Host Jeff McCord explores the week’s best new releases, reissues and musical milestones, along with a classic album tribute!
This week, new music from David Byrne, Blood Orange, Wet Leg, Jeff Tweedy, John Glacier, Leon Bridges, shame, Pino Palladino and Blake Mills, Water From Your Eyes, Kurt Vile, Nilüfer Yanya, Sprints, Clipping., The Third Mind, Robert Glasper, Animal Collective, unreleased Bruce Springsteen and John Prine, and much more, including lots of musical milestones and a classic Frank Ocean album tribute!
What’s Next 7.17.25 playlist
| Hour One | ||
| Jay Som | Float | Belong |
| Rose City Band | Seeds Of Light | Sol Y Sombra |
| The Byrds [rel 7.18.1966] | Eight Miles High | Fifth Dimension |
| John Glacier | Fly With Me | single |
| Wet Leg | Mangetout | Moisturizer |
| Tame Impala [rel 7.17.2015] | Cause I’m A Man | Currents |
| David Byrne | She Explains Things To Me | Who Is The Sky? |
| Pino Palladino, Blake Mills | Taka | That Wasn’t A Dream |
| Desmond Dekker [birthday 7.16.1941] | 007 (Shanty Town) | single |
| Jeff Tweedy | Out In The Dark | Twilight Override |
| Theo Croker | One Pillow (ft. Estelle & Kassa Overall) | Dream Manifest |
| Jimi Hendrix [Chas Chandler died 7.17.1996] | Hey Joe | single |
| Leon Bridges & Hermanos Gutierrez | Elegantly Wasted | single |
| Water From Your Eyes | Playing Classics | It’s A Beautiful Place |
| John Coltrane [died 7.17.1969] | After the Rain | Impressions |
| Hour Two | ||
| Blood Orange | The Field [ft. the Durutti Column, Tariq Al-Sabir, Caroline Polochek & Daniel Ceasar | Essex Honey |
| Bruce Springsteen | Johnny Bye Bye | Tracks II |
| Velvet Underground [Nico died 7.18.1988] | All Tomorrow’s Parties | The Velvet Underground and Nico |
| Shame | Quiet Life | Cutthroat |
| Kurt Vile and Luke Roberts | Classic Love | Classic Love |
| Carla Thomas [rel 7.18.1966] | B-A-B-Y | single |
| Nilufer Yanya | Treason | Dancing Shoes |
| Animal Collective | Love on the Big Screen | single |
| Frank Ocean [classic album tribute] | Thinkin’ ‘Bout You | Channel Orange [rel 7.17.2012] |
| Frank Ocean [classic album tribute] | Super Rich Kids | Channel Orange [rel 7.17.2012] |
| Frank Ocean [classic album tribute] | Lost | Channel Orange [rel 7.17.2012] |
| Sprints | Descartes | All That Is Over |
| Maiya Blaney | Recognize Me | A Room With A Dorr That Closes |
| Hour Three | ||
| Billie Holiday [died 7.17.1959] | Strange Fruit | single |
| Disiniblud (Rachika Nayar & Nina Keith) | Disiniblud | Disiniblud |
| clipping. | Night of Heaven (ft. Counterfeit Madison and Kid Koala) | Dead Channel Sky |
| Gurf Morlix [birthday 7.16.1951] | Mama Juju | A Taste of Ashes |
| XTC {Terry Chambers’ birthday 7.18.1955] | Respectable Street | Black Sea |
| Wisp | Breathe Into Me | If Not Winter |
| Robert Plant | Everybody’s Song | Saving Grace |
| Beach Boys [rel 7.18.1966] | Wouldn’t It Be Nice | single |
| The Third Mind | Darkness, Darkness | Right Now! |
| Robert Glasper | Enochs Meditation | Let Go |
| Skullcrusher | Exhale | And Your Song Is Like A Circle |
| The Muffs [Kim Shattuck’s birthday 7.17.1973] | Everywhere I Go | The Muffs |
| John Prine | Hey Ah Nothin’ | Lost Dogs deluxe |
| Screaming Jay Hawkins [birthday 7.18.1929] | I Put A Spell On You | single |







