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BTC News At Noon/Two For The Road 6/21-27/2017

WCNR Brighten the Corners 6-27-17 Two For The Road (Show 516)

(Hear the News at Noon weekdays at 12p with Kendall & Two For the Road with Jeff weeknights around 5:45pm – we recap the week’s worth of new tunes Tuesdays 10pm-midnight!)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

Spotify playlists:

Brighten The Corners Jeff favorites 2017

Brighten The Corners Kendall faves 2017

Wednesday 6/21 News At Noon

The Atomics–“Voulez Vous”: The band consists of 4 siblings under the age of 24 who started playing in 2005 when they were given instruments for Christmas and they just played Coachella.

Rooney–“Second Chances”: The brain child of Robert Schwartzman is named for principal Rooney from Ferris Bueller’s day off.

Old 97’s–“All Who Wander”: From the 11th album, Graveyard Whistling is out now.

Wednesday 6/21 Two For the Road

George Ezra – “Don’t Matter Now”/single just came out Friday

Filthy Friends – “The Arrival”/Invitation (out 8/25)

Thursday 6/22 News At Noon

Running Rouch–“Courtesy Of”: The Austrailian dance musician plays every instrument, writes all of the lyrics, and sings and raps on all of his songs.

Cage The Elephant–“Whole Wide World”: From the new album, Unpeeled, out July 28th. The stripped down album was recorded on their recent unplugged tour.

Matt Pond PA, “Still Summer”: The title track to the 12th and final Matt Pond PA album, though it is not necessarily the last album from Matt Pond.

Thursday 6/22 Two For the Road

Moon Taxi – “Two High”/new album late summer

Joseph Arthur – “Secret Ghost”/Morning Star (out tmrw)

Friday 6/23 News At Noon

Fall Out Boy–“Champion”: The first official single from the forthcoming record, MANIA due in September. They’re playing Fairfax in November.

Brent Cowles–“Maybe We’re Fine”: His EP Cold Times is out now, and the 27-year-old Denver artist is formerly of the band You, Me, & Apollo.

Andreas Moe–“Ocean (Take A Dive)”: Born and raised in Stockholm Sweden, he was just bookws on John Mayer’s European tour and has opened for Kodaline.

Friday 6/23 Two For the Road

Hard Working Americans – “School Days”/We’re All In This Together (Live) – out 8/4

Washed Out – “Hard To Say Goodbye”/Mister Mellow (out 6/30)

Monday 6/26 News At Noon

Kodaline–“Brother”

Radiohead–“Man of War”

Ha Ha Tonka–“Race To The Bottom”

Monday 6/26 Two For the Road

FEWS–“Metal”

Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires–“Breaking It Down!”

Tuesday 6/27 News At Noon

Alison Moyet–“Reassuring Pinches”

Fantastic Negrito–“Push Back”

Paul Weller–“Woo Se Mama”

Tuesday 6/27 Two For the Road

Jesse Malin–“Meet Me At The End Of The World”

The Shelters–“Gold”

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