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BTC #350 – 2/25/14

WCNR Brighten the Corners 2-25-14 (Show 350)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

 

~10pm~

 

Pussy Riot – “Putin Will Teach You How To Love”/new YouTube video

St. Vincent – “Regret”/s/t (out today)

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

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

 

Lo-Fang – “You’re The One That I Want”/Grease cover from Blue Film (out today)

Foy Vance – “Where Everybody Knows Your Name (Cheers TV theme)”/Corner Lounge version from earlier today!  opener for Brett Dennen tonight in Cville

 

Langhorne Slim & The Law – “Got My Mind Made Up”/Bob Dylan in the 80s: Vol. 1 (out 3/25)

Ben Harper – “Jamaica Say You Will”/Looking Into You: Tribute to Jackson Browne (out 4/1)

 

Coldplay – “Midnight”/new album tba, track just unveiled online today

Beck – “Don’t Let It Go”/Morning Phase (out today, on SNL this Sat)

Eagulls – “Possessed”/s/t (out 3/4)

 

~11pm~

 

-Lou Barlow 2/21 phone interview segment-

Sebadoh – “Brand New Love”/1992

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

 

Kopecky Family Band – “The Glow”/in Cville 2/27

Wye Oak – “The Tower”/Shriek (out 4/29, in Cville 3/3)

Ray LaMontagne – “Supernova”/title track (out 5/6)

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

 

The Notwist – “Close to the Glass”/title track (out today)

Les Claypool’s Duo De Twang – “Pipe Line”/Four Foot Shack (in Cville 3/3)

 

Kaiser Chiefs – “Coming Home”/Education, Education, Education & War (out 4/1)

Broods – “Bridges”/s/t EP

Noah Gundersen – “Ledges”/title track

 

Courtney Barnett – “Avant Gardener”/The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas (out digitally now, cd in April)

 

~12mid~

 

Bleeding Rainbow – “So You Know”/Interrupt (out today)

UME – “Black Stone”/Monuments (out 3/4)

 

Yellow Ostrich – “Shades”/Cosmos (out today)

Surfer Blood – “Demon Dance”/in Cville 3/2

Ski Lodge – “Just To Be Like You”/in Cville 3/2

 

Superchunk – “Nu Bruises”/Indoor Living re-issue (out today)

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