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News at Noon/Two for the Road 7/17-23/19

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 2019 favorites

Kendall’s 2019 Favorites

Wednesday 7/17 News At Noon

  • X Ambassadors – “Hold You Down”/Orion
  • Toots & The Maytals – “Man of the World”/Red, Gold, Green & Blue
  • Gloria Gaynor – “Man of Peace” (Bob Dylan cover)/Testimony

Wednesday 7/17 Two For The Road

  • Miss June–“Best Girl”: The band fronted by Annabel Liddel will release their debut album, Bad Luck Party, on 9/6. The video for this track is out now. 
  • Twin Peaks–“Dance Through It”: From the upcoming album Lookout Low which drops on 9/3

Thursday 7/18 News At Noon

  • JJ Cale – “Lights Down Low”/Stay Around
  • Frank Lombardi – “Gracefully”/Predawn
  • Purple Mountains – “All My Happiness Is Gone”/s/t (came out last week) (ex-Cville resident David Berman of Silver Jews’ new project!)

Thursday 7/18 Two For The Road

  • Molly Sarle–“Human”: Also known as one third of the group Mountain Man, Molly Sarle’s debut solo LP Karaoke Angel drops on 9/20. Catch her in DC on 10/18
  • Oscar Scheller–“1%” Feat. Lily Allen: The lead single off of his sophomore effort, HTTP404, which comes out later in the year.

Friday 7/19 News At Noon

  • Bleached – “Hard To Kill”/Don’t You Think You’ve Had Enough?
  • The Highwomen – “Redesigning Women”/s/t (out 9/6)
  • Steve Gunn – “Motion Pictures (For Carrie)”/Neil Young cover for Amazon

Friday 7/19 Two For The Road

  • The All-American Rejects–“Send Her To Heaven”/Send Her To Heaven EP
  • The All-American Rejects–“Demons”/Send Her To Heaven EP 

Monday 7/22 News At Noon

  • The Hives – “Good Samaritan”/new 7-inch on Third Man Records
  • The Flaming Lips – “How Many Times”/King’s Mouth (came out Friday, in Cville 8/6)
  • Robert Randolph & the Family Band – “Baptise Me”/Brighter Days (out 8/23, at The Festy in Oct.)

Monday 7/22 Two For The Road

  • The Glorious Sons–“Panic Attack”/A War On Everything (9/13/19)
  • Taylor Knox–“Live It Up”/Here Tonight 

Tuesday 7/23 News At Noon

  • Caamp – “Peach Fuzz”/By and By (out 7/26, at Hoopla in Sept.)
  • Mark Lanegan Band – “Letter Never Sent”/Somebody’s Knocking (out 10/18)
  • Lower Dens – “I Drive”/The Competition (out 9/6)

Tuesday 7/23 Two For The Road

  • The Hives–“Good Samaritan”/Upcoming 2019 album
  • John Van Deusen–“Social Sucker”/(I Am) Origami Pt. 3 – A Catacomb Hymn

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