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BTC Show #371 – 8/5/14

WCNR Brighten the Corners 8-5-14 (Show 371)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

 

~10pm~

 

Right before 10pm/Beastie Boys – “So Whatcha Want”/RIP MCA (woulda been 50 today)

Spoon – “I Just Don’t Understand”/They Want My Soul (out today)

Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes – “Heart’s Desire”/Love Cliques EP (out today, in Cville 8/11)

 

Bear in Heaven – “Time Between”/Time Is Over One Day Old (out today)

The Empty Hearts – “Meet Me ‘Round The Corner”/s/t (out today)

Christopher Denny – “If The Roses Don’t Kill Us”/title track (out today)

 

Willis Earl Beal – “Traveling Eyes”/Experiments In Time (out today)

Karen O – “Rapt”/Crush Songs (out 9/9)

The Wind & The Wave – “My Mama Said Be Careful Where You Lay Your Head”/Corner Lounge version from 6/30, album From The Wreckage out today

 

Owl John – “Red Hand”/s/t (out today)

J Mascis – “Every Morning”/Tied To A Star (out 8/25)

Twin Peaks – “I Found A New Way”/Wild Onion (out today)

Death From Above 1979 – “Trainwreck 1979”/The Physical World (out 9/9)

 

~11pm~

 

Phillip Selway – “Coming Up For Air”/Weatherhouse (out 10/7)

Nils Lofgren – “Keith Don’t Go”/Face The Music (boxset out today)

 

Spider Bags – “Japanese Vacation”/Frozen Letter (out today)

David Kilgour & The Heavy 8’s – “Some Things You Don’t Get Back”/End Times Undone (out today)

Fink – “Looking Too Closely”/Hard Believer

 

Jack Black – “We All Wear Cloaks”/Beck’s Song Reader

Tuatara – “The Skeleton Getdown”/Underworld (out today)

 

Mark Lanegan Band – “Sad Lover”/No Bells on Sunday EP

Zola Jesus – “Dangerous Days”/Taiga (out 10/7)

 

The Rosebuds – “Blue Eyes”/Sand+Silence (out today)

Sallie Ford – “Coulda Been”/Slap Back (out this fall)

 

SBTRKT (w/ Ezra Koenig) – “New Dorp New York”/Wonder Where We Land (out 9/23)

Alt-J – “Left Hand Free”/This Is All Yours (out 9/23)

Gulp – “Vast Space”/Season Sun

 

Primus “Pure Imagination”/Primus & The Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble (out 10/21)

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