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Music News and Interviews

Ticket Giveaways June 14th – June 20th

WKNC is giving away some great tickets to some awesome local shows this week including…

Sunday June 14th – Meat Puppets with Retribution Gospel Choir @ Cat’s Cradle

Monday June 15th – Portugal, The Man @ Cat’s Cradle

Monday June 15th – The Constellations with Eula @ The Pour House

Monday June 15th – Zee Avi with Matt Hires presented by Cat’s Cradle @ Nightlight

Thursday June 18th – Future and Milhouse @ The Pour House

Saturday June 20th – Camera Obscura with Anni Rossi @ Cat’s Cradle

Along with tickets to these shows WKNC is also giving away movie passes for the following moives:

Year One starring Jack Black and Michael Cera
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen starrig Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox
Sister’s Keeper starring Cameron Diaz and Abigail Breslin

Be sure to tune into 88.1 FM for your chance to win!

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Playlists

Dance Dance Revolution playlist – Sunday, June 14

Here’s my playlist from today. I hope you guys have enjoyed my show. Chuck will be back for his show next weekend.

  1. !!! – A New Name

  2. Cut Copy – Hearts on Fire

  3. Fujiya and Miyagi – Pterodactyls

  4. Chromeo – Bonafide Love (Tough Guys)

  5. Black Ghosts – I Want Nothing

  6. Does it Offend You, Yeah – Battle Royale

  7. LCD Soundsystem – Get Innocuous!

  8. The Faint – Get Seduced

  9. Junior Boys – The Equalizer

  10. The New Young Pony Club – Ice Cream (Comets Remix)

  11. The Rapture – The Devil

  12. The Services – House of Mirrors

  13. Muscles – Ice Cream

  14. Ghostland Observatory – Club Soda

  15. Goldfrapp – Ooh la La  (Tieschwarz Remix)

  16. Hot Chip – And I Was a Boy from School

  17. Vampire Weekend – Kids Don’t Stand a Chance (Chromeo Remix)

  18. Midnight Juggernauts – Shadows

  19. The Teenagers – Starlett Johanson (Rory Phillips Remix)

  20. The Ting Tings – We Walk

  21. Black Kids – Love Me Already

  22. Ratatat – Mirando

  23. Walter Meego – Wanna Be a Star

  24. Beck – Shake Shake Tambourine (Adrock Remix)

  25. Daft Punk – Revolution 909

  26. Data Rock – Fa-Fa-Fa

  27. Starfucker – Dance Face 2000

  28. Phoenix – 1901

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DJ Highlights

Dance Dance Revolution Sunday, June 14

Tune in from 8-10 PM this Sunday, June 14 for the Dance Dance Revolution. I’m filling in for Chuck who is having a blast up at  Bonnaroo in Tennessee with Caid, Kyle, and others. Put on your blue plastic-rimmed sunglasses, get on your feet, and crack open a PBR because KNC is about to get dancy. Listen on your radio at 88.1 FM or online at wknc.org/listen. Leave your requests

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Concert Preview Local Music

5/11 Local Beer Local Band Night – The Whalewatchers and Starmount

Tonight (Thur 5/11) at Local Beer Local Band Night we have marine-mammal rockers, The Whalewatchers, and experimental jazz group, Starmount.  Don’t forget, Tir Na Nog is in downtown Raleigh (218 S. Blount St.) and it’s FREE to get in!  Also, I’ll be doing an interview with the Whalewatcher’s arund 5pm today, so make sure you tune in.

Here’s the official Whalewatcher’s music video for the song Pretty Money:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r8ufspAdTk

See you out there!

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Weekly Charts

WKNC’s top 30 albums from the past week

Here are the top 30 records at WKNC from the past week, compiled by Daytime Music Director Jenna St. Pierre:

1. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
2. Black Moth Super Rainbow – Eating Us
3. Veelee – Three Sides
4. St. Vincent – Actor
5. American Folklore – American Folklore
6. Harlem Shakes – Technicolor Health
7. Doves – Kingdom of Rust
8. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
9. Kingsbury Manx – Ascenseur Ouvert
10. Passion Pit – Manners
11. Americans in France – Pretzelvania
12. It Hugs Back – Inside Your Guitar
13. Telekinesis – Telekinesis
14. Lonnie Walker – These Times Old Times
15. Empire of the Sun – Walking on a Dream
16. Decemberists – Hazards of Love
17. Screaming Females – Power Move
18. Roman Candle – Oh Tall Tree In the Ear
19. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
20. Metric – Fantasies
21. Akron/Family – Set Em Wild Set Em Free
22. Amadou and Mariam – Welcome to Mali
23. Dirty Projectors – Stillness is the Move
24. Red Collar – Pilgrim
25. White Lies – To Lose My Life
26. Gliss- Devotion Implosion
27. Xu Xu Fang – Seven Days Now
28. Dan Deacon – Bromst
29. Magic Wands – Magic Love and Dreams EP
30. City Center- City Center

The following are albums we’ve recently added to our library, which you can look forward to hearing on the station:

1. Deer Tick – Born on Flag Day
2. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
3. Ha Ha Tonka – Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South
4. Portland Cello Project – The Thao and Justin Powers Sessions
5. Eels – Hombre Lobo

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DJ Highlights

WKNC finalist for Best Radio Station and Best DJ

N.C. State’s student radio station earned recognition as one of the best in the Triangle in Independent Weekly’s annual “Best of the Triangle” reader survey. Kyle Robb, the station’s general manager for 2008-2009, accepted the award during his Jun. 10 radio program.

WKNC 88.1 FM, along with Clear Channel’s G105, received finalist honors for Best Radio Station. WUNC 91.5 FM, the NPR-affiliated station from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earned the top award.

Kelly Reid, known as Mz. Kelly to WKNC listeners, was a finalist for Best Radio DJ. She is one of three WKNC staff recognized as among the Best in the Triangle in recent years. Tom Wharton was voted Best Radio DJ in 2006 and Sam McGuire received a finalist nod in 2007.

Mike Alston, who took over for Robb as general manager in April, thanked the listeners for their loyalty. “We are honored to be finalists,” he said. “We can’t compete with larger stations in terms of resources, but we have a dedicated staff and dedicated listener base.”

“The fact that a group of students can earn this kind of recognition year after year shows the value the student media have to N.C. State University,” Jamie Lynn Gilbert, the station’s advisor, said.

More than 3,000 people filled out the 2009 Best of the Triangle ballot, voting on everything from best pet specialty store to best comfort food.

Independent Weekly voted WKNC Best Radio Station in 2006, 2007 and 2008. The station was named Best College Radio in 2004 and 2005, as well as Best Radio for Music in 2005. WKNC also earned top awards from Spectator in 2001 and 2002.

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Festival Coverage

Bonnaroo –> Hey Listeners It’s Just Around the Corner!!!

That’s right guys Bonnaroo is THIS WEEK!!  June 11th- June 14th!  Check out the Bonnaroo website because tickets are still on sale and the website has tons of cool stuff to help you prepare for a great Bonnaroo time like the Artist Lineup and Activities and Attractions!!

So, I don’t know about you guys, but I can’t wait to see Phish, Wilco, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Snoop Dogg, Beastie Boys, Grizzly Bear, White Rabbits, Andrew Bird, TV on the Radio, Animal Collective, MGMT, and Girl Talk.

Bad news is it may be impossible to catch all the acts you are dying to see.  But, don’t worry it is pretty much going to be a blast either way.

Ok, first step to go to Bonnaroo –> get a ticket somehow someway!

Next –> Look at the lineup and stages and make an estimated list of MUST SEEs.

Then –> Well get together with your Bonna Buds and make a Bonna Checklist.

HERE are some of the things I plan on taking! If you have any MUST SEE or Checklist Suggestions make sure to leave it in comment style on the blog!

*Tent and other camping equipment

*Hat/Bandanna

*Non-perishable food

*Water

*Cooler

*SunScreen

*Deodorant

*Baby Wipes

*Money

*Camping Chair

*Walking Shoes

*Nalgene Bottle

*Rain Gear

*Bug Spray

*Portable Lantern

*Batteries

*Sunglasses

*Something to Shade the Campsite

*Toilet Paper

*Alcohol

*And Whatever Else Will Make the Trip Complete

The Bonnaroo Website also has great lists to check out before you  make your trip!

The count down to Bonnaroo is ON! SO great ready everyone it’s gonna be a crazy ride!!!!

–Liztopia

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Concert Review

Band Together, June 6

As someone who has worked more than a dozen on-air fundraisers, practically begging for the telephone to ring, I wholeheartedly agree that the best way to raise money is through a rocking concert. WKNC does it through our annual Double Barrel Benefit and so does Band Together NC, a local non-profit whose mission is “to raise funds and awareness for select charities through events that showcase and support musical talent.” Since its formation in 2001, Band Together has raised more than $635,000 for Triangle charities.

Band Together’s latest effort took place Saturday, June 6 with Chatham County Line, The Rosebuds and Rusted Root performing on the Lincoln Theatre Street Stage. Band Together alumni HOBEX closed out the evening with a set inside the Lincoln. MyNC.com reports the Band Together committee presented a $108,000 check to the Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood just before Rusted Root took the stage.

Chatham County Line performs at Band Together, June 6, 2009. Photo by Jamie Lynn Gilbert.

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Chatham County Line took the stage at 6 p.m. I could hear the beginning notes of “The Carolinian” as I rushed to the blocked off area of Cabarrus Street between Blount and Wilmington in downtown Raleigh. The Lincoln Theatre street stage was against the Wilmington Street side, with the Silent Auction area, requisite Budweiser beer line and Southern Season Catering trailer leading to Blount.

With the banjo, mandolin and guitar players crowded around the microphone and the bassist two steps behind, the mic stand could have just as easily read WSM as Chatham Co Line. The Raleigh-based quartet makes appearances on Americana, Blues and Co. as well as during our daytime format, with their album IV. The set list included newer tunes “Chip of a Star” and “Whipping Boy” and older ones like “Route 23.” The crowd was a little thin when the band began, but filled in as the set wore on, prompting one of the band members to compliment the crowd for being much better than the one there 15 minutes prior.

The Rosebuds on stage at Band Together, raising money for the Lucy Daniels Center. Photo by Jamie Lynn Gilbert.

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Indie pop rockers The Rosebuds were the evening’s second act. Guitarist Ivan Howard led the crowd in a sing-a-long on “Nice Fox,” encouraging the crowd to yell so loud they could be heard in Fuquay. The decibel level didn’t get quite that high, but the crowd seemed genuinely engaged, swaying as they repeated “and it don’t mean nothing at all.” The Raleigh duo has a sparse performance schedule this summer, but will be at the Duke Gardens this Wednesday, June 10th.

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Non-Music News

NCSU Chancellor Resigns

Our friends at the Technician newspaper have been very busy, after North Carolina State University Chancellor James L. Oblinger resigned this morning.  For updates throughout the day, turn to TechnicianOnline.com.

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Festival Coverage

All-Bonnaroo Set

Do you, like me, have a Bonnaroo itch that needs scratching?

Well, we’ll be making the most of my DJ shift tomorrow (Monday) morning from 7-9 AM.  While you drive to work, (or lie in bed, or sleep..) I’ll be spinning a set  comprised exclusively of Bonnaroo artists to help get you ready.  Or if you’re unable to go, I guess it might just make you jealous.

If you have any requests, let me know by commenting on this post or calling tomorrow morning at 919-860-0881 or 919-515-2400.

And don’t forget to tune in at 88.1 FM or wknc.org/listen.