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DJ Highlights

This Week on Strictly Reggae

As usual, WKNC is getting listeners the hook up. This week it comes in the form of a pair of 311 tickets. Did I mention Ziggy Marley and The Expendables will be preforming as well? This Sunday is your chance to snag the tickets. And as if that wasn’t enough, I will have a special guest in the studio to help give them away. Curry Don is coming in for and interview to talk about his recently release, “Perseverance,” and his upcoming show with local roots band “Anchants” which is scheduled for July 12 at Berkley Cafe.

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Music News and Interviews

Finally, The Love Language in-studio interview from 5/8/09

Go ahead, pull out the wooden ruler and lay down a good whack across the top of my hands.  I’ve been a bad WKNC blogger.  If I was being graded on timeliness, there would be a big red “F” at the top of this blog, but, thankfully, you as a blog-reader & lover of WKNC would never employ such emotional damage like that of my former college professors, right?

And although this does not relate to the interview, I wanted to post this pic.  Jake Seaton over at Music.MyNC deilvers a wonderful tweet, twitter.com/jseaton, and this picture was in his feed recently.  Jake, I won’t ask why you weren’t blasting WKNC 88.1fm.  I will assume that  you must have been driving your car, nearing the US-Canadian border, out of our 25,000 watt listening area.

The Love Language in-studio interview, 5/8/09

:hearts and guitars:

Mz. Kelly, twitter.com/kellyisthere

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DJ Highlights

24 Hours on the Air with Kyle

WKNC has been good to me over the past 4 years.  I had the privilege of sharing some awesome tunes with everyone through the Dance Dance Revolution, and during my term as General Manager over the past academic year we did some awesome things here at WKNC, we even launched this very blog.

Unfortunately as a recent graduate of NC State University society has pressured me into “moving on with my life” which entails me leaving Raleigh and the warm embrace WKNC.  But before I bid you all farewell please join me and listen in as I take control of the studio for 24 straight hours from Tuesday, June 23rd at noon to Wednesday, June 24th at noon. I will be pumping up all of your favorite WKNC jams for a whole day across Daytime, Local Lunch, Underground, and Afterhours formats. No artists will be repeated.

Stay classy, triangle. (Especially you, Durham)

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Concert Preview Local Music

5/18 Local Beer Local Band Night – Citified and Gray Young

This week’s shoegaze edition of Local Beer Local Band Night features Citified and Gray Young. Show starts around 10 at Tir Na Nog and it’s free to get in! Fresh with a new EP “Absence”, the Greensboro collective Citified will be headlining.  Make sure you get to Tir Na Nog in time to see Raleigh based Gray Young perform or you’ll miss one of the Triangle’s best.  Come out and support the community!

Also, tune in at 5pm today (Thursday) as I will be interviewing Gray Young.

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Music News and Interviews

Sufjan Stevens’ Illinoise Visualized

Jax de Leon, a student at Purchase College’s School of Art and Design, has created a series of visualizations of Sufjan Stevens’ Illinoise album.

In an interview with Perfect Laughter, de Leon states:

How did you end up choosing Illinoise? Did you consider any other albums?

Illinois was the inevitable choice for me. I listened to it in the car on the way to my freshman year of college shortly after it was released in 2005, and it’s been my favorite album ever since. It’s such a complete album, not just a series of singles, and I’ve always thought of it as a beautiful piece of art that deserves to be listened to very carefully. I considered various other albums and artists (The Decemberists, Andrew Bird, even The Beatles, my first love) but I always knew I would end up choosing Illinois.

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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