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Non-Music News

EOT01 Introduction 8/24/09

Eye on the Triangle, WKNC’s weekly public affairs program, made its debut Aug. 24. The show is split up into several segments – a news rundown for the week, VIP interviews, local music, local arts, student of the week, and soundbytes. The following is a break-down of each of the segments and what they featured last week. Be sure to listen to the podcasts of the segments if you missed out last week, and don’t forget to tune in tomorrow from 7-8 p.m. for another episode!

  • VIP: Public Affairs Director Saja Hindi and VIP Correspondent Adam Compton interview Chancellor Jim Woodward and Provost Warwick Arden to discuss topics ranging from the officials’ vision for the University to budget cuts to a day in the life of their respective posts.
  • Hear This: Local Music Director Adam Kincaid interviews Audio Production Consultant Mikey Perros on Hear Here!, the new local music compilation featuring brand new songs from 17  bands from Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill.
  • Community Canvas: General Manager Mike Alston interviews Sarah Schroth with the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University about the Picasso and the Allure of Language” exhibition on view from Aug. 20 through Jan. 10, 2010. To hear more about Picasso’s 60 works from 1900 to 1969, tune in tonight!
  • Student of the Week: Lianne Gonsalves speaks about her experience in Honduras this summer, interning for the State Department. You can also click to see some of the pictures from her trip below.

  • Soundbytes: Correspondent Caitlin Cauley interviews people around campus about how the Hillsborough Street construction is affecting them.If you have any comments, suggestions or questions, don’t hesitate to shoot us an e-mail at publicaffairs@wknc.org

Listen to EOT01.

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Local Music Music News and Interviews

Still Want A Copy Of Hear Here?

Couldn’t make it out to the show last night at the Cats Cradle but still want a copy of Hear Here?  Well, don’t fret because the compilation will be available for purchase at a variety of places including:

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DJ Highlights

Local Beat Preview 8/28/09

Tonight on the Local Beat looks to be a good time with three fantastic interviews lined up.

At 5pm, Carrboro natives Veelee will be joining me to promote their show this evening at the Local 506 with Free Electric State and Embarrassing Fruits.  The show at the 506 tonight starts at 9:30pm and tickets are $7.  They will also be playing some tunes live on the air which you will not want to miss.

At 6pm Hailey Queen of the Coalition to Unchain Dogs will be joining us at WKNC alongside Sara Bell of Durham based folk rock band Regina Hexaphone to discuss tomorrow’s third annual Music For Fences in Durham Central Park. Regina Hexaphone will be playing alongside Rey Norteno, The Kinksmen, and Superchunk.  The show is from 4pm-10pm, $8 in advance and $10 at the door.  All proceeds from the show benefit the Coalition to Unchain Dogs, which is a non-profit organization set up to raise money to build fences for chained dogs.

The last hour of the show is dedicated to Midtown Dickens who are having an album release party for their new record Lanterns, tonight at the Duke Coffeehouse with Mount Moriah and Des Ark (the show starts at 9pm and is FREE).  Founding members of the band Kym Register and Catherine Edgerton are coming in to talk about the creation of Lanterns, gossip about their new band members, and recollect the past 2.5 years since their last album release.  We will also be performing live unreleased tracks from the album as a sneak preview of whats to come this evening in Durham.

So tune into the Local Beat this evening.  5pm-8pm every Friday!  If you don’t have a radio or are out of the area, listen online!

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Music News and Interviews

Black Skies to be in heavy metal documentary

Chapel Hill based hard rock band Black Skies is to be featured in a soon to be released movie documentary “Slow Southern Steel” that is about underground heavy bands from the southeast United States.  The film will include interviews with band members, concert footage, and other great heavy metal glory.

Slow Southern Steel Movie Trailer #1

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Concert Preview

Hear Here Finale Show Line-Up Released

Its official, the Hear Here Finale Show has a lineup and a solid one it is.  Colossus, Inflowential, and the Love Language will all be playing October 3rd at the Pour House in downtown Raleigh.  Tickets are going for $7 but unlike the August 29th show in Carrboro, the compilation will not be included with the price of admission.  Copies of the album will be available for $5 once inside.

Hear Here is a local music compilation album of 17 different Triangle based artists featuring all new unreleased material sponsored by Terpsikhore Records, Flying Tiger Sound, and WKNC 88.1.  For weeks WKNC has been slowly releasing tracks over the airwaves during Local Lunch (Mon-Fri 12-1pm) and the Local Beat (Fri 5-8pm) and many local blogs have been posting leaked songs from Hear Here on the internet.

The album is set to be released this Saturday at the Cats Cradle with Annuals, The Never, Hammer No More The Fingers and Birds of Avalon bringing up the bill.  Tickets are going for $10 with a copy of the album included with admission.  Organizers plan on selling out, so go ahead and get your tickets early.

The October 3rd show in Raleigh is the finale of the compilation release.  Doors will open at 8pm with Colossus starting up at 10pm.  Inflowential and the Love Language will come on sequentially.

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Non-Music News

EOT01 Introduction

Eye on the Triangle is a weekly public affairs program from WKNC 88.1FM. In this inaugural episode, Public Affairs Director Saja Hindi and Adam Compton interview VIPs Chancellor Jim Woodward and Provost Warwick Arden to discuss topics ranging from the officials’ vision for the University to budget cuts to a day in the life of their respective posts.

Hear This: Local Music Director Adam Kincaid interviews Audio Production Consultant Mikey Perros on Hear Here, the new local music compilation featuring brand new songs from 17 bands from Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill.

Community Canvas: General Manager Mike Alston interviews Sarah Schroth with the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University about the Picasso and the Allure of Language exhibition on view Aug. 20 through Jan. 10, 2010.

Wolfpacker of the Week: Lianne Gonsalves speaks about her experience in Honduras this summer, interning for the State Department.

Soundbytes: Personnel Director Caitlin Cauley interviews people around campus about how the Hillsborough Street construction is affecting them.

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Weekly Charts

WKNC’s top 30 albums from the past week

This week’s top 30 Daytime albums, compiled by Daytime Music Director Jenna St. Pierre:

1.  Generationals – Con Law   
2. Light Pines – The Light Pines [EP]   
3 . Yacht – See Mystery Lights   
4. Fiery Furnaces – I’m Going Away   
5. Motel Motel – New Denver  
6. Antlers – Hospice   
7. Magnolia Electric Co. – Josephine   
8. Bibio – Ambivalance Avenue   
9. Cymbals Eat Guitars – Why There Are Mountains   
10. Holiday Shores – Columbus’d The Whim   
11. Bowerbirds – Upper Air   
12. Miike Snow – Miike Snow   
13. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes – Up From Below   
14. Blitzen Trapper – Black River Killer [EP]   
15. Wilco – Wilco (the Album)   
16. Fruit Bats – The Ruminant Band  
17. Nomo – Invisible Cities   
18. Portugal. The Man – The Satanic Satanist   
19. Violet Vectors and the Lovely Lovelies – EP II [EP]   
20. You and Your Effects – Wire Sharks   
21 . Lightning Dust – Infinite Light   
22. Throw Me The Statue – Creaturesque   
23 . Megafaun – Gather, Form, And Fly   
24. Bronzed Chorus – I’m The Spring   
25. Sonic Youth – The Eternal   
26. Dead Weather – Horehound   
27. Health – Get Color   
28. Dinosaur Jr. – Farm   
29. Timber Timbre – Timber Timbre   
30. Vandaveer – Divide And Conquer   

Albums added to our library this week:
1. Hear Here: Local Music Compilation   
2. Darlings – Yeah, I Know   
3. Chores – The Subtle Politics Of The Public Hammock   
4. Liam Finn and Eliza Jane – Champagne In Seashells   
5. Still Life Still – Girls Come Too

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DJ Highlights

Let’s get Brütal

In this world there are two things that I absolutely love. They are as follows: metal  music and video games. Tim Schafer has used his genius as a game designer to combine the two in a truly one-of-a-kind experience.

In the game, players acts as  Eddie Riggs, a roadie who is sucked into a world of metal. There are remnants of the old metal titans everywhere in the world. From hotrod exhausts sticking out of the ground, engine blocks making trees, to giant mountains of skulls. Essentially, if it was on a heavy metal cover you will find it in the game. Not only, will we have a metal environment and character, there is a great amount of cameos including the likes of Lita Ford, Lemmy Kilmeister, Rob Halford, and Ozzy Osbourne. Your character is voiced by the comedian Jack Black.  But those are all icing on the cake of metal. The true star of this game is the soundtrack that is in the game.

Featuring bands such as Rotting Christ, 3 Inches of Blood, Accept, Carcass, Dark Tranquillity, Iced Earth, Manowar, and King Diamond, as well as many others, it truly is a metal-head’s dream game. Comedy and metal make this a game that only comes around once in a while. It makes me proud to see metal getting rightful treatment and seeing true underground metal bands that not everyone has heard of, but will show more people a different kind of metal other than Metallica or Dragonforce. I can’t wait for this game to come out, and will be the first in line for the release date on Rocktober 13th.

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Music News and Interviews

Squirrel Nut Zippers set to release new album

Finally, a date has been set! Local favorite Squirrel Nut Zippers has announced its release date for its latest album, Lost At Sea, a livecollection of material and its first ever live album.  The album was rumored to come out in late 2008, but was postponed until now, with a release date set for October 27.  From 1994 to 2002 the band released eight albums but have been on in-and-out hiatus since 2002.  In 2007 they performed 50 live shows, but most of the band members are currently working in other bands or performing as solo acts.  The studio album that was supposed to have been released in 2oo9 is back on the drawing boards as band member Chris Phillips says,

“Honestly, the band is getting along better than we ever did in the past and I believe the desire is there to try recording a new album for release in 2010.”

But the best details yet come from http://www.snzippers.com/ where supposedly the entire album will be put up for purchase on the band’s website before it hits the stores anywhere else.  More details to come on that later.

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Track Listing For Lost At Sea
1. Memphis Exorcism
2. Good Enough For Grandad
3. It Ain’t You
4. Prince Nez
5. Put A Lid On It
6. Fat Cat Keeps Getting Fatter
7. Danny Diamond
8. Suits Are picking Up The Bill
9. My Drag
10. Happens All The Time
11. Bad Businessman
12. Hell
13. Ghost Of Stephen Foster
14. You Are My Radio
15. Blue Angel
16. Do What

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No Strings Attached becomes The Hotwires

Local bluegrass outfit, No Strings Attached, now has a new name The Hotwires.  The name change comes in the form of notification of several other bands with the same name, specifically one close by in Virginia.  In an open letter to their fans, the Hotwires write:

No Strings Attached, the bluegrass band based in Raleigh, NC has decided to change it’s name to The Hotwires. We were informed that there was a pre-existing group also called No Strings Attached based in Roanoke, VA (and incidentally, many very different bands worldwide bearing that name) . Their attorneys politely informed us that another band bearing the same name in close proximity to their own area was not something they could accept and rather than become involved in a protracted legal dispute over trademark, we quite simply changed our name to The Hotwires.

We feel The Hotwires is more descriptive of who we are, what we sound like and the type of bluegrass music we choose to play. We also hope that you all will continue to support us, and bluegrass music in general. This name change comes at a time in our professional development where we are playing more and becoming more and more visible, and playing more and more shows nationwide. We are nearly through recording a debut album of original material that is set for release this fall. Fall and Spring tours are being planned and we expect to see alot more of you in the near future, as you will see a lot more of us.

Thank you for your continued support, and keep bluegrass music vibrant!