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February might be the shortest month of the year, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have a fresh set of DJ Dragonfly’s Favorites.
With Mother Nature having a tough time deciding if we should have a wonderfully frigid and white Winter or a splendidly sunny and green Spring, I too find myself at a loss for the kind of music I prefer to listen to.
The first DJ Dragonfly’s Favorites for 2026 is here. It’s time to see if anything’s changed from last year to this year.
It might be a new year, but some old things keep carrying on. A prime example would be the next edition of “DJ Dragonfly’s Favorites.”
I know this post comes a little late but these were my picks for December, I promise.
For the sixth year in a row, WKNC would like to share the top albums and songs enjoyed by our DJs and staff in 2025! A spotify playlist containing all songs is available here.
Scrimble (Sarah), General Manager and DJ
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Top Songs
cashmere woods (Roxby), Underground Music Director and DJ
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Top Songs
Mayday (Lindsay), DJ
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Top Songs
DJ Sles (Alex), Lounge Director, Video Content Creator and DJ
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Top Songs
Wizard of Gore (Amber), Chainsaw Music Director and DJ
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Top Songs
Orbital Deathlaser (Joy), DJ
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Another day, another dollar, another “DJ Dragonfly’s Favorites.”
The end of the semester is upon us but that isn’t stopping me from keeping this series going. This month, my tastes seem all over the place. As the temperature cools and the days grow shorter, my music tastes usually grow more distorted. I move away from the upbeat indie beachy Summer-y feel to a more alternative rock, grungey, nu metal feel. Despite this, I have quite a few choices in this playlist that do not fit into that box. So without further ado, the playlist. Some of these songs have explicit content, so fair warning to everyone.
When it comes to anything in life, we tend to have our patterns. Whether it is our favorite foods, movies, activities or music, no matter how broad our tastes, there are patterns. That being said, we often have things we enjoy that are outside of our usual patterns. At times, there are things we enjoy for which we might be ashamed.
Some examples of this might be horror movie fans being into wholesome Disney films, science fiction fans liking chick flicks, quiet and calm people loving adrenaline inducing activities and so on.
Digital hardcore is a genre that blends the attitudes and heaviness of hardcore music with the speed and synthetic chaos of electronic music. Digital hardcore doesn’t just refer to one kind of electronic music with one kind of hardcore. Instead, it refers to the way that the many subgenres that influenced each wider genre converged upon each other. The genre takes influences from hardcore punk, the riot grrrl movement, techno, industrial, and even things like heavy metal and screamo. It is a wide genre with many more specific terms that can fall underneath the umbrella of the term “digital hardcore”.
For many people, digital hardcore seemed like a logical artistic conclusion of both the punk ethos and the gungy EDM club vibes that were growing at the time. So without further ado, allow me to walk you through a playlist I made for people unfamiliar with this genre who want to take a bite out of something new. Below is a link to the playlist followed by an explanation of each artist, who they are, and why I added them.
Listen along by clicking this link.
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It’s finally October and sadly it’s coming to an end. With that comes the next monthly “DJ Dragonfly’s Favorites.”
I know that I am not alone in saying that this month has been a rough one. With all the midterms, fall activities and the sun setting earlier and earlier, tensions have been high. I have personally been falling back on comfort and so many of my favorites this month have been repetitive of the last couple months. That being said, I tried to compile a list of songs that I think accurately measure my favorites this month, excluding repeats. Some of these songs have explicit content, so fair warning to everyone.
This month, I feel I have a dichotomy of nu metal or heavy distortion and indie or high reverb feel in my playlist. I like to think there is a gradient especially with all the Halloween playlists I have been working on lately. I believe a couple of the songs in the playlist are kind of Halloween-esque, such as “Oh Klahoma” by Jack Stauber.
I have a couple other songs that I had recently been reminded of and haven’t been able to stop listening to. One example would be “Deceptacon” by Le Tigre. The other night, I was taking my lovely dog Daphne out and I overheard a car passing by with this song blasting. I hadn’t heard the song in ages and decided I needed to listen to it right then and there. Thus, the song has become one of DJ Dragonfly’s October Favorites.
Another example might be “Suffragette City” by David Bowie. I was also reminded of this song as it was playing in a TV show I was watching. I couldn’t just let that song slide. I needed to start listening to it again. That honestly led to a spiral of Bowie songs which of course led me to now want to rewatch “Labyrinth” from 1986. I suppose I have my evening plans. I hope everyone enjoys this months’ selections.