Tune in to WKNC all this week for your chance to win tickets to awesome local shows! Just be the correct caller (919-515-2400) when the DJ asks for it to when a pair of tickets to the following local shows:

Tuesday, May 14 – Alkaline Trio with Bayside @ Cat’s Cradle (Tickets went on sale Friday!)

Monday, February 25 – Ra Ra Riot with Pacific Air @ Cat’s Cradle

Tuesday, February 26 – Some Army with Small Houses and Onward, Soldiers @ The Pinhook

Wednesday, February 27 – Lotus with Moon Hooch @ Cat’s Cradle

Wednesday, February 27 – Bruce Cockburn @ Fletcher Opera Theater

Thursday, February 28 - The Lollipops with White Laces, The Dave Fell Band, and Djingis @ Kings Barcade

Saturday, March 2 – Bombadil with Christy Smith (of The Tender Fruit) and Magician Michael Casey

Live Nation will be presenting Band of Horses at The Ritz here in Raleigh on Wednesday, May 8th! All this week, WKNC will be giving away tickets, so tune in for your chance to win. Tickets for the show will go on sale this Saturday, February 23rd here! WKNC would like to thank Live Nation for their continued support.

Tune in to WKNC all this week for your chance to win tickets to awesome local shows! Just be the correct caller (919-515-2400) when the DJ asks for it to when a pair of tickets to the following local shows:

Monday, Feb 18 – Black Francis with Reid Paley @ Cat’s Cradle

Tuesday, Feb 19 – Speck Mountain with Humble Tripe @ Kings Barcade

Wednesday, Feb 20 – Menomena with Guards @ Motorco Music Hall

Thursday, Feb 21 – Netherfriends with Canine heart Sounds @ Pinhook

Friday, Feb 22 – The Toddlers with Black Zinfandel and Savage Knights @ Kings Barcade

Sunday, Feb 24 – Foxygen with Naked Gods @ Local 506

 (11/10)  Rubblebucket with Reptar @ Southland Ballroom

According to Paste magazine this is going to be one hell  of a “sticky dance riot.”

Reptar

(11/10) The Dirty Guv’nahs with Dark Water Rising @ Cat’s Cradle

(11/10) Schooner with Naked Gods, and Some Army @Kings Barcade

Schooner by Reed Turchi

(11/11) Marco Benevento with Savage Knights @Pour House Music Hall

Marco Benevento

(11/11) Pomegranates with the Hounds Below and The Spacemen @Kings Barcade

Pomegranates

(11/12) Young Prisms @Nightlight

(11/14) Last Year’s Men with Fletcher C. Johnson @Pinhook

(11/14) Pinback with Solos @Motorco Music Hall

Pinback

(11/15) Dopapod @Motorco Music Hall

(11/16) Delta Rae with Peter Bradley Adams @Carolina Theater

Delta Rae

 (11/16) Hiss Golden Messenger with Phil Cook and His Feat, and Ama Divers @Pinhook Durham

Hiss Golden Messenger

(11/16) Pretty & Nice with Gary B and the Notions, Human Hearts @Motorco Music Hall

Pretty & Nice

Following our giveaway of weekend passes, we are excited to have single-day passes for both Friday and Saturday nights of Moogfest, as well as tickets to see Justice LIVE at the US Cellular Center in Asheville. DJs will be giving them away on-air like crazy leading up to both of these awesome events happening next week, so tune in often to WKNC for your chance to win tickets to both Moogfest and Justice Live!

It’s finally Fall, and KNC is still bringing tickets to the shows you want to see in the Triangle this September! Listen to win and call our studio lines at 919-860-0881 or 919-515-2400.

The Henry Clay People @ Kings Barcade (09/22)  - 2 passes remain!

The Bowerbirds @ Haw River Ballroom (09/22) – 1 pass remains!

Cate Le Bon @ Kings Barcade (09/25) – 2 passes remain!

Toro y Moi, The Choir Quit,  Can’t Kids, and Organos @ Motorco Music Hall (09/26) – 1 pass remains!

Thanks for listening and keep it locked to 88.1FM!

A dozen years after their last worldwide tour, the original members of Ben Folds Five are back on the road for a major tour that includes a Sept. 11 stop at Cary’s Koka Booth Ampitheatre. AC Entertainment has provided us with tickets to share with our loyal listeners and all you have to do is listen for the DJ’s prompt and call in at 919-515-2400 or 860-0881.

The new Ben Folds Five album “The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind,” goes on sale a week after the Cary show, on Tuesday, Sept. 18.

Ben Folds Five press photo

My Morning Jacket closes out their month-long summer tour with Band of Horses Sunday, Aug. 26 at the downtown Raleigh Amphitheater. WKNC listeners will have chances to win tickets all this week, so keep your radio on 88.1 FM.

General admission tickets to the pit area in front of the stage are gone, but tickets for the front two seated sections and the lawn are still available via Live Nation. A dollar of the ticket price will be donated to the Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation.

You can get geared up for the show with this new music video for “Outta My System” featuring Wolfpacker Zach Galifianakis as the wizard!

Tune in to KNC throughout the month of June for your chance to win tickets to awesome summer concerts in the Triangle! Thank you to all of our wonderful listeners!

Bouncing Souls w/ Menzingers (6/13)   Congratulations to listeners Jason P. and Tamra S.!

Dawes w/ Sara Watkins   Congratulations to listeners Mark S. and Stephen K. !

Connells w/ Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ (6/16)

Man Man  (6/17)   Congratulations to listener Shaun C.!

New Rope String Band (6/20)  

• Listen to Church of Bluegrass 8-10am Sunday mornings for your chance to win!

Lucero w/ Robert Ellis (6/20)

• Listen to Americana 10-12pm Saturday mornings for your chance to win!

Lower Dens w/ No Joy (6/21)

Tab-One & Sunshine J’ album release (6/22)

TV Girl (6/23)

Los Campesinos (6/27)

• Listen to Cest La Bri and Zach 3-5pm Mondays for your chance to win!

Monface with La Big Vic (6/28)

Beat Connection with White Arrows (6/30)

Need the studio number? Call us at 919-515-2400 or 919-860-0881!

We have some awesome tickets to give away to start of the month of April.

Tuesday, April 3 - Kimya Dawson with Paleface and Your Heart Breaks

Tuesday, April 3 - Delta Spirit with Waters

Wednesday, April 4 - Of Montreal with Loney Dear and Kishi Bashi

Wednesday, April 4 - Hadwynn with Lion in Winter

Thursday, April 5 - Breathe Carolina, Ready Set with Ashland High, Matt Toka, Romance on a Rocketship

Thursday, April 5 - Band of Heathens with Clay Pigeons

Friday, April 6 - DE’SEAN JONES with The Black Experience, The Real Laww & Toon

Saturday, April 7 - Cannibal Corpse with Exhumed, Abysmal Dawn, Arkaik

Saturday, April 7 - APACHE DROPOUT with Last Year’s Men, Flesh Wounds

Sunday, April 8 - PATHOLOGY, ROSE FUNERAL, PRIAPUS, ENGULFED IN AFTERBIRTH, SURGICAL

We have been doing giveaways on our Twitter and Facebook so be sure to keep up with those pages for more goodies!

A few mid-January concert tickets are up for grabs this week. Listen in to WKNC to win!

Friday, Jan. 20: Raleigh’s Finest Dance Party feat. Fuck the Biters at Kings Barcade

Friday, Jan. 20: Brand New Life with The Black Experience at Pinhook

Sunday, Jan. 22: Anthony Green with The Dear Hunter at Cat’s Cradle

Of course you do! Four days of music, dance, art and education in the heart of North Carolina; what could be a better way to spend fall break?

The Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance is holding its Fall Festival October 6-9 in Chatham County. Over 60 bands are scheduled to perform, including Béla Fleck & The Flecktones, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Donna the Buffalo, Brett Dennen, Sidi Touré, The Duhks, Rosie Ledet, Nawal, Emmit-Nershi Band, Eilen Jewell, Toubab Krewe, Bearfoot, The Old Ceremony, Locos Por Juana and HOBEX.

Shakori Hills, fall 2010 (photo by Todd E. Gaul)

Keep your ears open for one-day pass giveaways for you and a friend. One pair will be given away each week leading up to the festival. When the WKNC DJ asks for it, be the correct caller on our studio lines, (919) 860-0881 or (919) 515-2400.

Indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie will perform at Cary’s Koka Booth Amphitheatre Monday, August 8 – and we have tickets! When the WKNC DJ asks for it, be the correct caller for your chance to win a pair of tickets to the show. Just a reminder to put it on your speed dial, our studio lines are (919) 860-0881 or (919) 515-2400.

Death Cab‘s latest album, “Codes and Keys,” was release late May 2011. Scottish indie rock band Frightened Rabbit will open.

This week you can win SO much from WKNC, you’re robbing yourself if you don’t listen for a chance to win.

7/27 – Josh Ritter @ Cat’s Cradle
7/27 – Lucinda Williams @ North Carolina Museum of Art
7/28 – Paleface and Peter Holsapple @ The Pinhook
7/30 - Jolie Holland @ Local 506
7/29 – Revolution Raleigh @ Lincoln Theatre
8/3 – Rockstar Mayhem Festival ft. Kingdom of Sorrow, All Shall Perish, Godsmack, Megadeth and Disturbed @ Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek
8/3 – Gillian Welch and David Rawlings @ NCMA

Need more than music to satiate your artistic pallet? Well, WKNC has more than music giveaways! Running from 8/5 to 8/7 – Paperhand Puppet Intervention’s “The Serpent’s Egg” (plus limited edition poster!) @ Forest Theatre in Chapel Hill. Plus there’s merch from Dim Mak and the Captain America movie.

This week you can win while listening to The Revolution. You can win hard. Trust me. We’ve got a metric ton of giveaways.

• Yardwork, Nucular Aminals and Clawform @ The Pinhook, 7/14
• Bill Callahan @ Local 506, 7/15
• The Charming Youngsters and The Howlies @ The Pinhook, 7/16
• The Ladybug Transistor, James Husband and T0W3RS @ Kings Barcade, 7/16
• Iris DeMent followed by True Grit (2010) @ North Carolina Museum of Art, 7/16
• Howlies, The Charming Youngsters and Nests @ Kings Barcade, 7/17
• Yob with Dark Castle and US Christmas @ Kings, 7/18

You can also win some 12″ vinyl from The Bloody Beetroots feat. The Cool Kids, Diplo and Laidback Luke as well as T’s from Bloody Beatroots and Steve Aoki.