Tonight on the Thursday Night Feature on WXYC: the bulletproof sound of Brooklyn-based Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra. Lay down your arms and listen. Nine pm to midnight on 89.3 FM, Chapel Hill.
WXYC's top records of the week: 1. Pelt - Effigy (MIE Music) 2. Cut Hands - Black Mamba (VERY FRIENDLY) 3. Cults Percussion Ensemble - S/T (TRUNK) 4. Lonnie Holley - Just Before Music (Dust-to-Digital) 5. Policy - Everything Hits (RUSH HOUR) 6. V/A - Eccentric Soul: Omnibus Vol. 1 (NUMERO GROUP) 7. Ghost Trees - 10" (FUTURE RECORDINGS) 8. Hiss Golden Messenger - Lord I Love The Rain (JELLYFANT)
In case you missed last night's Thursday Night Feature, here are WXYC's top records of 2012, as voted by the DJs: 20. Aaron Dilloway - Modern Jester 19. Ital - Dream On 18. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music 17. Mirroring - Foreign Body 16a. Joshua Abrams - Represencing 16b. Russian Tsarlag - Midnight at Mary's House 15. Lonnie Holley - Just Before Music 14. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes 13. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems 12. Death Grips - The Money Store 11. Ty Segall - Twins 10. Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes 9. Jason Lescalleet - Songs About Nothing 8. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city 7. Swans - The Seer 6. Angel Olsen - Half Way Home 5. Goat - World Music 4. Daniel Bachman - Seven Pines
The results are in! WXYC's Best of 2012 airs tonight. Join music director Jonathan Woolen and cohort as they count down to midnight and the revelation of 2012's best, as voted upon by our very own deejays and calculated on assorted fancy machinery hidden inside our invisible zeppelin and released only upon the airship's landing.
WXYC's top records of the week: 1. Lonnie Holley - Just Before Music (Dust-to-Digital) 2. Living By Lanterns - New Myth/Old Science (Cuneiform Records) 3. Ahleuchatistas - Heads Full of Poison (CUNEIFORM) 4. CS Yeh - Transitions (De Stijl) 5. Cut Hands - Black Mamba (VERY FRIENDLY)
Tonight on The Backyard Barbecue on WXYC -- it's my last show as the local music show coordinator at WXYC! It's also an *~*extra special extended edition*~* from 8 to 10 PM. I'll be playing my Top 10 Local Releases of 2012 and then my favorite local records from the WXYC library.
Denver C. hosts tonight's feature on open-structured free jazz and Don Cherry, an artist whose sound is emblematic of the transition from free jazz into world and other music, and blues into jazz into rock into rap/hip-hop. Cherry's is jazz in the non-classical sense, marking the influence of the electronic age, instruments from Africa and Brazil, and modal structures from India. Nine to midnight on the Thursday Night Feature on WXYC, 89.3 FM!
