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Chainsaw Charts 7/10

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# Artist Record Label
1 LEFT BEHIND Blessed By The Burn Unbeaten
2 KATAKLYSM Meditations Nuclear Blast
3 PARKWAY DRIVE Reverence Epitaph
4 GRUESOME Fragments of Psyche Relapse
5 KNOCKED LOOSE Laugh Tracks Pure Noise
6 TORTURE RACK Malefic Humiliation 20 Buck Spin
7 DIMMU BORGIR Eonian Nuclear Blast
8 CODE ORANGE Forever Roadrunner
9 WATAIN Trident Wolf Eclipse Century Media
10 DYING FETUS Wrong One To Fuck With Relapse

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Afterhours Charts 7/10

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# Artist Record Label
1 THE READY SET V1 [EP] Self-Released
2 JOHNY DAR “Gigi” [Single] Self-Released
3 CIMO FRANKEL “Never Give Up” [Single] Self-Released
4 NEGATIVE GEMINI Bad Baby [EP] 100% Electronica
5 ALISON WONDERLAND Awake Astralwerks
6 WHAT SO NOT, TOTO We Keep On Running Counter
7 KASBO Places We Don’t Know Foreign Family Collective
8 SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO Murmurations Wichita
9 DJ TAYE Truu [feat. DJ Paypal] Hyperdub
10 JOJI In Tongues [EP] 88Rising

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Daytime Charts 7/10

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# Artist Record Label
1 ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER Hope Downs Sub Pop
2 KEVIN KRAUTER Toss Up Bayonet
3 NATALIE PRASS The Future And The Past ATO
4 SNAIL MAIL Lush Matador
5 SOFT KILL Savior Profound Lore
6 HANA VU How Many Times Have You Driven By [EP] Luminelle
7 FATHER JOHN MISTY God’s Favorite Customer Sub Pop
8 CUT WORMS Hollow Ground Jagjaguwar
9 HALF WAIF Lavender Cascine
10 MOANING Moaning Sub Pop
11 TOMEMITSU The Cave (Deluxe Edition) S.A.D.
12 SHACKS, THE Haze Big Crown
13 DR DOG Critical Equation We Buy Gold/Thirty Tigers
14 LEBANON HANOVER Let Them Be Aliens Optika
15 BEACH HOUSE Seven (7) Sub Pop
16 WINTER Ethereality Everything Blue
17 NO THANK YOU All It Takes To Ruin It All Lame-O
18 NIHILIST CHEERLEADER Riot, Right? Perfect Attendance
19 ICEAGE Beyondless Matador
20 US GIRLS In A Poem Unlimited 4AD
21 AMEN DUNES Freedom Sacred Bones
22 OCEAN HOPE Rolling Days Hush Hush
23 GOBBINJR ocala wick Topshelf
24 TT LoveLaws Love Leaks/Caroline
25 UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA Sex & Food Jagjaguwar
26 FORTH WANDERERS Forth Wanderers Sub Pop
27 FUTO In Heaven, All My Jokes Will Kill Marching Banana
28 HALEY BLAIS Let Yourself Go [EP] Self-Released
29 MORMOR Heaven’s Only Wishful [EP] Don’t Guess
30 SERPENTWITHFEET soil Secretly Canadian

TOP ADDS

1 VIRGINIA WING Ecstatic Arrow Fire
2 TANUKICHAN Sundays Company
3 SUGARPLUM FAIRIES Payday Flowers Starfish
4 CLAIRE MORALES All That Wanting Self-Released
5 THEM ARE US TOO Amends Dais

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New WKNC app on RadioFX

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Beer Cans are The Saw’s Friends

Storytime with The Saw

This is going to be a story about how I got my first guitar pick. Now, this was a very important moment of my life because it was when I become a savage.

It was November of 2014, and my mom and I decided to go see Pop Evil in Fayetteville. They were having a free show, and it was almost my mom’s birthday, so we decided to go out and celebrate. The show was in the parking lot of a strip club, so you should know that this is going to be a good story when we’re jamming out in the strip club’s parking lot. Anyway, my mom and I were hanging out, chit-chatting with other people at the show. I got asked if I was going to go to the after party that would take place inside the strip club… I was shook. I literally wasn’t even 16 yet.

Pop Evil was my favorite band around this time and when they came on, I was jamming! I knew every word to every song that they had, and the bassist and vocalist shot me the goat (the rock symbol). Typically, at the end of a show, the band would throw things into the crowd (drum sticks, water bottles, set lists, towels, and guitar picks, etc.), the bass player looked dead at me AND THREW HIS PICK AT ME. I don’t have the best hand-eye coordination… so I didn’t catch the pick. BUT I did see where it landed, and I was determined to get that pick. Well homegirl in front of me saw the guitar pick too, and she decided she was going to bend down and pick it up. Not today! I ran towards the pick, saw a beer can on the pavement, kicked the beer can at her when she was bending down, and I dove head first for the pick (maybe a bit too dramatic, but come on… The Saw doesn’t half-ass anything). When I came back up, I came back victorious with the guitar pick in my hand. My mom saw the entire thing… and most parents would frown upon it, but not my mom. When I made eye contact with her, she had a huge smile on her face and her arms were wide open (que the song With Arms Wide Open by Creed) ready to embrace me in a hug. She yelled “MY BABY!!!” when I came up with the pick. She was proud of me for being a straight savage. If you ask her what her proudest moment of me is, she will tell you this story.

From that point on I have been a savage at shows, so watch out. I ain’t afraid to use a beer can if I have to.

* Me on the ground getting the guitar pick *

THE SAW 

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Weekly Charts

Chainsaw charts 6/26

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# Artist Record Label 
1 ALIEN WEAPONRY Tu Napalm
2 ELECTRIC WIZARD Wizard Bloody Wizard Spinefarm
3 GHOST Prequelle Concord/Loma Vista
4 BORN OF OSIRIS Tomorrow We Die Alive Sumerian
5 BETRAYING THE MARTYRS The Resilient Sumerian
6 CANNIBAL CORPSE Red Before Black Metal Blade
7 VEIL OF MAYA False Idol Sumerian
8 AS I LAY DYING “My Own Grave” [Single] Self-Released
9 SKINLESS Savagery Relapse
10 UPON A BURNING BODY Straight From The Barrio Sumerian

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Music News and Interviews

The Local Beat: Poinsettia

The Local Beat: Poinsettia

Poinsettia stops by the station to play some songs from their new album and talk about their show at Schoolkids!

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Weekly Charts

Afterhours charts 6/26

# Artist Record Label
1 ALISON WONDERLAND Awake Astralwerks
2 DJ TAYE Still Trippin Hyperdub
3 NHOAH 120 Red Skies [EP] R.O.T
4 KONGSTEAD, TEMMPO “Boomerang” [Single] universal
5 PEGGY GOU Once [EP] Ninja Tune
6 TESHA Dreams Vol. 1 Self-Released
7 WHAT SO NOT Not All The Beautiful Things Counter
8 DRUGZZ “Someone Other Than Me” [Single] Super Serious
9 CUSTARD SQUARE “We Live They Sleep” [Single] Self-Released
10 TELEPORT X In Dreams [EP] Polyptych

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Daytime charts 6/26

# Artist Record Label
1 NATALIE PRASS The Future And The Past ATO
2 SNAIL MAIL Lush Matador
3 KEVIN KRAUTER Toss Up Bayonet
4 TT LoveLaws Love Leaks/Caroline
5 SOFT KILL Savior Profound Lore
6 FRANKIE COSMOS Vessel Sub Pop
7 ICEAGE Beyondless Matador
8 BEACH HOUSE Seven (7) Sub Pop
9 OCEAN HOPE Rolling Days Hush Hush
10 HATCHIE Suger & Spice [EP] Double Double Whammy
11 CUT WORMS Hollow Ground Jagjaguwar
12 NIHILIST CHEERLEADER Riot, Right? Perfect Attendance
13 KING TUFF The Other Sub Pop
14 A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS Pinned Dead Oceans
15 FORTH WANDERERS Forth Wanderers Sub Pop
16 ORA COGAN Crickets Hand Drawn Dracula
17 COURTNEY BARNETT Tell Me How You Really Feel Mom + Pop
18 FATHER JOHN MISTY God’s Favorite Customer Sub Pop
19 LITTLE JUNIOR Hi Grand Jury
20 SAM EVIAN You, Forever Saddle Creek
21 SHACKS, THE Haze Big Crown
22 DRINKS Hippo Lite Drag City
23 CURRENT JOYS A Different Age Danger Collective
24 MOANING Moaning Sub Pop
25 NO THANK YOU All It Takes To Ruin It All Lame-O
26 HABIBI Cardamom Garden [EP] Modern Sky Entertainment
27 SHOPPING The Official Body Fat-Cat
28 NO AGE Snares Like a Haircut Drag City
29 PETAL Magic Gone Run For Cover
30 US GIRLS In A Poem Unlimited 4AD

TOP ADDS:

1 MOURN Sopresa Familia Captured Tracks
2 ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER Hope Downs Sub Pop
3 BLESSEDii [EP] CoinToss
4 FUTO In Heaven, All My Jokes Will Kill Marching Banana
5 NEIGHBOR LADY Maybe Later Friendship Fever
6 KADHJA BONET Childqueen Fat Possum
7 RVGA Quality Of Mercy Caroline

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Daytime Charts 6/19

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1 NATALIE PRASS The Future And The Past ATO
2 ICEAGE Beyondless Matador
3 SOFT KILL Savio rProfound Lore
4 TT LoveLaws Love Leaks/Caroline
5 OCEAN HOPE Rolling Days Hush Hush
6 US GIRLS In A Poem Unlimited 4AD
7 A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS Pinned Dead Oceans
8 AMEN DUNES Freedom Sacred Bones
9 HOP ALONG Bark Your Head Off, Dog Saddle Creek
10 HALEY BLAIS Let Yourself Go [EP] Self-Released
11 CURRENT JOYS A Different Age Danger Collective
12 NO THANK YOU All It Takes To Ruin It All Lame-O
1 3SHOPPING The Official Body Fat-Cat
14 GOBBINJR ocala wick Topshelf
15 DR DOG Critical Equation We Buy Gold/Thirty Tigers
16 PREOCCUPATIONS New Material Jagjaguwar
17 EZRA FURMAN Transangelic Exodus Bella Union/PIAS
18 SALINE You Did It To Yourself Perfect Attendance
19 FRANKIE COSMOS Vessel Sub Pop
20 VOWWS Under The World Anti-Language
21 SCREAMING FEMALES All At Once Don Giovanni
22 HABIBI Cardamom Garden [EP] Modern Sky Entertainment
23 POST ANIMAL When I Think Of You In A Castle Polyvinyl
24 COURTNEY BARNETT Tell Me How You Really Feel Mom + Pop
25 KISSISSIPPI Sunset Blush Bug Crusher
26 SHACKS, THE Haze Big Crown
27 UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA Sex & Food Jagjaguwar
28 LAS ROSAS Shadow By Your Side Greenway
29 FATHER JOHN MISTY God’s Favorite Customer Sub Pop
30 LA LUZ Floating Features Hardly Art