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News at Noon/Two For the Road 10/11-10/17/17

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News at Noon/Two For the Road 10/11-10/17/17

WCNR Brighten the Corners 10-17-17 Two For The Road (Show 531)

(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}

Spotify playlists:

Brighten The Corners Jeff favorites 2017

Brighten The Corners Kendall faves 2017

Wednesday 10/11 News At Noon

Laura Sauvage–“Alien (Anything Like It Have You)”: From the Montreal-based artist’s latest record, Beautiful. 

Danielia Cotton–“4 Ur Life”: The New Yorker’s forthcoming release, The Mystery of Me, hits the shelves on November 17th.

Trombone Shorty–“Where It At”: Taken from his new album Parking Lot Symphony. He will be in DC on the 15th.

Wednesday 10/11 Two For The Road

Django Django – “Tic Tac Toe”/Marble Skies (out 1/26)

Jen Cloher – “Strong Woman”/s/t

Thursday 10/12 News At Noon

Ballyhoo!–“Mixtape”: The Baltimore rock/pop/reggae band will be in Leesburg on the 27th.

Mainland–“I Found God”: The New York City trio met at a party and have released the video for this song.

Hamilton Leithauser “Heartstruck (Wild Hunger)” Feat. Angel Olsen–“Leithauser’s headlining tour starts in DC on the 18th.

Thursday 10/12 Two For The Road

Calexico – “End of the World With You”/The Threat That Keeps Us (out 1/26)

Joe Henry – “River Floor”/Thrum (out 10/27)

Friday 10/13 News At Noon

Jen Cloher–“Strong Woman”

Django Django–“Tic Tac Toe”

Jessica Boudreaux–“Ask Me To Stay” 

Friday 10/13 Two For The Road

The Allergies – “Since You’ve Been Gone”/Push On

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – “Matter of Time”/Soul of a Woman (out 11/17)

Monday 10/16 News At Noon

Taylor Hicks–“Six Strings And Diamond Rings”

Ray Goren–“When I’m Gone”

Squeeze–“Innocence in Paradise”

Monday 10/16 Two For The Road

Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards – “Pace Myself”/California Calling

Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn – “If I Could Talk To A Younger Me”/Echo in the Valley (out 10/20)

Tuesday 10/17 News At Noon

Nahko–“Be Here Now”

Torii Wolf–“Shadows Crawl”

Taylor Castro–“Be Strong”

Tuesday 10/17 Two For The Road

Hembree – “Had It All”/EP title track (out 11/3)

MGMT – “Little Dark Age”/title track (out early next year)

 

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