If you thought last week had a lot of giveaways, just wait until you see this week!

 MOVIE SWAG:

Captain America Prize Pack (Frisbee and movie pins)

7/27:  Advance Screening of The Smurfs 3D @ Regal Movies at North Hills 14

DAYTIME:

7/22: Dex Romweber Duo, Birds of Avalon, Eric Sommer @ Cat’s Cradle

7/22: Moonface @ Kings Barcade

7/23: Simple, Monoslang, Spiralfire @ The Pinhook

7/25: The Submarines, Matt Douglas @ Cat’s Cradle

AFTERHOURS:

Dim Mak T-shirts

CHAINSAW:

7/23: F*ck the Facts @ Kings Barcade

SPECIALTY SHOWS:

7/24: The Devil Makes Three with Mandolin Orange @ Cat’s Cradle

7/27: Lucinda Williams @ North Carolina Museum of Art

Enjoy – and remember to keep your radio locked on WKNC to win these awesome prizes!

Due to the happenings of Hopscotch, I only had a one hour show on September 10 but was happy to have the Small Ponds’ Caitlin and Cary and Matt Douglas as guests on the program as we promoted their new album, Caitlin Cary & Matt Douglas Are The Small Ponds. The album was released the following week at the Pour House and currently the band is on tour up and down the East coast. We chatted about the history of the group, along with many other things. Matt and Caitlin are both amazing, hilarious guests, and the interview was one of my favorites. Give it a listen below:

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Yesterday on the Local Beat, we were filled to capacity for our three hour show (a recap with interviews coming soon) and so I had to exclude one of the coolest shows next week, the Love Hangover, which is happening at the Pour House Music Hall in downtown Raleigh once more.  However, because The Love Hangover is just this cool I decided to do a watered down, short version of the Local Beat, for podcast only.  Caitlin Cary and Matt Douglas came in to play some tunes and chat while we got the creator of the Love Hangover, Richard Alwyn to call in from NYC to talk about the history of the show and it’s many new incarnations across the United States.

The Love Hangover is Monday night at the Pour House starting at 8pm and costs only $7.  It features duets that include:

Caitlin Cary & Matt Douglas
Sara Bell & Phil Cook
Alexandra Day & Hunter MacDermut
Karen Kletter & Aly Khalifa
Rachel Hirsh & John Booker

We had some technical problems but were finally able to work out the kinks for what turned out to be a great interview.  Listen below:

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Also, check out the Local Beat ReverbNation player below to hear the two beautiful covers that Matt and Caitlin performed for me and feel free to download them.

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Magic Monday

For the second day of the Cherry Bounce Music Festival, WKNC will be helping to host Magic Monday at The Raleigh Times. There will be performances by Brian Corum of Lonnie Walker, Jason Kutchma of Red Collar and Matt Douglas of The Proclivities. Magician Michael Casey will be performing in-between sets. The show kicks off at 9:30 p.m.

For the complete Cherry Bounce schedule, click here.