Alternative Radio Coalition

Sunday, Midnight - 5am and Monday, Midnight - 4am
Rotating Hosts

A variety of hosts. A variety of music. WNCW's Alternative Radio Coalition (ARC) - anchored by Rob Daves during the week and hosted by dedicated volunteers and students from Isothermal Community College on the weekends - reaches out to the night owl in us all, exploring the familiar, the unfamiliar and the unexpected...guiding the third-shifters, up-all-nighters and insomniacs though the wee hours.

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Playlist

June 03, 2012

12:00 AM
Jaya Shiva Shankara
Artist : Namaste
Album : Magical Healing Mantras
Composer : Traditional
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12:10 AM
Angelika
Artist : Devendra Banhart
Album : What Will We Be
Composer : Devendra Banhart
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12:14 AM
Motherly Love
Artist : The Mothers of Invention
Album : Freak Out
Composer : Frank Zappa
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12:17 AM
Downbound Train
Artist : Kurt Vile
Album : Smoke Ring For My Halo
Composer : Bruce Springsteen
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12:21 AM
Chet Boghassa
Artist : Tinariwen
Album : Amassakoul
Composer : Alhousseini Abdoulah
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12:25 AM
Wild
Artist : Beach House
Album : Bloom
Composer : Victoria Legend
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12:32 AM
Poem 58
Artist : Chicago Transit Authority
Album : Chicago Transit Authority
Composer : Robert Lamm
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12:41 AM
Ignite
Artist : The Raveonettes
Album : Raven In The Grave
Composer : Sune Rose Wagner
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12:45 AM
Strangers When We Meet
Artist : The Smithereens
Album : Especially For You
Composer : Pat Dinizio
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12:49 AM
Se Lest
Artist : Sigur Ros
Album : Takk
Composer : Jonsi Birgisson
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1:00 AM
Second Song
Artist : TV On The Radio
Album : Nine Types of Light
Composer : TV On The Radio
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1:02 AM
Fake Pretend
Artist : Carter Tanton
Album : Free Clouds
Composer : Carter Tanton
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1:07 AM
Get Happy
Artist : Art Tatum
Album : Decca Presents Art Tatum
Composer : Fats Waller
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1:10 AM
A Man Alone
Artist : Aaron Freeman
Album : Marvelous Clouds
Composer : Aaron Freeman
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1:15 AM
Your Love Is Calling My Name
Artist : The War On Drugs
Album : Slave Ambient
Composer : Adam Granduciel
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1:21 AM
Private Idaho
Artist : The B-52’s
Album : Wild Planet
Composer : The B-52's
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1:25 AM
Slander
Artist : River City Extension
Album : Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Your Anger
Composer : Joe Michlini
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1:28 AM
Nefertiti
Artist : Miles Davis
Album : Nefertiti
Composer : Wayne Shorter
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1:39 AM
Piece of It
Artist : Emily Wells
Album : Mama
Composer : Emily Wells
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1:42 AM
Ragam Tanam Pallavi
Artist : Shankar
Album : Illuminations
Composer : Shankar
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1:48 AM
Just Try
Artist : Soulsavers
Album : The Light The Dead Can See
Composer : Dave Gahan
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1:52 AM
Raining Blood
Artist : Tori Amos
Album : Strange Little Girls
Composer : Jeff Henneman & Kerry King
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2:00 AM
Incantation
Artist : Loreena McKennitt
Album : An Ancient Muse
Composer : Loreena McKennitt
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2:02 AM
Let’s Be Still
Artist : Yo La Tengo
Album : Summer Sun
Composer : Yo La Tengo
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2:12 AM
Major Spillage
Artist : White Rainbow
Album : New Clouds
Composer : Adam Forkner
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2:25 AM
Ruby
Artist : Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate
Album : Ali & Toumani
Composer : Ali Farka Toure
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2:30 AM
AJ’s Mood
Artist : Shawn Lee
Album : Synthesizers In Space
Composer : Shawn Lee
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2:34 AM
Sunrise Over Haleakala
Artist : Merl Saunders
Album : Blues From The Rainforest
Composer : Merl Saunders
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2:42 AM
Rope On Fire
Artist : Morphine
Album : The Night
Composer : Mark Sandman
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2:49 AM
Desire Lines
Artist : Deerhunter
Album : Halcyon Digest
Composer : Bradford Cox
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2:56 AM
Blue
Artist : Joni Mitchell
Album : Blue
Composer : Joni Mitchell
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3:00 AM
Morning Comes
Artist : Koushik
Album : Out My Window
Composer : Koushik Gosh
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3:02 AM
The Gateway
Artist : Ahmad Ebadi
Album : The Tree of Life
Composer : Ahmad Ebadi
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3:10 AM
Dark Star
Artist : Grateful Dead
Album : Live Dead
Composer : Robert Hunter & Jerry Garcia
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3:23 AM
Shamanic Journey
Artist : Blue Eagle
Album : Earth Drums
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3:21 AM
Nanafushi
Artist : Kodo
Album : Ibuki
Composer : Kodo
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3:27 AM
Sweet Tides
Artist : Thievery Corporation
Album : Radio Retaliation
Composer : Thievery Corporation
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3:32 AM
Rocket Number Nine Take Off For The Planet Venus
Artist : Sun Ra
Album : Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth
Composer : Sun Ra
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3:38 AM
Thumri
Artist : Sarangi
Album : The Music of India
Composer : Sarangi
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3:48 AM
Day Is Done
Artist : Nick Drake
Album : Five Leaves Left
Composer : Nick Drake
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3:50 AM
Quick Canal
Artist : Atlas Sound
Album : Logos
Composer : Bradford Cox
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4:00 AM
La Femme D’Argent
Artist : Air
Album : Moon Safari
Composer : J.B. Dunckel & N. Godin
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4:07 AM
The Stride Set
Artist : Bill Laswell
Album : Emerald Aether: Shape Shifting
Composer : Bill Laswell
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4:13 AM
I Don’t Wanna Talk
Artist : Emmylou Harris
Album : Red Dirt Girl
Composer : Emmylou Harris
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4:18 AM
Embraceable You
Artist : George Gershwin
Album : Rhapsody In Blue
Composer : George Gershwin
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4:21 AM
Sun Ship
Artist : John Coltrane
Album : Sun Ship
Composer : John Coltrane
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4:27 AM
Fright Night
Artist : Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
Album : Before Today
Composer : Ariel Pink
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4:30 AM
Seal Beach
Artist : The Album Leaf
Album : Seal Beach
Composer : Jimmy LaValle
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4:34 AM
Who Knows Where The Time Goes
Artist : Fairport Convention
Album : Unhalfbricking
Composer : Sandy Denny
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4:40 AM
Varud
Artist : Sigur Ros
Album : Valtari
Composer : Jonsi Birgisson
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4:47 AM
Cruel Sparks
Artist : Hammock
Album : Longest Year
Composer : Mark Byrd & Andrew Thompson
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4:50 AM
Save The Last Verse For Me
Artist : Dead Heart Bloom
Album : Chelsea Diaries
Composer : Boris Skalsky
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9:30 am
Fri January 4, 2013

Upcoming Interview on ARC - Invisible

Sunday night/Monday morning on ARC, Jaclyn Anthony will interview Invisible.  Invisible has been touring the region for six years with a truck full of artstruments.  Click here for more information on Invisible.

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10:24 am
Fri October 5, 2012

Podcast - Interview with Marshall Ballew

Listen here to the entire interview between Joe Kendrick and Marshall Ballew.

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4:19 pm
Wed October 3, 2012

Interview with Marshall Ballew On ARC Overnight Tonight

Marshall Ballew was WNCW's beloved morning mix host for many years, but he was also the first DJ for World Alternative on October 13th, 1989, WNCW's first day of broadcasting. Join midday host Joe Kendrick in this conversation with Marshall as he recalls he early days of World Alternative and ARC Overnight, how WNCW was almost an exclusively acoustic station, his love of playing music like Captain Beefheart, Laurie Anderson, The Connels and Pylon late at night, how he still buys cassettes and much more.

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6:00 am
Wed October 3, 2012

Interview with Dick Huey - Podcast

Listen to the interview with Dick Huey, founding member of the Alternative Radio Coalition, that was aired Tuesday night on ARC Overnight.

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10:57 am
Mon October 1, 2012

Tuesday Night on ARC: WNCW interviews Dick Huey, founding member of the Alternative Radio Coalition

Dick Huey was one of the original eight people from Charlotte who created the Alternative Radio Coalition, which debuted ARC Overnight on WNCW 20 years ago this fall. Tune in to Rob Daves' show Tuesday night/Wednesday morning October 2nd/3rd, just after midnight, for Joe Kendrick's conversation with him about his role as membership director of ARC, his memories of the music of the era, and his music career since then. 

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12:55 pm
Tue September 25, 2012

ARC Overnight Feature

Join WNCW's Joe Kendrick as he talks with Markey Austin about her memories of the early days of ARC Overnight, the wave of alternative and regional music from the era, and her return to the airwaves October 7th with co-host "Mad Dog" Sherril Ward as they celebrate the 20th anniversary of ARC on the air.

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10:00 am
Tue September 4, 2012

ARC Overnight To Celebrate Its 20th Anniversary

Twenty years ago, WNCW signed off the air at 2 a.m. each weekday before coming back on air at 6 a.m. in the morning. A group from Charlotte came over to Spindale and changed all that in the fall of 1992, bringing ARC Overnight to the airwaves and making WNCW a 24-hour station.

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9:50 am
Tue September 4, 2012

Special Interview With Jay Sanders On ARC Overnight - Tuesday, September 4th

Join Joe Kendrick on ARC Overnight next Tuesday night, September 4th during Rob Daves' show.  He will interview Jay Sanders of Asheville's E. Normus Trio, upon the release of his new album of all-original jazz, Love & Barbiturates. 

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12:58 pm
Thu July 12, 2012

ARC Overnight Volunteers Travel From East Tennessee

Keith and Cathy Shockley travel from Knoxville, TN, to volunteer for WNCW's late-night show, ARC Overnight. This is exceptional, but what makes their story even more memorable is that Keith is legally blind, and hosts the show with Cathy working alongside him as co-producer.
 

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