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.
5/9 - 8pm hour
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8:00pm
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Shellac Local
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Crow
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At Action Park (Touch and Go)
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Track Notes: 1994. RIP, Albini.
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5/9 - 7pm hour
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7:49pm
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Drahla
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DC
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angeltape (Captured Tracks)
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7:46pm
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Bnny Local
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Good Stuff
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One Million Love Songs (Fire Talk)
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7:41pm
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Nirvana
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Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
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In Utero (DGC)
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Track Notes: 1993. RIP, Albini
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7:39pm
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Vaudevileins Local
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Loophole
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Lights Out (Self-Released)
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7:32pm
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METZ
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Glass Eye
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Up On Gravity Hill (Subpop)
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7:29pm
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Poster Children Local
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If You See Kay
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Daisy Chain Reaction (Twin/Tone)
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Track Notes: 1991. For Al. RIP, Albini.
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7:26pm
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The Rascals
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Find Somebody
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Groovin' (Atlantic)
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Track Notes: 1967
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7:23pm
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The Rolling Stones
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Mother's Little Helper
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Hot Rocks, 1964-1971 (London)
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7:21pm
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The Byrds
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So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star
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Greatest Hits (Columbia)
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Track Notes: 1967
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7:18pm
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Hole
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Malibu
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Celebrity Skin (DGG)
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Track Notes: 1998
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7:08pm
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Tar Local
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Viaduct Removal
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Jackson (Amphetamine Reptile)
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Track Notes: 1991. RIP, Albini.
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7:06pm
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The Jesus Lizard Local
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Mouth Breather
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Goat (Touch and Go)
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Track Notes: 1991. RIP, Albini.
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7:03pm
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Big Black Local
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He's A Whore
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Songs About Fucking (Touch and Go)
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Track Notes: 1987. RIP, Albini.
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7:01pm
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Cheap Trick Local
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He's a Whore
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Cheap Trick (Epic)
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Track Notes: HBD, Tom Petersson, b. 1950
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5/9 - 6pm hour
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6:57pm
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Shellac Local
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Dog And Pony Show
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At Action Park (Touch and Go)
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Track Notes: 1994. RIP, Albini.
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6:51pm
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Jawbreaker
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Indictment
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24 Hour Revenge Therapy (Tupelo)
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Track Notes: 1994. RIP, Albini aka "Fluss"
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6:49pm
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Pixies
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River Euphrates
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Surfer Rosa (4AD)
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Track Notes: 1988. RIP, Albini.
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6:45pm
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Urge Overkill Local
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The Candidate
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The Supersonic Storybook (Touch and Go)
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Track Notes: 1991. RIP, Albini.
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6:42pm
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PJ Harvey
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50ft Queenie
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Rid Of Me (Island)
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Track Notes: RIP, Albini.
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6:38pm
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Daundry Local
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Blue Rhino
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Pria (Self-Released)
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6:32pm
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The Lostines
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After Party
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Meet The Lostines (Gar Hole)
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6:30pm
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Little Richard
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Rip It Up
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The Specialty Sessions (Specialty)
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6:27pm
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MC5
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Looking At You
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Back In the U.S.A. (Atlantic)
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Track Notes: 1970. RIP, Dennis Thompson
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6:21pm
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Dent May
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You Already Know
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What's for Breakfast? (Carpark)
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6:19pm
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Cusp Local
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You Can't See Me
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Thanks So Much (Self-Released)
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6:16pm
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Caleb Landry Jones
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The Bonzo Bargain
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Hey Gary, Hey Dawn (Sacred Bones)
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6:10pm
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The Breeders
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Opened
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Pod (4AD)
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Track Notes: 1990
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6:07pm
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Superchunk
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Cast Iron
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No Pocky For Kitty (Matador)
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Track Notes: 1991
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6:01pm
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Big Black Local
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Kerosene
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The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape (Touch and Go)
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Track Notes: RIP, Steve Albini.
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