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News at Noon/Two For the Road 10/19-18/23

WCNR Brighten the Corners 10-18-16 Two For The Road (Show 483)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

Spotify playlists:

Brighten The Corners Jeff favorites 2016

Brighten The Corners favorites 2015

Wednesday 10/19 News At Noon

Band of Horses–“In A Drawer”: From their latest record, Why Are You OK, it is the follow-up to the hit “Casual Party”. They will be in DC on December 30th and 31st.

Michael Kiwanuka–“Love and Hate”: The title track of his new album was produced by Danger Mouse who produced the majority of the record along with Paul Butler and Inflo.

Solange–“Rise”: Solange Knowles is the sister of Beyonce Knowles. “Rise” is the title track to her new album, A Seat At The Table , she she single-handedly wrote and produced herself. She began working on it in 2013.

Wednesday 10/19 Two For the Road

Letters To Cleo “Can’t Say”/Back To Nebraska EP (came out last week)

The Posies “Unlikely Places”/Solid States

Thursday 10/20 News At Noon

Bobby Rush–“Funk O’ De Funk”: From the three-time Grammy nominee’s new album, Porcupine Meat.

Goat Girl–“Country Sleaze”: The teenage South London four-piece’s name is inspired by the famous Bill Hicks sketch.

Jason Isbell–“Blow Wind Blow”: From The Magical Mojo of Dr. John: Celebrating Mac & His Music a live recording of the event in New Orleans featuring other artists such as Mavis Staples, Bruce Springsteen, Warren Haynes, Aaron & Charles Neville and more.

Thursday 10/20 Two For The Road

Maria Taylor (w/ Conor Oberst) – “If Only”/In the Next Life (out 12/9)

LP – “Lost On You”/Death Valley EP

Friday 10/21 News At Noon

Ages & Ages–“As It Is”: From their third album, Something To Ruin, which addresses the debris of our collective failures and asks if we might be better off letting go and starting over.

Paper Bird–“To The Light”: Their self-titled album is out now and it is the first with vocalist Carleigh Aikens, formerly of the band Bahamas.

Valerie June–“Astral Plane”: From her just announced forthcoming album The The Order of Time. She will be touring with Norah Jones this fall.

Friday 10/21 Two For The Road

Krief–“Darkometro”: Formerly of the Montreal band The Dears he has released to companion albums Automatic Red and Automatic Blue.

Ryan Shupe–“Dream Big”: Also of Ryan Shupe & The Rubberband’s new album, We Rode On. 

Monday 10/24 News At Noon

Amos Lee–“Running Out Of Time”: the second single from his sixth and latest album, Spirit, which is out now.

El Vy–“Are These My Jets”: From the 30 Days 30 Songs online compilation against Donald Trump. A new song is released every day for the thirty days leading up to the election.

Eric Johnson–“Wrapped In A Cloud”: From his most intimate album to date, EJ, which is a compilation of original tunes and covers of Jimi Hendrix, Simon & Garfunkel, Les Paul and more.

Monday 10/24 Two For The Road

The Interrupters–“She Got Arrested”

Kestrels–“Descent of Their Last Stand”

Tuesday 10/25 News At Noon

Cody Huggins–“See For Days”: The title track from the Northern Georgia native and Nashville transplant’s debut album, dropping in 2017.

Kristoffer & And The Harbour Heads–“Right The Wrong”: From Swedish musician Kristoffer Ragnstram’s new LP Ex/Ex.

Picture Atlantic–“Peers” from the lifelong friends’ new album, Assouf.

Tuesday 10/25 Two For The Road

  • Iron & Wine–“Time After Time”/Cyndi Lauper cover available next week
  • The Flaming Lips–“The Castle”/new album next year Oczy Mlody

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