UNC students might expect me to say something about finals week! Well! Check out what we have going on this week!
Turn your radios on Friday night at 9 PM for the Inside Track to hear Isabelle Gunn with a new release, Discographia 82-87. Isabelle Gunn is another project of prolific local leather-clad analog synth aficionado Philip Maier (Sagan Youth, VVAQRT, Lack, A.C.E., Pap Smear Teens...), This release is the final statement of his time with this particular moniker, which, over a two year stretch of recording and odd live presentations, evolved from cassette sourced loop processing/decomposition (via space echo, other analog delay) to poetry read atop stark minimal synth(pop) compositions, with more ambient or industrial-leaning hardware explorations in between.
Tonight the New Science Experience is hosting local DJs Mike D, Yugen, and Leafy Greens for two hours of excellent live DJing. They'll be previewing what's going down during their ACTUAL DANCING party at Nightlight tomorrow night. Expect glorious house tunes that'll get your blood pumping and booties shaking.
Tune is at 1 PM for Hell or High Water! This week DJ Lon will be exploring British and American bloody ballads. Traditional ballads tell a narrative and are short due to originally being written and sold only on one page. DJ Lon will be focusing on the lyrical and poetic aspects of these murderous ballads as well as the history of the emergence of bloody ballads. While many of them follow similar storyline patterns, some set themselves apart by ending with especially gruesome scenes. Take a study break and find out that there are worse ways to die than death by finals.
This Sunday, Broken Music marches on in its survey of text-sound composition from Sweden with an hour of works by Bengt Emil Johnson. Like many of his peers, Johnson initially was a poet, crafting semantic experiments, and turned to tape as a composition device. He soon became involved with the Fylkingen group, and along with Lars-Gunnar Bodin began producing works for Swedish radio. Johnson continued writing poetry and producing sound works well into his later years. Tune in at 2pm.
Howdy folks- buckle your seat-belts because this week WXYC Reports is breaking its own rules and taking you along for the ride. This month, we're air-ing our show on the second Sunday (instead of the fourth), and on top of that, we don't have a central theme. Consider it the potluck of radio hours. Topics range from a mysterious death, to dogs, to media representations. And you can hear it this Sunday from 5-6pm!
Local Music with a smile on the Backyard BBQ, this Sunday at 8 PM. Join your host Lincoln for some the deepest and most memorable cuts from the local music pantheon that is Chapel Hill. Beautiful!
This Sunday at 9 PM, tune in for the world’s only sports talk show hosted by an artist (citation needed), Sports Rap. This week, UNC beat Michigan State in basketball. Don’t know why that’s significant? Me neither! Tune in and find out!
Monday’s got the Outside Track at 9 PM. This week: Suzuki Junzo - SINGS II …Sings II is the sixth solo full-length release by Japanese psychedelic, noise, and blues guitarist and vocalist, Suzuki Junzo. Junzo is a member of several Japanese bands like 20 guilders and Miminokoto. He has been identified as part of the Acid Mothers Temple’s extended family, and their guitarist, Kawabata Makoto plays on tracks 3, 10, and 11. Junzo grew up listening to Bluesmen like Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, and John Lee Hooker. He loosely describes his sound as a type of blues and folk music that tries to bend and break conventions.