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Weekly Charts

Daytime Charts 11/26

Artist Record Label
1 PEACH PYRAMID Bright Blue Oscar St
2 BASEMENT REVOLVER Wax And Digital [EP] Sonic Unyon
3 DAYGLOW Fuzzybrain Self-Released
4 ARSON DAILY What’s on Your Mind? Self-Released
5 BARRIE Happy To Be Here (Ext) [EP] Winspear
6 NEW PORNOGRAPHERS In the Morse Code Of Brake Lights Concord
7 GEOWULF My Resignation PIAS
8 CHASTITY BELT Chastity Belt Hardly Art
9 PEAER A Healthy Earth Tiny Engines
10 METZ Automat Sub Pop
11 FLORAL PRINT Floral Print Tiny Engines
12 STRANGE RANGER Remembering The Rockets Tiny Engines
13 PURPLE MOUNTAINS Purple Mountains Drag City
14 LE BIG ZERO Ollie Oxen Free Self-Released
15 (SANDY) ALEX G House Of Sugar Domino
16 FRANKIE COSMOS Close It Quietly Sub Pop
17 MALLSEX Discreet Services Self-Released
18 MENZINGERS, THE Hello Exile Epitaph
19 CLAUD Sideline Star [EP] The Orchard
20 GREEN BUZZARD Amidst The Clutter And Mess I Oh You
21 GREAT GRANDPA Four Of Arrows Double Double Whammy
22 WILCO Ode To Joy dBpm
23 OH SEES Face Stabber Castle Face
24 BETHS, THE Future Me Hates Me Carpark
25 CEREMONY In The Spirit World Now Relapse
26 HANA VU Nicole Kidman/Anne Hathaway Luminelle
27 HARMALEIGHS, THE She Won’t Make Sense Nettwerk
28 MASS GOTHIC I’ve Tortured You Long Enough Sub Pop
29 SOCCER MOMMY “Yellow Is The Color Of Her Eyes” [Single] Loma Vista
30 RICHARD SHIRK Arcadia Self-Released

TOP ADDS

1 BEST SLEEP Hummingbird Self-Released
2 VARSITY The Basement Takes Run For Cover
3 TERRY DATSUN Fable of the Seas Self-Released
4 BLACK SURFER Black Surfer [EP] Self-Released
5 TIM AYRE Tim Ayre [EP] Kitsune
6 SOCCER MOMMY “Yellow Is The Color Of Her Eyes” [Single] Loma Vista
7 ARIEL VIEW Until My Lungs Are Cleared Epitaph
8 MILLY Our First Four Songs [EP] Dangerbird
9 GIRL RAY Girl Moshi Moshi
10 MACSEAL Super Enthusiast 6131

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Weekly Charts

Underground Charts 11/26

Artist Record Label
1 DENZEL CURRY Zuu Loma Vista/Concord
2 EARTHGANG Mirrorland Dreamville
3 TYLER THE CREATOR Igor Columbia
4 MALIBU KEN Malibu Ken Rhymesayers
5 AMINE “Places + Faces” [Single] Republic
6 BROCKHAMPTON Ginger Question Everything/RCA
7 BLACK MILK DiVE [EP] Computer Ugly
8 FRANK OCEAN “DHL” [Single] Def Jam
9 ROOTS, THE Phrenology MCA
10 LES THE GENIUS “Raleighwood Hills” [Single] Self-Released

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New Album Review

ALBUM REVIEW: Macseal – Super Enthusiast

ALBUM REVIEW: Macseal – Super Enthusiast

BEST TRACKS: Picture Perfect, Always Hazy, Upside Down Again

FCC Clean

Recommended If You Like: Oso Oso, Slaughter Beach Dog, American Football, Remo Drive

Macseal has been teasing us ever since 2015, releasing EP after EP, giving us small morsels of delicious music but keeping us ravenously hungry for a proper full length album. Finally, earlier this month, our prayers were answered and Macseal released an exciting, vibrant album that I am gobbling up. From Long Island, NY, Macseal is a 4-piece American indie rock band with pop influences that have a unique talent for forging sunny melodies supported by relatable lyrical narratives. They have an impressive track record for putting on exhilarating live shows and are currently touring the eastern and southern United States and they are coming to Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle on February 4th!

This pop-infused punk album is bliss from start to finish, featuring elements of insane math rock rhythms, light, glittering guitar work, and crystal clear vocals. Super Enthusiast is a romantic, breezy listen, spotted with small emotional outcries that are easily accessible to anyone. With bittersweet tracks like Mystery Inc., which is about outgrowing people, and Graduating Steps, which is about revisiting your old school after many years, this album could easily soundtrack a rebellious teenage coming of age movie.

When I listen to this album, I can’t help from picturing the sun glistening on the surface of a lake. But don’t be fooled, because even though the music is upbeat, if you get into the lyrics, you’ll find that they’re pretty glum, confronting the rapid passage of time and the challenges of getting older in such a cold, unforgiving universe. I find that I can listen to this kind of happy-sad music through thick and thin and it always finds a way to resonate with me. If you like drawing on the sidewalk with chalk or taking bubble baths, you’re probably going to love this album.

-Safia Rizwan

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Weekly Charts

Chainsaw Charts 11/26

Artist Record Label
1 LORNA SHORE “Death Portrait” [Single] Century Media
2 COUNTERPARTS Nothing Left To Love Pure Noise
3 DESPISED ICON Purgatory Nuclear Blast
4 LEFT BEHIND No One Goes to Heaven Pure Noise
5 KING DIAMOND “Masquerade Of Madness” [Single] Metal Blade
6 VATICAN “Ex Nihilo” [Single] 1126
7 MESHIAAK Mask Of All Misery Mascot
8 CREEPING DEATH Wretched Illusions eOne
9 SKYBLOOD Skyblood Napalm
10 THY ART IS MURDER Human Target Nuclear Blast

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Local Music

Support Local Music

 

Support local anything honestly.

Thank you for reading.

Just kidding, I won’t you hanging like that, but I did want to get my bottom line out there before anyone got bored of my rambling. I think supporting the local art scenes is very important; local markets, local businesses, etc., totally count to. You’re local scene can only thrive and grow with the support of… well… the locals. Which is you and me. It’s important to remember that as members of our community we should be trying to be apart of our community and helping it thrive.

So shop local, listen to a local band, go to a local show, attend local events, and get to know the people around you. Not to go on some weird tangent, but I think communities are important means of support for each other, if we aren’t looking out for our community who is? We’re a community here at NC State, at WKNC, and in Raleigh. Communities are everywhere and you need to give support in order to get it. Never forget that. So if you ever want to start a business someday, or make your own local living in some way, remember that’s only possible with community support, so as community members we should go out now and start supporting.

Even if you don’t plan to do something yourself through a lot of local businesses still have good visions and are benefiting our world (and community) by simply existing, so support them and let them carry out their missions. I’m not going to get political here but corporations shouldn’t run everything, local work is important and that is why we should all take part in supporting it.

Thank you for reading if you got this far~

– DJ Psyched

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New Album Review

ALBUM REVIEW: Best Sleep – Hummingbird

BEST TRACKS: Three More Months, Furnace, keys, Indiana Dropout

FCC Violations: Weird, Three More Months

Recommended if you like: Rozwell Kid, PUP, Jeff Rosenstock, together PANGEA, Fuzz

2019 has been an eventful year for DIY punk rock, producing skull-shattering albums like PUP’s Morbid Stuff and BRUTUS’s Nest. Hummingbird is an exciting, captivating DIY punk rock album that belongs right up there at the same level as Best Sleep’s more well-known contemporaries. Song after song, this album just kept drawing me in with the rawness of the lyrics and power of the instrumentation. Best Sleep is a relatively new 4-piece band from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Though they haven’t been on the scene for long, they released an amazing EP last spring that pulled on my heartstrings so hard that they snapped. To my delight, they carried that momentum and released a gut-wrenchingly melancholic full-length album, Hummingbird, right in time for seeping in the winter blues.

Hummingbird has strikingly beautiful, dark melodies and enthralling intensity. Every time the energy shifts, introducing the booming percussion and fuzzy bass, it will release your soul from its earthly bond. My favorite song on the album is track 7, Three More Months. The song opens with a hauntingly dark riff and transitions into anguished vocals. If you’ve been reading my reviews for a while, you know that I’m a huge sucker for intense fuzz and feedback, which this song (and whole album) has a ton of.

Just so you’re warned, there is no subtlety or sugarcoating here. Obergfell and Richardson are not afraid of writing blunt lyrics straight from the heart. This album tackles a lot of heavy themes, especially about the struggles that come along with getting older and getting tossed out into the cold, cruel world. Track 2, Furnace is about not having enough money to keep the heat on through the winter. Track 3, Son of the Year, confronts the pressing guilt that comes with feeling like you don’t talk to your family enough.

If Winter is a hard time for you, give this album a spin and you might feel a little less alone.

-Safia

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Music News and Interviews

My Chemical Romance is back

 

Well… sort of. As far as we know right now this is just one reunion tour. Don’t get me wrong though this is not underwhelming news at all. For anyone who’s been following the band for some time now, and knows how much this has been rumored over the years, it’s awesome to see it actually become a reality. I really didn’t think it would happen after like the 4th false claim, but I’m happy to be proven wrong.

After being reminded about one of my old favorite bands again I’ve caught myself listening to a lot of MCR in the gym (and on the way to class, and before bed, and while I showered, and basically anytime I put my headphones on) you know, as one does. I have to admit, and I’m really not ashamed to since this reunion is proof I’m not the only my chem fan still out there, that I was a huge fan in high school and still am. They’re still my #1 lifetime artist on Spotify. 

The other day I was thinking about who my chem fans are now. I think a lot of us who listened to this band now are definitely not the people we were when we started listening to them. Cause you know, growing up is a thing, sadly. so I think it’ll be pretty cool to see a crowd of vastly different people attending this tour.

Some of my friends who were huge My Chem fans are not into pop, electronic, metal, indie, hip-hop, rap, etc., really what I’m saying is you never know who was once a my chem fan. I think that will definitely make this reunion tour a pretty cool one, and I’m really excited to see if they’re planning to make any new music together.

Are you excited for the My Chem reunion tour? Because I’m already saving for my ticket…

– DJ Psyched

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Podcasts

Shawn’s Soapbox: Personal Development, International Travel, and Making Dreams Come True With Daeja Woodard| Episode 7

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Weekly Charts

Daytime Charts 11/19

Artist Record Label
1 CHASTITY BELT Chastity Belt Hardly Art
2 (SANDY) ALEX G House Of Sugar Domino
3 PEACH PYRAMID Bright Blue Oscar St
4 BARRIE Happy To Be Here (Ext) [EP] Winspear
5 CRUMB Jinx Self-Released
6 NEW PORNOGRAPHERS In the Morse Code Of Brake Lights Concord
7 GRINGO STAR Controlled Burn Baby Robot
8 FRANKIE COSMOS Close It Quietly Sub Pop
9 PIP BLOM Boat Heavenly/PIAS
10 KATE TEAGUE Kate Teague [EP] Muscle Beach
11 METZ Automat Sub Pop
12 MANNEQUIN PUSSY Patience Epitaph
13 STRANGE RANGER Remembering The Rockets Tiny Engines
14 MITSKI Be The Cowboy Dead Oceans
15 ZACK MEXICO The Page The Pope and The Hanged Man Self-Released
16 JULIA SHAPIRO Perfect Version Hardly Art
17 SURF CURSE Heaven Surrounds You Danger Collective
18 TRUTH CLUB Not An Exit Tiny Engines
19 MARIKA HACKMAN Any Human Friend [EP] Sub Pop
20 BABE RAINBOW, THE Today 30th Century
21 BLACK BELT EAGLE SCOUT At The Party With My Brown Friends Saddle Creek
22 TURNOVER Altogether Run For Cover
23 GUAX EGuaxe OAR
24 BEACH HOUSE Lemon Glow Bella Union
25 CHRISTELLE BOFALE Swim Team [EP ]Father/Daughter
26J AY SOM Anak Ko Polyvinyl
27 GOOD RIDDANCE Thoughts And Prayers Fat Wreck
28 BOY SCOUTS Free Company Anti-
29 SHIKOSWE Back In The Tall Grass Self-Released
30 FLORIST Emily Alone Double Double Whammy

TOP ADDS

1 DARKSOFT Brain Self-Released
2 MARGAUX More Brilliant Is The Hand That Throws The Coin Massif
3 MATT MALTESE Krystal 7476
4 BEAUTIFUL DUDES Radio Mama Bird
5 GREEN BUZZARD Amidst The Clutter And Mess I Oh You
6 HOUG “” [Single] Self-Released
7 DEER, THE Do No Harm Keeled Scales
8 SKINSHAPE Filoxiny Lewis
9 DAYGLOW Fuzzybrain Self-Released
10 RUSSIAN BATHS Deepfake Good Eye

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Weekly Charts

Afterhours Charts 11/19

Artist Record Label
1 ROBYN “Beach2k20 (Yaeji Remix)” [Single] Konichiwa
2 COWGIRL CLUE Icebreaker Vada Vada
3 SLAYYYTER Slayyyter Self-Released
4 HOT CHIP A Bath Full Of Ecstasy Domino
5 JACQUES GREENE Dawn Chorus Lucky Me
6 BESHKEN Aisle Of Palm Self-Released
7 YEULE Serotonin II Bayonet
8 DEVATA DAUN Pye Luis [EP] Pytch
9 GRACE IVES 2nd Dots Per Inch
10 PEGGY GOU “Starry Night” [Single] Gudu