WKNC Daytime Indie Rock Charts and Adds – Feb. 26

Every week, WKNC compiles a list of charts and adds. Here are the Daytime Indie Rock charts for this week. You can tune into our Daytime programming weekdays from 5am to 7pm.

 

Top 5 Adds: 

1 EAT SKULL-  III- Woodsist

2 MOUNT MORIAH- Miracle Temple- Merge

3 POPSTRANGERS- Antipodes- Carpark

4 DARWIN DEEZ- Songs For Imaginative People- Lucky Number

5 CY DUNE- No Recognize [EP]- Family Tree

 

 

Top 30 Radio 200:

1 USELESS EATERS- Hypertension- Jeffrey Drag

2 DUCKTAILS- The Flower Lane- Domino

3 PARQUET COURTS- Light Up Gold- What's Your Rupture

4 VERONICA FALLS- Waiting For Something To Happen- Slumberland

5 DOLDRUMS- Lesser Evil- Arbutus

6 FOXYGEN- We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace And Magic- Jagjaguwar

7 BEACH FOSSILS- Clash The Truth- Captured Tracks

8 NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS- Push The Sky Away- Bad Seed

9 FEAR OF MEN- Early Fragments- Kanine

10 THAO AND THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN- We The Common- Ribbon

11 TY SEGALL AND MIKAL CRONIN- Reverse Shark Attack- In The Red

12 JACCO GARDNER- Cabinet Of Curiosities- Trouble In Mind

13 ICEAGE- You're Nothing- Matador

14 AIRSTRIP- Willing- Holiday For Quince

15 MISTER LIES- Mowgli- Lefse

16 TORO Y MOI- Anything In Return- Carpark

17 TEGAN AND SARA- Heartthrob- Warner Brothers

18 FIDLAR- FIDLAR- Mom And Pop

19 PSYCHIC ILLS- One Track Mind- Sacred Bones

20 RA RA RIOT- Beta Love- Barsuk

21 CHRISTOPHER OWENS- Lysandre- Fat Possum

22 RUBY SUNS- Christopher- Sub Pop

23 GROWLERS- Hung At Heart- Everloving

24 DARKSTAR- News From Nowhere- Warp

25 JENNY O- Automechanic Thirty Tigers-Holy Trinity

26 ADAM GREEN AND BINKI SHAPIRO- Adam Green And Binki Shapiro Concord-Rounder

27 GUARDS- In Guards We Trust- Black Bell

28 WIDOWSPEAK- Almanac- Captured Tracks

29 EX-COPS- True Hallucinations- Other Music

30 MICE PARADE- Candela- FatCat

That one time when Architecture in Helsinki came before school work

Finals at N.C. State are coming up, and with them comes heaps of homework. This past Monday, Nov. 14, Nicole and I found ourselves in the best kind of dilemma. We both had a ridiculous night of homework ahead of us, but Dom and Architecture in Helsinki were performing at Cat’s Cradle! After weighing our success in school against our love of indie rock, we found middle ground. We justified a trip to Carrboro with hopes that the bands’ energy would help us to stay up for a late night of homework. We at WKNC are true problem solvers!

We arrived at Cat’s Cradle right in the middle of Dom’s set. The band resembled an Urban Outfitters catalog while playing the hazy pop tunes that we all fell in love with at the beginning of this year. Dom played a good portion of music from their first EP and ended with “Living In America,” by far their #1 single. The only thing lacking from Dom’s performance on Monday night was...well, energy. I wanted more excitement during “Living In America.” Instead, the band looked like they were bored and ready to get off stage. It was hard to tell through his thick mass of red hair, but it seemed Dom made eyes with us a few times. It wasn’t clear if this was intentional or if his head had just rolled to the side awkwardly, and that’s a problem. When they did leave the stage, we worried that this would be a theme of the rest of the night. Fantastic tunes, a great sound, but if I wanted those, I'd listen on iTunes. We couldn’t imagine Architecture in Helsinki being so boring. Thankfully, we were right.

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Architecture in Helsinki hails from the distant land of Australia; they came to North Carolina in search of Cheerwine, which they nostalgically spoke of on stage. They complimented us on our warm November weather. The band walked onto the stage void of emotion, stood there, and then jumped into a high energy, fun series of songs that had the audience dancing and smiling at the stage. Seeing Architecture in Helsinki live reminded Nicole of what an ‘80s new wave style concert would have been like two decades ago: a mix of B-52s, Talking Heads, and energy. The members all had their own distinct dance moves that were used throughout the show. The one woman in the band, Kellie Sutherland, was one of Nicole’s favorites to watch throughout the show. She wore an amazing jumpsuit and just gave her all on stage, creating dance moves and driving the energy through the roof.

Two favorites for the night were the band’s newer single “Contact High” and of course “Heart It Races,” their last song of the encore. You know you’ve hooked an audience when you come out for an encore and they begin chanting for a specific song. “Like It Or Not” and “Do The Whirlwind” brought some crazy dance moves on the dance floor as well. Overall, the show was a fantastic break from homework and gave us a second wave of energy that lasted until we got back to campus and decided to call it a night.

WKNC Interviews Dom/ Acoustic Performance of "Jesus"

This past Monday, the members of Dom loaded into our studio and borrowed some acoustic guitars from WKNC DJs. What followed was an interesting interview that comes at the head of the band's upcoming Family of Love EP, out August 9th on Astralwerks. Check out some of the interview below to hear the band's take on playing the Sydney Opera House with Cate Blanchett, chilling with Gucci Mane, and what's next for the indie rockers. In addition, be sure to give a listen to their acoustic version of "Jesus," as recorded in the WKNC studios!

Jesus - Dom (Acoustic Studio Performance):

Jesus (Acoustic)- Dom

Dom Interview:

Dom Interview

Avi Buffalo Interviews, Plays Unreleased Song

This past Sunday, Avi Buffalo brought an assortment of instruments into WKNC's studios for a special acoustic performance and short interview. The band is best known for its 2010 hit, "What's In It For," and the band is once again busy at work. They've recently released a 7" featuring "How Come," a new single.

Check below for their acoustic performance of this track as performed in our studios, as well as an unreleased track, "Won't Be Around No More." An interview with DJ Don of Time follows, where you can hear the band discuss touring Europe (it's really old), influences, and the struggles of touring!

 

How Come- Avi Buffalo (Acoustic Studio Performance):

How Come

Won't Be Around No More- Avi Buffalo (Acoustic Studio Performance)

Won't Be Around No More

Avi Buffalo Interview

Avi Buffalo Interview With Don Of Time