Music discovery made easy! Each week, host Jeff McCord dives into a wide array of the best new music and reissues, plus a featured classic album, musical milestones, and a look at what’s happening at kutx.org. Give us your feedback on the new music you’re hearing, and make new music suggestions for future programs here.
This week, new Kurt Vile, Spoon, Torre Blake, Big Thief, the Jazz Butcher, Beach House, Wes Denzel, Khruangbin / Leon Bridges, Cate Le Bon, Destroyer, Lazyeyes, Dehd, Caroline Polachek, Ibeyi, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, 1st Base Runner, Good Looks, Oumou Sangare, & more, plus milestones from your favorites and a classic TV On The Radio album tribute!
What’s Next Playlist 2.17.22
| Hour One | ||
| Big Thief | Time Escaping | Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You |
| Oumou Sangare | Sarama | Timbuktu |
| James Brown [Clyde Stubblefield died 2.18.2017] | The Funky Drummer | Star Time |
| The Jazz Butcher | The Highest In The Land | The Highest In The Land |
| Yeule | Bites On My Neck | Glitch Princess |
| King Gizzard & the Wizard Lizard | Black Hot Soup (DJ Shadow My Own Reality Re-Write) | Butterfly 3001 |
| The English Beat [Dave Wakeling’s birthday 2.19.1956] | Which Side of the Bed? | Wha’ppen? |
| Kurt Vile | Like Exploding Stones | (watch my movies) |
| Spiritualized | Crazy | Everything Was Beautiful |
| The Kinks [released 2.17.1965] | Tired Of Waiting For You | Kinda Kinks |
| Wes Denzel | Screw Up | single |
| Ibeyi | Sister 2 Sister | Spell 31 |
| Cate Le Bon | Harbour | Pompeii |
| Irma Thomas [birthday 2.18.1941] | I Think It’s Going To Rain Today | Simply Grand |
| Hour Two | ||
| Empath | House and Universe | Visitor |
| Spoon | Held | Lucifer On The Sofa |
| ZZ Top | Blue Jean Blues | Fandango |
| 1st Base Runner | Near Me | Ellis |
| Brownskin Moses | UFO (Hustle Hard In The City) | The Flower Hour |
| Teno Afrika & Diego Don | AK Love | Where You Are |
| Khruangbin & Leon Bridges | Doris | Texas Moon |
| TV On the Radio [album tribute] | Don’t Love You | Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes |
| TV On the Radio [album tribute] | Dreams | Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes |
| Caroline Polachek | Billions | single |
| The Lazy Eyes | The Island | SongBook |
| 50 Ft Wave | Staring Into the Sun | Black Pearl |
| Beatles [released 2.13.1967] | Strawberry Fields Forever | single |
| Hour Three | ||
| Torre Blake | The One | Love Is Real |
| Beach House | Hurts To Love | Once Twice Melody |
| Good Looks | Vision Boards | Bummer Year |
| Yo La Tengo [released 2.22.2000] | Cherry Chapstick | And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out |
| Dehd | Bad Love | Blue Skies |
| The Krayolas | Matter of Time | single |
| Linqua Franqa | Wurk | Bellringer |
| The Smile | The Smoke | single |
| The Miracles [Smokey Robinson’s birthday 2.19.40] | I Second That Emotion | single |
| Taylor Rae | Just Be | Mad Twenties |
| Congotronics International | Beyond the 7th Bend | Where’s The One |
| Sasami | Say It | Squeeze |
| Destroyer | Eat the Wine, Drink the Bread | Labyrinthitis |
| Melody’s Echo Chamber | Looking Backward | Emotional Eternal |
| Marquis Hill | New Paths | New Goxpel Revisited |
| Dropper | Two Dollar Beer | Don’t Talk To Me |
| Thelonious Monk [died 2.17.1982] | Ask Me Now | Monk Alone |
