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Jeff with The War & Treaty in the Corner Lounge, 2018 Photo: 106.1 The Corner

News at Noon/Two For The Road 2/12-18/20

Hear the News at Noon weekdays at 12p & Two For the Road weeknights around 5:45pm – we recap the week’s worth of new tunes Tuesdays 10pm-midnight!

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

Jeff’s 2020 favorites

Kendall’s 2020 Favorites

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4CCJBVXFiwsB8xtX3vdZie

 

Wednesday 2/12 News at Noon

The Strokes – “At The Door”/The New Abnormal (out 4/10)

The War & Treaty – “Jealousy”/Hearts Town (2 new songs out now, album out 8/14, at Lockn in June)

Amanda Shires – “Deciphering Dreams”/new single (in Cville 2/15)

Wednesday 2/12 Two For The Road

  • Big Gigantic – “Burning Love” Feat. Kidepo/Free Your Mind (out 2/28)
  • Grimes – “Delete Forever”/Miss Anthropocene (out 2/21)

Thursday 2/13 News at Noon

Declan McKenna – “Beautiful Faces”/Zeros (out 5/15)

Caribou – “Never Come Back”/Suddenly (out 2/28)

Little Dragon – “Hold On”/New Me, Same Us (out 3/27)

Thursday 2/13 Two For The Road

  • Frazey Ford – “Holdin’ It Down” /U kin B the sun 
  • Jennah Barry- “Roller Disco”/Holiday

Friday 2/14 News at Noon

Billie Eilish – “No Time To Die”/new Bond theme (movie out 4/10)

Anna Burch – “Party’s Over”/If You’re Dreaming (out 4/3)

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram – “Empty Promises”/new cover of a 2008 Michael “Iron Man” Burks song (in Cville 5/16)

Friday 2/14 Two For The Road

  • Eyelids – “The Accidental Falls” /The Accidental Falls 
  • Bruce Sudano- “The Mountain”/Spirals Vol. 1…Not A Straight Line To Be Found (out Spring 2020)

Monday 2/17 News at Noon

Brendan Benson – “Good To Be Alive”/Dear Life (Out 4/24)

Coriky – “Clean Kill”/s/t (out 3/27) feat. 2 members of Fuzagi & playing Cville tonight!

The Districts – “Cheap Regrets”/You Know I’m Not Going Anywhere (out 3/13, in Cville 3/4)

Monday 2/17 Two For The Road

  • Yoke Lore & Jax Anderson – “Sensitive Heart” /2020 Single
  • Destroyer- “Cue Synthesizer”/Have We Met

Tuesday 2/18 News at Noon

Pearl Jam–“Superblood Wolfmoon”/Gigaton (out 3/27)

Mt. Joy–“Strangers”/Upcoming 2020 album

The Strokes–“Bad Decisions”/The New Abnormal (out 4/10)

Tuesday 2/18 Two For The Road

  • Heart Bones – “This Time Is Different” /Hot Dish (out 2/21)
  • Waxahatchee- “Lilacs”/Saint Cloud (out 3/27)

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