For the sixth year in a row, WKNC would like to share the top albums and songs enjoyed by our DJs and staff in 2025! A spotify playlist containing all songs is available here.
Scrimble (Sarah), General Manager and DJ
Top Albums
- Rebecca Black – “Salvation”
- Addison Rae – “Addison”
- shego – “No lo volveré a hacer”
Top Songs
- After – “Deep Diving”
- FKA Twigs – “Cheap Hotel”
- Alexandra Savior – “Unforgivable”
cashmere woods (Roxby), Underground Music Director and DJ
Top Albums
- Racing Mount Pleasant – “Racing Mount Pleasant”
- Wednesday – “Bleeds”
- Jason Isbell – “Foxes in the Snow”
Top Songs
- Racing Mount Pleasant – “Emily”
- Mike & Tony Seltzer – “Dolemite”
- Oldstar – “Christmas”
Mayday (Lindsay), DJ
Top Albums
- Geese – “Getting Killed”
- Baxter Dury – “Allbarone”
- Turnstile – “NEVER ENOUGH”
Top Songs
- Geese – “Taxes”
- Joyce Manor – “Well, Whatever It Was”
- Dove Ellis – “Pale Song”
DJ Sles (Alex), Lounge Director, Video Content Creator and DJ
Top Albums
- Weatherday – “Hornet Disaster”
- They are gutting a body of water – “LOTTO”
- Winter – “Adult Romantix”
Top Songs
- They are gutting a body of water – “American Food”
- Winter – “Misery”
- Weatherday – “Angel”
Wizard of Gore (Amber), Chainsaw Music Director and DJ
Top Albums
- Clipse – “Let God Sort Em Out”
- Zeicrydeus – “Le grande hérésie”
- Shāhanshāh – “Faryād: Barpākhiz! Rastākhiz!”
Top Songs
- Swans – “(Rope) Away”
- Dead and Dripping – “Swollen Torsos Adorned With Pulsating Hexagonal Crania”
- billy woods – “Lead Paint Test (ft. ELUCID and Cavalier)”
Orbital Deathlaser (Joy), DJ
Top Albums
- Machine Girl – “PsychoWarrior: MG Ultra X”
- psychoangel – “sounds of future breakbeat”
- Jane Remover – “Revengeseekerz”
Top Songs
- Machine Girl – “Come On Baby, Scrape My Data”
- Snail’s House – “Moon Rabbit”
- Jane Remover – “TURN UP OR DIE”
Heavensent, DJ
Top Albums
- Quadeca – “Vanisher, Horizon Scraper”
- Maruja – “Pain to Power”
- Rosalía – “LUX”
Top Songs
- Mydreamfever – “Strange and Funny World”
- Quadeca and Maruja – “CASPER”
- Moribet – “Anhedonia”
DJ Crush (Mason), DJ
Top Albums
- Florence and the Machine – “Everybody Scream”
- Pinkpantheress – “Fancy That”
Top Songs
- Florence and the Machine – Perfume and Milk
- Pinkpantheress – Stateside
- hemlocke springs – head, shoulders, knees and ankles
dj vile (Viktoria), DJ
Top Albums
- Frost Children – “SISTER”
- Pixel Grip – “Perceptide: The Death of Reality”
Top Songs
- Girl Brutal – “Heather”
- Frost Children – “WHAT IS FOREVER FOR”
- Alice Longyu Gao – “LET THE MUSIC TALK”
Babesicle, DJ
Top Albums
- Kerosene Heights – “Blame It On The Weather”
- SCOBY – “The Perfect Pleasure”
- INFINXTY – “May Your Heart Be Your Guiding Key”
Top Songs
- Weymouth – “Deathcult Superstars”
- Kerosene Heights – “Forget It”
- Moving Boxes – “Slap Ya Mama Seasoning”
Origen, DJ
Top Albums
- Hidden Renaissance, New Villain, T H R O N E, and WaffleJax – “TROIKA”
- Catharsis – “Hope Against Hope”
- Delightful Dekadenss – “Court of Souls”
Top Songs
- Hidden Renaissance, New Villain, T H R O N E, and WaffleJax – “Palabreros en Paradoja”
- In The Circle – “Shaman Mushroom”
- Catharsis – “Power”
dj starburst (Emi), Program Director and DJ
Top Albums
- Weatherday – “Hornet Disaster”
- Fleshwater – “2000: In Search Of Endless Sky”
- Die Spitz – “Something to Consume”
Top Songs
- Weatherday – “Chopland Sedans”
- Peach Rings – “heart-shaped leaf”
- Die Spitz – “Throw Yourself To The Sword”
DJ JustinTime, Sunset Music Director and DJ
Top Albums
- Wednesday – “Bleeds”
- Geese – “Getting Killed”
- MIKE – “Showbiz!”
Top Songs
- Wednesday – Phish Pepsi
- Geese – Trinidad
- Way Dynamic – Miffed It
Petey, DJ
Top Albums
- Wednesday – “Bleeds”
- Teethe – “Magic of the Sale”
- Water From Your Eyes – “It’s A Beautiful Place”
Top Songs
- Teethe – “Tires and Bookmarks”
- Wednesday – “Bitter Everyday”
- Charlie Paso – “True Blue Angel”
Garren, DJ
Top Albums
- Flyte – “Between You and Me”
- Bleachers – “From The Studio To The Stage (Live from Madison Square Garden, NYC)”
Top Songs
- Sam Fender – “I’m Always On Stage”
- Gerhard Daum – “Northern Lights”
- Flyte – “I Just Can’t Believe That We’re Friends”
DJ tchotchke – DJ
Top Albums
- Worldpeace DMT – “The Velvet Underground and Rowan”
- Glad I Didn’t Get My Stupid Wish – “Stupid Wish 2”
- Safe Mind – “Cutting The Stone”
Top Songs
- Glad I Didn’t Get My Stupid Wish – “death drive”
- ear – “The Most Dear and The Future”
- Worldpeace DMT – “Love Yourself”