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WXDU Presents Thee Open Sex, Drag Sounds, Prisms at the Duke Coffeehouse 4/3

 WXDU is excited to present a concert at the Duke Coffeehouse on April 3rd.  

The line-up includes

 

Durham Monster Dash and afterparty

WXDU is excited to be a sponsor of this year's Durham Monster Dash!  The DMD is happening on Friday the 26th of October.  Monster Dashers can run through a three mile course or take a kid friendly one mile walk and encounter monsters in spooky downtown Durham.  To learn more and register online go to the Durham Monster Dash website.  

This costumed fun run benefits the following charities that enhance children's lives through creative expression:

Girls Rock NC

Keep Durham Beautiful

KidZNotes

 

Hopscotch Day Party sponsored by Three Lobed Recordings and WXDU!

We are excited to announce our Hopscotch Music Festival day party!  WXDU has teamed up with Three Lobed Recordings to put together a unique show featuring current and past Hopscotch performers.  It's all going down on Friday, September 7th at Kings Barcade!  Did we mention yet that it's FREE?!

Like it says on the Facebook event page - If you're into free / avant / psych / out / other music, this is where you're going to want to be. 

 

WXDU Presents the 2nd Annual Bull City Metal Fest!

The Second Annual Bull City Metal Fest, brought to you in part by WXDU, is happening the weekend of February 3rd and 4th at the Casbah.  We'll be giving away tickets to the fest during our weekly meatl show "Beyond Good and Evil," Saturday evenings from 6-8pm. This year's line-up:

Black Tusk
Hog
Shadow of the Destroyer
Bitter Resolve
Braveyoung
Church of Wolves
Make
Ruscha
Widow
Gross Reality
Ruscha
Dark Sea Dream
Grogh
Knives

 

Delible: Disappearing Independent Hits from the Golden Age of College Rock (1985-1990) is tonight's College Radio Primer

Tonight's College Radio Primer
 
College Rock was the term used to describe the music played on non-commercial radio stations throughout the 1980s. Although “college rock” isn’t necessarily genre specific, the non-commercial radio band was used mainly to focus on music that was being largely ignored by the mainstream, and much of that was influenced by the previous non-mainstream styles such as punk, post-punk and garage music. “The Golden Age of College Radio” is a term that is now used to describe the second half of this decade.
 

You Can Miss Out School

You Can Miss Out School: Comparing and Contrasting The Kinks and Small Faces from 1965-1969

Tonight's College Radio Primer

8-10pm

Hosted By Alison

 

Slam Dance 2011 Round Two is up!

Click here to go to the brackets!

Lots of BIG upsets in round one with several regional bands pushing through to round two.  If you aren't familiar with some of the bands, then check them out!  Be an informed voter!

Slam Dance 2011 is our answer to spring sports insanity.  The Nobody's Driving crew put together an highly unscientific list of their favorite punk bands, put them into brackets and are spinning it out to the listeners to decide!

You can vote on all or just some of the pairings -- just click on a band's name to get to a voting page.

We will announce the winners and play more of their music next Tuesday night during Nobody's Driving, 10-midnight!