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BTC weekday selections 12/17-23

Wednesday New At Once! Segment

JJ Grey & Mofro – “Santa Clause, True Love & Freedom”/Ol’ Glory (out 2/24)

Steve Earle & The Dukes – “You’re The Best Lover That I Ever Had”/Terraplane (out 2/17)

Wednesday Two For The Road segment

Milo Greene – “Lie To Me”/Control (out 1/27)

D’Angelo & The Vanguard – “Really Love”/Black Messiah (out this week)

Thursday New At Once! Segment
JD McPherson – “Let the Good Times Roll”/title track (out 2/10)
St. Vincent – “Birth in Reverse”/St. Vincent (brand-new video, lots of best of lists)
Ellis Paul – “Jukebox on My Grave”/Corner Lounge version (show in Cville tmrw)

Thursday Two For The Road segment
Rhiannon Giddens – “Black Is the Color”/Tomorrow Is My Turn (out 2/10)
Laura Marling – “Short Movie”/title track (out 3/24)

Friday New At Once! segment
Tift Merritt – “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”/2003 A Very Special Acoustic Christmas
Neutral Milk Hotel – “Holland, 1945”/1998 (played over the closing credits of the final Colbert Report last night + the band’s in Cville in April…show sold out in minutes last week!)
The (All New) Acorn Sisters – “Longing For Old Virginia”/2012 (local act doing annual Cville holiday show Sunday)

Friday Two For The Road segment
JohnnySwim – “Christmas Waltz”/A JohnnySwim Christmas EP
Band of Horses w/ Jason of Grandaddy – “Hang An Ornament”/new digital track

Monday New At Once! segment
Bastille (vs. GRADES) – “Torn Apart”/VS. (Other People’s Heartache Pt. 3) Mixtape
The Districts – “4th and Roebling”/A Flourish And A Spoil (out 2/10)
Sons of Bill – “Big Unknown”/Corner Lounge version from 9/25 (annual Cville holiday show tmrw)

Monday Two For The Road segment
Saint Motel – “My Type”/EP title track
Chadwick Stokes – “Our Lives Our Time”/The Horse Comanche (out 2/3)

Tuesday New At Once! segment

Fences – “Sunburns”/Lesser Oceans (out 3/10)

Greg Holden – “Hold On Tight”/album in April (in Cville 2/3 w/ Ingrid Michaelson)

Brandi Carlile – “Wherever Is Your Heart”/The Firewatcher’s Daughter (out 3/3)

Tuesday Two For The Road segment
Modest Mouse – “Lampshades On Fire”/Strangers To Ourselves (out 3/3)
Murder By Death – “Strange Eyes”/Big Dark Love (out 2/3, in Cville 3/5)

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