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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
WKNC Top 5 Adds
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
Coheed and Cambria – Monday 3/7 – The Ritz Raleigh
Sunflower Bean // Cold Fronts – Friday 3/11 – The Pinhook
Alex G // Porches – Friday 3/11 – Cat’s Cradle Back Room
Pentagram // King Giant // Colossus // Demon Eye – Cat’s Cardle
Maple Stave // The Bronzed Chorus // Wailin Storms – Saturday 3/12 – Cat’s Cradle Back Room
Nap Eyes // Cian Nugent // Northgate Syndicate
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!
Earthly Interview: Double Barrel Benefit
Sometimes music is better described using objects, colors, and feelings rather than sounds. When listening to Earthly, you picture yourself skiing down the sides of red, blue, and yellow ice cream cones, falling onto a rubbery drum set and slingshotting back to that one class field trip in elementary school when you caught a crawfish by hand.
DJ iCloud caught up with Edaan and Brint of Earthly, who played WKNC’s Double Barrel Benefit Night 2. They talk about some of Earthly’s beginnings, inspirations, and future plans for the project.
1. PORCHES – Pool – Domino
2. JULIA BROWN – An Abundance Of Strawberries – Joy Void
3. HINDS – Leave Me Alone – Mom And Pop
4. WRAY – Hypatia Communicating – Vessels
5. DIIV – Is The Is Are – Captured Tracks
6. SPOOK SCHOOL – Try To Be Hopeful – FORTUNA POP!
7. CHARLIE HILTON – Palana – Captured Tracks
8. MASS GOTHIC – Mass Gothic – SUB POP
9. JULIEN BAKER – Sprained Ankle – 6131
10. NAP EYES – Thought Rock Fish Scale- Paradise of Bachelors
11. YOUR FRIEND – Gumption – Domino
12. WILD NOTHING – Life Of Pause – Captured Tracks
13. BASEMENT – Promise Everything – Run For Cover
14. TY SEGALL – Emotional Mugger – Drag City
15. PINEGROVE – Cardinal – Run For Cover
16. NIGHT BEATS – Who Sold My Generation – Heavenly
17. SUNFLOWER BEAN – Human Ceremony – Fat Possum
18. FLORIST – Holdly – Double Double Whammy
19. RATBOYS – AOID – Topshelf
20. CAR SEAT HEADREST – Teens Of Style – Matador
21. HIGH HIGHS – Cascades – Pias
22. FRANKIE COSMOS – Fit Me In [EP] – Bayonet
23. JENNIFER O’CONNOR – Surface Noise – Kiam
24. DEEP SEA DIVER – Secrets – High Beam
25. RINGO DEATHSTARR – Pure Mood – Reverberation Appreciation Society
26. SO PITTED – Neo – SUB POP
27. DONKEYS – Midnight Palms – Easy Sound
28. DR. DOG – The Psychedelic Swamp – Anti
29. FAT WHITE FAMILY – Songs For Our Mothers – Fat Possum
30. LILY AND MADELEINE – Keep It Together – New West
WKNC TOP 5 ADS
1. MOTHERS – When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired – Grand Jury
2. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – Painting With – Domino
3. MOUNT MORIAH – How To Dance – Merge
4. GAZEBOS – Die Alone – Hardly Art
5. EERIE WANDA – Hum – BBIB
Born and raised in Charlotte, Deniro Farrar has become a major hip-hop heavy hitter within the past few years. With the success of Fayetteville’s J. Cole and Raleigh’s own King Mez getting a feature on Dr. Dre’s Compton, North Carolina is, undeniably, rapidly gaining momentum in the music scene. Blogs like Pitchfork and Vice are claiming that Charlotte is the next city to watch specifically for artists within the rap genre.
Deniro is debatably the posterboy for Charlotte’s developing rap scene and proclaimed the “Leader of Cult Rap,” derived from the way people religiously follow the music of the underground scene to keep up, as it is not mass-produced and regularly broadcast. Deniro doesn’t fail to deliver relatable down to earth lyrics accompanied by (you guessed it) a sick beat. Working with Ryan Hemsworth, Flosstradamus, skywlkr, Lunice and Black Sky Black Death to name a few, Deniro has crafted a unique sound all while gaining traction as an artist and putting North Carolina on the map.
– Emma Badorrek, WKNC Assistant Promotions Director