I grew up on the radio and devoured everything rock-and-pop I could get my hands on. Scraped together my allowance to buy my own first album - it was either Rush's Moving Pictures or Pat Benatar's Crimes of Passion (or, um, maybe the Bee Gees' Sgt. Pepper). Before that, I had to tape Casey Kasem's Top 40 countdown off the Sunday radio and bribe my older sister to tape her Van Halen records for me. Fave genres are protopunk/garage, punk, post-punk, power pop, and I have a big soft spot for '70s AM yacht/cornball pop-rock. At UNC-Chapel Hill, I interned for the now-defunct Moist/Baited Breath indie label, wrote music reviews and conducted band interviews for The Daily Tar Heel and other local rags. Best interview of my life, though, was not really music related: Mister Rogers. But, yep, he played the ukelele.
Check out DJ K-TEL's two most recent shows below.
9/21 - 7pm hour
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7:56pm
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Explosions In the Sky
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glittering blackness
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How Strange, Innocence (Sad Loud America)
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Track Notes: 2000
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7:51pm
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Ramones
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Rockaway Beach
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It's Alive (Sire)
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Track Notes: 1979
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7:49pm
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Yonic South
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The Helmet
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Devo Challenge Cup (Wild Honey Records)
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7:45pm
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Dengue Fever
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Silver Fish
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Ting Mong (Tuk Tuk)
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7:39pm
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The Zombies
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I Can't Make Up My Mind
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The Zombies Collection (Castle Music Ltd.)
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7:36pm
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Literature
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Kites
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Chorus (Slumberland)
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Track Notes: 2014. For Matthew!
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7:32pm
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The Velvet Underground
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Run Run Run
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The Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve)
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Track Notes: 1967
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7:25pm
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Lewsberg
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Without a Doubt
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Out and About (12XU)
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7:21pm
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Oasis
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Live Forever
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Definitely Maybe (Epic)
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Track Notes: 1994. HBD, Liam Gallagher, b. 1972
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7:17pm
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Ratboys Local
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Making Noise for the Ones You Love
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The Window (Topshelf)
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7:10pm
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Little Richard
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The Girl Can't Help It
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The EP Collection (See For Miles)
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7:06pm
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Drive-By Truckers
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My Sweet Annette
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Decoration Day (New West)
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Track Notes: 2003
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7:02pm
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The Staples Singers Local
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I'll Take You There
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Be Altitude: Respect Yourself (Stax)
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Track Notes: HBD, bassist David Hood, b. 1943
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9/21 - 6pm hour
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6:58pm
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The Jayhawks
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Pray for Me
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Tomorrow the Green Grass (American Recordings)
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Track Notes: 1995
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Buy The Jayhawks Tomorrow the Green Grass at Reckless Records
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6:52pm
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Angel Du$t
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Brand New Soul
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Brand New Soul (Pop Wig)
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6:49pm
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The Cramps
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I Was a Teenage Werewolf
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Songs the Lord Taught Us (IRS)
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Track Notes: 1980
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6:45pm
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The Amboy Dukes
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Baby Please Don't Go
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Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era - 1965-1968 (Elektra/Rhino)
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Buy The Amboy Dukes Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era - 1965-1968 at Reckless Records
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6:34pm
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DIIV
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Doused
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Oshin (Captured Tracks)
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Track Notes: 2012
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6:30pm
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Franz Ferdinand
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Do You Want To
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You Could Have It So Much Better (Domino)
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Track Notes: 2005
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Buy Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better at Reckless Records
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6:27pm
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Deeper Local
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Bite
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Careful! (Sub Pop)
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6:20pm
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Mitski
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I Don't Like My Mind
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The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (Dead Oceans)
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6:17pm
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Earth, Wind & Fire
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September
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The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire Vol. 1 (CBS)
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Track Notes: 1978
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Buy Earth, Wind & Fire The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire Vol. 1 at Reckless Records
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6:12pm
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Bombino
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Tazidert
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Sahel (Partisan)
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6:06pm
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Black Cat Heart Attack Local
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Hurricane Chaser
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Black Cat Heart Attack (Hit Refresh)
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6:04pm
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Gaunt
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Lies
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Sob Story (Thrill Jockey)
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Track Notes: 1994
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6:01pm
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Public Image Ltd.
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Public Image
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Public Image (Virgin)
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Track Notes: 1978
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Buy Public Image Ltd. Public Image at Reckless Records
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9/14 - 7pm hour
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7:56pm
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Disappears + Steve Shelley + White/Light Local
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Anagram
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Disappears + Steve Shelley + White/Light (Vampire Blues)
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Track Notes: 2020
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Buy Disappears + Steve Shelley + White/Light Disappears + Steve Shelley + White/Light at Reckless Records
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7:51pm
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The Verlaines
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Pyromaniac
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Juvenilia (Homestead)
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7:49pm
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Crystal Stilts
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Future Folklore
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Nature Noir (Sacred Bones)
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Track Notes: 2013
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7:47pm
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Sparklehorse
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It Will Never Stop
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Bird Machine (ANTI-)
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