WKNC 88.1 FM - North Carolina State University Student RadioThe Local Beat: Thirsty Curses
DJ Beowvlf is live with Thirsty Curses in the studio playing some tracks off their self-titled album. The cover topics such as their music videos, transitions as a band, & where they fit within the Raleigh music scene.
For more on Thirsty Curses’ new album, check out our review from Assistant Daytime Music Director Safia Rizwan.
For more on Thirsty Curses’ new album, check out our review from Assistant Daytime Music Director Safia Rizwan.
Artist Record Label
1 GASPAR SANZ Meanderthal [EP] Helium
2 GEOWULF My Resignation PIAS
3 DAYGLOW Fuzzybrain Self-Released
4 BLACK SURFER Black Surfer [EP] Self-Released
5 NEW PORNOGRAPHERS In the Morse Code Of Brake Lights Concord
6 VARSITY The Basement Takes Run For Cover
7 TURNOVER Altogether Run For Cover
8 BASEMENT REVOLVER Wax And Digital [EP] Sonic Unyon
9 CHASTITY BELT Chastity Belt Hardly Art
10 PEAER A Healthy Earth Tiny Engines
11 BODYWASH Comforter Luminelle
12 FRANKIE COSMOS Close It Quietly Sub Pop
13 METZ Automat Sub Pop
14 CHERRY GLAZERR Stuffed & Ready Secretly Canadian
15 CRUMB Jinx Self-Released
16 MAUNO Really Well Tin Angel
17 STRANGE RANGER Remembering The Rockets Tiny Engines
18 (SANDY) ALEX G House Of Sugar Domino
19 DUDE YORK Falling Hardly Art
20 CEREMONY In The Spirit World Now Relapse
21 CHARLY BLISS Young Enough Barsuk
22 PHANTASTIC FERNITURE Phantastic Ferniture Polyvinyl
23 SURF CURSE Heaven Surrounds You Danger Collective
24 DARKSOFT Brain Self-Released
25 BEAST Ens Thrill Jockey
26 CLAUD Sideline Star [EP] The Orchard
27 TROPICAL FUCK STORM Braindrops Joyful Noise
28 CRITICALS, THE Mimosa Hygiene [EP] Self-Released
29 LONG BEARD Means To Me Double Double Whammy
30 TEEN BODY Dreamo Broken Circles
TOP ADDS
1 CHRISTINE RENNER “Tonight” [EP] Self-Released
2 ALEXANDRIA MAILLOT Benevolence Self-Released
3 PALACE Life After Avenue A/Fiction
4 SNOWDONIA Veneers Self-Released
5 LITTLE MONARCH Grains [EP] Super Bloom
6 COMMON HOLLY When I Say To You Black Lightning Barsuk/Solitaire
7 JUNIOR ASTRONOMERS Body Language Self-Released
Artist Record Label
1 CATTLE DECAPITATION Death Atlas Metal Blade
2 I DECLARE WAR Downcast [EP] Self-Released
3 DESPISED ICON Purgatory Nuclear Blast
4 INFANT ANNIHILATOR The Battle of Yaldabaoth Self-Released
5 KUBLAI KHAN Absolute Rise
6 CARNIFEX World War X Nuclear Blast
7 AFTER THE BURIAL Evergreen Sumerian
8 MESHIAAK Mask Of All Misery Mascot
9 COUNTERPARTS Nothing Left To Love Pure Noise
10 SILVERTOMB Edge Of Existence Long Branch
The end of 2019 marks the end of the decade. I honestly didn’t think much of it until Spotify reminded me, but after I got to thinking about how much things can change in a decade. Since 2010 started we’ve had a lot happen in the world (don’t worry I won’t go into anything here because a decade is a lot to cover) but my point is there has been rapid change in the world and that change hasn’t left any aspect of life the same, especially not music. We just finished a unit, in my music literature class, on last year’s pulitzer prize winner Kendrick Lamar, which pushed a huge conversation on music, specifically the direction hip-hop is taking in our world. I think the timing is perfect for the new decade since it’s about time hip-hop and other incredible works get more recognition and don’t get pushed aside because they don’t fit the classical definition of ‘high class’ music. It’s about time that definition changed.
But that’s just a part of the story. The fact of the matter is this was a huge decade for music because technology has changed our world A LOT. Making music is the most accessible it’s ever been, it’s not just something done by the few and far who can access it anymore, anyone can make anything and publish it. This huge change will only further the development of music going into the next decade, I mean it already has but since the new decade also has that and the new discussions that came with Kendricks win I think we’re in for a lot of change in the next decade. Change can be scary, but I’m pretty excited for the possibilities here. Entrepreneurship and the arts are making such a bold leap these days I wonder just how much new material we’ll have in the next decade and what new developments will come our way.
What do you think? Will technology and the discussion of what ‘high class’ music is rapidly change the music scene in the coming decade? Are you looking forward to it or have any predictions? I think genres will be challenged even more and music will become even more abstract then it already can be, do you agree?
– DJ Psyched
It’s the end of the year and since everyone’s sharing their spotify wrapped I figured I would too. Just the 2019 one though, I’m not sure I want to expose myself by sharing my decade. I have to say I wasn’t really surprised by anything (I mean I know what I listen to), but it is super fun getting a rundown of the data.
My favorite part is that top 100 song playlist, I’ve had a serious nostalgia trip this week listening to that since a lot of the music I listened to at the start of this year I haven’t heard since then. It’s odd how emotionally heavy it can be looking at the year through music, it’s not even just the music (though that totally counts because the music you listen to can say a lot about where you and your head are), but because I usually get a vivid picture in my mind of where I was when I first heard the song. Memories come flooding in and I begin to realize just how much has gone on this year. Anyhow, to get it over with here is DJ Psycheds Spotify Wrapped for 2019.
Top Artists : #1 Smallpools
I love this band a lot (obviously) and they were the first band I saw in concert this year at Motorco. I first started listening to them when I was a freshman and the show was so amazing I’ve had their setlist on repeat ever since.
2. Clarence Clarity 3. Arrested Youth 4. Panic! At The Disco 5. Mike Shinoda
Top Genres : Indie Pop (as an indie DJ this was expected, Pop (I didn’t see that one coming but then again my workout playlists is pretty pop heavy), Lo-fi beats (I listen to that lofi study playlist a lot so sounds about right), Rap and Modern Rock
Top 10 Songs : #1 We change by Clarence Clarity #2 Naysayer, Magick Obeyer by Clarence Clarity
These two songs are amazing, the whole album is but these two songs get me everytime. I have yet to get tired of these tracks and the transition between them is so smooth I can see how they became my top two songs, it’s hard for me to listen to one and not want to listen to the other
3. Blood // Water by grandson 4. Get to You by The Honeysticks 5. Promises I Can’t Keep by Mike Shinoda 6. Don’t Know How by Ricky Montgomery 7. (finally getting more into that indie music) Death, Thrice Drawn by The Scary Jokes 8. Wavy Gravy by Okey Dokey 9. Trippy by Mindchatter 10. Ok by J.P. Plains
So what were your top listens of the year (Spotify user or not)?
P.s. Panic! At The Disco was my artist of the decade.
– DJ Psyched
