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Weekly Charts

Top 10 Afterhours albums on WKNC last week

Here are the top 10 albums played during our Afterhours format over the past week, compiled by Afterhours Music Director Joseph Brookes.

1. Hot Chip – One Life Stand
2. Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
3. Four Tet – There Is Love In You
4. Felix Cartal – Popular Music
5. Infected Mushroom – Legend Of The Black Shawarma
6. New Young Pony Club – The Optimist
7. Bonobo – Days To Come
8. Pantha Du Prince – Black Noise
9. Groove Armada – Black Light
10. Claps – New Science [EP]

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Concert Review

Cannibal’s Corner II: Cannibal Cory meets Cannibal Corpse!

I’m putting off my review of Borknagar’s latest album until next week, as the Cannibal Corpse concert at Volume 11 yesterday was total face-smashing. The pure brutal assault of the Lecherous Nocturne, Diabolic, Skeletonwitch, and Cannibal Corpse lineup left my neck hanging by a string, my eye bruised from crowd surfers, my ears ringing from pure shredding, and my mind liquefying with an excellent show.

Lecherous Nocturne started off the night with some great grinding, the kind of teeth-on-chalkboard sensation that makes you realize the only thing you can do is keep on knocking your head against the stage floor in rhythm. At one point the band offered the most dominant person in a pit a copy of their latest album. I watched as fellow metalhead bashed into more metalheads, listening to the soothing sound of bone hitting bone and the growls of encouragement. They were good at turning model citizens into flying guided missiles.

It’s sad that 1349 is stuck in Europe due to some visa issues, but Diabolic was a solid substitute that did not leave me wanting to kick a door with a toothpick under my toenail, which is how I usually handle things that are not brütal enough. The old school sound was perfect for preparing us for the maggots feasting on our guts that would be disemboweled by Cannibal Corpse’s earlier works.

Skeletonwitch hit the stage, and the crowd went bloodthirsty. People were squeezed so close to the stage that their eyes burst into white liquid, causing them to jump on stage and then back into the crowd. It seemed to rain frenzied metalheads, putting shoes into people’s noses with a bloody cracking sound and knees thudding against unlucky crowd members’ thick skulls. People ravaged so much in the Skeletonwitch set that people spontaneously combusted into bloody chunks. Some people may have helped themselves to a mid show snack.

In the end, though, it was Cannibal Corpse that devoured the crowd. They played songs from albums across the entire timeline. the exact order is a blur since that part of my brain got lobotomized at some point in the show, but I remember them starting with Scalding Hail. From that point on the brütality pulverized my legs, neck, and brain. Priests of Sodom, The Wretched Spawn, Evisceration Plague, They Deserve To Die all brought on the horns. They ended with a personal favorite of mine: Stripped, Raped and Strangled. I left the concert fully satisfied and limbless, earless, eyeless, with the stench of a thousand decomposing fellow fans around me. I think that my arms fought off their chainsaw of a grinding gory song, with my arms losing. My legs still seem to be MIA, though I don’t think I’ll need them anytime soon.

With that, I leave you more images of the concert!

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Music News and Interviews

Win Tickets to See Animal Collective film on Friday

Oddsac makes Pink Floyd’s The Wall look like the [expletive] Brady Bunch,” Filmmaker Danny Perez says of his new film/visual album by the band Animal Collective. After debuting at the Sundance Film Festival in January, Oddsac makes its way to the Triangle on Friday night, April 23. Thanks to our friends at New Raleigh, WKNC 88.1 FM now has five pairs of tickets to give away to the 7 p.m. screening at the Varsity Theatre in Chapel Hill. Listen to 88.1 FM or wknc.org between now and Friday afternoon for your chance to win. You can also up your odd(sac)s by entering New Raleigh’s drawing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H48VtETngA

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DJ Highlights

Local Beat Preview: 4/23/10

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NC State Baseball is cutting into another airing of the Local Beat this week but at least we have one hour to bring you some local music goodness.  Fuquay-Varina indie band Whiskey Kills the Butterflies will be joining me for the first hour of the program to chat about the band and their upcoming debut album. Whiskey Kills the Butterflies is a band I have never personally seen live but have heard great things about so I am looking forward to them playing some live tunes on the show.

Afterwards keep on listening to WKNC for some ACC baseball as NC State (23-15) plays Boston College (16-17) on campus at Doak Field at Dail Park.  The Wolfpack are trying to keep their NCAA tournament hopes alive after sweeping Maryland last weekend.  The game begins at 6:30 p.m. with broadcasting of the game starting approximately around 6 p.m.

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Podcasts

MGMT – Congratulations

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Podcasts

Dondria

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Concert Preview

Music In The Gardens returns for summer

The Music In The Gardens summer concert series at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens in Durham is returning this year with another stacked lineup. Highlights include Camera Obscura, a Lonnie Walker/Mount Moriah double bill, Bowerbirds, Kooley High, Kingsbury Manx, Max Indian, and Billy Sugarfix (performing as Billy Sugarfix Carousel which, coming from him, probably means something pretty neat). Most shows occur each Wednesday and are $10 for the public, $5 for Duke students and employees, and children 12 and under get in free. You can get more information on the series, including dates, times, and ticket info, here.

Full schedule:
5/26 Annuals
6/2 Camera Obscura
6/9 Lonnie Walker, Mount Moriah
6/16 Kate McGarry & Keith Ganz
6/23 Bowerbirds
6/29 Samantha Crain
7/7 Kooley High
7/14 Kingsbury Manx
7/21 Max Indian
7/28 Billy Sugarfix Carousel
8/4 Mallarmé Chamber Players (at Kirby Horton Hall)
8/11 Ciompi Quartet (at Kirby Horton Hall)

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Music News and Interviews

Silversun Pickups to play in Raleigh

2009 Grammy nominee for “Best New Artist,” Silversun Pickups,will be coming to Disco Rodeo, Sunday, June 20.  Though they put out their first EP in 2005, LA-based Silversun Pickups made it big with their hit track “Lazy Eye” off their 2006 album, Carnavas. WKNC will be giving away tickets to the show on-air April 19 to 23.  When the DJ asks, callers will be asked to answer a trivia question about the band in order to win their pair of tickets.

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Non-Music News

EOT28 Roundtable 4/19/10

This week we look at the prospects of the upcoming football season, the editorial looks at Earth Day, we do a roundtable discussion over a wide assortment of local topics. In community canvas we look at on campus community gardens.

Listen to episode 28.

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Music News and Interviews

Soundoff3 MGMT- Congratulations

This week we follow up on a couple of news stories that have since evolved including speculation over who would be playing Kurt Cobain, the Antlers free EP, we discuss the breakup of  Supergrass, and we review MGMT’s Congratulations.

Listen to episode three.