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 with Jeff McCord 6.23.22
Music discovery made easy! Each week, host 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 Bartees Strange, Jack White, Gorillaz, Dry Cleaning, Black Thought and DangerMouse, Pharrell Williams, Mélat, The Black Angels, Makaya McCraven, Grace Ives, The Mars Volta, SANDY Alex G, Julia Jacklin, Dehd, Perfume Genius, Beth Orton, TV Priest, Santigold, Shearwater, Just Mustard, FKA twigs, 1st Base Runner, 700 Bliss, Plato III, and many more, plus lots of milestone tracks from your favorites and a classic Liz Phair album tribute!
What’s Next Playlist 6.23.22
Hour One | ||
Bartees Strange | Wretched | Farm to Table |
Ego Ella May | Morning Side of Love | Blue Note Re:Imagined II |
Leon Bridges [released 6.23.2015] | River | Coming Home |
Sinead O’Brien | Salt | Time Bend And Break the Bower |
Black Thought and Danger Mouse | Because {ft. Joey Bada$$ and Dylan Cartlidge) | Cheat Codes |
Dave Bartholomew [died 6.23.2019 at age 100] | The Monkey | single |
Black Angels | Empires Falling | Wilderness of Mirrors |
Dry Cleaning | Don’t Press Me | Stumpwork |
Alan Vega [born 6.23.1938] | Nothing Left | Alan Vega After Dark |
Melat | The Wave | single |
Makaya McCraven | Seventh String | In These Times |
Solange [birthday 6.24.1986] | Weary | A Seat At The Table |
Julia Jacklin | I Was Neon | single |
The Dream Syndicate | Every Time You Come Around | Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions |
Sonic Youth [Steve Shelley’s birthday 6.23.1962] | Within You Without You | Daydream Nation |
Yaya Bey | Pour Up feat DJ Nativesun | Remember Your North Star |
Hour Two | ||
Perfume Genius | Teeth | Ugly Season |
Kraftwerk [here 6.27 @ ACL Live] | Spacelab | Man Machine |
Grace Ives | Burn Bridges | Janky Star |
700 Bliss | Totally Spies feat Lafawndah | Nothing to Declare |
Sly & the Family Stone [recorded 6.25.1967] | Hot Fun In the Summertime | single |
!st Base Runner | Pushing Away | Light Roars |
Beth Orton | Weather Alive | Weather Alive |
Liz Phair [classic album tribute] | Help Me Mary | Exile In Guyville |
Liz Phair [classic album tribute] | Divorce Song | Exile In Guyville |
Liz Phair [classic album tribute] | 6′!” | Exile In Guyville |
Alex G | Runner | God Save the Animals |
Plato III | Never Get Away | The Devil Has Texas |
Dehd | Palomino | Blue Skies |
Wilco [released 6.23.1998] | California Stars | Mermaid Avenue |
FKA Twigs | Killer | single |
Hour Three | ||
The Mars Volta | Blacklight Shine | single |
Fleetwood Mac [Mick Fleetwood’s birthday 6.24.1947] | The Green Manalishi | 25 Years |
Theo Croker | Divinty ft. Jamila Woods | Love Quantum |
Just Mustard | Rivers | Heart Under |
Aretha Franklin [recorded 6.23.1967] | Chain of Fools | Lady Soul |
Santigold | Ain’t Ready | Spirituals |
TV Priest | The Breakers | My Other People |
Jack White | If I Die Tomorrow | Entering Heaven Alive |
Bobby Bland [died 6.23.2013] | Back In The Same Old Bag | The Duke Recordings |
Pharrell Williams | Cash In Cash Out feat. 21 Savage, Tyler the Creator | single |
Sally Dige | I Will Be the Sun For You | single |
Brandon Coleman | We Change Part I feat Kamasi Washington | Interstellar Black Space |
Jeff Beck [birthday 6.24.1944] | Goodbye Pork Pie Hat | Wired |
Gorillaz | Cracker Island ft. Tundercat | single |
Shearwater | Laguna Seca | The Great Awakening |
What’s Next with Jeff McCord 6.9.22
Music discovery made easy! Each week, host 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 The Black Angels, Adrian Quesada, Black Thought and DangerMouse, Beth Orton, The Living Pins, Jungle, Angel Olsen, Plato III, Denzel Curry, Horsegirl, Julie Lowery, Porridge Radio, 070 Shake, Shabaka Hutchings, Poliça, HAAi-, The Dream Syndicate, and many more, plus lots of musical milestones from your faves and a classic Gil Scott-Heron album tribute!
What’s Next Playlist 6.9.22
Hour One | ||
Beth Orton | Weather Alive | Weather Alive |
Black Thought and Danger Mouse | Because (ft. Joey Bada$$, Russ, Dylan Cartlidge) | Cheat Codes |
Ty Segall [here 6/18 @ Mohawk] | Every 1’s A Winner | Freedom’s Goblin |
Craig Finn | This Is What It Looks Like | A Legacy of Rentals |
Girlhouse | Cool Guy | The Third EP |
Bonobo [released 6.9.2003] | Light Pattern | Dial M For Monkey |
Porridge Radio | U Can Be Happy If U Want To | Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky |
070 Shake | Cocoon | You Can’t Kill Me |
Horsegirl | Billy | Versions of Modern Performance |
Pixies [guitarist Joey Santiago’s birthday 6.10.1965] | Monkey Gone to Heaven | Death to the Pixies |
The Living Pins | Chateau | single |
Warpaint | Hips | Radiate Like This |
De La Soul [topped charts 6.9.1989- #24 pop. #1 r&b] | Eye Know | Three Feet High and Rising |
Adrian Quesada | Hielo Seco | Boleros Psicodélicos |
Hour Two | ||
Angel Olsen | Right Now | Big Time |
Arthur Alexander [died 6.9.1995] | If It’s Really Got to Be This Way | Lonely Just Like Me |
Denzel Curry | Troubles | Melt My Eyez See Your Future |
Miynt | Station Station | Lonely Beach |
Ray Charles [died 6.10.2008] | (Night Time Is) The Right Time | Pure Genius |
Plato III | Holiday | single |
Shabaka | The Dimension of Subtle Awareness | Afrikan Culture |
Gil Scott-Heron [classic album tribute] | The Revolution Will Not Be Televised | Pieces of a Man |
Gil Scott-Heron [classic album tribute] | The Needle’s Eye | Pieces of a Man |
Gil Scott-Heron [classic album tribute] | Home Is Where the Hatred Is | Pieces of a Man |
Prince [birthday tribute Friday night @7pm on KUTX] | Dionne | The Truth |
Jungle | Problemz | single |
Just Mustard | Rivers | Heart Under |
Hour Three | ||
Jenny Hval | Year of Love | Classic Objects |
Bruce Springsteen [signed to Columbia 6.9.1972] | It’s Hard To Be A Saint In The City | Greetings From Asbury Park NJ |
Fontaines DC | Bloomsday | Skinty Fia |
Alex G | Blessing | single |
HAAi | Baby We’re Ascending (w. Jon Hopkins) | Baby, We’re Ascending |
Radiohead [released 6.10.2003] | There There | Hail to the Thief |
The Black Angels | El Jardin | single |
Polica | Sweet Memz | Alive |
The Breeders [Kim and Kelly Deal’s birthday 6.10.1961] | New Year | Last Splash |
Courting | Tennis | single |
Julie Lowery | Santa Fe 164 and 1777 bpm | PolyAnna |
Wet Tuna | So Much Vibe in the World | Warping All By Yourself |
Paul McCartney [certified Gold 6.9.1971] | Too Many People | Ram |
The Dream Syndicate | Every Time You Come Around | Ultraviolet Battle Hymns |
John Prine [released 6.11.2020] | I Remember Everything | single |
What’s Next with Jeff McCord 5.26.22
Music discovery made easy! Each week, host 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 Wilco, Animal Collective, Craig Finn, Kendrick Lamar, Shearwater, Little Mazarn, Alex G, Jordana, Denzel Curry, My Idea, Afghan Whigs and many more, plus lots of milestones from your favorites and a classic Grizzly Bear album tribute!
What’s Next playlist 5.26.22
Hour One | |||
My Idea | Cry Mfer | Cry Mfer | |
Afghan Whigs | The Getaway | How Do You Burn? | |
Joe Bataan [here with Grupo Fantasma 5.27.22] | Subway Joe | Fania Records 1964-1980: The Original Latin Sound of New York | |
Alex G | Blessing | single | |
Aundrey Guillaume | Anti | Energy | |
Gil Scott-Heron [died 5.27.2011] | Home Is Where the Hatred Is | Pieces of a Man | |
Florist | Dandelion | Florist | |
Craig Finn | This Is What It Looks Like | A Legacy of Rentals | |
Stereolab [here 9.9.22] | The Flower Called Nowhere | Dots and Loops | |
Toro Y Moi | Deja Vu | Mahal | |
Yves Jarvis | At the Whims | The Zug | |
Mott the Hoople ft. David Bowie [Mick Ronson’s birthday 5.26.1946; Bowie gifts song to band 5.26.1972] | All the Young Dudes | All the Young Dudes | |
Angelica Rahe | Mio Final | single | |
Caramelo Haze | Caramelo Haze | single | |
Lauryn Hill [birthday 5.26.1975] | Lost Ones | The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill | |
Wilco | The Plains | Cruel Country | |
Hour Two | |||
Jordana | Pressure Point | Face the Wall | |
Ramsey Lewis [birthday 5.27.1933] | Do What You Wanna (Mr. Scruff’s Soul Party Mix) | Verve Remixed vol 2 | |
Adrian Quesada Feat. Gabriel Garzón-Montano | El Paraguas | Boleros Psicodélicos | |
Kendrick Lamar | Silent Hill | Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers | |
Bob Dylan [released 5.27.1963] | Bob Dylan’s Dream | The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan | |
Little Mazarn | Dew Nears Yay | Texas River Song | |
Julie Lowery | Had Enough | PolyAnna | |
Grizzly Bear [classic album tribute] | While You Wait For the Others | Veckatimest | |
Grizzly Bear [classic album tribute] | Two Weeks | Veckatimest | |
William Basinski & Janek Schaefer | …On Reflection (three) | …On Reflection | |
Denzel Curry | Troubles | Melt My Eyez See Your Future | |
Fontaines DC | Bloomsday | Skinty Fia | |
Beatles [released 5.26.1967] | A Day In The Life | Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band | |
Hour Three | |||
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever | My Echo | Endless Rooms | |
Zola Jesus | The Fall | Arkhon | |
Sharon Van Etten | I’ll Try | We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong | |
Edgar Winter Group [hit #1 526.1977] | Frankenstein | Super Hits of the 70s | |
Porridge Radio | Trying | Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky | |
Animal Collective | Cherokee [Dennis Bovell remix] | single | |
Andre 3000 [birthday 5.27.1975] | Idlewild Blue | Idlewild | |
Jacob Garchik | Idee Fixx | Assembly | |
Tshepang Ramoba ft. RAS and BlkJks | Lefase | single | |
Danielle Ponder | The Only Way Out | single | |
Mallrat | 03 Surprise Me (feat. Azealia Banks) | Butterfly Blue | |
Just Mustard | Mirrors | single | |
Shearwater | Laguna Seca | The Great Awakening | |
Miles Davis [birthday 5.26.1926] | In A Silent Way/It’s About That Time | In A Silent Way |