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how's it going?  all right i hope.  things are picking up over here in chapel hill - classes have started again at unc, the fall programming schedule is about to be made, and we're hiring new DJs next week! i guess that means it's as good a time as any to tune in to WXYC for this week's specialty programming.

Halloween is, like, kind of soon, so we are getting spooky this week on the Inside Track, tonight at9PM.  Join us for a brand new DOUBLE CASSETTE release from underground hero Russian Tsarlag.  Russian Tsarlag is Providence-based comics/video/recording artist Carlos Gonzales' prolific lo-fi solo project, featuring his crude, hypnotic, and lonely songs with lo-fi production technique.   Ambiguously sourced / mechanically grinding tape loops, cavernous reverb, and slithering background sounds recur throughout. The second cassette/disc is perhaps a little bit more consistent than the first, featuring more of the ethereal, prettier material - with several tracks resembling a way-faded New Order. It’s a 90-minute release and we will play as much for you as we possibly can.  Tune in!

​Tune in at 10pm tonight to hear the New Science Experience.  This week:  a poppy, heavy-vocals mix from WXYC's Bryson!

This week on Hell Or High Water, Black gospel music from Texas will be explored through the examination of works by Arizona Dranes and Washington Phillips. These two artists exemplify the early sounds of Black gospel music and were apart of the early collections of "race records" put out by Columbia and Okeh records. Tune in at 1pm on Sunday to hear the gospel as told by these two Texans from the western part of the state.  

To quote Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, this week's featured duo on Broken Music "is the SHIT!" Vocalist Sofia Jernberg (The New Song, PAAVO, Yun Kan 10) and cellist Lene Grenager (SPUNK, Lemur) have been creating mind-blowing improvisational music together since 2007. The two women elevate their mastery of each instrument into brilliant spaces of uncontrolled pressure, playfulness, and the raw, inside-out confusion of pure expressive chaos. You will quickly be engrossed in a disorienting flurry of energy and virtuosic power. Don't miss this knock-out performance on Sunday from 2-3pm!

Psych-out Monday night at 9 PM with our Outside Track!  This week we will be featuring the far-out vocals of Turkish psych superstar Edip Akbayram.  Akbayram was a sickly youth, hardly able to stand, but he found space for his powerful voice on national television absolutely tearing through traditional songs.  He quickly moved to the burgeoning “Turkish psych” movement, a stunning fusion of Western rock and traditional Turkish instrumentation and song-writing. This new self-titled release showcases some of his moving songs, many of which have been featured on recent, popular Turkish-psych compilations.  Enjoy!