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News at Noon/Two For the Road – 8/15-21/18

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 2018 favorites:

Kendall’s 2018 Favorites

https://open.spotify.com/user/1210973329/playlist/1bJzsBde7eLqMIvuqJcCVg?si=j6L4eL9WSV69DRd-OPAe5g

Wednesday 8/15 News at Noon

Alkaline Trio – “Is This Thing Cursed?”/title track (out 8/31)

Future Generations – “All The Same”/Landscape (out 9/14)

Million Miles – “Honey”/EP out in Nov.

Wednesday 8/15 Two For The Road

Iron & Wine – “Waves of Galveston”/Weed Garden EP (out 8/31)

Cat Power (w/ Lana Del Rey) – “Woman”/Wanderer (out 10/5)

Thursday 8/16 News Ar Noon

 The 1975 – “TooTimeTooTimeTooTime”/A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships (out in Oct.)

Cat Power – “Woman”

Kurt Vile – “Loading Zones”/new single

Thursday 8/16 Two For The Road

 

BEX – “If I Love You”/Dreams EP

Hannah Trigwell – “Taboo”/RED (out 8/31) 100 Mil YouTube plays, on her own label

Friday 8/17 News At Noon

Mat Kearney – “Memorized”/new single, in Cville next month

Aurora – “Forgotten Love”/new single

Christine & The Queens – “5 Dollars”/Chris (out 9/21)

Friday 8/17 Two For The Road

Murder By Death – “True Dark”/The Other Shore (out 8/24)

Matt Maeson – “Cringe”/new single

Monday 8/20 News At Noon

Parker Millsap – “Let A Little Light In”/Other Arrangements

Eric Hutchinson – “She Could Be The One”/Modern Happiness (out 10/5)

Neko Case – “Last Lion of Albion”/Hell-On (in Cville 9/15, The Corner’s 12th b’day!)

Monday 8/20 Two For The Road

The Suffers – “What You Said”/Everything Here (at Lockn’ Festival this week)

Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears – “Face In The Scene”/The Difference Between Me & You (out 9/7)

Tuesday 8/21 News at Noon

J Mascis – “See You At The Movies”/Elastic Days (out 11/9)

Boygenius – “Bite The Hand”/s/t EP (out 11/9)

Low – “Disarray”/Double Negative (out 9/14)

Tuesday 8/21 Two For The Road

John Hiatt – “Cry To Me”/The Eclipse Sessions (out 10/12)

Steve Perry – “No Erasin”/Traces (out 10/5)

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