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News at Noon/Two For the Road 5/18-24/16

WCNR Brighten the Corners 5-24-16 Two For The Road (Show 461)

{all titles out now unless otherwise noted}

Spotify playlists:

Brighten The Corners Jeff favorites 2016

Brighten The Corners favorites 2015

Wednesday 5/18 News at Noon

Parquet Courts – “Berlin Got Blurry”/Human Performance (in town tonight)

Richard Ashcroft – “This Is How It Feels”/These People (out 5/20)

Minor Victories – “Scattered Ashes (Song for Richard)”/s/t (out 6/3)

Wednesday 5/18 Two For The Road

Blitzen Trapper – “Summer Rain”/Amazon Songs of Summer playlist (out 6/3)

Guy Clark – “To Live Is To Fly”/Old Friends (RIP)

Thursday 5/19 News at Noon

The Stone Roses – “All For One”/new single

The Wind & The Wave – “Grand Canyon”/Happiness Is Not A Place (out in Aug.)

Big Thief – “Masterpiece”/title track (out 5/27)

Thursday 5/19 Two For The Road

Local Natives – “Past Lives”/new single, 1st in 3 yrs

Sara Hartman – “Satellite”/4-song EP title track played DC last week w/ X Ambassadors

Friday 5/20 News At Noon

The War on Drugs – “Touch of Grey”/Day of the Dead (out today)

Father John Misty – “Real Love Baby”/new track he put on Soundcloud yesterday

Holly Miranda – “Hold On We’re Going Home”/Drake cover on Party Trick covers EP

Friday 5/20 Two For the Road

Car Seat Headrest – “Fill in the Blank”/Teens of Denial (out today)

Glass Animals – “Life Itself”/How To Be A HumanBeing (out 6/7)

Monday 5/23 News At Noon

Hamish Anderson–“Trouble”: Hamish calls himself a “student of the three kings” because he takes his main influences from Keith Richards, Eric Clapton and Jeff Buckley. He is from Melbourne, Australia and was the last artist to open for B.B. King. His as-yet untitled debut album drops in the fall and was produced by Jim Scott who has worked with such artists as Grace Potter, Tom Petty, Ryan Bignham and Wilco.

Sleepwalkers–“Run Right Back”: They are currently on tour with The Lumineers, though not on the Charlottesville date. They are Richmond Natives, discovered by J. Roddy Walston. Walston brought them on tour with him and Ryan Adams became a fan tweeting, “This should be the biggest band right now”.

The Tragically Hip–“In A World Possessed By The Human Mind”: from their 14th record, Man Machine Poem, which comes out on June 17th.

Monday 5/23 Two For the Road

Oh Pep! – “Doctor, Doctor”/Stadium Cake (out 6/24, in Cville in Sept.)

Isaac Gracie – “Terrified”/Songs From My Bedroom EP

Tuesday 5/24 News At Noon

Lissie–“Daughters”: She just finished up her sold-out U.S. headlining tour and has sold 400,000 copies of her new album, My Wild West, from which this song it taken.

Luke Bell–“All Blue”: The “ranch hand turned troubadour” is a fifth generation Wyoming rancher. His self-titled album is out June 17th and he will be playing at Bonnaroo.

Sunflower Bean–“Come On”: The second single from Human Ceremony. They performed at WXPN’s 16th Annual Non-Commvention in Philadelphia last week. Read more about the conference here. 

Tuesday 5/24 Two For The Road  

Eli “Paperboy” Reed – “Cut Ya Down”/My Way Home (out 6/10)

Joseph – “White Flag”/I’m Alone, No You’re Not (out 8/26)

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