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BTC Show #396 – 2/3/15

WCNR Brighten the Corners 2-3-15 (Show 396)
{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

Spotify playlists:

Brighten The Corners favorites 2015
Brighten The Corners favorites 2014
Wednesday New At Once! Segment
Marika Hackman – “Ophelia”/We Slept At Last (out 2/16)
Amason – “Duvan”/Sky City (out this week)
Dan Deacon – “Feel The Lightning”/Gliss Riffer (out 2/24)

Wednesday Two For The Road segment
Howls – “White Noise”/single out 2/3
The Dø – “Miracles (Back In Time)”/Shake Shook Shaken (out this week)

Thursday New At Once! Segment
Springtime Carnivore – “Keep Confessing”/s/t
Ryley Walker – “Primrose Green”/title track (out 3/31)
Andy Shauf – “You’re Out Wasting”/The Bearer Of Bad News (out 2/3)

Thursday Two For The Road segment
Adrien Reju (w/ AC Newman) – “Hemophiliac Of Love”/King Missile cover, new album 2/14
Kristin Diable – “Time Will Wait”/Create Your Own Mythology (out 2/24)

Friday New At Once! segment
Courtney Barnett – “Pedestrian At Best”/ Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (out 3/24)
Delta Spirit – “Language of the Dead”/Into The Wide (in Cville 4/11)
Guster – “Simple Machine”/Evermotion (in Cville 4/23)

Friday Two For The Road segment
Sleater-Kinney – “A New Wave”/No Cities To Love (great NW represent! #seahawks)
Josh Ritter – “Hopeful”/Acoustic Live (in Somerville, MA) Vol. 1 (came out last week #patriots)

Monday New At Once! segment
Pokey LaFarge – “Something in the Water”/s/t (out 4/7) prod by Jimmy Sutton
Paul Kelly feat. Clairy Browne – “Keep On Coming Back For More”/The Merri Soul Sessions
Cracker – “Reaction”/Berkeley To Bakersfield

Monday Two For The Road segment
Delerium feat. Emily Haines – “Glimmer”/Rarities & B-sides (tba)
Murder By Death – “Send Me Home”/Big Dark Love (out tmrw, in Cville 3/5)

Tuesday New At Once! segment
The Twilight Sad – “There’s A Girl in the Corner”/Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave
The Church – “Pride Before A Fall”/Further Deeper (out today)
Turbo Fruits – “The Way I Want You”/No Control (out 4/20) prod by Patrick Carney

Tuesday Two For The Road segment
Death Cab For Cutie – “Black Sun”/Kintsugi (out 3/31)
Matt and Kim – “Get It”/New Glow (out 4/7)

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