Double Barrel Benefit 10 is quickly approaching. If you haven’t had time to check out the bands yet, I have made a Spotify playlist that includes a couple of my favorite songs from each band (except for The Lollipops and Some Army who are not on Spotify). So please check them out so you can sing along with us at Double Barrel this weekend. As always, tune in to 88.1 WKNC to hear these artists as well as other great artists all day.

Check out the playlist here!

Here are the songs in the playlist in addition to some songs you should check out by the artists who are not on Spotify.

Night 1
Wolves by The Lollipops
I Love You by The Lollipops
Teenage Lions by Jenny Besetzt
Always by Jenny Besetzt
Rise by Lilac Shadows
Bloodworth by Lilac Shadows
I’ll Survive by JKutchma and the Five Fifths
There’s a Light on by JKutchma and the the Five Fifths

Night 2
Open Wide by Oulipo
Build It Up by Oulipo
Servant Tires by Some Army
We’ve Been Lucky by Some Army
Crying Only Counts the First Time by Wesley Wolfe
Crying/Laughing by Wesley Wolfe
Friday Night by Spider Bags
Simona La Ramona

Let me start by saying I had no intention of creating a definitive, all-encompassing Winter 2011 playlist. A feat like that should be left only to the people who can spend all of their hours sorting through thousands of albums, identifying the standouts, and only then would they be able to define what they believe a Winter 2011 playlist should consist of.

Knowing that my capacity as a human to waste away my days listening to music is limited, I instead turned to a modest sum of tracks that embody what I would describe as making for a pretty good Winter playlist that consist of songs released in 2011.

The problem for every individual’s list is that it means something unique or holds a special attribute to them, and I am no different when it came to my formula for selecting songs. For me it meant that this playlist would encapsulate a few things: some of the best tracks of the year, and those that would send off vibes for what I would describe as being that of a “winter nature.”

What exactly do I mean by something having a winter nature? It’s pretty simple. I looked for tracks that would be incredibly rewarding to listen to while trudging through the rough winter weather or those which would be pleasant to warm up to after a day filled with having to deal with the growing loss of daylight.

Either way, after limiting myself to only tracks that came out this year, I think I came up with a pretty decent set of songs to listen to for the next couple of months on those days where you feel as if the season may have gotten the best or worst of you. Is it subject to change? Absolutely, and your feedback is always welcome as to what should be added to the playlist. And I have a way to share it with everyone that has Spotify; you can open it up here and listen to the playlist.

For everyone else the current tracklist is below:

01 The Dodos- Companions
02 Chad VanGaalen- Do Not Fear
03 Future Islands- On the Water
04 The Drums- Days
05 Youth Lagoon- July
06 Bon Iver- Wash.
07 The Antlers- I Don’t Want Love
08 Atlas Sound- Te Amo
09 I Break Horses- Winter Beats
10 The Raveonettes- Recharge & Revolt
11 Deleted Scenes- Bedbedbedbedbed
12 Wye Oak- Fish
13 Wild Beasts- Deeper
14 Bombadil- Short Side of the Wall
15 Megafaun- Hope You Know
16 Fleet Foxes- Bedouin Dress
17 Real Estate- All the Same

What do you want to see on the Winter 2011 playlist? Leave your suggestions below.

This Saturday, Feb. 5 marks another glazed filled, four mile run for the charity event benefiting the NC Children’s Hospital. The Krispy Kreme Challenge will host 7,500 runners this year, some of which will feature our very own WKNC deejays. In order to get pumped for the event, we’ve posted below a few of our playlists for the run.

Kari:

1. The Black Keys — 10 a.m. Automatic
2. Generationals — Faces in the Dark
3. I Was Totally Destroying It — Done Waiting
4. Kate Nash — Kiss That Grrrl
5. M. Ward — Never Had Nobody Like You
6. Rilo Kiley — Portions for Foxes
7. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings — I Learned the Hard Way
8. Weezer — Ruling Me
9. Shout Out Louds — Fall Hard

Special K:

1. Smith Westerns — Weekend
2. If These Trees Could Talk — What’s In the Ground Belongs to You
3. Kanye West — Get Em High (Ratatat Remix)
4. The Luyas — Too Beautiful To Work
5. The Light Pines — Bird Tribe
6. Washed Out — You and I
7. Kisses – Midnight Lover
8. Y La Bamba — November
9. King Mez & Commissioner Gordon – The Light
10. Future Islands – Walking Through That Door

Agent “Glazed and Confused” Orange:

1. Japandroids — Wet Hair
2. Digitalism — I Want I Want
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Y Control
4. Bloc Party — Flux
5. Queens of the Stone Age — Go With The Flow

DJ Mensch:

1. Broken Social Scene – 7/4/ (Shoreline)
2. Minus the Bear – My Time
3. The Love Language – Heart to Tell
4. The Seatbelts – Tank!
5. Blink 182 – Feeling This
6. Mute Math – Chaos
7. Rancid – Red Hot Moon
8. Rise Against – Savior
9. The Temper Trap – Science of Fear
10. +44 – No It Isn’t

Hot Tamale:
1. Donnis – Gone
2. Joy Formidable – The Greatest Light Is The Greatest Shade
3. The Hood Internet – Two Weeks of Hip Hop (Dead Prez vs Grizzly Bear)
4. Sleigh Bells – Run The Heart
5. Drake – Best I Ever Had
6. The Who – Baba O’Riley
7. Girl Talk – Triple Double
8. The Killers – Mr. Brightside
9. Matt & Kim – Block After Block
10. Bloc Party – Ion Square

Riff Raff/Kate-tose-intolerant:

1.Outkast- Rosa Parks
2.Best Coast – Bratty B
3.Best Coast – Crazy For You
4.Best Coast – Summer Mood
5.The Beatles – Golden Slumbers
6.The Beatles – Carry That Weight
7.The Beatles – The End
homestretch:
8. Bassnectar- BBC Mixtape 2010
9. Paper Tiger- The Bully Plank
10. Blue Sky Black Death – Days Are Years

July, July, July
It never seemed so strange

Okay, so Colin Meloy of The Decemberists wasn’t thinking about WKNC when he wrote July, July!,  but something strange has happened to our Web site. Diligent listeners have noticed and reported to us that our online playlist archive stops after June 28, 2010.  We’re know it’s broken, we’re sorry and we’re trying to get it fixed. In the meantime all the playlists are still available, but you have to manually change the URL. Click on any date and something like this will pop up in the address bar: http://wknc.org/playlist/?d=2010-06-28. Replace the “06-28″ with whatever day you need and viola! The search function still works just fine. Again, we’re sorry and we sincerely thank you for your patience as we try to get this fixed.

As I am out of town on vacation this weekend (and possibly the next two) all of the songs I played on today’s show will not appear in the normal Playlist so I feel obligated to list the tracks here for all of my fantastic listeners.  Also, if there are tracks you want to hear on next week’s show feel free to pop me an email request at Caid@wknc.org!  I will be sure to get any tunes I can just for you and give you a shout out along the way.  Thanks for listening this morning and be sure to tune in next week from 10am-Noon as well!

10am-11am
Emmylou Harris: In Rodanthe
The Duhks: Ships High In Transit
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez: Sweet Tequila Blues
Soggy Bottom Boys: Man Of Constant Sorrow
Old Crow Medicine Show: Cocaine Habit
Flatlanders: Im Gonna Strangle You Shorty
Carolina Chocolate Drops: Dona Got A Ramblin Mind
Lauren Pritchard: Way Down In North Carolina
Nanci Griffith: Lookin For The Time
Codetalkers: Beggin
Carrie Rodriguez: Infinite Night
Eliza Lynn: Honey Suckle
The Waybacks: Nice To Be Alone
Josh Ritter: Harrisburg
Robin Ella: Down The Mountain
Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir: Dark Holler

11am-12pm
Donna The Buffalo: Way Back When
Ry Cooder: Suitcase In My Hand
Seth Walker: Miss Ann
Norah Jones: Crazy (Patsy Cline Cover)
Jill Barber: When I’m Making Love To You
Neko Case: Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
Taj Mahal: Statesboro Blues
BB King: The Thrill Is Gone (Roy Hawkins Cover)
Mad Tea Party: Polly Put The Kettle On
Cave Singers: Dancing On Our Graves
Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, & Lester Flatts: Pick Along
Calexico: Corona
Jolie Holland: Old Fashion Morphine
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