We’re back with another yearly tracks playlist! You can check out our 2020 post on our blog or on our Spotify.
For those that are new here, we reached out to our staff and DJs and asked them to submit their three favorite songs that came out in 2021. We made a Spotify playlist of all the tracks, but note that not all songs are available on Spotify, so we only added what we can. Songs with an asterisk (*) denotes songs that aren’t available on Spotify, so they aren’t in the playlist.
Click on the links with each staff member’s name to view their content and/or their WKNC DJ sets.
With this out of the way, let’s get into it!
Maddie; General Manager, occasional DJ
- SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE – “THE SERVER IS IMMERSED”
- Spellling – “Boys at School”
- Wednesday- “Cody’s Only”
Jamie Lynn Gilbert; Station Advisor/Station Mom
- CHVRCHES – “Good Girls”
- American Aquarium – “John Deere Green”
- Michigander – “Let Down”
Molly/dj mothball; Program Director, DJ
- Beverly Glenn Copeland – “Let Us Dance (Arca Remix)”
- * Secret Boyfriend– “Ladies Who”
- Xeno & Oaklander – “Raingarden”
Grant “Eubanks” Eubanks; Promotions Director, DJ
- boylife – “amphetamine”
- * JPEGMAFIA – “HAZARD DUTY PAY!”
- Parcels – “LIGHT”
DJ Lazuli; Daytime Music Director, DJ
- Squid – “Pamphlets”
- Parannoul – “Beautiful World”
- Turnstile – “Blackout”
Marshall; Underground Music Director, Content Contributor, DJ
- Tyler, The Creator – “JUGGERNAUT (feat. Lil Uzi Vert and Pharrell)”
- Turnstile – “DON’T PLAY”
- * JPEGMAFIA – “HAZARD DUTY PAY!”
Calcifer; Afterhours Music Director, DJ
- Azealia Banks – “Tarantula”
- Arca – “Prada”
- CFCF – “Life is Perfecto”
Harlan/DJ HRLN; Assistant Afterhours Music Director, DJ (Find non-WKNC DJ mixes/sets here: soundcloud.com/djhrln)
- FJAAK – “Basement”
- MCR-T – “IVE BEEN WAITING”
- LSDXOXO – “The Devil”
Gibson; Chainsaw Music Director
- Green Lung – “Graveyard Sun”
- Drune – “Giant’s Blood”
- * Bloody Keep – “Mourning Dawn”
Whippo/Whippopatomus; Assistant Local Music Director, Content Creator, DJ
- Jooselord – “Quarantine”
- 1pump – “GOAT”
- TiaCorine – “Pancakes”
dj mozzie; Assistant Daytime Music Director
- Phoebe Bridgers – “That Funny Feeling”
- Beach House – “New Romance”
- Sufjan Stevens, Angelo De Augustine – “Back To Oz”
Plover; Content Creator, DJ
- Rezz, PVRIS – “Sacrifical”
- Ruth Mascelli – “One For The Voyeurs”
- Wild Pink – “You Can Have It Back”
Kyle; Podcaster
- Backxwash – “I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES”
- Earl Sweatshirt – “2010”
- Spellling – “Little Deer”
Caitlin/carbon copy; Blog Content Creator, DJ
- Taylor Swift – “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)”
- Indigo de Souza – “Die/Cry”
- The Mountain Goats – “Lizard Suit”
Elle; Video Content Creator
- * JPEGMAFIA – “HAZARD DUTY PAY!”
- Injury Reserve – “Knees”
- Wednesday – “Three Sisters”
Owen/hermajesty; Interview Content Creator, DJ
- thanks for coming – “Free Willy”
- Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers – “AHHHH!”
- Pist Idiots – “Juliette”
satyr summer; DJ
- KETTAMA – “Saint Laurent”
- NANORAY – “Tempest”
- * Against All Logic – “Cus I’m Different Now”
Deethony Jaythony; DJ (Graduated May 2021)(we miss him)
- Porter Robinson – “Look at the Sky”
- Japanese Breakfast – “Paprika”
- Injury Reserve – “Top Picks For You”
President Shrimpo; DJ
- IDLES– “Car Crash”
- Amyl and the Sniffers – “Hertz”
- Pip Blom – “It Should’ve Been Fun”
Fullmetal Racket; DJ
- Jeff Rosenstock – “Airwalks (Alt)”
- SeeYouSpaceCowboy… – “Life as a Soap Opera Plot, 26 Years Running”
- Undo K From Hot – “Missing Information”
Your Friendly Local Bird-Themed Noise Maker; DJ
- voljum – “café mañana”
- Bent Knee – “Queer Gods”
- Efterklang – “Åbent Sår (feat. The Field)”
Ewan; DJ Off Belay
- Paris Texas – “Bullseye”
- Earl Sweatshirt – “2010”
- Clairo – “Amoeba”
Eddie; DJ Osiris
- Madlib – “Road of the Lonely Ones”
- Isaiah Rashad – “Headshots (4r Da Locals)”
- Yeek – 3000 Miles (Baby Baby)
H.W. Longfella; DJ
- Lil Ugly Mane – “porcelain slightly”
- Fievel Is Glauque – “Goodbye”
- Bruiser Wolf – “Use Me (I’m Dope)”
toad maiden; DJ
- Webbed Wing – “Taylor’s Theme”
- Turnstile – “HOLIDAY”
- Fuzz – “Earthen Gate – Live”
johnny ghost; DJ
- Shannon & The Clams – “Midnight Wine”
- Des Rocs – “Ruby with the Sharpest Lies”
- La Luz – “The Pines”
young iowa; DJ
- Knocked Loose – “Permanent”
- Spiritbox – “Hurt You”
- Gulch – “Bolt Swallower”
Lise Nox; DJ
- Arlo Parks – “Eugene”
- HAIM – “Los Angeles”
- SEB – “god of the sunsets”
T-Time; DJ
- SeeYouSpaceCowboy… – Misinterpreting Constellations
- Pinegrove – “Orange”
- Origami Angel – “Neutrogena Spektor”
Brice; DJ Snapdragon
- Smino – “I Deserve (w/ NOS.)”
- Bad Bunny – “Lo Siento BB:/”
- Father – “Let’s Kick His Ass!”
Zen; DJ
- The 8-Bit Big Band, Tiffany Mann – “Snake Eater (From “Metal Gear Solid 3″)”
- H ZETTRIO – “風待月”
- La La Lars – “Det Blev Sent”
- Dumb – “Pretty Sick”
- TV Girl, Jordana – “Summer’s Over”
- Xiu Xiu – “A Bottle of Rum (ft. Liz Harris)”
- Kero Kero Bonito – “Well Rested”
- Japanese Breakfast – “Be Sweet”
- Rosie Tucker – “Ambrosia”
space cadet; DJ
- Wednesday – “Cody’s Only”
- Shame – “Snow Day”
- Black Midi – “Ascending Forth”
- Stan Christ – “Trepidation”
- UNIIQU3 – “Microdosing”
- L Major – “Can’t Do It”
Ben; chef
- DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ – “Spirit”
- Lael Neale – “How Far Is It to the Grave”
- Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine – “Back to Oz”
Wild Waste; upcoming Chainsaw DJ and Podcast Creator
- Mastodon – “Pain With An Anchor”
- Animals as Leaders – “Monomyth”
- Gojira – “Sphinx”
- Hand Habits – “Clean Air”
- The Weather Station – “Tried to Tell You”
- Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen – “Like I Used To”
- Jessie Ware – “Please”
- Doss – “Puppy”
- Hiatus Kaiyote – “Red Room”