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Chainsaw Charts 5/13/25

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date May 16, 2025

	Artist	Record	Label
1	DEAFHEAVEN	Lonely People With Power	Roadrunner
2	THOU	Umbilical	Sacred Bones
3	SIDEREAN	Spilling the Astral Chalice	Edged Circle
4	COFFIN CURSE	The Continuous Nothing	Memento Mori
5	DEFEATED SANITY	Chronicles of Lunacy	Season of Mist
6	DEMON BITCH	Master of the Games	Cruz del Sur
7	HIGH ON FIRE	Cometh The Storm	MNRK
8	MITOCHONDRION	Vitriseptome	Profound Lore
9	CANUT DE BON	no esperan por nadie	Sello Cototo
10	BLOOD INCANTATION	Absolute Elsewhere	Century Media

Tags charts, college radio, local, Metal, NACC Weekly Charts, NC State, WKNC, WKNC 88.1

Classic Album Review

Classic Album Review: Mitsumeru

Post author By Emily Heiges
Post date May 16, 2025

Album cover for Gaze by Mitsumeru

Gaze was a Canadian indie pop band with shoegaze and twee leanings. Their drummer, Rose Melberg, was part of a number of other musical groups within the genre such as The Softies and Tiger Trap. The band only released two albums before disbanding but I think that both are worth a listen. While often criticized for lack of musical variety between songs, each song feels emotionally sincere. They may not be the most musically complex band, but their frank lyrics describing everyday frustrations and arguments endear them to me. A friend of a friend you can’t stand, a break up that leaves you bitter and an argument where insults are thrown back and forth are all stories explored within the album “Mitsumeru”.

Tags Classic Album Review, college radio, daytime

Weekly Charts

Afterhours Charts 5/13/25

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date May 16, 2025

Afterhours Charts

	Artist	Record	Label
1	MAGITECH	Rootkit Vultures	Gimmedanger
2	MOUSETRAPPING	I’VE ALWAYS HATED THE INTERNET	Self-Released
3	SHENEVERHEXDMEBACK	Light_leavingmybody [EP]	Vapor Scape
4	GWENNYLOL	Blurry Sky	Vapor Scape
5	S4DUNICORN	system//selene [EP]	Vapor Scape
6	HARMFUL LOGIC	SOULGEMCOLLECTION (Deluxe)	MAD BREAKS
7	FULL BODY 2	infinity signature [EP]	Year0001
8	TAPEWORMS	Grand Voyage	Music_Website
9	DJ BEETLEBITCH	Acidtape2024 [EP]	Dirtbag
10	OUT THE BLUE	Acid Fog [EP]	Self-Released

Afterhours Adds

	Artist	Record	Label
1	SHENEVERHEXDMEBACK	Light_leavingmybody [EP]	Vapor Scape
2	GWENNYLOL	Blurry Sky	Vapor Scape
3	S4DUNICORN	system//selene [EP]	Vapor Scape
4	HARMFUL LOGIC	SOULGEMCOLLECTION (Deluxe)	MAD BREAKS

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

Weekly Charts

Underground Charts 5/13/25

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date May 15, 2025

Underground Charts

	Artist	Record	Label
1	DUCKWRTH	All American F*ckboy	Them Hellas
2	AJ TRACEY	“Crush” feat. Jorja Smith [Single]	Revenge
3	9LIVES	“UP FREESTYLE” feat. Odetari [Single]	Pulse/Concord
4	EDDIE CHACON	Lay Low	Stones Throw
5	FLY ANAKIN	(The) Forever Dream	Lex
6	JACOB BANKS	Yonder: Book I	Nobody
7	KUNA MAZE	Layers	Tru Thoughts
8	MICHI	Dirty Talk	Stones Throw
9	SAM AKPRO	Evenfall	Anti-
10	JESHI	Airbag Woke Me Up	Because Because

Underground Adds

	Artist	Record	Label
1	MXNXSTXR AND DESTRUCTO	“What You Need” feat. Thundercat & Channel Tres [Single]	All My Friends
2	LORD SKO	PIFF	Stimulated
3	SILAS SHORT	LUSHLAND	Stones Throw
4	TRY	TRY	Spectrophonic Sound
5	BUTCHER BROWN	Letters From The Atlantic	Concord Jazz
6	LUKE TITUS	From What Was Will Grow A Flower	Sooper
7	BOLDY JAMES AND REAL BAD MAN	Conversation Pieces	Real Bad Man
8	FLY ANAKIN	(The) Forever Dream	Lex
9	AJ TRACEY	“Friday Prayer” feat. Headie One & Aitch [Single]	Revenge
10	MCKINLEY DIXON	“Could’ve Been Different” [Single]	City Slang

Tags charts, college radio, Hip-Hop, NACC Weekly Charts, NC State, Raleigh, Rap, WKNC, WKNC 88.1

Weekly Charts

Jazz Charts 5/13/25

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date May 15, 2025

Jazz Charts

	Artist	Record	Label
1	BRANFORD MARSALIS QUARTET	Belonging	Blue Note
2	RACHEL THERRIEN	Mi Hogar II	Lulaworld
3	MAVIS PAN	Rising	Self-Released
4	CLARK TERRY QUARTET	In Orbit (Reissue)	Craft / Concord
5	FIEVEL IS GLAUQUE	Rong Weicknes	Fat Possum
6	IMMANUEL WILKINS	Blues Blood	Blue Note
7	TAKUYA KURODA	Everyday	PPK
8	RICHARD BARATTA	Looking Back	Savant
9	NALA SINEPHRO	Endlessness	Warp
10	NANAMI HARUTA	The Vibe	Origin

Jazz Adds

	Artist	Record	Label
1	SILVANO MONASTERIOS	The River	Self-Released
2	IGMAR THOMAS’ REVIVE BIG BAND	Like A Tree It Grows	Soulspazam
3	SHAREL CASSITY	Gratitude	Sunnyside
4	SEAN NELSON NEW LONDON BIG BAND	Don’t Stop Now	All In
5	SHELLEY YOELIN, SAM ROBINSON, GABRIEL DATCU, RICK SHANDLING	Rojo	Self-Released

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

Weekly Charts

Top Charts 5/13/25

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date May 15, 2025

Top Charts

	Artist	Record	Label
1	CASINO HEARTS	A Walk In The Grass [EP]	Self-Released
2	FOXWARREN	“Listen2me” [Single]	Anti-
3	MAE MARTIN	I’m A TV	Casablanca/Republic
4	MEI SEMONES	Animaru	Bayonet
5	PINK MUST	Pink Must	15 love
6	SAMANTHA CRAIN	Gumshoe	Real Kind
7	SCOWL	Are We All Angels	Dead Oceans
8	SUNBATHE	Myself To You	Time Release
9	APRIL MARCH	“Surfing Castafiore” [Single]	Bong Load
10	DAISY THE GREAT	“Ballerina” [Single]	S-Curve
11	FEEBLE LITTLE HORSE	“This Is Real” [Single]	Saddle Creek
12	GLARE	Sunset Funeral	Deathwish
13	GREAT GRANDPA	Patience, Moonbeam	Run For Cover
14	GREER	Big Smile	Epitaph
15	JADE THE MOON	“Dirty John Type” [Single]	Self-Released
16	JAPANESE BREAKFAST	For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)	Dead Oceans
17	LAEL NEALE	Altogether Stranger	Sub Pop
18	PANCHIKO	Ginkgo	Nettwerk
19	PICTORIA VARK	Nothing Sticks	Get Better
20	SBTRKT	“Turn Your Heart Around” [Single]	Save Yourself
21	KICKBACK, THE	Hit Piece	Big Lie
22	WET	Two Lives	30SF
23	ADRIAN QUESADA	“Ojos Secos” feat. Cuco [Single]	ATO
24	ALEXANDRA SAVIOR	“Unforgivable” [Single]	RCA
25	ALLIE KENNY	“Soft Crash” [Single]	Self-Released
26	ART D’ECCO	Serene Demon	Paper Bag
27	BLOOD INCANTATION	Absolute Elsewhere	Century Media
28	BYE2	My Wife Is Drink Paint	Kitty On Fire
29	CANUT DE BON	no esperan por nadie	Sello Cototo
30	CARLITA	Sentimental	Counter

Top Adds

	Artist	Record	Label
1	PHOEBE RINGS	“Fading Star” [Single]	Carpark
2	FULL BODY 2	infinity signature [EP]	Year0001
3	FULL BODY 2	2020initialsequence2022	Year0001
4	THE VON TRAPPS	“Go With Me” [Single]	Self-Released
5	WISHY	Planet Popstar [EP]	Winspear
6	ARCY DRIVE	The Pit	AWAL
7	BLACK POLISH	“Be With You” [Single]	BMG
8	MONTCLAIR	Heart Is Alive!	NBD
9	FELICITY	You Take Me To Dinner But You’ll Never Feed My Soul [EP]	Self-Released

Tags charts, college radio, daytime, local, NACC Weekly Charts, NC State, WKNC, WKNC 88.1

New Album Review

Album Review: Grand Voyage

Post author By Emily Heiges
Post date May 12, 2025

"Grand Voyage" by Tapeworms

“Grand Voyage” is the second album by French electropop group Tapeworms. In this follow up to their 2020 debut “Funtastic”, the already-unique band has gotten even more experimental. While the previous album also contains electronic elements, the influence of shoegaze is abundant on “Funtastic”. “Grand Voyage” is harder to pin down.

Tags Album Review, Grand Voyage, review, Tapeworms

Band/Artist Profile

Neggy Gemmy come to Charlotte

Post author By esdallma
Post date May 11, 2025

I buried you under the stairs with your cool art you couldn’t fit on

Limerence Girl Summer

Love lost, droning on, disillusioned and whiny. Neggy Gemmy (Negative Gemini) synchronizes seduction, synthetic dreams and grainy whines.

Building momentum through disintegration, synths and drums, she echoes, copes and coils around a departure in ‘You Weren’t There Anymore’ but plays with a release in ‘You Never Knew.”

Her collaborations with George Clanton and TV Girl further build this world of beautiful fever dreams.

Her “Bad Baby” EP works around reverb-heavy dream pop and Americana of Mazzy Star mixed with grime of Tove Lo, experimentation of Grimes, bounces like Charli XCX, themes of MARINA, and grunge gaze of bands like Glixen, Sweet93 and Wisp.

Brooklyn-brewed and southern-created, Baton Rouge, Virginia, Houston, Louisville and Kentucky to New York and California, she blends these inspirations and experiences into her eclectic dreamscape.

Inspired by John Maus, Part Time and Ariel Pink, Neggy plays with these experimental auditory collages, layering and imagining an atmosphere, executed in her music videos playing with tropes like cheerleaders and love triangles.

Tags negative gemini, neggy gemmy

Band/Artist Profile

Play “Party 4 U”

Post author By esdallma
Post date May 10, 2025

party for you party on you party for you party on you party for you

Mementos and cultural signposts, Charli XCX’s discography maps and envelopes previous and evolving cultural contexts, it was “it girl,” “Von Dutch” and “365” “party girl” last summer, now returning nostalgically to a more ghostly melody.

“Party 4 U” falls into a Gatsby-ian trope — a yearning for the specific observer and impact; performative vulnerability. She plays with interchangeability, evolution and tonal shift of ‘party for you’ to ‘party on you’ and the weight of unreciprocated devotion.

Tags Charli XCX, party 4 U

Weekly Charts

Chainsaw Charts 5/6/25

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date May 9, 2025

Chainsaw Charts

	Artist	Record	Label
1	CHAT PILE	Cool World	The Flenser
2	PHRENELITH	Ashen Womb	Dark Descent
3	GIGAN	Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus	Willowtip
4	ABHORRATION	Demonolatry	Invictus
5	BLACK CURSE	Burning in Celestial Poison	Sepulchral Voice
6	DECEASED	Children of the Morgue	Hells Headbangers
7	DELIRANT	Thoughteater	Sentient Ruin
8	DEMON BITCH	Master of the Games	Cruz del Sur
9	HIGH ON FIRE	Cometh The Storm	MNRK
10	MAYHEMIC	Toba	Sepulcharal Voice

Chainsaw Adds

	Artist	Record	Label
1	MESSA	The Spin	Metal Blade

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