The Backyard Barbecue is WXYC's local music show. Tune in Sundays from 8 to 9 PM to hear live sets and interviews from North Carolina bands like these:
Oct. 3 | Transportation | Odessa Records band with new album Amusement Park out on September 28th.
Oct. 10 | Mandolin Orange | Carrboro folk duo busting out some new material!
Oct. 17 | Monsonia | Raleigh / Carrboro ROCK. New album 33.3 out in mid-October. BBQ vets!
Oct. 24 | Bustello | Metal Flake Mother, Sex Police, and Pressure Boys alums with a recently released debut album out.
Oct. 31 | Celebrate Halloweiner with the Evil Weiner Halloween Record! (Or go check out their live set at The Cave, if you're local)
WXYC 89.3 FM is the non-commercial student-run radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We broadcast at 1200 watts from the UNC campus, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. In 1994 we became the first radio station in the world to rebroadcast our signal over the Internet.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Curren$y Concert Recap (Video)...
The Hot $pitta stopped through Greensboro, NC earlier this month (September 3rd) for a near sold out show at Festival Park located downtown. Yours truly captured some footage plus had a jamming good time. $pitta definitly puts on a show!
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Where Is Hip Hop? Episode 60 w/ Randy Roper x Nanci O...
Back on Episode 56, we told ya'll Kanye isn't playing fair for the rest of 2010.
Since that time, Pusha T signed to G.O.O.D. music, The Pink Panther and The Hip Hop Pig Pen released a track dissing 'Ye, Kid Cudi and Wale got into a back and forth (but quiet as kept them ninjas been screaming on each other since last year), Amber Rose and Melody Thonton are reportedly beefing over him, and 'Ye shot a 40 minute movie in Prague. Prague? Where they do that at in hip hop?
Where Is Hip Hop? Episode 60: Kanye Is Doing THE ABSOLUTE MOST Right Now
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WHERE IS HIP HOP? will give you information on the current state of Hip Hop in the world today as seen by Randy Roper aka Randy Exclusive, Music Editor of Ozone Magazine and yours truly. We talk about who is hot and who is not, interviews, how we feel about certain albums and the direction of Hip Hop culture in the world today.
Think of us as the Roeper and Ebert of Hip Hop.
Get ready to be EDUCATED, INFORMED and ENTERTAINED.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Global Music Show Presents Persian Music: From Traditional to Modern
Guest Shahla Adel (UNC Asian Studies) presents "Persian Music: From Traditional to Modern."
Friday, September 17, 2010
WXYC Featured in Daily Tar Heel
Keith Fullerton Whitman at Hopscotch
At Raleigh's inaugural Hopscotch festival this past weekend, experimental wizard beardo Keith Fullerton Whitman calmly introduced his set by thanking the organizers and the other bands, inviting the audience to take a seat with him on stage, and nonchalantly stating, "I'm going to play some synthesizer music for you now." Did he ever. Underwater video game bleep stereo panning deep bone vibrating drone cloud...
You can hear the four minute grande finale here. ENJOY
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Tshe-Tsha Boys, Shangaan Electro, and clowns.
At some point this summer, when I was falling asleep at the control board in my post-lunch stupor, something pretty awesome snuck into our rotation bin. Since then, over the past 2-3 months, WXYC DJs have been sharing little nuggets off of it on a daily basis. Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa is yet another quirky compilation added to the thousands in the XYC library, and one of many beauties from our summer playlist. But, this CD sticks out for me. And part of it has to do with my fear of clowns. Firstly though, Shangaan Electro has warped my appetite for mbira. If Dumisani Maraire had recorded on a strict diet of eight-balls and nodoz he wouldn't even come close to the bpms Shangaan brings to the mbira. Fast mbira is pretty hot. Additionally, there are some pretty disturbingly soothing vocal antics to observe. Tiyiselani Vomaseve has a song called "Vanghoma", which I think translates to Awkward Bellows from Surly Gruff Old Dudes Induce Cardiac Arrhythmias in Innocent Schoolgirls. But more importantly, the cover of this compilation gives us a hint of what Shangaan Electro is all about...
Clearly, this music is about dancing obese clowns, old and young, doing some really obscene shit in public. If you have a clown phobia like I do, I'd recommend leaving now. The Tshe-Tsha Boys have two tracks on Shangaan Electro, but one track by them that is missing from the compilation explains everything you ever needed to know about Shangaan Electro in video. Now go buy it already.
Clearly, this music is about dancing obese clowns, old and young, doing some really obscene shit in public. If you have a clown phobia like I do, I'd recommend leaving now. The Tshe-Tsha Boys have two tracks on Shangaan Electro, but one track by them that is missing from the compilation explains everything you ever needed to know about Shangaan Electro in video. Now go buy it already.
Sunday, September 05, 2010
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