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Spoon soundcheck, Sprint Pavilion, 7/20/2017 Photo: 106.1 The Corner/Kendall Stewart's Iphone

News at Noon/Two For the Road 6/19-25/19

Hear the News at Noon weekdays at 12p with Kendall & Two For the Road with Jeff 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 2019 favorites

Kendall’s 2019 Favorites

Wednesday 6/19 News At Noon

  • Spoon–“No Bullets Spent”/Everything Hits At Once: The Best of Spoon (out 7/28)
  • Surf Curse–“Disco”/Heaven Surrounds You (out 9/13)
  • Alex Cameron–“Divorce”/Miami Memory

Wednesday 6/19 Two For the Road

  • Eli “Paperboy” Reed–“Bank Robber”/99 cent Dreams
  • Metronomy–“Salted Caramel Ice Cream”/Metronomy Forever (out 9/13)

Thursday 6/20 News At Noon 

  • Anna of The North–“Thank Me Later”/2019 Single
  • Pinky Pinky–“Do me Dirty (Charlie)”/Turkey Dinner
  • Ben Kweller–“Heart Attack Kid”/2019 Single

Thursday 6/20 Two For The Road

  • Preservation Hall Jazz Band–“Keep Your Head Up”/A Tuba To Cuba (out 6/28)
  • Crumb–“Fall Down”/Jinx)

Friday 6/21 News At Noon 

  • Walk The Moon–“Eat Your Heart Out”/2019 Single
  • MUNA–“Number One Fan”/Saves The World (out 9/6)
  • City & Colour–“Strangers”/Upcoming 6th album

Friday 6/21 Two For The Road

  • Cold War Kids – “Complainer”/New Age Norms (out this fall)
  • Western States – “The Duke”/From The Center Out (single out today, album out 7/19…pretty cool when Jeff’s old friends from Missouri get a great review from across the pond!)

Monday 6/24 News At Noon 

  • Tuxedo–“Toast 2 Us” Feat. Benny Sings/Upcoming 3rd record
  • Erik Stucky–“Living Life”/Good Vibrations (out Summer 2019)
  • Stray Cats–“Cat Fight”/40

Monday 6/24 Two For the Road

  • Prince – “Manic Monday”/Originals (out 7/19)
  • Freddie Mercury – “Time Waits For No One”/amazing new version of 1986 song from musical Time

Tuesday 6/25 News At Noon 

  • Easy Life–“Sunday”/Spaceships Mixtape
  • K. Flay–“Sister”/Solutions (out 7/12)
  • James Supercave–“Falling”/2019 Single

Tuesday 6/25 Two For the Road

The S.L.P. – “Nobody Else”/new single from Kasabian frontman

Lucy Dacus – “Forever Half Mast”/another holiday-themed single (for July 4th)

 

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