Category: Blog

Surviving Midterm Season

Post author By dj dragonfly
Post date November 3, 2025

Exhaustion represented by Ng Wei Bunn, licensed CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Generic

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We are officially in the middle of the fall semester. That can only mean one thing: midterms. I can’t speak for everyone, but most everyone I know, present company included, have been drowning in exams, projects, presentations and extracurricular activities. The most prevalent feelings I have observed in myself and others have been stress. That being said, I think it’s high time I did another mental health check in.

With it feeling like everything is happening all at the same time, I want to provide a guide for how to deal with the stress and how to get through this dreaded period of the semester.

Tags dj dragonfly, mental health, Midterms, studying, WKNC

Movie Review

“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” – A Review

Post author By dj dragonfly
Post date October 31, 2025

"The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975) movie poster

CONTENT WARNING: This review, film and/or soundtrack contains themes of sexual expression, violence, assault and conspiracy.

Around this time of year, hundreds of movie theatres across the country host midnight screenings of cult classic, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” While I have yet to actually go to one of these events, I have seen the movie numerous times. I love the film and feel like it is rightfully a cult classic.

Tags dj dragonfly, halloween, Movie Review, Musical, The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Miscellaneous

SCarowinds 2025 – An Honest Review

Post author By dj dragonfly
Post date October 31, 2025

A scare actor, Halloween Horror Nights. Image by Inside the Magic, licensed CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Generic

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Those who have lived in or near Charlotte, NC know that every fall, popular rollercoaster park Carowinds does their annual nighttime scare program. There’s haunted houses, performances, decorations and monsters everywhere, at least normally. I have personally been going almost every year, if not every year, since I moved to North Carolina. This year, I have been severely disappointed.

What Once Was

Let me explain. In the past, the park would close around 5 p.m. and reopen around 6 p.m. with the scare actors out and ready to play. The park wouldn’t close for the night until 1 a.m. I could leave my house at 5, which was about 45 minutes away, and get there in time for opening, get through ticketing lines and be ready to have fun within an hour. There were three or so haunted houses and mazes along with different parts of the park acting almost like boroughs with different themes. There were very few “safe” places where you couldn’t be scared. Additionally, there have been areas around the park with dancers and there was always a big performance in the front apex of the park where the Carolinas’ meet.

Tags dj dragonfly, halloween, SCarowinds

Weekly Charts

Chainsaw Charts 10/28/25

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date October 31, 2025

Chainsaw Charts

	Artist	Record	Label
1	DRAWN AND QUARTERED	Lord Of Two Horns	Nuclear Winter
2	GREYHAVEN	Keep It Quiet	Solid State
3	STARFORCE	Beyond the Eternal Night	Self-Released
4	HOODED MENACE	Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration	Season of Mist
5	FLOATING	Hesitating Lights	Transcending Obscurity
6	MITOCHONDRION	Vitriseptome	Profound Lore
7	CALLOUS DAOBOYS, THE	I Don’t Want To See You In Heaven	MNRK Heavy
8	BAAN	Neumann	Self-Released
9	HELMS DEEP	Chasing The Dragon	Nameless Grave
10	KILLING ME SOFTLY	To Forever Fall Through God’s Safety Net [EP]	Northern Unrest

Chainsaw Adds

	Artist	Record	Label
1	GREYHAVEN	Keep It Quiet	Solid State
2	INTERCOURSE	How I Fell In Love With The Void	Brutal Panda
3	VILE APPARITION	Malignity	Me Saco Un Ojo

Tags charts, college radio, Metal, NACC Weekly Charts, WKNC, WKNC 88.1

Weekly Charts

Afterhours Charts 10/28/25

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date October 31, 2025

Underground Charts

	Artist	Record	Label
1	INDIGO CYPRESS	The Witness	Self-Released
2	ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER	Tranquilizer	Warp
3	NIGHT TAPES	portals//polarities	Nettwerk
4	DESTRATA	CDMUSIC013 [EP]	Club Designs
5	SYLVAN ESSO	“WDID” [Single]	Psychic Hotline
6	BIZ	Swim	Self-Released
7	WEVAL	CHOROPHOBIA	Technicolour
8	S-AME	IGNORANT BLISS	Self-Released
9	KEWYO	too much words in my head	unlucky wind
10	LYNYN	Ixona	Sooper

Afterhours Adds

	Artist	Record	Label
1	INDIGO CYPRESS	The Witness	Self-Released
2	ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER	Tranquilizer	Warp

Tags charts, college radio, Electronic, NACC Weekly Charts, WKNC, WKNC 88.1

Weekly Charts

Underground Charts 10/28/25

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date October 30, 2025

Underground Charts

	Artist	Record	Label
1	AESOP ROCK	Black Hole Superette	Rhymesayers
2	YAYA BEY	Do It Afraid	drink sum wtr
3	MANWOLVES, CRASHPREZ, CRASHWOLVES	it all comes for me [EP]	Manwolves
4	VENNA	MALIK	Cashmere Thoughts
5	MURS	Love & Rockets 3:16 (The Emancipation)	Mello
6	MCKINLEY DIXON	Magic, Alive!	City Slang
7	DANNY BROWN	“Copycats” feat. Underscores [Single]	Warp
8	ROC C AND ARIANO	Homegrown	Urbnet
9	EVIDENCE	Unlearning Vol. 2	Rhymesayers
10	MADISON MCFERRIN	SCORPIO	MadMcFerrin

Underground Adds

	Artist	Record	Label
1	CAUTIOUS CLAY	The Hours: Night	Fantasy/Concord
2	MID CENTURY MODERN	Biorhythms	MADK
3	BILLY DEAN THOMAS	MX	Self-Released
4	LEX LEOSIS	i’m a little sensitive [EP]	Distorted Muse
5	ELIAS RONNENFELT	Speak Daggers	Escho
6	LORD JAH-MONTE OGBON	“So You Really Don’t Miss Me?” [Single]	Lex
7	SHUNGU	“Stay Alive” [Single]	Lex
8	TOBI AND REAL BAD MAN	“When I’m Home” [Single]	Real Bad Man

Tags charts, college radio, NACC Weekly Charts, Rap, WKNC, WKNC 88.1

Weekly Charts

Jazz Charts 10/28/25

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date October 30, 2025

Top Charts

	Artist	Record	Label
1	RIN SEO COLLECTIVE	City Suite	Cellar
2	CORTO.ALTO	“32.Dip (108)” [Single]	Marathon Artists
3	STEVEN FEIFKE	The Role Of The Rhythm Section, Volume II	La Reserve/Bandstand Presents
4	BIRDLAND BIG BAND	Storybook: The Music Of Mark Miller	Birdland
5	DANA AND ALDEN	Speedo	Concord Jazz/Concord
6	DANN ZINN	Two Roads	Ridgeway
7	HOT 8 BRASS BAND	Big Tuba	Tru Thoughts
8	SASHA BERLINER	Fantome	Outside In
9	SEAN MASON	A Breath Of Fresh Air	Taylor Christian
10	TESSA SOUTER	Shadows And Silence: The Erik Satie Project	Noanara

Top Adds

	Artist	Record	Label
1	BRAD MEHLDAU	Ride Into The Sun	Nonesuch
2	SF JAZZ COLLECTIVE	Collective Imaginery	Post Bop
3	ART HIRAHARA	Peace Unknown	Posi-Tone
4	RAFIQ BHATIA	Environments	Anti-

Tags charts, college radio, jazz, NACC Weekly Charts, WKNC, WKNC 88.1

Weekly Charts

Top Charts 10/28/25

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date October 30, 2025

Top Charts

	Artist	Record	Label
1	NO JOY	Bugland	Hand Drawn Dracula
2	SASAMI	Blood On The Silver Screen	Domino
3	ACOPIA	Blush Response	Scenic Route
4	FIND MY FRIENDS	Find My Friends [EP]	Bloody Knuckles
5	JADE BIRD	Who Wants To Talk About Love?	Glassnote
6	LIGHTHEADED	Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming!	Slumberland
7	NATIVE SUN	Concrete Language	TODO
8	SCOWL	Are We All Angels	Dead Oceans
9	ANIMAL COLLECTIVE	“Love On The Big Screen” [Single]	Domino
10	APRIL MARCH	“Surfing Castafiore” [Single]	Bong Load
11	CLEOPATRICK	Fake Moon	Nowhere Special/Thirty Tigers
12	DISCUS	To Relate To	Sun-Rom
13	FEEBLE LITTLE HORSE	“This Is Real” [Single]	Saddle Creek
14	FOXWARREN	2 (Two)	Anti-
15	MAMALARKY	Hex Key	Epitaph
16	OZZY	“Amber” [Single]	Self-Released
17	SEA LEMON	Diving For A Prize	Luminelle
18	SHE’S GREEN	Chrysalis [EP]	Photo Finish
19	STEREOLAB	Instant Holograms On Metal Film	Warp/Duophonic
20	SUBSONIC EYE	Singapore Dreaming	Topshelf
21	BASSVICTIM	Forever	Self-Released
22	BUG CRUSH	Somehow I Go In Circles All The Time [EP]	Self-Released
23	CAMERON STENGER	Lighter	Hearing Aid
24	DEADGUY	Near-Death Travel Services	Relapse
25	DOUBLE WISH	Double Wish	Hit The North
26	FLORRY	Sounds Like	Dear Life
27	GANSER	Animal Hospital	felte
28	GOOD FLYING BIRDS	Talulah’s Tape	Carpark
29	GRAHAM HUNT	Timeless World Forever	Run For Cover
30	HEDONIST	Scapulimancy	Southern Lord

Top Adds

	Artist	Record	Label
1	HALLOWEEN	Shadow House	Funeral Party
2	DEAR BOY	Celebrator	Last Gang
3	BATS, THE	Corner Coming Up	Flying Nun

Tags charts, college radio, NACC Weekly Charts, rock, WKNC, WKNC 88.1

Playlists

A Halloween Playlist

Post author By dj dragonfly
Post date October 29, 2025

A Halloween scene. Image by Pixabay, licensed CC0 1.0 Universal.

Halloween: Costumes, candy, spooky movies and fun music.

I love Halloween. No contest, Halloween is my favorite holiday. As such, I always make a huge deal about it every year. I usually have several costumes ready for any eventuality, eat way too much candy, make all kinds of fun treats and snacks and, of course, I make a bomb playlist for my annual Halloween bash.

Tags dj dragonfly, halloween, Playlist

Miscellaneous

Book Review: “Serenade to the Big Bird” is an Unfinished Tragedy

Post author By Killian Le
Post date October 28, 2025

"Serenade to the Big Bird" written in large text. Used according to Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal Deed.

Have you ever heard the saying, “the cameraman never dies?” The phrase is a viral internet meme that Reddit popularized in 2020.

The joke references survivorship bias, a logical error in studies where statisticians only collect data on entities who ‘survive’ their trials, while ignoring those who do not. But for internet-users who enjoy videos of daring stunts and perilous expeditions, “the cameraman never dies” is a comforting mantra to repeat as their favorite YouTubers barely finesse death on camera.

By nature, war memoirs are very similar. Only someone who survives a war can publish an account about it, no?

Background

“Serenade to the Big Bird” is an unfinished WWII memoir written by American author Bert Stiles through 1943 through 1944. He was a B-17 copilot, serving in the 401st Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group for the U.S. Airforce.

On November 26, 1944, he shot down a Luftwaffe Fw 190s before his plane careened into the ground in Hanover, Germany.

I had skimmed past this fact written on page nine. When I finished “Serenade to the Big Bird,” flipping to find more, a chill raced down my spine when I realized that there wouldn’t be.

Tags book review, Historical Fiction, NC State, War Memoir, WKNC, WKNC 88.1