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Local Beat Mini Exclusive: Brooks Wood Band

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Many of you may have thought you had heard the last of the Brooks Wood Band after they called it quits awhile back  in 2008 when Brooks Wood decided to move up to NYC to try the solo thing.  However, the band is putting out a brand new album titled Good Timing, which the group has been working on for the better part of the last two years.  Local Music Director Nicole Kligerman sat down with the group to talk about the new album, hear some live songs, and chat about the album release party/reunion show tomorrow evening at the Pour House.  Full Proof and Jordan Lee are also playing the show, which begins at 10 p.m.  The show is $5 in advance and $7 at the door.

Take a listen to the interview and be sure to check out the show:
Local Beat Mini Exclusive: Brooks Wood Band 5/25/10

Also, be sure to download the two live songs the band played in the Local Beat ReverbNation page.

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It’s the first of the month, so wake up, cash your checks and get toTir na nOg!

Tir na nOg and WKNC bring you Local Beer Local Band night!!  This week we are featuring Static Minds and A Tin Djinn!  Of course it is free, and of course the local brews are on special.  21+ people!

Static Minds

You know their song “Time Bomb” because you’ve heard it on the awesome local music compilation Hear Here.  Experts have been quoted saying, “Their live performances are an intense blast of sweat, volume, and freedom with lots of songs about high times, bad girls, and living it up no matter what life throws at you.” Nod your head to these guys this week!

A tin dijinn

I have a feeling these guys are hilarious. I’m having a look at their page right now (see link above) and, in short, there is Eliot, “enforcer of paisley;"  Gary, "the young zulu warrior;” and Clay,  the “Japan-crazed boogie tambourine mad man.”  Overall, the band feats delicious glam rock with an indie twist.

Hooray for local music and local beer.  Who wants to hear these bands with a Highland Gaelic pint?  I do!!!

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Music News and Interviews

Pour House goes 21+

Raleigh music venue, The Pour House is now a strictly 21+ venue.  This applies to all giveaways done for The Pour House on WKNC.  In the past those 18+ had been able to pay a surcharge, but this will no longer be the case.

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Local Beat preview: 6/25/10

It has been longer than a month since we have had a live Local Beat, and, since February, we haven’t had a full, three hour show (mostly due to NC State Baseball).  I have spent the past month recovering from throat surgery and also doing some summer traveling, but it is finally time to get back into the amazing local music scene here, and tonight’s show is going to be one for the ages.

We are dedicating the first two hours to Trekky Records and their kickass annual summer event TrkFest.  The event happens tomorrow, June 26, and this year there will be two stages of live music as well as the usual crafts, food, and beverages including:

  • Pants-off Dance-off
  • Coffee Sack Race
  • Cool Kids Yoga Session
  • Musical Chairs Cake Walk
  • Sprinklers and Water Things
  • Tour of Piedmont Biofuels
  • Free Haircuts
  • Shadow Puppets
  • Bliss Tent

I know I am going to get a haircut that I so desperately need and jam out to my favorite local musicians that include:

This is the 3rd annual TRKFest, and tonight, on the Local Beat, we will be chatting about all of the old and new things about the festival, the bands, and hearing some live music from some of the performers tomorrow.

At 7 p.m. my favorite local band Bombadil will be dropping by for what is the first time in well over a year.  As many of you may know, Bombadil has been on recent hiatus as some of the members have moved away and Daniel Michalak has been dealing with some health problems. With that said, this is their first interview as a group in quite some time, and one of the first since their Tarpits and Canyonlands hit the streets back in 2009  (If you remember, the album was my #1 album of the year).  The entire band is going to try to make it and and perhaps play their first live music together since last summer. It is seriously going to be awesome.

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Fishin’ for Phish tickets? Look no further!

Beginning this week until the show on July 1 at the Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion, WKNC will be giving away pairs of tickets for Phish. Just be the correct caller and you could win tickets for you and a friend! Tickets are also available at Livenation.com.

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Weekly Charts

6/14 Top ten tracks from WKNC’s Daytime show

Artist Album Label
#1 TAME IMPALA Innerspeaker Modular
#2 CASIOKIDS Topp Stemning Pa Local Bar Polyvinyl
#3 LIGHT POLLUTION Apparitions Car Park
#4 GRAND LAKE Blood Sea Dream Hippies are Dead
#5 PEGGY SUE Fossils and other Phantoms Yep Roc
#6 VILLAGERS Becoming a Jackal Domino
#7 PETER WOLF CRIER Inter-Be Jagjaguwar
#8 PONTIAK (single) Living
#9 WILD MOCCASINS Skin Collision Past Self-Released
#10 HOORAY FOR EARTH MOMO Dovecote
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6/14 Top Ten tracks from WKNC’s Chainsaw Metal show

Artist Album Label
#1 NEVERMORE The Obsidian Conspiracy Century Media
#2 NACHTMYSTIUM Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. II Century Media
#3 OZZY OSBOURNE Scream Epic
#4 AEON Path of Fire Metal Blade
#5 EXODUS Exhibit B: The Human Condition Nuclear Blast
#6 AVANTASIA The Wicked Symphony AFM
#7 TAROT Gravity of Light Nuclear Blast
#8 FREEDOM CALL Legend of the Shadowking Steamhammer
#9 ISTAPP Blekinge Metal Blade
#10 THIS OR THE APOCALYPSE Haunt What’s Left Good Fight
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DJ Ones interviews Hooray For Earth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PgHWew3nNQ

Last week I had the chance to interview the guys from Hooray For Earth before they played at Cats Cradle in Carrboro alongside The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Surfer Blood (for a full run down of the show make sure to check out the post detailing the show here). We discussed their latest EP entitled Momo, future plans for a full length, how they all met each other, how they got the name Hooray for Earth, and much more. Below I have put the interview in its entirety so enjoy!

Hooray For Earth interview

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Weekly Charts

6/14 RPM albums on WKNC Afterhours

Artist Album Label
#1 CRYSTAL CASTLES Crystal Castles II Universal
#2 RATATAT lp4 XL
#3 SLEIGH BELLS Treats Mom and Pop
#4 LCD SOUNDSYSTEM This is Happening EMI
#5 GORILLAZ Plastic Beach Virgin
#6 TORO Y MOI Causers of This Carpark
#7 BASSNECTAR Timestretch s
#8 M.I.A. (single) XXXO
#9 RUSKO O.M.G.! Mad Descent
#10 NINJASONIK Art School Girls Green Owl
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The Avett Brothers are coming home, and we have tickets!

North Carolina natives The Avett Brothers have announced a show at the Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion on October 8, 2010. The public on sale for The Avett Brothers concert on Friday, October 8 at Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion in Raleigh has changed to Friday, June 25 at 10 a.m., but WKNC has them now.  Just be the correct caller when the DJ asks for it and you could win tickets to the show!  Tickets will be on sale at LiveNation.com, the Hardee’s Thickburger Box Office, Ticketmaster, or charge by phone 800-745-3000 beginning Friday.