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This Week In WXYC

Friday, March 7, 2014

You may be on Spring Break but WXYC never stops! Let’s check out #SB2K14 here at XYC…

Get your jollies from Friday's Inside Track at 9:00 pm sharp! Give Love To Your Children was Zambian group Musi-O-Tunya’s second album, pressed in 1975 in Nairobi. Musi-O-Tunya's music described the era’s troubles and also negotiated with them, extolling the virtues of family and community life, making a very joyful noise that drew musical inspiration from the likes of James Brown, Jimi Hendrix and Fela Kuti. Like Round-Up for your winter doldrums.

On tonight's New Science Experience -- WXYC's beat-oriented specialty show -- WXYC DJ Robert W is spinning a dark and moody set serving post-midterms and freezing rain vibes from 10pm to 11pm. Then be sure to not to miss an exclusive live set of CONTAINER playing his signature gnarled-up and rough-around-the-edges techno recorded at Nightlight early February, going on 'til midnight.

Tune in this Sunday at 1pm to listen to an hour-long retrospective of the music of the late, great songwriter David Ackles on Hell Or How Water. Though he recorded four critically-acclaimed LPs between 1968 and 1972 and worked with folks like Al Kooper, Julie Driscoll, Bernie Maupin and members of The Band, Ackles' blend of folk, country, rock and vaudeville garnered no commercial success and he retired from making music in 1973. On this week's show we will hear excerpts of all four records, focusing especially on Ackles' interest in marrying country sounds with operatic orchestration.

This Sunday's Broken Music will feature new and recent recordings from the Parisian electroacoustic composer Francois Bonnet, whom has been delving into the realm of musique concrete under his alias Kassel Jaeger since the mid 2000s. Bolstering Jaeger's compositional credentials is his long-time occupation as a sound engineer at the famous Groupe De Recherches Musicales (GRM) studio, arguably the most important modern composition studio in the world. Listen from 2 to 3pmfor excerpts from at least five of Jaeger's (mostly) limited-edition works.

Classes will be canceled; offices will be closed beginning at 9 pm Monday, March 10. CONDITION OUTSIDE TRACK. Tune in to hear the new LP from the Chicago Underground Duo: Locus. Composed of Rob Mazurek (cornet, synth, game boy, electronics, bamboo flute, voice) and Chad Taylor (drums, mbira, guitar, and balaphone) this duo stirs a dark & stormy pot of synthy grooves, Ghana big band, glitchy EDM atmospherics. & MORE.

Join Ryan, Bradley and Sam for Sports Rap this Sunday at 9p to hear about the Carolina-Duke basketball game. We will also discuss the Heels' match up against the Blue Devils, and of course the men's basketball team's regular season finale in Durham. Don't miss us preview the ACC Tournament: Will Carolina play Duke again? Also, what's with NBA teams wearing t-shirts? Is Al Jefferson the best player on Earth right now? Are the 76ers the worst thing to happen to sports since they ended SlamBall? Who hates children's laughter more, Boeheim or Krzyzewski?

Tune in Wednesday night at 9PM for the return of the Global Music Show. This month listen in for A Transcultural Genre: The History and Roots of Salsa Music Across Latin Communities. Find out how Salsa music is an example of how a genre of music can defy geographical, ethnic and cultural borders to encompass various Latin communities everywhere, from Cuba to the United States. Hosted by Juan Alamo, assistant professor, Department of Music and DJ Sarah H, this should be an interesting and education evening program for the midweek grind.

This Week In WXYC

Friday, February 28, 2014

Weird month, huh? When isn’t February weird though? Shortest month, never really learn how to spell it until like 7th or 8th grade, Valentine’s Day. Some very great parts about it too, no doubt, but always a weird one. We will usher in the March with the following cool pieces of radio programming:

Death death death. The Inside Track is back this Friday at 9 PM with a new one from Have A Nice Life, The Unnatural World. Long-awaited sophomore LP for a post-industrial-meets-indie-rock-candy CT-based duo HANL, featuring Dan and Tim of experimental/metal/extreme label Enemies List Home Recordings. It's like a three-dimensional rework of their 2008 debut, "Deathconsciousness," where we still have the overblown drum programming, sing-along-we-just-beat-Duke bro harmonies, and despair guitar feedback churning into Pixies-style riffs out of nowhere. But now everything is more vibrant, resulting in one of the most off-kilter, exciting rock albums of recent memory.

Tonight's New Science Experience features local talent Yugen (https://soundcloud.com/yugen) and Lady Fingers (https://soundcloud.com/lady-fingers). They'll be spinnin some good vibes from 10pm-12am, check it out!!

Hell Or High Water returns on Sunday at 1 PM. Join DJ Addison H for a lovely selection of music culled from UNC’s Southern Folklife Collection housed in Wilson Library. This hour long show is always a unique treat, so tune in!

Get broken this week on Broken Music. This week, we explore the early works of Somei Satoh, two of which have just been reissued on Edition Omega Point's Obscure Tape Music of Japan series in a volume called 'Echoes.' Somei Satoh is a contemporary Japanese composer, whose work is purposefully uneasily classified. As a self-trained composer, Satoh incorporates influences from Shintoism, traditional Japanese musical forms, and Western thoughts on music. Tune in for a provoking hour of sounds!

It’s the first Sunday of the month which means it’s time for a new installment of Fruit Smoothie, the once monthly interview show with a local artist/practitioner/person. This month, DJ Sinead gives us an inside look at an Eastern tradition from a Western perspective. Tune in to find out more about Qi Gong, an ancient Chinese system that integrates physical posture, breathing techniques, and focused intention for overall wellness.

At 9PM Sunday it's Sports Rap time--tune in for Reilly, Ryan, and pals chatting about the best and the worst of the sporting world. Topics will include: the Charlotte professional basketball team, the NBA playoff picture, UNC's men's basketball team's game versus NC State's men's basketball team, UNC's women's basketball team's game versus Duke's women's basketball team, Jason Collins, Mary Willingham, and more! Listen and participate! @dunksbutts

Tune in Monday for the Outside Track, home of the world famous XYC Burger. Listen in this week for a new release from Carla Bozulich entitled Boy put out by Constellation records. For those familiar with “art-punk heroine” Carla Bozulich’s expansive and commanding body of unsettlingly gorgeous avant-punk under her Evangelista moniker Boy, the third album released under the artist’s own name, offers another example of Bozulich’s command of deconstruction and narrative expression. Bozulich wrote, produced, and mixed the album mostly on her own while working closely with John Eichenseer and recruited drummer Andrea Belfi. Called a “pop” album by Bozulich herself, the atmosphere of industrial, drone-based sounds present in her other work acts as the raw material from which Bozulich has forged 10 sinister dirges that eschew the pleasantries associated with this buzzword genre.

This week Should Does Does Radio is returning to our favorite serial story, discussing what writers' favorite songs say about them, and opening up the phone lines for the second installment of our call-in advice show "You Might As Well Live." Light the fire and tune-in this Wednesday at 9pm!