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”
