WKNC 88.1 FM - North Carolina State University Student Radioat the rock show. We’ll be with all of your best friends waiting at the Lincoln Theater, purging bad vibes. Hit us up when you get there. Don’t forget your ticket, you need one of those to get in. No need for a shirt, we’re selling some there. Oh and leave the lighter- we got matchbooks! So stoked to see you there.
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Tomorrow night marks the first of WKNC’s two-part fundraiser, Double Barrel Benefit. Now in its 12th year, Double Barrel Benefit has helped to keep the station afloat while promoting what we care about most: the local music community.
In order to keep up our efforts, we need your help. Consider attending either one or both nights of what we believe to be a stacked lineup, one we spent countless hours preparing in order to make your donations worthwhile. It’s the one time of the year that we reach out for your support (no telethons here), and we do it in what we consider to be the best way possible. So grab a friend, get some tickets, and meet us down at Lincoln Theatre tomorrow for night one.
Tickets and more information are available here: http://wknc.org/dbb12/
EOT158 Student Short Film Showcase 2/3/15
Eye on the Triangle is WKNC’s weekly public affairs programming, with news, interviews, opinion, weather, sports, arts, music, events, and issues that matter to NCSU, Raleigh, and the Triangle. This week on EOT:
We continue our breakaway from tradition with another live discussion! This week features students and faculty involved with the Student Short Film Showcase. Guests include Dr. Sara Stein, an associate professor in communication who teaches a film class at NC State, and Marc Russo, a senior multimedia specialist in art & design, and he teaches a class that focuses on animation. Students participating in the showcase joined us as well. They are Aaron Cook, Jennifer Stilley, Donna Salberg, Alyssa Barrett, and Margo Jordan.
Join us as the professors explain some of the process behind creating these types of pieces, with students offering insight from their own experiences as they relate to the pieces that will be screening in the coming weeks.
Catch the Short Film Showcase on February 11th in the Talley Ballroom at 7pm or again in the Hunt Library Auditorium at 7pm on the 19th. More information can be found on the library website.
Nick Savage and the EOT crew bring you another edition of “Eye on the Triangle,” live each Tuesday at 7 p.m. on WKNC 88.1 FM and wknc.org/listen and available as a downloadable podcast.
On June 3, The Decemberists will be playing in Raleigh at the Red Hat Amphitheater. Thanks to our friends at Live Nation, WKNC listeners have five chances to win pairs of tickets on air, and a special chance to win one pair in the raffle at Double Barrel Benefit 12!
To win the tickets on air, just be the correct caller when the DJ asks for it this week and you can score a pair of tickets to see The Decemberists! Tickets for The Decemberists go on
sale Friday, February 6, at 10am on Ticketmaster.com, at Ticketmaster
outlets, and at 800-745-3000.
WKNC TOP 5 ADDS
1. JESSICA PRATT – On Your Own Love Again – Drag City
2. ANDY SHAUF – The Bearer Of Bad News – Tender Loving Empire-Party Damage
3. NATALIE PRASS – Natalie Prass – Startime-Spacebomb
4. MOUNT EERIE – Sauna – P.W. Elverum And Sun
5. TY SEGALL BAND – Live In San Francisco – Castle Face
WKNC RADIO 200
1. PANDA BEAR – Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper – Domino
2. SLEATER-KINNEY – No Cities To Love – Sub Pop
3. VIET CONG – Viet Cong – Jagjaguwar
4. CLOAKROOM – Further Out- Run For Cover
5. POND – Man It Feels Like Space Again – Self-Released
6. RIVER WHYLESS – River Whyless [EP] – Self-Released
7. BULLY – Bully [EP] – Startime
8. MATTHEW MELTON – Outside Of Paradise – SouthPaw
9. GRAVEYARD CLUB – Nightingale – Self-Released
10. MR. GNOME – The Heart Of A Dark Star – El Marko
11. PREATURES – Blue Planet Eyes – Harvest
12. TY SEGALL – Mr. Face [EP] – Famous Class
13. ARIEL PINK – Pom Pom – 4AD
14. YAWN – Love Chills – Old Flame
15. PARQUET COURTS – Content Nausea – What’s Your Rupture?
16. CARIBOU – Our Love – Merge
17. KUZIN – Cavity – Self-Released
18. GIRLPOOL – Girlpool – Wichita
19. RONIIA RONiiA – Totally Gross – National Product
20. HUMAN EXPERIENCE – Embraced – Jumpsuit
21. DEERHOOF – La Isla Bonita – Polyvinyl
22. DIRTY DISHES – Guilty – Exploding in Sound
23. LABRYYYNTH – LABRYYYNtH – Burger-People In A Position To Know
24. SUBURBAN LIVING – Suburban Living -Papercup
25. DODOS – Individ – Polyvinyl
26. GUTS CLUB – The Arm Wrestling Tournament – Important
27. MENACE BEACH – Ratworld – Memphis Industries
28. TITLE FIGHT – Hyperview – Anti
29. WE DO THIS – Fault Lines – Self-Released
30. STARBENDERS – StarBenders [EP] – Institution
2/4: Kina Grannis w/ Imaginary Future @ Cat’s Cradle
2/4: Matt Owen and The Eclectic Tuba / This Falling Sky / Trev Wignall @ Local 506
2/5: White Arrows / Chappo / Heads on Sticks @ Cat’s Cradle
2/5: Lotus / Kung Fu @ Cat’s Cradle
2/7: SiBANNAC / No Brainer / Heavyweights @ Cat’s Cradle
2/8: Drunken Prayer / Melissa Swingle / Cactus Black @ Local 506
This week, tune into WKNC 88.1 FM and when the DJ asks for it, call the request lines to win tickets to these shows! Good luck and happy listening!
Museum Mouth
Naked Naps
Astro Cowboy
So last Saturday I went out to Kings to see Astro Cowboy, Museum Mouth, and Naked Naps. In short; it was awesome. This was the first time that I had seen Astro Cowboy since they added a bassist to the lineup and the difference was amazing. Their sound was well rounded, their playing was tight, and their cover of “Tonight” was … smashing.
Next Museum Mouth sauntered onto stage. Their performance made me even more excited for when they play Double Barrel Benefit on February 14th at Cat’s Cradle, and I didn’t think that was even possible. The band’s front man Karl Kuehn gave a quick shout out to the Lounge before launching into a raucous rendition of “Crocodile”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7l0vnZclzg&t=4m21s
There was also much talk of a Museum Mouth/Naked Naps split to be released soon. When Naked Naps took to the stage excitement in the crowd was high. They played all of their songs –all of them! This made the requests being shouted out unnecessary, but still fun to do. It was defiantly not “like and awkward first date” like the band said one review had claimed them to be.
So yeah I guess all in all my Saturday was pretty good.
One of the best parts about great music is its ability to transcend time and space, to transport you back to a night with your friends, the loss of a loved one, or even the walls of your high school with your head hung low and your headphones on. Astro Cowboy serves as a brilliant display of the latter, although I hadn’t found the band until I long escaped the woes of eastern North Carolina, music like theirs just thrusts you back to that high school angst in the best way.
Last Friday the band stopped by Carolina Grown to talk about what it’s like making music in Wilmington, entering into a local music scene they knew next to nothing about, and how you probably shouldn’t throw away your Rock Band set just yet. Although the members of Astro Cowboy are still young, barely able to get into the bars they’re now performing at, they tackle relatable moments of hopelessness, despair, regret and longing with the poise of an aged songwriter. Whether they’re lamenting over burnt pale skin or brief teenage flings, Astro Cowboy is making vulnerability look cool again.
Listen below for our full conversation with the band along with three tracks from their latest release Hedonism Colosseum.
Self-proclaimed “dream-punk” outfit Eternal Summers originally formed as a two piece in Roanoke, Virginia in 2009. Since then singer/guitarist Nicole Yun and drummer Daniel Cundiff have come to fill out their wall of sound by adding bassist Jonathan Woods, release three full albums on Brooklyn-based Kanine Records, extensively tour the country (often with Raleigh’s The Love Language), and land their name on several festival billings including the 2014 Hopscotch Music Festival which called them “ … covered in distortion and 80’s era effects, creating a tense juxtaposition between sweet and sharp, inviting and cold.”
The band’s most recent album “The Drop Beneath” was released in March 2014 and produced by Doug Gillard, who has worked with bands such as Guided By Voices and Nada Surf. The album earned the band high praise for nearly perfecting their shoegaze style being, which Pitchfork called “a balance between whisper and roar, messiness and finesse, between articulating Heavenly-style twee bedroom musings versus whipping up walls of roiling melodic noise.”
Eternal Summers will bring their unique brand of fuzz pop to headline Cat’s Cradle on Feb. 14 for the most rock and roll Valentine’s Day you have yet to experience.
– John Kovalchik, WKNC General Manager