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BTC #351 – 3/4/14

WCNR Brighten the Corners 3-4-14 (Show 351)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

 

~10pm~

 

The Strypes – “Heart of the City”/Blue Collar Jane EP

The Coathangers – “Follow Me”/Suck My Shirt (out 3/18)

Jessica Lea Mayfield – “I Wanna Love You”/Make My Head Sing… (out 4/15)

 

Brody Dalle (w/ Shirley Manson) – “Meet The Foetus/Oh The Joy”/Diploid Love (out 4/29)

UME – “Black Stone”/Monuments (out today)

 

Cloud Nothings – “I’m Not Part of Me”/Here & Nowhere Else (out 4/1)

The Men – “Different Days”/Tomorrow’s Hits (out today)

 

Bleeding Rainbow – “So You Know”/Interrupt

Kongos – “Come With Me Now”/Lunatic

 

Hozier – “Take Me To Church”/EP title track

Desert Noises “/Mice in the Kitchen”/27 Ways (out 3/25)

The Belle Brigade – “Ashes”/Just Because (out 3/25)

 

~11pm~

 

Ane Brun – “Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)”/Arcade Fire cover from Songs 2003-2013 (2-cd best of)

The Mountain Goats – “Shot in the Dark”/Ozzy cover for Merge Records Or Thousands of Prizes monthly 7” series

My Morning Jacket – “Farewell Transmission”/The Music of Jason Molina (2-disc tribute out 4/22)

 

Real Estate – “Talking Backwards”/Atlas (out today, in Cville 4/1)

Dan Croll – “From Nowhere”/Corner Lounge version from 2/27, in Cville 4/23

New Country Rehab – “Blair Mountain Ballad”/Corner Lounge version from 2/26

 

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart – “Simple & Sure”/Days of Abandon (out 4/22, in Cville 3/8)

Hamilton Leithauser – “Alexandra”/Black Hours (out 5/6)

 

The National – “I Need My Girl”/Trouble Will Find Me (on SNL 3/8)

Grizfolk – “The Struggle”/From the Spark EP (came out last week)

Thievery Corporation feat. Shana Halligan – “Depth of My Soul”/Saudade (out 4/1)

 

~12mid~

 

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

The Crookes – “Play Dumb”/Soapbox (out 4/15)

 

Eagulls – “Possessed”/s/t (out today)

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

 

Thumpers – “Unkinder (A Tougher Love)”/Galore

APB – “Shoot You Down”/1985 (suggested by a listener who saw them live in NYC recently!)

Arthur Beatrice – “Midland”/Working Out (out today)

 

Sharon Van Etten – “Taking Chances”/Are We There (out 5/27)

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