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Widespread Panic will be coming through Raleigh this summer, with special guest Galactic. Thanks to Live Nation, WKNC has 5 pairs of tickets to give away!
Tickets will be given away from Monday, April 14 until Friday, April 18. Just be the correct caller when the DJ asks for calls on air to win a pair of tickets! Tickets for this concert go on sale Friday, April 18at 10 am on Ticketmaster.com, at Ticketmaster outlets, and at 800-745-3000.
Keep it tuned to WKNC all week long for your chance to win tickets to any of these great shows below! Just be the correct caller when the DJ asks for it, and you and a friend could be hitting up some of the coolest local acts around!
Tue April 15 – Trust with Mozart’s Sister @ Pinhook
Wed April 16 – Yandrew with Odonis Odonis @ Pinhook
Wed, April 16 – Bobby Bare Jr. with Cory Branan @ Cat’s Cradle Back Room
Thu April 17 – Lonnie Walker with Paperhaus @ Kings
Thu, April 17 – Cloud Nothings with Ryley Walker @ Cat’s Cradle
Slightly Stoopid will be coming through Raleigh this summer, with special guests Stephen Marley and G. Love & Special Sauce. Thanks to Live Nation, WKNC has 5 pairs of tickets to give away!
Tickets will be given away from Tuesday, April 8 until Friday, April 11. Just be the correct caller when the DJ asks for calls on air to win a pair of tickets! Tickets for this concert go on sale Friday, April 11 at 10 am on Ticketmaster.com, at Ticketmaster outlets, and at 800-745-3000.
Keep it tuned to WKNC all week long for your chance to win tickets to any of these great shows below! Just be the correct caller when the DJ asks for it, and you and a friend could be hitting up some of the coolest local acts around!
Thu April 10 – Roadkill Ghost Choir with Desert Noises @ Kings
Fri April 11 – T0W3RS with Oulipo and Hectorina @ Kings
Fri, April 11 – North Elementary and LUD Dual Album Release party @ Cat’s Back Room
Fri April 11 – Professor Toon & The Real Laww with Must Be The Holy Ghost, Cracker and the Doctor @ Pinhook
Sat April 12 – Pissed Jeans with Thee Tsunamis and Apache Dropout @ Pinhook
Sun, April 13 – Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra @ Cat’s
Sun April 13 – Natural Child @ Kings
WKNC has 5 pairs of tickets for O.A.R. and Phillip Phillips on July 13 at the Red Hat Amphitheater thanks to Live Nation.
One pair of tickets will be given away each day from Monday, April 7 until Friday, April 11. Just be the correct caller when the DJ asks for calls on air to win a pair of tickets! Tickets go on sale Saturday, April 12 at 10 am on Ticketmaster.com, at Ticketmaster outlets, and at 800-745-3000.
Adam Graetz is better known as thefacesblur, up until recently that was the moniker adopted primarily for Greatz’s visual projections. These visuals have been spotted all over the Triangle throughout the past few years, a handful of Hopscotch sets have been graced with them, sets from Zack Mexico and T0W3RS as well. But towards the end of 2013 Graetz fully made the leap from visual to audio, crafting dizzying dance tunes under the same name.
Whether you’re soaking in his bass-heavy, melodic bangers through thefacesblur or as his supporting role in Body Games, it’s hard not to become entranced by these productions. Atmospheric keys float and skitter atop rattling low-ends, making for expansive tracks that get your head bobbing and mind whirring. Adam and I discussed the transition from visual to audio, balancing between Body Games and thefacesblur, and the future of both of his endeavors.
Listen to the full conversation along with new tracks below.
Phil Torres is a man you can expect to hear a lot more of in the North Carolina music scene. For the past few years he’s been blazing musical trails as Baobab alongside his partner Whitney Trettiien, but recently he broke out of the “folktronic” territory and has begun to craft heady dance tracks under the moniker Crowdsource. On this electronically themed show, I spoke at length with Phil about the origin of his electronic obsession, how he crafts these infectious beats and some of his sampling sources.
Alongside the songwriting aspects of his music, the conversation frequently delved into more logistical territories of electronic composition. For starters, many have harped on the lack of showmanship involved with live electronic sets, a qualm that’s quite frankly ill-founded. Phil discusses his live set-up along with some of his major inspirations for delving into the EDM side of the electronic spectrum.
Check out our full conversation, along with three brand new Crowdsource tracks from his forthcoming album Bit Rot Blues.
Few artists are as capable of crafting music as emotive and engaging as Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba. Though Cissokho is primarily singing in a wide array of languages that the average layman won’t be able to comprehend, the passion still oozes from this incredibly charismatic performer. The music of Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba is unlike any I’ve heard before, be that from North Carolina or West Africa. Cissokho has been working on mastering the kora since he was 5 years old, and after a few decades the instrument seems to be an extension of himself. Leading up to the release of the band’s second full-length album, The Great Peace, I was joined in the studio by Diali and the rest of the band.
Throughout our conversation the eclectic group of performers shed some light upon the origin of the band, how they met, what the name means, and so much more. The group feels less like a band of musicians and more like a family, they’re tightly knit and seem to share the same deep rooted passion for music. Throughout the hour we discussed overcoming cultural boundaries, inspiration for music, and some of Diali’s rich history in his home country of Senegal.
The band also shared three tracks from The Great Peace that you can stream below along with our full conversation.
Keep it tuned to WKNC all week long for your chance to win tickets to any of these great shows below! Just be the correct caller when the DJ asks for it, and you and a friend could be hitting up some of the coolest local acts around!
Wednesday, March 26 – Okkervil River with Hundred Visions @ Cat’s Cradle
Friday, March 28 – Twelve Thousand Armies with The Human Eyes and See Gulls @ Kings Barcade
Friday, March 28 – I Was Totally Destroying It with Blanko Basnet @ Cat’s Cradle Back Room
Saturday, March 29 – Waxahatchee with Radiator Hospital @ Pinhook
Sunday, March 30 – Colin Stetson with Justin Walter @ Kings Barcade
WKNC is excited to announce that we have partnered with Moogfest to give away a pair of tickets to this incredible festival. Moogfest has been an elite gathering of electronic musicians since 2004 and, in 2014, Moogfest is expanding its vision by becoming a 5-Day event dedicated to the synthesis of technology, art, and music. This year’s festival includes both an experimental line up of daytime conference programming and landmark nightly performances including artists such as Kraftwerk, Flying Lotus, M.I.A., Giorgio Moroder, and many more! Moogfest takes place April 23-27th in downtown Asheville, NC.
Stay tuned to WKNC all week long for your chance to enter into a drawing for this pair of passes. We will be announcing the winner one week from today, March 26th!
