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Megafaun reviewed in Rolling Stone

As if Facebook and Twitter status updates aren’t enough for most people, you can also update your Gmail status so people can know when you are eating lunch with your favorite Americana, Blues and Co. host or if you are working and don’t wish to be disturbed. About a month ago, our illustrious general manager announced “New Megafaun=AMAZING” to anyone he has ever emailed. It’s good to know he was right.

New Raleigh reports Durham-based Megafaun’s new release, “Gather, Form and Fly,” earned a four-star review in Rolling Stone magazine. A live album from Jimi Hendrix Experience only had three and a half stars.

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Geet Bazaar Giveaway

This weekend on Geet Bazaar (Desi Radio, 88.1 FM, Sunday 10 am to 12 noon) you can win FREE tickets to hear Sunidhi Chauhan, Javed Ali, and Hard Kaur live in concert Aug. 14 at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium. We will be giving away lots of tickets during the broadcast. Listen to the Geet Bazaar this Sunday to find out how to call in and win tickets.

Geet Bazaar is a South Asian Radio Program based on listeners’ requests, broadcast every Sunday from 10 am to 12 noon on WKNC 88.1 FM (or live webstream at wknc.org). Email your requests to GeetBazaar at WKNC dot org.

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Lonnie Walker’s “These Times Old Times” wins WKNC poll

In last week’s poll to determine our listeners’ favorite local album released this summer, Lonnie Walker’s “These Times Old Times” took the lead, beating out Bombadil’s “Tarpits and Canyonlands,” Bowerbirds’ “Upper Air,” Birds of Avalon’s “Uncanny Valley,” and Bronzed Chorus’s “In the Spring.”

Megafaun’s “Gather, Form & Fly” came in second. The album was released last month.

To hear any of these albums, be sure to tune in for the Local Lunch Monday through Friday from noon to 1 p.m. on WKNC. Check back to the WKNC Blog for weekly polls.

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The Glitch Mob to headline the Trinumeral Festival (9-9-09)

The music line-up for the Trinumeral Music & Arts Festival has been announced. Headlining is The Glitch Mob, a hip-hop group that incorporates live remixing and electronic music production sometimes labeled “glitch hop.” We mentioned the Glitch Mob in January when Pandora labeled them “post-modern hip-hop.”

Regardless of how they are labeled them you will dance to their beats. Yes you will.

 

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Local Beer Local Band for August

As always, Tir Na Nog Irish Pub and WKNC 88.1 FM have put together a great schedule for Local Beer Local Band. Join us this week as we celebrate DJ Cantona’s birthday with music by Maple Stave, Auxes and (Double Barrel Benefit 4 alumnus) Fin Fang Foom. It’s FREE and our friends 21 and up can enjoy tasty local beer specials.

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Interview with Boxbomb’s Ryan Gustafson TODAY at 1 p.m.!

Boxbomb vocalist and guitarist Ryan Gustafson will be in the WKNC studio today for an interview at 1 p.m. Durham’s Gustafson has been working on a solo project and will be performing tomorrow, August 6 at Local 506.

Tune in to hear him fill us in on life as a solo artist and what’s next for him in his music career.

Check out his music here.

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Get Down With Summer Reggae Fest 2009

Summer Reggae Fest 2009 featuring Dub Addis, Mickey Mills & Steel, and Tony Dread & Give Thanks Band will be on the scene at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, NC this Friday, August 14.

Here at WKNC’s Strictly Reggae, we do our best to keep an eye out for great local acts, and when I found these tickets in the studio it was a definite eye catcher. This shows promises to be a hit as Dub Addis, one of the best roots reggae bands on the east coast, will perform. Dub Addis has roots in Ethiopia, the holy land of reggae music and Rastafarian culture, so it is fitting that their sound is authentic and rich with African rhythm and roots music. Having seen them live before, I can promise they will not disappoint. Mickey Mills, a legendary steel drummer, also brings weight to the line-up. With a long history in reggae music you now have a chance to see true musicians at work. Congratulations to Greg Chase who won a pair of tickets last week. Be sure to stay tuned for your chance to snag a pair.

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A Prodigal’s Return

Dear, dear Americana Blues & Company listeners.  This is Sweet Annie Rich here, back from a summer-long hiatus and announcing here that I have returned to the glorious Triangle area to fill your ears with sweet, sweet tunes once again.  I’m sure that DJ Caid has done well in my absence (he even wished me a happy twenty-first birthday, I heard, and I would like you all to know I had not imbibed nearly as much as he implied).  “Oh, Sweet Annie,” you might ask, “where have you been all this time?”

Dearest listeners, if I told you I’d have to kill you.

Rather than meet certain death and wondering at my past three months’ whereabouts, I suggest tuning in this Saturday, August 8th.  I’m back on the air, folks, and I’m gonna be here for a good long while once again.

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Lil’ Wayne Ticket Giveaway

All this week, be listening to Underground on 88.1 FM for your chance to see Lil’ Wayne in concert. Live Nation presents Lil’ Wayne with special guests Soulja Boy, Young Jeezy, Drake, and Jeremih on Saturday, Aug. 8 at the Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek. Former WKNC hip-hop music director DJ Nominal named Lil’ Wayne’s Carter III as one of his favorite hop-hop albums of 2008. Your first chance to win tickets is this Saturday, Aug. 1 during The 2.0 Show with D-Cutta.

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Local Beat preview 7/31/09

The Local Beat section of the WKNC blog has been keeping a low profile recently, in part because I’m a control freak and don’t want to tell someone else to do it instead, in part because I’ve been working on a research paper that’s due tomorrow, and in part because I’ve been moving out of a disgusting 6-person college student house all week.

But that doesn’t mean we’re not giving you more than your daily prescribed dose of local music tonight at 5pm.  In fact, we’re ODing on it.

At 5:00 Violet Vector & The Lovely Lovelies and Mike Dillon of Gross Ghost will be by to talk about their show next Friday at Slim’s.

Then at 6:00 Jeff Crawford and Nick Jaeger of The Tomahawks–and every other band you’ve ever loved–will be playing some songs and chatting about the MS Open Eye Series.  They’re playing tomorrow (Saturday 8/1) at the Open Eye Cafe in Carrboro at 8pm (suggested $5 donation to support Zach Terry’s MS Ride team).

And last but CERTAINLY not least is The Proclivities, who’ll be playing The Pour House Music Hall tonight alongside Modern Skirts and Heypenny.  They’ll be stopping by right around 7:00.

And of course, in between all the chatter will be your favorite local music–and there’s so much good new local music right now it’s ridiculous. So tune in at 88.1 FM or wknc.org/listen.  No, seriously: do it.

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