New Hiring

Dear XYC Listener,

Wanna DJ? This might be your chance! The station is hiring for the fall semester. There will be an Open House @ 5:30pm on Tuesday, August 31st, when you'll get to check the studio and record collection. Later that evening at we'll have an Interest Meeting @ 6:30pm on Polk Place. Come out and bring your friends!

Note, you gotta be a student to apply.

Heart,
WXYC

Wanna be a dj?

We're hiring new djs for the summer!

All UNC Students are welcome to apply! Come out to the interest meeting Tuesday at 6 p.m. in Student Union room 3413 for more info about the radio station and new dj requirements! Afterwards you can sign up for an interview time. We will conduct interviews on Tuesday, 5/18 and Wednesday, 5/19. Visit the Facebook event page here.

*For more information or if you are unable to attend the meeting & still want to apply, please email: info@wxyc.org.

This Week on WXYC

Tonight on Monday's Inside Track, listen to and enjoy Zoo's Trilogi Peradaban (translation: Civilization Trilogy). This band's debut album is punk rock seasoned with traditional Indonesian music. From label Dual Plover: "With 22 tracks ranging from dissonant math-rock expelled in quick Melt Banana like successions to acoustic shamanistic vocal utterings produced with the Skeletal framed lineup of drums, bass and Jembe, all lined with the deft vocalisations of Rully Shabara Herman telling a story of the deterioration of cultural roots in modern civilization." Don't miss it! Monday, 9 pm.

Nancia O. hosts this week's Thursday Night Feature. Enjoy three hours of themed music! 9pm.

On Friday, the Inside Track continues its love letter to Indonesia with the airing of Koes Bersaudara 1967. This Sublime Frequencies release is a reissue of the band's two extremely hard to find releases from '67, The Guilties and Djadikan Aku Domba Mu. Western-style garage rock combines with dreamy psychedelia to make up an album listening experience that serious rock collectors have coveted for decades. Listen to it all in its entirety this Friday at 9pm.

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Drags your ears on over to 89.3 fm Monday night to hear Fursaxa's release Mycorrhizae Realm in its entirety. Philadelphia's Tara Burke has released another great psych-folk album, her first recorded in a studio and not at home on four-track. It sounds like a dreeeaamm. It's the Inside Track, 9 pm.

It's music director capers galore on the New Music Show as Jonathan and Montgomery open the mail to discover new music wonders (and clunkers). Will Allison get that prom dress? Will Stefano come out of a coma? Tune in Wednesday night at 9pm to find out!

This week on the Thursday Night Feature, Frank J. will guide you on a three hour musical tour, focused on a central theme. (It's not Gilligan's Island themed or anything, y'all. Sorry for leading you on with that metaphor.) 9 pm.

Are you getting married but don't want the reception to be totally lame? Friday's Inside Track has your wedding music covered! Hear and love Omar Souleyman's Jazeera Nights: Folk and Pop Sounds of Syria in its entirety. This Sublime Frequencies release showcases Syrian dance jams to get hitched to. Seriously, don't miss this. 9 pm.

On Sunday, Rick I. hosts political commentary with Chris B. in vintage XYC Reports style! 5 pm.

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Hear Bob Boilen this Wednesday! Boilen, creator and host of NPR's All Songs Considered, will speak live with WXYC DJ Mark K. about the state of music today. Tune in at 9 pm! You may even get to call in and ask a question. Pick a good one! Or else! :)

Howie H. hosts this week's Thursday Night Feature, shining the spotlight on 70s Underground. Of course, you may ask, "70s underground what?" I don't know. It's been left vague to peak your curiosity! 9pm.

You can listen to Future Islands' new release In Evening Air this Friday on the Inside Track. Dancey, pulsing synths permeate the band's post-punk cum new wave sound. Finally, a new soundtrack for dancing in your underwear at 9 pm.

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Hear Burning Star Core's new double LP album Papercuts Theater in its entirety Monday on the Inside Track. Noiser C. Spencer Yeh collaged recordings from 7 years of lives shows into the album. Lots of layering. 9pm.

This Wednesday on the Student Body President Show, tune in to listen to the UNC Student Body President Jasmin Jones and members of her executive board and cabinet discuss student government issues and events around UNC. 6pm.

This week's Thursday Night Feature has been sucked into a time warp, landing smack dab in the kitschy, synthy 80s. Hear a preview of this semester's 80s Dance with 3 hours of retro revelry. 9 pm.

Listen to Growing's new Vice Records release PUMPS on Friday's Inside Track. The band's textures are at last molding into a polyrhythmic, semi-danceable sound! 9pm.

Then, attend WXYC's 80s Dance this Saturday. Starting at 9pm, WXYC DJs play totally awesome hits worthy of your frizzy hair, scrunchies and ambiguously sexual "FRANKIE SAYS RELAX" t-shirt. Wear your flyest gear, and you may just win a prize! Invite your friends! At Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill. 9pm-2am. Check out the Facebook event.

Listen to a live interview with local talk radio DJ and science communicator Ernie Hood on this week's Talkademia. Hood is the host and producer of WCOM's weekly Radio In Vivo program, which features scientists from NC's Triangle. Jacki H. will interview Hood about his experience and the importance of science communication today. Sunday at 5pm.

Keep it locked, bro!

This Week on WXYC

Nancy O. hosts three hours of themed music on this week's Thursday Night Feature. 9pm.

On Friday, hear Nice Face's album Immer Etwas, coming to you from Sacred Bones Records. It's fuzzy and drum-machine driven music. DJ Jonathan W. says, "Some high-energy leather punk to dance to on a Friday night." So start your evening early at 6 pm with the Inside Track, and please do dance.

Talkademia comes to you this week with some trepidation about changing its name to Smart Ass Radio. Journalism professor and community journalism enthusiast Jock Lauterer will talk about journalism as a form of service. Lauterer will tell you that, after graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill a hundred years ago, the young reporter made bold and started his own newspaper in Rutherford County, NC. Now he's involved in projects to teach photography to inner-city children and bring positive press to the previously publication-less Northeast Central Durham neighborhood. Catch the interview with Jacki H. at 5pm on Sunday.

This Week(end) on WXYC

You know what kind of music the Easter Bunny likes? That's right! Dub step-infused house music! Or is it house-infused dub step?? Listen to Energy Distortion by F on the Inside Track to find out. This Friday at 9pm.

On Sunday's Talkademia, hear an interview that Reed T. and Paige S. did with UNC professor of History and Folklore and blues scholar Bill Ferris. Learn about blues as a product and cultural record of the American South. Hear charming historical anecdotes and a great sampling of blues music. 5 pm.

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Wednesday (TONIGHT!), hear the triumphant return of the Feedback Farm, with experimentation riffing on a not-so-triumphant subject... loneliness. Give the farm some listening love! 9 pm.

On the Thursday Night Feature, Steph R. guides you through an aural tour of Soul Ladies. These womens' voices will glide like baby oil through your ear canal and croon "Honey, come back!" down your Eustachian tube, only to pound heartbroken beats on your ear drums. Don't miss it. 9 pm.

Then Friday, on the Inside Track, hear the Soundway Records compilation Nigeria Afrobeat Special: The New Explosive Sound in 1970s Nigeria in its entirety. It's the fourth release in Soundway's Nigeria Special series. Dominated by saxophones and big brass with a political message, Afrobeat has a huge sound. Oh, but you've heard these songs before? LIES!!! NO, YOU HAVEN'T!! They have never been released outside of Nigeria until now!! 9 pm.

Later that night, come to the WXYC-sponsored Global Music Jam. Hear WXYC DJs spin some worldly tunes to raise money for Nourish International. Starts at 9 pm at The Nightlight in Chapel Hill.

Talkademia, featuring a recorded interview with Bill Ferris, is cancelled on Sunday.

But wait! Wait! It's not over: everyday at every hour, CONTINUOUSLY LISTEN TO AWESOME RADIO.

Global Music Jam

This Friday we're hosting a Global Music Jam at Nightlight! From 9pm-2am WXYC DJs will play dance music from around the world. There is a $5 cover and all proceeds go to Nourish International. We hope to see you there!

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Monday night, listen to Uncle Woody Sullender & Seamus Cater's album When We Get To Meeting on the Inside Track Woody Sullender, a former WXYC DJ, is a Brooklyn-based artist focusing on experimentin' with the banjo. The music incorporates traditional Virginian and North Carolinian styles with punk, noise, jazz and other modern genres. 9 pm.

Then, on Wednesday, tune in to listen to UNC Student Body President Jasmin Jones and members of her executive board and cabinet discuss student government issues and events around UNC. 6 pm

On Friday night's Inside Track, hear Black Noise by Pantha Du Prince. Minimal techno with touches of humanizing found sounds. 9 pm.

Download tracks from the LPDMS

It's been about a month since the first Locally Produced Digital Music Showcase (LPDMS) aired on WXYC. If you missed it now you can listen to the show show as it aired and download the selected tracks, individually.

Hosted by David van Dokkum, the braodcast featured the top 13 tracks as selected by the judges. Finalists were selected anonymously by a panel of WXYC DJs, who selected an hour's worth of music out of over 100 submissions.

Big ups to all of the finalists, and a huge thanks to all of those who submitted work.

Check out the finalists, listen to the show, and download the tracks

This Week on WXYC

This week on the Thursday Night Feature, Nanci O. brings you Women in Hip-Hop. It's the 5th anniversary of this TNF, which is this year a part of SOHIPOTOME 2010, celebrating emerging female hip-hop artists. 9 pm.

Check out the Inside Track on Friday and listen to Numero Group's compilation Good God! Born Again Funk! Hear gospel and blues really swing in this long-awaited release. 9 pm.

On Sunday's Backyard Barbecue, Grayson Currin and Greg Lowenhagen of the NC Triangle-based Independent Weekly talk about the Hopscotch Music Festival. The new event will bring hot local and regional acts to downtown Raleigh September 9-11. Exciting stuff! 8 pm.

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Monday night on the Inside Track, hear The Art of the Theremin by Clara Rockmore in its entirety. Rockmore was an early theremin virtuoso, with a classical background in violin. Produced by Robert Moog, The Art of the Theremin is a collection of pieces by composers Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Ravel and others arranged for the theremin. Spooky. Lovely. Worth listening to. 9 pm.

Catch the Thursday Night Feature at 9pm, for three hours of themed music curated by Nancia O.


On Friday, listen to Brazilian vinyl specialist Joel Stones' new anthology Brazilian Fuzz Guitar Bananas on the Inside Track. Stone's Throw says, "If Psych Funk 101 was the freshman seminar in global-psychedelic grooves, then this album should serve as a master class for those entranced by the funky, heavy psychedelic wonders of the Tropicalia movement and all that it spawned." 9pm.

Fin Fang Foom's performance on the Backyard Barbecue will be postponed and rescheduled.

This Week on WXYC

Check out the Inside Track, Monday at 9pm, to hear the late Jack Rose's Luck in the Valley. The finger-picked guitar album explores traditional American, Middle Eastern, and South Asian styles.

Wednesday's Global Music Show will give you a taste of music and cultural knowledge new to your Western ears. 9pm.

This Thursday, Joel W. explores a broad range of music in a special Black History Month edition of the Thursday Night Feature. He'll feature the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and one of the its best known groups, the Art Ensemble of Chicago. A rainbow of genres will be represented. 9 pm.

Then, Friday, on the Inside Track, listen through the Flower-Corsano Duo's self-released album The Chocolate Cities. Drums, melodica and Japan banjo get featured on this psychedelic album, compiled from the duo's live recordings. 9 pm.

Elusive Southern band Shit Horse rides all over the Backyard Barbecue. From Odessa Records: "So who is Shit Horse? Well, they prefer to remain a mystery, but we know them as Jessee, Ronny, Red and Danny Magic... Ron Liberti of Pipe said he loved the band and compared them to Malcolm Mooney-era Can." It all starts Sunday at 8 pm.

This Week on WXYC

Tune in this Wednesday night at 9 pm to hear... drum roll ... The winning entries in the Locally Produced Digital Music Showcase! David V. hosts the one-hour special, a fine conclusion to the contest curated by WXYC, in partnership with the CHAT festival for Digital Arts and Humanities. Good luck!

This week on the Thursday Night Feature, veteran DJ and soul archivist Jason P. brings three hours of Carolina Soul. Starts at 9 pm.

Then, Friday, on the Inside Track, hear Real Life Is No Cool, a collaborative effort from Christabelle Sandoo and producer Hans-Peter Lindstrom, in its entirety. The luscious, dancehall-ready pop-funk album starts spinning at 9 pm.

The Backyard Barbecue welcomes Colby Ramsay of UNC Vinyl Records' My Boy Rascal for an interview and a solo set. Sunday at 8 pm.

DJ Fest!

"The Art and Culture of the DJ" is a two-day festival held on UNC's campus February 18 and 19 that will explore the impact of the DJ on the music and culture of our time. The festival will kick off with a dance party on the evening of February 18 in Gerrard Hall with music by current and former WXYC DJs. On February 19 there will be a series of lectures by internationally-known scholars in Hyde Hall starting at 1 p.m. The final event is a concert featuring the world premiere of Circulo, a work for turntables and Latin ensemble by Raul Yanez and DJ Radar; the concert will begin at 8 p.m. in Gerrard Hall the evening of February 19. All events are FREE and open to the public. The festival is sponsored by the Department of Music and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.

For more information, go to www.chatfestival2010.com or contact Mark Katz at 962-1039 or mkatz@unc.edu.

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WXYC Valentine's Dance Party

We know you're dying for an excuse to ask out that dude or lady or whatever.

At the Valentine's Dance, fly WXYC DJs will kick out the jams for four straight love-making hours while you romance (or possibly repel) that special someone.

WXYC VALENTINE'S DANCE

The Nightlight

$3

10 pm to 2 am

DON'T BE LONELY. BRING A FRIEND.

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOOO

WXYCs Top 20 of 2009

Without further ado:


20. Jack Rose & The Black Twig Pickers - s/t (Klang Industries)
    
19. V/A - The Sound of Wonder! (B MUSIC/FINDERS KEEPERS)
    
18. Yoga - Megafauna (Holy Mountain).
    
17. Major Lazer - Guns Don't Kill People… Lazers Do (Downtown/Mad Decent)
    
16. Cave – Psychic Psummer (Important)
    
15. Blues Control - Local Flavor (Siltbreeze)
    
14. Sir Richard Bishop - The Freak Of Araby (Drag City)
    
13. The XX- XX (YOUNG TURKS)
    
12. Edward sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes- up from below (Community)
    
11. Peaking Lights - Imaginary Falcons (Night People/NNF)
    
10. Cupp Cave - Garbage Pail Beats (Thin Consolation)
    
9. Dam-Funk - toeachizown (STONE'S THROW)
   
8. Bill Orcutt - A New Way to Pay Old Debts (Palilalia)
   
7. Richard Youngs - Beyond the Valley of Ultrahits (Sonic Oyster)
   
6. Fuck Buttons- The Tarot Sport (ATP Recordings)
   
5. Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy (Matador)
   
4. Animal Collective - Merriwether Post Pavilion (DOMINO)
   
3. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - S/T (HONEST JON'S)
   
2. Emeralds - Emeralds (Wagon/Gneiss Things)
   
1. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II (Ice H20)
   

90s Dance!

WXYC 90s Dance is back!!!

Friday Jan 29 @ Nightlight
9pm-2am
$5 cover

Wear your flyest 90s gear! Facebook here

Now Hiring!

Dear XYC Listener,


Wanna DJ? This might be your chance! The station is hiring for the spring semester. There will be an Open House @ 6pm on Tuesday, January 19th, when you'll get to check our facilities and record collection. Later that evening at we'll have an Interest Meeting @ 7pm in the Union Cabaret. Come out and bring your friends!


Note, you gotta be a student to apply.

Heart,

WXYC