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Spring Break! Winding to a close though…sickening.  The dirge will be expressed in the form of a week of killer radio from your friends at WXYC. Check it out:

 

Invite all your friends over tonight (FRIDAY!) at 9 pm. Then tell them to go home so that you can listen to The Inside Track! Tonight you'll hear music from Ethiopian Azmari musician Chalachew Ashenafi. The Azmari is a combination of a troubadour, a minstrel and a jester. These improvisers comment on politics, religion and everyday life in a style which is both mocking and very humorous. Chalachew Ashenafi was an Azmari whom The Ex met in Addis Ababa in the late aughties. He went on to tour with The Ex in Europe, and recorded this CD of his favorite traditional Amharic songs in The Netherlands in 2011. Call-and-response vocals; the twang of Ashenafi’s masinko, or one-stringed fiddle; and his backing band on krar, or bowl-shaped lyre; kebero, a double-headed conical drum.

Tune in to the New Science Experience: Sprang Brakk edition tonight from 10 midnight.  00Trevyn will be serving up a deep-dish-house-(audio)pizza with a sprinkling of UK pop tracks and a touch of disco.

Greasier then a bucket of fried chicken coated with banana pudding, the Chapel Hill originated group Southern Culture On The Skids will be the feature of this Sunday's Hell or High Water. Coinciding with the opening of the Southern Folklife Collection's 30 Year Retrospective on the group, Lard Have Mercy!, join Zaki G for a sleazy, sweaty, grimy, groovy good time

Tune in Sunday for an hour of early feedback works by Broken Music perennial favorite Eliane Radigue. The Paris-born composer began as a student and assistant to Pierre Henry and soon built her own home studio to realize her distinctive longform works. These tape pieces date to the early 1970s, predating her fascination with Tibetan buddhism and the instruments of Donald Buchla. Radigue is among those rare composers whose works are recognizable regardless of the medium--whether using tape feedback, Buchla synth, or her recent forrays into acoustic instrumentation, the outcome is always undeniably identified as Radigue. Tune in at 2pm.

This month Fusion Youth Radio is doing a show on female rapppers, discussing and dissecting what it means to be a woman in hip hop today. There will also be a music appreciation section and guest spoken word poet. Listen in this sunday from 5 to 6 pm.

Sports on Sundays every week at 9 PM on Sports Rap. Join hosts Reilly and Ryan for a hour long investigation into the latest of issues in sports, including Carolina Basketball, sports politics, and whether or not baseball is politically regressive.  Join us!

Join us, won't you, at 9 pm on Monday evening for The Outside Track? This week it'll be new music from prolific California-based producer Brian Pyle a.k.a. Ensemble Economique offers up a mesmerizing 40 minute long, two track collage whereby Pyle intersperses bits and pieces of radio excerpts from all over the world with pristine and precise piano, haunting electronic production and sparse and abstract guitar flourishes.

This week Should Does Does Radio is premiering a five-layer sound collage, taking you on a second person narrative, and opening up the phone lines for an installment of our call-in advice show "You Might As Well Live." Prop up your feet and tune-in this Wednesday at 9pm!