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.
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What’s Next: New Hi-Fi Sounds
Jeff McCord dives deep into the best new releases and reissues, plus musical milestones from your favorites, a featured classic album tribute, 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 tunes from Gorillaz (w/ Tame Impala and Bootie Brown), John Cale, Vagabon, The National, Ty Segall, Oddisee, The Nude Party, DEBBY FRIDAY, Shame, Neil_Young, The Smile, Lowertown, Little Simz, Guided By Voices, July Lowery, U.S. Girls, SOLOSOLO, Billy Nomates, Jon Langford, Jason Moran, Everything But The Girl and many more, plus unreleased Wilco and PJ Harvey, and a classic AIR album tribute!
What’s Next Playlist 1.19.23
| Hour One | ||
| Vagabon | Carpenter | single |
| Solo Solo | Surface Level | Solo Solo |
| Dry Cleaning | Hot Penny Day | Stumpwork |
| The Falcons [Wilson Pickett died 1.19.2006] | I Found A Love | single |
| Rarelyalways | Let’s | Rarelyalways |
| Yo La Tengo | Aselestine | This Stupid World |
| Jim O’Rourke [birthday 1.18.1969] | Prelude To 110 Or 220/Women Of The World | Eureka |
| Debby Friday | So Hard To Tell | Good Luck |
| The C.I.A. | Bubble | Surgery Channel |
| The Nude Party | Ride On | Rides On |
| The Pretenders [released 1.19.1980] | The Wait | The Pretenders |
| Oddisee | Bogarde | To What End |
| Billy Nomates | Vertigo | Cacti |
| The Beatles [recording began 1.19.1967] | A Day In The Life | Sgt. Pepper’s |
| Brad Mehldau | I Am The Walrus | Your Mother Should Know |
| Hour Two | ||
| Shame | Six-Pack | Food For Worms |
| Guided By Voices | Ballroom Etiquette | La La Land |
| Magazine [released 1.20.1978] | Shot By Both Sides | single |
| Gorillaz | New Gold (feat Tame Impala & Bootie Brown) | Cracker Island |
| John Cale | Noise Of You | Mercy |
| Sharon Van Etten [Daniel Johnston’s birthday 1.22.1961] | Some Things Last A Long Time | single |
| Little Simz | Heart On Fire | No Thank You |
| Air [classic album tribute] | La femme d’argent | Moon Safari [released 1.16.1998] |
| Air [classic album tribute] | Kelly Watch The Stars | Moon Safari [released 1.16.1998] |
| Air [classic album tribute] | Sexy Boy | Moon Safari [released 1.16.1998] |
| Everything But The Girl | Nothing Left to Lose | Fuse |
| The Smile | Thin Thing | Live At The Montreaux Jazz Fest July 2022 |
| Hour Three | ||
| Julie Lowery | Light In This World | Polyanna |
| US Girls | Futures Bet | Bless This Mess |
| Stevie Wonder [MLK holiday approval celebration 1.20.1986] | Happy Birthday | Hotter Than July |
| Lonnie Holley | Oh Me Oh My ft. Michael Stipe | single |
| Jason Moran | Ballin the Jack – Feed the Fire | From the Dancehall To The Battlefield |
| Jon Langford & The Skull Orchard Welsh Male Chorus | The One That Got Away | single |
| Wilco | How I Got To Memphis | Live at Carol’s Pub |
| Lowertown | Bucktooth | single |
| Wednesday | Chosen to Deserve | Rat Saw God |
| PJ Harvey | Maniac | B-Sides, Demos & Rarities |
| Neil Young & Crazy Horse | Chevrolet | World Record |
| Chris Brokaw | Our Fathers | Live At The Decommissioned Power Plant In Florli, Norway |
| The National | Tropic Morning News | First Two Pages of Frankenstein |
| Chuck Berry [Alan Freed dies 1.20.1965] | Maybellene | single |
What’s Next
Jeff McCord dives deep into the best new releases and reissues, plus musical milestones from your favorites, a featured classic album tribute, 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 tracks from Everything But The Girl, The New Pornographers, Temples, Night Glitter, Little Simz, The Nude Party, Kalu and The Electric Joint, Oddisee, U.S. Girls, King Tuff, Yo La Tengo, Jon Langford, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Thee Quasi, Altın Gün, the rite flyers, Daughter, James Brandon Lewis, Skrillex and many more, plus unreleased David Bowie and Neutral Milk Hotel, lots of musical milestones from your favorites and a classic Gram Parsons album tribute!
What’s Next playlist 1.12.23
| Hour One | |||
| US Girls | Futures Bet | Bless This Mess | |
| Kalu and the Electric Joint | Like, Maybe | single | |
| Donny Hathaway [died 1.13.1979] | The Ghetto | single | |
| Everything But The Girl | Nothing Left To Lose | Fuse | |
| Kelela | On The Run | Raven | |
| The New Pornographers | Really Really Light | Continue As A Guest | |
| Smog [released 1.12.1999] | Cold Blooded Old Times | Knock Knock | |
| Lauren Ruth Ward | Mindseye | single | |
| James Brandon Lewis | Someday We’ll All Be Free | Eye and I | |
| Black Thought and Danger Mouse [Raekwon’s birthday 1.12.1970] | The Darkest Part (feat. Raekwon & Kid Sister) | Cheat Codes | |
| Chris Bell [birthday 1.12.1951] | You And Your Sister | Keep An Eye On The Sky | |
| Neutral Milk Hotel | Little Birds | The Collected Works | |
| King Tuff | Tell Me | Smalltown Stardust | |
| Hour Two | |||
| Alejandro Escovedo [at the Paramount 1.14.23] | Down In The Bowery [ft. Ian Hunter] | Real Animal | |
| Quasi | Doomscrollers | Breaking The Balls Of History | |
| The Rite Flyers | Flutterbye | single | |
| Ezra Collective | Lady | single | |
| Sly & the Family Stone [Cynthia Robinson’s birthday 1.12.1944] | Dance To The Music | Live At The Fillmore East October 4th & 5th, 1968 | |
| Little Simz | Angel | No Thank You | |
| Gram Parsons [classic album tribute] | Still Feeling Blue | GP [released 1.10.1973] | |
| Gram Parsons [classic album tribute] | A Song For You | GP [released 1.10.1973] | |
| Gram Parsons [classic album tribute] | That’s All It Took | GP [released 1.10.1973] | |
| Yo La Tengo | Aselestine | This Stupid World | |
| Sunking | Glitch/Spy | Smug | |
| Skrillex | Way Back (feat. Pink Pantheress & Trippie Redd) | single | |
| David Bowie | Amsterdam [demo] | Divine Symmetry | |
| Hour Three | |||
| Jon Langford and Steve Forward [recoord release @Yard Dog 1.13.23] | Little Monsters | Jon Langford’s Lucky 7 Series, Part 3 | |
| We Are Scientists | Settled Accounts | Lobes | |
| The xx [released 1.13.2017] | Dangerous | I See You | |
| Oddisee | Try Again | To What End | |
| Altin Gun | Rakiya Su Katamam | Ask | |
| Temples | Gamma Rays | Exotico | |
| Janis Joplin [released 1.11.1971] | Get It While You Can | Pearl | |
| Black Belt Eagle Scout | Nobody | The Land The Water The Sky | |
| Sunnsetter | Float In Circles | single | |
| Flaming Lips & Sparklehorse [Wayne Coyne’s birthday 1.13.1961, Daniel Johnston’s birthday 1.22.1961] | Go | Late Great Daniel Johnston | |
| Daughter | Be On Your Way | Stereo Mind Game | |
| The Murder Capital | Return My Head | Gigi’s Recovery | |
| The Nude Party | Ride On | single | |
| Night Glitter | Magic Eyes | single | |
| Willie Nelson | Georgia On My Mind | Willie Nelson Live at Budokan |
What’s Next 1.5.23
Jeff McCord dives deep into the best new releases and reissues, plus musical milestones from your favorites, a featured classic album tribute, 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 music from Little Simz, Brazos, The Hold Steady, Gold Panda, Jason Moran, Yo La Tengo, Santigold, POND, SZA, The Mars Volta, The Smile, Kelela, Robert Forster, Chronophage, July Lowery, SUSS, SAMIA, and many more, plus musical milestones from your favorites and a classic Animal Collective album tribute!
What’s Next playlist 1.5.23
| Hour One | ||
| Brazos | Grab Hold Of What Floats | Grab Hold Of What Floats |
| Pond | Lights Of Leeming | single |
| Portishead [Beth Gibbon’s birthday 1.4.1965] | Numb | Dummy |
| Little Simz | X | No Thank You |
| Gold Panda | The Corner | The Work |
| Robert Forster | She’s A Fighter | The Candle And The Flame |
| Silver Jews [David Berman’s birthday 1.4.1967] | The Wild Kindness | American Water |
| Santigold | Nothing | Spirituals |
| Beth Orton | Weather Alive | Weather Alive |
| The Delfonics [Thom Bell died 12.22.2022] | Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time) | single |
| The Mars Volta | Blacklight Shine | The Mars Volta |
| Garrett Saracho Feat. Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad | Trucha | Jazz Is Dead 15 |
| Nilufer Yanya | Rid Of Me | Painless deluxe |
| OV Wright [producer Willie Mitchell died 1.5.2010] | A Nickel And A Nail | single |
| Hour Two | ||
| Chronophage | Summer To Fall | Chronophage |
| Dry Cleaning | Hot Penny Day | Stumpwork |
| XTC [single released 1.5.1978] | Statue Of Liberty | Transistor Blast |
| Jason Moran | For James | From The Dancehall to the Battlefield |
| Early James | Straightjacket For Two | Strange Time To Be Alive |
| Redbud [part of KUTX free week show 1.6.2023] | Kin | single |
| SZA | Too Late | SOS |
| Animal Collective [classic album tribute] | My Girls | Merrieather Post Pavilion [released 1.6.2009] |
| Animal Collective [classic album tribute] | No More Runnin | Merrieather Post Pavilion [released 1.6.2009] |
| Animal Collective [classic album tribute] | Also Frightened | Merrieather Post Pavilion [released 1.6.2009] |
| Plains | Abilene | I Walked With You A Ways |
| Samia | Sea Lions | Honey |
| Suss | Train | Suss |
| Hour Three | ||
| Prince [live debut 1.5.1979] | I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man [1979 version] | single |
| Kelela | On The Run | Raven |
| The Hold Steady | Sideways Skull | The Price Of Progress |
| King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard | Mycelium | Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava |
| Pink Floyd [Syd Barret’s bithday 1.6.1946] | See Emily Play | single |
| Jeff Parker | 2019-07-08 II | Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy |
| The Smile | The Smoke | Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, July 2022 |
| NRBQ [Tom Ardolino died 1.6.2012] | RC Cola and a Moon Pie | Peek A Boo |
| Julie Lowery | Light In This World | Polyanna |
| Liv.e | Wild Animals | Girl In The Half Pearl |
| Yo La Tengo [Ira Kaplan’s birthday 1.7.1957] | Fallout | This Stupid World |
| Sandy Denny [birthday 1.6.1947] | It’ll Take A Long Time | Who Knows Where The Time Goes |
