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BTC show #343 – 1/7/14

WCNR Brighten the Corners 01-07-14 (Show 343)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

 

~10pm~

 

Beck – “Love”/Sweetheart 2014 (out 2/4)

Neil Finn – “Flying in the Face of Love”/Dizzy Heights (out 2/11)

Lost in the Trees – “Past Life”/title track (out 2/28, in Cville 2/26)

 

Bad Suns – “Cardiac Arrest”/Transpose EP (out 1/21, in Cville w/ Royal Bangs 1/16)

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – “Lariat”/Wig Out At Jagbags (out today)

 

Cate Le Bon – “I Can’t Help You”/Mug Museum (in Cville 1/14)

Courtney Barnett – “History Eraser”/The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas

 

Sam Roberts Band – “We’re All In This Together”/Lo-Fantasy (out 2/11)

Temples – “Shelter Song”/Sun Structures (out 2/11)

 

Damien Jurado – “Silver Timothy”/Brothers & Sisters of the Eternal (out 1/21/14)

Silversun Pickups – “Cannibal”/The Singles Collection (out 2/25)

Chapin Sisters – “Crying in the Rain”/A Date With The Everly Brothers (2013) RIP Phil Everly

R.E.M. – “(All I Have To Do Is) Dream”/another Everly cover

 

Bruce Springsteen – “Dream Baby Dream”/Suicide cover from High Hopes (out 1/14)

 

~11pm~

 

Chromeo (w/ Chaz of Toro Y Moi) – “Come Alive”/White Women (spring 2014)

Crystal Method (feat. LeAnn Rimes) – “Grace”/The Crystal Method (out 1/14)

 

Phantogram – “Fall In Love”/Voices (out 2/18)

Pharrell Williams – “Happy (Gru’s Theme)”/Despicable Me 2 soundtrack & his new solo LP

 

St. Vincent – “Digital Witness”/s/t (out 2/25)

Pixies – “Blue Eyed Hexe”/EP 2 (out now)

 

Against Me! – “Black Me Out”/Transgender Dysphoria Blues (out 1/21)

The Rev. Horton Heat – “Let Me Teach You How To Eat”/Rev (out 1/21)

 

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – “Making Up & Breaking Up (And Making Up & Breaking Up Over Again)”/Give The People What They Want (out 1/14)

Lake Street Dive – “Bad Self Portraits”/title track (out 2/18, in Cville 2/23)

The Whigs – “Right Hand on My Heart”/2008 (in Cville 1/8)

~12mid~

The Verbs – “Glad All Over”/Cover Story (out later this month)

 

Big Head Todd & The Monsters – “Josephina”/Black Beehive (out 2/4, in Cville 1/21)

Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie “Prince” Billy – “Devoted To You”/What The Brothers Sang (2013)

 

Eddie Vedder & Glen Hansard – “Sleepless Nights”/these last 2 duets also for Phil Everly

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