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BTC Show #398 – 2/17/15

WCNR Brighten the Corners 2-17-15 (Show 398)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

 

Spotify playlists:

Brighten The Corners favorites 2015

Brighten The Corners favorites 2014

 

Wednesday New At Once! Segment

Calexico – “Falling From The Sky”/Edge of the Sun (out 4/14)

Meiko – “Sweeter”/Dear You

Asleep At The Wheel w/ Avett Brothers – “The Girl I Left Behind”/Still The King: Celebrating The Music of Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (out 3/3)

 

Wednesday Two For The Road segment

Lower Dens – “To Die In L.A.”/Escape From Evil (out 3/31)

Colleen Green – “Pay Attention”/I Want To Grow Up (out 2/24)

Thursday New At Once! Segment
Rhiannon Giddens – “Black Is The Color”/Tomorrow Is My Turn (out 2/10)
Laura Marling – “False Hope”/Short Movie (out 3/24)
Purity Ring – “Push Pull”/Another Eternity (out 3/3)

Thursday Two For The Road segment
Florence & The Machine – “What Kind of Man”/How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (out 6/1)
Doe – “Let Me In”/The First Four (out 2/24)

Friday New At Once! segment
Beckyoncé – “Single Loser (Put A Beck On It)”/Single Ladies + Loser mashup = artistic genius
Annie Lennox – “I Put A Spell On You”/Nostalgia & 50 Shades of Grey OST & it’s Friday the 13th
Diamond Rugs – “Voodoo Doll”/Cosmetics (out 2/24)

Friday Two For The Road segment
Night Terrors of 1927 (w/ Tegan & Sara) – “When You Were Mine”/Everything’s Coming Up Roses
Them Bruins – “Walk A Line”/s/t EP

Monday New At Once! Segment
Ewert & The Two Dragons – “Pictures”/Circles (out 2/24)
Sufjan Stevens – “No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross”/Carrie & Lowell (out 3/31)
Jose Gonzalez – “Open Book”/Vestiges & Claws (out tmrw)

Monday Two For The Road segment
Lord Huron – “Fool For Love”/Strange Trails (out 4/7)
Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield – “Somebody That I Used To Know”/…Sing Elliott Smith (out 3/17)

Tuesday New At Once! segment
Passion Pit – “Lifted Up (1985)”/Kindred (out 4/21)
Twin Shadow – “I’m Ready’/Eclipse (out 3/17)
Until The Ribbon Breaks – “A Taste of Silver”/A Lesson Unlearnt

Tuesday Two For The Road segment
Kate Pierson – “Mister Sister”/Guitars & Microphones (out today)
Controller – “Separator”/#IwillListen (V/A charity album)

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