WKNC 88.1 FM - North Carolina State University Student RadioIt’s that time of the year again, for Port City Rumble! Join the fun in downtown Wilmington, this Saturday, October 10. There will be a car show from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., pre ‘67 hot rods, traditional bikes, bobbers, & choppers.
And if you’re an adrenaline junkie, there’s also a creeper race!
As always, with fast cars, comes fast music! Bands start at 6:30 p.m. and include Los Gatos Locos, The Tradesmen, The Deadneks, Tommy Ray & The Ray Guns, Blood Red River, and more!
There’s a lot of planning that goes into football games — an event that attracts more than 60,000 people. Athletics works in collaboration with Campus Police, Raleigh Police, Raleigh EMS among other groups to make sure games go as planned. This planning, without a doubt, includes preparations for tailgating — the gameday experience before the game. Saja Hindi interviewed VIPs Campus Police Chief Tom Younce and Capt. Jon Barnwell about some of the preparations. Restrictions to tailgating and hours have been a topic of much debate in recent history due to a shooting that occurred at a tailgate in a lot off Trinity Rd. in 2004. Alumni Tyler Dukes and Kenneth Ball talked to Saja Hindi for EOT’s VIP about how they tailgate and why it’s important to them. Both Dukes and Ball worked for Technician when the shootings happened and tailgating hours were restricted, which they talked about as well.
In Community Canvas, Mike Alston let listeners revisit an interview with Ryan Cummings, artist of the Hear Here compilation CD cover, in anticipation of Saturday night’s Hear Here finale show at the Pour House.
In Hear This, Kelly Reid gives listeners a review of Starmount’s debut album Tyranny of the Sphere, with an Oct. 27 CD release, as well as Birds of Avalon’s Uncanny Valley. She also gives listeners information about Dan Deacon’s show Oct. 1 at the Cat’s Cradle.
This week’s Wolfpacker of the Week, Katy “Red” Walls from the N.C. State Women’s Rugby team sat down with Jacob Downing to talk about her involvement with the team, obstacles she’s faced and what led her to join the team.
In Soundbytes, Caitlin Cauley interviewed students around campus about the Rally 4 Talley Campaign, a campaign to increase awareness of the University’s intent to build a new student center and new atrium on campus and encourage students to vote in favor of a fee increase in the student fee referendums Monday, to support this project.
Sunday, October 4th kicks off the first day of the Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit in Washington, DC and WKNC will be there. Mike Perros, better known as Mikey P, and myself, Kelly Reid, known on air as Mz. Kelly, will be attending the Policy Summit, in search of the future.
Pun aside, there is relevance—the music industry has been going through a serious transformation as technology changes the way music is heard, enjoyed, received, bought, and participated in. Right now there is a big gap between the fast paced advancement of technology and the transformation of the laws that direct the way the technology is used with respect to music and its listeners. Technology advances with lightning speed but the law, and how it is interpreted in the courts, moves with a much, much slower pace. There lies the need for The Future of Music Coalition, an organization that participates in the intersection of music and law, serving to inform and through information, provide a bridge to the gap of music and law.
Why does any of this matter? Well because it affects music in so many ways: the way musicians are represented, the way they are payed for their music, the way radio stations like WKNC operate, how music is heard in restaurants or at live shows, it even affects the ability to get a full list of search results when one uses Google.
For ones like Mikey P and myself, deeply in love with music and not quite sure of the future of the music industry, the 2009 Policy Summit is an opportunity to hear many important and experienced individuals give their take on what’s happening now and what the forecast for the future is.
Featured speakers include Democratic Senator of Minnesota, Al Franken, and FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski. And of course, the Triangle is strongly represented featuring Jed Carlson, COO of ReverbNation, Mac McCaughan, co-founder of Merge Records and musician in Portastatic and Superchunk, as well as Fiona Morgan, journalist for the Independent.
To follow the trek to, through, and back from the Policy Summit you can follow Kellyisthere on Twitter.
Inflowential just released a new music video for “Sheriff”, their contribution for the Hear Here local music compilation. The video was made by Jason Arthurs, and features footage of Inflowential recording at Flying Tiger Sound. The song addresses the issue of police brutality and references the Bob Marley classic, “I Shot The Sheriff”. Check it out!
Inflowential will be playing with The Love Language and Motorskills on Saturday, October 3rd, for the Hear Here finale show at the Pour House Music Hall. The doors open at 8pm, the show starts at 10pm, and tickets are $7. See you out there!
Chapel Hill’s The Love Language has signed with Merge Records, according to a release from Pitchfork today. The band is joining the ranks of The Rosebuds, Spoon, Neutral Milk Hotel and M. Ward, just to name a few from the label’s seemingly endless list of indie artists.
The Love Language will be playing at the Hear Here finale show Saturday at the Pour House. Doors will open at 8 p.m. and tickets will be $7 with copies of the compilation available for purchase.
Beginning Sunday, October 18, the Cherry Bounce alternative music festival will return to downtown Raleigh. The main stage will be set up on Hargett St. in front of the Raleigh Times on Saturday, October 24.
Here is the schedule for the week-long event:
Sunday, October 18
Angie Aparo at Deep South
Monday, October 19
Brian Corum of Lonnie Walker at The Raleigh Times
Tuesday, October 20
Veelee, Naps, Americans in France and Gray Young at Slims, hosted by Music.MyNC.com
Wednesday, October 21
Mount Weather at The Busy Bee
Thursday, October 22
Gross Ghost, The Poles and Free Electric State at Tir Na Nog, hosted by WKNC
Friday, October 23
Rooster for the Masses, Colossus, The T’s and The Infamous Sugar at Berkley Cafe hosted by New Raleigh
Saturday, October 24
Peggy Sue, Schooner, Sky Larkin, Old Avenue, Fin Fang Foom, The Hood Internet and Man Man on the main stage on Hargett St.
The top 10 albums played in our Chainsaw format in the past week:
1. Gwar – Lust In Space
2. Metalocalypse: Dethklok – Dethklok: The Dethalbum II
3. Behemoth – Evangelion
4. Alice in Chains – Black Gives Way To Blue
5. 3 Inches of Blood – Here Waits Thy Doom
6. Between the Buried and Me – “Obfuscheion” [Single]
7. November’s Doom – Into Night’s Requiem Infernal
8. Revocation – Existence Is Futile
9 . 69 Eyes – Back In Blood
10. Five Finger Death Punch – War Is The Answer
The top 10 hip hop albums played in our Underground format this past week:
1. J Cole – Lights Please
2. XV – Life Vs. Living
3. KRS – One and Buckshot – Survival Skills
4. Perfekt and Chance – She’s Dat Gurl
5. Saigon – “Believe It” [Single]
6. Slaughterhouse – The One
7 . Charlie Smarts – Bonanza
8. Dirty Money –Angels [Single]
9. So Supreme – Sha Stimuli
10. Pittsburgh Slim – “Girls Kiss Girls” [Single]
Here are the top 30 albums from the past week, compiled by Daytime Music Director Jenna St. Pierre:
1. Polvo – In Prism
2. Depreciation Guild – In Her Gentle Jaws
3. Port O’Brien – Threadbare
4. Fanfarlo – Reservoir
5. Royal Bands – Let It Beep
6. Still Life Still – Girls Come Too
7. Le Loup – Family
8. Fool’s Gold – Fool’s Gold
9. Ettes – Do You Want Power
10. Vivian Girls – Everything Goes Wrong
11. Fresh and Onlys – Grey-Eyed Girls
12. Darlings – Yeah, I Know
13. Antlers – Hospice
14. Various Artists – Hear Here: The Triangle
15. Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs
16. Islands – Vapours
17. Cave Singers – Welcome Joy
18. The Clean – Mister Pop
19. YACHT – See Mystery Lights
20. Mumlers – Don’t Throw Me Away
21. Florence and the Machine – Lungs
22. Big Pink – A Brief History Of Love
23. Why? – Eskimo Snow
24. Dead Weather – Horehound
25. Health – Get Color
26. A Sunny Day in Glasgow – Ashes Grammar
27. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes – Up From Below
28. Quixote – Quixote
29. Slarafenland – We’re On Your Side
30. Motel Motel – New Denver
Albums recently added to our library:
1. XX – The Xx
2. No Age – Losing Feeling [EP]
3. Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Higher Than The Stars [EP]
4. Clientele – Bonfires On The Heath
Here are the great shows happening this week to which WKNC is giving away tickets:
Wednesday, Sept. 30:
Ra Ra Riot with Maps and Atlases and Princeton @ Cat’s Cradle
Friday, Oct. 2:
SMNMNMN with Josh Drye Consortium and The Toddlers @ Nightlight
American Aquarium with Shawn Fisher and the Juke Box & Gabriel Kelly @ The Pour House
Saturday, Oct 3:
Hear Here Finale Show feat. The Love Language, Inflowential, and Motor Skills @ The Pour House
This is the second and final Hear Here show to promote the all-local and all-amazing tunes of some great artists from the area. The first show of the two part series was sold out and presented at Cat’s Cradle. If you weren’t able to attend the first show be sure to get your tickets now or listen to WKNC for your chance to win tickets!