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Weekly Charts

WKNC 88.1 FM Radio 200/Indie Rock Charts 8/8/17

1 RATBOYS – GN

– Topshelf
2 WAXAHATCHEE

Out in the Storm

Merge
3 KATIE VON SCHLEICHER

Shitty Hits

Ba Da Bing
4 SEE THROUGH DRESSES

Horse of the Other World

Tiny Engines
5 STRANGE RELATIONS

Editorial You

Tiny Engines
6 PALEHOUND

A Place I’ll Always Go

Polyvinyl
7 PALM

Shadow Expert [EP]

Carpark
8 GUERILLA TOSS

GT Ultra

DFA
9 FRUIT AND FLOWERS

Drug Tax [EP]

– Little Dickman
10 DION LUNADON

Dion Lunadon

Agitated
11 PEARL EARL

Pearl Earl

– Dreamy Life
12 BIG THIEF

Capacity

Saddle Creek
13 REDUCTION PLAN

Somewhere

Maladjusted
14 HAZEL ENGLISH

Just Give In/Never Going Home

Polyvinyl
15 RIDE

Weather Diaries

Wichita
16 ALDOUS HARDING

Party

4AD
17 JEN CLOHER

Jen Cloher

Milk!/Marathon Artists
18 DASHER

Sodium

– Jagjaguwar
19 B BOYS

Dada

Captured Tracks
20 SEXTILE

Albeit Living

Felte
21 INSTITUTE

Subordination

Sacred Bones
22 HONEY JOY

Honey Joy

Infinity Cat
23 KEVIN MORBY

City Music

Dead Oceans
24 THIS IS THE KIT

Moonshine Freeze

Rough Trade
25 AVEY TARE

Eucalyptus

Domino
26 JAPANESE BREAKFAST

Soft Sounds From Another  Planet

Dead Oceans
27 YOWLER

The Offer

Double Double Whammy
28 AMBER ARCADE

Cannonball [EP]

Heavenly/PIAS
29 WARIK

In My Lens [EP]

Self-Released
30 CHAIN AND THE GANG – Best of Crime Rock

In the Red

ADDS:

1 BRIANA MARELA

Call It Love

Jagjaguwar
2 LILY AND HORN HORSE

Next To Me

 Ramp Local
3 THE DISTRICTS

Popular Manipulations

Fat Possum
4 GIRL RAY

Earl Grey

– Moshi Moshi
5 DOWNTOWN BOYS

Cost Of Living

Sub Pop
6 SOCCER MOMMY

Collection

Fat Possum
7 VALLEY QUEEN

Destroyer [EP]

Self-Released
8 HAMMYDOWN

Pizzaface

Self-released
9 AVEY TARE

 Eucalyptus

Domino

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Local Music Music News and Interviews

Triangle’s own THESE WEAK LIPS in the studio for an interview and set! Great tracks! Fun banter! It’s all here!

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Music News and Interviews

WKNC giveaways this week

Listen to 88.1 WKNC this week and you might win tix to see Live Nation presents Umphrey’s McGee with Aqueous – Friday, Aug. 11 at Red Hat Ampitheater.

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Non-Music News

Oak City Move 16: Purr Cup Cat Cafe

Sarah and Arthur of the Purr Cup mobile cat cafe stop by the studios to chat about their fundraiser to lease a permanent location. They also discuss their work with the Meow House Cat Rescue, to help find shelter cats loving homes.

Listen to Episode 16 here.

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Non-Music News

Gen Ed 6: PM Hesham Qandil

Notable Alumni is a series of short profiles on interesting, powerful, or otherwise unusual NC State graduates. The first installation focuses on irrigation engineer Hashem Qandil, who went on to become Prime Minister of Morsi’s Egypt.

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Non-Music News

No interviews this week, but a quick run-through of some local events worth your time. 

Listen to Episode 15 here.

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Music News and Interviews

DJ Whatsherface is solo this week, but the studio is jampacked! Raleigh stalwarts GHOSTT BLLONDE, surf punkers THE DEAD BEDROOMS, and the easy, breezy, beautiful SEABREEZE DINER are all interviewed about just about everything you can imagine.

Listen here.

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Music News and Interviews

The Local Beat: Gabriel David

Sparrow and Whatsherface return with crooner Gabriel David, who plays a beautiful set.

Listen here.

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New Album Review

Justin’s Favorite Album of 2017

Colin Stetson’s All This I Do For Glory

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Odd, chilling, and trance-like, this album gives additional height to the distinguished instrumentalist Colin Stetson. I like this album because its theme is clear, yet riddled with questions. Each track has a looped melody, but the listener gets to hear all of the intricacies and imperfections of a wind player in what would normally be pre-programmed. The heavily distorted, slow sounds of the baritone saxophone are integrated with melodic jumps, making the slightest change hardly noticeable.

Stetson tries to answer where the saxophone belongs in the age of electronic music. The saxophone, for the most part, has struggled to coexist with the synthesizer, electric guitar, and keyboard, and has yet to find a solidified part amongst the biggest players. Though electronic ensembles such as Syrinx, GRiZ, and Moon Hooch have made their contributions to incorporating the saxophone into electronic music, Colin Stetson seems to bridge the sonic barrier between the fundamental differences between the synthesizer and the saxophone. With his creative use of extended technique, he transforms his sound into something that could be played alongside the computer musicians of today.

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Music News and Interviews

The Local Beat: Vacant Company

The always heavy VACANT COMPANY grace the studios to talk shop and play some cuts from their upcoming LP BLOK.

Listen here.