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Tune into WKNC this evening at 7:00 to hear Riff Raff & Sweet D interview The Manimals!
The boys are playing this Thursday at King’s Barcade with The Hell No and Virgin Lung. Doors at 8:30, show starts at 9:00. The event is all ages, so bring your little sister for some serious rock & roll.
More info about the event can be found here.
WKNC 88.1 FM will hold its eleventh annual Double Barrel Benefit concert Friday, Feb. 7 at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro and Friday, Feb. 14 at Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh. Cat’s Cradle will host The Love Language to kick off the festival with Hammer No More the Fingers, T0W3RS, and GHOSTT BLLONDE supporting. Lincoln Theatre will feature Mount Moriah for the final night along with special guests to be announced, Loamlands, and Daniel Bachman.
“The goal is to bring the established bands we’ve always loved to work with and promote the best new bands that we really believe in,” Bri Aab, general manager, said. “As a station, we want to help cultivate a community in which musicians can thrive. The Triangle has a deep local music history, and we hope to strengthen that relationship of music and the area.”
Because of the interconnected nature of the Triangle, WKNC is holding the first night of the festival at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, a Double Barrel first, and keeping the second night at Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh. The station’s signal is also 25,000 watts, which puts the entire Triangle in its coverage pattern.
“WKNC has grown a lot over the past 10 years of Double Barrel, and this year we are changing it up to illustrate that,” Michael D’Argenio, program director, said. “I’m excited to be bringing this event to larger venues across the Triangle to expose more people to the great local music we have to offer.”
The idea for Double Barrel Benefit, a two-night event to raise money for station operations, came from former general manager Jamie Proctor in 2003. It has become a staple in the music community of North Carolina, and has dually served to promote great local musicians while also benefiting WKNC.
“It’s crazy to have both The Love Language and Mount Moriah this year,” Walt Lilly, station production manager and co-creator of “The Lounge” video series, said. “These are two incredible acts that have a national presence while staying rooted in the Triangle, and we are glad to have their homecoming at Double Barrel.”
“Not only is DBB a great platform to see already established artists in a unique way, it also pairs these acts with our favorite up and coming performers in the area.” John Kovalchik, operations manager, said. “We are very excited about the possibilities that this year’s event has in store.”
Tickets are on sale now at http://wknc.org/dbb11. Prices are $12 in advance and $14 at the door for each night and all proceeds benefit WKNC. Two-night passes are available for $22. The event is 18+. Doors for each show open at 8 p.m. with music at 9 p.m.
This Thursday, January 23rd, Local Band Local Beer will be featuring Henbrain, Vannevar, and Vanguard Party. As always, LBLB takes place at Tir Na Nog Irish Pub in downtown Raleigh at 9:30pm every Thursday. This is a free event, so come and jam out to some local tunes!
Be sure to tune in Thursday evening at 5pm with DJ Kataclysm to hear her interview the bands before their performance!
2014 marks the eleventh year for WKNC’s annual fundraiser, Double Barrel Benefit. We are breaking tradition this year by venturing outside of Raleigh to include more of the Triangle! Our first night will be hosted at Carrboro’s Cat’s Cradle on February 7th and the second night will take place at WKNC’s home in Raleigh at Lincoln Theatre on February 14th. This will make for a special Valentine’s Day celebration for you to bring your loved ones to sway to some local jams. Stay tuned to win tickets we’ll be raffling away, which will feature four tickets for both nights of DBB11.
A few weeks back, we announced our two headliners: The Love Language and Mount Moriah. Be sure to tune into the Local Lunch this Friday, January 24th with DJ C’est la Bri from 12:00-1:00pm to hear the full lineup for DBB11.
In the past, we’ve had Polvo, Lonnie Walker, Bowerbirds, Lost in the Trees, Schooner, The Mountain Goats, Megafaun, Spider Bags, Midtown Dickens, and Future Islands. This year, we’ve got some great artists that will make you proud of what North Carolina has to offer! We’ll see you in February!
This Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, King’s Barcade will be presenting The Great Cover Up.
This three day event will feature 20+ secret bands. Proceeds will benefit InterAct, KidZNotes, and SPCA of Wake County.
Doors will open at 8pm on Thursday and Saturday due to the number of participants this year! The show will start at 8:45 on both of these nights.
Friday’s doors will be at 9pm, promptly following the conclusion of The Dangling Loafer comedy show. The show starts at 9:30 on this night!
Come out to Tir na Nog Irish Pub tonight, January 16, 2014, for Local Band Local Beer presented by WKNC! This week we are featuring Lowland Hum, Birds and Arrows, and Small Town Gossip.
As always, this is a FREE event and it starts at 9:30pm.
Be sure to tune in at 5pm tonight to hear DJ Kataclysm interview the bands prior to their performance!
Future Islands fans, your wait is over! The almighty sweat gods have spoken and procured a new album that will surely not disappoint! The highly anticipated album, entitled “Singles,” will most likely maintain their distinctive dance-your-pants-off, sweat-out-your-soul, distinctive synth-pop sound they have harnessed and perfected over their career.
The Greenville natives, who have since relocated to Baltimore, have planned an extensive domestic and international tour that will include countries like England and Germany, and festivals such as Coachella. The trio will be playing with Wye Oak at The Orange Peel in Asheville, on March 3rd, and The Haw River Ballroom in Pittsboro, on March 4th.
Look out for their album to be released on March 25th on the label 4AD. Stay tuned to WKNC for the future sounds of Future Islands.
This Thursday, January 9th, WKNC presents Local Band Local Beer at Tir Na Nog Irish Pub in downtown Raleigh featuring Embers End and Arcane Heart!
The show starts at 9:30 and it’s a free event!
Prior to the show, DJ Kataclysm will interview both bands in the studio from 5-6pm. Be sure to tune in for a preview of what you can expect to hear from these two local acts!
As the year winds down, so does the steady flow of Carolina Grown shows. Sadly as a full-time student when exams roll around and the breaks come through, this road-worn DJ finds himself burning the midnight oil a bit too close. But, don’t mourn for the lack of new programs just yet, because there’s still two full shows left before we take a holiday break! This week’s edition of Carolina Grown on Dec. 6 will feature a guest that I’ve had planned for quite some time, but due to untimely holiday realizations and basketball games we’ve had to push him back a few times. However, I’m excited to finally have Brian Franklin from Bridges on this week to discuss the work on his debut full-length Glass Mask, and where the project will go from here.
Bridges made their first steps into the NC music scene this summer as they slowly released a few singles from their debut full-length Glass Mask. Once the album dropped in the beginning of October, the mood felt just right. There’s nothing like crisp fall weather for some low-key soundtracks of self-loathing and self-realization. Glass Mask chronicles the difficulties of loss and the struggles one goes through in overcoming these instances. Whether you put on a glass mask to hide it all or lament of your pain through tightly wound indie pop songs, everyone finds themselves ready to curl up with a nice record in a warm home and forget about all of your external woes. Glass Mask serves as a wonderful release for moments just like that.
Bridges’ music captures the manic frustration that comes along in life’s defining moments, and throughout the 5:00 hour I’ll talk with Brian Franklin about the process behind writing these songs and how Bridges came together. We’ll also be hearing some stripped down renditions of a few songs from Glass Mask, so tune in from 5-7 this Friday to hear tons of local goodness and to find out more about one of the most promising new acts in the Triangle.
Just because we’re not on campus doesn’t mean the show won’t go on! For the last Carolina Grown of November, I’ll have the first hour entirely dedicated to the North Carolina Music Love Army, a group that’s comprised of some of the state’s finest musicians joining hands to create a unified voice of protest against our state’s current administrative decisions. Co-founders Caitlin Cary (of Whiskeytown) and Jon Lindsay are joined by Skylar Gudasz to discuss the founding of this coalition of well-known local musicians and what they hope to achieve with their recently released album. The second hour will of course be filled with local tunes!
This summer as the Moral Monday protests were coming to a head, Cary and Lindsay joined together and formed the NC Music Love Army after being motivated by Django Haskin’s (of The Old Ceremony) gripping protest song “We Are Not For Sale.” Though the months have passed and Moral Mondays fizzled out a bit, the NC Music Love Army is still going strong. On Saturday, Nov. 30 they’ll celebrate the release of their album We Are Not For Sale at the Cat’s Cradle, a show in which some of the state’s most revered musicians will come together to celebrate their songs of protest.
The album is broken up into two parts, the first 5 tracks (or Side A) are comprised of songs that the Army recorded together in-studio, while Side B (which they “fondly” refer to as the “guerrilla side”) features contributions from artists like Hiss Golden Messenger and Shirlette Ammons. Caitlin, Jon and Skylar joined me to discuss a bit about the reception that they’ve received from the project thus far, the logistics of organizing such a large-scaled project and their history with protest songs.
Tune in on Friday at 5:00 to hear our full conversation along with an in-studio performance of a Love Army track that’s not featured on the album called, “Dear Mr. McCrory.”