SHUT THE PUNK UP

[dirkfunk]

So as some of you know, Alyssa and I occasionally fill in for DOUG CHAOS on his 6-8pm SHUT THE PUNK UP show, Saturdays on 88.1 WKNC. I'm making this thread just for general awareness and letting y'all know when we do the show and such.

Tonight 2/22 is a GO. Tune in, got alotta cool stuff lined up. You can listen via your standard FM radio tuned to 88.1 if you got one and your'e in Raleigh, or you can harness 21st century technology and direct your browser of choice to wknc.org/listen/ and check it out thattaway. The playlist is updated in REAL TIME at wknc.org/playlist/

Requests! If you wanna make a request, you can do it here, you can call in, you can text me or Alyssa, go for it. Please check it for SWEARS and general Naughtiness beforehand though. Hell as a noun is A-OK. "Piss Off" as a phrase is kosher BUT piss as a noun is NOT. Ass is assceptable but ASSHOLE is NOT! Wild stuff!..

Thank You For Your Consideration..!

[GingerBeard]

Sick! I'll be jamming y'all at Sorry State tonight!

Swearing rules are weird....

[dirkfunk]

As the show is broadcast on an FCC compliant frequency, shows have to maintain FCC compliancy... And the FCC has dumb fucking censorship rules. I think there's a NOFX song about it.

[whereswallace]

Sweet. Something to listen to while the wife is yelling at the Syracuse vs Duke game.

How long has Doug Chaos been up there? I did "Out of Step" on Saturday nights, 6-9pm in the late 90s/early aughts and I think "Shut the Punk Up" started my last year at State, in a 3pm-5pm slot. Once we made Nightwave the predominant format over hard rock, I used the Saturday night space to play more underground stuff.

My favorite FCC faux pas was throwing up Los Crudos, thinking it was fine, as all their songs were in Spanish. I forgot that the first cut of the split with Spitboy was their only English song: "We're That Spic Band." Someone called and was like "You know you're saying 'BULLSHIT' on the air?"

Is D-Cutta still doing the Saturday night Underground format?

If you've got it, play something by Bad Sports!

[whereswallace]

Correction, not the Spitboy split, but the LP!

[whereswallace]

Here's why Bikini Kill isn't at WKNC:

When I was Music Director, I actually had to beg a radio rep to send their discography, which wasn't hard, as they were hoping to plug Hanna's new band, Le Tigre. There were actually a few DJs (and a Program Director) that were really against them—they were a really polarizing band back then, and the station culture was still really macho. The CDs didn't last a month in the library. I was really pissed about that.

In retaliation, when Bratmobile's second record came out, I put it right in Heavy Rotation.

[ayepee]

I'm not 100% sure, but I'm thinking Doug Chaos started Shut the Punk Up sometime in the mid, single-digit 2000s. (I'm making this guess based on the show's music collection, which has not been updated since this time.)

D-Cutta was still doing the Saturday night underground up until last semester. He had a baby last year so I think he may be spending the wee hours of his Saturday night doing that instead of playing the illest of underground. Major bummer because his show was always so well done and his promos were awesome.

Thanks for the background on the absence of Bikini Kill. The station's collective memory is so short it's great to hear about the olden days from KNC expats.

Despite your efforts, someone also managed to blast Bratmobile from the station's library. The indie library has "Rebel Girl" while the punk library boasts one track by Tsunami Bomb and two by the Distillers anddddd that's pretty much it for female-fronted bands. There may be a few tracks by the Donnas or something hiding in there. Eesh.

Thanks for listening in! If you listen in on a week I'm not running it, prepare for two hours of the Ramones, Alkaline Trio, Bad Religion, Rancid, and Green Day in heavy rotation.

[GingerBeard]

Feb 23, 2014 9:01:40 GMT -5 ayepee said:

Thanks for listening in! If you listen in on a week I'm not running it, prepare for two hours of the Ramones, Alkaline Trio, Bad Religion, Rancid, and Green Day in heavy rotation.

Not to mention Reel Big Fish and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones!  I've even heard him play crap like The Starting Line.... So lame haha...

[whereswallace]

Whoa, I was the one who created the "punk rock" section in the library. Didn't think that would have sustained after all these years, much less KNC even keeping a library of physical music. One of the battles I lost was keeping vinyl there—they purged over half the selection one weekend of my senior year there. The punk section is measly not because of Doug's fault, but there just isn't a lot of radio support for punk bands. The ones that do were bands that jumped to major labels or Warped Tour bullshit. At that time, "indie rock" was still kind of an alternative to "alternative," so that was where the interesting stuff was in terms of radio support.

I always speculated that Shut the Punk Up got started because there were some complaints that my show wasn't "punk" enough. Since we had changed the WKNC format to Nightwave, I shifted Out of Step to play more underground stuff. Bad Religion's new album would go into daytime rotation, and if I got requests, I'd just be like "Nah, but I'll try something you'd like" and play more obscure stuff like Dillinger Four (this was pre-Fat Wreck) or Discount. People called it elitist, I just called it giving exposure.

The Donnas and Distillers should definitely be in there, as I still remember putting those bands into rotation. Sleater Kinney, too, as they were one of the first bands to get a huge response when I put them into heavy rotation and was a "I told you so" moment for me and the brass.

Bummed to hear about D-Cutta. He was consistently an hour late and I loved going through the Underground library to fill the time before he showed up. And when he did, that dude would just shame my ass by knocking it out of the park. I spent my Saturday nights just working in the back office because his show was so good. That, and Raleigh was fucking boring back then.

[catdad]

Request: Anal Cunt's 'Caring About Anything is Gay'