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Come Hear NC On Songs We Love: Sonic Youth's 'Chapel Hill'

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Amanda DeCadenet
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We've teamed up with Come Hear NC on a podcast series that explores North Carolina music one song at a time. This week, Merge Records recording artist H.C. McEntire talks about the Sonic Youth song 'Chapel Hill.' It's a song that paints a picture of what the indie rock scene was like in the early '90s and was a lot of people's first impression of the town.

"I knew about Chapel Hill just because that's where we'd have to drive to go to any shows. There's just this lore."

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H.C. McEntire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFmd-8Z-UJk

Eric Hodge hosts WUNC’s broadcast of Morning Edition, and files reports for the North Carolina news segments of the broadcast. He started at the station in 2004 doing fill-in work on weekends and All Things Considered.
Brian Burns is the WUNC music reporter
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