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News at Noon/Two For the Road 7/3-9/19

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 7/3 News At Noon

  • Struts–“Dancing In The Street”: The Struts add themselves to the list of greats who have covered this 1964 classic. They’re on tour with The Glorious Sons and stop in DC on 8/7. 
  • Boy Scouts–“Get Well Soon”: Oakland-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Taylor Vick’s new record Free Company drops on 8/30 and was recorded in a rented shipping container.
  • King Ropes–“Mouth Full Of Bees”: The latest album from the band fronted by Dave Hollier, Gravity & Friction is out the 26th. Hollier produced it himself. 

Wednesday 7/3 Two For the Road

Stick Figure w/ Citizen Cope – “Summertime”/World on Fire (out 8/30)

The Bacon Brothers – “Play!”/new single

Thursday 7/4 News At Noon

Aldous Harding – “Fixture Picture”/Designer

Lucy Dacus – “Forever Half Mast”/her new 4th of July song

Faye Webster – “Right Side of My Neck”/Atlanta Millionaires Club

Friday 7/5 News At Noon

  • Shura–“Religion (U Can Lay Your Hands On me)”/Forevher (out 8/16)
  • The Teskey Brothers–“So Caught Up”/Run Home Slow (out 8/2)
  • Lola Marsh–“Echoes”

Friday 7/5 Two For The Road

  • Kazu–“Salty”/Adult Baby
  • Thick Paint–“Nothing Remains”/A Perennial Approach To Free Time

Monday 7/8 News At Noon

  • Chris Staples – “Holy Moly”/title track (Barsuk recording artist, NPR, Paste, The Bluegrass Situation & American Songwriter all singing his praises, might just end up being one of my very fave albums of the year)
  • Sacred Paws – “The Conversation”/Run Around the Sun (Scottish duo on Merge Records, 2nd album, playing DC 7/24)
  • The GoToBeds – “2:15″/Debt Begins At 30 (from Pittsburgh, on Sub Pop, playing DC on 7/18)

Monday 7/8 Two For The Road

  • The Head & The Heart–“See You Through My Eyes”/Living Mirage
  • Red Hearse–“Honey”/Read Hearse (out this Summer, date TBA)

Tuesday 7/9 News At Noon

Ben Harper – “Uneven Days”/new single on ANTI- (in Lynchburg, VA 8/21)

Soak – “Modern Girl”/Sleater-Kinney cover for Amazon Originals

Sleater-Kinney – “The Future Is Here”/The Center Won’t Hold (out 8/16)

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