)/also from Merge: The Covers!

Tori Amos – “Welcome To England”/Abnormally Attracted to Sin (out 5/19)

Bob Dylan – “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’”/Together Through Life (out 4/28) 46^th release

Melody Gardot – “Who Will Comfort Me”/My One and Only Thrill (out 4/28)

Vienna Teng – “White Light”/Inland Territory

William Fitzsimmons – “I Don’t Feel It Anymore” (feat. Priscilla Ahn)/The Sparrow and the Crow

Yusuf – “Thinking ‘Bout You”/Roadsinger (out 5/5)

PJ Harvey & John Parish – “Black Hearted Love”/A Woman A Man Walked By

Silversun Pickups – “Panic Switch”/Swoon (out today)

~11pm~

MSTRKRFT – “It Ain’t Love” (feat. Lil’ Mo)/Fist of God

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Zero”(N.A.S.A. Bloody Lobo Remix)/It’s Blitz!

Flight of the Conchords – “Hurt Feelings”/I Told You I Was Freaky

St. Vincent – “Actor Out of Work”/Actor (out 5/5)

Camera Obscura – “French Navy”/My Maudlin Career (out 4/21)

Meat Puppets – “Rotten Shame”/Sewn Together (out 5/12)

Great Northern – “Houses”/Remind Me Where the Light Is (out 4/28)

Art Brut – “Alcoholics Unanimous”/Art Brut vs. Satan (out 4/21)

Rancid – “Last One To Die”/single out now (Let the Dominoes Fall out 6/2)

Miike Snow – “Animal”/single out now (full out 6/9)

Metric – “Stadium Love”/Fantasies (out today)

Peter, Bjorn & John – “It Don’t Move Me”/Living Thing

Maria Taylor – “Cartoons and Forever Plans”/LadyLuck

Micachu & The Shapes – “Just In Case”/Jewellery

~12mid~

Doves – “Kingdom of Rust”/Kingdom of Rust

Cage the Elephant – “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked”/s/t (out 4/21)

Amadou & Mariam – “Sabali”/Welcome To Mali

Sara Watkins – “Lord Won’t You Help Me” (Norman Blake cover)/s/t

Sinead O’Connor – “Mind Games” (John Lennon cover)/I Do Not Want…re-issue (out 4/21)

WCNR Brighten The Corners 4-7-09 (Show 107)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Michelle Malone – “Feather in a Hurricane”/Debris (pal of Indigo Girls, who are in town 4/9)

Cage the Elephant – “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked”/maybe someday??

Metric – “Gimme Sympathy”/Fantasies (out 4/14)

Peter, Bjorn & John – “It Don’t Move Me”/Living Thing

Miike Snow – “Animal”/single out now (full out 6/9)

Phoenix – “1901”/Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (out 5/25)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Zero”/It’s Blitz!

The Veils – “The Letter”/Sun Gangs (out today)

Micachu & The Shapes – “Just In Case”/Jewellery (out today)

Nine Inch Nails – “Not So Pretty Now”/new free EP at ninja2009.com

Jane’s Addiction – “Chip Away”/new free EP at ninja2009.com

Doves – “Kingdom of Rust”/Kingdom of Rust (out today)

Les Claypool – “Bite Out of Life”/Of Fungi and Foe

TV on the Radio remix of Nat King Cole – “Nature Boy”/Re: Generations

Pixies – “Wave of Mutilation” (UK Surf version)/I 1^st heard it on the Pump Up the Volume soundtrack!

~11pm~

Black Francis – “Rock A My Soul”/2004 Frank Black Francis (Charles Thompson turned 44 4/6)

PJ Harvey & John Parish – “The Chair”/A Woman A Man Walked By

Elvis Costello – “Complicated Shadows”/Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (out 6/2)

Vienna Teng – “White Light”/Inland Territory (out today)

Harlem Shakes – “Sunlight”/Technicolor Health

Maria Taylor – “Timelapse Lifeline”/LadyLuck

Great Lake Swimmers – “Pulling on a Line”/Lost Channels (in Cville 4/13)

Bob Dylan – “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’”/Together Through Life (out 4/28) 46^th release

Bob Mould – “Spiralling Down”/Life and Times (out today)

Buraka Som Sistema (w/ M.I.A.) – “Sound of Kuduro”/Black Diamond (out today)

Bat For Lashes – “Daniel”/Two Suns (out today)

Leonard Cohen – “Dance Me To the End of Love”/Live in London (at Merriweather Post Pavillion 5/11)

Tori Amos – “Welcome To England”/Abnormally Attracted to Sin (out 5/19)

Eulogies – “Eyes on the Prize”/Here Anonymous (out today)

Company of Thieves – “Oscar Wilde”/Ordinary Riches

Prince – “Crimson & Clover”/Lotusflow3r

WCNR Brighten the Corners 3-31-09 (Show 106)
{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

PJ Harvey & John Parish – “Sixteen Fifteen Fourteen”/A Woman A Man Walked By (out today)

PJ Harvey & John Parish – “That Was My Veil”/Dance Hall at Louse Point 1996

Jonatha Brooke – “Sweetest Angel”(w/ Glen Phillips)/The Works (Jonatha’s in C-ville 4/6)

Bob Mould – “I’m Sorry, Baby, But You Can’t Stand in my Light Any More”/Life and Times (out 4/7, in Cville 4/5)

Superdrag – “Filthy & Afraid”/Industry Giants

Elvis Costello – “Complicated Shadows”/Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (out 6/2)

Leonard Cohen – “Suzanne”/Live in London (cd/dvd out today, at Merriweather Post Pavillion 5/11)

Bob Dylan – “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’”/Together Through Life (out 4/28) 46^th release

Neko Case – “This Tornado Loves You”/Middle Cyclone (in Richmond 4/6)

Alejandro Escovedo – “Too Little Too Late”/Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm

Prince – “(There’ll Never B) Another Like Me”/MPLSound

Miike Snow – “Animal”/single out now (full out 6/9)

Metric – “Help, I’m Alive”/Fantasies (out 4/14)

~11pm~

Jane’s Addiction – “Classic Girl”/1990 (Peretz Bernstein aka Perry Farrell turned 50 3/29)

Jane’s Addiction – “Chip Away”/new free EP at ninja2009.com

Nine Inch Nails – “Not So Pretty Now”/new free EP at ninja2009.com

The Vines – “Get Out”/Melodia

Living Things – “Oxygen”/Habeas Corpus

Little Brazil – “Wasting Time”/Son

The Veils – “The Letter”/Sun Gangs (out 4/7)

Doves – “Kingdom of Rust”/Kingdom of Rust (out 4/7)

Gomez – “Lost Track”(recorded at our sister station in Asheville, NC!)/A New Tide (out today)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Hysteric”/It’s Blitz! (out today)

Empire of the Sun – “Walking on a Dream”/title track (out 4/21)

Royksopp – “Happy Up Here”/”Junior”

Men Without Pants – “And the Girls Go”/Naturally(out 4/21) feat. Russell Simins & Dan “The Automator”

Sam Roberts – “Them Kids”/Love at the End of the World

Tom Peloso – “Leaves And The Trees”/The Last Saturday of the Year EP (tompeloso.com)

PJ Harvey & John Parish – “Passionless, Pointless”/A Woman A Man Walked By (out today)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 3-24-09 (Show 105)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Doves – “Jetstream”/Kingdom of Rust (out 4/7)

Ladytron – “Tomorrow (Jim Abbiss Radio Remix)”/Velocifero

Royksopp – “Happy Up Here”/”Junior”(out today)

Miike Snow – “Animal”/single out now

Silversun Pickups – “Panic Switch”/Swoon (out 4/14)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Heads Will Roll”/It’s Blitz! (out 4/14)

Fever Ray – “When I Grow Up (Dan Lissvik Remix Radio Edit)”/Fever Ray (out today)

Fischerspooner – “The Best Revenge”/Entertainment (out in May)

Metric – “Gimme Sympathy (acoustic)”/Fantasies pre-order digital bundle (out 4/14)

The Dead Weather (Jack White’s new thang) - “Hang You Up From the Heavens”/Horehound (out in June)

Gomez – “Natural Reaction”/A New Tide (out 3/31)

Blur – “M.O.R.”/1997 (Damon Albarn’s 41^st b’day yesterday)

Decemberists – “The Rake’s Song/The Abduction of Margaret”/The Hazards of Love (out today)

~11pm~

Superdrag – “Filthy & Afraid”/Industry Giants

Little Brazil – “What’s The Problem”/Son (out today)

Alejandro Escovedo – “Too Little Too Late”/Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm (out today)

Booker T. – “Hey Ya”/Potato Hole (out 4/21)

PJ Harvey & John Parish – “Black Hearted Love”/A Woman A Man Walked By (out 3/31)

Elvis Costello – “Complicated Shadows”/Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (out 6/2)

Friendly Fires – “Skeleton Boy”/s/t

Emiliana Torrini – “Jungle Drum”/Me and Armini

Eleni Mandell – “Right Side”/Artificial Fire

O + S – “The Fox”/s/t (out today)

Radiohead – “Street Spirit (Fade Out)” (acoustic version)/The Bends (Collectors Edition) (out today)

~12am~

The Vines – “Get Out”/Melodia (out today)

Bob Mould – “Spiraling Down”/Life and Times (out 4/7, in Cville 4/5)

Obits – “Pine On”/I Blame You (out today)

Condo F’s – “Accident”/F*book (out today)

Beast – “Mr. Hurricane”/s/t

Asobi Seksu – “Sing Tomorrow’s Praise”/Hush

Manchester Orchestra – “I’ve Got Friends”/Mean Everything to Nothing (out 4/21)

Cursive – “From the Hips”/Mama, I’m Swollen

Nick Lowe – “So It Goes”/1978 (Nick turned 60 on 3/24)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 3-17-09 (Show 104)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

(right before 10pm) Auf Der Maur – “Followed the Waves”/2004 (Melissa’s 37 today)

Bob Mould – “Spiraling Down”/Life and Times (out 4/7)

Peter Gabriel & Hot Chip – “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa”/thanks imeem!

Obits – “Pine On”/I Blame You (out 3/24)

U2 – “Out of Control”/1980

Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears – “Sugarfoot”/Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is! (out today)

Booker T. – “Native New Yorker”/Potato Hole (out 4/21)

PJ Harvey & John Parish – “Black Hearted Love”/A Woman A Man Walked By (out 3/31)

Thin Lizzy – “Cowboy Song”/1976

Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit – “Good”/s/t

Mother Mother – “Body of Years”/O My Heart

Smashing Pumpkins – “I Am One”/1991 (Billy Corgan’s 42 today)

~11pm~

Tinted Windows – “Kind of A Girl”/Taylor Hanson+James Iha+Bun E. Carlos+Fountains of Wayne Adam

Peaches – “Search and Destroy”/War Child Presents Heroes

My Brightest Diamond – “Feelin’ Good”/Red Hot: Dark Was the Night

The Cake Sale – “Some Surprise”/2007 The Cake Sale Oxfam benefit cd (yay! more from Ireland)

Old School Freight Train – “Heart of Glass”/Six Years (out today, live in Cville 3/21)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Zero”/It’s Blitz! (out 4/14)

Decemberists – “The Rake’s Song”/The Hazards of Love (out 3/24)

Company of Thieves – “Oscar Wilde”/Ordinary Riches

Heartless Bastards – “Out At Sea”/The Mountain

Ida Maria – “I Like You So Much Better When You’re Naked”/Fortress Around My Heart (out today)

Silversun Pickups – “Panic Switch”/Swoon (out 4/14)

The Dead Weather (Jack White’s new thang) - “Hang You Up From the Heavens”/Horehound (out in June)

~12am~

Metric – “Help, I’m Alive”/Fantasies (out 4/14)

Mirah– “Country of the Future”/(a) spera (pronounced “mear-rah”)

Van Morrison – “Sweet Thing”/Astral Weeks Like at the Hollywood Bowl

Marianne Faithfull – “The Phoenix”/Easy Come Easy Go (out today)

Pete Yorn – “Don’t Wanna Cry”/Back and Forth (out 6/23)

Pogues – “Streams of Whiskey”/1984 (in DC tonight & tmrw)

Chieftains w/ Sinead O’Connor – “The Foggy Dew”/1995 (This song chronicles the Easter Uprising of 1916, and encourages Irishmen to fight for the cause of Ireland, rather than for the British, as so many young men were doing in World War I…thanks, Wikipedia!)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 3-10-09 (Show 103)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 – “Hurry For the Sky”(feat. Colin Meloy)/Goodnight Oslo

(missed his 56th last Tuesday!)

Decemberists – “The Rake’s Song”/The Hazards of Love (out 3/24)

Ida Maria – “Oh My God”/Fortress Around My Heart (out 3/17)

Cage the Elephant – “Ain’t No Rest For the Wicked”/s/t (out here soon? Been out for a year in UK)

Condo F!@*s – “What’cha Gonna Do About It”/F!@*book (out 3/24)

Heartless Bastards – “Out At Sea”/The Mountain

Living Things – “Shake Your Shimmy”/Habeas Corpus

The Parlor Mob – “Hard Times”/And You Were A Crow

The Thermals – “Now We Can See”/title track (out 4/7)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Zero”/It’s Blitz! (out 4/14)

Metric – “Help, I’m Alive”/Fantasies (out 4/14)

Silversun Pickups – “Panic Switch”/Swoon (out 4/14)

Pete Yorn – “Don’t Wanna Cry”/Back and Forth (out 6/23)

O+S – “Permanent Scar”/O+S (out 3/24)

~11pm~

Peter Gabriel & Hot Chip – “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa”/thanks imeem!

PJ Harvey & John Parish – “Black Hearted Love”/A Woman A Man Walked By (out 3/31)

Beck – “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat”/War Child presents Heroes

N.A.S.A. – “Gifted”(feat. Kanye West, Santigold, Lykke Li)/The Spirit of Apollo

Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears – “Gunpowder”/Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is! (out 3/17)

M. Ward – “One Hundred Million Years”/Hold Time

Neko Case – “Middle Cyclone”/Middle Cyclone

Cursive – “From the Hips”/Mama, I’m Swollen (out today)

Radiohead – “The Trickster”/The Bends (Collectors Edition, out 3/24)

Handsome Furs – “I’m Confused”/Face Control (out today)

Chris Cornell – “Scream”/title track (out today)

Two Guns – “One Direction (feat. Kay from Letters To Cleo)”/Two Guns

~12am~

Great Nothern – “Mountain”/Remind Me Where The Light Is (out 4/28)

Elvis Perkins in Dearland – “Hey”/s/t (out today)

Emiliana Torrini – “Jungle Drum”/Me and Armini

Mother Mother – “Body of Years”/O My Heart

Say Hi – “Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh”/Oohs & Aahs

Asobi Seksu – “Sing Tomorrow’s Praise”/Hush

William Fitzsimmons – “I Don’t Feel It Anymore (Song of the Sparrow)”/The Sparrow & The Crow (4/7)

Madeleine Peyroux – “Bare Bones”/title track (out today)

Nat King Cole/Cee-Lo Green remix – “Lush Life”/Nat King Cole Re: Generations (out today)

Justin Townes Earle – “Mama’s Eyes”/Midnight at the Movies

Feist/Ben Gibbard – “Train Song”/Red Hot & Dark was the Night

Fastball – “The Malcontent (The Modern World)”/Little White Lies (out 4/14)

Soundtrack of Our Lives – “Saturation Wanderers”/Communion

Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit – “However Long”/s/t

Neil Young – “Johnny Magic”/Fork in the Road (out 4/7)

Mirah – “Country of the Future”/(a) spera (out today)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 3-3-09 (Show 102)

~10pm~

PJ Harvey & John Parish – “Black Hearted Love”/A Woman A Man Walked By (out 3/31)

Plants & Animals – “Feedback in the Field”/2008 s/t (in C-ville tonight)

Handsome Furs – “I’m Confused”/Face Control (out 3/10)

The Bird & The Bee – “My Love”/Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future (out now)

N.A.S.A. – “Samba Soul” (feat. DJ Qbert & Del Tha Funkee Homosapien)/The Spirit of Apollo (out 3/10?)

Nat King Cole/TV on the Radio – “Nature Boy”/Nat King Cole Re: Generations (out 3/10)

The National – “So Far Around the Bend”/Red Hot & Dark was the Night (out now)

Justin Townes Earle – “Can’t Hardly Wait”(Replacements cover)/Midnight at the Movies (out today)

Neko Case – “Don’t Forget Me”(a Nilsson tune feat. a 7-piano “orchestra”)/Middle Cyclone (out today)

Company of Thieves – “Oscar Wilde”/Ordinary Riches (out now)

Soundtrack of Our Lives – “Flipside”/Communion (out today)

Maria Taylor – “It’s Time”/Ladyluck (out 4/7)

~11pm~

Neil Young – “Johnny Magic”/Fork in the Road (out 4/7)

The Parlor Mob – “Hard Times”/And You Were A Crow (out now)

Morrissey – “Something is Squeezing My Skull”/Years of Refusal (out now)

Living Things – “Oxygen”/Habeas Corpus (out now)

Buddy & Julie Miller – “Gasoline and Matches”/Written in Chalk (out today)

Angus & Julia Stone – “The Beast”/A Book Like This (out today)

Beast – “Mr. Hurricane”/Beast (out today)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Zero”/It’s Blitz! (out 4/14)

Decemberists – “The Rake’s Song”/The Hazards of Love (out 3/24)

The Like – “You Belong to Me”(Elvis Costello cover)/War Child presents Heroes (out now)

Cage the Elephant – “Ain’t No Rest For the Wicked”/s/t (out here soon? Been out for a year in UK)

Manchester Orchestra – “I’ve Got Friends”/Mean Everything To Nothing (out 4/21)

The Prodigy – “Omen”/Invaders Must Die (out today)

Van Morrison – “The Way Young Lovers Do”/Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl (out now)

~12am~

Theresa Andersson – “Birds Fly Away”/Hummingbird, Go! (in C-ville Thursday)

Velvet Underground – “Pale Blue Eyes”/Lou Reed’s 67^th b’day 3/1

WCNR Brighten the Corners 2-24-09 (Show 101)

~10pm~

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Zero”/It’s Blitz! (out 4/14)

Depeche Mode – “Wrong”/Sounds of the Universe (out 4/21)

Hot Chip – “Transmission”/War Child presents Heroes (out today) go to warchild.org

Morrissey – “Something is Squeezing My Skull”/Years of Refusal

Manchester Orchestra – “I’ve Got Friends”/Mean Everything To Nothing (out 4/21)

Delta Spirit – “Trashcan” (Corner Lounge version)/rocked C-ville last night!

Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles – “Do It For Free”/The Stars Are Out (out 3/24)

Serena Ryder – “Little Bit of Red”/is it ok (out now)

Bell X1 – “The Great Defector”/Blue Lights on the Runway (out 3/3, in DC 3/12)

Ra Ra Riot – “Can You Tell”/The Rhumb Line (4/8 DC w/ Death Cab)

Great Northern – “Houses”/Remind Me Where the Light Is (out 4/28)

Ladyfinger (ne) – “Little Things”/Dusk (out now)

The Duke Spirit – “My Sunken Treasure”/ltd ed. new EP

~11pm~

X – “The World’s A Mess; It’s In My Kiss”/1980 (John Doe’s 55^th b’day 2/25)

Ben Harper & Relentless 7 – “Shimmer and Shine”/White Lies For Dark Times (out 5/5)

Sam Roberts – “Them Kids”/Love at the End of the World (out now)

Soundtrack of Our Lives – “Thrill Me”/Communion (out 3/3)

My Brightest Diamond – “Feeling Good”/Red Hot & Dark was the Night (out now)

Maria Taylor – “Cartoons and Forever Plans” (w/ Michael Stipe)/Ladyluck (out 4/7)

Asobi Seksu – “Transparence”/Hush (out today)

Wild Light – “California on My Mind”/Adult Nights (out 3/3)

Decemberists – “The Rake’s Song”/The Hazards of Love (out 3/24)

M. Ward – “One Hundred Million Years”/Hold Time (out now)

Neko Case – “The Next Time You Say ‘Forever’”/Middle Cyclone (out 3/3)

Flosstradamus feat. Caroline Polachek – “Big Bills”/free download at greenlabelsound.com

~12am~

N.A.S.A. – “Money” (feat. David Byrne & Chuck D)/The Spirit of Apollo (out now)

Cut Chemist/Nat King Cole – “Day In Day Out”/Nat King Cole Re: Generations (out 3/10)

Pontiak – “Wild Knife Night Fight”/Maker (out 4/7)

U2 – “Fez-Being Born”/No Line on the Horizon (out 3/3)

Clem Snide – “With All My Heart”/Hungry Bird (out today)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 2-17-09 (Show 100)

~10pm~

N.A.S.A. – “Money” (feat. David Byrne & Chuck D)/The Spirit of Apollo (out today?)

Nickel Eye – “Brandy of the Damned”/The Time of the Assassins

The National – “So Far Around the Bend”/ Dark was the Night (out today)

Feist w/ Ben Gibbard – “Train Song”/Dark was the Night (out today)

Spring Standards – “Goodbye Midnight” (Corner Lounge version)

Morrissey – “All You Need Is Me”/Years of Refusal (out today)

Decemberists – “The Rake’s Song”/The Hazards of Love (out 3/24)

M. Ward – “Never Had Nobody Like You”/Hold Time (out today)

Elvis Perkins in Dearland – “Hey”/s/t (out 3/10)

Heartless Bastards – “The Mountain” (Corner Lounge version)/The Mountain

Pavement – “Harness Your Hopes”/Brighten the Corners (Nicene Creedence Ed.)

Spinnerette – “Ghetto Love”/title track from EP (out now)

Ida Maria – “Oh My God”/Fortress Around My Heart (out 3/17)

~11pm~

The Hold Steady – “Atlantic City”/War Child presents Heroes (out 2/24)

Elbow – “Running to Stand Still”/War Child presents Heroes (out 2/24) go to warchild.org

Hollywood Mon Amour – “Flashdance…What A Feeling”/s/t (out now)

The dB’s – “Black & White”/1981 (I.R.S. digital catalog launch continues thru 3/17)

Vetiver – “Everyday”/Tight Knit (out today)

Great Northern – “Houses”/Remind Me Where the Light Is (out 4/28)

Alela Diane – “Dry Grass & Shadows”/To Be Still (out today)

Pavement – “Roll With The Wind (Roxy)”/Brighten the Corners (Nicene Creedence Ed.)

The Prodigy – “Omen”/Invaders Must Die (out 3/3)

Flosstradamus feat. Caroline Polachek – “Big Bills”/free download at greenlabelsound.com

Ladyfinger (ne) – “Little Things”/Dusk (out now)

Pearl Jam – “Brother”/Ten deluxe re-issue (out 3/24)

~12am~

Nirvana – “Lake of Fire”/Cobain’s b’day is Friday 2/20/67

Benji Hughes – “So Well”/A Love Extreme (gave away copies + he’s in Harrisonsburg, VA 2/22)

Vusi Mahlasela – “The Beauty of My Country” (Corner Lounge version from 2/10/09)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 2-10-09 (Show 99)

~10pm~

Calexico – “Victor Jara’s Hands”/Carried to Dust

TV on the Radio – “Heroes”/War Child presents Heroes (out 2/24)

Lily Allen feat. Mick Jones – “Straight to Hell”/War Child presents Heroes (out 2/24) go to warchild.org

Peter, Bjorn & John – “Nothing To Worry About”/Living Thing (out 3/31, 5/2 in DC)

Various Artists – “Open Happiness”/what happens when all your favorite songs sound like commercials?

Alela Diane – “Dry Grass & Shadows”/To Be Still (out 2/17)

Buddy & Julie Miller – “Gasoline and Matches”/Written in Chalk (out 3/3)

Chris Cornell – “Scream”/title track (out 3/10)

Thom Yorke – “Skip Divided (Modeselektor Remix)”/The Eraser remixes (out now)

Oren Lavie – “Her Morning Elegance”/The Opposite Side of the Sea (out ???)

~11pm~

The Prodigy – “Omen”/Invaders Must Die (out 3/3)

Heartless Bastards – “Out At Sea”/The Mountain (in Cville 2/11)

Lily Allen – “Him”/It’s Not Me, It’s You (out today…gave away a copy!)

Pulp – “The Fear”/1998

Metric – “Help, I’m Alive”/Fantasies (out 4/14)

Ben Harper & Relentless 7 – “Shimmer and Shine”/White Lies For Dark Times (out in May)

Ida Maria – “I Like You So Much Better When You’re Naked”/Fortress Around My Heart (out 3/17)

Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings – “Inspiration Information”/Dark was the Night (out 2/17)

Sonic Youth – “Wish Fulfillment”/1992 (Forgot Lee Renaldo’s 53rd b’day last Tuesday!)

M. Ward – “Rave On”/Hold Time (out 2/17)

Gomez – “Airstream Driver”/A New Tide (out 3/31)

Dan Auerbach – “Heart Broken in Disrepair”/Keep It Hid (out today)

Spinnerette – “Ghetto Love”/title track from EP (out now)

~12am~

Concrete Blonde – “It’s Only Money”/I.R.S. digital catalog launch starts today!

Decemberists – “The Rake’s Song”/The Hazards of Love (out 3/24)

Morrissey – “I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris”/Years of Refusal (out 2/17)

The 88 – “Sons and Daughters”/Not Only…But Also (out now)

The Blue Van – “Silly Boy”/Man Up (from Denmark…available digitally now)

Pontiak – “Mr. Wilson”/Kale (John Cale cover) (out now)

Hollywood, Mon Amour – “Call Me” (feat. Skye formerly of Morcheeba)/s/t (out now)

Vetiver – “Everyday”/Tight Knit (out 2/17)

The Cramps – “New Kind of Kick”/1984 Lux Interior R.I.P.

WCNR Brighten the Corners 2-3-09 (Show 98)

~10pm~

Ida Maria – “Oh My God”/Fortress Around My Heart (re-issue out 2/10)

Spinnerette – “Ghetto Love”/title track from EP (out now)

Metric – “Help, I’m Alive”/Fantasies (out 4/14)

Ben Harper & Relentless 7 – “Shimmer and Shine”/White Lies For Dark Times (out in May)

Heartless Bastards – “The Mountain”/title track (out today, in Cville 2/11)

Gomez – “Airstream Driver”/A New Tide (out 3/31)

The Brighton Port Authority – “Seattle”(feat. Emmy the Great)/I Think We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat

M. Ward – “Never Had Nobody Like You”/Hold Time (out 2/17)

Dan Auerbach – “My Last Mistake”/Keep It Hid (out 2/10)

Bon Iver – “Blood Bank”/title track to EP (out now)

Neko Case – “People Got A Lotta Nerve”/Middle Cyclone (out 3/3, in Richmond 4/6)

Amy Lavere – “Killing Him (Corner Lounge version)”/Anchors & Anvils (on Conan last night!)

Theresa Andersson – “Birds Fly Away”/Hummingbird, Go! (on Conan tomorrow)

~11pm~

Franz Ferdinand – “Call Me”/War Child Presents: Heroes (out 2/24) go to warchild.org

Peaches – “Search & Destroy”/War Child Presents: Heroes (out 2/24)

Dean & Britta – “Friday I’m in Love”/Just Like Heaven-A Tribute to the Cure

Two Tongues – “Even If You Don’t” (Ween cover)/s/t (out today)

Ben Kweller – “On Her Own”/Changing Horses (out today)

Peter, Bjorn & John – “Nothing To Worry About”/Living Thing (out 3/31, 5/2 in DC)

The Prodigy – “Omen”/Invaders Must Die (out 3/3)

Thom Yorke – “And It Rained All Night (Burial Remix)”/The Eraser remixes (out now)

Cee-Lo/Nat King Cole – “Lush Life”/Nat King Cole Re: Generations (out 3/10)

Chris Cornell – “Scream”/title track (out 3/10)

The Bird and the Bee – “My Love”/Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future (nice outfits on Kimmel tonight!)

Clem Snide – “With All My Heart”/Hungry Bird (out 2/24)

Lisa Hannigan – “I Don’t Know”/Sea Sew (out today in US!)

Oren Lavie – “Her Morning Elegance”/The Opposite Side of the Sea (out ???)

~12am~

Van Morrison – “Sweet Thing”/Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl (out 2/24)

Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel – “Hesitation Blues”/Willie & The Wheel

Buddy Holly – “Rave On”/1958 (remembering 2/3/59)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 1-27-09 (Show 97)

~10pm~

Franz Ferdinand – “What She Came For”/Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (out today)

Bruce Springsteen – “Good Eye”/Working on a Dream (out today)

J.J. Cale – “Roll On”/title track (out 3/24)

Cut Chemist/Nat King Cole – “Day In – Day Out”/Nat King Cole Re: Generations (out 3/10)

Murs – “Everything”/Murs for President

Peter, Bjorn & John – “Nothing To Worry About”/Living Thing (out 3/31)

The Bird and the Bee – “My Love”/Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future (out today)

M83 – “Kim and Jessie”/Saturdays = Youth (in DC w/ Killers 1/28)

Loney Dear – “I Was Only Going Out”/Dear John (out today, in DC 2/3 w/ Andrew Bird)

Andrew Bird – “Fitz and the Dizzyspells”/Noble Beast

Clem Snide – “With All My Heart”/Hungry Bird (out 2/24)

The Submarines – “Boys Don’t Cry”/Just Like Heaven-A Tribute to the Cure (out today)

~11pm~

John Frusciante – “God”/The Empyrean

Glasvegas – “Geraldine”/s/t

M. Ward – “Never Had Nobody Like You”/Hold Time (out 2/17)

Nickel Eye – “Brandy of the Damned”/The Time of the Assassins (out today)

Asa – “Jailer”/s/t (out today)

Sam Roberts – “Them Kids”/Love at the End of the World (out 2/17)

Ra Ra Riot – “Can You Tell”/The Rhumb Line (tour this spring with Death Cab!)

Wild Light – “California on My Mind”/Adult Nights (out 3/3)

Neko Case – “People Got A Lotta Nerve”/Middle Cyclone (out 3/3)

Ben Kweller – “Fight”/Changing Horses (out 2/3)

Robert Pollard – “Faking My Harlequin”/The Crawling Distance

Animal Collective – “My Girls”/Merriweather Post Pavillion

Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 – “What You Is”/Goodnight Oslo (out 2/17)

Antony & the Johnsons – “Kiss My Name”/The Crying Light

The Brighton Port Authority – “Seattle”/I Think We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat

Frightened Rabbit – “The Modern Leper”/The Midnight Organ Fight (in Cville 1/28)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 1-20-09 (Show 96)

~10pm~

The O’Jays – “Give the People What They Want”/1975

The Soul of John Black – “Betty Jean”/Black John (out 2/17)

Asa – “Jailer”/s/t (out 1/27)

M. Ward – “Never Had Nobody Like You”/Hold Time (out 2/17)

Neko Case – “People Got A Lotta Nerve”/Middle Cyclone (out 3/3)

Mark Olson & Gary Louris – “Turn Your Pretty Name Around”/Ready For the Flood (out 1/27)

Nickel Eye – “Brandy of the Damned”/The Time of the Assassins (out 1/27)

Morrissey – “I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris”/Years of Refusal (out 2/17)

Paul McCartney – “I Saw Her Standing There”/Amoeba’s Secret EP (out 1/27)

Ra Ra Riot – “Can You Tell”/The Rhumb Line (08 honorable mention!)

Birdmonster – “New Country”/From the Mountain to the Sea (08 honorable mention!)
Futureheads – “Sleet”/This Is Not the World (08 honorable mention!)

The Bad Plus – “Comfortably Numb”/For All I Care

~11pm~

Murs – “Can It Be”/Murs for President (08 honorable mention!)

Curtis Mayfield – “We’re A Winner (live)”/1971

Alejandro Escovedo – “Castanets”/Live From Austin, Texas Radio Special bonus track (in Cville 1/26!)

Fiction Family – “When She’s Near”/s/t (out today, in Cville 1/27)

Frightened Rabbit – “Good Arms Vs. Bad Arms”/The Midnight Organ Fight (in Cville 1/28)

Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit – “Seven-Mile Island”/s/t (out 2/17, The Pub in Harrisonburg 2/22)

Sam Roberts – “Them Kids”/Love at the End of the World (out 2/17)

Heartless Bastards – “The Mountain”/title track (out 2/3, in Cville 2/10)

Andrew Bird – “Fitz and the Dizzyspells”/Noble Beast (out today)

Lisa Hannigan – “I Don’t Know”/Sea Sew (out 2/3, in DC in March!)

~12mid~

Glasvegas – “Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime”/s/t

Living Things – “Let It Rain”/Habeas Corpus (out 2/17)

Alternate Routes – “The Future’s Nothing New”/A Sucker’s Dream (out 2/24)

A.C. Newman – “The Palace at 4 A.M.”/Get Guilty (out today)

Animal Collective – “Summertime Clothes”/Merriweather Post Pavillion (out today)

The Bird and the Bee – “Diamond Dave”/Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future (out 1/27)

Dean & Britta – “Friday I’m In Love”/Just Like Heaven-A Tribute to the Cure (out 1/27)

Robert Pollard – “The Butler Stands For All Of Us”/The Crawling Distance (out today)

The Panics – “Don’t Fight It”/Cruel Guards

Antony & the Johnsons – “Another World”/The Crying Light (out today)

Shearwater – “Leviathan, Bound”/Rook (08 honorable mention!)

City and Colour – “Sleeping Sickness”/Bring Me Your Love

Kaiser Cartel – “Okay”/March Forth (08 honorable mention!)

Longwave – “No Direction”/Secrets Are Sinister

D.O.A. – “Who Will Stop The Rain”/Northern Avenger

Cat Power – “I Believe in You”/for Chan Marshall’s 37^th b’day 1/21!

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WCNR Brighten the Corners 1-13-09 (Show 95)

30 Favorite albums of 2008 (well, 29 + 2 EPs*)

No particular order til Top 5!

~10pm~

*The Falsies – “We’re More Rock’n’Roll Than You”/EP title track [thefalsies.net]

Six Day Bender – “Wartime”/s/t [sixdaybender.com]

Jim Waive & The Young Divorcees – “Strike A Match”/title track [jimwaive.com]

Shannon Worrell – “Comes A Hurricane”/The Honey Guide [myspace.com/shannonworrell]

Birdlips – “Some Kind of Death”/Cardboard Wings [birdlipsmusic.com]

*Avett Brothers – “Murder in the City”/The Second Gleam EP

Vampire Weekend – “The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance”/s/t

TV On the Radio – “Shout Me Out”/Dear Science

Lisa Hannigan – “Lille”/Sea Sew (in DC in March!)

Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet – “Oh Me, Oh My”/s/t

Crooked Fingers – “What Never Comes”/Forfeit/Fortune

Sam Phillips – “Can’t Come Down”/Don’t Do Anything

Alejandro Escovedo – “Real As An Animal”/Real Animal

~11pm~

Fleet Foxes – “He Doesn’t Know Why”/s/t

Annuals – “Wake”/Such Fun

Jessica Lea Mayfield – “Is This Love?”/With Blasphemy So Heartfelt

The Notwist – “Where in This World”/The Devil, You & Me

The Whigs – “Right Hand on My Heart”/Mission Control

Kings of Leon – “Manhattan”/Only By the Night

David Byrne/Brian Eno – “The River”/Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

Wild Sweet Orange – “Either/Or”/We Have Cause To Be Uneasy

Cloud Cult – “No One Said It Would Be Easy”/Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)

My Brightest Diamond – “Ice & The Storm”/A Thousand Shark’s Teeth

Meiko – “Piano Song (live in C-ville)”/Meiko

~12mid~

My Morning Jacket – “Remnants”/Evil Urges

Girl Talk – “Like This”/Feed the Animals

5. The Features – “Wooden Heart”/Some Kind of Salvation

4. Flight of the Conchords – “Bowie”/s/t

3. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – “Modern Mystery”/Pershing

And a tie for #1!

1. Murder By Death – “Ash”/Red of Tooth and Claw

1. Beck – “Profanity Prayers”/Modern Guilt

It was a dramatic year; it was a harsh year. Two picks tied for #1 on my Favorite Albums of ’08 show (sorry, was scheduled to do it last week, but had a last-minute, family-related change of plans). One #1 pick makes dramatic music and has a harsh name, while the other cloaked harsh lyrics in dramatic Danger Mouse soundscapes. Anything outside of the Top 5, I couldn’t really bring myself to rank, but the 30 cutoff felt right. And yes, I preferred 5 local bands to whatever it may seem I’m missing…that’s why I call it a “Favorite Albums” show and not a “The Best That Everyone Seems To Agree On But Puts In A Different Order” show :) Take that, blogosphere! Hahaha…although I guess the term “local band” means less and less with the interwebs and such…maybe in ’09 bands will stop identifying where they’re from and only tell fans which commercials their music’s been in. It’ll be like NASCAR…bring on globalization, I say! OK, maybe hearing “Super Bon Bon” on a car commercial the other day is still lingering in my mind…oof. Cheers to an '09 filled with more great music!

WCNR Brighten the Corners 12-30-08 (Show 94)

The songs released in 2008 I’ve most enjoyed bringing you on BTC (fav songs of 08)…

A select few of these artists will make the Favorite Albums show next week too…

In no particular order til the end!

~10pm~

Fleet Foxes – “White Winter Hymnal”/s/t

Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts – “Faith”/Temporary People

Asteroid Galaxy Tour – “Around the Bend”/Sonic Arts EP

Brighton Port Authority – “Toe Jam”(feat. David Byrne)/I Think We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat

XX Teens – “Darlin’”/Welcome To Goon Island

Liam Finn – “Second Chance”/I’ll Be Lightning

Bob Mould – “The Silence Between Us”/District Line

Drive-By Truckers – “The Righteous Path”/Brighter Than Creation’s Dark

Cat Power – “I Believe In You”/Jukebox

My Brightest Diamond – “Inside A Boy”/A Thousand Shark’s Teeth

The Broken West – “Perfect Games”/Now Or Heaven

The Heavenly States – “Lost in the Light”/Delayer

~11pm~

The Heavy – “That Kind of Man”/Great Vengance & Furious Fire

The Whigs – “Like A Vibration”/Mission Control

MGMT – “Time to Pretend”/Oracular Spectacular

Helio Sequence – “Keep Your Eyes Ahead”/title track

Sharon Little – “Follow That Sound”/Perfect Time for a Breakdown

Al Green – “Lay It Down”/title track (feat. Anthony Hamilton)

Thievery Corporation – “The Numbers Game” (w/ Chuck Brown)/Radio Retaliation

Jessie Baylin – “Was I On Your Mind”/Daytrotter sessions version

Kings of Leon – “Sex on Fire”/Only By the Night

The Watson Twins – “How Am I To Be”/Fire Songs

Birdlips – “Tracks on Repeat”(local duo, Corner Lounge version of new song)/birdlipsmusic.com

Elbow – “Grounds for Divorce”/The Seldom-Seen Kid

Last Shadow Puppets – “Standing Next To Me”/The Age of the Understatement

~12mid~

Jesus & Mary Chain – “All Things Must Pass”/Heroes TV Show soundtrack

Black Keys – “Strange Times”/Attack & Release

TV On the Radio – “Dancing Choose”/Dear Science

Jay Reatard – “Always Wanting More”/Matador Singles ‘08

Sonya Kitchell – “For Every Drop”/This Storm

Teddy Thompson – “In My Arms”/A Piece of What You Need

James Jackson Toth – “Nothing Hides”/Waiting in Vain

Bostich & Fussible – “Tijuana Sound Machine”/title track (Nortec Collective)

NIN – “Discipline”/The Slip

Jack White/Alicia Keys – “Another Way To Die”/Quantum of Solace OST

The Enemy UK – “You’re Not Alone”/We’ll Live and Die In These Towns

Gnarls Barkley – “Run”/The Odd Couple

Michael Franti & Spearhead (w/ SoliLLaquists of Sound) – “Obama Song” (couldn’t resist!)

The Gutter Twins – “Idle Hands”/Saturnalia

(Idle Hands and Run tie for fav song!)

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WCNR Brighten the Corners 12-23-08 (Show 93)

Mostly new holiday tunes

~10pm~

Let’s Go Sailing – “Icicles”

Glasvegas – “A Snowflake Fell (and It Felt Like A Kiss)”

Darlene Love – “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”

Meiko – “Maybe Next Year (Xmas Song)”

Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson – “Winter Song”

Straight No Chaser – “The 12 Days of Christmas (live)”

Jack Johnson – “Someday at Christmas”

Mason Jennings – “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”

Money Mark – “Stuck at the Airport”

Tenacious D w/ Sum 41 – “Things I Want (radio edit)”

Sheryl Crow – “There is a Star That Shines Tonight”

Mindy Smith – “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”

Jason Mraz – “Winter Wonderland”

Melissa Etheridge – “Christmas in America”

Eastmountainsouth – “Ave Maria”

Fleet Foxes – “White Winter Hymnal”

~11pm~

Ketch Secor (of Old Crow Medicine Show) – “Send No Angels”/Our Christmas Present local benefit cd

Danny Schmidt & Carrie Elkin – “Little Drummer Boy”/another OCP song…see ourcommunityplace.org

Acorn Sisters – “Christmas Time’s A-Comin’” (Corner Lounge version)

In Technicolor – “It’s Too Friggin’ Cold”

Teddy Thompson – “Christmas” (new original song featuring his mom, dad & sis)

Rogue Wave – “Christmas” (Pete Townshend cover)

Neil Halsted – “The Man in the Santa Suit” (Fountains of Wayne cover)

G Love – “Christmas Baby”

Zee Avi – “No Christmas for Me”

Nicole Atkins – “Blue Christmas”

Lenka – “All My Bells Are Ringing”

Killers w/ Elton John & Neil Tennant – “Joseph, Better You Than Me”

Hotel Café Medley – “Auld Lang Syne”

Vince Guaraldi Trio – “O Christmas Tree”

The Boxmasters (feat. Billy Bob Thornton) – “The Christmas Song”

Otis Redding – “White Christmas”

Kate Nash – “Foundations”/Made of Bricks
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Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova – “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere”/I’m Not There ST (Glen interview tmrw!)
Taj Mahal – “Corinna”/1968 Natch’l Blues (in C-ville 2/16!)
Otis Taylor – “Walk Right In (feat. C-ville’s own Corey Harris!)”/Recapturing The Banjo

The Heavy Circles – “Ready to Play”/s/t (feat. Harper Simon & Edie Brickell) out today
The Heavy – “That Kind of Man”/Great Vengance & Furious Fire (out 4/8)
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Air Traffic – “Charlotte”/Fractured Life
Neutral Milk Hotel – “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”/anniv. of release 2/10/97

11pm

The Gutter Twins – “Idle Hands”/Saturnalia (out in March..3/20 DC 930 Club!)

Helio Sequence – “Lately”/Keep Your Eyes Ahead
Iron & Wine – “Lovesong of the Buzzard”/The Shepherd’s Dog
Cowboy Junkies – “Misguided Angel”/Trinity Revisited (w/ Natalie Merchant)
Jim Waive & The Young Divorcees – “The Likes of You”/Strike A Match (from Cville! cd release party 2/15!)
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The Whigs – “Like A Vibration”/Mission Control (in C-ville 2/28)
The Hives – “You Dress Up For Armageddon”/The Black & White Album (3/8 DC 930 Club)
The Heavenly States – “Lost in the Light”/Delayer (March?)

Wolfkin – “The Great Divide”/Brand New Pants
Cat Power – “Silver Stallion”/Jukebox
Grand Archives – “Torn Blue Foam Couch”/The Grand Archives (out 2/19)
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British Sea Power – “Waving Flags”/Do You Like Rock Music?
~12mid~
American Music Club – “All The Lost Souls Welcome You to San Francisco”/The Golden Age (out 2/19)
Vampire Weekend – “The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance”/s/t

Television – “Friction (live at CBGB’s, 1978)”/anniv. of their CBGB’s debut this week!
Nada Surf – “Whose Authority”/Lucky

Supreme Beings of Leisure – “Mirror”/11i (out today)
Mark Ronson – “Valerie”/Version (feat. Amy Winehouse)
Morcheeba – “Enjoy The Ride”/Dive Deep (out 2/19)

Herbie Hancock – “The Jungle Line”/River: The Joni Letters (feat. Leonard Cohen)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 2-5-08
Show 48

10pm

R.E.M. - “Supernatural Superserious”/Accelerate (4/1)
The Thrills - “The Midnight Choir”/Teenager
Magnetic Fields - “Till The Bitter End”/Distortion
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Nada Surf – “Whose Authority”/Lucky (out today)
Clash – “Know Your Rights”/1982 Combat Rock
State Radio – “Gang of Thieves”/Year of the Crow

Liam Finn – “Second Chance”/I’ll Be Lightning
Jason Collett – “Papercut Hearts”/Here’s To Being Here (out today)

Cat Power – “I Believe In You”/Jukebox
Vampire Weekend – “A-Punk” (in DC 2/6 Rock’n’Roll Hotel)
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Zox – “Goodnight”/Line in the Sand
Drive-By Truckers “Two Daughters And A Beautiful Wife”/Brighter Than Creation’s Dark

Jose Gonzalez – “Killing for Love”/In Our Nature

11pm

Living Things – “Bom Bom Bom”/2005 Ahead of the Lions

The Mars Volta – “Wax Simulacra”/The Bedlam in Goliath
Living Colour – “Sailin’ On (Bad Brains cover)”/2004 Live from CBGB’s 12/19/89
The Whigs – “Right Hand on My Heart”/Mission Control
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Thao “Bag of Hammers”/We Brave Bee Stings and All (in C-ville 2/9)
Kathleen Edwards – “The Cheapest Key”/Asking for Flowers (out 3/4)

Kelley Stoltz – “Your Reverie”/Circular Sounds (out today)
Bob Mould – “The Silence Between Us”/District Line (out today)
Helio Sequence – “Keep Your Eyes Ahead”/title track

American Music Club – “One Step Ahead”/The Golden Age (out 2/19)
Otis Taylor – “Walk Right In (feat. C-ville’s own Corey Harris!)”/Recapturing The Banjo (out today)
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Hot Chip – “Ready For the Floor”/Made in the Dark (out today)
Sons & Daughters – “Gilt Complex”/This Gift (out today)
Moby – “Alice”/Last Night (out 4/1)
Saul Williams – “The Pledge To Resist (Coldcut remix)”/2003 Peace Not War
Bright Eyes – “When The President Talks to God”/2005 B-side

WCNR Brighten the Corners 1-29-08
Show 47

10pm

Frank Turner – “The Real Damage”/The Real Damage EP
Hypernova – “Fairytales (That Don’t Have Happy Endings)”/ltd edition import EP
Bob Mould – “Stupid Now”/District Line (out 2/5)

Joe Jackson – “Citizen Sane”/Rain (out today)
Fiery Furnaces – “Here Comes the Summer (live acoustic)”/thanks, Hype Machine!

The Whigs – “Right Hand on My Heart”/Mission Control
Thieves & Liars – “Good Times”/When Dreams Become Reality

Correatown – “Pinwheels”/Echoes EP
X – “The World’s A Mess; It’s In My Kiss”/1980 Los Angeles (happy b’day to Exene-52 Friday!)
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Sons & Daughters – “Chains”/This Gift (out today)
B-52s – “Funplex”/title track (out 3/25)
Hot Chip – “Ready For the Floor”/Made in the Dark (out 2/5)

11pm

Working For A Nuclear Free City – “Troubled Son”/2007 Shortlist finalist (winner announced in Feb.)
Yoav – “Club Thing”/Charmed & Strange (out today)

Louis XIV – “Air Traffic Control”/Slick Dogs & Ponies (out today)
Air Traffic – “Charlotte”/Fractured Life (out 2/5)
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Goldfrapp – “A & E”/Seventh Tree (out 2/26)
Cat Power – “Naked, If I Want To”/Jukebox (Moby Grape cover from bonus disc)
Kate Walsh – “Your Song”/Tim’s House (out today)

Sonic Youth – “Superstar”/Juno OST (91X remix)
Be Your Own Pet – “The Kelly Affair” (due this spring)

Helio Sequence – “Keep Your Eyes Ahead”/title track (out today)
Chris Walla – “The Score”/Field Manual (out today)
P.I.L. – “Disappointed”/9 (1989) – John Lydon’s 52nd b’day Thursday!
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Vampire Weekend – “Campus” (s/t out today…in DC 2/6 Rock’n’Roll Hotel)
Thao “Bag of Hammers”/We Brave Bee Stings and All (out today, in C-ville 2/9!)

Tift Merritt – “Broken”/Another Country (out today)
Kathleen Edwards – “The Cheapest Key”/Asking for Flowers (out 3/4)
Shelby Lynne – “Willie and Laura Mae Jones”/Just A Little Lovin’ (out today)

Beck – “Electric Music & The Summer People”/Odelay Deluxe Edition (out today)
Mars Volta – “Wax Simulacra”/The Bedlam in Goliath (out today)

Ramones – “Havana Affair/Listen To My Heart/California Sun”/live at the Roxy, 1976
(Leave Home re-issue) Happy 56th B’day Tommy Ramone!

WCNR Brighten the Corners 1-22-08
Show 46

10pm
Cat Power – “I Feel (radio edit)”/Jukebox (Hot Boys cover from bonus disc I bought with my powerful $)
Jose Gonzalez – “Killing For Love”/In Our Nature

Thao “Bag of Hammers”/We Brave Bee Stings and All (out 1/29…in C-ville 2/9!)
Iron & Wine – “Lovesong of the Buzzard”/The Shepherd’s Dog

Helio Sequence – “Keep Your Eyes Ahead”/title track (out 1/29)
MGMT – “Time to Pretend”/Oracular Spectacular

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – “Glue Girls”/Pershing (out 4/8)
Zox – “Goodnight”/Line in the Sand (out 1/22)

Kathleen Edwards – “The Cheapest Key”/Asking for Flowers
Liam Finn – “Second Chance”/I’ll Be Lightning (out 1/22)
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Vampire Weekend – “A-Punk” (s/t out 1/29…in DC 2/6 Rock’n’Roll Hotel)
Drive-By Truckers – “The Righteous Path”/Brighter Than Creation’s Dark (out 1/22)

Cat Power – “Metal Heart”/Jukebox
Mos Def – “Umi Says”/Black on Both Sides 1999

11pm
The Whigs – “Like A Vibration”/Mission Control (out 1/22)
Anna Kramer – “When You See Him”/The Rustic Contemporary Sounds Of (out 1/22)

B-52s – “Funplex”/title track (out 3/25)
Hot Chip – “Shake A Fist”/Made in the Dark (out 2/5)

The Heavenly States – “Lost in the Light”/Delayer (March?)
White Rabbits – “The Plot”/Fort Nightly (in Baltimore w/ The Walkmen Thursday)
Fiery Furnaces – “Restorative Beer”/Widow City (Sat. 1/26 in C-ville!)

Sons & Daughters – “Killer”/This Gift (out 1/29)
The Kills – “U.R.A. Fever”/Midnight Boom

Kate Nash – “Foundations”/Made of Bricks
Funkadelic – “If You Don’t Like the Results, Don’t Produce the Cause”/1972 America Eats Its Young
Lupe Fiasco – “Superstar”/The Cool

The Gutter Twins – “Idle Hands”/Saturnalia (out in March..3/20 DC 930 Club!)
Bob Mould – “The Silence Between Us”/District Line (out in Feb.) – thanks spinner.com!
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Hard Lessons – “See and Be Scene”/B & G Sides Vol. 1
Michael Cera & Ellen Page – “Anyone Else But You”/Juno OST

Athlete – “Hurricane”/Beyond The Neighbourhood
British Sea Power – “Waving Flags”/Do You Like Rock Music?
Cat Power – “I Believe in You”/Jukebox
Britt Daniel – “Bring It On Home To Me”/Bridging the Distance (all-covers cd) Sam Cooke’s bday!
The National – “Apartment Story”
Rogue Wave – “Lake Michigan”

WCNR Brighten the Corners 1-15-08
Show 45

10pm

Part 2 of Corner Lounge interview with Ira from Yo La Tengo from 1/09/08!!
Yo La Tengo – “I Wanna Be Your Lover”/I’m Not There OST
Dump – “When You Were Mine” (Prince cover)/2001(feat. C-ville’s own James McNew, Yo La’s bassist!)
Yo La Tengo – “A Worrying Thing”/1993 Painful (song title was only other band name YLT ever considered)
Versus – “Shangri-La”/2000 EP title track (Kinks cover)

Nada Surf – “Whose Authority”/Lucky (out 2/5)
Bob Mould – “The Silence Between Us”/District Line (out in Feb.) – thanks spinner.com!
Fiery Furnaces – “Ex-Guru”/Widow City (Sat. 1/26 in C-ville!)
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The Gutter Twins – “Idle Hands”/Saturnalia (out in March..3/20 DC 930 Club!)
Bloc Party – “Rhododendrons”/Causes 1 benefit cd

11pm
MGMT – “Time to Pretend”/Oracular Spectacular (out 1/22)

The Teenagers – “Starlett Johannson”/Reality Check (out in March)
M.I.A. – “Boyz”/Kala

Michael Cera & Ellen Page – “Anyone Else But You”/Juno OST
Love – “Alone Again Or”/1967 Forever Changes
Cat Power – “New York”/Jukebox (out 1/22)

Liam Finn – “Second Chance”/I’ll Be Lightning (out 1/22)
Chris Walla – “Sing Again”/Field Manual (out 1/29)

Kathleen Edwards – “The Cheapest Key”/Asking for Flowers
Drive-By Truckers – “The Righteous Path”/Brighter Than Creation’s Dark (out 1/22)
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Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – “Tell Me”/100 Days, 100 Nights (in Cville 1/18!)
Iggy and the Stooges – “Raw Power”/1973 title track

Magnetic Fields – “Till The Bitter End”/Distortion (out today)
Super Furry Animals – “Neo Consumer”/Hey Venus (out later this month)
The Whigs – “Like A Vibration”/Mission Control (out 1/22)…played the single earlier tonight at 6pm!

Zox – “Goodnight”/Line in the Sand (out 1/22)
American Music Club – “All the Lost Souls Welcome You To San Francisco”/The Golden Age (Feb. 08)

Thao “Bag of Hammers”/We Brave Bee Stings and All (out 1/29…in C-ville 2/9!)
Vampire Weekend – “A-Punk” (s/t out 1/29…in DC 2/6 Rock’n’Roll Hotel)
Absentstar – “For God Sakes”/Sea Trials (out 4/15)

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – “Well”/1970 Trout Mask Replica (happy b’day Capt!)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 1-8-08
Show 44

10pm
Yo La Tengo – “Sugarcube”/1997 I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
Liam Finn – “Second Chance”/I’ll Be Lightning (out 1/22)

The Golden Dogs – “Dynamo”/Big Eye Little Eye
Sons & Daughters – “Gilt Complex”/This Gift (out 1/29)

The Blakes – “Don’t Bother Me”/The Blakes
Drive-By Truckers – “The Righteous Path”/Brighter Than Creation’s Dark (out 1/22)

Dead Confederate – “The Rat”/EP out now, full later in 08
Yo La Tengo – “The Race is on Again”/2006 I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – “Keep On Looking (Kenny Dope Remix)”/Scion promo sampler (in Cville 1/18!)
Kate Nash – “Foundations”/Made of Bricks

11pm
Chris Walla – “The Score”/Field Manual (out 1/29)
Nada Surf – “Whose Authority”/Lucky (out 2/5)
Yo La Tengo – “Stockholm Syndrome”/1997 I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One

Kula Shaker – “Out on the Highway”/Strange Folk
Bob Mould – “The Silence Between Us”/District Line (out in Feb.) – thanks spinner.com!

Foreign Born – “Into Your Dream”/On the Wing Now
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – “Baltimore”/Real Emotional Trash (out 3/18) Janet Weiss now on drums!

Emma Pollock – “Paper & Glue”/Watch the Fireworks
Happy Chichester – “Lost Connection”/Lovers Come Back

Jose Gonzalez – “Killing For Love”/In Our Nature
Miracle Fortress – “Hold Your Secrets To Your Heart”/s/t
Caribou – “She’s The One”/Andorra

Yo La Tengo - “Little Eyes”/2003 Summer Sun
Rilo Kiley – “Silver Lining”/Under the Blacklight (happy 32nd b’day to the love of my life, Jenny Lewis :)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 12-18-07
Show 43 (Top 25 Fav albums of the year + Joy Division CD prizepack giveaways!)

Honorable mention: C’ville’s own Sarah White – “Edification”/White Light (Antenna Farm)
technically a late 06 release, but she won an intl songwriting award in 07!

25. Blonde Redhead – “Spring and By Summer Fall”/23 (4AD)
24. Willy Mason – “We Can Be Strong”/If The Ocean Gets Rough (Astralwerks)
23. The National – “Mistaken For Strangers”/Boxer (Beggars Banquet)
22. Bald Eagle – “Rodents of Unusual Size”/Hot Shoulders (Emergency Umbrella)
21. Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings – “Keep on Looking”/100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone)
20. Foo Fighters – “Summer’s End”/Echoes Silence Patience & Grace (Roswell/RCA/Sony BMG)
19. Modest Mouse – “We’ve Got Everything”/Before the Ship Even Sank (Epic/Sony BMG)
18. Feist – “I Feel It All”/The Reminder (Cherrytree/Interscope/Polydor/Universal)
17. Via Audio – “Presents”/Say Something (SideCho)
16. Bettye Lavette -“Before the Money Came (The Battle of Bettye Lavette)”/The Scene of the Crime (ANTI-/Epitaph)
15. Patti Smith – “Pastime Paradise”/Twelve (Columbia/Sony BMG)
14. LCD Soundsystem – “All My Friends”/Sound of Silver (Capitol/EMI)
13. Arcade Fire – “The Well and the Lighthouse”/Neon Bible (Merge)
12. Rilo Kiley – “Under the Blacklight”/title track (Warner Bros.)
11. Spoon – “Rhthm & Soul”/Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)
10. PJ Harvey – “White Chalk”/title track (Island Def Jam/Universal)
9. Stars – “Midnight Coward”/In Our Bedroom After the War (Arts & Crafts International)
8. Avett Brothers – “Paranoia In B-flat Major”/Emotionalism (Ramseur)
7. Radiohead – “Jigsaw Falling Into Place”/In Rainbows (interwebs)
6. John Doe – “Unforgiven”/A Year In the Wilderness (w/ Aimee Mann) (Yep Roc/Redeye)
5. Maria Taylor – “Clean Getaway”/Lynn Teeter Flower (Saddle Creek)
4. Cloud Cult – “Chemicals Collide”/The Meaning of 8 (Earthology)
3. White Stripes – “Conquest”/Icky Thump (Warner Bros.)
2. The Hives – “Return the Favour”/The Black & White Album (A&M)
1. Chittlin’ – “White Lies”/title track (independent) CD blew me away after barely being able to hear her open for a packed Avett Bros. show in Cville this year! http://myspace.com/chittlin

Honorable Mention
Bat For Lashes - out-Bjorked Bjork, Siouxsied-Siouxsie & almost out PJ Harvey’d PJH!
Shearwater - came out in 06, but if it hadn’t been re-issued with extra tracks in 07, I never woulda known about it…these guys could totally take Okkervil River!
Magnet – Sade meets Feist, from a dude that plays a zillion instruments
New Pornographers – needed less Dan and more Neko
Caribou – another one-man show, great but too Haight-Ashbury on cd compared to pummeling live show
Miracle Fortress – another one-man epic, only a couple trying-too-hard-to-be Brian Wilson duds
Emma Pollock – former member of The Delgados’ very mature sound - very close to being #25!!
Foreign Born – nice combo of Echo & The Bunnymen & Jesus & Mary Chain (too bad for them the latter is back together)
Shout Out Louds – if Bright Eyes could actually write pop songs
Sarah Blasko – cross between Eisley & Tori Amos, or what I wanted each of their latest to sound like
Jose Gonzalez – very thoughtful, intense songs…just a little too similar to what he’s done before
White Rabbits – ex-Missouri pals make good! Letterman, Glastonbury & Lollapalooza appearances well-deserved…

Other 07 highlights below….

Sweet EPs
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals
Wild Sweet Orange
The Bird & The Bee
Flight of the Conchords
Nico Vega
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Sweet Soundtracks
I’m Not There
Once
Spiderman 3
The Hottest State
Into The Wild

Sweet benefits
The Cake Sale
Instant Karma
Causes 1: Darfur

Sweet tributes
Fats Domino
Joni Mitchell
The Band

Sweet Best Ofs
Afghan Whigs
Frank Black
Jeff Buckley
Joy Division re-issues

Sweet artists I recorded/interviewed in the Corner Lounge!
Rogue Wave
Sea Wolf
Maria Taylor
Gomez
Ian Ball
Cowboy Junkies
Mute Math
Scott Matthews
G Love
Amos Lee
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Just to name a few…
…not to mention phone interviews with Mick Jones of Carbon/Silicon and John from They Might Be Giants!

Happy Holidays & New Year & thanks for listening!!!
Sweatman

WCNR Brighten the Corners 12-11-07
Show 42 (Best singles of the year + Oasis DVD giveaways!)

10pm

*Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova – “Falling Slowly”/Once OST
*Eef Barzelay – “I Love the Unknown”/Rocket Science OST
*-both released before 07, got new life on soundtracks this year

(ok, start counting 25 from here, no particular order, just went for the smoothest segues :)

Eddie Vedder w/ Corin Tucker – “Hard Sun”/Into the Wild OST
John Doe – “The Golden State”(w/ Kathleen Edwards)/A Year in the Wilderness

Willy Mason – “Save Myself”/If The Ocean Gets Rough
Keren Ann – “Lay Your Head Down”/Keren Ann

JJ Grey & Mofro – “War”/Country Ghetto
Winterpills – “Broken Arm”/The Light Divides

Queens of the Stone Age – “Sick Sick Sick”/Era Vulgaris
Noisettes – “Scratch Your Name”/What’s the Time, Mr. Wolf?
Paramore – “Misery Business”/Riot!

White Rabbits – “The Plot”/Fort Nightly
Cribs – “Men’s Needs”/Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever

11pm

Siouxsie – “Into A Swan”/Mantaray 10/2
Bjork – “Earth Intruders”/Volta

Charlotte Gainsbourg – “The Songs that We Sing”/5:55
Maria Taylor – “A Good Start”/Lynn Teeter Flower

Band of Horses – “Is There A Ghost”/Cease to Begin
Pinback – “From Nothing to Nowhere”/Autumn of the Seraphs

Wilco – “What Light”/Sky Blue Sky
Brandi Carlile – “The Story”/The Story
Mute Math – “Typical”/Mute Math
The Hives – “Tick Tick Boom”/The Black & White Album

Tegan&Sara – “Back in Your Head”/The Con
Fujiya & Miyagi – “Ankle Injuries”/Transparent Things
Radiohead – “Bodysnatchers”/In Rainbows
Flight of the Concords – “Business Time”/The Distant Future

Very Honorable Mention (see also best of year “so far” show back in July!)

(yep, another 25, would’ve been a great show too :)

Robert Plant/Alison Krauss “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)”
The Killers “Shadowplay”
Iggy & The Stooges “My Idea of Fun”
Black Francis “Threshold Apprehension” and “Captain Pasty” (tie)
Dinosaur Jr. “Been There All The Time”
Emma Pollock “Acid Test”
The Cliks “Oh Yeah”
Stephen Marley “Hey Baby” (w/ Mos Def)
UNKLE “Burn My Shadow” (w/ Ian Astbury)
Rogue Wave “Lake Michigan”
Sons & Daughters “Gilt Complex”
Arctic Monkeys “Brianstorm”
The Bird & The Bee “So You Say”
Sigur Ros “Hjomalind”
Carbon/Silicon “The News”
Iron & Wine “Boy With A Coin”
The National “Mistaken For Strangers”
Mystery Jets “Diamonds in the Dark”
Via Audio “Presents”
Postmarks “Goodbye (James Iha remix)”
The Electric Soft Parade “If That’s The Case, Then I Don’t Know”
Ron Sexsmith “All In Good Time”
Flaming Lips – “I was Zapped by…” from Good Luck Chuck soundtrack
Shout Out Louds “Tonight I Have To Leave It”
Two Gallants “Despite What You’ve Been Told”

(just cuz something was on this show doesn’t mean it WON’t or WILL be on next week’s show…what, no Spoon, Stars, Rilo Kiley, Arcade Fire, White Stripes, etc.? Songs from Top 25 albums next week…I reserve the right to rectify any of these selections with things I may have overlooked or had a change of heart about in the 1st couple of shows of 08, stay tuned!)

p.s. There are certainly plenty of places in the blogosphere to discover the next “it” band, but my extensive search through many of the most touted sites hasn’t led me to much that I’ve gotten really passionate about (this year anyway)…it’s certainly expanded my horizons and kept me on my toes as to what young kids are getting into, and a lot of it is pretty good, but I guess I’m showing my age or maybe it’s a function of bloggers listening through crappy computer speakers or just seeing how gullible their readership is (what’s power if you don’t test it out once in a while?) or the insular listening experience of an iPod (with headphones on, of course), but a lot of what I read a lot of hype about, I just say, I’d rather listen to ________ or wow, that’s just not good at all. Maybe that’s the problem…too many people are reading about music and not listening. Just a thought. OK, I’m done ranting. Quit reading! Thanks for listening! My choices are no better than anyone else’s. But hopefully they’ll lead you to music you too can enjoy as much as I did this year. That’s what makin’ lists is about, to me anyway. Cheers! And happy 08! Oh wait! Tune in next week…we’ll have Joy Division giveaways! Because what says happy holidays better than the Joy Division collection?!

WCNR Brighten the Corners 12-4-07
Show 41

10pm

True Believers – “The Rain Won’t Help You When It’s Over”/1986 (Alejandro E just played C-ville!)
The Libertines – “Can’t Stand Me Now (edit)”/The Best Of:A Time For Heroes
Idlewild – “Little Discourage”/Scottish Fiction: Best of 97-07

Kathleen Edwards – “Cheapest Key”/new cd in March
The Blakes – “Don’t Bother Me”/s/t

Bloc Party – “Rhododendrous”/Causes 1: Darfur
Bloc Party – “Flux”/A Weekend in the City re-release

Neon Neon – “Raquel”/The Raquel EP (full in 08)
Sons & Daughters – “Gilt Complex”/This Gift (late January)
Holy F#*! – “Lovely Allen”/LP
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West Indian Girl – “To Die in L.A.”/4th & Wall
Bat For Lashes – “What’s A Girl To Do?”/Fur & Gold
Grizzly Bear – “He Hit Me (and it felt like a kiss)”/Friend EP

11pm

Viva Voce – “Lesson No. 1”/new re-issue of The Heat Can Melt Your Brain
Tulsa – “Shaker”/I Was Submerged
Vampire Weekend – “Mansard Roof”/title track (ep)
Yo La Tengo – “Little Eyes”/Summer Sun 2003 (back in C-ville 1/9!)

The National – “Apartment Story”/Boxer
Nicole Atkins - “The Way It Is”/Neptune City
Cary Brothers - “If You Were Here”/Who You Are

Death Cab for Cutie – “World Shut Your Mouth”/Causes 1: Darfur
Spoon – “Rhthm & Soul (middle version)”/Causes 1: Darfur
Travis – “Gimme Some Truth”/Causes 1: Darfur
(for more on this new benefit cd, go to http://www.waxploitation.com/2007/causes.html)
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Richard Hawley – “Serious”/Lady’s Bridge
Sigur Ros – “Hljómalind”/Hvarf/Heim
M. Ward w/ Vic Chesnutt & Howe Gelb – “Way It Goes”/Por Vida: Alejandro Escovedo tribute/benefit
Calexico – “Wave”/Por Vida: Alejandro Escovedo tribute/benefit (2004)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 11-27-07
Show 40
10pm

Cary Brothers - “If You Were Here”/Who You Are (in C-ville tonight w/ Ben Lee)
The Bens (Lee, Kweller, Folds) – “Wicked Little Town”/Wig in a Box tribute to Hedwig & The Angry Inch 2003
Jeff Tweedy – “Simple Twist of Fate”/I’m Not There OST

Toubab Krewe – “Devil Woman”/s/t (in Cville, Corner Lounge 11/30)
BAD II - “Rush”/The Globe 1991 (Mick Jones interview in Corner Lounge 3pm 11/30!)
Dr. Dog – “Heart It Races”/Architecture in Helsenki cover (promo-only?)
White Rabbits – “I Used To Complain Now I Don’t”/Fort Nightly

CSS – “Music Is My Hot Hot Sex”/2006
Hives – “Won’t Be Long”/ The Black & White Album

Chuck Prophet – “Freckle Song”/Soap and Water
Nicole Atkins - “The Way It Is”/Neptune City

The National – “Apartment Story”/Boxer
Sigur Ros – “Hljómalind”/Hvarf/Heim
Thurston Moore – “Fri/End”/Trees Outside the Academy

11pm

Richard Hawley – “Serious”/Lady’s Bridge
Soulsavers (feat. Mark Lanegan) – “Revival”/It’s Not the Way You Fall It’s the Way You Land

Eisley – “A Sight To Behold”/Combinations
The Kin – “New Day”/Rise and Fall (back in C-ville 12/3!)

Sons & Daughters – “Gilt Complex”/This Gift (late January)
Louis XIV – “Guilt By Association”/new cd in late Jan. ‘08
Bloc Party – “Flux”/A Weekend in the City re-release
Shiny Toy Guns – “Rainy Monday”/We Are Pilots
Neon Neon – “Raquel”/The Raquel EP (full in 08)

The Blakes – “Don’t Bother Me”/s/t
Minipop – “Like I Do”/A New Hope
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Greyboy All-Stars – “How Glad I Am”/What Happened To Television? (w/ The Living Sisters)
Band of Horses – “No One’s Gonna Love You”/Cease To Begin
The Dears – “You and I (are a Gang of Losers)”/Gang of Losers 2006

Stars – “Division”/In Our Bedroom After the War B-side

WCNR Brighten the Corners 11-20-07
Show 39
The “I’m not even supposed to be here today!” edition…

10pm
Regina Spektor – “Ghost of Corporate Future”/Soviet Kitsch 2005 (ppd in Richmond-new date 12/10)
The Swell Season – “Drown Out”/self-titled 2006? (great show in DC 11/18!)
Foreign Born – “Into Your Dream”/On The Wing Now

Tulsa – “Shaker”/I Was Submerged
Rogue Wave – “Lake Michigan”/Asleep At Heaven’s Gate
The Killers – “Tranquilize”/Sawdust (w/ Lou Reed)
Victoria Williams – “Crazy Mary”/120 Minutes Live 1998 (w/ Lou Reed)

Wild Sweet Orange – “Be Careful (What You Want)”/The Whale EP
Shout Out Louds – “Suit Yourself”/Our Ill Wills

Sons & Daughters – “Gilt Complex”/This Gift (late January)
Mark Ronson – “Oh My God”/Version (feat. Lily Allen)
Lupe Fiasco – “Superstar”/(feat. Matthew Santos)

Les Savy Fav – “The Equestrian”/Let’s Stay Friends
Love As Laughter – “Temptation Island”/Sea To Shining Sea 2001

11pm
Hives – “Try It Again!”/ The Black & White Album

CSS – “Music Is My Hot Hot Sex”/2006
Art in Manila – “Our Addicitons”/Set the Woods on Fire (Orenda Fink)
Carbon/Silicon – “The News”/The Last Post (Mick Jones interview in Corner Lounge 3pm 11/30!)

Tim Williams – “Novel”/When Work Is Done
Dandy Warhols – “Bohemian Like You”/2000 (by request!)
The National – “Apartment Story”/Boxer

Cary Brothers - “Who You Are”/title track (in C-ville 11/27 with Ben Lee)
Ben Lee – “I Wish I Was Him”/Young & Jaded EP 94/95

Nicole Atkins - “The Way It Is”/Neptune City
Richard Hawley – “Tonight The Streets Are Ours”/Lady’s Bridge
Carrie Akre – “Courage”/…Last The Evening
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Emma Pollock – “Acid Test”/acoustic Daytrotter session version!
Scott Matthews – “Passing Stranger”/title track
Sigur Ros – “Hljómalind”/Hvarf/Heim

Bat for Lashes – “What’s A Girl To Do?”/Fur & Gold
Bloc Party – “Flux”/new single out today
Mars Volta – “Wax Simulacra”/The Bedlam in Goliath (1/29/08)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 11-13-07
Show 38

The Hives – “T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S.”/The Black & White Album
Saul Williams – “Sunday Bloody Sunday”/The Inevitable Rise & Liberation of Niggy Tardust!

Louis XIV – “Guilt By Association”/new cd in late Jan. ‘08
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals – “This Is It (new version)”/Follow The Lights EP

The Thrills – “The Midnight Choir”/Teenager
The Good Life – “Keely Aimee”/Help Wanted Nights

Two Gallants – “Despite What You’ve Been Told”/s/t
Soul Asylum – “Barstool Blues”/The Bridge 1989 tribute to Neil Young (turned 62 11/12)

Neil Young – “Dirty Old Man”/Chrome Dreams II
Man Man – “Van Helsing Boombox”/Six Demon Bag (in Cville 11/19)

Steve Earle – “Way Down in the Hole”/Washington Square Serenade
Alison Moorer – “I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl”/Mockingbird 2/19

Lucinda Black Bear – “All She Wanted”/’Capo My Heart’ and other bear songs (in Cville 11/17)
Birdlips – “Some Kind of Death”/Cville’s own! at Outback Lodge 11/15 myspace.com/birdlipsmusic

The Bird & The Bee – “So You Say”/Please Clap Your Hands EP
Bat for Lashes – “I’m on Fire”/Fur & Gold bonus track (Springsteen cover)

11pm

Rogue Wave – “Lake Michigan”/Asleep At Heaven’s Gate

Marketa Irglova/Glen Hansard – “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere”/I’m Not There OST (The Swell Season @ Lincoln Theatre in DC 11/18)
Aimee Mann and Michael Penn – “Reason To Believe”/Badlands (Sub Pop Tribute to Nebraska 2000)

Cass McCombs – “That’s That”/Dropping the Writ (11/16 in C-ville!)
Pixies – “Winterlong”/The Bridge 1989 tribute to Neil Young

1990s – “You’re Supposed To Be My Friend”/Cookies
Art Brut – “I Will Survive”/It’s A Bit Complicated
The Hold Steady – “Against The Wind”/promo only
(all of the above 3 in Richmond 11/19)
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The Killers – “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town”/Sawdust
Cowboy Junkies – “State Trooper”/200 More Miles (Live 85-94)
Morcheeba – “Don’t Let It Bring You Down”/B-side of Tape Loop single 1996
Sigur Ros – Track 2/Hvarf/Heim

PJ Harvey – “The Piano”/White Chalk (new video has lots of detachable body parts)
King Missile - “Detachable Penis”/Happy Hour 1992
CSS – “Music Is My Hot Hot Sex”/2006
Hives – “Well All Right!”/ The Black & White Album

WCNR Brighten the Corners 11-06-07
Show 37

Rogue Wave – “Fantasies (Corner Lounge version)”/Asleep At Heaven’s Gate (in Cville tonight!)
Miracle Fortress – “Hold Your Secrets To Your Heart”/self-titled

Oasis – “Lord Don’t Slow Me Down”/new DVD out this month
The Hives – “Tick Tick Boom”/The Black & White Album 11/13
Bad Religion – “New Dark Ages”/happy 43rd Greg Graffin!
Soulsavers (feat. Mark Lanegan) – “Revival”/It’s Not the Way You Fall It’s the Way You Land

Sigur Ros – Track 2/Hvarf/Heim
Art in Manila – “Our Addicitons”/Set the Woods on Fire

Cowboy Junkies – “Ooh Las Vegas”/Return of the Grievous Angel 99 (G. Parsons would’ve been 61 11/5)
Iron & Wine w/ Calexico – “Dark Eyes”/I’m Not There OST

Cass McCombs – “That’s That”/Dropping the Writ (11/16 in C-ville!)
PJ Harvey – “White Chalk”/White Chalk
Nicole Atkins “Maybe Tonight”/Neptune City
Ween – “Shamemaker”/La Cucaracha

11pm

Band of Horses – “Islands on the Coast”/Cease to Begin
Bat for Lashes – “I’m on Fire”/Fur & Gold bonus track (Springsteen cover)

Nada Surf – “See These Bones”/Lucky (2/5)
Bright Eyes – “Trees Get Wheeled Away”/Lost Highway Lost & Found Vol. 1 (in Norfolk Saturday!)
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals – “This Is It (new version)”/Follow The Lights EP

Georgie James - “Need Your Needs”/Places
Via Audio – “Presents”/Say Something

Minipop – “Like I Do”/A New Hope
The Bird & The Bee – “So You Say”/Please Clap Your Hands EP

Electric 6 – “Rip It!”/I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being the Master
The Holloways – “Generator”/So This Is Great Britain?
Louis XIV – “Guilt By Association”/Slick Dogs and Ponies 1/29/08

Beck w/ Emmylou Harris – “Sin City”/ Return of the Grievous Angel 99
Sufjan Stevens – “Ring Them Bells”/I’m Not There OST

Saul Williams – “Sunday Bloody Sunday”/The Inevitable Rise & Liberation of Niggy Tardust!

WCNR Brighten the Corners 10-30-07
Show 36

Tom Waits – “What Keeps Mankind Alive”/Orphans 2006
Band of Horses – “Islands on the Coast”/Cease to Begin
Band of Horses – “Marry Song”/Cease to Begin (in town tonight!)
Tyler Ramsey – “These Days”/A Long Dream About Swimming Across the Sea (opening for B of H)

Thrice – “Digital Sea”/The Alchemy Index Vol. 2 (Water)
Shins - “Sealegs”/Wincing the Night Away
Sea Wolf – “Middle Distance Runner”/Leaves in the River (in Cville 11/1)

Eddie Vedder & The Million Dollar Bashers – “All Along the Watchtower”/I’m Not There OST
Stephen Malkmus & The Million Dollar Bashers – “Maggie’s Farm”/ I’m Not There OST

Nada Surf – “See These Bones”/Lucky (2/5)…in C-ville 11/1
The Kin – “New Day”/Rise and Fall
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Dave Gahan – “Kingdom”/Hourglass
Sigur Ros – Track 2/Hvarf/Heim

11pm

Jeff Tweedy – “Simple Twist of Fate”/I’m Not There OST
Charlotte Gainsbourg & Calexico – “Just Like A Woman”/I’m Not There OST

Killers – “Shadowplay”/Control OST, Sawdust B-sides collection
Mark Ronson (Feat. Lily Allen) “Oh My God”/Version (lame “version” of Lily in the video, though Mark!)
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The Cake Sale – “Some Surprise”/(go to thecakesale.com and help make trade fair!)
Nicole Atkins “Maybe Tonight”/Neptune City

Dust Galaxy – “Sun in Your Head”/s-t (Rob Garza from Thievery Corp.!)
Bob Mould – “180 Rain”/Modulate 2002 (in Cville 11/8 at Gravity)
Bloc Party – “Flux”

Howe Gelb – “That’s How Things Get Done”/Sno Angel Like You 2006 (in Cville 11/2)
Soulsavers (feat. Mark Lanegan) – “Revival”/It’s Not the Way You Fall It’s the Way You Land
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World Party – “Ship of Fools”/Best In Show – Best Of out today
Smiths – “Panic”/Johnny Marr 44 tomorrow, Moz in DC Friday!
Oasis – “Lord Don’t Slow Me Down”/new DVD out 11/9

Tom Waits – “Children’s Story”/Orphans 2006

WCNR Brighten the Corners 10-23-07
Show 35

10pm hour

Electric 6 – “Rip It!”/I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being the Master (take that, Spoon and Radiohead for best album title of the year!)
Ween – “Shamemaker”/La Cucaracha

Mute Math – “Chaos (Corner Lounge version)”
Ian Ball (from Gomez) – “Failure (Corner Lounge version)”/Who Goes There (10/30)
The Kin – “Together (Corner Lounge version)” – in C-ville 10/27,28

Carbon/Silicon – “The News”/The Last Post
Stars – “Take Me To The Riot”/In Our Bedroom After the War
Soulsavers (feat. Mark Lanegan) – “Revival”/It’s Not the Way You Fall It’s the Way You Land

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead – “Baudelaire”/Source Tags & Codes 2002
Siouxsie – “Into A Swan”/Mantaray

Bald Eagle – “Rodents of Unusual Size”/Hot Shoulders (in C-ville 10/23 – sign the online petition to make them the official band of Colbert Nation!)
Thurston Moore – “Fri/End”/Trees Outside the Academy

Bloc Party – “Flux”
Killers – “Shadowplay”/Sawdust (11/13)
Polysics “My Sharona”/Polysics or Die!!!! Vista

11pm hour

Nada Surf – “See These Bones”/Lucky (2/5)…in C-ville 11/1
Band of Horses – “Is There A Ghost”/Cease to Begin (in Cville 10/30)
Tyler Ramsey – “These Days”/A Long Dream About Swimming Across the Sea (opening for B of H)

Winterpills – “Broken Arm”/The Light Divides (in C-ville 10/31…free show w/ Ryan Shaw, Alt. Routes!)
Radiohead – “All I Need”/In Rainbows

South – “Here On In”/From Here On In 2002
Dave Gahan – “Kingdom”/Hourglass
New Pornographers – “All The Things That Go To Make Heaven And Earth”/Challengers (10/27 in DC)

Cass McCombs – “That’s That”/Dropping the Writ (11/16 in C-ville!)
Joe Henry – “Time Is A Lion”/Civilians

Mary Gauthier – “Before You Leave”/Between Daylight and Dark (in C-ville 10/24)
Matt Pond PA – “It’s Not So Bad At All”/Last Light
The Holloways – “Generator”/So This Is Great Britain?

WCNR Brighten the Corners 10-16-07
Show 34

10pm hour

Radiohead – “All I Need”/In Rainbows
Buck Brothers – “Girls, Skirts, Boots, Bikes”/Me
Polysics – “Electric Surfin’ Go Go”/Polysics or Die!!!! Vista

Shout Out Louds – “Man on the Moon”/Stereogum.com tribute to R.E.M.’s Automatic for the People
R.E.M. – “Cuyahoga (live)”/R.E.M. Live
Wilco – “Airline to Heaven (live)”/Kicking Television: Live in Chicago (in C-ville 10/20)

The Thrills – “The Midnight Choir”/Teenager
Pipettes – “Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me”/We Are the Pipettes

Caribou – “She’s the One”/Andorra (excellent show last week in C-ville!)
Captain Beefheart – “Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles”/1972 (& Big Lebowski OST!)

PJ Harvey – “White Chalk”/White Chalk
Via Audio – “Presents”/Say Something
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Fiery Furnaces – “Ex-Guru”/Widow City
New Young Pony Club – “The Bomb”/Fantastic Playroom

11pm hour

Radiohead – “Nude”/In Rainbows
Carbon/Silicon – “The News”/The Last Post
Cat Power – “Nude as the News”/1996 (was awesome in Norfolk 10/14!)

Cowboy Junkies – “Brand New World”/At the End of Paths Taken (in C-ville 10/23)
New Pornographers – “All The Things That Go To Make Heaven And Earth”/Challengers

Bald Eagle – “Rodents of Unusual Size”/Hot Shoulders (in C-ville 10/23 – sign the online petition to make them the official band of Colbert Nation!)
Eisley – “A Sight To Behold”/Combinations (in C-ville 10/20 with MuteMath)
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Toots & The Maytals – “Light U Light”/Light Your Light (in C-Ville 10/18)
Matt Pond PA – “Last Light”/Last Light
Stars – “Midnight Coward”/In Our Bedroom After the War

Mike Doughty – “27 Jennifers”/Golden Delicious (out 1/22)
Robert Pollard – “Current Desperation (Angels Speak of Nothing)”/Coast To Coast Carpet of Love

WCNR Brighten the Corners 10-9-07
Show 33

10pm hour

Jason Isbell – “Brand New Kind of Actress”/Sirens of the Ditch (in town tonight!)
Band of Horses – “Is There A Ghost”/Cease to Begin 10/9 (in Cville 10/30)
Warm in the Wake – “She’d Never Seen It”/American Prehistoric (in C-ville 10/16)

Elvis Costello – “Beautiful”/House, M.D. TV soundtrack (Christina Aguilera cover)
Bat for Lashes – “I’m on Fire”/Fur & Gold bonus track (Springsteen cover)
Killers – “Shadowplay”/Sawdust (out Nov. 13th - Joy Division cover)
Robert Pollard – “The Killers”/Standard Gargoyle Decisions
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Dashboard Confessional – “Thick As Thieves”/The Shade of Poison Trees
Film School – “Two Kinds”/Hideout

Emma Pollock – “Acid Test”/Watch the Fireworks (opening for New Pornog. in DC late Oct.)
Enon – “Mirror on You”/Grass Geysers…Carbon Clouds
Sia – “Day Too Soon”/Some People Have REAL Problems (out in Nov.?)

Two Gallants – “Despite What You’ve Been Told”/s/t
Bettye Lavette – “You Don’t Know Me At All”/The Scene of the Crime

11pm hour

The Donnas – “Don’t Wait Up For Me”/Bitchin’ (cd giveaway!)
Flaming Lips – “I Was Zapped By the Lucky Super Rainbow (Corner edit)/Good Luck Chuck OST
Cloud Cult – “Mr. Tambourine Man”/Live at KEXP Vol. 3 (how can they not be playing Echo Project???)
The Cake Sale – “Some Surprise”/(go to thecakesale.com and help make trade fair!)
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Via Audio – “Presents”/Say Something
Caribou – “Melody Day”/Andorra (in C-ville 10/10)

The National – “Apartment Story”/Boxer
David Gahan – “Kingdom”/Hourglass (out 10/23)
PJ Harvey – “White Chalk”/White Chalk (happy 38th!)
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Pipettes – “Pull Shapes”/We Are the Pipettes
Buck Brothers – “Girls, Skirts, Boots, Bikes”/Me
The Hives – “Tick Tick Boom”/The Black & White Album (out in Nov.)

Richard Hawley – “Tonight the Streets Are Ours”/Lady’s Bridge
The Only Ones - “Another Girl, Another Planet”/1978

WCNR Brighten the Corners 10-2-07
Show 32

10pm hour

PJ Harvey – “The Devil”/White Chalk
Pinback – “Good To Sea”/Autumn of the Seraphs (in Cville 10/4)
The Cake Sale – “Some Surprise”/s/t

Vic Chesnutt – “Warm”/North Star Deserter
Liz Durrett – “Knives at the Wall”/The Mezzanine
Radiohead – “Knives Out”/Amnesiac 2001 (I prepaid $7 for the new Radiohead tracks avail. next week fyi)

Magnet – “The Gospel Song”/The Simple Life
Lucinda Williams – “Honey Chile”/Goin’ Home A Tribute To Fats Domino
Warm in the Wake – “She’d Never Seen It”/American Prehistoric (in C-ville 10/16)
Jason Isbell – “The Devil is My Running Mate”/Sirens of the Ditch (in C-ville 10/9)
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Caribou – “Melody Day”/Andorra (in C-ville 10/10)
The Hives – “Tick Tick Boom”/The Black & White Album (in C-ville 10/8 w/ Maroon 5)

David Gahan – “Kingdom”(Hourglass out 10/23)

11pm hour

Siouxsie – “Into A Swan”/Mantaray
Animal Collective – “Winter Wonderland”/Strawberry Jam

PJ Harvey – “White Chalk”/White Chalk
The Cake Sale – “Last Leaf”/s/t
Pinback – “From Nothing To Nowhere”/Autumn of the Seraphs (in Cville 10/4)
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Sarah White – “Sweetheart”/You’re It EP (C-ville’s own Int’l award-winning songwriter!)
Gillian Welch – “Wayside/Back In Time”/Soul Journey 2003
Chittlin’ – “Better Off”/White Lies

The Kin – “Together” (Corner Lounge version)
Scott Matthews – “Elusive” (Corner Lounge version)
Meiko – “Reasons To Love You” (Corner Lounge version)

Ingrid Michaelson – “The Way I Am”/ Girls & Boys (in C-ville 10/17 with Matt Nathanson)
Jose Gonzalez – “Teardrop”/In Our Nature
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The Good Life – “On the Picket Fence”/Help Wanted Nights

12am hour

Lemonheads – “Into Your Arms”/Come on Feel the Lemonheads 1993
Five O’Clock Heroes – “Turn It Up”/Bend to the Breaks

The Bird & The Bee – “So You Say”/Please Clap Your Hands EP
The Pipettes – “Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me”/We Are The Pipettes

The Donnas – “Don’t Wait Up For Me”/Bitchin’
Nico Vega – “Gravity”/No Child Left Behind EP

VHS or Beta – “Can’t Believe A Word”/Bring on the Comets
Pulp – “Disco 2000”/Different Class 1995

Eisley – “Invasion”/Combinations (in C-ville 10/20 with MuteMath)
Tiny Masters of Today – “Hologram World”/Bang Bang Boom Cake

Erin McKeown – “To The Stars”/Lafayette (in C-ville 10/7 with Joshua James)
Iron & Wine – “The Devil Never Sleeps”/Shepherd’s Dog

Two Gallants – “Despite What You’ve Been Told”/s/t
Band of Horses – “Is There A Ghost”/Cease to Begin 10/9 (in Cville 10/30)
Rogue Wave – “Lake Michigan”/Asleep At Heaven’s Gate

WCNR Brighten the Corners 9-25-07
Show 31 (all those with * - released today)

10pm hour

Flight of the Conchords – “Robots (Corner edit)”/s/t EP
Flaming Lips – “I Was Zapped By the Lucky Super Rainbow (Corner edit)/Good Luck Chuck OST
Ween – “Fiesta”/La Cucaracha (10/23)
Ween – “Take Me Away”/Chocolate & Cheese (happy 37th b’day Dean Ween!)

Chittlin’ – “I Miss You Two”/White Lies (Avett Bros sold-out show opener last week!)
Joni Mitchell – “Big Yellow Taxi ‘07”/Shine
*Nellie McKay – “Mother of Pearl”/Obligatory Villagers

*Matt Pond PA – “Taught to Look Away (with Neko Case)”/Last Light
Terra Diablo – “Setting Sun”/Deluge Songs
Black Francis – “Captain Pasty”/Bluefinger
*Steve Earle – “City of Immigrants”/Washington Square Serenade

*The Bird & The Bee – “So You Say”/Please Clap Your Hands EP
Band of Horses – “Is There A Ghost”/Cease to Begin 10/9 (in Cville 10/30)

*Devendra Banhart – “Lover”/Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
*Cave Singers – “Dancing On Our Graves”/Invitation Songs
*Two Gallants – “Despite What You’ve Been Told”/s/t

*Office – “Oh My”/A Night At the Ritz
Pinback – “From Nothing to Nowhere”/Autumn of the Seraphs (in Cville 10/4)

11pm hour

Kings of Leon – “My Party”/Because of the Times (Corner 1st bday bash 9/26)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – “Berlin”/Baby 81 (Corner 1st bday bash 9/26)
Simple Kid – “The TwentySomething”/Simple Kid 2 (also at bday bash!)

*Magnet – “The Gospel Song”/The Simple Life
Drug Rug – “Day I Die”/s/t

*Iron & Wine – “Boy With A Coin”/Shepherd’s Dog
*Jose Gonzalez – “Down the Line”/In Our Nature

*Georgie James - “Need Your Needs”/Places
Eddie Vedder – “Hard Sun”/Into the Wild OST
PJ Harvey – “When Under Ether”/White Chalk (10/2)

*Bettye Lavette – “You Don’t Know Me At All”/The Scene of the Crime
*Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings “100 Days 100 Nights”/title track
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*Stars – “The Night Starts Here”/In Our Bedroom After the War
Thurston Moore – “The Shape Is In A Trance”/Trees Outside The Academy
Neil Young – “Ordinary People”/Chrome Dreams II (ok, so it was after midnight…)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 9-18-07
Show 30

10pm hour
Corner Lounge interview with The Kin…2 songs “Together” and “The Great Divide”
Stars – “Divison”/B-side from In Our Bedroom After the War

Kevin Drew (Broken Social Scene) – “Broke Me Up”/Spirit If… (out today)
Thurston Moore – “The Shape Is In A Trance”/Trees Outside The Academy (out today - thanks to aquariumdrunkard.com!)

Black Francis – “Captain Pasty”/Bluefinger
Office – “Oh My”/A Night At the Ritz

Bob Dylan – “Most Likely…(Mark Ronson Re-Version)”/Dylan (10/30)
Glen Hansard– “Trying To Pull Myself Away” (Once OST)
Taken By Trees – “Lost and Found”/Open Field (Victoria from “Young Folks!”)

(Once/PB&J/Gossip 12’’ vinyl giveaway!)

The Gossip – “Listen Up”/Standing In the Way of Control 2006
Ben Lee – “What Would Jay-Z Do?”/Ripe
Against Me! – “New Wave”/title track

11pm hour
Bad Religion – “Leaders and Followers”/21st Century Digital Boy b-side 1994
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – “Berlin”/Baby 81 (Corner 1st bday bash 9/26)

Simple Kid – “The TwentySomething”/Simple Kid 2 (also at bday bash!)
Pinback – “From Nothing to Nowhere”/Autumn of the Seraphs (in Cville 10/4)
Band of Horses – “Is There A Ghost”/Cease to Begin 10/9 (in Cville 10/30)

Emma Pollock – “Acid Test”/Watch The Fireworks
New Pornographers – “Failsafe”/Challengers (in DC 10/27 with Emma Pollock)
PJ Harvey – “When Under Ether”/White Chalk (9/25)

Jesca Hoop – “Summertime”/Kismet (out today)
Art in Manila – “Our Addicitons”/Set the Woods on Fire (w/ Rilo Kiley in DC 9/26,27)

Georgie James - “Need Your Needs”/Places (9/25)
Shout Out Louds – “You Are Dreaming”/Our Ill Wills
Vic Chestnutt – “Sponge”/West of Rome 1992 (in Cville 9/30)

Avett Brothers – “Will You Return?”/Emotionalism (in Cville 9/21)
Dead Kennedys – “Let’s Lynch the Landlord”/1980 Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

WCNR Brighten the Corners 9-11-07
Show 29

10pm hour

UNKLE – “Chemistry”/War Stories
Bald Eagle – “What’s All This Brew-Ha-Ha?”/Hot Shoulders (playing C-Ville 10/23)
Kinski – “Crybaby Blowout”/Down Below It’s Chaos
Caribou – “Melody Day”/Andorra (in C-ville 10/10 with Born Ruffians)

Viva Voce – “Alive with Pleasure”/The Heat Can Melt Your Brain 2004 (opened for Spoon at MusicFestNW in Portland last week)
Cat Power – “It’s Alright To Fail”/The Hottest State OST (MFNW)
Rilo Kiley – “Under the Blacklight”/Under the Blacklight (MFNW)

Pinback – “From Nothing to Nowhere”/Autumn of the Seraphs (out today, in Cville 10/4)
Band of Horses – “Is There A Ghost”/Cease to Begin 10/9
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Manu Chao – “Rainin In Paradize”/La Radiolina
Girl Talk – “Friday Night”/Night Ripper 2006 (sold-out C-Ville show 9/20) (MFNW)

Bettye Lavette – “You Don’t Know Me At All”/The Scene of the Crime 9/25

11pm hour

Black Francis – “Captain Pasty”/Bluefinger (out today)
Siouxsie – “Into A Swan”/Mantaray 10/2
My Bloody Valentine – “Only Shallow”/Loveless 1991
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The Like – “Release Me”/new song on their myspace page!
Robert Plant/Alison Krauss–“Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)”/Raising Sand (10/23)
Britt Daniel – “Bring It On Home To Me”/Bridging The Distance (Portland, OR covers)

Eddie Vedder w/ Corin Tucker – “Hard Sun”/Into the Wild (9/18)
Ryan Adams – “Everybody Knows”/Easy Tiger (2 shows in C-ville this week!)
Richmond Fontaine “Westward Ho”/13 Cities (another MFNW discovery!)

Warm in the Wake – “She’d Never Seen It”/American Prehistoric (back in C-Ville 10/16)
Patrick Watson – “Daydreamer”/Close To Paradise

Ben Lee – “Love Me Like The World is Ending”/Ripe (out 9/18) Happy 29th Ben!
Spacemen 3 – “The Sound of Confusion”/Taking Drugs to Make Music To Take Drugs To 1990

Ani DiFranco – “Milennium Theatre”/Canon - out today

WCNR Brighten the Corners 9-4-07
Show 28

10pm hour

Bettye Lavette – “Before the Money Came”/The Scene of the Crime 9/25
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings – “100 Days 100 Nights”/title track 9/25
Roman Carter – “Just A Litte Too Fast”/Never Slow Down 9/25
Prince – “Chelsea Rodgers”/Planet Earth

Oakley Hall – “Angela”/I’ll Follow You (in C-ville Friday)
Smog – “Cold Blooded Old Times”/1999 (Bill Callahan in town tonight!)
Scott Matthews – “Elusive”/Passing Stranger (9/29 free show in C-Ville!)
Bat For Lashes – “What’s A Girl To Do?”/Fur & Gold
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Klaxons – “Golden Skans”/Myths of the Near Future (won Mercury Prize a few hrs ago)
Siouxsie – “Into A Swan”/Mantaray 10/2
Eddie Vedder w/ Corin Tucker – “Hard Sun”/Into the Wild (9/18)

11pm hour

The Donnas – “Don’t Wait Up For Me”/Bitchin’ 9/18
Joan Jett – “A, C, D, C”/Sinner (Sweet cover)
Guided By Voices – “Glad Girls”/Isolation Drills 2001
Imperial Teen – “Shim Sham”/The Hair The TV The Baby & the Band

Ani DiFranco – “Both Hands (new version)”/Canon 9/11
The Kin – “Blue On Blue”/Rise and Fall 10/9

Meiko – “Piano Song”/new cd out today (iTunes), in C-ville 9/11 w/ B. Dennen
Band of Horses – “Is There A Ghost”/Cease to Begin 10/9

UNKLE – “Burn My Shadow (feat.Ian Astbury)”/War Stories
Sugar – “Helpless”/1992 (Bob Mould in C-ville 11/8)
Pinback – “From Nothing to Nowhere”/Autumn of the Seraphs (out 9/11, in Cville 10/4)
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Rilo Kiley – “Silver Lining”/Under the Blacklight (seeing them in Portland Friday!)
Bedouin Soundclash – “Walls Fall Down”/Street Gospels
Band of Bees – “(This is for the) Better Days”/Octupus
Minutemen – “Ain’t Talkin Bout Love”/”Little Man With A Gun in His Hand”/1983 (Happy 49th b’day George Hurley!)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 8-28-07
Show 27

10pm hour

Band of Horses – “Is There A Ghost”/Cease to Begin (thanks MySpace!)
Robert Plant/Alison Krauss–“Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)”/Raising Sand (10/23)
The Features – “Contrast”/Contrast EP 2006 (LOVE this band!!)
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Northern State – “Better Already (EDIT)”/Can I Keep This Pen? (out today)
Beck – “Timebomb (EDIT)”/summertime single
The Hives – “Tick Tick Boom”/The Black & White Album (10/9)

Ben Lee – “Love Me Like The World is Ending”/Ripe (out 9/18)
Eef Barzelay – “I Love the Unknown”/Rocket Science OST

Eulogies – “One Man”/s/t (9/11)
Joe Henry – “Time is A Lion”/Civilians (9/11)
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Waterboys – “Everybody Takes A Tumble”/Book of Lightning
The Wrens – “Everyone Chooses Sides”/The Meadowlands 2003

11pm hour

Lyle Lovett & His Large Band – “Up in Indiana”/It’s Not Big It’s Large (out today)
Steve Earle – “City of Immigrants”/Washington Square Serenade (9/25)
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Iron & Wine – “Boy With A Coin”/Shepherd’s Dog (9/25)
Eddie Vedder w/ Corin Tucker – “Hard Sun”/Into the Wild OST (9/18)

Ben Kweller –“Jerry Falwell Destroyed Earth”/Future Soundtrack for America benefit cd
Eisley – “Invasion”/Combinations (opening for Mute Math in C-ville 10/20)

Okkervil River – “Our Life is Not A Movie or Maybe”/The Stage Names
The Mendoza Line – “It Takes A Lot to Laugh, It Takes A Train to Cry”/30 Year Low
Evan Dando/Juliana Hatfield – “$1000 Wedding”/Return of the Grievous Angel (Gram Parsons tribute)
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New Pornographers – “Failsafe”/Challengers
Rilo Kiley – “Silver Lining”/Under the Blacklight
VHS or Beta – “Can’t Believe A Word”/Bring on the Comets (out today, in DC 9/1)

Jose Gonzalez – “Down the Line”/In Our Nature (out 9/25)

Tenacious D – “Wonderboy”/s/t 2001 (Happy 38th to Jack Black!)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 8-21-07
Show 26

10pm hour

Eef Barzelay – “I Love the Unknown”/Rocket Science OST
Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova – “Falling Slowly”/Once OST
Eddie Vedder w/ Corin Tucker – “Hard Sun”/Into the Wild OST (thanks Spinner.com)
Cat Power – “It’s Alright to Fail”/The Hottest State OST
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Rilo Kiley – “Under the Blacklight”/Under the Blacklight
New Pornographers – “Challengers”/Challengers
Okkervil River – “Unless It’s Kicks”/The Stage Names
Rogue Wave – “Lake Michigan”/Asleep at Heaven’s Gate (9/18)
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Kings of Leon – “True Love Way”/Because of the Times
Augie March – “One Crowded Hour”/Moo, You Bloody Choir
(both of the above are helping celebrate The Corner’s b’day month with Sept. shows!)

11pm hour

Ben Lee – “Love Me Like The World is Ending”/Ripe (out 9/18)
Ben Vaughn – “Jukebox Babe”/An Invitation to Suicide (tribute cd 1994)
Ben Kweller – “Commerce, TX”/Sha Sha (2002) (in C-Ville, Corner Lounge 8/26!)
Warm in the Wake – “She’d Never Seen It”/American Prehistoric (cd out 8/28, in Corner Lounge 8/22)
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Against Me! – “New Wave”/New Wave
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros – “Coma Girl”/2003 (would’ve been 55 today)

Josh Ritter – “Right Moves”(Corner Lounge version)/The Historical Conquests…
A Fine Frenzy – “Almost Lover”(Corner Lounge version)/One Cell in the Sea
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The Hives – “Tick Tick Boom”/The Black & White Album (10/9)
The Amps – “I Am Decided”/1995 (Kim Deal post-Pixies/Breeders, pre-rehab)
Imperial Teen – “Shim Sham”/The Hair The TV The Baby & the Band

Minus the Bear – “Knights”/Planet of Ice
PJ Harvey – “When Under Ether”/White Chalk (9/25)

The Avalanches – “Frontier Psychiatrist”/Since I Left You (2001)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 8-14-07 (Show 25)
~10pm hour~
Justice – “D.A.N.C.E.”
The Secret Handshake – “Summer of 98”
The Go! Team - “Grip Like A Vice”/Proof of Youth (out 9/11)
Northern State – “Better Already”/Can I Keep This Pen? (out 8/28)
Junior Senior – “Can I Get Get Get”/Hey Hey My My Yo Yo

Tegan&Sara – “Back in Your Head”/The Con
Polyphonic Spree – “Running Away”/The Fragile Army
The Brunettes – “Brunettes Against Bubblegum Youth”/Structure & Cosmetics

Sufjan Stevens – “Springfield, or Bobby Got A Shadfly Caught in his Hair”/2006
St. Vincent – “Now, Now”/Marry Me

Jesca Hoop – “Summertime”/Kismet (out 9/18)
Bat for Lashes – “Trophy”/Fur & Gold (Mercury Prize Nominee)
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White Rabbits – “I Used to Complain Now I Don’t”/Fort Nightly
Dr. Dog – “Worst Trip”/We All Belong
~11pm hour~
Tiny Masters of Today - “Hey, Mr. DJ”/Bang Bang Boom Cake (out 9/25)
Five O’clock Heroes – “Turn It Up”/Bend To the Breaks

New Pornographers – “All the Things That Go To Make Heaven & Earth”/Challengers 8/21 (Neko in town tomorrow with A Fine Frenzy opening for Rufus Wainwright!)
Neko Case – “Hold On, Hold On”/Fox Confessor Brings the Flood 2006
Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles – “The Day We Met”/Diamonds in the Dark

Warm in the Wake – “She’d Never Seen It”/American Prehistoric (cd out 8/28, in Corner Lounge 8/22)
The Kin – “Blue on Blue”/Rise and Fall

Manchestra Orchestra – “Wolves at Night”/I’m Like A Virgin Losing A Child
Dismemberment Plan – “What Do You Want Me To Say?”/1999

The Cinematic Orchestra – “Familiar Ground” (feat. Fontella Bass!)/Ma Fleur
Michelle Shocked – “Wade in the Water”/To Heaven U Ride
The Section Quartet – “Time Is Running Out”/Fuzzbox
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The Rentals – “Little Bit of You in Everything”/The Last Little Life EP
Josh Ritter – “Right Moves”/The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter (out 8/21, in Corner Lounge before opening for John Prine 8/18 Cville Pavillion)

Flight of the Concords – “The Most Beautiful Girl in the Room”/The Distant Future
Arcade Fire – “Wake Up”/Funeral 2004

WCNR Brighten the Corners 8-7-07
Show 24
10pm hour

Negativeland “Freedom’s Waiting” (Free 1993) (in Cville tonight!)
Pinback – “From Nothing to Nowhere”/Autumn of the Seraphs (out 9/11, in Cville 10/4)

Eisley – “Invasion”/Combinations (8/14) opening for Mute Math in C-ville (10/20)
Kings of Leon – “Slow Night, So Long” (2004)/CVille Pavillion 9/26 w/ BRMC

Josh Ritter – “Right Moves”/The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter (out 8/21, opening for John Prine 8/18 Cville Pavillion)
The Whigs – “Technology”/Give Em All A Big Fat Lip 05 (w/ Jason Isbell 10/9 C-ville)

Jose Gonzalez – “Down the Line”/In Our Nature (out Sept. 25)
Bat for Lashes – “Horse & I”/Fur & Gold (Mercury Prize Nominee)

New Pornographers – “All the Things That Go To Make Heaven & Earth”/Challengers 8/21
Iron & Wine – “Boy With A Coin”/Shepherd’s Dog (Sept. 25)
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The Section Quartet – “Such Great Heights”/Fuzzbox
Orba Squara – “Perfect Timing”/Sunshyness (iPhone song - 644 friends on myspace!)
Tegan&Sara – “Back in Your Head”/The Con

11pm hour

PJ Harvey – “When Under Ether”/White Chalk (9/25)
Grandaddy – “Crystal Lake” (The Sophtware Slump 2000)

Ben Lee – “Love Me Like The World is Ending”/Ripe (out 9/18)
Rilo Kiley – “Silver Lining”/Under the Blacklight (Aug. 21)

Editors – “An End Has A Start”/title track
Peter Bjorn & John – “Amsterdam”/Writer’s Block (great set at VFest!)
Buffalo Tom – “Bottom of the Rain”/3 Easy Pieces

Cribs – “Men’s Needs”/Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever
White Rabbits – “The Plot”/Fort Nightly (Black Cat DC w/ Cribs 8/11)

Bright Eyes – “Big Old House”/The Hottest State OST
Earlimart – “Answers & Questions”/Mentor Tormentor (out 8/21)
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VHS or Beta – “Can’t Believe A Word”/Bring on the Comets (Aug. 28, in DC 9/1)
Flight of the Concords – “Business Time”/The Distant Future

WCNR Brighten the Corners 7-31-07
Show 23 (Virgin Fest this weekend in Baltimore!!!)
10pm hour

Spoon – “Don’t Make Me A Target”/Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (at VFest)
TV on the Radio – “Staring at the Sun”/2003 (at VFest)

VHS or Beta – “Can’t Believe A Word”/Bring on the Comets (Aug. 28, in DC 9/1)
LCD Soundsystem – “Daft Punk is Playing at My House”/2005 (VFest)

Ben Lee – “Love Me Like The World is Ending”/Ripe (out 9/18)
Shout Out Louds – “Tonight I Have To Leave It”/EP (whoops, it’s Shout Out Out Out Out playing VFest!)
Earlimart – “Answers & Questions”/Mentor Tormentor (out 8/21)

Dead Rock West – Burning House of Love (opening for John Doe in Richmond)
John Doe – The Golden State/A Year in the Wilderness (at Capital Ale House Thursday)
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “10 x 10”/Is Is EP (VFest)
Rilo Kiley – “The Moneymaker”/Under the Blacklight (Aug. 21)

The Magic Numbers – “This Is A Song”/Those the Brokes
Beastie Boys – “Electric Worm”/The Mix-Up (VFest)

11pm hour

Shout Out Out Out Out – “Dude You Feel Electrical”/2006 (VFest)
Pinback – “From Nothing to Nowhere”/Autumn of the Seraphs (out 9/11, in Cville 10/4)

Eisley – “Invasion”/Combinations (8/14) opening for Mute Math in C-ville (Sat 10/20)
Nada Surf – “Inside of Love”/2002 (Nov. 1st w/ Sea Wolf in C-ville)

Josh Ritter – “Right Moves”/The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter (out 8/21, opening for John Prine 8/18 Cville Pavillion)
Josh Rouse – “Nice To Fit In”/Country Mouse, City House (7/17 digital, 7/31 cd)

Tegan & Sara – “Back in Your Head”/The Con
Once Soundtrack – “Falling Slowly”

Jose Gonzalez – “Down the Line”/In Our Nature (out Sept. 25)
Iron & Wine – “Boy With A Coin”/Shepherd’s Dog (Sept. 25)
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Black Angels – “Black Grease”/2006 (preceeded by hilarious Thomas Jefferson voicemail requesting it)
Bad Brains – “Pure Love”/Build A Nation (VFest)
Gogol Bordello – “Ultimate”/Super Taranta (on Letterman tonight!)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 7-24-07

10pm hour

Chemical Brothers – “All Rights Reversed” (w/ Klaxons)/We Are the Night
Daft Punk – “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger”/2001
Mark Ronson feat. The Daptone Horns – “God Put A Smile Upon Your Face”/Version
Postmarks – “Goodbye (James Iha remix)”/The Remixes EP

The Rentals “Little Bit of You In Everything”/The Last Little Life EP
Stars – “Midnight Coward”/In Our Bedroom After the War (Sept 25)

Pinback – “From Nothing to Nowhere”/Autumn of the Seraphs (out 9/11, in Cville 10/4)
Tegan & Sara – “Back in Your Head”/The Con (out today!)

Josh Ritter – “Right Moves”/The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter (out 8/21, in Cville 8/18 with John Prine)
Iron & Wine – “Boy With A Coin”/Shepherd’s Dog (Sept. 25)
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Down Boy”/Is Is EP
White Rabbits – “I Used to Complain Now I Don’t”/Fort Nightly
Manic Street Preachers – “Your Love Alone is Not Enough”/Send Away the Tigers
(w/ Nina Persson)

11pm hour

Spoon – “Black Like Me”/(backstage at Bonnaroo 07)
Rilo Kiley – “With Arms Outstretched”/2002
The National – “Mistaken for Strangers”/Boxer

Biffy Clyro – “Saturday Superhouse”/Puzzle
Editors – “An End Has A Start”/title track

Against Me! – “New Wave”/title track
1990s - “See You At the Lights”/Cookies out 7/31
Unkle - “Burn My Shadow” (feat. Ian Astbury)/War Stories

Meat Puppets - “Spit”/Rise to Your Knees
Kings of Leon – “California Waiting”/2003 (at Cville Pavillion 9/26 w/ BRMC)
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King Wilkie – “Wrecking Ball”/Low Country Suite
Hackensaw Boys – “Oh Girl (Corner Lounge version)”/cd version on new cd, Lookout!
The Avett Brothers – “I Would Be Sad”/Emotionalism (9/21 in C-ville!)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 7-17-07

10pm hour

1990s - “See You At the Lights”/Cookies out 7/31
Killing Joke - “Eighties” (1985)
Mike Watt w/ Eddie Vedder, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic - “Against the 70s” (1995)
The Dead 60s - “Riot Radio” (2004)

Meat Puppets - “Radio Moth”/Rise to Your Knees
Against Me - “Borne on the FM Waves of the Heart” (w/ Tegan Quin)/New Wave

Unkle - “Burn My Shadow” (feat. Ian Astbury)/War Stories
Mark Ronson – “Oh My God” (feat. Lily Allen)/Version

Spoon – “The Underdog”/Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
The National – “Mistaken for Strangers”/Boxer
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Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova – “Once”/Once Soundtrack
Midnight Movies “Hide Away”/Lion the Girl
My Brightest Diamond “Lucky”/Stereogum’s OKX tribute to OK Computer

11pm hour

The Rentals “Little Bit of You In Everything”/The Last Little Life EP
Frank Black – “You Ain’t Me”/ Frank Black 93-03
Buffalo Tom – “Bottom of the Rain”/Three Easy Pieces

John Doe – “The Golden State”(w/ Kathleen Edwards)/A Year in the Wilderness
Rilo Kiley – “The Moneymaker”/Under the Blacklight Aug. 21

Matt Pond PA “Reading”/If You Want Blood EP
The Hives – “Antidote”/Tyrannosaurus Hives 2004 (opening for Maroon 5! in October)
New York Dolls – “Dance Like A Monkey”/One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This 2006 (in DC Thursday)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “10 X 10”/Is Is EP
Stars – “The Night Starts Here”/In Our Bedroom After the War (Sept 25)

Iron & Wine – “Boy With A Coin”/Shepherd’s Dog (Sept. 25)
Suzanne Vega – “As You Are Now”/Beauty & Crime

The Cribs – “Men’s Needs”/Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever
White Rabbits – “The Plot”/Fort Nightly (on Letterman Thursday!)
Modest Mouse – “We’ve Got Everything”/We Were Dead… (by request)

WCNR Brighten the Corners 7-10-07 "Best of 07 – so far – show"

10pm hour

Stars – “The Night Starts Here”/In Our Bedroom After the War (Sept 25)
Feist – “I Feel It All”/The Reminder

Electric Soft Parade–“If That’s the Case Then I Don’t Know”/
No Need to Be Downhearted
Arctic Monkeys – “Brianstorm”/Favourite Worst Nightmare
Mystery Jets – “Diamonds in the Dark”/Zootime

Maria Taylor – “Lost Time” (live in the Corner Lounge 3/07)
Blonde Redhead – “Spring and By Summer Fall”/23

Stephen Marley – “Hey Baby” (w/ Mos Def)/Mind Control
Fujiya & Miyagi – “Ankle Injuries”/Transparent Things
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Ryan Adams – “Nervous Breakdown”/Rise Above Blag Flag tribute
(C-ville show tonight got postponed!)
Mark Ronson – “Valerie”(w/ Amy Winehouse)/Version
Patti Smith – “White Rabbit”/Twelve

White Rabbits – “The Plot”/Fort Nightly (on Letterman next week!)
Black Francis – “Threshold Apprehension”/Bluefinger due in Sept. after Frank Black 93-03 this summer

11pm hour

Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova – “Falling Slowly”/Once Soundtrack
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Sealings”/Spiderman 3

Dinosaur Jr – “Been There All The Time”/Beyond
Bloc Party – “Hunting for Witches”/A Weekend in the City
Noisettes – “Don’t Give Up”/What’s the Time, Mr. Wolf?

Spoon – “Rhthm & Soul”/Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – “Who Do You Love?”/Living with the Living
Foundry Field Recordings – “Buy/Sell/Trade”/Fallout Stations EP

Bjork – “Earth Intruders”/Volta
Paramore – “Misery Business”/Riot!
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John Doe – “The Golden State”(w/ Kathleen Edwards)/A Year in the Wilderness
The Avett Brothers – “Will You Return?”/Emotionalism

Charlotte Gainsbourg – “The Songs that We Sing”/5:55
Shearwater – “Seventy-Four, Seventy-Five”/Palo Santo: Expanded Edition

Cloud Cult – “Pretty Voice”/The Meaning of 8

And of course…in 2007 the would-be BTC stalwarts like Modest Mouse, Arcade Fire, Shins, Bright Eyes, White Stripes and Peter Bjorn & John pretty much crossed over into prime time, otherwise I would’ve done a 3rd hour featuring all of them!

WCNR Brighten the Corners 6-26-07

10pm hour

Metric – “Grow Up And Blow Away”/title track (just out today)
Matt Pond PA – “Reading”/If You Want Blood EP (out now, full out late Sept.)

Spoon – “The Ghost of You Lingers”/Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Jesca Hoop – “Summertime”/Kismet (out 9/18)

Ryan Adams – “Everybody Knows”/Easy Tiger (C-ville show in July is sold out!)
Mark Olson – “Clifton Bridge”/The Salvation Blues

Carla Bruni – “Those Dancing Days are Gone”/No Promises
Sun Kil Moon – “Tiny Cities Made of Ashes”/Tiny Cities (2005)
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Cary Brothers – “Who You Are”/Who You Are
Shout Out Louds – “Tonight I Have to Leave It”/EP out now, full in Sept.

Suzanne Vega – “Frank & Ava”/Beauty & Crime (out 7/17)
The Magic Numbers – “This Is a Song”/Those the Brokes
The Cribs – “Men’s Needs”/Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever (thanks myspace)

11pm hour

The Winter Sounds – “Windy City Nights”/Porcelain Empire
Sufjan Stevens – “Chicago”/Illinois (2005)

The Avett Brothers – “Will You Return?”/Emotionalism
Beastie Boys – “Off The Grid”/The Mix-Up (out today)

Garbage – “Tell Me Where It Hurts”/Absolute Garbage (late July)
Sea Wolf – “You’re A Wolf”/Get to the River Before It Runs Too Low EP
UNKLE – “Burn My Shadow”/War Stories

Black Francis – “Threshold Apprehension”/Bluefinger due in Sept. after Frank Black 93-03 this summer
John Doe – “Unforgiven”(w/ Aimee Mann)/A Year in the Wilderness
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Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova – “Falling Slowly”/Once Soundtrack
White Rabbits – “The Plot”/Fort Nightly
Foundry Field Recordings – “Fallout Stations”/Fallout Stations EP

Mark Ronson – “Valerie”(w/ Amy Winehouse)/Version
Shivaree – “Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough”/Tainted Love: Mating Calls & Fight Songs

WCNR Brighten the Corners 6-19-07 The “I heard Bonnaroo was pretty cool”episode

10pm hour

Black Francis – “Threshold Apprehension”/Bluefinger due in Sept. after Frank Black 93-03 this summer
Cake – “Conroy”/B-Sides & Rarities

Panda Transport – “Back to School” (at Atomic Burrito tonight!)
The Panda Band – “Eyelashes” (Animal Collective recently sold out their C-ville show!)
Datarock – “See What I Care”/Datarock Datarock
Postmarks – “Goodbye” (Tahiti 80 remix)

The National – “Mistaken for Strangers” (backstage at Bonnaroo)
Spoon – “Black Like Me” (backstage at Bonnaroo)

The Whigs – “Technology” (backstage at Bonnaroo)
Dr. Dog – “Worst Trip” (backstage at Bonnaroo)
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John Doe – “The Golden State” (w/ Kathleen Edwards)/A Year in the Wilderness
Buffalo Tom – “Bad Phone Call”/Three Easy Pieces
Juliana Hatfield – “A Beer and a Shot”/Sittin’ in a Tree
Frank Smith – “Throwin Rocks”/Heavy Handed Peace & Love

11pm hour

Ryan Adams – “Everybody Knows”/Easy Tiger (C-ville show in July is sold out!)
Jason Isbell – “Chicago Promenade”/Sirens of the Ditch (Drive-By Truckers in Richmond 6/22)
Cowboy Junkies–“Cause Cheap is How I Feel (live)”/200 More Miles(in Richmond 6/21)

White Rabbits – “The Plot”/Fort Nightly
Shout Out Louds – “Tonight I Have to Leave It”/EP out now, full in Sept.

Jeff Tweedy – “Sky Blue Sky” (backstage at Bonnaroo)
Feist – “I Feel It All” (backstage at Bonnaroo)
Little Ones – “Lovers Who Uncover” (backstage at Bonnaroo)
Manu Chao – “Rainin in Paradize”/new cd in Sept. (in Maryland 6/23)
Polyphonic Spree – “Running Away”/The Fragile Army (out today)
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Mystery Jets – “Diamonds in the Dark”/Zootime
Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova – “Falling Slowly”/Once Soundtrack
Tom House – “Love Be Gentle”/Jesus Doesn’t Live Here Anymore - 2001
Shivaree – “Goodnight Irene”/Tainted Love: Mating Calls & Fight Songs
White Stripes – “You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You’re Told)”/Icky Thump

WCNR Brighten the Corners Playlist 6-12-07 “Save Darfur Now! episode”

10pm hour

Youssou N’Dour – “Jealous Guy”/Instant Karma Amnesty Intl charity/tribute
Manu Chao – “Rainin in Paradize”/new cd in Sept.
Pink Martini – “City of Night”/Hey Eugene!

Maps – “It Will Find You”/We Can Create (out June 19)
Young Galaxy – “Outside the City”/s/t
Stars (remixed by Young Galaxy) – “Calendar Girl”/Do You Trust Your Friends?

The Winter Sounds – “Windy City Nights”/Porcelain Empire
Dappled Cities – “Fire Fire Fire”/Granddance

Magic Numbers – “Forever Lost”/s/t (2005)
Polyphonic Spree – “Running Away”/The Fragile Army (out June19)
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Editors – “Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors”/An End Has A Start (out 6/26)
White Rabbits – “The Plot”/Fort Nightly
The National – “Mistaken for Strangers”/Boxer

11pm hour

John Doe – “The Golden State”/A Year in the Wilderness
Frank Smith – “Throwin Rocks”/Heavy Handed Peace and Love

Rocky Votolato – “Whisky Straight”/The Brag & Cuss
Postal Service – “Grow Old With Me”/ Instant Karma Amnesty Intl charity/tribute

Mark Ronson (feat. Amy Winehouse) – “Valerie”/Version (out today)
Shout Out Louds – “Tonight I Have to Leave It”/EP out now, full in Sept.
The Long Blondes – “Once and Never Again”/Someone to Drive You Home

Monster in the Machine – “Under Your Shadow”/Butterfly Pinned
Afghan Whigs–“What Jail is Like”/Gentlemen (93) Unbreakable (A Retrospective 90-06)
Spoon – “The Underdog”/Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (out July 10)
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Mystery Jets – “Diamonds in the Dark”/Zootime
Lavender Diamond – “Open Your Heart”/Imagine Our Love
Voxtrot – “Blood Red Blood”/s/t
Flaming Lips – “(Just Like) Starting Over”/ Instant Karma Amnesty Intl charity/tribute

WCNR Brighten the Corners Playlist 6-5-07

10pm hour

Pope – “Could I Fall in Love Again”/Grace of God
A Band of Bees – “Who Cares What the Question Is?”/Octopus

Art Brut – “Direct Hit”/It’s A Bit Complicated
The Long Blondes – “Once and Never Again”/Someone to Drive You Home

Stephen Marley – “Hey Baby” (w/ Mos Def)/Mind Control
Mark Ronson (feat. Daniel Merriweather) – “Stop Me”/Version (out June 12)

Neko Case – “Hold On Hold On”/from 2006 (@ Charlottesville Pavillion Aug. 15)
Cary Brothers – “Who You Are”/title track
Wipers – “Return of the Rat”/Is This Real? (1980)

Afghan Whigs – “I’m a Soldier”/Unbreakable (A Retrospective 90-06) *cd giveaway
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Noisettes – “Don’t Give Up”/What’s the Time Mr. Wolf?
Spoon – “The Underdog”/Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (out July 10)
Teenage Fanclub – “Like A Virgin” (1991 b-side)

11pm hour

Beat Happening – “Revolution Come and Gone”/title track to early Sub Pop sampler
Julie Doiron – “No More”/Woke Myself Up (opened for Calvin J. last night in C-ville)

Mirah – “Nobody Has To Stay”/C’mon Miracle (2004 K Records)
Beck (w/ Calvin Johnson) – “Atmospheric Conditions”/One Foot in the Grave (1994)

Lavender Diamond – “Open Your Heart”/Imagine Our Love
Stars (Camouflage Nights w/ Kevin Drew remix) – “Celebration Guns”/Do You Trust Your Friends?

Interpol – “The Heinrich Manuever”/Our Love to Admire (out July 10)
The National – “Mistaken for Strangers”/Boxer

Shearwater – “74, 75”/Palo Santo: Expanded Edition
Dead Moon – “Diamonds in the Rough”/Nervous Sooner Changes 1994
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Afghan Whigs – “66”/1965 (98) & Unbreakable (A Retrospective 90-06) *cd giveaway
Fields – “If You Fail We All Fail”/Everything Last Winter
Ryan Adams – “Two”/Easy Tiger (out June 26)

Bloc Party – “Pioneers”/Silent Alarm (2005) – great closer from great 6/3 show in DC!

WCNR Brighten the Corners Playlist 5-29-07

10pm hour

!!! “Myth Takes”/Myth Takes (in C-Ville tonight!)
Juliana Hatfield & Frank Smith – “A Beer and a Shot”/Sittin’ in a Tree…EP
Avett Brothers “Will You Return?”/Emotionalism

M Ward “Chinese Translation”/Post-War (2006)
Adrienne Young – “Dark Around the Moon”/Room to Grow (Corner Lounge 5/25)

Jeff Buckley – “So Real (acoustic)”/So Real collection (anniv. of drowning)
Shearwater – “White Waves”/Palo Santo:Expanded Edition

Lavender Diamond – “Open Your Heart”/Imagine Our Love
Pink Martini “City of Night”/Hey Eugene!

Electric Soft Parade – “If That’s The Case, Then I Don’t Know”/No Need to be Downhearted
Paramore – “Misery Business”/Riot (June 12th)
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As Tall As Lions – “Ghost of York”/s/t
Cloud Cult “Chemicals Collide”/The Meaning of 8
Stars – “Set Yourself on Fire”/Do You Trust Your Friends? (Montag remix)

11pm hour

Stingrays (unsigned talent from Missouri, playing C-Ville Friday) – “Coming Down”
Hey, I was right about Foundry Field Recordings, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin and Witch’s Hat…Missouri is the new…uh…Omaha, yeah that’s it! C-ville is the new Austin, by the way…
Animal Collective – “Who Could Wind Rabbit”/Sung Tongs (2004) in C-Ville tomorrow

Stephen Marley – Hey Baby (w/ Mos Def)/Mind Control
Spoon – “The Underdog”/Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (out July 10)
Minnie Driver – “Beloved”/Seastories (out July 17)

Cary Brothers – “Who You Are”/title track (out today)
Satellite Party – “Wish Upon a Dog Star”/Ultra Payloaded (out today)

Bloc Party – “The Prayer”/A Weekend in the City (in DC Sunday!)
Noisettes – “Scratch Your Name”/What’s the Time Mr. Wolf? (in DC Sunday!)

Jefferson Airplane – “Somebody to Love (live)”/Monterey 2-CD re-issue
Patti Smith – “White Rabbit”/Twelve
Byrds – “So You Wanna Be A Rock’n’Roll Star (live)”/Monterey 2-CD re-issue
Oasis – “Rock’n’Roll Star”/Definitely Maybe (1994)
Oasis – Acquiesce (live)/Familiar to Millions (2000) Noel Gallagher’s 40th b’day!

WCNR Brighten the Corners Playlist 5-22-07

10pm hour

Spoon - “The Underdog”/Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (out July 10)
Desaparacidos - “Mall of America”/Read Music/Speak Spanish 2002

The Stills - “Soft Revolution”/Do You Trust Your Friends? (Stars remix/tribute cd)
Maria Taylor – “A Good Start”/Lynn Teeter Flower
Apostle of Hustle – “Chances Are”/National Anthem of Nowhere

Elliott Smith – “Miss Misery (early version)”/New Moon
Jeff Buckley – “I Know It’s Over”/So Real:Songs from Jeff Buckley
Mark Ronson (feat. Daniel Merriweather) – “Stop Me”/Version
Smiths “There is a Light That Never Goes Out”/1986
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Feist “I Feel It All”/The Reminder
Avett Brothers “Will You Return?”/Emotionalism
Cary Brothers – “Who You Are”/title track

11pm hour

!!! - “A New Name”/Myth Takes (in C-Ville next Tuesday!)
Animal Collective – “Leaf House”/Sung Tongs 2004 (in C-Ville next Wednesday)

Sinead O’Connor “Something Beautiful”/Theology (out June 26th)
Undertones “Teenage Kicks”/1978
Maximo Park – “Girls Who Play Guitars”/Our Earthly Pleasures

The Bravery – “Time Won’t Let Me Go”/The Sun and the Moon (cd give away)
Blonde Redhead – “Dr. Strangeluv”/23
Air – “Redhead Girl”/Pocket Symphony
CocoRosie – “Rainbowarriors”/The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn
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Sea Wolf – “You’re A Wolf”/Get to the River Before It Runs Too Low
Ryan Adams – “Two”/Easy Tiger (out 6/26)

Winterpills – “Broken Arm”/The Light Divides
Polyphonic Spree – “Running Away”/The Fragile Army (out 6/19)

Jason Isbell – “The Devil is My Running Mate”/Sirens of the Ditch (out July 10)

p.s. Cloud Cult is still awesome!!!

WCNR Brighten the Corners Playlist 5-15-07 (DC rocks episode)

10pm hour

Spouse – “Tonight”/Relocation Tactics (free show Starr Hill Cocktail Lounge tonight)
Cinematics – “Keep Forgetting”/A Strange Education (touring w/ Bravery)

Cary Brothers – “Who You Are”/title track
Jawbox – “Motorist”/ 20 Years of Dischord boxset (1993)
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Graham Coxon – “Standing on My Own Again”/Love Travels at Illegal Speeds (ex-Blur)
Rob Crow – “I Hate You, Rob Crow”/Living Well (ex-Pinback)
All Smiles – “Summer Stay”/Ten Readings of a Warning (Jim Fairchild ex-Grandaddy)

Let’s Go Sailing – “Sideways”/The Chaos in Order
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – “All You Do Is Talk”/Baby 81
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Ryan Adams – “Two”/Easy Tiger (out 6/26)
Son Volt – “The Picture”/The Search (in DC Thursday)
Maria Taylor – “A Good Start”/Lynn Teeter Flower

11pm hour

The Electric Soft Parade – “If That’s The Case, Then I Don’t Know”/ No Need to be Downhearted
Interpol – “The Heinrich Manuever”/Our Love to Admire (out July 10)
Paramore – “Misery Business”/Riot

The Avett Brothers –“The Ballad of Love & Hate”/Emotionalism (Plan 9 in-store Friday)
Wilco – “Either Way”/Sky Blue Sky (out today)
Andrew Bird – “Plasticities”/Armchair Apocrypha

Laura Veirs – “Don’t Lose Yourself”/Saltbreakers (at Gravity Lounge 5/19)
Cloud Cult - “Pretty Voice”/ The Meaning of 8
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Charlotte Gainsbourg – “The Songs That We Sing”/5:55
Keren Ann – “Lay Your Head Down”/Keren Ann

Dinosaur Jr. – “Almost Ready”/Beyond
Gray Matter – “Oscar’s Eye”/ 20 Years of Dischord boxset (1985)

Arctic Monkeys – “Flourescent Adolescent”/Favourite Worst Nightmare (in DC 5/16)
Elvis Costello “High Fidelity”/Get Happy!! 1980

WCNR Brighten the Corners Playlist 5-8-07

10pm hour

Laura Veirs – “Don’t Lose Yourself”/Saltbreakers (at Gravity Lounge 5/19)
Willy Mason – “Save Myself”/If the Ocean Gets Rough
Guided By Voices – “The Official Ironmen Rally Song”/Under the Bushes Under the Stars (1996)

Cloud Cult - “Chemicals Collide”/ The Meaning of 8
Fountains of Wayne – “Someone To Love”/Traffic and Weather

They Might Be Giants – “They’ll Need A Crane”/Lincoln 1988
They Might Be Giants – “The Long Grift”/Hedwig & The Angry Inch tribute 2003
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The Oohlas – “Small Parts”/Spiderman 3 OST
Kooks – “She Moves In Her Own Way”/Inside In Inside Out (by request! In DC 5/12)

The La’s – “Timeless Melody”/1990
Arctic Monkeys – “D is for Dangerous”/Favourite Worst Nightmare
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The Clientele – “Isn’t Life Strange?”/God Save the Clientele (at Satellite 5/9)
Dr. Dog - “My Old Ways”/We All Belong (in C-Ville 5/11)
Elliott Smith – “High Times”/New Moon

11pm hour

Let’s Go Sailing – “Sideways”/The Chaos in Order
Dntel – “Breakfast in Bed” (feat. Conor Oberst)/Dumb Luck
Bjork - “Innocence”/Volta
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The Electric Soft Parade – “If That’s The Case, Then I Don’t Know”/No Need to be Downhearted
Midnight Movies – “Hide Away”/Lion the Girl

Magnetic Fields – “I Don’t Believe You”/i (2004)
Fields – “Song for the Fields”/Everything Last Winter

Charlotte Gainsbourg – “The Songs That We Sing”/5:55
Stephen Marley – “Hey Baby” (w/ Mos Def)/Mind Control
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The Postmarks – “Goodbye”/The Postmarks
Wilco – “On and On and On”/Sky Blue Sky (out 5/15)
LCD Soundsystem – “Someone Great”/Sound of Silver (in DC 5/13)

WCNR Brighten the Corners Playlist 5-1-07

10pm hour

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Sealings”/Spiderman 3 out today!
The Hold Steady – “Girls Like Status”/Aqua Teen Hunger Force
The Fratellis – “Solid Gold Easy Action”/Hot Fuzz OST

Prince - “A Case of You”/A Tribute to Joni Mitchell
The Puppini Sisters – “Panic”/Betcha Bottom Dollar
Pipettes – “Simon Says”/b-side to Judy single

Maximo Park - “Girls Who Play Guitars”/Our Earthly Pleasures
Joy Division - “Transmission”/1980

Cloud Cult - “Chemicals Collide”/ The Meaning of 8
Suzanne Vega - “Frank & Ava”/Beauty & Crime out 7-17

The Walkmen - “Red River”/Spiderman 3
Queens of the Stone Age - “Sick, Sick, Sick”/Era Vulgaris out June 12
Frank Black - “Headache”/Teenager of the Year 1994
Peeping Tom - “We’re Not Alone (Dan the Automator Redux)”/s/t

11pm hour

Wolf & Cub – “Seeds of Doubt”/Vessels
Patrick Wolf – “Accident & Emergency”/Magic Position
Sea Wolf – “You’re A Wolf”/Get to the River Before It Runs Too Low ep out 5-8

The Panda Band – “Eyelashes”/This Vital Chapter
Dr. Dog - “My Old Ways”/We All Belong (in C-Ville 5/11)

Arctic Monkeys - “Brianstorm”/Favourite Worst Nightmare out today
Elliott Smith - “New Monkey”/New Moon out 5/8

!!! - “Myth Takes”/Myth Takes (in C-Ville 5/29)
Of Montreal - “Wraith Pinned to the Mist (And Other Games)”/The Sunlandic Twins 05 (The Outback Steakhouse song!)
The Concretes - “Say Something New”/s/t 2004 (The Target song!)

Flaming Lips - “The Supreme Being Teaches Spider-Man How To Be In Love”/Spidey 3
Rogue Wave - “Sightlines”/Spiderman 3
Feist - “My Moon, My Man”/The Reminder out today
Bjork - “Earth Intruders”/Volta out May 8
Dinosaur Jr – “Almost Ready”/Beyond out today

WCNR Brighten the Corners Playlist 4-24-07

10pm hour

Maximo Park “Girls Who Play Guitars”/Our Earthly Pleasures
Mando Diao “Long Before Rock’n’Roll”/Ode to Ochrasy
Arctic Monkeys “Brianstorm”/Favourite Worst Nightmare out today
The Fall “How I Wrote Elastic Man”/1980

Dr. Dog “My Old Ways”/We All Belong (in C-Ville 5/11)
Dinosaur Jr “Been There All the Time”/Beyond May 1st

Grizzly Bear “Knife” (opening for Feist June 13 DC 930 Club)
Feist “My Moon, My Man”/The Reminder May 1st

Apostle of Hustle “Chances Are”/National Anthem of Nowhere
Bjork “Earth Intruders”/Volta May 8

!!! “Must Be The Moon”/Myth Takes (in C-Ville 5/29)
Paramore “Misery Business”/Riot
Vincent Black Shadow “Control”/Fears in the Water

11pm hour

Rose Hill Drive “Brain Novocaine”/Rose Hill Drive
Earl Greyhound “It’s Over”/Soft Targets (The Corner presents w/ RHD Thursday!)

Thin Lizzy “Cowboy Song”/1976
Patti Smith “Boy in the Bubble”/Twelve out today

Johnette Napolitano “Amazing”/Scarred May 29
The Cliks “Oh Yeah”/Snakehouse out today

Satellite Party “Wish Upon a Dog Star”/Ultra Payloaded May 15
Jesus & Mary Chain “Head On”/1989

Cloud Cult “Pretty Voice”/The Meaning of 8
Blonde Redhead “23”/23

Gun Club “She’s Like Heroin to Me”/1981
Kings of Leon “Camaro”/Because of the Times

Maria Taylor “A Good Start”/Lynn Teeter Flower

WCNR Brighten the Corners Playlist 4-17-07

10pm hour

Cloud Cult – Chain Reaction (The Meaning of 8 cd)
The Panda Band – Eyelashes (This Vital Chapter cd)

Sarah White & the Pearls – Spoken Word (at Starr Hill Saturday! White Light cd)
http://www.myspace.com/sarahwhitepearls
Cowboy Junkies – Brand New World (At the End of Paths Taken cd))

Dntel – Roll On (feat. Jenny Lewis) (Dumb Luck cd)
Bright Eyes – Soul Singer in a Session Band (Cassadaga cd)
The Like – June Glooom (2005 Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking? Cd)

The Bravery – Time Won’t Let Me Go (The Sun & The Moon cd 5/22)
X – The World’s A Mess, It’s In My Kiss (1980 Los Angeles LP…er, I mean cd-reissue)

CocoRosie – Rainbowarriors (The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn)
Liz Phair – Animal Girl (from 1995 Juvenilia ep - happy 40th!)
Blonde Redhead – Spring and By Summer Fall (23 cd)

11pm hour

TV on the Radio – Wolf Like Me (live at Amoeba ep) 2 night stand in DC this week!
Noisettes – Don’t Give Up (What’s the Time Mr. Wolf?)…opening for TVOTR!

Dinosaur Jr. – Been There All The Time (Beyond cd)
Bjork – Earth Intruders (Volta cd)
Arctic Monkeys – Brianstorm (Favorite Worst Nightmare cd 4/24)

Josh Rouse – Winter in the Hamptons (live) (The Corner presents at Starr Hill 4/20)
Dean & Britta – Our Love Will Still Be There (Back Numbers cd)

Serena Ryder – Sisters of Mercy (If Your Memory Serves You Well cd 5/8)
Ron Sexsmith – All in Good Time (Time Being cd)

Midnight Movies – Patient Eye (James Iha remix/Lion the Girl cd out 4/24)
(thanks stereogum.com)
The Blow – Come On Petunia (from their myspace page)

Buzzcocks – Why Can’t I Touch It? (Happy 52nd Pete Shelley!)
Witch’s Hat – Space Baby (Columbia, MO band on Emergency Umbrella Records playing DC Friday!!! Myspace.com/witchshat)

WCNR Brighten the Corners Playlist 4-10-07 (dedicated to Don Imus)

10pm hour

Bjork – Earth Intruders
Living Colour – Type
Patti Smith – Pastime Paradise

TV on the Radio – Dirtywhirl
Noisettes – Don’t Give Up

Modest Mouse – Florida
Stereolab – The Noise of Carpet
Winterpills – Broken Arm

LCD Soundsystem – North American Scum
Living Things – Bom Bom Bom
Whitey – Y.U.H.2.B.M.2

Arctic Monkeys – Brianstorm
Gang of Four – I Found That Essence Rare

11pm hour
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – The Sons of Cain
Wire - Reuters

Low – Violent Past (Drums & Guns)
Stars – This Charming Man (Smiths cover)

CocoRosie – Rainbowarriors (The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn)
Nina Simone – See Line Woman

Feist – 1234
Cowboy Junkies – Brand New World (At the End of Paths Taken Apr. 17)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Weapon of Choice (Baby 81 May 1)
Moby – That’s When I Reach For My Revolver

Willy Mason – Save Myself
Josh Rouse – Directions (Home 2000) (The Corner presents at Starr Hill 4/20)
Mason Jennings – Be Here Now (The Corner presents at Starr Hill 4/15)
Bright Eyes – I Must Belong Somewhere

1st 2 of Midnight Hour for Don too:
Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next
Sleater-Kinney – Turn It On

WCNR Brighten the Corners Playlist 4-3-07

10pm hour

Dinosaur Jr – Been There All The Time (new cd out May 1 Beyond)
Husker Du – Makes No Sense At All (Flip Your Wig 1985)

Bright Eyes – Four Winds (Cassadaga out today)
Cowboy Junkies – Brand New World (At the End of Paths Taken Apr. 17)

The Bravery – Time Won’t Let Me Go (The Sun & The Moon - May)
Spoon – The Way We Get By

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Weapon of Choice (Baby 81 May 1)
Blonde Redhead – Spring & By Summer Fall (23 out April 10)

Cinematics – Break
Kings of Leon – On Call

Kaiser Chiefs – Everything Is Average Nowadays
Buzzcocks – Everybody’s Happy Nowadays
Noisettes – Scratch Your Name

11pm hour

Rose Hill Drive – Showdown (4/26 The Corner presents at Satellite w/ Earl Greyhound)
Winterpills – Broken Arm (recent free show in C-Ville)
Dr. Dog – My Old Ways (Friday 5/11 at Starr Hill) We all Belong cd
Future Clouds & Radar – You Will Be Loved (s/t debut 4/24)

The Bittersweets – When The World Ends (The Life You Always Wanted)
Bitter:Sweet – Don’t Forget to Breathe (The Mating Game)

Feist – 1234 (The Reminder May 1st)
LCD Soundsystem – New York I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down
The Dollyrots – Because I’m Awesome

Greg Laswell – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Easy Star All Stars feat. Toots & The Maytals – Let Down (Radiodread - easystar.com)
Patti Smith – Smells Like Teen Spirit (12, 4/17)

WCNR Brighten the Corners Playlist 3-27-07

10pm hour

Patti Smith – Gimme Shelter

Bonde do Role – Marina Gasolina (at Satellite Ballroom tonight)
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra – Hilo (at Starr Hill 4/5)
Calexico – Dub Latina

Kings of Leon – My Party
Young Love – Find A New Way

Fugazi – Long Division
Ron Sexsmith – All in Good Time

The Bird & The Bee – Again & Again
Fujiya and Miyagi – Collarbone

Arcade Fire – Keep the Car Running
Sebadoh – Willing To Wait

The Cliks – Oh Yeah
Los Straightjackets – De Dia Y De Noche w/ Big Sandy

11pm hour

Son Volt – The Picture
Wilco – What Light
Uncle Tupelo – I Wanna Be Your Dog
Iggy & the Stooges – Gimme Danger

(the following 2 songs are my tribute to the joys of sampler/mix cds)
Cale Parks – Wet Paint
Golden Dogs – Yeah!

Cheeseburger – Do You Remember?
Noisettes – Don’t Give Up

Army of Me – Going Through Changes (new Rise EP $1.06 at Plan 9)
Stars of Track & Field – Movies of Antartica

Kings of Leon - True Love Way
The Pierces – Lights On

Neil Young – Bad Fog of Loneliness (Live at Massey Hall 1971)
Emily Haines – Expecting To Fly (mad NPR props for webcasting the DC show I saw on my b’day Jan. 10!)

WCNR Brighten the Corners Playlist 3-20-07

10pm hour

Modest Mouse – Missed The Boat
Modest Mouse – We’ve Got Everything
Flaming Lips – Race For The Prize (Wayne Coyne, Tonight Show sxsw correspondent)

Iggy & The Stooges – My Idea of Fun (sxsw)
Buzzcocks – What Do I Get? (sxsw)

Hoodoo Gurus – The Right Time (sxsw)
Maria Taylor – A Good Start
Noisettes – Scratch Your Name
Sonic Youth – Kissability (sxsw)

Loney, Dear – I Am John (sxsw)
Peter Bjorn & John – Young Folks (sxsw)
Andrew Bird – Heretics (sxsw)

11pm hour

Spinto Band – Oh Mandy (at Starr Hill Friday)
Happy Chichester – Lost Connection (at Satellite Ballroom w/ RJD2 Thursday)

Bloc Party – I Still Remember (sxsw)
Fujiya and Miyagi – Ankle Injuries (sxsw!!!)
LCD Soundsystem – North American Scum

Low – Violent Past
Willy Mason – Save Myself (sxsw)
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – Sons of Cain

The Dollyrots – Because I’m Awesome
The Cliks – Oh Yeah (sxsw)
Kings of Leon – On Call (sxsw)

+/- (plus/minus) - Banging the Drum (at Satellite Monday with Say Hi to Your Mom)
Concrete Blonde – True (sxsw)

Tuesday, March 13 2007

Pangea Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin (C-Ville show 3/18)
Let's Talk About Spaceships Say Hi to Your Mom (C-Ville show 3/26)
Reasons Built To Spill/There's Nothing Wrong With Love
Up To The Mountain (MLK Song) Patty Griffin/Children Running Through
Sisters of Mercy Serena Ryder/If Your Memory Serves You Well
Troublesome Waters Johnny Cash/Cash: Ultimate Gospel
What Light Wilco/Sky Blue Sky
Gentle Moon Sun Kil Moon/Ghosts Of The Great Highway
Sundown Town Ry Cooder/My Name Is Buddy
Broke Down Slaid Cleaves/Broke Down
Don't Talk Anymore The Whigs/Give 'Em All A Big Fat Lip
To Go Home M. Ward/To Go Home
My Old Ways Dr. Dog/We All Belong
Heretics Andrew Bird/Fly
Methamphetamine Son Volt/The Search
Burning Photographs Ryan Adams/Rock N Roll
Gimme Shelter Patti Smith/Twelve
Radio Religion The Old Ceremony/Our One Mistake
Carolina Matt Wertz (C-Ville show 3/29)
Sunday Sun The Cinematics/Break (4 song E.P.) (C-ville show 3/18)
The Golden Age Beck/Sea Change
Bad Diary Days Pedro The Lion/It's Hard To Find A Friend
Birds And The Bees The Bird & The Bee/The Bird And The Bee
The Air is Thin Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter/Like, Love, Lust & the Open Halls of the Soul
Spanish Pipedream John Prine/John Prine (C-Ville Aug. show just announced!)
No Smoke Without Fire James Hunter/People Gonna Talk

Tuesday March 6, 2007
10pm hour

Wilco – What Light

Kings of Leon – On Call

Sparklehorse – Someday I Will Treat You Good

JJ Grey & Mofro – War

James Hunter – No Smoke Without Fire

Velvet Underground – What Goes On (Lou Reed turned 65 March 2)

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Oregon Girl

Shins – Sea Legs

(gave away Shins/Arcade Fire cd prize pack)

Arcade Fire – The Well & The Lighthouse

Pixies – Holiday Song (hearing them on a commercial radio station specialty show in 1989 at the age of 15 literally changed my life -- pre-Nirvana, Pitchfork & Zach Braff)

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – Who Do You Love?

Snow Leopards – Stuck in the Middle

11pm hour

Maria Taylor – A Good Start

Bright Eyes – Cartoon Blues

Sun Kil Moon – Someone

Grant Lee Phillips – Soft Asylum (No Way Out)

Peter Bjorn & John – Young Folks

Arcade Fire – Keep the Car Running

(gave away Shins/Arcade Fire cd prize pack)

Clinic – If You Could Read Your Mind

Teddybears – Punkrocker (Squeak E Clean remix)

Idlewild – No Emotion

The Pierces – Lights On

Explosions in the Sky – So Long, Lonesome

Air – Once Upon a Time

John Parish & Polly Jean Harvey - Is that all there is?

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Brighten The Corners playlist

Band of Horses "The Funeral" (Song/Album/Label of Year Plug Independent Music Awards 2/10)

TV on the Radio – A Wolf Like Me

Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins – Rise Up With Fists!

Amy Millan – Headsfull

(Amy & Jenny tied for my fav albums of 06!)

Pavement – Embassy Row

Peter Bjorn & John – Young Folks

Arcade Fire – Keep the Car Running

Bloc Party – I Still Remember

Willy Mason – Save Myself

Bright Eyes – Four Winds

LCD Soundsystem – North American Scum

Stone Roses – Fools Gold

The Knife – Marble House (KNIFEHORSE remix)

Cracker – Eurotrash Girl

Midlake - Roscoe

Brandi Carlile – The Story

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Satan Said Dance

Shins – Sea Legs

K-OS –Sunday Morning

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – I Am Warm & Powerful

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cheated Hearts

Stephen Marley w/ Mos Def – Hey Baby

Iggy & the Stooges – My Idea of Fun

Modest Mouse – Never Ending Math Equation

Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life

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