Station Updates

Backyard Barbecue Fall Schedule

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:27 AM EDT

Summer is always a little slow around here, but the Backyard Barbecue, WXYC's weekly local music show, is picking back up again! Tune in every Sunday from 8 to 9 PM to hear your favorite local records or live sets and interviews with bands like these:

Sept. 12 | Embarrassing Fruits | Trekky Records band with a new album, Frontier Justice, coming out September 21st.

Sept. 19 | Whatever Brains | Raleigh, NC "lo-fi basement punk," fresh from Hopscotch!

Sept. 26 | The Old Ceremony | Chapel Hill "pop-noir" band with a new album out this September.

Oct. 3 | Transportation | Odessa Records band with new album Amusement Park out on September 28th.

Oct. 17 | Monsonia | Raleigh / Carrboro ROCK. New album 33.3 out in mid-October. BBQ vets!

New Hiring

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 1:49 PM EDT

Dear XYC Listener,

Wanna DJ? This might be your chance! The station is hiring for the fall semester. There will be an Open House @ 5:30pm on Tuesday, August 31st, when you'll get to check the studio and record collection. Later that evening at we'll have an Interest Meeting @ 6:30pm on Polk Place. Come out and bring your friends!

Note, you gotta be a student to apply.

Heart,
WXYC

Win Tickets to Hopscotch!

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:38 PM EDT

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 below or listening to archived sets from local bands (check out our newest recording by Chapel Hill noise-maker NUSS).

Wanna be a dj?

Mon, 10 May 2010 8:15 PM EDT

We're hiring new djs for the summer!

All UNC Students are welcome to apply! Come out to the interest meeting Tuesday at 6 p.m. in Student Union room 3413 for more info about the radio station and new dj requirements! Afterwards you can sign up for an interview time. We will conduct interviews on Tuesday, 5/18 and Wednesday, 5/19. Visit the Facebook event page here.

*For more information or if you are unable to attend the meeting & still want to apply, please email: info@wxyc.org.

This Week on WXYC

Mon, 10 May 2010 5:05 PM EDT

Tonight on Monday's Inside Track, listen to and enjoy Zoo's Trilogi Peradaban (translation: Civilization Trilogy). This band's debut album is punk rock seasoned with traditional Indonesian music. From label Dual Plover: "With 22 tracks ranging from dissonant math-rock expelled in quick Melt Banana like successions to acoustic shamanistic vocal utterings produced with the Skeletal framed lineup of drums, bass and Jembe, all lined with the deft vocalisations of Rully Shabara Herman telling a story of the deterioration of cultural roots in modern civilization." Don't miss it! Monday, 9 pm.

Nancia O. hosts this week's Thursday Night Feature. Enjoy three hours of themed music! 9pm.

On Friday, the Inside Track continues its love letter to Indonesia with the airing of Koes Bersaudara 1967. This Sublime Frequencies release is a reissue of the band's two extremely hard to find releases from '67, The Guilties and Djadikan Aku Domba Mu. Western-style garage rock combines with dreamy psychedelia to make up an album listening experience that serious rock collectors have coveted for decades. Listen to it all in its entirety this Friday at 9pm.

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