1 HOLY WAVE – Freaks Of Nurture – Reverberation Appreciation Society
2 INTO IT. OVER IT. – Standards – Triple Crown
3 CULLEN OMORI – New Misery – SUB POP
4 LUST FOR YOUTH – Compassion -Sacred Bones
5 FEELS – Feels – Castle Face
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Drive-By Truckers // Thayer Sarrano – Thursday 3/17 @ Cat’s Cradle
Grandchildren // WOOL – Thursday 3/17 @ Kings
The Snails (ft. members of Future Island) – Friday 3/18 @ Kings
Laney Jones & The Spirits – Saturday 3/19 @ Kings
As always, just be the correct caller when the DJ asks for it and you could win tickets to these great shows! Keep it locked to 88.1 FM all week long!

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!

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:
Moogfest: http://moogfest.com
Art of Cool Festival: http://theartofcoolproject.com
Hopscotch Music Festival: http://hopscotchmusicfest.com
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
WKNC 88.1 FM Charts: March 8th 2016
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.
WKNC Top 5 Ads: March 1st

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
