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BTC show #358 – 5/6/14

WCNR Brighten the Corners 5-6-14 (Show 358)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

 

~10pm~

 

Neil Young w/ Jack White – “I Wonder If I Care As Much”/A Letter Home (vinyl out now, cd 5/27)

Iron & Wine – “Naked As We Came”/just-announced Cville show 6/19!

Conor Oberst – “Hundreds of Ways”/Upside Down Mountain (out 5/19)

Courtney Love – “You Know My Name”/1 of 2 new singles (video just debuted today)

Brody Dalle – “Don’t Mess With Me”/Diploid Love (out 5/19)

 

Benjamin Booker – “Violent Shiver”/s/t (out 8/19)

Lissie – “Mother”/Danzig cover; Cryin’ To You EP

 

Tune-Yards – “Water Fountain”/Nikki Nack (out today)

The Ghost of A Sabre Tooth Tiger – “Animals”/title track

 

Ri¢hie – “I Gotta Crush On You”/Night Game

Albert Hammond Jr. – “Strange Tidings”/AHJ

Poster Children – “If You See Kay”/1992

 

~11pm~

 

Little Dragon – “Klapp Klapp”/Nabuma Rubberband (out 5/13)

Fujiya & Miyagi – “Acid To My Alkaline’/Artifical Sweeteners (out today)

Brian Eno & Karl Hyde – “Daddy’s Car”/Someday World (out today)

Phox – “The Way I Feel Inside”/I Saved Latin! A Tribute to Wes Anderson (out 5/13; Phox Corner Lounge next week!)

La Sera – “Losing To The Dark”/Hour of the Dawn (out 5/13)

 

Bleeding Rainbow – “So You Know”/Interrupt (in Cville 5/9)

Nikki Lane – “Right Time”/All or Nothin’ (out today)

 

Old 97s – “Give It Time”/Most Messed Up (came out last week…maybe their best ever??)

Ray LaMontagne – “She’s The One”/Supernova (came out last week)

Old Crow Medicine Show – “Sweet Amarillo”/Remedy (out 7/1)

Natalie Merchant – “Ladybird”/s/t (out today)

 

Centro-Matic – “Salty Disciple”/Take Pride In Your Long Odds (out 6/3)

~12mid~

Pink Mountaintops – “The Second Summer of Love”/Get Back (came out last week)

Echo & The Bunnymen – “Holy Moses”/Meteorites (out 6/3)

 

A funny 90s “alt rock” hooks montage courtesy of the CBC/YouTube

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