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“One Day, introducing Kooley High,” is a 38min documentary that chronicles a day in the life of Triangle-based rap group Kooley High and their desire to be heard. The documentary is filmed throughout Raleigh-Durham, N.C and was filmed, edited and directed by Napoleon Wright II, founder of Becauseus.org ,in association with M.E.C.C.A Records.
If you were one of the hundreds of people I saw at DBB6 taking pictures of the bands and the crowd, we would LOVE to show off your pics online. Please send any digital copies of pictures to wkncphoto@gmail.com. All pictures will be credited, and if you have a website please include that in the email as well!
Thanks to everyone who came out to the Pour House the last two nights to help make this years Double Barrel Benefit the best ever! It was truly a legendary show and we were happy so many of you could make it out!
Be on the lookout for more upcoming post-DBB blogs in the next couple of days as we wrap everything up.
A concert of renowned ghazal vocalist Munni Begum will be held on Friday February 13th 2009 at 8:00 PM at the FedEx Global Education Center at UNC Chapel Hill. For more information, contact Manzoor Cheema at (919)-412-7008. This concert is co-sponsored by Geet Bazaar and WKNC-Raleigh.
Tonight, as in three hours from now, is going to be awesome. It is night two of the Double Barrel Benefit, and keeping with tradition, the second night is rockin with one of my favorite Raleigh groups, Birds of Avalon. BoA, as locals refer to them, are a full force, guitar ripping orgastic, Tecate drinking five piece on Volcom Entertainment Records. I was lucky enough to catch up with these guys back in March of 2008 during South By South West at a warehouse party. The party took a good five minutes to find, but after cruising a strip of warehouses I spotted the beacon of BoA-on-the-road—their white high-top conversion van. It was amazing show, one of the best of my life. Inside was a half pipe with skaters, stacks of Marshall speakers, coolers of Keystone Light, Jennifer Herrera of RTX, Jay Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. and Witch, and lots and lots of hearing-loss rock’n roll.
Pre-sale tickets for tonight are sold out. However, there will be a LIMITED amount of tickets for sale at the door at 8pm. My advice is to show up at 7:45, pay to get in, and don’t leave once you enter the Pour House.
Well if you’ve never heard of Ms.Ellis, allow me to introduce her!!!
(Copied from http://www.myspace.com/thejynesis)
Charlotte Music Award Winner, Jocelyn Ellis, a North Carolina vocalist/songwriter/producer, has a new sound called Urban-Folk. Jocelyn has opened for Cassidy at Greensboro Coliseum, shared the stage with WyClef Jean, featured with Super-Producer 9th Wonder, was on The ArtLifestyle Tour sponsored by VitaminEnergy and several performances in Spain. For more information and booking visit Jocelyn Ellis at [http://www.jocelynellis.net].
With that being said, she will DEFINITELY be on Soulful Renaissance for Valentines Day!!! So be sure to tune in at 8pm to hear Jocelyn Ellis [L I V E]!!
Until then….check this out…..
~Peace & Soul~
[TONIGHT] I will be giving away TWO TICKETS to see Jocelyn Ellis in Chapel Hill for Art Lifestyle!!
CALL 919.860.0881 OR 919.515.2400
WHEN I ANNOUNCE THE CALLER I’M LOOKING FOR AND I WILL GIVE YOU TWO TICKETS TO SEE JOCELYN ELLIS [LIVE] FOR VALENTINES DAY!!!!
Venue: Cafe Beyond, 128 E. Franklin, Chapel Hill
$15 for online tickets at [artlifestyle.info]
Doors open at 8, Showtime is 10pm.
The show will be opened by.Dasan Ahanu and Peace.
Hosted by The ArtLifestyle, the event features Wine Tasting, Body Art and Culinary Art
LISTEN! LISTEN! LISTEN!
~Peace & Soul~
Last night WKNC took over Friday Night Request Rock & Chainsaw to bring you live coverage of night 1 of the Double Barrel Benefit #6 from the Pour House in downtown Raleigh. The show was a success, a massive sellout with a tremendous crowd and kickass music. As the show will more than likely sellout tonight as well, we will once again be broadcasting the entire show live (trumping Saturday Night Soul and R&B and D-Cutta’s 2.0 Show).
Broadcast starts after the Soulful Renaissance and will air until the completion of the concert. If you can’t get to the Pour House, feel free to rock on with us tonight over your radio or internet connection.
Doors open at 8pm and get there early as there is a limited number of tickets available at the door. The show starts at 9pm.
Tonight’s lineup includes: I Was Totally Destroying It, Violet Vector & the Lovely Lovelies, Birds of Avalon, & Polvo.
Ever since the release of Hymns for a Dark Horse on local label Burlytime Records, Bowerbirds have been destined for big things. In short order, the record garnered glowing reviews from indie trendsetters Pitchfork Media and Prefix magazine and rose to the top of WKNC’s indie rock charts. Within a year they were signed to big-time indie-folk imprint Dead Oceans (part of Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar) and went on to tour with the Mountain Goats. Simply put, the Bowerbirds rose through the ranks of the music world at a meteoric rate.
Bowerbirds’ music is characterized by uniquely minimalist arrangements and melodies paired to stream-of-consciousness lyrics, and their debut LP is a concept album of sorts; its 12 songs discuss the conflicts of civilization versus the nature and humanity.
Naturally, with such material, you might consider Bowerbirds to be a ‘cause band,’ and, indeed, they tackle the subject of environmentalism with fairly blunt words. Through clever songwriting, though, they avoid the adversarial tone that so many bands with a cause seem to convey; instead, they radiate an earthy idealism that wouldn’t seem too out of place in a Thoreau novel.
Nowhere is it more clear that Bowerbirds is an exceptional band than in concert. With even more sparce instrumentation than in thier album, they manage to create an even more full sound. They will be the final performers Friday night at the Double Barrel Benefit, taking the stage after Schooner.
This weekend is the 6th annual Double Barrel Benefit, our annual fund raising concert. We’ve got great lineups for both Friday and Saturday nights. So come down, have a beer, enjoy some great local music, and help support 88.1
Craig from Birds of Avalon, one of the great bands performing Saturday night, will be on Mystery Roach Saturday morning. We’ll be listening to music from his collection and talking about life, the universe, and everything. (No, not the book, but who knows, it might come up too.)
So listen to Mystery Roach Saturday morning from 8-10 am then head on down to the Pour House to catch the second night of The Double Barrel Benefit.
See you there.
-La Barba Rossa
When I was a kid, my dad would often take me for a ride in his Camaro, crank up the radio, and introduce me to some of his favorite bands, like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. I’d sit there in the front seat, enthralled by the experience, and so began the long love affair with music that would eventually bring me to this station.
Perhaps as a result of those days, I’ve always had a soft spot for catchy, radio-friendly tunes, despite my proclivities towards the experimental and the eccentric. After all, pop music is our culture’s universal communicator: you can sing just about anything over a good melody and most of your listeners will understand exactly what you’re trying to tell them. That’s some serious power.
And so we come to the titular topic of this article, I Was Totally Destroying It, a group who specializes in creating just that… remarkably catchy and ambitious pop music.
As a grizzled veteran of college radio music direction, I’ve often found that aficionados of indie rock can turn a blind eye towards unabashedly poppy music that isn’t either couched in brooding sentiment, sonic experimentalism, or profound lyricism. IWTDI’s music can indeed become brooding, experimental, and profound, but their guiding principle has always been about building strong melodies above all other elements.
The end result is refreshingly unpretentious and listenable, whether you’re into Captain Beefheart or The Shins. It comes with a strong pedigree too, featuring members of legendary Chapel Hill heavy rockers such as Sorry About Dresden and Strunken White.
So while you might not believe that pop music has a place in your collection, a quick listen to I Was Totally Destroying It’s songbook could change your opinion. Fortunately for you, they’re opening up on Saturday at this year’s edition of the Double Barrel Benefit, and if you’ve never seen them live, prepare yourself for an energy-filled experience you won’t soon forget.
Until then, you can download their latest EP, Done Waiting, for free from their ReverbNation website, one of the best bargains you’re liable to find in 2009. As for us, we’ll see you on Saturday.
