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BTC #349 – 2/18/14

WCNR Brighten the Corners 2-18-14 (Show 349)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

 

~10pm~

 

Vintage Trouble – “Strike Your Light”/new digital single

Robert Cray – “You Move Me”/In My Soul (out 4/1)

St. Paul & The Broken Bones – “Call Me”/Half the City (out today, in Cville 3/22)

Nick Waterhouse – “This Is A Game”/Holly (out 3/4)

NO – “Leave The Door Wide Open”/El Prado (out today)

 

The Afghan Whigs – “Algiers”/Do To The Beast (out 4/15)

Lord Huron – “Time To Run”/Corner Lounge at VA Arts version from 2/10 after sold-out show 2/9

 

Foy Vance (w/ Bonnie Raitt) – “You & I”/2013 (opening for Brett Dennen in Cville 2/25)

Lost in the Trees – “Past Life”/Past Life (out 2/25, in Cville 2/26)

Yellow Ostrich – “Shades”/Cosmos (out 2/25)

The Notwist – “Kong”/Close To The Glass (out 2/25)

 

Hospitality – “Rockets & Jets”/Trouble (in Cville 2/23)

Angel Olsen – “Hi-Five”/Burn Your Fire For No Witness (out & in Cville today!)

 

Karen O w/ Ezra Koenig – “The Moon Song”/Oscar-nominated song from Spike Jonze’s Her

 

~11pm~

 

Little Dragon – “Klapp Klapp”/Nabuma Rubberband (out 5/13)

Phantogram – “Fall in Love”/Voices (out today)

Lo-Fang – “When We’re Fire”/Blue Film (out 2/25)

Devo – “Uncontrollable Urge”/RIP Bob Casale

Sebadoh – “All Kinds”/Secret EP (in Cville 2/22 & I’m interviewing Lou Barlow Friday, ahhhh!!!)

 

Skaters – “Deadbolt”/Manhattan (out 2/25)

Bleachers (aka Jack from fun.) – “I Wanna Get Better”/2014 single

 

Lydia Loveless – “To Love Somebody”/Somewhere Else (out today)

Conor Oberst – “Hundreds of Ways”/Upside DownMountain (out 5/20)

 

Hurray For the Riff Raff – “I Know It’s Wrong (But That’s Alright)”/Small Town Heroes

Dawn Landes – “Bluebird”/Bluebird (out today)

 

Lake Street Dive – “Bad Self Portraits”/out today, in Cville for sold-out show 2/23

Sean & Sara Watkins – “Your Bright Baby Blues”/Looking Into You: Tribute to Jackson Browne (out 4/1, Nickel Creek Cville show just announced for 4/26!)

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