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How Local Music Lovers Keep Music Discovery Fresh A New Year’s resolution to cancel a Spotify subscription and rekindle greater musical curiosity, featuring ideas from local artists.

"Spotify Wrapped came and went—with its unsettling promise to be “more dynamic, personal, and unmistakably you than ever before”—but its annual dopamine hit had dulled to a slight ping; both the social and discovery aspects seemingly having evaporated into the algorithm."

Who needs spotify when you've got *checks notes* 60 thousand records, 2 turntables, and 150 undergrads with nothing better to do.

how i hope all my listeners tune in

WE SO BACK BABY WELCOME TO WXYC FALL 2025

ICYMI... MJ Lenderman did a guest DJ set last week. Go back in time and listen to the show with our new show archives: archive.wxyc.org/?t=202507181...

Full playlist here: wxyc.info/playlists/ra...

Franklin Thompson - My Money's Kinda Funny YouTube video by tuberider1976

hell yeah

Thanks for the kind words!

🫡at your service

Demi, by Demi 2 track album

baby’s first deep listening mixtape in the wild, a few cassette copies left !! digital option too, support music from the outer realms softerrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/demi

(pronounced chick-chick-chick-chick)

Something was in the air last night…

Why thank you 🥰

Truth

Great job everyone! We got to 1k. Took a little longer than 2 minutes so you get 3 repeats. Listen at wxyc.org or on our app.

If we can get 1000 followers in the next 2 minutes I’ll play In The Air Tonight on repeat for 30 minutes.

lol clearly i'm still salty at the DTH's music coverage 15 years later 🙃

From R&B to indie rock: What Chapel Hill Town Council members love to listen to The Daily Tar Heel spoke with council members about their favorite tunes, albums and artists.

Who on town council wants to come play records on-air tonight?

www.dailytarheel.com/article/2025...

RIP MICHAEL HURLEY. the great snock has made his last wish for a potato. he made this planet a much better place to live & i miss him already

WXYC App info screen

New in our iOS app!

You can now make a song request directly from the app! Or if you're feeling lazy, ask Siri to do it for you by saying "make a request to WXYC".

bad joke thomas

elbow room is our middle name

Bumping this one more time. Event is this Saturday.

WXYC Alumni event post

Were you a DJ at WXYC?

Come reconnect, buy a fresh alphabet tee and meet more XYCers from times past and present this Saturday night at @catscradlenc.bsky.social.

RSVP here, and if you're no longer local, sign-up to get notified about future happenings: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Massive shoutout to @funlandresearch.bsky.social who did all of the work here and has been maintaining the app since 2010! The whole thing is open source, go steal it: github.com/WXYC/wxyc-io...

WXYC app now works with Carplay

WXYC now works on Apple Watch

Super Mega Ultra Groovy New Widgets

We have a big tech update this week. Our iOS app now works on:

🚗 Carplay!
⌚️ Apple Watch
📺 Apple TV
💻 MacOS

Plus, we added some groovy new homescreen widgets and fixed a bunch of bugs. Get it here!

Your mechanic's favorite radio station.

@wxyc.org just played something so rad. We thought our air conditioner was breaking in the office midway through a sick pop song, but it was actually part of the record.

Respected that Brecht game!

If we’re celebrating 50 years of music I want that disco to be loud as hell.

oh you thinking some kind of dance.... marathon? 😉

oh yeah that'd be awesome. the forest theatre on campus is also a much slept on venue. we've done some shows there before.

Yeah a fest would be tiptop. My current pie in the sky dream is to do it in the hangar of the decommissioned UNC airport.