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!
WKNC has not one but two “win-them-before-you-can-buy-them” giveaways going on this week thanks to our friends at Live Nation.
Vampire Weekend will play Raleigh’s Red Hat Amphitheater on June 12. Tickets will go on sale Friday, March 14 at 10 a.m.
Ray LaMontagne with special guests The Belle Brigade will be at Red Hat Amphitheater in Raleigh on July 26. Tickets will go on sale Friday, March 14 at noon.
If you aren’t one of our lucky winners, pick up your tickets at LiveNation.com, via the Live Nation mobile app, the Belk Box Office at Walnut Creek Amphitheatre and Duke Energy Center box office, all Ticketmaster outlets or charge by phone at 800-745-3000.
WKNC interviewed multi-saxophonist Greg Abate to discuss his career and most recent project with saxophonist Phil Woods, The Greg Abate Quintet featuring Phil Woods. Greg shared valuable information about his upbringing in music in the northeastern United States, his experiences performing internationally with feature bands including the Ray Charles Orchestra, and his time teaching students in Rhode Island. The main feature of the interview was Greg’s insight into his collaboration with Phil Woods. He even gives listeners a preview of his upcoming project which will also feature Phil Woods.
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.
Monday, March 3 – Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks with Purling Hiss @ Cat’s Cradle
Tuesday, March 4 – mewithoutYou with Touche Amore @ Cat’s Cradle
Tuesday, March 4 – Yellow Ostrich with Pattern Is Movement @ Kings Barcade
Wednesday, March 5 – Shovels & Rope with Hurray For The Riff Raff @ Cat’s Cradle
Wednesday, March 5 – Future Islands with Wye Oak @ Haw River Ballroom
Thursday, March 6 – TEEN with New Madrid and Blanko Basnet @ Kings Barcade
Friday, March 7 – Oberhofer with Small Black @ Local 506
Friday, March 7 – No Eyes with Jenny Besetzt and Naked Naps @ Kings Barcade
Friday, March 7 – Ex Hex with heather McEntire @ Pinhook
Friday, March 7 – Tanya Morgan with Tab One and Scienze @ Cat’s Back Room
Saturday, March 8 – Grandchildren with Motor Skills and Jazz Tapes @ Kings Barcade
Sunday, March 9 – Great Good Fine Ok with Iggy Cosky @ Kings Barcade
Sunday, March 9 – Ringo Deathstarr with Purple @ Pinhook
Sunday, March 9 – The Pains of Being Pure At Heart with Eternal Summers @ Cat’s Cradle
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.
Tuesday, February 25 – Robert Ellis with T. Hardy Morris @ Cat’s Cradle Back Room
Wednesday, February 26 – Caroline Smith with Lowland Hum @ Cat’s Cradle Back Room
Thursday, February 27 – Ice Balloons with Magician’s Hand Practice @ Kings
Thursday, February 27 – Cheap Time with Last Years Men @ Pinhook
Friday, February 28 – Lost in the Trees with All Tiny Creatures @ Cat’s Cradle
Friday, February 28 – Octopus Jones Album Release with Heads on Sticks @ Kings
One of the less thought of consequences of the 2010 London riots may have been the loss of numbers of crates filled with what was to be the debut album of Hiss Golden Messenger – “Bad Debt.” The fires ended up destroying the entire first pressing of the record. The intimate collection of songs, recorded at a kitchen table on an analog tape deck, has now been re-released and has been making headlines ever since the street date.
The band had a proper release for the LP last Friday at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro.
Check out the first installment of Hiss Golden Messenger’s set in the Lounge here.
Loamlands are an exciting new Durham based band, featuring Will Hackney and Kym Register, formerly of the group Midtown Dickens. The group revels in a sort of emotionally charged Americana that manages to hopeful and bittersweet all at once. The band saw their first EP release, Some Kind Of Light, last year on Trekky Records, and the record is a powerful and spare collection of songs with earworm vocal melodies and a distinctly Southern charm.
The duo recently came in for a Lounge session, where they performed “One More Day” a track from their upcoming new LP. See them play with Mount Moriah, Daniel Bachman, and more this Friday 2/14 at Lincoln Theater for Double Barrel Benefit Night 2!
Hammer No More The Fingers has been a mainstay of the Triangle music scene for years, and they show no sign of stopping. Their last release of new material was the single Kaplox, and they group came by the WKNC Lounge to perform it live.
HNMTF will take the stage at Cat’s Cradle on February 7th for the first night of Double Barrel Benefit 11, right after T0W3RS and before The Love Language end the night.
WKNC is delighted to be the primary media sponsor for this year’s Phuzz Phest- Winston-Salem’s premiere annual music festival. This fourth annual event returns to the City of the Arts & Innovation’s burgeoning downtown area to thousands of music fans across the southeast. This year the festival will span three days from Friday April 4 through Sunday April 6, featuring their most potent and genre-spanning lineup yet with more than 50 musical acts coming from as far away as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Brooklyn and Detroit.
Though far from NC’s largest music festival, Phuzz Phest has built its reputation on keenly curating the region’s best acts for a truly special weekend of music, offering attendees a rare opportunity to see critically-acclaimed artists alongside under-praised locals in settings more intimate than would otherwise be possible.
The 2014 lineup features headliners like L.A.’s pioneering noise-punk duo No Age, visionary rap legend Kool Keith, hypnotic alt-country songstress Jessica Lea Mayfield, and San Francisco psych-rock stalwarts White Fence. Festival alumni and Merge Records acts Mount Moriah & The Love Language make return appearances alongside Ex Hex, the new project of Mary Timony (Wild Flag, Autoclave, Helium) whose debut record is due in March via Merge Records. View the full lineup below, bold indicates headliners.
