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Weekly Charts

WKNC 88.1 FM Charts: 2/4/14

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date February 5, 2014

Top 5 Adds:

1 JUAN WAUTERS N.A.P. North American Poetry Captured Tracks

2 MARISSA NADLER July Sacred Bones

3 THUMPERS Galore SUB POP

4 XIU XIU Angel Guts: Red Classroom Polyvinyl

5 HOLY WAVE Relax Reverberation Appreciation Society

Radio 200:

1 MOUNT MORIAH Miracle Temple Merge

2 LOVE LANGUAGE * Libraries * * waiting for CMJ verification

3 PAINTED PALMS Forever Polyvinyl

4 BE FOREST Earthbeat We Were Never Being Boring

5 LOAMLANDS Some Kind Of Light [EP] Trekky

6 GHOSTT BLLONDE TrashPop/DoomWop TrashPop?/?/?DoomWop

7 DANIEL BACHMAN Jesus I’m A Sinner Jesus, I’m a Sinner

8 LOW FREQUENCY IN STEREO Pop Obskura Long Branch

9 POW! Hi-Tech Boom Castle Face

10 NO JOY Pastel And Pass Out [EP] Mexican Summer

11 TOW3RS If All We Have Is Time

12 HAMMER NO MORE THE FINGERS Pink Worm

13 WARPAINT Warpaint Rough Trade

14 DAMIEN JURADO Brothers And Sisters Of The Eternal Son Secretly Canadian

15 MOGWAI Rave Tapes SUB POP

16 HIGH HIGHS Open Season Deluxe Edition fine time

17 THEE OH SEES Singles Collection, Volume 3 Castle Face

18 DOG BITE Tranquilizers Carpark

19 TOY Join The Dots Heavenly

20 CIBO MATTO Hotel Valentine Chimera

21 HABIBI Habibi Burger

22 QUILT Held In Splendor Mexican Summer

23 KEVIN MORBY Harlem River Woodsist

24 MUTUAL BENEFIT Love’s Crushing Diamond Other

25 BLACK HEARTED BROTHER Stars Are Our Home Slumberland

26 NOBUNNY Secret Songs: Reflections From The Ear Mirror Goner

27 SALLIE FORD AND THE SOUND OUTSIDE Summer [EP] Partisan

28 SEBASTIEN GRAINGER Yours To Discover Last Gang

29 GAP DREAM Shine Your Light Burger

30 MILOSH Jetlag eOne-Deadly

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Concert Preview

Post Rock Block Presents: One Small Step For Man & Pan

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date February 4, 2014

The Post Rock Block & Slim’s Downtown are excited to present the first edition of our bi-weekly concert series featuring: One Small Step For Man and Pan.

The Post Rock Block hosted by DJ Cabbage, Sarahnade, and Riff Raff airs every Sunday from 6-8pm. The show features an array of post rock, shoegaze, metal, math-rock, and anything else that’s long, weird, mostly instrumental, and takes you on a musical journey.

One Small Step For Man, is quickly becoming the post rock darling of the Raleigh area. The boys are taking the stage at 9:15 and will be playing music from their previous EP’s: Looking For Alaska and Moonlight Sessions and upcoming EP, set to record in March. Keeping up with the experimental nature of the band, Cole Kratzer, OSSFM’s lead guitarist, promises a vocal track, something the band has yet to do at a live show.

Pan writes music that fulfills the post rock genre, and beyond. The South Carolina youngsters write music that is fresh and thunderous. Pan’s uplifting music features: vocals, guitars, bass, drum, and violin. They will be playing music off the September 2013 release: Meta Major.

Slim’s Downtown is located at 227 S Wilmington St, Raleigh, NC 27601. Show starts at 9:15, tickets are $5 at the door.

To stay up-to-date with all things Post Rock, turn your dial to the left every Sunday night from 6-8pm, follow us on Twitter: @PostRockWKNC, like us on Facebook, or shoot us an e-mail: postrock@wknc.org.

Stay tuned for a recap of the show later this week and information on our next Post Rock Block installment!

Tags one small step for man, pan, post rock, Slim's Downtown

Non-Music News

Drink Specials at Joule in Honor of Double Barrel Benefit 11

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date February 4, 2014

Joule Coffee, located on 223 S. Wilmington St. in Raleigh, will be featuring two drink specials (for those of age, of course) in honor of Double Barrel Benefit 11.

The first is called The Double Barrel. It has Luxardo Fernet, Bourbon, Cold Brew Coffee concentrate, and cream.

The second is called the Heart to Tell. It includes Cardamaro, Blanco Tequila, Gran Marnier, and bruleed lemon juice.

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Music News and Interviews

Phuzz Phest Announces 2014 Lineup

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date February 4, 2014

WKNC is delighted to be the primary media sponsor for this year’s Phuzz Phest- Winston-Salem’s premiere annual music festival. This fourth annual event returns to the City of the Arts & Innovation’s burgeoning downtown area to thousands of music fans across the southeast. This year the festival will span three days from Friday April 4 through Sunday April 6, featuring their most potent and genre-spanning lineup yet with more than 50 musical acts coming from as far away as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Brooklyn and Detroit.

Though far from NC’s largest music festival, Phuzz Phest has built its reputation on keenly curating the region’s best acts for a truly special weekend of music, offering attendees a rare opportunity to see critically-acclaimed artists alongside under-praised locals in settings more intimate than would otherwise be possible.

The 2014 lineup features headliners like L.A.’s pioneering noise-punk duo No Age, visionary rap legend Kool Keith, hypnotic alt-country songstress Jessica Lea Mayfield, and San Francisco psych-rock stalwarts White Fence. Festival alumni and Merge Records acts Mount Moriah & The Love Language make return appearances alongside Ex Hex, the new project of Mary Timony (Wild Flag, Autoclave, Helium) whose debut record is due in March via Merge Records. View the full lineup below, bold indicates headliners.

All Them Witches (Nashville, TN)

ASG (Wilmington, NC)

Bocanegra (Lima, Peru)

Body Games (Carrboro, NC)

Brain F/ (Charlotte, NC)

Caleb Caudle (New Orleans, LA)

Dark Prophet Tongueless Monk (Winston-Salem, NC)

Diarrhea Planet (Nashville, TN)

Drag Sounds (Greensboro, NC)

Eston & The Outs (Raleigh, NC)

Estrangers (Winston-Salem, NC)

Ex Hex (Washington, D.C.)

Ex-Cult (Nashville, TN)

Flagship (Charlotte, NC)

Human Pippi (Charlotte, NC)

I, Anomaly (Winston-Salem, NC)

IYEZ (Brooklyn, NY)

Jessica Lea Mayfield (Kent, OH)

Jews & Catholics (Winston-Salem, NC)

Josh Moore (Carrboro, NC)

Judy Barnes (Winston-Salem, NC)

Kool Keith (The Bronx, NY)

Libraries (Wilmington, NC)

Loamlands (Durham, NC)

Miss Eaves (Brooklyn, NC)

Mount Moriah (Durham, NC)

Must Be The Holy Ghost (Winston-Salem, NC)

No Age (Los Angeles, CA)

Primovanhalen (Winston-Salem, NC)

Spirit System (Winston-Salem, NC)

T0W3RS (Carrboro, NC)

The Bo-Stevens (Winston-Salem, NC)

The Genuine (Winston-Salem, NC)

The Love Language (Chapel Hill, NC)

The Nervous Ticks (Richmond, VA)

The Sweets (Winston-Salem, NC)

The Tills (Asheville, NC)

Toon & The Real Laww (Durham, NC)

Trioscapes (Greensboro, NC)

Twelve Thousand Armies (Drughorse, NC)

Uzzard (Winston-Salem, NC)

Whatever Brains (Raleigh, NC)

White Fence (San Francisco, NC)

Wilde Blood (Winston-Salem, NC)

Woodsman (Brooklyn, NY)

Yip Deceiver (Athens, GA)

Playlists

Playlist: A Guide to Double Barrel Benefit 11

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date February 4, 2014

Double Barrel Benefit 11 is quickly approaching. If you haven’t had time to check out the bands yet, here’s a Spotify playlist that includes a couple of songs from each of the bands (except for GHOSTT BLLONDE who are not on Spotify). So please check them out so you can sing along with us at DBB11. As always, tune in to 88.1 WKNC to hear these artists as well as other great artists all day.

Check out the playlist here and the tracklisting below!

Night 1- Friday, February 7th, 8pm, Cat’s Cradle
Beach Glass Comedown by GHOSTT BLLONDE
Figure 8 by GHOSTT BLLONDE
Bounty by T0W3RS
Scandles by T0W3RS
Blue Blazer by Hammer No More the Fingers
Pink Worm by Hammer No More the Fingers
Lalita by The Love Language
Brittany’s Back by The Love Language

Night 2- Friday, February 14th, 8pm, Lincoln Theatre
Sun Over Old Rag by Daniel Bachman
Sarah Anne by Daniel Bachman
Another Reason by Loamlands
Scottsboro by Loamlands
Honeymoon by Bombadil
Angeline by Bombadil
Social Wedding Rings by Mount Moriah
Bright Light by Mount Moriah

Tags bombadil, daniel bachman, DBB11, DiggUp Tapes, DJ DiGiorno, Double Barrel Benefit, Double Barrel Benefit 11, ghostt bllonde, hammer no more the fingers, loamlands, merge records, Mount Moriah, negative fun records, Ramseur Records, t0w3rs, the love language, WKNC

Music News and Interviews

T0W3RS lounge and interview

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date February 4, 2014

T0W3RS is a crazy infectious band based out of Carrboro. They blend driving indie rock guitars with spacious electronic hooks and catchy melody lines. Led by Derek Torres, the band has enlisted many different musicians from across the Triangle over the past couple years. Torres spent last year working on his latest effort “TL;DR” due out sometime this year.

Torres stopped by the other day for an interview and to premiere some new tracks off the forthcoming full-length in our Lounge. "The Situation" is the lead single off the album and if it is any indication of the rest of the effort, this album should be on top of some local “Best of” lists this year. Check out his performance in The Lounge above and get ready to get down with him this Friday, February 7th at Cat’s Cradle for Night 1 of Double Barrel Benefit 11!

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Tags cats cradle, DBB11, DJ DiGiorno, Double Barrel Benefit, T0W3ERS, the lounge, WKNC

Non-Music News

EOT137 Temperfect Mug 1/21/14

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date February 4, 2014

A former student here at NC state is at work on a pretty unique product. Nick has the story.

In another installment of our newest segment, Local Author, Michaela highlights a writer from the Triangle and discusses her recent and upcoming works with her.

As you are probably well aware, Obama recently made a trip to NC State. Nick and Andrew were there to cover the event.

Listen to all this, plus national and international news from Andrew and Sydney, meteorologist Katie Costa’s forecast, Ben with sports, and a community calendar.

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.

Listen to episode 137.

Tags authors, books, eot, eot podcast, eye on the triangle, joeveo, manufacturing, NC State, north carolina state university, obama, podcast, temperfect mug

Non-Music News

EOT136 New Segment: Local Author 1/14/14

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date February 3, 2014

Authors today carry on a legacy that has been a part of our society for thousands of years. Here in the triangle, several authors are hard at work bringing the world new stories. In a new series, Michaela speaks to a local author about her recent and upcoming works.

Triangle Restaurant Week is an annual celebration that offers a unique experience for participants. Nick has more.

This week we’ve also got another installment of poet’s corner, featuring talent from right here at NC State. In addition, Eye On the Triangle contributor Dave offers a submission of his own.

Listen to all this, plus national and international news from Andrew and Sydney, meteorologist Katie Costa’s forecast, Ben with sports, and a community calendar.

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.

Listen to episode 136.

Tags authors, books, eot, eot podcast, eye on the triangle, NC State, north carolina state university, podcast, poetry, triangle restaurant week, trw, writers

Local Music Weekly Charts

WKNC Local Music Charts: Jan 20 – Feb. 3

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date February 3, 2014

1. Mount Moriah – (Last Position = #1)

2. The Love Language – (Last Position = #2)

3. Loamlands – (First week on charts)

4. T0W3RS – (First week on charts)

5. Ghostt Bllonde – (First week on charts)

Tags DiggUp Tapes, ghostt bllonde, loamlands, local charts, local music, merge records, Mount Moriah, negative fun records, north carolina, t0w3rs, the love language, Trekky Records, WKNC

Concert Preview

DBB 11 Lineup Announced

Post author By WKNC Admin
Post date February 3, 2014

The FULL lineup is now announced for WKNC’s Double Barrel Benefit 11. Join us this Friday, Feb. 7 at Cat’s Cradle for The Love Language with Hammer No More The Fingers, Tow3rs and GHOSTT BLLONDE. Then stop by Lincoln Theatre on Friday, Feb.14 for Mount Moriah, Bombadil, Lomalands and Daniel Bachman! Tickets at wknc.org/dbb11.

Tags Double Barrel Benefit, Mount Moriah, the love language