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BTC #353 – 3/18/14

WCNR Brighten the Corners 3-18-14 (Show 353)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

 

~10pm~

 

Janelle Monae – “What Is Love”/Rio 2 soundtrack (out 3/25)

Prince feat. Zooey Deschanel – “FALLINLOVE2NITE”/new digital single (out as of 3/17)

 

Daft Punk w/ Jay-Z – “Computerized”/prev. unreleased collab unveiled last week (YouTube)

Chromeo – “Jealous (I Ain’t With It)”/White Women (out 5/12)

Tycho – “Spectre”/Awake (out this week, in Cville 4/22)

 

Chris Malinchak – “So Good To Me”/single out now

Joywave – “Tongues (feat. Kopps)”/How Do You Feel? EP

Public Service Broadcasting – “Everest”/Inform-Educate-Entertain

 

Lyla Foy – “Feather Tongue”/Mirrors The Sky (out today)

Nine Inch Nails – “The Perfect Drug”/1997 (NIN/S’garden tour just announced 8/4, 8/5 in VA)

 

~11pm~

 

Gary Numan – “I Am Dust”/Splinter (Song From A Broken Mind)

 

Old 97’s – “Let’s Get Drunk & Get It On”/Most Messed Up (out 4/29, Rhett Miller in Cville 4/4)

Hank Williams III w/ The Melvins – “Okie From Muskogee”/Ramblin’ Man (out 4/1)

 

Lindi Ortega – “Tin Star”/title track (in Cville 3/27)

Amy Ray (w/ Susan Tedeschi) – “Duane Allman”/Goodnight Tender

Galactic feat. JJ Grey – “Higher & Higher”/new single

Johnny Cash – “She Used To Love Me A Lot”/Elvis Costello remix from Out Among The Stars (7” single out now, album out 3/25)

 

Black Pistol Fire – “Dimestore Heartthrob”/Hush or Howl (out 4/1)

The Whigs – “Hit Me”/Modern Creation (out 4/22)

 

Drowners – “Luv, Hold Me Down”/s/t

Husker Du – “Never Talking To You Again”/1984 (Grant Hart’s b’day today)

Emeli Sande – “All the Girls Love Alice”/Goodbye Yellow Brick Road deluxe reissue (out 3/25)

 

~12mid~

 

Rodrigo Y Gabriela – “The Soundmaker”/9 Dead Alive (out 4/29)

 

Elbow – “New York Morning”/The Take Off & Landing of Everything (came out last week)

Evan Dando – “Lovely New York”/Tarka & Friends: Life benefit album

 

Half Moon Run – “Full Circle”/Dark Eyes

Blitzen Trapper – “Unbelievable”/Bob Dylan in the 80s: Vol. 1 (out 3/25)

Scars on 45 – “Golden”/The Sun, The Moon & The Truth EP (Scarson45.com)

 

Wye Oak – “Glory”/Shriek (out 4/29)

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – “Don’t Tell Me”/2013 (in Cville 3/23)

 

Soundgarden – “Jesus Christ Pose”/1991 (NIN/S’garden tour just announced 8/4, 8/5 in VA)

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