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Afterhours Charts 2/3/26

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date February 6, 2026

Afterhours Charts

	Artist	Record	Label
1	SASSY 009	Dreamer+	PIAS Electronique
2	LOS PULPITOS	Octopean Union	Crammed Discs
3	SHUGOREI	Memories of Magic—魔法の記憶—Mahō no Kioku	4000
4	FKA TWIGS	EUSEXUA Afterglow	Young/Atlantic
5	CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON	“Selfish” [Single]	Stone Woman/XL
6	EMIL MARK	“Resjer” [Single]	Tonal Union
7	GIRL BRUTAL	“Asteroids” [Single]	Self-Released
8	RAMONPANG	“Mystery Dungeon” [Single]	Tabula Rasa
9	HELADO NEGRO	The Last Sound On Earth [EP]	Big Dada
10	ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER	Tranquilizer	Warp

Afterhours Adds

	Artist	Record	Label
1	SASSY 009	Dreamer+	PIAS Electronique
2	LOS PULPITOS	Octopean Union	Crammed Discs
3	CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON	“Selfish” [Single]	Stone Woman/XL
4	EMIL MARK	“Resjer” [Single]	Tonal Union

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

Weekly Charts

Underground Charts 2/3/26

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date February 5, 2026

Underground Charts

	Artist	Record	Label
1	SAMM HENSHAW	It Could Be Worse	Dorm Seven/AWAL
2	PLANET GIZA	The Sky Is Recording Me: 100 Years Later (Vol. 3)	Quiet Note
3	MCKINLEY DIXON	Magic, Alive!	City Slang
4	PRESERVATION AND GABE ‘NANDEZ	Sortilège	Backwoodz Studioz
5	KEIYAA	hooke’s law	XL
6	DANNY BROWN	Stardust	Warp
7	DEMAE	Deep Dive [EP]	FAMM
8	CAUTIOUS CLAY	The Hours: Night	Fantasy/Concord
9	7XVETHEGENIUS	Self 7xve 3	Broadband Sound
10	HUMAN ERROR CLUB AND KENNY SEGAL	Human Error Club At Kenny’s House	Backwoods Studioz

Underground Adds

	Artist	Record	Label
1	LORD JAH-MONTE OGBON	As Of Now	Lex
2	BY STORM	My Ghosts Go Ghost	deadAir

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

Playlists

DJ Dragonfly’s January Favorites

Post author By dj dragonfly
Post date February 5, 2026

Snowman. Image licensed CC0 1.0 Public Domain Universal

The first DJ Dragonfly’s Favorites for 2026 is here. It’s time to see if anything’s changed from last year to this year.

Tags dj dragonfly, dj dragonfly's monthly favorites, January, Playlist, WKNC

Weekly Charts

Jazz Charts 2/3/26

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date February 5, 2026

Jazz Charts

	Artist	Record	Label
1	NOAH HAIDU	Standards III	Infinite Distances
2	ISAIAH J THOMPSON	The Book Of Isaiah: Modern Jazz Ministry	Mack Avenue
3	BRAD MEHLDAU	Ride Into The Sun	Nonesuch
4	WEB WEB	Plexus Plexus	Compost
5	WAITIKI 7, THE	Exotica Reborn: In Studio And Live At House Without A Key	Waitiki International
6	OLYMPIANS, THE	“Strawberry Kiwi” [Single]	Daptone
7	LAUREN HENDERSON	Sonidos	Brontosaurus
8	LAKECIA BENJAMIN	Phoenix	Whirlwind
9	PAUL CORNISH	You’re Exaggerating!	Blue Note
10	LANCE FERGUSON	Rare Groove Spectrum, Vol. 3	Tru Thoughts

Top Adds

	Artist	Record	Label
1	SHABAKA	“A Future Untold” b/w “Marwa The Mountain” [Single]	Shabaka

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

Weekly Charts

Top Charts 2/3/26

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date February 5, 2026

Top Charts

	Artist	Record	Label
1	DOUBLE WISH	Double Wish	Hit The North
2	LIGHTHEADED	Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming!	Slumberland
3	PHOEBE RINGS	Aseurai	Carpark
4	APRIL MARCH	“Surfing Castafiore” [Single]	Bong Load
5	CROOKED FINGERS	“Cold Waves” [Single]	Merge
6	FEEBLE LITTLE HORSE	“This Is Real” [Single]	Saddle Creek
7	HEMLOCK	Orange Streak Glow [EP]	Self-Released
8	HOMEOSTASIS	“Golden Eyes” [Single]	Self-Released
9	PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE	Taurus	Topshelf
10	SHARP PINS	Balloon Balloon Balloon	K/Perennial
11	STEREOLAB	Instant Holograms On Metal Film	Warp/Duophonic
12	ABIGAIL DOWD	Saints & Warriors	Self-Released
13	ACOPIA	Blush Response	Scenic Route
14	AMENRA	De Toorn & With Fang And Claw [EP]	Relapse
15	CHANEL BEADS	“The Coward Forgets His Nightmare” [Single]	Jagjaguwar
16	CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON	“High Road” [Single]	Stone Woman/XL
17	CHAT PILE	Cool World	The Flenser
18	DAFFO	Where The Earth Bends	Concord
19	DEFEATED SANITY	Chronicles of Lunacy	Season of Mist
20	DESTRATA	A Healthy Fear [EP]	!K7
21	DJ BEETLEBITCH	Acidtape2024 [EP]	Dirtbag
22	FILLERHOOK	Apricity	Self-Released
23	FIND MY FRIENDS	Find My Friends [EP]	Bloody Knuckles
24	FOXWARREN	2 (Two)	Anti-
25	GANSER	Animal Hospital	felte
26	HATCHIE	Liquorice	Secretly Canadian
27	JOYER	On The Other End Of The Line…	Julia’s War
28	KARDASHEV	Alunea	Metal Blade
29	KILL THE BUDDHA	Kill the Buddha	Moths Recording Company
30	LILITHPAD	The Sky Is Falling… [EP]	Self-Released

Top Adds

	Artist	Record	Label
1	TRUE BLUE	Star Witness	True Nature
2	TRIPLES	Every Good Story [EP]	Bleak Enterprise
3	TREMBLER	Total Sorry [EP]	Rite Field
4	SNAIL MAIL	“Dead End” [Single]	Matador
5	GUV	Warmer Than Gold	Run For

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

Music Education

Learning about Noise

Post author By DJ Sharkbite
Post date February 3, 2026

Music production soundboard. Licensed CC0 1.0 Universal

I love music that pushes the envelope on what can be considered music. Two metal pipes banging against each other in my headphones might just be a prototype of the instruments of the future. The worst part is I am only half joking. If someone can make it sound good, or scratch that if someone can make it sound, who’s to say it isn’t music? Music is just noise, so any noise or combination of noises could be music. That line of thinking is what gets you the noise music genre. This genre features things like music made using hair dryers, cut up and split together cassette tapes, factory ambience, half-unplugged amps doing an infinite feedback loop with themselves and more that almost fails to be describable.

Tags dj sharkbite, futurism, music education, Noise, production, theory, WKNC, WKNC 88.1

Concert Review

The Front Bottoms: Ten Years On Top Tour

Post author By blvester
Post date January 31, 2026

Photo by Lachlan Vester

Photos by Lachlan Vester.

The Front Bottoms kicked off their Back On Top: Ten Years Tour at the Ritz in Raleigh on the twelfth of December 2025. Before getting any further into this post I must confide in the reader that I am a huge fan of The Front Bottoms and have seen them several times. Despite this, I will do my best to keep an unbiased view of this show.

The show kicked off with NOBRO, an all-female outfit of hard rockers who had the crowd eating out of the palm of their hands for their whole set. NOBRO absolutely killed their set and set the bar high for the rest of the night.

Tags concert review, NOBRO, The Front Bottoms, WKNC, WKNC 88.1

Playlists

DJ Dragonfly’s December Favorites

Post author By dj dragonfly
Post date January 30, 2026

A winter scene. Image by Claudette Gallant, licensed CC0 1.0 Universal.

It might be a new year, but some old things keep carrying on. A prime example would be the next edition of “DJ Dragonfly’s Favorites.”

I know this post comes a little late but these were my picks for December, I promise.

Tags December, dj dragonfly, Playlist, WKNC

Weekly Charts

Chainsaw Charts 1/27/26

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date January 30, 2026

Chainsaw Charts

	Artist	Record	Label
1	BAAN	Neumann	Self-Released
2	HOODED MENACE	Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration	Season of Mist
3	EMMA GOLDMAN	All You Are Is We	Zegema Beach
4	SIEGE COLUMN	Sulphur Omega	Self-Released
5	IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT	Goldstar	Century Media
6	DRAWN AND QUARTERED	Lord Of Two Horns	Nuclear Winter
7	YELLOW EYES	Confusion Gate	Sibir
8	HAVUKRUUNU	Tavastland	Svart
9	DEADGUY	Near-Death Travel Services	Relapse
10	LYCHGATE	Precipice	Debemur Morti

Chainsaw Adds

	Artist	Record	Label
1	CONVERGE	“We Were Never The Same” [Single]	Epitaph

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

Weekly Charts

Afterhours Charts 1/27/26

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date January 30, 2026

Afterhours Charts

	Artist	Record	Label
1	SHUGOREI	Memories of Magic—魔法の記憶—Mahō no Kioku	4000
2	FKA TWIGS	EUSEXUA Afterglow	Young/Atlantic
3	GIRL BRUTAL	“Asteroids” [Single]	Self-Released
4	RAMONPANG	“Mystery Dungeon” [Single]	Tabula Rasa
5	HELADO NEGRO	The Last Sound On Earth [EP]	Big Dada
6	GORPOPAP	“Grainy Screams” [Single]	Self-Released
7	HARVEY SUTHERLAND	Debt	Clarity/The Orchard
8	HAAI	Humanise	Mute
9	ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER	Tranquilizer	Warp
10	POLYANA	Pollyanna	Self-Released

Afterhours Adds

	Artist	Record	Label
1	GIRL BRUTAL	“Asteroids” [Single]	Self-Released
2	RAMONPANG	“Mystery Dungeon” [Single]	Tabula Rasa

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