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Local Beat preview: 6/25/10
It has been longer than a month since we have had a live Local Beat, and, since February, we haven’t had a full, three hour show (mostly due to NC State Baseball). I have spent the past month recovering from throat surgery and also doing some summer traveling, but it is finally time to get back into the amazing local music scene here, and tonight’s show is going to be one for the ages.
We are dedicating the first two hours to Trekky Records and their kickass annual summer event TrkFest. The event happens tomorrow, June 26, and this year there will be two stages of live music as well as the usual crafts, food, and beverages including:
- Pants-off Dance-off
- Coffee Sack Race
- Cool Kids Yoga Session
- Musical Chairs Cake Walk
- Sprinklers and Water Things
- Tour of Piedmont Biofuels
- Free Haircuts
- Shadow Puppets
- Bliss Tent
I know I am going to get a haircut that I so desperately need and jam out to my favorite local musicians that include:
- Megafaun
- Lost in the Trees
- Hammer No More The Fingers
- Embarrassing Fruits
- Midtown Dickens
- Mount Moriah
- Veelee
- Butterflies
- Ryan Gustafson
- Yardwork
- Ezekiel Graves
- Vibrant Green
This is the 3rd annual TRKFest, and tonight, on the Local Beat, we will be chatting about all of the old and new things about the festival, the bands, and hearing some live music from some of the performers tomorrow.
At 7 p.m. my favorite local band Bombadil will be dropping by for what is the first time in well over a year. As many of you may know, Bombadil has been on recent hiatus as some of the members have moved away and Daniel Michalak has been dealing with some health problems. With that said, this is their first interview as a group in quite some time, and one of the first since their Tarpits and Canyonlands hit the streets back in 2009 (If you remember, the album was my #1 album of the year). The entire band is going to try to make it and and perhaps play their first live music together since last summer. It is seriously going to be awesome.
Beginning this week until the show on July 1 at the Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion, WKNC will be giving away pairs of tickets for Phish. Just be the correct caller and you could win tickets for you and a friend! Tickets are also available at Livenation.com.
| Artist | Album | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | TAME IMPALA | Innerspeaker | Modular |
| #2 | CASIOKIDS | Topp Stemning Pa Local Bar | Polyvinyl |
| #3 | LIGHT POLLUTION | Apparitions | Car Park |
| #4 | GRAND LAKE | Blood Sea Dream | Hippies are Dead |
| #5 | PEGGY SUE | Fossils and other Phantoms | Yep Roc |
| #6 | VILLAGERS | Becoming a Jackal | Domino |
| #7 | PETER WOLF CRIER | Inter-Be | Jagjaguwar |
| #8 | PONTIAK | (single) | Living |
| #9 | WILD MOCCASINS | Skin Collision Past | Self-Released |
| #10 | HOORAY FOR EARTH | MOMO | Dovecote |
| Artist | Album | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | NEVERMORE | The Obsidian Conspiracy | Century Media |
| #2 | NACHTMYSTIUM | Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. II | Century Media |
| #3 | OZZY OSBOURNE | Scream | Epic |
| #4 | AEON | Path of Fire | Metal Blade |
| #5 | EXODUS | Exhibit B: The Human Condition | Nuclear Blast |
| #6 | AVANTASIA | The Wicked Symphony | AFM |
| #7 | TAROT | Gravity of Light | Nuclear Blast |
| #8 | FREEDOM CALL | Legend of the Shadowking | Steamhammer |
| #9 | ISTAPP | Blekinge | Metal Blade |
| #10 | THIS OR THE APOCALYPSE | Haunt What’s Left | Good Fight |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PgHWew3nNQ
Last week I had the chance to interview the guys from Hooray For Earth before they played at Cats Cradle in Carrboro alongside The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Surfer Blood (for a full run down of the show make sure to check out the post detailing the show here). We discussed their latest EP entitled Momo, future plans for a full length, how they all met each other, how they got the name Hooray for Earth, and much more. Below I have put the interview in its entirety so enjoy!
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6/14 RPM albums on WKNC Afterhours
| Artist | Album | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | CRYSTAL CASTLES | Crystal Castles II | Universal |
| #2 | RATATAT | lp4 | XL |
| #3 | SLEIGH BELLS | Treats | Mom and Pop |
| #4 | LCD SOUNDSYSTEM | This is Happening | EMI |
| #5 | GORILLAZ | Plastic Beach | Virgin |
| #6 | TORO Y MOI | Causers of This | Carpark |
| #7 | BASSNECTAR | Timestretch | s |
| #8 | M.I.A. | (single) | XXXO |
| #9 | RUSKO | O.M.G.! | Mad Descent |
| #10 | NINJASONIK | Art School Girls | Green Owl |
North Carolina natives The Avett Brothers have announced a show at the Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion on October 8, 2010. The public on sale for The Avett Brothers concert on Friday, October 8 at Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion in Raleigh has changed to Friday, June 25 at 10 a.m., but WKNC has them now. Just be the correct caller when the DJ asks for it and you could win tickets to the show! Tickets will be on sale at LiveNation.com, the Hardee’s Thickburger Box Office, Ticketmaster, or charge by phone 800-745-3000 beginning Friday.
This week on WKNC, we’re giving you tons of free stuff, or schwag (as DJ MollyPop says). We’re giving away mega CDs, such as:
We’re also giving away tickets to Brooks Woods’ Band on June 26 at the Pour House, and tickets to MC Chris at Cat’s Cradle on June 26. Stay tuned this week, for these giveaways as well as others!
1. Matt & Kim have announced a massive tour with a show in Carborro at Cats Cradle in October. The duo plans on returning to the area after the band plays several festivals and shows including Lollapalooza.(via Pitchfork)
2. Justin Vernon, more commonly known as Bon Iver, is set to play alongside Megafaun at the Hayti Heritage Center in Durham this September. The two acts will collaborate for three nights, and the two plan on holding several conversations at Duke and the surrounding area the week of September 13. (via Triangle Music)
3. Interpol has signed back to Matador records. After releasing their 2007 album Our Love to Admire on Capitol, the band is set to release their album this year on their old record label. (via Paste)
4. Klaxons, who haven’t made much noise in the music world since their debut album in 2007, have announced plans to release their sophomore album this fall. The album is entitled Surfing the Void and contains one of the most interesting album covers in recent memory. (via Pitchfork)
5. Dave Sitek is set to record an album alongside Karen O, and it will be released in August. The album is set to have a more dance based feeling. Sitek told NME, “I had total freedom when I was making this record, so when I was recording it, it felt like I was putting everything into one basket and letting it float off into space.” (via NME)