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Afterhours Charts 8/26/25

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date August 29, 2025

	Artist	Record	Label
1	ZZKILLME	Lucky Star ✰	Self-Released
2	TURQUOISEDEATH	Guardian	Plantasia
3	MADELINE KENNEY	Kiss From The Balcony	Carpark
4	JAMIE LIDELL	Places Of Unknowing	TODO
5	VYLET PONY	Love & Ponystep	Horse Friends
6	SHHAU	Higher Entropy	Self-Released
7	CLUSTERFUNK	forestry	fakenumberland
8	SHINJONG	Freewillpilled	Self-Released
9	ALIA LAIN	is this the pulse of mechanical ruins	Self-Released
10	IO-NULL (.DRN)	µnerves	Self-Released

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

Weekly Charts

Underground Charts 8/26/25

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date August 28, 2025

Underground Charts

	Artist	Record	Label
1	AESOP ROCK	Black Hole Superette	Rhymesayers
2	AJ TRACEY	Don’t Die Before You’re Dead	Revenge
3	BISCA RAE	“Honey” [Single]	Basic Bisca
4	BOLDY JAMES AND REAL BAD MAN	Conversation Pieces	Real Bad Man
5	CASH LANSKY	Man Of The House	Mello
6	ELIJAH BLAKE	elijah.	MNRK
7	ERROL EATS EVERYTHING	Errol Eats Everything	Big Chune
8	HANNAH STOKES	“Waste Time” [Single]	Raised Eden
9	KENNY MASON	Angel Eyes	RCA
10	ONEDA	Formula OneDa	Heavenly/PIAS

Underground Adds

	Artist	Record	Label
1	LUPE FIASCO	“SOS” [Single]	1st And 15th Too/Thirty Tigers
2	CARRTOONS	“Thursday Disco” feat. Haile Supreme [Single]	+1
3	CARRTOONS	“Cascade” feat. Wiki, Rae Khalil, The Kount [Single]	+1
4	EVIDENCE	Unlearning Vol. 2	Rhymesayers
5	MURS	Love & Rockets 3:16 (The Emancipation)	Mello
6	STACY EPPS	Flowheart	RE:Source Collab

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

Weekly Charts

Jazz Charts 8/26/25

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date August 28, 2025

	Artist	Record	Label
1	DANA AND ALDEN	Speedo	Concord Jazz/Concord
2	GOTTS STREET PARK	On The Inside	Blue Flowers
3	SHAREL CASSITY	Gratitude	Sunnyside
4	WALTER SMITH III	Three Of Us Are From Houston And Reuben Is Not	Blue Note
5	RENEE ROSNES	Crossing Paths	Smoke Sessions
6	CARLOS MENA	Con Personas (With The People)	Pinch
7	RYAN KEBERLE AND COLLECTIV DO BRASIL	Choro Das Águas	Alternate Side
8	JOHN ROSEBORO	Fools	Public Confession Art House
9	NANAMI HARUTA	The Vibe	Origin
10	PAUL CORNISH	You’re Exaggerating!	Blue Note

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

Weekly Charts

Top Charts 8/26/25

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date August 28, 2025

Top Charts

	Artist	Record	Label
1	DOUBLE WISH	Double Wish	Hit The North
2	MEI SEMONES	Animaru	Bayonet
3	BUG CRUSH	Somehow I Go In Circles All The Time [EP]	Self-Released
4	GRAHAM HUNT	Timeless World Forever	Run For Cover
5	JADE THE MOON	“Dirty John Type” [Single]	Self-Released
6	SASAMI	Blood On The Silver Screen	Domino
7	SCOWL	Scowl On Audiotree Live [EP]	Self-Released
8	STEREOLAB	Instant Holograms On Metal Film	Warp/Duophonic
9	ANIMAL COLLECTIVE	“Love On The Big Screen” [Single]	Domino
10	APRIL MARCH	“Surfing Castafiore” [Single]	Bong Load
11	DAUGHTER OF SWORDS	Alex	Psychic Hotline
12	DISCUS	To Relate To	Sun-Rom
13	FEEBLE LITTLE HORSE	“This Is Real” [Single]	Saddle Creek
14	FIND MY FRIENDS	Find My Friends [EP]	Bloody Knuckles
15	FOXWARREN	2 (Two)	Anti-
16	FRANKIE COSMOS	Different Talking	Sub Pop
17	JADE BIRD	Who Wants To Talk About Love?	Glassnote
18	LIGHTHEADED	Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming!	Slumberland
19	MAE MARTIN	I’m A TV	Casablanca/Republic
20	PHOEBE RINGS	Aseurai	Carpark
21	SUBSONIC EYE	Singapore Dreaming	Topshelf
22	SUNBATHE	Myself To You	Time Release
23	BEATRICE MELISSA	Secret	Midnight Special
24	BLUE CACTUS	Believer	Sleepy Cat
25	CABLE.PERCUSSION	XYZ [EP]	Intellitronic Bubble
26	CANUT DE BON	no esperan por nadie	Sello Cototo
27	CARIBOU	Honey	Merge
28	CAVE SERMON	Fragile Wings	Self-Released
29	DANIBREAKS	NXIETY [EP]	Self-Released
30	DJ PYTHON	“Besos Robados” [Single]	XL

Top Adds

	Artist	Record	Label
1	WINTER	Adult Romantix	Winspear
2	WATER FROM YOUR EYES	It’s A Beautiful Place	Matador/Beggars
3	GOOD FLYING BIRDS	good flying birds: talulah’s tape	Rotten Apple
4	SHE’S GREEN	Chrysalis [EP]	Photo Finish
5	TEETHE	Magic Of The Sale	Winspear

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

Music Education

Minidiscs: Obsolete, but Pretty Cool

Post author By Emily Heiges
Post date August 27, 2025

“TDK MiniDisc and Duracell Ultra M3 20070320” by Ramon Vasconcellos via GNU Free Documentation 1.2 License and CC Share Alike 3.0 License

(Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License Information)

I got inspired to write this article when I found a box in the back of my mom’s closet full of minidiscs, a minidisc recorder and player. The small metal square fit almost perfectly in my hand and the discs that went inside it were even smaller, and on top of that were trapped inside of hard plastic squares. I absolutely adored the look of these things and had to learn more about them.

Portable music has seen a lot of phases before getting to where we are today. CDs, cassettes, and mp3 players are all formats you’re probably familiar with. One format you may be less familiar with is the minidisc.

Tags cd, cds, minidiscs, music players, music technology

Miscellaneous

eXperimental pOp

Post author By esdallma
Post date August 25, 2025

Good Bad Happy Sad and found sound

The band Good Bad Happy Sad resembles a trance trip state in which sound merges behind found and curated, meshing conversations and tunes and timelines pulling on simultaneous explorations of different genre associated sounds.

Tags experimental sound, found sound, sound environments

Weekly Charts

Chainsaw Charts 8/19/25

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date August 22, 2025

	Artist	Record	Label
1	CAVE SERMON	Fragile Wings	Self-Released
2	TRHA	lact’eben [EP]	Self-Released
3	DRAWN AND QUARTERED	Lord Of Two Horns	Nuclear Winter
4	VENATOR	Psychodrome	Dying Victims
5	BAAN	Neumann	Self-Released
6	LIFE	my heart the dreaming memory	Self-Released
7	VESPERAL	La Mort de l’Âme	Self-Released
8	EMMA GOLDMAN	All You Are Is We	Zegema Beach
9	SCIMITAR	Scimitarium I	Crypt of the Wizard
10	BLOOD ABSCISSION	I I	Debemur Motri

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

Weekly Charts

Afterhours Charts 8/19/25

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date August 22, 2025

	Artist	Record	Label
1	ZZKILLME	Lucky Star ✰	Self-Released
2	TURQUOISEDEATH	Guardian	Plantasia
3	MADELINE KENNEY	Kiss From The Balcony	Carpark
4	JAMIE LIDELL	Places Of Unknowing	TODO
5	VYLET PONY	Love & Ponystep	Horse Friends
6	SHHAU	Higher Entropy	Self-Released
7	CLUSTERFUNK	forestry	fakenumberland
8	SHINJONG	Freewillpilled	Self-Released
9	ALIA LAIN	is this the pulse of mechanical ruins	Self-Released
10	IO-NULL (.DRN)	µnerves	Self-Released

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

Weekly Charts

Underground Charts 8/19/25

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date August 22, 2025

"On The Inside" by Gotts Street Park

Underground Charts

	Artist	Record	Label
1	GOTTS STREET PARK	On The Inside	Blue Flowers
2	AJ TRACEY	Don’t Die Before You’re Dead	Revenge
3	BUTCHER BROWN	Letters From The Atlantic	Concord Jazz
4	AESOP ROCK	Black Hole Superette	Rhymesayers
5	NXWORRIES	“Everybody Gets Down” [Single]	Stones Throw
6	HALIMA	Exu (Deluxe) [EP]	drink sum wtr
7	WAHID	THEY ALL GO MAD! [EP]	Innovative Leisure
8	DELIVERY BOYS AND LOST BOY	“camp lazlo” [Single]	Delivery!
9	MCKINLEY DIXON	Magic, Alive!	City Slang
10	RITCHIE	Triple Digits	AWAL

Underground Adds

	Artist	Record	Label
1	VENNA	“My Way” [Single]	Cashmere Thoughts
2	VENNA	“Day x2 (feat. MIKE & Marco Bernadis)” [Single]	Cashmere Thoughts

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

Weekly Charts

Jazz Charts 8/19/25

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date August 22, 2025

Jazz Charts

	Artist	Record	Label
1	ENTRE AMIGOS	Entre Amigos	Self-Released
2	KURT ROSENWINKEL AND JEAN-PAUL BRODBECK	The Brahms Project	Heartcore
3	MAVIS PAN	Rising	Self-Released
4	NUBYA GARCIA	Odyssey	Concord Jazz
5	RODNEY JORDAN	Memphis Blue	Baxter
6	TRIOLOGY	The Slow Road	Cellar
7	RYAN KEBERLE AND CATHARSIS	Music Is Connection	Alternate Side
8	PETER BERNSTEIN	Better Angels	Smoke Sessions
9	MAX WALKER	Chronostasis	Orenda
10	JACKIE MYERS	What About The Butterfly	577

Jazz Adds

	Artist	Record	Label
1	RACHAEL AND VILRAY	West of Broadway	Concord Jazz
2	BOB SCHLESINGER	Falling From Earth	Self-Released

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