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Brighten The Corners 11/16/16-11/22/16

WCNR Brighten the Corners Show #487

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

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Brighten The Corners Jeff favorites 2016

Wednesday 11/16 News At Noon

Kongos–“The World Would Run Better”:The second track from the third album from the South African Brothers entitled Egomaniac. 

Lapsley–“Heartless”: Lapsley is the stage name of 20 year old Holly Fletcher who hails from England and takes her alias from her mother’s maiden name.

Soren Juul–“Ambitions”: The Danish singer Soren Juul re-released his debut album under his own name. Originally he was going by the moniker of Indians.

Wednesday 11/16 Two For The Road

R.E.M. – “Blackbirds (Half A World Away demo)”/Out of Time deluxe reissue (out Fri)

Small Black – “Boys Life (Wild Nothing Remix)”/Best Blues Remix EP (both bands in town tonight)

Thursday 11/17 News At Noon

Matt Nathanson–“Bill Murray”: From his new album, Show Me Your Fangs, out now. The song came from the fact that he is consistently asked which celebrity he would hang out with if he could and he always says Bill Murray. And Bill Murray does know about the song.

Methyl Ethyl–“No. 28”: From the album, Oh Inhuman Spectacle. his real name is Jake Webb and he will be in DC on April 22nd.

Pixx–“Grip”: Pixx is the alias of 19 year old Hannah Rogers who hails from just outside of London. She takes Pixx from her grandmother’s nickname and attended the BRIT school, a renowned performing arts school. The video for this song is out now.

Thursday 11/17 Two For The Road

John Mayer – “Love on the Weekend”/new album early 2017

Julie Byrne – “Natural Blue”/Not Even Happiness (out 1/27)

Friday 11/18 News At Noon

Okey Dokey–“Wavy Gravy”: The psych-soul band formed in Nashville after Johnny Fisher left The Weeks and teamed up with visual artist, Aaron Martin.

Palmas–“Flowers”: The Brooklyn surf-soul quintet is originally from Philadelphia.

Ty Segall–“Orange Color Queen”: From his new self-titled album which is his first with a full band.

Friday 11/18 Two For The Road

Japandroids–“Near To The Wild Heart of Life”

Jesca Hoop–“The Lost Sky”

Monday 11/21 News At Noon

Flo Morrissey and Matthew E. White–“Look What The Light Did Now”: From the new album, Gentle Woman, Ruby Man, out on January 13th. The two met at a tribute concert to Hazel Wood in London in the fall of 2015 when they were both singing “Some Velvet Morning”. White produced the album and a behind the scenes video is out now.

Hazel English–“Make It Better”: the 25 year old artist from Oakland’s album was produced by Jackson Phillips–aka Day Wave. Tour dates will be announced soon.

The Orwells–“They Put A Body In The Bayou–” From the forthcoming record, Terrible Human Beings, set for a February 17th release. The video is out now and they will announce a tour later in the fall.

 

Monday 11/21 Two For the Road

Speed of Sound replay of Kyle Meredith’s Sharon Jones episode

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – “This Land Is Your Land”/RIP

Tuesday 11/22 News At Noon

Fairchild–“Start Again”: The Australian 6-piece are now based in the UK> Singer, Adam Lyons, says that starting again isn’t about breaking something down and rebuilding so much as reflecting and reassessing.

Joan As Policewoman and Benjamin Lazar Davis–“Broke Me In Two”: Joan As Policewoman is celebrating ten years of her career with her fifth and latest album, Let It Be You. 

Kate Bush–“And Dream of Sheep”: Another live recording from Before The Dawn, the live album recorded during her 22 sold out shows in London in 2014. The record comes out on December 2nd.

Tuesday 11/22 Two For the Road

Prince – “Moonbeam Levels”/Prince 4ever

Gillian Welch – “Georgai Road”/Boots No. 1 (out 11/25)

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