If you have never listened to the 5 o’clock Shadow with DJs May Day and Spaceman Spiff, put it on today’s to-do list. After sitting down with Proof and Lonnie Walker in recent weeks, today’s special guests are I Was Totally Destroying It. The DBB6 alumni will be performing with North Elementary as part of WKNC’s Local Beer Local Band tonight at Tir Na Nog.
Category: Music News and Interviews
Music news, interviews, features and giveaways
Fellow WKNC lovers,
Here’s what we got for you this week:
The Presets playing @ Cat’s Cradle Tuesday, March 31st
North Mississippi Allstars playing @ Lincoln Theatre Friday, April 3rd
Rocco Deluca playing @ Cat’s Cradle Saturday, April 4th
Listen on the radio at 88.1 or stream online all week for your chances to win!
SNEAK PREVIEW:
Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival tickets giveaways! More info to come soon!
Proof, the guitar-heavy, Raleigh-based rock group who dropped their last album in 2003, will be on the 5 o’clock Shadow to interview with DJs May Day and Spaceman Spiff. Well known for their live concerts, the band will be promoting their show on Thursday night at the Berkeley Café alongside Medicine and Edie Sedgwick.
Be sure to tune in to the best radio station in the Triangle between 5pm and 6pm this Thursday to listen in!
With spring finally kicking into full gear, we have some great tickets we need to give away. For your auditory and visual entertainment this week, check out:
Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band playing @ Cat’s Cradle on Friday, March 27th
MOVIE Giveaways!
Admit 2 movie passes to see Adventureland, Terminator Salvation and X-Men Origins: Wolverine at Crossroads 20 movie theater in Cary. Passes valid run of engagement, Monday through Thursday. Remember to tune in Monday through Friday, and listen for your chances to win!
Yes another week has arrived and it has brought more chances to win ticket giveaways from the best radio station in the Triangle!
Tune in for chances to win tickets to the TING TING’S playing this Saturday March 21st @ Cats Cradle which has already sold out!
Formed in 2007 by members Katie White and Jules De Martino, the British band found its name after White worked in a boutique with a Chinese girl called “Ting Ting”. The name is also a Mandarin term for a “band stand”. The Ting Tings were recently voted #3 on the BBC’s ‘Top 10 To Watch In 2008’ and are currently on their American tour, making a guest appearance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon show before coming to Carrborro.
MOVIE PASSES GIVEAWAYS
Don’t forget we still have movie passes to giveaway for your visual entertainment:
Contact promotions@wknc.org for more info!
Rich of The Pneurotics came into the Local Lunch on 3/12/09 for a quick interview, live performance, and debut of brand new material.
The Pneurotics played with Pink Flag, River City Ransom, and The Dry Heathens at The Brewery last night (3/12/09).
Tune in Thursday, March 12th at noon as DJ Murdoc interviews The Pneurotics on Local Lunch.
Chapel Hill based The Pneurotics, will be playing at The Brewery with River City Ransom, The Dry Heathens, and Pink Flag Thursday night at 8pm.
Look for Murdoc’s Local Music Picture Blog later this week for coverage of the event.
Lonnie Walker, the lo-fi twang-folk band who performed at Double Barrel Benefit #6, will be giving an in-studio interview on the 5 o’clock Shadow, hosted by DJs May Day and Spaceman Spiff. The Greenville/Raleigh-based band will be promoting their brand-new unreleased album and will also be headlining their show the same night for Local Beer Local Band night at Tir Na Nog Irish Pub and Restaurant off of 218 S. Blount Street in Raleigh.
Be sure to tune into the 88.1 between 5 and 6pm on Thursday to listen in. It should be awesome!
Here’s what we got for your listening entertainment this week. Tune in for your chances to win!
***Modest Mouse with Mimicking Birds playing @ Disco Rodeo Wednesday March 11th***
Check out our blog for more info on this great show!
Vetiver with Sian Alice Group & Megafaun playing @ Cats Cradle Thursday March 12th
American Aquarium with Bain Mattox and Shot From Guns, & Cary Ann Hearst playing @ Lincoln Theatre Friday March 13th
Zoso (Led Zeppelin Tribute) with Allister Fiend playing @ Lincoln Theatre Saturday March 14th
Modest Mouse (presented by Cat’s Cradle ) will be playing at Disco Rodeo on Wednesday March 11th. WKNC is giving a pair of tickets each day starting March 7th till March 11th. Listen to the daytime rock deejays for details on how to win.
Known for “Float On”, their first breakthrough single into the mainstream alternative movement in 2004, most people are unaware that Modest Mouse had been around for quite some time. In fact, Good News for People Who Love Bad News was the 6th album released by the indie rock band. Issac Brock , the band’s singer, songwriter and guitarist, grew up poor in suburban Washington and quit school at the tender age of sixteen. Inspired by the grunge era formulating within his own state, Brock created Modest Mouse in the early Nineties and began rehearsing in a shed near his mother’s mobile home.
Today, the band is well accustomed to playing sold out shows, touring the world, and are known internationally. Don’t forget to tune in for your chances to win tickets to this great show!