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Happy holidays, loyal listeners.  Most of us here at WXYC are stretching our limbs in preparation for the coming time off and familial encounters.  We’re no doubt excited, so let’s see what the radio will sound like during this time…

 

We are constantly surrounded by objects and phenomena from the realm of death. Nonetheless, tune in at 9 pm on Friday to catch a soothing, wintry Inside Track: Last Light by New York-based musician and painter Tor Lundvall. Originally released in 2004, this out-of-print record was recently reissued by Dais records as part of a box set of Lundvall's work. In his music as in his painting, there's a sense of melancholic expanses. Piano chords and Lundvall’s own siren vocals drift across postindustrial sprawl, describing it in a way that seems to find, in the decay and petrification, a kind of wabi-sabi beauty.

 

This week on the New Science Experience Jeremy will be spinning records with friend and local act DJ Grey Area.  Tune in at 10 for two hours of hot cross genre dance madness.

 

This week on Hell Or High Water, Gina B will be playing selections from Down in the Basement, Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove of Vintage 78s, 1926-1937. Released in 2003 by Old Hat Records, this compilation features some of veteran record collector and DJ Joe Bussard's favorite jazz, blues, country and folk selections from the mid-twenties to mid-thirties.  If you've been planning on getting into pre-swing music but never seem to have the time, this is the hour of radio for you!!  Tune in from 1pm-2pm on Sunday.

 

This Sunday's Broken Music will feature in its entirety a recent recording entitled Amsterdam (Memory Space) from the new European electroacoustic improvisational ensemble MAZE, an outfit whose aim is to perform modern interpretations of older avant-garde pieces. Here they recreate a 1970 concept piece by revered composer Alvin Lucier which finds them going out into the outdoors environment around them (in this case the Dutch town of Hilversum), recording the songs of these outdoor spaces and then creating a facsimile of the noises they heard outside in a small indoor space, utilizing only their voices and instruments to recreate the sounds while relying only on their memories and recordings. Tune in at 2 PM.

 

This month Fusion Youth Radio will be doing a show on art! The high school students will be discussing: What is art and who decides? How does art function in our own lives?  All the feels. It will be great, you should listen. Sunday at 5 PM!

 

Local music! Thought the triangle was a paradise for only indie rock music?  Well you’re only 80% right!  Tune in at 8 PM to join Lincoln on the Backyard BBQ in exploring the variety of sounds that emanate from our lovely town. 

 

They will not be faking the funk on this week's Sports Rap! The whole crew (and some friends) will be there at 9 PM Sunday night to recap the game of the weekend: UNC men's basketball team vs. UK men's basketball team! And for the first time ever, all of the hosts will have attended the game! That, plus Chapel Hill's big contributions to the anti-NCAA movement, plus more. @dunksbutts! 

Leave your radio set on for the Outside Track this Monday at 9 pm, when you'll hear a special radio treat: 920518 by Psychic Rally. Originally broadcast on 05/18/1992 on Zurich, Switzerland's Radio LoRa, this hour-plus-long, magical punk/industrial, improvisational radio theater features "a full orchestra of everyday instruments and sound machines - kitchen utensils, audio cassette recordings, turntables, manipulated and altered records, ... bird song recordings, commentary on early space flights, radio excerpts, children’s voices, Swiss yodeling, German Schlager [a kind of slick folk rock], and beer tent music overlaid with live screaming, talking, or street noise...”