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News At Noon/Two For the Road 3/16-22/16

WCNR Brighten the Corners 3-22-16 Two For The Road (Show 452)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

Spotify playlists:

Brighten The Corners Jeff favorites 2016

Brighten The Corners favorites 2015

Wednesday 3/16 News At Noon

Plants & Animals – “No Worries Gonna Find Us”/Waltzed In From The Rumbling (out 4/29)

Greg Laswell – “Lifetime Ago”/Everyone Thinks I Dodged A Bullet

Holy Holy – “You Cannot Call For Love Like A Dog”/When The Storms Would Come

Wednesday 3/16 Two For The Road segment
Cullen Omori – “Cinnamon”/New Misery (out 3/18)
Grant-Lee Phillips – “Cry Cry”/The Narrows (out 3/18)

Thursday 3/17 News At Noon
Flogging Molly – “The Hand of John L. Sullivan”/new single for St. Patty’s Day!
Parquet Courts – “Berlin Got Blurry”/Human Performance (out 4/8, in Cville 5/18)
John Doe (w/ Debbie Harry) – “Go Baby Go”/The Westerner (out 4/29)

Thursday 3/17 Two For the Road
Parker Millsap – “Pining”/The Very Last Day (out 3/25)
Hackensaw Boys – “Don’t Bet Against Me”/Charismo (out 4/15)

Friday 3/18 News At Noon
Jeff Buckley – “Everyday People”/You and I
Haelos – “Separate Lives”/Full Circle (out today)
Empress Of – “Woman is a Word”/new single

Friday 3/18 Two For The Road
Dreamers – “Drugs”/You Are Here EP
Bear Hands – “2 AM”/You’ll Pay For This (out 4/15)

Monday 3/21 News At Noon
Muna–“Loudspeaker”
Transviolet–“Girls Your Age”
Margaret Glaspy–“Somebody to Anybody”

Monday 3/21 Two For The Road 
Eric Bachmann – “Carolina“/s/t (out 3/25)
The Sachal Ensemble (feat. Jim James) – “Love’s In Need of Love Today”/Song of Lahore (out 5/20)

Tuesday 3/22 News At Noon
Mat Zo–“Sinful”
Matthew Logan Vasquez–“Everything I Do Is Out”
Peaches–“Close Up (Feat. Kim Gordon)

Tuesday 3/22 Two For The Road

White Lung–“Hungry”/new 2016 single
Polica – “Wedding”/United Crushers

 

 

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