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BTC Archives: Show 106, March 31st 2009

Let the record show we played Empire of the Sun a few weeks before their album came out…in 2009!!  Lotta good stuff that week, whoa!

 

WCNR Brighten the Corners 3-31-09 (Show 106)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

~10pm~

 

PJ Harvey & John Parish – “Sixteen Fifteen Fourteen”/A Woman A Man Walked By (out today)

PJ Harvey & John Parish – “That Was My Veil”/Dance Hall at Louse Point 1996

Jonatha Brooke – “Sweetest Angel”(w/ Glen Phillips)/The Works (Jonatha’s in C-ville 4/6)

 

Bob Mould – “I’m Sorry, Baby, But You Can’t Stand in my Light Any More”/Life and Times (out 4/7, in Cville 4/5)

Superdrag – “Filthy & Afraid”/Industry Giants

 

Elvis Costello – “Complicated Shadows”/Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (out 6/2)

Leonard Cohen – “Suzanne”/Live in London (cd/dvd out today, at Merriweather Post Pavillion 5/11)

Bob Dylan – “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’”/Together Through Life (out 4/28) 46th release

 

Neko Case – “This Tornado Loves You”/Middle Cyclone (in Richmond 4/6)

Alejandro Escovedo – “Too Little Too Late”/Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm

Prince – “(There’ll Never B) Another Like Me”/MPLSound

Miike Snow – “Animal”/single out now (full out 6/9)

 

Metric – “Help, I’m Alive”/Fantasies (out 4/14)

~11pm~

Jane’s Addiction – “Classic Girl”/1990 (Peretz Bernstein aka Perry Farrell turned 50 3/29)

 

Jane’s Addiction – “Chip Away”/new free EP at ninja2009.com

Nine Inch Nails – “Not So Pretty Now”/new free EP at ninja2009.com

The Vines – “Get Out”/Melodia

Living Things – “Oxygen”/Habeas Corpus

 

Little Brazil – “Wasting Time”/Son

The Veils – “The Letter”/Sun Gangs (out 4/7)

 

Doves – “Kingdom of Rust”/Kingdom of Rust (out 4/7)

Gomez – “Lost Track”(recorded at our sister station in Asheville, NC!)/A New Tide (out today)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Hysteric”/It’s Blitz! (out today)

Empire of the Sun – “Walking on a Dream”/title track (out 4/21)

Royksopp – “Happy Up Here”/”Junior”

 

Men Without Pants – “And the Girls Go”/Naturally(out 4/21) feat. Russell Simins & Dan “The Automator”

Sam Roberts – “Them Kids”/Love at the End of the World

Tom Peloso – “Leaves And The Trees”/The Last Saturday of the Year EP (tompeloso.com)

 

PJ Harvey & John Parish – “Passionless, Pointless”/A Woman A Man Walked By (out today)

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