Thanks to our friends at Live Nation, we are giving away tickets for Puscifer at the
Raleigh Memorial Auditorium at the Duke Energy Center in Raleigh on April 19th ! Tickets are on sale now at LiveNation.com but WKNC DJs are giving them out ALL WEEK (March 14th – 18th). Just be the correct caller when the DJ asks and you could see Puscifer Live! Check out there official music video for “MONEY SHOT” here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd6gWzuVb5Q
Moogfest, Art of Cool, AND Hopscotch have all teamed up to offer music lovers a pair of TRI-FESTIVAL tickets passes!!! This is HUGE. Arguably the best three music festivals in North Carolina and you could win a pair of VIP tickets to ALL THREE. ALL THREE OF THEM. Register to win here https://docs.google.com/a/wknc.org/forms/d/1ruztgolSNjK9POt3yHJLpQKAEddoeMM-Ibl8YZc8I7o/viewform . Each winner will receive a pair of VIP tickets to Moogest fest (Durham, May 19th-22nd), Art of Cool (Durham, May 6th-8th), and Hopscotch Music Festival (Raleigh, Sept 8th-10th). Registration end this friday at 5pm! So don’t hesitate to act now!! for more info on these fantastic NC festivals, visit their websites:
1 VINCE STAPLES – Summertime ‘06 – Def Jam 2 LIZZO – Big Grrrl Small World – Self-Released 3 PROFESSOR TOON – Take Notes – Cardigan 4 GANGRENE – You Disgust Me – Mass Appeal 5 METHOD MAN – The Meth Lab – Tommy Boy 6 A$AP ROCKY – LongLiveA$AP – RCA 7 TROOF MUSIC – The Donation [EP] – Self-Released 8 PHENE AND MICXSIC – “They Don’t Rap No More” [Single] – High Off Life 9 CONSTANT DEVIANTS – Avant Garde – Six2Six 10 NAPPY ROOTS – The 40 Akerz Project – Nappy Roots Entertainment
1 WILD NOTHING – Life Of Pause – Captured Tracks 2 DIIV – Is The Is Are – Captured Tracks 3 PORCHES – Pool – Domino 4 WRAY – Hypatia – Communicating Vessels 5 MOTHERS – When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired – Grand Jury 6 SUNFLOWER BEAN – Human Ceremony – Fat Possum 7 PINEGROVE – Cardinal – Run For Cover 8 HINDS – Leave Me Alone – Mom And Pop 9 RINGO DEATHSTARR – Pure Mood – Reverberation Appreciation Society 10 SPOOK SCHOOL – Try To Be Hopeful – FORTUNA POP! 11 JULIA BROWN – An Abundance Of Strawberries – Joy Void 12 JULIEN BAKER – Sprained Ankle – 6131 13 CHARLIE HILTON – Palana – Captured Tracks 14 RATBOYS – AOID – Topshelf 15 FLORIST – The Birds Outside Sang – Double Double Whammy 16 NAP EYES – Thought Rock Fish Scale – Paradise of Bachelors 17 LAURA – CARBONE – Sirens Aporia 18 DEEP SEA DIVER – Secrets – High Beam 19 MASS GOTHIC – Mass Gothic – SUB POP 20 EERIE WANDA – Hum – BBIB 21 NIGHT BEATS – Who Sold My Generation – Heavenly 22 HALF MOON RUN – Sun Leads Me On – Glassnote 23 TY SEGALL – Emotional Mugger – Drag City 24 MOUNT MORIAH – How To Dance – Merge 25 DR. DOG – The Psychedelic Swamp – Anti 26 BASEMENT – Promise Everything – Run For Cover 27 GAZEBOS – Die Alone – Hardly Art 28 YOUR FRIEND – Gumption – Domino 29 DONKEYS – Midnight Palms – Easy Sound 30 HALF JAPANESE – Perfect – Joyful Noise
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1 ADULT BOOKS – Running From The Blows – Lolipop 2 LA SERA – Music For Listening To Music – Polyvinyl 3 NADA SURF – You Know Who You Are – Barsuk 4 THAO AND THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN – A Man Alive – Ribbon 5 JON PATRICK WALKER – People Going Somewhere – Self-Released
1 FINALS – JMZ [Ep} – JTDR 2 CHET FAKER AND MARCUS MARR – Work – Downtown 3 SK SIMEON AND YAW FASO – Maskya (Machinedrum Remixes) [EP] – Big Dada 4 CHAD VALLEY – Entirely New Blue – Cascine 5 FKA TWIGS – M3LL155X [EP] – Young Turks 6 NEON INDIAN – Vega Intl Night School – Mom And Pop 7 BOB MOSES – Days Gone By – Domino 8 CLAPTONE – Charmer – Pias-Different 9 DJ SPINN – Off That Loud EP – Hyperdub 10 MADE OF OAK – Penumbra [EP] – Partisan
The North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in Kannapolis, N.C. has announced this year’s eight inductees! Check out this list of some of NC’s finest musicians:
The Avett Brothers – folk rock/bluegrass/Americana, from Concord, NC.
Band of Oz – popular pioneer Beach music band, from Raleigh, NC.
Chuck Brown (deceased) – funk guitarist known as the “Godfather of Go-go,” from Gaston, NC.
Rhiannon Giddens & The Carolina Chocolate Drops – Grammy award winning old time string band, from Greensboro and Durham, NC.
Percy Heath (deceased) – jazz musician/bassist and member of the Modern Jazz Quartet, born in Wilmington, NC.
David Holt – Grammy Award winning folk musician & story teller who appears regularly on PBS television, from Asheville, NC.
Kellie Pickler – country vocalist and American Idol contestant, born in Albemarle, NC.
Ron Tyson – longtime member of the Temptations, from Monroe, NC.
1. YUCK – Stranger Things – Mame 2. JAWBREAKER REUNION – Haha And Then What – Miscreant 3. DAY WAVE – Headcase/Hard To Read – Grand Jury 4. VIOLENT FEMMES – We Can Do Anything – Pias 5. DEAR TRACKS – Soft Dreams [EP] – Track And Field
Thanks to Live Nation for approving us to give away tickets for Ray LaMontagne at Red Hat Amphitheater in Raleigh on July 15th! Grammy award winning, Ray LaMontagne (Lā-Mon-Tain) will be touring with a full band (including members of My Morning Jacket) to support his new album Ouroboros. Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 4th, but WKNC DJs will be giving them away every day this week! Make sure to keep it locked to 88.1 all week for a chance to win tickets to this sweet show!