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BTC #354 – 4/8/14

WCNR Brighten the Corners 4-8-14 (Show 354)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

 

{just before 10pm}

Sam Smith – “Stay With Me”/In The Lonely Hour (out 6/17)

Jack White – “High Ball Stepper”/Lazaretto (out 6/10)

 

~10pm~

 

OFF! – “Hypnotized”/Wasted Years (out today)

Supersuckers – “Never Let Me Down Again”/Depeche Mode cover from Get The Hell

Tune-Yards – “Water Fountain”/Nikki Nack (out 5/6)

 

Wye Oak – “The Tower”/Shriek (out 4/29)

Black Pistol Fire – “Dimestore Heartthrob”/Hush or Howl (came out last week)

The Singles – “Inamorata”/Look How Fast A Heart Can Break (came out last week)

 

Clinic – “Touch Me”/A Psych Tribute To The Doors

The Black Angels – “Diamond Eyes”/Clear Lake Forest EP (out 4/19 for RSD)

 

The Both – “Pay For It”/The Both (out 4/15)

Eels – “Mistakes of My Youth”/The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett (out 4/22)

 

Strand of Oaks – “Goshen ‘97”/HEAL (out 6/24)

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

 

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

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – “Coming Down”/Only Run (out 6/3)

 

~11pm~

 

Chrissie Hynde – “Dark Sunglasses”/Stockholm (out 6/10)

Suzanne Vega – “I Never Wear White”/Tales From The Realm of the Queen of Pentacles

 

Tori Amos – “Trouble’s Lament”/Unrepentant Geraldines (out 5/13)

Sarah McLachlan – “In Your Shoes”/Shine On (out 5/6, in Cville 7/27)

Ziggy Marley – “I Don’t Wanna Live On Mars”/Fly Rasta (out 4/15)

Nickel Creek – “Love of Mine”/A Dotted Line (came out last week, in Cville 4/26)

 

First Aid Kit – “My Silver Lining”/Stay Gold (out 6/10)

Jessica Lea Mayfield – “Standing In The Sun”/Make My Head Sing…(out 4/15)

 

Passenger – “Scare Away The Dark”/Whispers (out 6/10)

Candi Staton – “I Ain’t Easy To Love”/Life Happens (out 5/13) Muscle Shoals movie played here over the weekend

MaximoPark – “Brain Cells”/Too Much Information

Thus Owls – “Bloody War”/Turning Rocks

Howler – “World of Joy”/title track

 

Father John Misty – “Do You Realize??”/Flaming Lips cover from AV Club Undercover Series

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