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BTC News at Noon/Two For the Road 7/5-11/17

WCNR Brighten the Corners 7-11-17 Two For The Road (Show 518)

(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 7/5 News at Noon

Tender – “Machine”/Modern Addiction (out 9/1)

Wolf Alice – “Don’t Delete The Kisses”/Visions of a Life (out 9/29) in DC Fri

Cub Sport – “O Lord”/2nd album out later this year

Wednesday 7/5 Two For the Road

Ha Ha Tonka – “Race to the Bottom”/Heart-Shaped Mountain

Algiers – “The Underside of Power”/title track

Thursday 7/6 News at Noon

Jeff Tweedy – “Lost Love”/Together At Last

Vintage Trouble – “Knock Me Out”/2017 single

Ani DiFranco – “Binary”/title track (The Festy in Oct., E-Town replay tonight!)

Thursday 7/6 Two For the Road

Jen Cloher – “Forgot Myself”/s/t (out 8/11)

Peter Perrett – “An Epic Story”/How The West Was Won

Friday 7/7 News at Noon

Donovan Woods–“All Mine”

Sarah Jaffe–“Bad Baby”

Washed Out–“Hard To Say Goodbye”

Friday 7/7 Two For the Road

Cory Chisel & Adriel Denae – “Songbird”/Tell Me True (out 8/4)

Wolf Alice – “Don’t Delete The Kisses”/Visions of a Life (out 9/29) in DC tonight

Monday 7/10 News at Noon

Lo Tom–“Covered Wagon”

Waax–“Same Same”

78 RPM–“Dynamite”

Monday 7/10 Two For the Road

Baio – “PHILOSOPHY!”/Man of the World

Fantastic Negrito – “Push Back”/The Last Days of Oakland

Tuesday  7/11 News at Noon

Rod Melancon–“Perry”

Air Traffic Controller–“It’s You”

Veris–“Opening Night”

Tuesday 7/11 Two For the Road

White Reaper – “Judy French”/The World’s Best American Band

Rainer Maria – “Suicides and Lazy Eyes”/S/T (out 8/18)

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