WNCW is proud to welcome our new Programming and Operations Director, Shane German. Shane is settling into his new role, and you’ll be hearing him on the air in the very near future - and definitely in our Fall Pledge drive coming up next week. Please join us in welcoming Shane to the WNCW family.

Martin Anderson caught up with Jay Cobb Anderson, Mimi Naja, and Kellen Asebroek of the band Fruition at AmericanaFest in Nashville last month. Tune in as they talk about their recent decision to split up this winter and the making of their new album Something More, and listen to acoustic versions of a couple of their new songs that they played at East Iris Studios in Nashville during the festival. Fruition plays the Grey Eagle in Asheville Thursday at 8pm, during this Final Tour of theirs!

Get ready for some “Swampytonkin’” music, as Paige calls it. Raised on a farm near the muddy banks of the Mississippi River, the Austin-based singer-songwriter and pianist is back with her second full-length album, Swampwater. Recorded at Austin’s famed Finishing School and produced by Jonathan Tyler, Swampwater is a raw collection born from personal experiences, navigating love, loss, heartbreak, and grief, before ultimately heading to the honky-tonk to sing the blues away.

Ezra Collective's latest album, their 4th, is the most ambitious and personal record of their career - conceived as a body of work split into three spiritual and geographical movements, the album traces the movement of Black people across continents and decades, from the music of Africa to the rhythms of the Caribbean, and home to the streets of London. Formed in the youth clubs of London, Mercury Prize and BRIT Award winners Femi Koleoso (drummer and bandleader), TJ Koleoso (bassist), Joe Armon-Jones (keyboardist), James Mollison (saxophonist), and Ife Ogunjobi (trumpet) have now spent over a decade making jazz joyful, urgent and undeniable.

Hailing from Austin, Texas, The Animeros craft a genre-blending sound with their distinctive style and captivating live shows, as captured on this new Easy Eye Sound/Concord release. South Texas soul and 1960s Columbian cumbia rhythms meet up in a gritty barroom in Mexico, where the drinks flow and the dance floor is electric. “The psychedelic cumbia/chichi sorcerers lay down a 60s/70s fuzz bomb of South American mania.” –The Austin Chronicle

We are so excited to announce that the new transmitter that has been years in the making, has been installed! The bad news is that we will be off the air for about 4 hours this Wednesday evening, starting at 8:00 to make the switch. If all goes well, the transmitter will be live before midnight. In the meantime, the Jar of Jam will still be accessible via our stream and WSIF in Wilkesboro.

October 24, 2026 | Coach Music Factory/Peace Center | Greenville, SC

October 30, 2026 | Peace Center | Greenville, SC

October 19, 2026 | Neighborhood Theatre | Charlotte, NC

October 9, 2026 | First Baptist Church Asheville | Asheville, NC