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UPDATED Local Beer Local Band Night—August 19

WKNC and Tir Na nOg Irish Pub team up to bring you Local Beer Local Band Night every Thursday. These events are always FREE and 21 and up. Starts and 10 p.m. Local beers on tap and local bands on stage. Enjoy!

Thursday, August 19 will feature music from The Small Ponds, Jon Lindsay and The Tomahawks!

The Tomahawks

A favorite local band of mine. I’m terrible at describing music but here it goes… Beatles-y southern rock. Yeah? Do yourself a favor and check out their tracks on the webpage.

Jon Lindsay

Whoa. I’m already hooked on this guy. It is happy and catchy like Belle & Sebastian except it is one guy… one absolutely adorable guy. Be sure to check out his music on his website or just come out on Thursday!

The Small Ponds

This duo is made up of musicians from Tres Chicas and The Proclivities. With a CD Release show in about a month, this show should be a wonderful preview of what is to come. The songs are slow, sweet and downright lovely.

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DJ Highlights

Bettie Grind and Dondria interviewed on 88.1FM WKNC tonight

Charlotte native, Bettie Grind is storming the music scene with his hit single “Dammit I’m Fly” and latest Mixtape, I Am G’Sus. The rapper, who many call the King of the Carolinas, is determined to make his mark in the industry and bring the much needed and deserved attention to the region.

For more information on Bettie visit his official website and follow him on twitter.

Princess of So So Def Records, Dondria will also be calling in at 9pm to “Real RnB Radio” in celebration of the release of her debit album, Dondria vs. Phatfffat. The soon to be released album features the hit singles, “You’re The One” and “Shawty Wus Up”.

Originally discovered on YouTube, Dondria is fastly becoming one of R&B’s most promising stars, with her soulful voice and impassioned delivery.

In case you missed our last interview with the R&B sensation, listen here.

To find about more about Dondria and to hear her music connect with her on  MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, or follow her on Twitter.

“Real RnB Radio” with host Mir.I.am airs Saturdays from    8-11pm.

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DJ Highlights Local Music

Local Beat Roundtable: Series 1 preview 8/13/10

Tonight, the Local Beat will be a who’s-who in the local music scene. As you well know, the Local Beat is mostly dedicated to local bands and musicians who are well documented by fantastic bloggers, great deejays, newspaper writers, event organizers, photographers, and more. Tonight, you are going to have a chance to meet some of these dedicated chroniclers of the local scene as I have invited several on for what is the first in a series of the Local Beat’s “Roundtable.”

Throughout the evening, Karen Mann, Betsy Harris, Bryan Reed, Linnie Green, Jake Seaton, and hopefully several more prominent local music raconteurs will be sitting down as we chat about their services to our music scene and relate anecdotes and stories. In addition, they will be choosing the local music we will be playing throughout the show.

Among many things, Karen Mann is one of the most notable bloggers in the region with her personal music blog, Mann’s World, which is a treasure trove of videos, photographs, news stories, album reviews and more.
Related Links
Mann’s World
Vimeo
Twitter
Flickr

Betsy Harris (aka Temples of Grey) is one of the most recognizable local music photographers in the region.  I swear I see her at every single show I attend.
Related Links
Fotki
Youtube
Twitter
MySpace

Jake Seaton is the mind and body behind Music.MyNC.com who is famous for their live sessions with local bands and for breaking almost every important story about North Carolina music.

Bryan Reed is a writer for Shuffle Magazine, the Independent Weekly, and seemingly countless others.

Linnie Green is the new editor for Diversions of the Daily Tar Heel.

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Weekly Charts

8/2 albums for WKNC’s Chainsaw

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Artist Album Label
#1 SABATON Coat of Arms
#2 IRON THRONES The Wretched Sun no label needed
#3 IRON MAIDEN "The Final Frontier” [Single] EMI
#4 NEVERMORE The Obsidian Conspiracy Century of Media
#5 RHAPSODY OF FIRE The Frozen Tears of Angels Sabaton Coat of Arms
#6 HIGH CONFESSIONS Turning Lead into Gold with the High Confessions Relapse
#7 NORMA JEAN Meridional Razor and Tie
#8 HORSEBACK The Invisiable Mountain Utech
#9 RIOTGOD Riotgod Metalville
#10 WAKING THE CADAVER Beyond Cops, Beyond God Candlelight
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Non-Music News

EOT36 Goodnight, Raleigh! 8/11/10

Eye on the Triangle creator Saja Hindi runs down the latest news in her last program as host. Then Tyler Everrett previews the Wolfpack football schedule From the Sidelines. In a special extended VIP, Saja talks with John Morris, founder of the popular community blog Goodnight, Raleigh! and several members of his staff. Then Jacob Downey previews the Stars in the Round fundraiser for the Shakori Hills Community Arts Center in Hear This.

Lisen to episode 36.

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Weekly Charts

8/2 Top 10 albums WKNC’s Daytime music

Artist Album Label
#1 JAILL That’s How We Burn Sub Pop
#2 MAPS AND ATLASES Perch Patchwork Barsuk
#3 WAVVES Kind of the Beach Fat Possum
#4 LIGHTS ON Here Comes the Ocean self-released
#5 DAN SARTAIN Dan Sartain Lives One Little Indian
#6 LONE WOLF The Devel and I Bella Union
#7 BEST COAST Crazy for You Mexican Summer
#8 BOOKS The Way Out Temporary Residence
#9 ARCADE FIRE The Suburbs Merge
#10 MINIATURE TIGERS Fortress Modern Art
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Weekly Charts

8/2 Top 10 albums WKNC Afterhours

Artist Album Label
#1 CHEMICAL BROTHERS Further Astralwerks
#2 CRYSTAL CASTLES Crystal Castles II Universal
#3 SLEIGH BELLS Treats Mom and Pop
#4 LCD SOUNDSYSTEM This is Happening EMI
#5 N.E.R.D. Hot-N-Fun The Remixes [EP]
#6 BORGORE Borgore Ruined Dubstep [EP]
#7 RUSKO O.M.G.! Mad Decent
#8 M.I.A. Maya Interscope
#9 BATHS Cerulean Anticon
#10 UFFIE Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans Because
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Music News and Interviews

This Week’s Giveaways

This week on WKNC we are giving away excitement!  …and tickets as well

On August 13,  we have tickets to Mission of Burma at Cat’s Cradle and tickets to Umphrey’s McGee at the Raleigh Amphitheatre.

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On August 15, we have tickets to Friends for Hamid featuring, Static Minds, Starmount, Richard Bacchus, & The Connells at The Pour House.

We are also giving away tickets to The Other Guys at Crossroads 20 in Cary.

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Concert Review

Last Saturday at Cat’s Cradle: Here We Go Magic, Beach Fossils, LightPines

I’m a fan of Here We Go Magic; I am a fan of Beach Fossils. Their respective live performances were both reflective of their energetic,  loopy recordings that exist, in my mind at least,  as  sharpened, present day iterations of the old shoe gazey stuff . I maybe blended their sounds together too much there. (If I overgeneralized, I am sorry. Beach Fossils is the more “gazey” of the two, to be sure.) Both bands are great on record, great live, and certainly worth seeing again (not to mention, worth it for you to see one or both of them when you get the chance).

BUT, I’ll go ahead and be honest. (I have the megaphone!)

Light Pines dude.  This was my Ffffifth? Sixth? time seeing this outfit in action, and, as usual, they failed miserably to disappoint. “Knowing what to look for” may be an appropriate good phrase, but I’m barely a musician. I just know to look for the awesome, I guess.

No nonsense. No garrulous banter between songs. No distracting movement.  Just a terse, diligent, and damn-solid entertaining performance. A change of lighting and, if you’re lucky, a modest “thank’yeh”  after each song is all you’re gonna get.  And what would (or possibly could) you do with anything extra?

Nope, I didn’t take pictures.  Flashes are annoying.

T.A.

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Concert Preview Local Music

LBLB Last week recap, and what’s up next!

WKNC and Tir Na nOg Irish Pub team up to bring you Local Beer Local Band Night every Thursday.  These events are always FREE and 21 and up.  Local beers on special and local bands on stage.

Photographs of Local Beer Local Band night on August 5 by WKNC photographer Katie Hill

Museum Mouth

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The Beast

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I Was Totally Destroying It

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This Thursday, August 12 features music from Aminal and Butterflies! Both are from Chapel Hill.

Aminal

You might remember Aminal from our concert series Friday’s on the Lawn. They played for a crowd of people, blankets, and picnic baskets. Hooray for indie pop! Come on Thursday to bob your head and tap your toes!

Butterflies

From Chapel Hill and signed under Trekky Records, Butterflies will be opening up at Tir Na nOg this Thursday.  “Butterflies reimagine indie pop in laid-back folk environs… contemplative (though hopeful) soul searching of… frontman Josh Kimbrough, who gets help from a revolving cast of friends… including pianist/ girlfriend Katie Zickefoose. She adds generous harmonies."  –Spencer Griffith, Independent Weekly