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.
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11/2 - 7pm hour
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7:15pm
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Squirrel Flower Local
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Alley Light
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Tomorrow's Fire (Polyvinyl)
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7:15pm
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Squirrel Flower Local
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Alley Light
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Tomorrow's Fire (Polyvinyl)
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7:10pm
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ABC
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Poison Arrow
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The Lexicon Of Love (Mercury)
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Track Notes: 1982
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7:06pm
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Tears for Fears
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Mad World
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The Hurting (Mercury)
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Track Notes: 1983
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7:04pm
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Upchuck
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Crashing
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Bite The Hand That Feeds (Famous Class)
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7:00pm
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The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
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Midnight Moses
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Framed (Vertigo)
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Track Notes: 1972
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11/2 - 6pm hour
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6:56pm
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Mission of Burma
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Forget
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Vs. (Ace of Hearts)
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Track Notes: 1982
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6:52pm
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The Five Americans
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I See The Light
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Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968, Vol. 2 (Elektra/Rhino)
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Buy The Five Americans Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968, Vol. 2 at Reckless Records
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6:49pm
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The Flies
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I'm Not Your Stepping Stone
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single (Decca)
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Track Notes: 1966
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6:46pm
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Wimple Winch
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Save My Soul
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Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond, 1964-1969, Vol. 2 (Elektra/Rhino)
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Track Notes: 1966
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6:43pm
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INXS
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Viking Juice
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Full Moon, Dirty Hearts (Atlantic)
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Track Notes: 1993. For Matthew.
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6:40pm
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Graveyard
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Twice
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6 (Nuclear Blast)
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6:35pm
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The Meters
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Cissy Strut
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Gettin' Funkier All the Time: The Complete Josie, Reprise and Warner Recordings 1968-1977 (Soul Music)
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Buy The Meters Gettin' Funkier All the Time: The Complete Josie, Reprise and Warner Recordings 1968-1977 at Reckless Records
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6:33pm
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Charlie Vettuno
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Mean
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Lime Juice (Innovative Leisure)
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6:30pm
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Baby Huey & The Babysitters Local
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Running
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The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend (Curtom)
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Track Notes: 1971
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6:28pm
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Cliff Nobles
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Love Is All Right
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The Phil-LA of Soul Singles Collection 1968-1972 (Jamie Record Co.)
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Track Notes: 1968
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6:24pm
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The Hold Steady
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Chips Ahoy!
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Boys and Girls In America (Vagrant)
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Track Notes: 2006
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6:21pm
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Damage Dames Local
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Lake Michigan Ocean
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Buffalo Wild Women (Self-released)
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6:17pm
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Sunflower Bean
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Come For Me
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single (Mom+Pop)
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Track Notes: 2018
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6:14pm
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Pip Blom
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Is This Love? (featuring Alex Kapranos)
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Bobbie (Heavenly/PIAS)
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6:10pm
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Royal Trux
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The Flag
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Cats and Dogs (Drag City)
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Track Notes: 1993
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6:08pm
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The Kills
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Love And Tenderness
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God Games (Domino)
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6:06pm
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The Police
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Next to You
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Outlandos D'Amour (A&M)
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Track Notes: 1978
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6:01pm
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The Killers
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The Man
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Wonderful Wonderful (Island)
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Track Notes: 2017
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