"Sound is all our dreams of music. Noise is music’s dream of us."
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, February 23, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
WXYC circa 1984
28 years on, we still have Bill Burton, we still get awkward phone calls, and we still have Kate Bush featured artist programs.
WXYC: progressive radio that doesn't change.
Start 2 minutes in.
Thanks, STV
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
The DJs' Tops of 2011
First of all, big ups to Pat for organizing these year after year. At the end of the year, the DJs are asked what releases defined their year (new, reissues, comps, EPs, whatever). This year we gathered 64 reponses. These individual, numbered lists are given point values (Each DJ's #1 album gets 20 points, #2 album gets 19, #20 gets 1 point). Pat compiles them and, in a yearly Thursday Night Feature, announces the top 20 on air and plays selections from them. Although this TNF has passed, you can still see the top 20 AND the extended list *AND* take a gander at the review for the #1 right here.
If you can forgive my shoddy camera, you can click the thumbnail (hehe) for a giant pic with slightly more legible writing.
Rank
|
Artist – Title - Label
|
Points
|
Number of Votes
|
Average Pts/Vote
|
1
|
Colin Stetson –
New History of Warfare Vol. 2: Judges (CONSTELLATION)
|
263
|
17
|
15.47
|
2
|
Grouper -
A I A: Alien Observer/Dream Loss (Self-Released/Yellow Electric)
|
228
|
16
|
14.25
|
3
|
Peaking Lights -
936 (Not Not Fun)
|
222
|
17
|
13.06
|
4
|
The Caretaker – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
(HISTORY ALWAYS FAVOURS THE WINNERS)
|
167
|
11
|
15.18
|
5
|
tUnE-yArDs -
W H O K I L L (4AD)
|
150
|
9
|
16.67
|
6
|
Kurt Vile-Smoke Rings for my Halo (Matador)
|
143
|
10
|
14.3
|
7
|
Ami Dang -
Hukam (Ehse)
|
138
|
9
|
15.33
|
8
|
Mantana Roberts –
Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens De Couleur Libres (CONSTELLATION)
|
129
|
9
|
14.33
|
9
|
Oneotrhix Point Never -
Replica (Mexican Summer/Software Records)
|
128
|
11
|
11.64
|
10
|
James Blake -
James Blake (Atlas / Universal)
|
126
|
9
|
14
|
11
|
Big K.R.I.T-
Return of 4eva (self-released)
|
98
|
7
|
14
|
12
|
Fucked Up—David Comes to Life (Matador)
|
96
|
8
|
12
|
13
|
John Maus –
We Must Become The Pitiless Censor’s of Ourselves (UPSET! THE RHYTHM)
|
93
|
7
|
13.29
|
14
|
Zomes –
Earth Grid (THRILL JOCKEY)
|
89
|
9
|
9.89
|
15
|
Destroyer –
Kaputt (MERGE)
|
88
|
8
|
11
|
15
|
Radiohead—King of Limbs (self-released)
|
88
|
7
|
12.57
|
17
|
Beach Boys—Smile Sessions (CAPITOL)
|
86
|
5
|
17.2
|
18
|
Hiss Golden Messenger –
Bad Debt (Black Maps)
|
84
|
6
|
14
|
19
|
Gang Gang Dance—Eye Contact (4AD)
|
82
|
8
|
10.25
|
20
|
Jay Z/Kanye West-
Watch The Throne (Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella)
|
80
|
5
|
16
|
21
|
Ty Segall – Goodbye Bread (Drag City)
|
77
|
6
|
12.83
|
22
|
Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972 (Kranky)
|
73
|
6
|
12.17
|
23
|
Bon Iver - Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)
|
70
|
6
|
11.67
|
24
|
ASAP Rocky – LiveLoveASAP
(self-released)
|
68
|
4
|
17
|
24
|
Alvarius B. - Baroque Primitiva (Poon Village/Abduction)
|
68
|
5
|
13.6
|
26
|
Shabazz Palaces – Black Up (Sub Pop)
|
64
|
5
|
12.8
|
27
|
Hiss Golden Messenger – Poor Moon (Paradise of Bachelors)
|
63
|
5
|
12.6
|
28
|
St. Vincent-Strange Mercy (4AD)
|
62
|
5
|
12.4
|
28
|
William Tyler – Behold the Spirit (Tompkins Square)
|
62
|
4
|
15.5
|
30
|
Real Estate - Days
|
61
|
4
|
15.25
|
31
|
Village of Spaces – Alchemy and Trust (Turned Word)
|
60
|
5
|
12
|
32
|
Wild Flag-s/t (Merge)
|
59
|
4
|
14.75
|
33
|
Beyonce - 4
|
58
|
4
|
14.5
|
33
|
People Like Us – Welcome Abroad
(ILLEGAL ART)
|
58
|
6
|
9.67
|
35
|
Colin Stetson - Those Who Didn't Run
|
57
|
4
|
14.25
|
36
|
Des Ark - Don't Rock The Boat, Sink the Fucker (Lovitt)
|
55
|
4
|
13.75
|
36
|
The Roots - Undun
|
55
|
4
|
13.75
|
38
|
Dan Melchior - Assemblage Blues (Siltbreeze)
|
52
|
5
|
10.4
|
39
|
Danny Brown - XXX (Fools Gold)
|
51
|
5
|
10.2
|
39
|
Whatever Brains - s/t
|
51
|
5
|
10.2
|
41
|
Drake—Take Care
|
50
|
3
|
16.67
|
41
|
Gil Scott - Heron & Jamie XX - We're New Here (Young Turks/XL)
|
50
|
4
|
12.5
|
43
|
Graham Lambkin - Amateur Doubles (KYE)
|
48
|
3
|
16
|
44
|
Panda Bear – Tomboy
|
47
|
4
|
11.75
|
45
|
UV Race – Homo (In the Red)
|
46
|
4
|
11.5
|
45
|
Metal Mountains - Golden Trees (Amish)
|
46
|
4
|
11.5
|
45
|
War On Drugs - Slave Ambient
|
46
|
4
|
11.5
|
48
|
Das Racist—Relax
|
44
|
3
|
14.67
|
48
|
decemberists- the king is dead
|
44
|
3
|
14.67
|
48
|
A Winged Victory for the Sullen - S/t
|
44
|
3
|
14.67
|
48
|
Tinariwen - Tassili (ANTI)
|
44
|
3
|
14.67
|
52
|
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (Island)
|
43
|
4
|
10.75
|
52
|
africa hitech – 93 million miles (warp)
|
43
|
5
|
8.6
|
54
|
John Tejada - Parabolas (Kompakt)
|
42
|
4
|
10.5
|
54
|
Bee Mask - Canzoni Dal Laboratorio Del Silenzio Cosmico
(SPECTRUM SPOOLS)
|
42
|
4
|
10.5
|
54
|
Chris Watson - El Tren Fantasma (Touch)
|
42
|
3
|
14
|
54
|
Tim Hecker - The Piano Drop
(Kranky)
|
42
|
4
|
10.5
|
58
|
Jeff the Brotherhood - We are the Champions (Infinity Cat)
|
40
|
2
|
20
|
58
|
LV & josh idehen – routes (keysound)
|
40
|
2
|
20
|
60
|
Brain F/ - Sleep Rough (Sorry State/Grave Mistake)
|
39
|
3
|
13
|
61
|
Girls - Father, Son & Holy Ghost
|
38
|
3
|
12.67
|
61
|
Zomby—Dedication (4AD)
|
38
|
3
|
12.67
|
61
|
Big Blood and the Wicked Hex - Big Blood
|
38
|
3
|
12.67
|
64
|
Battles – Gloss Drop (Warp Records)
|
37
|
2
|
18.5
|
64
|
Glenn Jones – The Wanting (Thrill Jockey)
|
37
|
4
|
9.25
|
64
|
Curren$y- Covert Coup/ Weekend at Burnies
|
37
|
3
|
12.33
|
64
|
Six Organs of Admittance - Asleep on the Floodplain (Drag City)
|
37
|
4
|
9.25
|
64
|
Mi Ami - Dolphins (Thrill Jockey)
|
37
|
2
|
18.5
|
69
|
Lupe Fiasco- Lasers
|
36
|
2
|
18
|
70
|
The Magic I.D. - I'm So Awake/Sleepless I Feel
|
35
|
2
|
17.5
|
70
|
Akira Sakata with Jim O’Rourke & Chikamorachi – And That’s the Story of Jazz… (Family Vineyard)
|
35
|
3
|
11.67
|
70
|
Feeling of Love - Dissolve Me (Kill Shaman)
|
35
|
2
|
17.5
|
70
|
Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will.
|
35
|
2
|
17.5
|
70
|
Death Grips – Exmilitary (Third Worlds)
|
35
|
3
|
11.67
|
75
|
Giraffes? Giraffes! – Pink Magick (Giraffes? Giraffes!)
|
34
|
2
|
17
|
75
|
Unicorn Hard-On / Container - Split (Hot Releases/More)
|
34
|
4
|
8.5
|
75
|
Machinedrum-Room(s)
|
34
|
2
|
17
|
75
|
Blues Control & Laraaji - FRKWYS Vol. 8 (RVNG INTL)
|
34
|
4
|
8.5
|
75
|
Octa Octa - Let Me See You (100% Silk)
|
34
|
4
|
8.5
|
80
|
The Bats-Free All Monsters
|
33
|
2
|
16.5
|
80
|
Frank Fairfield – Out on the Open West (Tompkins Square)
|
33
|
2
|
16.5
|
80
|
Atlas Sound—Parallax
|
33
|
3
|
11
|
83
|
Sully - Carrier
|
32
|
2
|
16
|
83
|
Natural Child - 1971 (Infinity Cat)
|
32
|
2
|
16
|
83
|
Toro y Moi - Underneath the Pine
|
32
|
2
|
16
|
83
|
Phil Cook and his Feat - Hungry Mother Blues (Trekky)
|
32
|
2
|
16
|
83
|
Thee Oh Sees – Carrion Crawler/The Dream (In the Red)
|
32
|
3
|
10.67
|
83
|
Tom Waits - Bad as Me (ANTI)
|
32
|
4
|
8
|
83
|
Maikotron Unit- Ex- Voto (Rant)
|
32
|
2
|
16
|
90
|
Demdike Stare - Tryptych
|
31
|
2
|
15.5
|
90
|
Liquor Store - Yeah Buddy (Almost Ready)
|
31
|
3
|
10.33
|
90
|
kuedo – severant (planet mu)
|
31
|
2
|
15.5
|
90
|
Egyptrixx - Bible Eyes (Night Slugs)
|
31
|
2
|
15.5
|
90
|
Human Eye - They Came from the Sky (Sacred Bones)
|
31
|
3
|
10.33
|
95
|
Com Truise – Galactic Melt (Ghostly Int’l)
|
30
|
2
|
15
|
95
|
raphael saadiq – stone rollin (columbia)
|
30
|
3
|
10
|
95
|
Megafaun- Megafaun (Home Tapes)
|
30
|
4
|
7.5
|
98
|
Sean McCann - The Capital (Aguirre)
|
29
|
4
|
7.25
|
98
|
Ponytail - Do Whatever You Want All The Time (We Are Free)
|
29
|
2
|
14.5
|
98
|
Beastie Boys- Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
|
29
|
2
|
14.5
|
98
|
PG Six - Starry Mind (Drag City)
|
29
|
2
|
14.5
|
102
|
Samiyam-Sam Baker's Album
|
28
|
2
|
14
|
102
|
Meager Sunlight / Skeleton Warrior - Seasons Of Nudity 12" (Hot Releases / More etc)
|
28
|
2
|
14
|
102
|
Future Islands – On the Water
|
28
|
2
|
14
|
102
|
Neon Indian- Era Extrana
|
28
|
2
|
14
|
102
|
Mount Moriah - Mount Moriah (HOLIDAYS FOR QUINCE)
|
28
|
3
|
9.33
|
102
|
Washed Out - Within and Without
|
28
|
2
|
14
|
102
|
Dirty Beaches - Badlands
|
28
|
2
|
14
|
102
|
Religious Knives - Smokescreen (Sacred Bones)
|
28
|
3
|
9.33
|
110
|
Liturgy—Aesthethica
|
27
|
2
|
13.5
|
110
|
Double Negative-Hardcore Confusion vols. 1 & 2
|
27
|
2
|
13.5
|
110
|
Matthew Shipp Trio – The Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear)
|
27
|
2
|
13.5
|
110
|
Yuck-Yuck
|
27
|
2
|
13.5
|
110
|
V/A - Worth The Weight - Bristol Dubstep Classics
|
27
|
2
|
13.5
|
110
|
Gillian Welch - The Harrow and the Harvest (Acony)
|
27
|
3
|
9
|
110
|
Call Back the Giants - The Rising
|
27
|
2
|
13.5
|
110
|
DJ Rashad – Just A Taste
(GHETTOPHILES)
|
27
|
3
|
9
|
118
|
Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness
|
26
|
2
|
13
|
118
|
My Morning Jacket- Circuital
|
26
|
2
|
13
|
118
|
Group Doueh - Zayna Jumma (Sublime Frequencies)
|
26
|
2
|
13
|
118
|
Sich Mang tape (Priority Male)
|
26
|
2
|
13
|
118
|
The Weekend- House of Balloons/Thursday
|
26
|
2
|
13
|
118
|
Taku Unami / Takahiro Kawaguchi - Teatro Assente (erstwhile)
|
26
|
2
|
13
|
124
|
Seefeel - Seefeel (Warp)
|
25
|
3
|
8.33
|
124
|
Storm Queen - It Goes On 12" (Environ)
|
25
|
2
|
12.5
|
126
|
The Field - Looping State of Mind
|
24
|
2
|
12
|
126
|
Cave - Neverendless
|
24
|
2
|
12
|
126
|
Clams Casino-Instrumentals
|
24
|
3
|
8
|
126
|
V/A - Thai? Dai!
|
24
|
2
|
12
|
126
|
Wiz Khalifa - Rolling Papers
|
24
|
2
|
12
|
131
|
Skull Defekts- Peer Amid (Thrill Jockey)
|
23
|
2
|
11.5
|
131
|
The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck (Merge)
|
23
|
2
|
11.5
|
133
|
Kingdom - Dreama (Night Slugs)
|
22
|
2
|
11
|
133
|
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
|
22
|
2
|
11
|
133
|
The Weeknd - Echoes of Silence (XO)
|
22
|
2
|
11
|
133
|
White Hills -- H-p1 (THRILL JOCKEY)
|
22
|
2
|
11
|
137
|
Burial - Street Halo (Hyperdub)
|
21
|
2
|
10.5
|
137
|
Wale- Ambition
|
21
|
2
|
10.5
|
137
|
giles corey - giles corey
|
21
|
2
|
10.5
|
137
|
Ital - Only For Tonight (100% Silk)
|
21
|
2
|
10.5
|
137
|
Deerhoof- Deerhoof vs. Evil
|
21
|
2
|
10.5
|
137
|
Sparkling Wide Pressure - Fragments of a Sound I Can Not Erase (Kimberly Dawn)
|
21
|
3
|
7
|
137
|
Wye Oak – Civilian (Merge)
|
21
|
2
|
10.5
|
137
|
Psychic Paramount--II
|
21
|
2
|
10.5
|
145
|
V/a
- AfroCubism Afrocubismo
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi (Domino)
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints (Souterrain Transmissions)
|
20
|
2
|
10
|
145
|
smoke fairies- through low light and trees
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Marianne Pousseur – Only
(SUB ROSA)
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Sandwell District – s/t
(SANDWELL DISTRICT)
|
20
|
2
|
10
|
145
|
Rustie-Glass Swords
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Levon Vincent - Impressions Of A Rainstorm EP (Novel Sound)
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Brain F≠ - So Dim 7-inch (GRAVE MISTAKE)
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
DB tha General - I Invented Gas (THIZZLER.COM)
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Meg Baird- Seasons on Earth (Drag City)
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Lucas Santtana – Sem Nostalgia
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
HONEY HEADS - CANDY CROSSES (self-released)
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Psychic Reality - Vibrant New Age (NOT NOT FUN)
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
|
20
|
2
|
10
|
145
|
Sacred Harp - Apparitions of the Kenmore Plantation
|
20
|
2
|
10
|
145
|
Des Ark - WXDU V.3 (Paramnesia Records)
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Mikal Cronin - s/t - (Trouble in mind)
|
20
|
2
|
10
|
145
|
Heresy of the Free Spirit -- A Prayer For Light (INCUNABULUM)
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Rene Hell – The terminal Symphony
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Jam CIty – Waterworx EP
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Morning Teleportation - Expanding Anyway
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow (ANTI/Fish People/EMI)
|
20
|
3
|
6.67
|
145
|
Prince Rama - Trust now (Paw Tracks)
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Thee Oh Sees - castlemania
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
145
|
Julie Holter - “Tragedy”
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
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