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WKNC DJs Participate in Service NC State

Local deejays Elly May, DJ Goof, DJ Kligz, The Voice of Reason, and myself gave back to the community this Saturday at the yearly event, Service NC State. As in years past, NC State worked with Stop Hunger Now in hopes of packaging  400,000 meals for children in Haiti. Many campus organizations came out Saturday, August 21 to help package food from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. New this year was the blood drive for which about a dozen members of WKNC staff gave blood to help reach the goal of 500 pints of blood in one huge blood drive on Friday.

The number of meals our small group of five packaged during our two-hour shift is enough to feed a 32-child orphanage for seven months. The meals are full of essential vitamins and minerals and are actually quite tasty. The experience was described as “inspiring,” “exhilarating,” “fun,” “organized,” and “fulfilling"—and totally worth waking up at 8 a.m. on a Saturday. WKNC hopes to have a presence at other on-campus service events to further instate our relationship with our campus and our community as a whole.

I would like to personally thank everyone who helped by giving blood or donating their time and energy to any aspect of Service NC State.

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DJ Highlights

R&B singer Marcus Allen on “Real RnB Radio” tonight

Tonight, 8/21 on “Real RnB Radio,” R&B singer Marcus Allen will be visiting the studio on 88.1FM WKNC.

The Summerville, SC, native is poised to take over the male R&B scene with his infectious melodies, soulful delivery, and powerful voice.

The South Carolina Music Award winner has already received international success on the Japanese and European charts and has been featured on a number of major tours.

Tune in at 10:30 p.m. for our live interview with the rising star. To find out more about Marcus Allen, visit here or follow him on twitter. Check out some of his latest music below.

“Real RnB Radio” with host Mir.I.am airs Saturdays from 10 p.m.-12 a.m.

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DJ Highlights Local Music

Local Beat preview 8/21/10


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This week’s Local Beat is going to be the first in a while with live music as all three of the bands coming in plan on playing some tunes for us on the air.

Carrboro group Max Indian is kicking things off at 5 p.m. to promote their show at the Local 506 on August 27. Max Indian is playing less and less these days, so I plan on asking them about the group’s recent happenings and chat with them about their upcoming gig during Hopscotch.

Twelve Thousand Armies is the closest band we have in the area that represents a cult following as their music has largely been missed due to lack of promotion and live shows, and I am excited to welcome them on the program at 6p .m. They are also playing the Local 506 on the 27th with Max Indian and The Houston Brothers. It will be their first interview on WKNC—who just twisted the band’s arm to finally get a hold of their album that came out awhile back—and I am sure many of you have been hearing constantly since.

At 7 p.m., Asheville artist Darien will be jumping on board to promote several upcoming shows in our area. Darien is relatively unknown around our region, but that has been quickly changing with her last release, Theorem, which came out on Alive and Well back in March. Darien has a busy couple of weeks in the area that include five shows in the Triangle between now and September 3.

Sample band press kits

As always, the fun starts at 5 p.m. and will last until 8 p.m.! Don’t worry if you miss it as all interviews are put on the WKNC blog following the show. Be sure to follow the Local Beat on Twitter or Facebook and download tons of free local music on our ReverbNation page!

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EOT37 Keeping Hopscotch Green 8/17/10

Our Wolfpacker of the Week is Megan Caine, an NCSU senior working to make the Hopscotch Music Festival a green event.

Listen to episode 37.

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Weekly Charts

Week of 8/9: Top Ten albums of Daytime Rock

Artist Album Label
#1 MYSTERY JETS Serotonin Rough Trade
#2 JAILL That’s How We Burn Sub Pop
#3 WAVVES King of the Beach Fat Possum
#4 MAPS AND ATLASES Perch Patchwork Barsuk
#5 DAN SARTAIN Dan Sartain Lives One Little Indian
#6 LIGHTS ON Here Comes the Ocean self-released
#7 STILL FLYIN’ A Party in Motion [EP] Ernest Jenning
#8 DARKER MY LOVE Alive as You Are Dangerbird
#9 ARCADE FIRE The Suburbs Merge
#10 COTTON JONES Tall Hours in the Glowstream Suicide Squeeze
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DJ Highlights Local Music

Local Beat Roundtable recap 8/13/10

I can safely say that last Friday was my favorite Local Beat we have ever had. The guests on the show were wonderfully knowledgeable and entertaining, and the three hours we shared were exceptionally insightful into our local music scene. In case you missed it, I had a “roundtable” of sorts in which I invited several prominent members of the local music community onto the program to talk about the music in the area and their involvement. We chatted about everything from our favorite and least favorite local venues and bands to the history and future of our music scene.

First in was Betsy Harris, one of the most notable and certainly the most prolific local music photographers in the area.  Betsy was a fantastic guest who shared plenty about her role in the local music community, her work as a photographer, and several fun stories about her experiences in the past several years. Be sure to check out Betsy’s Fotki and Youtube for some sweet local multimedia content. Also, below are some of Betsy’s favorite photographs that she has graciously shared with us:

Karen Mann of Mann’s World also joined me on the show for about an hour.  Karen is one of the most prominent, if not the most prominent, local music blogger in our area and having her on the program was a special treat. Karen and I talked about her history in the area and her role within the music of our region. Karen was a fabulous interviewee and had plenty to say, all of it proving to be noteworthy and captivating about her dedication to the music and her blog. Karen is also having a special Mann’s World day party during Hopscotch on September 11th.

One of my favorite journalists in the area, Bryan Reed, made an appearance as well. Bryan is well known for his contributions to Shuffle Magazine where he is Assistant Editor and also the Independent Weekly where he covers local and national music. He was fun, witty, and full of knowledge on music scenes outside the Triangle region.

Linnie Green, the new editor of Diversions at the Daily Tar Heel, got quite a bit of crap from me for going to NC State’s rival school, but after I settled down and matured a little, she gave us some interesting insight into how Diversions works and what priorities they have with local music.

The mastermind behind NBC 17’s Music.MyNC was also a guest that evening. Jake is another extraordinary blogger in the area and also heads the live Sessions for Music.MyNC. I talked with Jake about how the Sessions came to be what it is and his thoughts about his contributions to the music.

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Non-Music News

Student Media Representin’ Cates Crawl

As the first week of school begins in just a few hours, on-campus organizations have been working to get their name out to new and old students alike. On Monday, August 16, WKNC and other facets of NCSU Student Media participated in Cates Crawl, one of many fun and informative events of Wolfpack Welcome Week. Thanks to many DJs and a swanky promotions team, the Student Media table was a hit of this yearly tradition down our beloved Cates Avenue. WKNC, The Technician, Nubian Message, Wolf TV, Agromeck, Windhover, and the up and coming photography club work under the umbrella of Student Media– entirely student run and entirely awesome ways to become involved at NC State. Students could partake in a tour of Student Media offices, or take advantage of the WKNC stickers, coozies, information about the aforementioned organizations, and even delicious freezie pops all while listening to the jams being pumped from our studio on the third floor of Witherspoon.

Look for WKNC and other groups in Student Media this Friday and Saturday at Friday Fest and Service NC State!

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Music News and Interviews

This Week’s Fantastic Giveaways

This week we have a lot of cool stuff to give away!

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We have tickets to The Stone Temple Pilots with The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club on October 5 at The Raleigh Amphitheatre and  Sound Tribe System 9 at The Raleigh Amphitheatre on August 25.

We have tickets to Warpaint on August 18 at The Local 506.

On August 19, we have tickets to Cockabilly Roadshow at The Pour House and Lou Barlow At Cat’s Cradle.

On August 20, we have tickets to Jack the Radio at Slim’s, Chatham County Line at Fletcher Theatre, and The Design at The Pour House.

On August 21, we have tickets to Malarkey Gras ft. American Aquarium at The Pour House.

DON’T FORGET THAT WE HAVE MOVIE TICKETS TO:

The Other Guys, Scott Pilgrim v. The World, and The Expendables

Keep Listening to WKNC for these giveaways and more!

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Weekly Charts

Week of 8/9: Top ten Loud Rock albums

Artist Album Label
#1 BLIND GUARDIAN At the Edge of Time Nuclear Blast
#2 IRON THRONES The Wretched Sun No label needed
#3 NACHTMYSTIUM Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. II Century Media
#4 SABATON Coat of Arms
#5 HASTE THE DAY Attack of the Wolf King Solid State
#6 ANTAGONIST World in Decline Prosthetic
#7 HIGH CONFESSIONS Turning Lead into Gold with the High Confessions Relapse
#8 BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Order of the Black
#9 MOSE GIGANTICUS Gift Horse Relapse
#10 EMERGENCY STATE The Nemesis Construct Metalville
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Music News and Interviews

STS9 Comes to Raleigh Amphitheatre

Wanna go so Sound Tribe Sector 9 at their August 25 show at The Raleigh Amphitheatre? Well, you can get tickets now at Livenation.com or be the correct caller when the WKNC DJ asks for it, and you could win tickets!