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happy new year, everyone!

hope all y'all had a safe and enjoyable holiday.  WXYC's new year's resolution is to keep being very good.  to that end, we'll be ringing in 2015 with another week chock full of excellent specialty programming for your tiny human ears.  do yourself a favor and tune in!

Going to get heavy for the first Inside Track of 2015, Friday night at 9 PM.  Tune in to catch a newly issued lived recording of famed Egyptian guitarist Omar Khorshid entitled Live in Australia. Omar Khorshid is an Egyptian born composer, guitarist and actor who is a low key superstar in the Arab World.  He gained his prominence as a member of an Egyptian beat group modeled after the Beatles.  Since that time he has been regarded as one of the greatest and most iconic guitarists in the Arab World.  Damn does he deserve that title. The music on this record is taken from a live performance in Australia (in case you doubted his superstar status).  The music within is a mid to low fidelity capture of some of the most killer guitar work I’ve heard.  Khorshid’s style has been described as “arabesque surf,” which isn’t too far off.  Khorshid indulges in high speed, super detailed fuzz riffs that are somehow matched in their insane awesomeness by the organ and percussion work of his backing band made up of Fouad Rohaiem and Ibrahim Tawfiek.  Every musician is stealing the show in these recordings.  This is the true raw, shredding guitar power we’ve been looking for our entire lives.  These are tragically the last recordings of Khorshid, who died a mere 72 hours after this show in a car crash. 

The NEW SCIENCE EXPERIENCE is excited to have to have NC hardware maniacs XEROME(https://soundcloud.com/mr-lazymagnet) and DRIPPY INPUTS(https://soundcloud.com/drippy-inputs) on the show tonight from ten to midnight for solo sets, collabs, trade-offs, improvisations, noise and techno in advance of their cross-country tour. Also, check out NSE's ustream page (http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/56160880) to watch the whole thing go down :)

This week on Hell or High Water we'll be playing the music of Piedmont blues magician Pink Anderson. Brought up in Spartanburg, SC, Anderson was an amazing Piedmont blues guitarist who reinterprets Delta ditties to fit the context of the Piedmont. Tune in from 1-2pm on Sunday!

This Sunday's Broken Music show will be themed around an attempt to sonically capture the fearful chaos of starting a new year using music that is #hardtohear like the truth.  Tune in 2-3pm.

It was a very busy week for sports, so we should have a correspondingly engaging Sports Rap this Sunday night! We'll tackle the entertaining college football playoff, UNC basketball's performance against William & Mary, the upcoming slate of NFL wild card games, and NBA topics like what the hell is going on with the Cavs. Tune in at 9 p.m. Sunday night for all that and more (or less)!

Join us on the Outside Track Monday at 9 PM to celebrate a great folk legend, Michael Chapman, and his new release Polar Bear. Dude’s a freak.  Chapman has been in the game for quite some time.  He started out in the London folk scene with dudes like John Martyn and soon involved himself in British jazz and improv scenes.  By the early 90s he was an undeniable veteran of several styles and he has pretty much kept it going since then.  Here is his latest release, Polar Bear, a mixture of lovely guitar tunes with accompanying instrumentation (full band/strings) and long form guitar drones, both acoustic and electric, both lovely and demonic.  This is a WEIRD RECORD.  All types of track lengths, all types of styles, all Chapman.  Enjoy it!

Tune your dial to 89.3 on Thursday, January 8th to catch a very special Thursday Night Feature hosted by DJ Grant B and WXYC Chart Topping musician Daniel Bachman.  These two will be digging deep into Daniel's ever-growing collection of deep, dark and holy down home gospel music found all over.  Although this music is generally not sought after in the record collecting world, these locally recorded and released records contain music which is undeniably engrossing and rich.  Fans of rural southern music will find themselves simultaneously at home and alienated by these fiddling, banjo and guitar tunes with heavy unrelenting evangelical themes. During this three hour show Daniel and Grant will explore a variety of regional trends and styles as they attempt to make sense of this criminally under appreciated and unshared history of American music.