WXDU is giving away five pairs of tickets to the Pixies w/Cults concert at the Durham Performing Arts Center on Friday, January 31, 2014. For the chance to be a lucky winner, tune in to WXDU between Wednesday, January 22 and Sunday, January 26. Also check WXDU's Facebook and Twitter accounts daily for more information about ticket giveaways.
Tune in to wxdu Durham 88.7 this Wednesday from 2-4 for Flori-dayz/Holla Back Nights aka Misspelling Tampa aka Tampton Comes Alive aka Tampa Cares and learn about Florida's hardcore/noise scene straight from Florida punks Cottaging ahead of their show at the Nightlight with local favorites Whatever Brains. Music from The Scientists, Wire, Royal Trux and more mixed in with gems from the land of Floridays in the sun.
When a song becomes an evergreen, it can be sung again and again over the decades and sound fresh every time. On this week's Divaville Lounge we'll take 15 classic songs and compare the earliest recording with the version we now consider definitive. "Georgia on My Mind" by Hoagy Carmichael and Ray Charles; "Night and Day" by Fred Astaire and Frank Sinatra; "Blue Moon" by Mel Torme and the Marcels, and many more. Tune in this Sunday from 2-4 pm for two takes on the standards!
Thanks to everyone who tuned in to our two-week countdown of the Top North Carolina releases of 2013. Here's the final list:
Spend New Year's Day with your friends at WXDU as we count down our annual Top 100 of 2013 + Top 25 Reissues of 2013 all day today! Noon-Midnight. 88.7FM local or listen online at wxdu.org. Here's our schedule for the day:
12pm-2pm: #100-#81 w/ John A.
2pm-4pm: #80-#61 w/ Michael D.
4pm-6pm: #60-#41 w/ Kate G.
6pm-8pm: #40-#21 w/ Dave R.
8pm-10pm: Top 25 Reissues of 2013
10pm-12am: #20-#01 w/ Dave R.
With 2013 coming to an end, here's a look at the individual "Best of the year" lists from just a few members of WXDU's music staff. Each week, these DJ's & genre directors work hard to review & prepare the dozens of CD's, LP's & 7" that we add to our playlist every Sunday. Click above to see what 2013 sounded like to them!
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JOHN A. (MUSIC STAFF)
Top 13 releases of 2013:
Sect Pig - Sect Pig (Nuclear War Now!)
Carl Kruger - Lazy Metal (Blue Spectrum)
Jaap Blonk - Lifespans (Kontrans)
Ashley Paul - Line the Clouds (R.E.L.)
No-Neck Blues Band - Gitanjali + The Nascent Stigma (Ri Be Xibalba)
Framtid - Defeat of Civilization (Crust War/Black Water)
Tiger Hatchery - Sun Worship (ESP Disk)
Black Sun Roof - Feral (VHF)
Suppression / No Comply - Suppression / No Comply (To Live A Lie)
(Unknown Artist) - r-15 demo (Rhinocervs)
RU-486 - Romanian Abattoirs (Destructive Industries / Fusty Cunt)
Bahru Kegne - In memory Of Ethiopia (Terp)
Tashi Dorji - Tashi Dorji (Headway)
We just uploaded a full set by Sorry About Dresden, recorded live in the WXDU Lounge on March 28, 1998, just five days after we had resumed broadcasting at full power via our newly rebuilt broadcast tower.
Tune in Saturday (12/14) for a special broadcast of the massive, seven hour release Daughter of Darkness by Natural Snow Buildings. This recording was originally released as a limited-run, six cassette box set in 2009. Earlier this year, Ba Da Bing! Records released box sets in CD and LP formats of these mostly side-long drones. Natural Snow Buildings is a French duo consisting of Mehdi Ameziane and Solange Gularte. Here's a great introduction to the band published earlier this year in The Out Door.
Starting at 9am, we will play Daughter of Darkness in it's entirety with minimal station interruptions. We also plan to play a bonus track originally found on the Daughter of Darkness V release.
Tune in to Polyphonic Perversity this Sunday, November 24 from noon-2pm for a conversation with composer John Supko and New Music Raleigh's Shawn Galvin. The two will talk about NMR's upcoming performance of Supko's All Souls at CAM Raleigh on Monday, November 25, presented by North Carolina Opera. To prepare, check out Chris Vitiello's excellent preview/profile in this weeks Indy Week. Hope you can tune in.
There will be a special Friday edition of I Liked You Better Before You Sold Out, with Small Apartments! This is the new project of Shirle and David Koslowski, of Free Electric State and Gerty fame, and they'll be coming down from Baltimore to stop by WXDU in time for their show tonight (11/15) at The Pinhook, alongside Goner and Prisms. We'll be discussing their cassette and digital release of their first effort, Secrets Within. Join us at 5 pm.