The Out! Raleigh family friendly street festival will take place Saturday, May 4 on Fayetteville Street's City Plaza in downtown Raleigh. WKNC DJs Jacob and Benny Mac preview the third annual event with two members of the Out! Raleigh festival leadership team: Kellie Burris, Executive Committee & Vendor Relations, and James Miller, LGBT Center of Raleigh Executive Director. From the Facebook event page : Out! Raleigh celebrates North Carolina’s LGBT community, families, friends and supporters in a family-friendly atmosphere. The day-long festival will feature a main stage performance area for regional and local musical groups as [...]
If you're not being slaughtered by exams, I recommend you check out some of these shows this week. I AM in the slaughter, and I will still be there. Cinco de Mayo has never looked so good y'all. Thursday 05/02: WKNC presents LBLB with DOCO at Tir Na Nog Friday 05/03: Mandolin Orange / Ryan Gustafson at Kings Barcade Saturday 05/04: Youth Lagoon at Cat's Cradle Saturday 05/04: [...]
The first ever Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit has just announced their lineup for 2013. The festival takes place in Asheville, NC on October 25th through the 27th. Mountain Oasis is programmed and produced by AC Entertainment , the company that helped put together MoogFest. Towards the end of last year, Moog Music and AC Entertainment split up when Moog declined to renew its licensing agreement with AC. Mountain Oasis now takes the place of MoogFest as AC Entertainment's presence in North Carolina. The Mountain Oasis festival will take place the same weekend and location as previous [...]
Tuesday night at The Maywood was a totally killer show. Featured on the bill were Abuse. (Raleigh's own power violence trio), Child Support (Raleigh hardcore - first show), Pennsylvanian straight edge-cool-dudes Hounds of Hate, and U.K.'s straight edge punks Violent Reaction. Child Support were not bad at all for it being their first show. They definitely ruled and brought a decent mosh! Probably the coolest first show I've ever seen. The vocalist is a high school kid who goes nuts running around, pushing everyone violently away as he rushes through the crowd. Definitely looking forward to [...]
WKNC's DJ Jacob had the opportunity to sit down in studio with Nathan Price, co-founder of DiggUp Tapes , on Friday, April 19. The two discussed forming the band The Mark Tobeys, DiggUp's cassingles series, DiggUp on tour, Record Store Day on April 20, and what's next for the record label/show promotion company.
I'm DJ C'est La Bri , and here are my show picks for this week in the triangle. These are opinions and only reflect the preference of one DJ: Bri. Hope to see you all at the shows, support your local musicians, and thank goodness for the resurgence of warm weather! Only a short while until Hopscotch ! Thursday 4/25: WKNC presents LBLB with Virgins Family Band and Diali Cissohko at Tir Na Nog Friday 4/26: Airstrip / Birds & [...]
Hopscotch Music Festival has announced their full lineup for this year's music festival. The festival will house close to 175 different bands across 15 different venues in downtown Raleigh. This year's festival features the best from the Triangle music scene as well as a healthy mix of other national and international acts. As always, City Plaza (the mainstage) features some great talent. Local 90s-esque indie rockers Gross Ghost kick off Friday night at City Plaza followed by WKNC's favorite new wave synth-gods Future Islands. Big Boi will finish off the night at City Plaza. Local indie-pop newcomers The Lollipops [...]
Hopscotch Music Festival is the largest music festival in North Carolina. This year Hopscotch will host nearly 175 bands at 15 different venues across Raleigh. The festival will take place September 5-7th, 2013. In addition to the 175 bands on the bill for the festival, there will be dozens of day parties every day featuring many more bands. Hopscotch, now in its fourth year of existence, promises to continue its rise in popularity and is beginning to solidify itself as one of the great music festivals of the East Coast. Hopscotch's first announcement came a couple months [...]
Record Store Day is now in its sixth year of existence. Throughout its six years, it has garnered more and more interest as vinyl sales numbers continue to ramp up in a world that seems to be going more and more digital. In addition to being a day to celebrate record stores with special sales, m0re and more bands and artists have been creating limited edition releases specifically for sale at record stores on this hallowed day. In its first year, there was only about ten special releases. Last year featured over 400 different limited edition Record Store Day [...]
Every week, WKNC compiles a list of charts and adds. Here are the Daytime Indie Rock charts for this week. You can tune into our Daytime programming weekdays from 5am to 7pm. Top 5 Adds: 1 CHARLI XCX- True Romance- Iamsound 2 BORED NOTHING- Bored Nothing- Cooperative-Spunk 3 JONNY FRITZ- Dad Country- ATO 4 THE KNIFE- Shaking The Habitual- Mute 5 FLAMING LIPS- The Terror- Warner Brothers [...]
Record Store Day 2013 (April 20th) is quickly approaching. This year's Record Store Day Ambassador is the one and only Jack White. Jack White seems to be the perfect representative for the cause. Not only has he released countless albums with The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, and The Dead Weather as well as a solo album; he also runs his own record label and owns his own record store. Jack White is the "Jack of all trades" when it comes to the music industry. Not only has he produced and help released a lot of new music, he has also [...]
Apart from this week being my birthday (C'est La Bri turns 21 on Saturday y'all!), it's also another great week for spring shows in the Triangle. 4/17 (Wed): Bleached / Hunters / Gross Ghost at Pinhook 4/18 (Thurs): Bob Mould / Barren Girls at Cat's Cradle 4/18 (Thurs): WKNC presents Local Band Local Beer with North Elementary / Antique Firearms / Natural Science at Tir Na Nog 4/19 (Fri): T0W3RS / Estrangers / Cassis Orange [...]
Hillsborough Street is the cultural hub that separates NC State's Campus from the rest of Raleigh. It is a host to many different great restaurants and shops. This Saturday the vendors are coming together to present the Triangle with a music festival for Earth Day. Music starts at noon and will go until 2am at various venues up and down Hillsborough Street. The event features every kind of music "from alternative rock to Top 40 covers and New Orleans rhythm and blues." Several local artists featured on WKNC will be performing including Lizzy [...]
Every week, WKNC compiles a list of charts and adds. Here are the Daytime Indie Rock charts for this week. You can tune into our Daytime programming weekdays from 5am to 7pm. Top 5 Adds: 1 THEE OH SEES- Floating Coffin- Castle Face 2 JAMES BLAKE- Overgrown- Republic 3 IO ECHO- Ministry Of Love- Iamsound 4 BESNARD LAKES- Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO- Jagjaguwar 5 DEPTFORD GOTH- Life After Defo- Co-Operative [...]
In 6 hours, we will advance into the Final Four of Soundtap's Madness College Radio Showdown . We need your help to advance to the finals! Basically, Soundtap created a competition modeled after College Basketball's NCAA Tournament. They chose 64 college radio stations to go head to head. We have made it through to the Elite Eight and it looks like we will be moving into the Final Four. You advance to the next round by having more hours of people streaming your station through their website. Rutgers University and Carnegie Mellon University have been battling it out hard [...]
Come join us next Friday, April 12th, at 6pm for WKNC's final installment for the semester of Fridays on the Lawn. It's going to be a grand ol' time with two incredible indie rock acts: Lonnie Walker and Oulipo. Fridays on the Lawn is WKNC's free outside concert series. It will be located on Harris Field in front of the Witherspoon building. Lonnie Walker , who played for WKNC's 45th birthday party last year, is returning from some recent time off and we couldn't be happier. Lonnie Walker started out in Greenville, North Carolina and songwriter [...]
Every year, Independent Weekly holds a vote for the best of that year in the Triangle. Voting for the Best of 2013 has already begun. Vote for your Triangle favorites in the six different categories: Wine & Dine, Out & About, Goods, Services, Media and Comments section. Voting will end April 15th. Be sure to get in your votes for all sorts of awards such as best local brewery, best restaurants, best place to people watch, best venues, and most importantly best radio station. So get out there and vote to give your favorites in the Triangle the chance [...]
Maryland Deathfest , the self-proclaimed biggest American metal party of the year, is quickly creeping up! With tickets having been rapidly selling since the fest's lineup announcements last year, it is nearly impossible now to get tickets to any of the big events through the fest's official website. Tickets to the Thursday Sonar show ( Bolt Thrower ) and Friday's Soundstage show ( Infest ) are current in incredibly high demand. Thursday has an extremely impressive line-up, featuring the almighty Bolt Thrower, who hardly comes to the United States as it is! Funeral doom gods Evoken [...]
Tuesday, April 2nd- Brett Harris , Young Rapids , and Paperhaus at Motorco Music Hall , 8pm, FREE As always, the Triangle provides us with some great concerts this week. You can check out the full round-up over at the Rock Report . The standout show for this week features local singer/songwriter Brett Harris as well as two up and coming indie pop-rock bands out of DC. Brett Harris has become something of a local master of pop. He began his career by releasing [...]
Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival Just three weeks away is the much anticipated Spring 2013 Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance . The four-day festival begins April 18 in Chatham County and lasts through April 21. Over 60 bands will be performing on four stages throughout the festival. Some of these scheduled bands include Keller Williams & The Travelin' McCourys , Lizzy Ross Band , Onward, Soldiers , Donna the Buffalo , Solas , and many others! Advance 4-day tickets are available online and at various locations in [...]
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MP3: Daft Punk – “Horizons” (RAM Japanese Bonus Track)
Listen to Daft Punk’s “Horizon”, the Japanese bonus track for Random Access Memories
