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Did you know that for a few months this summer we would get a guy calling in every couple of hours convinced we were robots and performing improvisational Turing tests on us to see how we would respond?

Well if you didn't know that (and I am not kidding), then how would you know that Daniel Bachman will stop by for
 an in-studio performance and guest DJ set today at 4 right here on wxyc 89.3 fm and online at wxyc.org. He has a new album out on 
Tompkins Square, and will be playing a show at All Day Records (in Carrboro) later 
tonight. Check him out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snOeEV21PQ8

And while we're on the topic of the radio, I just played something off 'Pink Keys,' the new album by Alice Cohen on my show and it was so good that we decided to make it the Inside Track tonight at 9. Really out-there electro-pop from former Die Monster Die frontwoman, this is a blissed out set
of electronics-heavy, newwave-leaning bedroom pop. Heel yeah it is. 

Tune in Sunday at 1 for Hell or High Water and we'll be listening to an 
assortment of rare/peculiar/funny-named southern gospel groups. 
 Selected artists include Deacon Utley and the Smile-A While Quartet, 
the Nugrape
Twins, the Golden Gate Quartet, and more!

Then, at 2 on Broken Music we are going for a historical record of most notes played in a single Broken Music. Not two notes, not eight, and even more than fourteen. Lubomyr Melnyk, a latter 20th century composer from Germany, is known for devising 'continuous music' on the piano. The overtones coming from the rapid arpeggios and scales make it very hard to catch when one sequence is ending and the other is beginning. Oh and there's normally a second piano there to pick up the slack. Apparently there are sometimes up to a dozen notes per second. We will be listening to Wave-Lox and some of his other major works, which means lots of notes, lots of two-piano music, and a very, very hypnotic state that will make you wish this show was more than ten minutes long. What? That was already an hour?! Exactly. 

At 8 on The Backyard BBQ if you caught Yohimbe open up for Lightning Bolt in Raleigh a few weeks back, you'll already have all the visuals you'll need for their live performance. And if not, hopefully Julianna's interview will help you out. This is not your average local band. Hopefully our soundsystem will pick up their megaphones!!

At 9 on SportsRap, as we inch closer to 
basketball season, the panel goes over the first round of the MLB 
playoffs, along with another wrap up of the week in football. The panel 
will also discuss outfit choices/dance move selections of "Late Night w/
 Roy."

Finally, check out the Outside Track Monday at 9 pm with Emanuele de Raymondi - Buyukberber Variations (Zerokilled Music). The composer/sound
 artist Raymondi adds electronic manipulations to recordings of Turkish 
clarinetist Oguz Buyukberber, resulting in a versatile mix of tracks: at times
fit for the freaky avant-garde dance floor, at others mellow and dreamy. 

How are YOU getting ready for no-shame November?
JJ