WKNC 88.1 FM - North Carolina State University Student Radio
Artist Record Label
1 LAMB OF GOD “Checkmate” [Single] Epic
2 TESTAMENT “Night Of The Witch” [Single] Nuclear Blast
3 SEPULTURA Quadra Nuclear Blast
4 SUICIDE SILENCE Become The Hunter Nuclear Blast
5 VARIALS In Darkness Fearless
6 MAGNITUDE To Whatever Faithful End Triple B
7 HANGMAN One By One FlatSpot
8 THE AMITY AFFLICTION Everyone Loves You… Once You Leave Them Pure Noise
9 WHITECHAPEL The Valley Metal Blade
10 SEEYOUSPACECOWBOY The Correlation Between Entrance And Exit Wounds Pure Noise
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Get Psyched intro music was created by PME, used by permission. Find PME on Spotify.
Get Psyched intro music was created by PME, used by permission. Find PME on Spotify.
Get Psyched Podcast Episode Highlight: DIY Series ft. The Saw
Photo contributed by The Saw
Erika aka ‘The Saw’ is a DJ at WKNC and has also been the Chainsaw music director for over three years now. She’s worked multiple other positions including Content Creator and Content Manager. As NACC’s DJ of the month for June 2019, The Saw has also emceed the state fair and introduced the buried and in 2018 and 2019. She also taught 2 workshops at the CBI convention! The Saw’s work is endless also including Interviewing bands, writing blog posts for WKNC and a personal website, hosting ‘The Saw’s Electric Chair Heavy Metal Podcast’, and so much more.
In this episode, The Saw gives us insight into how she got into metal and how it set her on her current path. Both her parents are metalheads who met in a moshpit ‘It’s in my roots’ she said. The DJ was also exposed to metal through her brothers who were in local bands and was involved with the scene as early as age 14 when she first went to Carolina Rebellion. ‘This is where I’m supposed to be, this is where I belong’, she said she knew this as soon as the show started ‘it filled a void in my heart’, after this she said ‘metal was always there for me’.
As far as getting into working at WKNC the DJ says her father told her about the station and suggested she try out DJing Chainsaw. She said she had no idea before and when she checked she saw that no one was currently in the genre. This is where she decided to fill the gap and started her mission to share metal with more people and make sure people see how special the genre is.
This is where Erika’s mission comes in. ‘There’s a stigma that metalheads are mean and you can’t talk to them’ she says. ‘The music might sound one way but the people are very kind’. Erika wants to show people the truth behind the genre and that there’s no need to stigmatize or judge based on how the music might sound. Since metal got her out of a rut, she wants to do anything she can to give back to the music. She says metal is an underground genre right now, so she wants to do all she can to shine some light on the genre and the bands in it, ‘I wouldn’t be here without the local bands’. This is why the saw started ‘The Bone Cruncher’, her local band metal segment at WKNC. This helped ‘The Butcher Shop’, another segment of The Saw’s, take off.
As I mentioned, The Saw has a website, attached below, is where she showcases all of her work. She plans to use the site to continue her work after college, using it as a ground base. She soon realized ‘I can really do something with this website’. She considers all of these platforms a way to show off all the band’s hard work, and she enjoys her role in the community. Especially being able to support these bands. She said she loves ‘Seeing the community come together’ and that ‘The DIY scene in all genres, it’s all helping one another out’. She’s participated in many benefit shows and says seeing the people come together is really what makes it worth it and what keeps her going. She enjoys the friendship and commodity of the scene. ‘You can be happy, metal isn’t that sad to be honest’.
As The Saw says ‘i’ve been a metalhead my entire life, it’s a lifestyle for me’ ‘my blood type is type O-neg, (which is) a metal band… that’s not a coincidence’.
– ‘You can’t get rid of DJ Psyched and The Saw’
Learn more about The Saw in The Saw’s Butcher Shop. The PsychoSaw Series continues on The Saw’s Electric Chair podcast.
ALBUM REVIEW: Destroyer – Have We Met
BEST TRACKS: The Raven, Crimson Tide
FCC Violations: Crimson Tide, The Television Music Supervisor, Cue Synthesizer, Foolssong
If you follow Dan Bejar, you probably know that he is a cherished member of indie pop band The New Pornographers, but what you might not know is that Dan Bejar is also the centerpiece of a much moodier rock project, Destroyer. Destroyer recently released an album Have We Met, which earned a whopping 8.5 on Pitchfork, so I was intrigued. When listening to music, I try not to take the album art into consideration but please bear with me as I comment on album art just this one time. I am a very visual person, and am often drawn to albums based solely on enticing album art. I hate when album covers are just a closeup, artsy picture of the artist. It’s just so average and seems very self-absorbed to me. After seeing Have We Met’s boring album cover, I almost didn’t listen to the album but I’m glad I did.
Bejar’s singing style, especially on the 5th track ‘The Raven’, sometimes morphs into a very intimate talking-singing-mumble akin to Jeffrey Lewis’ on the album A Turn in the Dream Songs. The instruments on this album are fairly minimal and simple, emphasizing mostly guitar and electronic keyboard, but the music is far from basic. The solemn, sometimes scattered notes create an exquisitely spooky, chilling atmosphere. Have We Met is dark, eerie, and weird. In fact, Bejar has said that he was influenced by the Twilight Zone and Edgar Allen Poe during the creation of this album. When I listen to this album, I immediately imagine it as the soundtrack to an art gallery exhibit in the MOMA filled with weird, abstract, smooth and spiky black sculptures. Listen to this album if you ever went through a phase where you were obsessed with misty graveyards, the Victorian era, and the supernatural.
-Safia
Artist Record Label
1 MARINARA I Feel Like Dog Self-Released
2 LOVING If I Am Only My Thoughts Last Gang
3 CAVEBOY Night In The Park, Kiss In The Dark Self-Released
4 KOKO NEETZ I.T.T.I.P. Admirable Traits
5 PAPOOZ Night Sketches Half Awake
6 BAD SOUNDS Escaping From A Violent Time, Vol. 1 [EP] Theory
7 SURF CURSE Heaven Surrounds You Danger Collective
8 CHRISTINE RENNER “Tonight” [EP] Self-Released
9 DAYGLOW Fuzzybrain Self-Released
10 ROYAL CANOE Waver Paper Bag
11 GENGAHR Sanctuary Liberator
12 COMMON HOLLY When I Say To You Black Lightning Barsuk/Solitaire
13 TURNOVER Altogether Run For Cover
14 BASEMENT REVOLVER Wax And Digital [EP] Sonic Unyon
15 GREEN BUZZARD Amidst The Clutter And Mess I Oh You
16 ALEXANDRIA MAILLOT Benevolence Self-Released
17 ALEXANDRA SAVIOR The Archer 30th Century
18 SNAIL MAIL Habit [EP] Matador
19 BODYWASH Comforter Luminelle
20 OMNI Networker Sub Pop
21 (SANDY) ALEX G House Of Sugar Domino
22 PEACH PYRAMID Bright Blue Oscar St
23 WILCO Ode To Joy dBpm
24 COLD BEAT Mother DFA
25 HOVVDY Heavy Lifter Double Double Whammy
26 FYOHNA Radio Sampler [EP] Self-Released
27 SLOTFACE Sorry For The Late Reply Nettwerk
28 GIRLPOOL What Chaos Is Imaginary Anti-
29 PUZZLE X Hail Burger
30 JAY SOM Anak Ko Polyvinyl
TOP ADDS
1 HELLO FOREVER Whatever It Is Self-Released
2 WILSEN Ruiner Secret City
3 BOX OF MOXIE Submission Admission Self-Released
4 CLIFFFS Panic Attack State Fair/We Know Better
5 WYNNM “” [Single] Self-Released
6 SQUIRREL FLOWER I Was Born Swimming Polyvinyl
7 DUNE RATS Hurry Up And Wait Rise/BMG
8 SON LITTLE aloha Anti-
9 BLASE “Limes” [Single] DK
10 GLASS BEACH The First Glass Beach Album Run For Cover
Artist Record Label
1 DABRYE Lil Mufukuz (ft. DOOM) Ghostlly International
2 SANGO, XAVIER OMAR “Sweet Holy Honey” [Single] Last Gang
3 LADY MOON AND THE ECLIPSE “Global Warning” [Single] Geza X
4 IDK 24 Clue No Clue
5 VINCE STAPLES No Bleedin Def Jam
6 LANCEY FOUX “India” [Single] PSYKE
7 DOMINOES SLIME Pain BORN CTZN
8 YBN CORDAE Wintertime Atlantic
9 MIKE Smoke 10k
10 ZACK COKAS “Notorious” [Single] Young Cack
Artist Record Label
1 SUICIDE SILENCE Become The Hunter Nuclear Blast
2 SEPULTURA Quadra Nuclear Blast
3 VARIALS In Darkness Fearless
4 THE AMITY AFFLICTION"Catatonia" [Single] Pure Noise
5 LAMB OF GOD"Checkmate" [Single] Epic
6 GREAT AMERICAN GHOST Power Through Terror eOne
7 SILENT PLANET “Trilogy” [Single] UNFD
8 ASKING ALEXANDRIA “They Don’t Want What We Want (And They Don’t Care” [Single] Sumerian
9 CODE ORANGE “Swallowing the Rabbit Whole” [Single] Roadrunner
10 LORNA SHORE Immortal Century Media
Best Songs: Such Small Hands, Andria, Nobody Not Even the Rain
La Dispute is a fascinatingly talented band. I’ve never heard anything quite like them before. They incorporate a mix of indie rock, punk, blues, hardcore, progressive rock, and soft acoustics. These musical elements are incorporated with intense vocals that range from spoken word, screaming, singing, and shouting, making the listening experience all the more emotional as it fluctuates with the progressing story of the song. The vocals sound like a confession, a reflection, or a personal journal. Jordan Dreyer, vocalist and primary lyricist, comments on their eclectic variety of genres apparent in their music and vocals, saying “I think boxing art into categories only serves as a way to exclude people from exploring different variations of the same thing. I think the only real definition between artists exists in their intentions for creating art.” He approaches lyrical writing in a story-telling manner by creating different stories and characters, drawing influence from writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Hemingway, Joan Didion, and Kurt Vonnegut. I saw them live for the first time after being a major fan for many years, and the band members seemed as genuine and honest as their music. Jordan awkwardly two-stepped and spun in circles around the stage while singing, somehow not getting tangled in the mic chord, and gave heart-warming speeches between songs on togetherness, personal struggles, and finding hope in yourself and others. They poured their heart and souls into the stage and the crowd, as they do in every recorded song, and was easily one of the most intimate live performances I’ve witnessed.
Their first album, Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair, is a testament to their profound musical talent, stylistic range, and lyrical capability. Each album follows a story that progresses from start to finish. Somewhere at the Bottom of the River seems to focus on a long-term marriage that falls victim to infidelity, hatred, guilt, and neglected vows as they reflect on their sworn love and the life they built together. The album opens with Such Small Hands, introducing the unbridled anger and darkness caused by lost love and the subsequent demons that once lay dormant, a common theme throughout the album. Damaged Goods, Bury Your Flame, and Said the King to the River capture feverish hysteria with upbeat drums and guitar paired with quickly sung vocals that change. These songs portray the immense frenzy of convoluted emotions as his world and relationship quickly spirals out of control. One of the most popular songs off the album, Andria, details the story of the beginning of their love and the chaos that soon followed. My personal favorite song off the album Last Lost Continent, is a twelve-minute story of removing the blame from either partner and recognizing infidelity as the monster it is as it invades and disrupts families, love, and lives. The protagonist seems to find forgiveness, admitting to his selfishness and the undying love he holds for his partner, family, and friends. The lyrics for this song are breathtaking, beautiful, and complex, and perfectly showcase the emotional process of life and love. They played this song when I saw them live in November 2019 during their Panorama U.S tour and it was everything I dreamed it would be. I may or may not have cried. The emotionally chaotic album ends with the gentle song Nobody, Not Even the Rain. The protagonist reflects on the sacred, treasured details of their love despite the pain they have suffered. This is one of my top five albums of all time, and I believe La Dispute offers something for everyone.
-Sarah