Tonight’s Local Band Local Beer, presented by WKNC 88.1 FM, Tir na nOg Irish Pub, and Younger Brother Productions, will feature:
Dry River Trio.
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Win Beck tix this week!
By now you’ve heard that multi-instrumentalist and Grammy award winning performer Beck is making a stop in the Triangle this summer. He’ll play Raleigh’s Red Hat Ampihteater on July 23.
Tickets for Live Nation presents Beck go on sale Friday May 9 at 10 a.m. at LiveNation.com, via the Live Nation app, all Ticketmaster outlets, at Duke Energy Center box office and Belk box office at Walnut Creek Amphitheater.
If you think you deserve a chance to see Beck for free you will have to prove it by answering one of our super hard trivia Beck questions. Bookmark the Beck Wikipedia page now!
Take a break from your non-stop studying and hectic week of final exams for this week’s Local Band Local Beer presented by WKNC 88.1 FM, Younger Brother Productions, and Tir na nOg Irish Pub.
Tonight’s stellar lineup includes Hammer No More the Fingers, WOOL, and Vannevar!
Show starts at 9:30 // 18 + // FREE
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EOT144 Eddie Goines 4/29/14
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:
An NC State alumnus has made quite a career for himself, from the Seahawks to Hollywood. Michaela got the chance to speak with him.
Nick Savage and Andrew Eichen 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.
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Shakori Hills Festival
Shakori Hills, a festival only 40 minutes away from Raleigh, located on a beautiful farm in the heart of the Piedmont, just outside Pittsboro, a region close enough to Jordan Lake and Durham but just outside the hectic commercial grasp of Cary.
The festival celebrates it’s geographic relevance. Americana, bluegrass, folk, blues, with some worldly music sprinkled in; Shakori hills is the music festival for any true North Carolinian.
I attended the festival with the best Shakori guide: WKNC’s DJCJ. Standing next to him at our tent I watched the other side, the unknown side of the signal become clear. North Carolinian’s of all genders, ages, races, and sizes would boast their loyalty to our station and many to CJ’s American Blues shift. These people listened to WKNC.
To watch the glowing faces of people talk to CJ and myself about Shakori gave me hope as a DJ. I was proud to watch Ben Sollee, Indigo girls, Del McCoury, and Morning Brigade with my fellow DJs: GRZA, Kataclysm, and CJDJ.
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WKNC interviewed Gerald Clayton, leader of the Gerald Clayton trio, before his performance at the MotorCo Music Hall in Durham, NC. The trio, which circulates various members of Clayton’s musical “family, featured Joe Sanders on bass and Justin Brown on the drum kit. Listen to the full interview to hear Gerald discuss his related and non-related musical family, his thoughts on musical composition and performance, and his upcoming projects and tour.
Full Interview here
Rank Artist Recording Label User Supplied Version
1 CHEATAHS Cheatahs Wichita
2 WILD ONES Keep It Safe Topshelf
3 CASKET GIRLS True Love Kills The Fairy Tale Graveface
4 WHOMADEWHO Dreams Volcano-Darup
5 PURE X Angel Fat Possum
6 TYCHO Awake Ghostly
7 MAC DEMARCO Salad Days Captured Tracks
8 WAR ON DRUGS Lost In The Dream Secretly Canadian
9 FUTURE ISLANDS Singles 4AD
10 CLOUD NOTHINGS Here And Nowhere Else Mom And Pop
11 REAL ESTATE Atlas Domino
12 BEAR HANDS Distraction Cantora
13 AVEY TARE’S SLASHER FLICKS Enter The Slasher House Domino
14 OWLS Two Polyvinyl
15 MR LITTLE JEANS Pocketknife Harvest
16 ETERNAL SUMMERS The Drop Beneath Kanine
17 AGES AND AGES Divisionary Partisan
18 GARDENS AND VILLA Dunes Secretly Canadian
19 TACOCAT NVM Hardly Art
20 WYE OAK Shriek Merge
21 KEVIN DREW Darlings Arts And Crafts
22 PERFECT PUSSY Say Yes To Love Captured Tracks
23 TEEBS Estara Brainfeeder
24 LIARS Mess Mute
25 ODONIS ODONIS Hard Boiled Soft Boiled BUZZ
26 BELLE BRIGADE Just Because ATO
27 WHITE HINTERLAND Baby Dead Oceans
28 ISKA DHAAF Even The Sun Will Burn Brick Lane
29 BEATY HEART Mixed Blessings Nusic Sounds
30 ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI Now And 4eva Self-Released
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Rank Artist Recording Label User Supplied Version
1 CHAD VANGAALEN Shrink Dust SUB POP
2 TEEN The Way And Color Carpark
3 CHROME SPARKS Goddess Future Classic
4 LIAM FINN The Nihilist Yep Roc
5 WOODS With Light And With Love Woodsist
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WKNC The Lounge playlist
Need some motivation to study for exams and get those final papers done? Just put this playlist of WKNC’s The Lounge videos on repeat.
While you are at it, let us know which ones are your favorites. We will be submitting contest entries soon and want to pick the best one.
For a festival so heavily geared towards electronic acts, Moogfest does a solid job at implementing artists that don’t solely delve into the dance music world. Sure the lineup is driven by acts like Dillon Francis, Kraftwerk and Flying Lotus, but for every electronic powerhouse there’s an equally exciting visionary from another field. Folks can mindlessly dance their asses off to some EDM or they can soak in the life-affirming intellectualism found in acts like Saul Williams…while still probably dancing their asses off.
For those that aren’t familiar, Saul Williams is a visionary of sorts, an outspoken actor/poet/musician that crafts serendipitous works of art that peer deep into the listener’s mind and picks away at your thoughts and beliefs. Williams first started to receive acclaim in the late 90’s for his work as a poet and musician, performing alongside the likes of The Fugees, Nas, Erykah Badu and Allen Ginbserg. But over the years Williams has drastically altered his styles with each subsequent album, traversing from a spoken word hip-hop artist to an industrial leaning emcee to a dance-pop auteur all within the same decade. Perhaps that’s why his list of collaborators range from acts like Trent Reznor and Rick Rubin to Janelle Monáe and Joey Bada$$.
Williams has proven to be a versatile artist, he may not always be doing the same thing, but he’s always doing it with an overwhelming amount of passion. I must admit I’m not entirely sure of what to expect from his Moogfest performance, his latest album Volcanic Sunlight was a far poppier effort than his previous works, but the album is also three years old at this point. Whether we’ll be getting blasted with new material or a solid mixture of his dense catalog, I can guarantee that it’ll be a stimulating performance to say the least.
Saul Williams will be performing on Saturday, April 26 at New Earth – Main Room at 10:30 pm
We’re excited to announce we have tickets to give away for both the Old Crow Medicine Show and the Kings of Leon concerts presented by Live Nation happening late this summer in Raleigh. Old Crow Medicine Show will be joined by Shovels & Rope at the Red Hat Amphitheater on Wednesday, August 20. Kings of Leon will be joined by Young the Giant and Kongos at the Walnut Creek Amphitheatre on Wednesday, September 17. Thanks to Live Nation, WKNC has 5 pairs of tickets for both concerts to give away all this week!
Tickets for both concerts will be given away from Monday, April 21 until Saturday, April 26. Just be the correct caller when the DJ asks for calls on air to win a pair of tickets! Tickets for both Old Crow Medicine Show and Kings of Leon go on sale Friday, April 25 at 10 am on Ticketmaster.com, at Ticketmaster outlets, and at 800-745-3000.