WXYC

WXYC has been Chapel Hill's college radio staple since the 1970s, and it's still as unpredictable as ever. Listen to WXYC online and you'll hear a span of genres that defies categorization. One hour it's obscure post-punk from 1982, the next it's field recordings of insects. The DJs have free rein. Some sets are brilliant and others are train wrecks. That's the charm. This is Music radio United States style: no algorithms, no focus groups, just human curation with all its quirks. The station's freeform philosophy means you might catch a deep cut from The Replacements followed by an experimenta…