Monthly Old-Time Jam Re-Starts this Wednesday

The Monthly Old-Time Jam is starting up again this Wednesday, September 1st at Nightlight! Doors open at 5pm, jam will start around 6. This coincides with the beginning of Nightlight's extended hours--featuring delicious Open-Eye coffee (buy one get one free!) and wireless internets.

Come on out with your fiddles, banjos, guitars, mandolins, washboards, jaw harps and more, or just come to hang out and listen, drink a beer, sip a coffee, tap your foot, check your e-mail. All levels welcome. Support the Nightlight & tip your bartender!
Facebook invite here.

OLD TIME JAM
first Wednesday of every month
5-8pm
at Nightlight

Hopscotch Ticket Give-Aways

Greg Lowenhagen and Grayson Currin from the Independent Weekly already came on the Backyard Barbecue to give away two pairs of weekend passes to the Hopscotch Music Festival, but the BBQ will also be giving away tickets to the two headlining City Plaza shows right up until!

Tune in the next two Sundays (August 22nd and 29th) from 8 to 9 PM for the chance to call in and win a pair of tickets to see Public Enemy on Saturday, September 11th at the City Plaza in Raleigh. And on Sunday, September 5th, we're giving away 2 pairs of tickets to the Friday (September 10th) City Plaza show (The Rosebuds, Broken Social Scene, and Panda Bear) and 3 pairs of tickets to Saturday's Public Enemy show, featuring The Love Language and No Age.

In the meantime, keep yourself busy by checking out our fall schedule or listening to archived sets from local bands (like our newest recording by Chapel Hill noise-maker NUSS).

August 12: TNF : Featured Artists Announced...

King Mez


P.Wonda

Thursday August 12 it all goes down once again. I'll be doing a new installment of "Hot, Dope, Fresh" ... the latest in hip hop and R&B along with classic forgotten about gems.

The featured artist interviews for the night:

Greenboro, NC's P Wonda and

Raleigh, NC's King Mez.

Both artists' buzz have been steadily inclining, P- Wonda's "B*tch I Do Numbers" has been going HAM in the clubs this summer and King Mez had a stellar write up in The Independent Weekly back in June, so I'm excited that both of them will be stopping by the studio that night!

'Lauryn Hill: Past, Present & Future' (Mixtape)--Miss DJ Gemz...

One of my favorite DJ's, Miss DJ Gemz just released a mix of old, new, and rare Lauryn Hill tracks. If you're unfamiliar with Miss DJ Gemz, she's the official DJ for The Tri-City Suns Basketball Team (DC), DJ'ed our SOHIPOTOME women in hip hop events back in March, and does DOPE remix projects:

"I wanted to share my newest project by my friend SJ and me. It features some of our favorite Lauryn Hill tracks, some of which you probably have heard, others which you might not have. The main focus was to showcase her voice and powerful lyrics."

Download Lauryn Hill: Past, Present & Future or listen to it here.

Where Is Hip Hop? Episode 54 w/ Randy Roper x Nanci O...

Where Is Hip Hop? is a weekly segment Randy Roper and I started over 1.5 years ago. Below is a breakdown:

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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 Nanci O. 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.

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Yes, Randy and I talked about Rick Ross last week, but Bawse's official first week numbers had just been released. On this week's edition of Where Is Hip Hop?, Randy and I looked at the why and how of what occurred with Rozay's first week.

Sidebar: Randy predicted 200,000, I was thinking more like 150,000.

If you're late, Teflon Don moved 176,000 units in it's first week out. If you're even more late, although Rozay moved that many in 7 days, Eminem still had the #1 album in the game, 5 weeks post release, with Recovery.

So while Rick Ross has *some* folks running around hollering they're BMF, Big Meech, Larry Hoover, Eminem has the crossover appeal on lock (Rhianna, anyone?). And as noted, man titties doesn't sell records. In other words, Bawse doesn't have a female fan base or a crossover market. So if Rozay wanted to cross over, we discuss the artists that may help (even though it may hurt his street cred). Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry and the like. Last, we speculate on how Teflon Don can break the one million records sold mark.

Where Is Hip Hop? Episode 54:


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Instrumental music with strange intensity: Savage Knights on-air interview

Local multi-instrumentalist and composer Crowmeat Bob stopped by the WXYC studios on Monday Aug. 6 for an on-air interview, and played some of his own music and favorite free jazz cuts.

Download the interview.

Savage Knights playing a show on Aug. 10, at Nightlight with Vampire Squid from Louisville, Prehistoric Horse from NY, and Phantacist from Carrboro.

Dexter Romweber and the New Romans on Aug. 19th at the Station,