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Hello friends of WXYC, meet your new weekly updater, Grant B.  The name may have changed but the love for sports is still the same, let’s see what’s coming up this week…

From 9-10 Friday night you can hear the Inside Track.  Tune in for Savages’ new release Silence Yourself out on Matardor.  This is the debut album from a UK post-punk, all-female quartet that is known for putting on a pretty intense live show and sites Black Sabbath as an influence because they are so heavy and confrontational, and believes that their music follows suit in a way that is not inherently gendered. Their bass recalls Joy Division and their guitars are somewhere between Gang of Four and Les Savy Fav with a budget. 

Don’t forget to tune into NSE from 10-12 PM Friday Night when DJ Robert Thomas Patton Williams celebrates his trochaic quadrameter name with a night of acid house.   

Tune in on Sunday for 4 hours of James F!  Starting with three hours of music from our OCS section, James F will then move into Hell or High Water and air archival radio broadcasts from WPAQ-Mt Airy's "Merry-Go-Round", a live radio show that featured (and continues to feature) some of the best old time and bluegrass musicians from Surry County and surrounding areas.

Next up on Sunday comes Broken Music.  DJ Grant Bisher will present a brand new release from James Rushford and Joe Talia entitled “Manhunter” out on Kye.  A quick blurb about the album from the web to get you excited: “an ebbing two-part suite for waning greyscale electronics, dehumanized drum machine, amorphous vocal fragments, and sundry devices, woven together in a fabric of despair.” To round off the hour we will hear the first part of another new release from Kye label owner Graham Lambkin and eai superhero Keith Rowe entitled “Making A.”  This record is out on Erstwhile and does briefly feature the Indigo Girls.  Tune in!

Then on Monday, tune in to the “Outside Track” for a new knock-your-socks-off release from New York composer/improviser Jeremiah Cymerman entitled “Sky Burial.”  This is the first release of Cymerman’s “Amplified Quartet,” a improvisation ultra-group composed of hard-to-define jazzman Matt Bauder, trumpet-deconstructer Nate Wooley, jazz-genius Peter Evans, and Cymerman himself.  With the creative possibilities of the combination of traditional jazz instruments and electronics in mind, listeners can look forward to some earthshattering bass tones, undefinable squeaks and squeals, and extremely in-depth explorations of the boundaries of the performer’s instruments.  Bring your nicest headphones!!!

Certainly don’t forget about next week's Thursday Night Feature, which will be devoted to artists who are playing Savage Weekend fest this coming weekend at Nightlight in Chapel Hill. Savage Weekend is a two-day festival featuring over 70 underground U.S. acts in back-to-back, non-overlapping sets that operate in the hard to define spaces of noise, techno, performance, pop, and various hard-to-define strains of sound. We will be hearing tracks from Unicorn Hard-On, Haves & Thirds, Russian Tsarlag, Form A Log, Sam V, Toe Ring, VVAQRT, S.P.Q.R., i_like_dog_face, Humanbeast, Housefire, Farewell My Concubine, Mincemeat or Tenspeed, Andrea Pensado, and more. "