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Videos of the Day – week of 5/15/17

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Videos of the Day – week of 5/15/17

5/15 – Be still Sweatman’s beating heart! Eddie Vedder & Mumford & Sons joined U2 onstage in Seattle over the weekend, performing the Joshua Tree closer, “Mothers of the Disappeared”

5/16 – Elise Davis has been added to the bill for tonight’s Joe Purdy show at The Southern & she’ll be in the Corner Lounge around 3pm!  She was recently on TV in Nashville…

5/17 – we played the title track to Ani DiFranco’s new album (coming out in June) this week on Two For The Road…here’s Ani doing the song last year for the Folk Alley Sessions.  Looking forward to seeing her live at the radio convention in Philly this week!  Plenty of social media coverage coming soon…follow us @WCNRTheCorner on Twitter & Instagram!

5/18 – just announced this week, Phantogram & Tycho at Sprint Pavilion in July.  You’ve got chances to win tix today & tmrw at 5:15pm on the College of Musical Knowledge!  Here’s Phantogram at Coachella earlier this year…

5/19 – here’s BTC fave Cloud Nothings’ new video…catch them at The Jefferson with Japandroids in October!

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