This week features a profile of WISE Farms, which sells fresh produce and the NCSU Campus Farmers Market. Mark Herring also talks about the reinvention of the Food Pyramid.
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Okay okay okay, so we don’t know yet who the winners are… yet.
If you tune in the WKNC from 3-5PM June 8th, you can be one of the first to know! We will be discussing all things Indy– Best of, Best of Party, and Hopscotch all while playing the music you love!
I have heard that WKNC is a finalist for a few “Best in the Triangle” awards… but you didn’t hear that from me.
WKNC has won Best in College Radio and was a finalist for Best Nonprofit Radio Station. WOO!
A big thanks to all of our listeners and everyone who voted! See you at the party!
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Hopscotch Schedule is HERE
After seeing the amazing lineup for Hopscotch, you have probably been trying to figure out how in the heck you will be able to see all the bands you want. Luckily, this festival takes place in downtown Raleigh, so all show are but a walk, a rickshaw, an R-line away.
They have released 14 new bands to the schedule and have added 3 new venues –White Collar Crime, The Union and Fletcher Opera Theater in Progress Energy Center. The show I am most excited about will be taking place in Fletcher Opera Theatre, featuring The Prayers and Tears, Bombadil, and Lost in the Trees. After checking out the schedule here, what show are you most excited about?
There are only a few 3 day passes left!
With an expansive lawn, selling out the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) proves to be quite difficult. However, the first show of the summer season on June 4, did just this. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones attracted such a varied audience that every inch of the lawn was taken – whether it be by hip young professionals eating olives, cheese, and wine or older couples eating a hot box of Bojangle’s fried chicken.
The show started around 8:15PM, the perfect time to sit back and enjoy the 90-something day finally cooling off. They played newer music off their most recent album, Rocket Science. And not to go with the intentional pun, but deciding whether to buy that album isn’t rocket science.
This show is different than many in the past few years, as Howard Levy joined the band yet again. Levy, an amazing harmonica player, seems to tie the whole group together. Percussionist Futureman is about as interesting as a percussionist can get. He plays a hand-made drumitar, and has many other unique inventions based in scientific principles and pure awesomeness. If you’reever wondering which one is Futureman, just look for the pirate. Futureman’s brother plays bass in the Flecktones and hot damn! is he good. I don’t usually like bass solos, but Victor Lemonte Wooten definitely had my attention. Of course, I hardly even need to speak of Bela Fleck’s virtuosity at the banjo. Futureman made the joke that Fleck is proof that banjo jokes aren’t true. Casey Driessen, violinist of The Sparrow Quartet joined in for more of the bluegrass/folk numbers.
The concert went on until about 10PM, the lightning bugs and ambient lighting of the grounds of NCMA provided a perfect setting for the soft strumming and beats of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. If you missed out on this show–do not fret– they will be coming back to North Carolina in August! Associate acts Ben Sollee and Abigail Washburn frequent this area, so be on a look out for them as well.
If you need your weekly Bela Fleck dose, you can always tune in to Americana Blues and Company Saturday mornings from 10-12, as we are known to play an occasional Bela Fleck number.
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 |
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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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.
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.
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.
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.