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Thanks to our friends at Live Nation, we are giving away tickets for Puscifer at the
Raleigh Memorial Auditorium at the Duke Energy Center in Raleigh on April 19th ! Tickets are on sale now at LiveNation.com but WKNC DJs are giving them out ALL WEEK (March 14th – 18th). Just be the correct caller when the DJ asks and you could see Puscifer Live!
Moogfest, Art of Cool, AND Hopscotch have all teamed up to offer music lovers a pair of TRI-FESTIVAL tickets passes!!! This is HUGE. Arguably the best three music festivals in North Carolina and you could win a pair of VIP tickets to ALL THREE. ALL THREE OF THEM. Register to win here https://docs.google.com/a/wknc.org/forms/d/1ruztgolSNjK9POt3yHJLpQKAEddoeMM-Ibl8YZc8I7o/viewform . Each winner will receive a pair of VIP tickets to Moogest fest (Durham, May 19th-22nd), Art of Cool (Durham, May 6th-8th), and Hopscotch Music Festival (Raleigh, Sept 8th-10th). Registration end this friday at 5pm! So don’t hesitate to act now!! for more info on these fantastic NC festivals, visit their websites:
Moogfest: http://moogfest.com
Art of Cool Festival: http://theartofcoolproject.com
Hopscotch Music Festival: http://hopscotchmusicfest.com
1 VINCE STAPLES – Summertime ‘06 – Def Jam
2 LIZZO – Big Grrrl Small World – Self-Released
3 PROFESSOR TOON – Take Notes – Cardigan
4 GANGRENE – You Disgust Me – Mass Appeal
5 METHOD MAN – The Meth Lab – Tommy Boy
6 A$AP ROCKY – LongLiveA$AP – RCA
7 TROOF MUSIC – The Donation [EP] – Self-Released
8 PHENE AND MICXSIC – “They Don’t Rap No More” [Single] – High Off Life
9 CONSTANT DEVIANTS – Avant Garde – Six2Six
10 NAPPY ROOTS – The 40 Akerz Project – Nappy Roots Entertainment
1 WILD NOTHING – Life Of Pause – Captured Tracks
2 DIIV – Is The Is Are – Captured Tracks
3 PORCHES – Pool – Domino
4 WRAY – Hypatia – Communicating Vessels
5 MOTHERS – When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired – Grand Jury
6 SUNFLOWER BEAN – Human Ceremony – Fat Possum
7 PINEGROVE – Cardinal – Run For Cover
8 HINDS – Leave Me Alone – Mom And Pop
9 RINGO DEATHSTARR – Pure Mood – Reverberation Appreciation Society
10 SPOOK SCHOOL – Try To Be Hopeful – FORTUNA POP!
11 JULIA BROWN – An Abundance Of Strawberries – Joy Void
12 JULIEN BAKER – Sprained Ankle – 6131
13 CHARLIE HILTON – Palana – Captured Tracks
14 RATBOYS – AOID – Topshelf
15 FLORIST – The Birds Outside Sang – Double Double Whammy
16 NAP EYES – Thought Rock Fish Scale – Paradise of Bachelors
17 LAURA – CARBONE – Sirens Aporia
18 DEEP SEA DIVER – Secrets – High Beam
19 MASS GOTHIC – Mass Gothic – SUB POP
20 EERIE WANDA – Hum – BBIB
21 NIGHT BEATS – Who Sold My Generation – Heavenly
22 HALF MOON RUN – Sun Leads Me On – Glassnote
23 TY SEGALL – Emotional Mugger – Drag City
24 MOUNT MORIAH – How To Dance – Merge
25 DR. DOG – The Psychedelic Swamp – Anti
26 BASEMENT – Promise Everything – Run For Cover
27 GAZEBOS – Die Alone – Hardly Art
28 YOUR FRIEND – Gumption – Domino
29 DONKEYS – Midnight Palms – Easy Sound
30 HALF JAPANESE – Perfect – Joyful Noise
WKNC Top 5 Adds
1 ADULT BOOKS – Running From The Blows – Lolipop
2 LA SERA – Music For Listening To Music – Polyvinyl
3 NADA SURF – You Know Who You Are – Barsuk
4 THAO AND THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN – A Man Alive – Ribbon
5 JON PATRICK WALKER – People Going Somewhere – Self-Released
1 FINALS – JMZ [Ep} – JTDR
2 CHET FAKER AND MARCUS MARR – Work – Downtown
3 SK SIMEON AND YAW FASO – Maskya (Machinedrum Remixes) [EP] – Big Dada
4 CHAD VALLEY – Entirely New Blue – Cascine
5 FKA TWIGS – M3LL155X [EP] – Young Turks
6 NEON INDIAN – Vega Intl Night School – Mom And Pop
7 BOB MOSES – Days Gone By – Domino
8 CLAPTONE – Charmer – Pias-Different
9 DJ SPINN – Off That Loud EP – Hyperdub
10 MADE OF OAK – Penumbra [EP] – Partisan
Coheed and Cambria – Monday 3/7 – The Ritz Raleigh
Sunflower Bean // Cold Fronts – Friday 3/11 – The Pinhook
Alex G // Porches – Friday 3/11 – Cat’s Cradle Back Room
Pentagram // King Giant // Colossus // Demon Eye – Cat’s Cardle
Maple Stave // The Bronzed Chorus // Wailin Storms – Saturday 3/12 – Cat’s Cradle Back Room
Nap Eyes // Cian Nugent // Northgate Syndicate
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.
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