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NORTH CAROLINA MUSIC HALL OF FAME ANNOUNCES 2016 INDUCTEES

The North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in Kannapolis, N.C. has announced this year’s eight inductees! Check out this list of some of NC’s finest musicians: 

The Avett Brothers – folk rock/bluegrass/Americana, from Concord, NC.

Band of Oz – popular pioneer Beach music band, from Raleigh, NC.

Chuck Brown (deceased) – funk guitarist known as the “Godfather of Go-go,” from Gaston, NC.

Rhiannon Giddens & The Carolina Chocolate Drops – Grammy award winning old time string band, from Greensboro and Durham, NC.

Percy Heath (deceased) – jazz musician/bassist and member of the Modern Jazz Quartet, born in Wilmington, NC.

David Holt – Grammy Award winning folk musician & story teller who appears regularly on PBS television, from Asheville, NC.

Kellie Pickler – country vocalist and American Idol contestant, born in Albemarle, NC.

Ron Tyson – longtime member of the Temptations, from Monroe, NC.

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EOT189 Sales Tax Increase 03/02/16

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WKNC Top 5 Ads: March 1st

1. YUCK – Stranger Things – Mame
2. JAWBREAKER REUNION – Haha And Then What – Miscreant
3. DAY WAVE – Headcase/Hard To Read – Grand Jury
4. VIOLENT FEMMES – We Can Do Anything – Pias
5. DEAR TRACKS – Soft Dreams [EP] – Track And Field

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Ray LaMontagne Giveaway !

Thanks to Live Nation for approving us to give away tickets for Ray LaMontagne at Red Hat Amphitheater in Raleigh on July 15th! Grammy award winning, Ray LaMontagne (Lā-Mon-Tain) will be touring with a full band (including members of My Morning Jacket) to support his new album Ouroboros. Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 4th, but WKNC DJs will be giving them away every day this week! Make sure to keep it locked to 88.1 all week for a chance to win tickets to this sweet show! 

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Earthly Interview: Double Barrel Benefit

Sometimes music is better described using objects, colors, and feelings rather than sounds. When listening to Earthly, you picture yourself skiing down the sides of red, blue, and yellow ice cream cones, falling onto a rubbery drum set and slingshotting back to that one class field trip in elementary school when you caught a crawfish by hand.

DJ iCloud caught up with Edaan and Brint of Earthly, who played WKNC’s Double Barrel Benefit Night 2. They talk about some of Earthly’s beginnings, inspirations, and future plans for the project.​

Listen here

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Earthly

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WKNC 88.1 FM Charts: February 23rd, 2016

1. PORCHES – Pool – Domino

2. JULIA BROWN – An Abundance Of Strawberries – Joy Void
3. HINDS – Leave Me Alone – Mom And Pop
4. WRAY – Hypatia Communicating – Vessels
5. DIIV – Is The Is Are – Captured Tracks
6. SPOOK SCHOOL – Try To Be Hopeful – FORTUNA POP!
7. CHARLIE HILTON – Palana – Captured Tracks
8. MASS GOTHIC – Mass Gothic – SUB POP
9. JULIEN BAKER – Sprained Ankle – 6131
10. NAP EYES – Thought Rock Fish Scale-  Paradise of Bachelors 
11. YOUR FRIEND – Gumption – Domino
12. WILD NOTHING – Life Of Pause – Captured Tracks
13. BASEMENT – Promise Everything – Run For Cover
14. TY SEGALL – Emotional Mugger – Drag City
15. PINEGROVE – Cardinal – Run For Cover
16. NIGHT BEATS – Who Sold My Generation – Heavenly
17. SUNFLOWER BEAN – Human Ceremony – Fat Possum
18. FLORIST – Holdly – Double Double Whammy
19. RATBOYS – AOID – Topshelf
20. CAR SEAT HEADREST – Teens Of Style – Matador
21. HIGH HIGHS – Cascades – Pias
22. FRANKIE COSMOS – Fit Me In [EP] – Bayonet
23. JENNIFER O’CONNOR – Surface Noise – Kiam
24. DEEP SEA DIVER – Secrets – High Beam
25. RINGO DEATHSTARR – Pure Mood – Reverberation Appreciation Society
26. SO PITTED – Neo – SUB POP
27. DONKEYS – Midnight Palms – Easy Sound
28. DR. DOG – The Psychedelic Swamp – Anti
29. FAT WHITE FAMILY – Songs For Our Mothers – Fat Possum
30. LILY AND MADELEINE – Keep It Together – New West

WKNC TOP 5 ADS

1. MOTHERS – When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired – Grand Jury
2. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – Painting With – Domino
3. MOUNT MORIAH – How To Dance – Merge
4. GAZEBOS – Die Alone – Hardly Art
5. EERIE WANDA – Hum – BBIB

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EOT Special Edition: NC State Student Government Debate 02/25/16

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EOT188 Beyonce Police Protests 2/24/16

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WKNC Artist Profile: Deniro Farrar

Born and raised in Charlotte, Deniro Farrar has become a major hip-hop heavy hitter within the past few years. With the success of Fayetteville’s J. Cole and Raleigh’s own King Mez getting a feature on Dr. Dre’s Compton, North Carolina is, undeniably, rapidly gaining momentum in the music scene. Blogs like Pitchfork and Vice are claiming that Charlotte is the next city to watch specifically for artists within the rap genre.

Deniro is debatably the posterboy for Charlotte’s developing rap scene and proclaimed the “Leader of Cult Rap,” derived from the way people religiously follow the music of the underground scene to keep up, as it is not mass-produced and regularly broadcast. Deniro doesn’t fail to deliver relatable down to earth lyrics accompanied by (you guessed it) a sick beat. Working with Ryan Hemsworth, Flosstradamus, skywlkr, Lunice and Black Sky Black Death to name a few, Deniro has crafted a unique sound all while gaining traction as an artist and putting North Carolina on the map.

Emma Badorrek, WKNC Assistant Promotions Director