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BTC Show #385 – 11/11/14

WCNR Brighten the Corners 11-11-14 (Show 385)
{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}
Wednesday New At Once! Segment
Chvrches – “Dead Air”/The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (out 11/18)
The New Basement Tapes – “Kansas City”/Lost On The River (out 11/10)
Neil Young – “When I Watch You Sleep”/Storytone (out this week)

Wednesday Two For The Road segment
Spandau Ballet – “This Is The Love”/The Story… (Best Of) 1st new song since 1980s
Culture Club – “More Than Silence”/Tribes (early 2015) 1st new song in 15 years

Thursday New At Once! segment
Sleater-Kinney – “Bury Our Friends”/No Cities To Love (out 1/20)
Father John Misty – “Bored in the USA”/I Love You, Honeybear (out 2/10)
The Soil & The Sun – “How Long”/Meridian (in Cville tmrw)

Thursday Two For The Road segment
Smashing Pumpkins – “One and All”/Monuments To An Elegy (out 12/9)
Foo Fighters – “Congregation”/Sonic Highways (out 11/10, just-announced DC gig at RFK 7/4!)

Friday New At Once! segment
Parker Millsap – “Disappear”/s/t (opening 1st of 2 Lake Street Dive sold-out shows tonight/tmrw in Cville!)
Parquet Courts (as Parkay Quarts) – “These Boots”/Content Nausea (out 11/11, in Cville 1/25)
Deerhoof – “Doom”/La Isla Bonita (in Cville 11/8)

Friday Two For The Road segment
Belle & Sebastian – “The Party Line”/Girls in Peacetime Want To Dance (out 1/20)
Bahamas – “All The Time”/Bahamas Is Afie

Monday New At Once! segment
Teddy Thompson – “Right”/Thompson: Family (out 11/18)
The Verbs – “Till The End of the Day”/Cover Story (out 2/24)
Thurston Moore – “The Best Day”/title track

Monday Two For The Road segment
You + Me – “You and Me”/rose ave.
Sarah Jaffe – “Lover Girl”/Don’t Disconnect

Tuesday New At Once! segment
Son Little – “The River”/Things I Forgot EP (out this week)
Cody ChesnuTT w/ Gary Clark Jr. – “Gunpowder on the Letter”/Landing On A Hundred: B-sides & rarities (new video for Veterans Day)
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead – “The Ghost Within”/IX (out this week)

Tuesday Two For The Road segment
Royksopp – “Monument (T.I.E. Version)”/The Inevitable End (out this week)
Jose Gonzalez – “Every Age”/Vestiges and Claws (out 2/17)

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