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Songs to fit the vibe

 

Music really hits differently based on your mood, so I’d talk about some songs to fit an uplifting vibe. I’ve made about a hundred different playlists for pick-me-up songs, from ‘Hype Music’ to ‘I love these songs with everything in me’. It’s like one of those youtube compilation videos you watch that have oddly specific titles but somehow fit your mood just right, anyhow without further or do here are some of my favorite pick-me-up tunes

  • Natural Supersoul by Superfood

    • If any song could make me feel like the coolest thing it would be this song, the vibe is so mellow it makes you kinda grove along, but the lyrics really always get me feelin like a Nat-ur-al Sup-er-soul

  • Younger by A Great Big World

    • Nothing quite like a throwback song to make you remember the good old times of childhood life

  • Hanna’s Theme by The Chemical Brothers

    • This song has no lyrics, it’s just really nice humming, call me crazy but I find this song so peaceful and relaxing I used to listen to it every night while falling asleep

  • One Day by Matisyahu

    • This song is just beautiful, and I think the message is really powerful

  • Something Good Can Work by Two Door Cinema Club

    • I’ve never made a good vibes playlist without this one, it’s a must to me, if you ever feel like things never workout this is the song to put on, because it’s a nice reminder that something good can work

What are some of your top good vibes songs?

– DJ Psyched

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EOT301 Jennifer Hall: Lung Cancer Awareness Month, Aaron Kling: State of Lung Cancer, North Carolina News Network 11/17/19

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Local Music New Album Review

Album Review: Thirsty Curses – Thirsty Curses

BEST TRACKS: VHS Release, Red Marks, I Want to Wreck Your Car

FCC Violations: VHS Release, Smash-Hit, Slice of Paradise, You Don’t Have to Tell Me That You Love Me,

Recommended if you like: PUP, The Fratellis, The Front Bottoms

Thirsty Curses pummels the scene once again with a new, label debut album. Thirsty Curses is a local four-piece rock and roll band straight out of our own beloved city of Raleigh, NC. Their latest album, which is self-titled, was released last Friday! I had the privilege of listening to this album before it was released on streaming platforms and I was blow away by the raw energy and deep cutting lyrics encompassed in this release. I am so excited for you guys to finally be able to listen to it. There was also a record release show at School Kids Records last Friday and while I wasn’t able to make it (I had a Biochemistry test that I had to cram for ☹), I heard that it kicked ass and that the album was received phenomenally well. I wouldn’t have expected anything different from Thirsty Curses. They’ve been putting out good stuff since 2017.

There is some phenomenal songwriting on this album. In every song, the lyrics flow and swing together extremely harmoniously, creating a sense of continuity and balance that lets you just sink deep into the music. My favorite song on this album is track 1, VHS Release. Packed into this short, 2 minute 39 second song are several punky riffs, lighthearted drums, and some creative similes that outline heavy themes of being anxious and dissatisfied with your mediocre life, feeling lost about what to do next, and craving a clean start.

If you like drinking beer or if you’ve ever dressed up like a pirate for Halloween, you’ll probably like this album.

I feel hopeful whenever a local band comes out with an album this fresh and amazing. It shows that we don’t have to look far beyond our own backyards to find incredible talent. Fight the corporate machine, keep supporting local music.

-Safia

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Off the Record: Brazen Youth

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Weekly Charts

Daytime Charts 11/12

Artist Record Label
1 PEACH PYRAMID Bright Blue Oscar St
2 CHASTITY BELT Chastity Belt Hardly Art
3 (SANDY) ALEX G House Of Sugar Domino
4 BARRIE Happy To Be Here (Ext) [EP] Winspear
5 NEW PORNOGRAPHERS In the Morse Code Of Brake Lights Concord
6 MANNEQUIN PUSSY Patience Epitaph
7 BABE RAINBOW, THE Today 30th Century
8 TURNOVER Altogether Run For Cover
9 FRANKIE COSMOS Close It Quietly Sub Pop
10 CRUMB Jinx Self-Released
11 ERTHLINGS Indigo [EP] Future Classic
12 BODYWASH Comforter Luminelle
13 GREAT GRANDPA Four Of Arrows Double Double Whammy
14 JULIA SHAPIRO Perfect Version Hardly Art
15 SARAH BETHE NELSON Weird Glow Burger
16 A BEACON SCHOOL Cola Grind Select/House Arrest
17 FRENCH VANILLA How Am I Not Myself? Danger Collective
18 SURF CURSE Heaven Surrounds You Danger Collective
19 CLAUD Sideline Star [EP] The Orchard
20 GRINGO STAR Controlled Burn Baby Robot
21 NIGHT SINS Portrait In Silver Funeral Party
22 NATHAN BAJAR Playroom In Real Life
23 SNAIL MAIL Habit [EP] Matador
24 PINEGROVE Marigold [Advance Tracks] Rough Trade/Beggars
25 B BOYS Dudu Captured Tracks
26 GREBES House Creatures Broken Circles
27 BOY SCOUTS Free Company Anti-
28 PALEHOUND Black Friday Polyvinyl
29 DIASPOURA Demonstrations Self-Released
30 PEAER A Healthy Earth Tiny Engines

TOP ADDS 

1 CHASTITY BELT Chastity Belt Hardly Art
2 GREAT GRANDPA Four Of Arrows Double Double Whammy
3 TURNOVER Altogether Run For Cover
4 RICHARD SHIRK Arcadia Self-Released
5 WILCO Ode To Joy dBpm
6 BASEMENT REVOLVER Wax And Digital [EP] Sonic Unyon
7 BEGINNER’S MIND, THE Ego Death 13 ‘O’ Clock
8 LANDON ELLIOTT Domino American Paradox
9 GEOWULF My Resignation PIAS
10 DESERT SESSIONS Vol. 11 & 12 Matador/Beggars

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Pack Is Life 58: 10/17/19-10/24/19

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Underground Charts 11/12

Artist Record Label
1 DENZEL CURRY Zuu Loma Vista/Concord
2 SK, THE NOVELIST Baggage Self-Released
3 NONAME Room 25 Self-Released
4 MIKE War in my Pen 10k, Lex
5 RICO NASTY Anger Management Atlantic
6 BONES LivingSucks Self-Released
7 TIERRA WHACK “Unemployed” [Single] Self-Released
8 BUDDY Harlan & Alondra Star Trak Entertainment, RCA, Interscope, I Am Other
9 BROCKHAMPTON Ginger Question Everything/RCA
10 BIG L The Big Picture Rawkus, Columbia, Sony Entertainment, Priority

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Pack Is Life 57: 10/7/19-10/16/19

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Afterhours Charts 11/12

Artist Record Label
1 KAYTRANADA Nothin Like U/Chances [EP] RCA
2 TORO Y MOI Soul Trash Carpark
3 KEDR LIVANSKIY Your Need 2MR
4 MALL GRAB How the Dogs Chill, Vol. 1 [EP] Looking For Trouble
5 ROBYN “Beach2k20 (Yaeji Remix)” [Single] Konichiwa
6 18 CARAT AFFAIR Spent Passions 2 Self-Released
7 CARIBOU “Home” [Single] Merge
8 GRACE IVES 2nd Dots Per Inch
9 SLAYYYTER Slayyyter Slayyyter
10 HUSH HUSH Thinkin Bout You [EP] Self-Released

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Chainsaw Charts 11/12

Artist Record Label
1 DESPISED ICON Purgatory Nuclear Blast
2 I DECLARE WAR Downcast [EP] Self-Released
3 COUNTERPARTS Nothing Left To Love Pure Noise
4 CATTLE DECAPITATION “One Day Closer to the End of the World” [Single] Metal Blade
5 VAMACHARA Hereafter [EP] Closed Casket Activities
6 SHAME SPIRAL “A Remanufactured Fear” [Single] Self-Released
7 EDGE OF PARADISE Universe Frontiers
8 CREEPING DEATH Wretched Illusions e One
9 JINJER Macro Napalm
10 THY ART IS MURDER Human Target Nuclear Blast