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BTC Show #388 – 12/2/14

WCNR Brighten the Corners 12-2-14 (Show 388)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

 

Wednesday New At Once! Segment

The 2 Bears – “Not This Time”/new Nov. single

Hookworms – “Radio Tokyo”/The Hum

The Twerps – “Back To You”/Range Anxiety (out 1/27)

 

Wednesday Two For The Road segment

The War on Drugs – “Under The Pressure”/Lost in the Dream

Sun Kil Moon – “I Can’t Live Without My Mother’s Love”/Benji

 

Thursday New At Once! segment

Ben Kweller – “It Ain’t Christmas Yet”/2014 Black Friday single

Ladyhawke – “Merry Xmas Everyone”/All Is Bright: Amazon holiday V/A collection

Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas – “I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas”/also on All Is Bright

Judith Owen & Harry Shearer – “Christmas With the Devil”/new version of Spinal Tap classic

 

Thursday Two For The Road segment

Bob Dylan – “Folsom Prison Blues”/The Basement Tapes Complete: Bootleg Series Vol. 11

Soundgarden – “Thank You”/Sly Stone cover on Echo of Miles: Scattered Tracks Across the Path

 

Friday New At Once! segment

Dead Professional – “I Can Deliver”/Hard Hard Hard (Cville show tonight)

2:54 – “Sleepwalker”/The Other I

Interpol – “What Is What”/New b-side to Everything Is Wrong single/mural

Friday Two For The Road segment

Wu-Tang Clan – “A Better Tomorrow”/title track (out 12/2)

Mary J. Blige w/ Disclosure – “Follow”/The London Sessions (out 12/2)

 

Monday New At Once! segment

Paul McCartney – “Hope For The Future”/new single for Destiny video game (out 12/8)

Jeremy Messersmith – “Let’s Ditch Christmas”/new 2-song Holiday EP

Loudon Wainwright III – “Suddenly It’s Christmas”/new version of his 1993 song

 

Monday Two For The Road segment

The Airborne Toxic Event – “Wrong”/new single out, album tba

Marian Hill – “Got It”/2 new tracks out 12/2

 

Tuesday New At Once! segment

She & Him – “Stay Awhile”/Classics (out today)

Parquet Courts – “These Boots”/Content Nausea (out today)

Strand of Oaks – “My Wrecking Ball”/Ryan Adams cover from XPN session (via Soundcloud)

 

Tuesday Two For The Road segment

Pixies – “Wave Of Mutilation” (Peel session)/Doolittle (deluxe 25th anniv. reissue out today)

Yo La Tengo – “Double Dare”/Extra Painful (reissue out today)

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