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Weekly Charts

WKNC’s Top 30 indie rock albums – 5/31

The Top 30 artists and albums of this week, as compiled by Daytime Music Director Michael Jones.

Artist Album Label
#1 Austra Feel It Break Domino
#2 Thao And Mirah Thao And Mirah Kill Rock Stars
#3 Girls Names Dead To Me Slumberland
#4 Kids on a Crime Spree We Love You So Bad Slumberland
#5 tUnE-YArDs Whokill 4AD
#6 Wild Palms Until Spring One Little Indian
#7 Love Inks E.S.P. City Slang
#8 Rosebuds Loud Planes Fly Low Merge
#9 Shannon and the Clams Sleep Talk 1-2-3-4 Go!
#10 Chad Van Gaalen Diaper Island Sub Pop
#11 Those Darlings Screws Get Loose Oh Wow Dang
#12 Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues Sub Pop
#13 Man Man Life Fantastic ANTI-
#14 Amor De Dias Street Of The Love Of Days Merge
#15 Friendly Fires Pala XL
#16 My Morning Jacket Circuital ATO
#17 Generationals Actor-Caster Park The Van
#18 Dodos No Color Frenchkiss
#19 Antlers Burst Apart Frenchkiss
#20 Matt Pond PA Spring Fools Altitude
#21 Vaccines What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? Columbia
#22 Wombats This Modern Glitch Bright Antenna
#23 Donkeys Born With Stripes Dead Oceans
#24 Wild Beasts Smother Domino
#25 Thurston Moore Demolished Thoughts Matador
#26 Times New Viking Dancer Equired Merge
#27 Obits Moody, Standard And Poor Sub Pop
#28 Maritime Human Hearts Danger Bird
#29 Foster the People Torches Columbia
#30 Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care Temporary Residence
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Weekly Charts

5/31 Chainsaw Metal Weekly Top Ten Albums

Here are the chainsaw top ten, as compiled by Chainsaw Music Director, Cory Slep.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rank Artist Recording Label
#1 AMON AMARTH Surtur Rising Metal Blade
#2 BELPHEGOR Blood Magick Necromance Nuclear Blast
#3 SEPTICFLESH The Great Mass Season Of Mist
#4 TYR The Lay Of Thrym Napalm
#5 HAEMORRHAGE Hospital Carnage Relapse
#6 AUTOPSY Macabre Eternal Peaceville
#7 KAMPFAR Mare Napalm
#8 BECOMING THE ARCHETYPE Celestial Completion Solid State
#9 CANNIBAL CORPSE Evisceration Plague Metal Blade
#10 ANAAL NATHRAKH Passion Candlelight
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Non-Music News

3 the Hard Way comes to Raleigh

In 2009 Raleigh Documentary Filmmakers Robert and Lisa King chronicled three area artists Sean Kernick, Georges Le Chevallier and Paul Friedrich as the experimented with a collaboration process that produced 29 unique works of art. The film 3 the Hard Way, not only follows their growth as artist but as friends.  They are reuniting to collaborate on a series of fundraisers to help Robert King and his battle with an anaplastic astrocytoma brain tumor.

The first fundraiser is a screening of the film this Thursday evening at 7:00 at Mission Valley Cinemas.

Eye on the Triangle’s Jacob Downey spoke with one of the films subjects Sean Kernick on the film, the impact it had on his life as a creator, and other information about UnitedforRobert.

Advanced Tickets may be purchased online for $7.00 and tickets include a question and answer session with King and the films three subjects after the screening.  All proceeds will go to King.

3 the Hard Way interview

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Music News and Interviews

SoundOff22 Wild Beasts/ The Rosebuds

This week on SoundOff we take a look at twitter’s impact on musicians, Trent Reznor and Karen O’s upcoming soundtrack work, and we review new albums by Wild Beasts and The Rosebuds.

Listen to episode 22.

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Music News and Interviews

SoundOff21 Man Man/ My Morning Jacket

After our month off we return with discussions over independent acts playing Late Night television as a growing trend, and we talk about a possible collaboration between Spotify and Facebook. We also review new music from Man Man and My Morning Jacket.

Listen to episode 21.

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Non-Music News

EOT59 Contemporary Art Museum 5/24/11

This week features an interview with Kate Shafer, Gallery and Exhibitions Manager of the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh. We also have Mark Herring’s story on the forest canopy, a profile of Player’s Retreat, and a story on Burmese Refugees in the Triangle.

Listen to episode 59.

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Non-Music News

Summer DJ training

WKNC 88.1 FM, the student-run radio station at North Carolina State University, offers volunteer on- and off-air positions to full-time N.C. State students with a 2.0 minimum grade point average. To qualify for an on-air position, you must first complete a five week DJ training program and pass a written operator’s exam and demonstrative audio board test.

Anyone interested in becoming a WKNC DJ must attend one of our two interest meetings. They will be  Wednesday, June 29 and Thursday, June 30 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. The locations are To Be Announced. During the interest meeting, we will provide an overview of WKNC and its role on campus and in the community. You will also receive an application, which must be completed and returned to the WKNC studios at 343 Witherspoon Student Center by 5 p.m. on Friday, July 1. Individuals interested in electronic, hip-hop, heavy metal and public affairs are particularly encouraged to attend the interest meeting and apply for a spot in the WKNC training program.

After reviewing all applications, our general manager will contact you via email to notify you if you have been accepted into the WKNC training program. Decisions will be made by the general manager and program director, in consultation with the student board of directors.

The DJ training class will be held Tuesdays from 5:30-6:30 p.m. on July 5, July 12, July 19, July 26 and August 2, 2011. The location will be Cox 200. If you cannot attend four of the five sessions or need to come late/leave early, please do not apply for the training program.

Incoming NCSU students may apply for summer training, but must be registered for fall classes by the end of the training program.

Interest meetings for the fall training program will be Wednesday, August 17 and Thursday, August 18 from 5:30-6:30 p.m., with training classes to be held Tuesdays from 5:30-6:30 p.m. beginning August 23.

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Concert Preview Local Music

Outside Soul headlines LBLB

This Thursday, May 26, Local Beer Local Band features “a sound forged in the streets of the Capital City.” The funk/R&B/neo-soul group Outside Soul will take the stage after 10 p.m., but you’ll want to get to Tir Na nOg early for the Kinder Soles Birthday Party, celebrating its first year providing environmentally-conscious footwear.

As always, Local Beer Local Band is a free show for those 21+.

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Weekly Charts

WKNC’s Top 30 indie rock albums – 5/24

Each week, WKNC’s music directors tally up spins for new releases and submit their top lists to College Music Journal. Here are the top 30 indie rock albums on WKNC reported to CMJ’s Top 200 chart by Music Director Michael Jones.

Artist Album Label
#1 Thao And Mirah Thao And Mirah Kill Rock Stars
#2 tUnE-YArDs Whokill 4AD
#3 Girls Names Dead To Me Slumberland
#4 Austra Feel It Break Domino
#5 Wild Palms Until Spring One Little Indian
#6 Those Darlins Screws Get Loose Oh Wow Dang
#7 Shannon and the Clams Sleep Talk 1-2-3-4 Go!
#8 Anna Calvi Anna Calvi Domino
#9 Kids on a Crime Spree We Love You So Bad Slumberland
#10 Love Inks E.S.P. City Slang
#11 Generationals Actor-Caster Park The Van
#12 Blue Sky Black Death Noir Fake Four
#13 Hooray for Earth True Loves Dovecote
#14 Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care Temporary Residence
#15 Times New Viking Dancer Equired Merge
#16 Yelle Safari Disco Club Co-Op
#17 Mikey Jukebox Mikey Jukebox Young Lion Of The West
#18 Raveonettes Raven In The Grave Vice
#19 Kills Blood Pressures Domino
#20 Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues Sub Pop
#21 Antlers Burst Apart Frenchkiss
#22 Panda Bear Tomboy Paw Tracks
#23 Crystal Stilts In Love With Oblivion Slumberland
#24 Timber Timbre Creep On Creepin’ On Arts And Crafts
#25 Cave Singers No Witch Jagjaguwar
#26 Bill Callahan Apocalypse Drag City
#27 Feelies Here Before Bar None
#28 J Mascis Several Shades Of Why Sub Pop
#29 Art Brut Brilliant! Tragic! The End/Cooking Vinyl
#30 Tiger Darrow You Know Who You Are Self-Released
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Concert Preview Local Music

Local Beer International Band Night

If you learned in elementary school English that two negatives make a positive, then you already know to expect a good show from Raleigh’s Double Negative when they perform Thursday, May 19 as part of WKNC and Tir Na nOg’s Local Beer Local Band series.

“It’s the hardest-core hardcore band currently whipping punk kids half as old as the band’s members into foot- and fist-flailing mosh froths,” writes Bryan Reed from Independent Weekly.

We then open our house to Århus for music by FOSSILS and Cola Freaks. Described as “Denmark’s answer to the Fucking Champs,” FOSSILS is a drum and bass rock duo with punk and metal influences.

Members of Cola Freaks backed Jay Reatard as part of his last live line up. The band’s songs “will pogo around your brainpan for weeks after you hear them,” promises the Chicago Reader.

The music starts after 10 p.m. FREE, 21+.