We just wanna keep you posted on what’s coming up in music and what’s going on at the station. There’s usually quite a lot. Welcome to What’s Up Wednesdays.

Friday Album Releases:

• The highly-anticipated In Times New Roman… by Queens of the Stone Age will be out Friday. We play “Emotion Sickness” here on the station but that surely only scratches the surface of the first album Queens of the Stone Age have released since Villians in 2017. Frontman Josh Homme has been through many tumultuous life events in the intervening time (including but not limited to a rough divorce, a custody battle, and cancer), which will surely make for an emotional series of songs. Homme told Revolver “Over the last couple years, I’ve done a lot of therapy, but at the end of the day, I understand how to proceed, moving forward with the religion that I use — music.” 
• Django Django are officially releasing the final collected album Off Planet, an album presented in four parts (each part a different planet). The band have pivoted sounds yet again, this time taking cues from ’90s house music.  
• Killer Mike releases his first solo album in eleven years with Michael. The album features Killer Mike’s school photo from when he was nine years old and promises to tell the story of a nine-year-old growing up in Atlanta with dreams of becoming a rapper.
• After a year of heavy releases in 2022, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard release their first album of 2023, PetroDragonic Apocalypse
  or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation.
• Yusuf/Cat Stevens is releasing King of a Land, an album he has been working on for a decade which is themed around the idea of peace.
• Deer Tick return with Emotional Contracts.
• Bright Eyes are issuing three EP companions to their most recent albums.

Upcoming Events:

In case you haven’t had a chance to check out our events calendar, here are the events coming up this week:

• The “Interwoven” event is taking place at Riffe Gallery all the way through July 7th. This event is a celebration of fiber and the many forms it takes. Artists included utilize fiber to “explore topics such as contemporary culture, personal narratives, influences, and emotions that lie just below the surface of our consciousnesses.”

6/14

• Visit East Market TODAY for 6-1-4 Day! Our own Grayson Kelly will be on-site from 4 pm-6 pm, broadcasting live! You can also hang out with the CD 92.9 FM Scene Team and shop a variety of local vendors at East Market until 8 pm.

6/15

• Experience BAM Thursdays at the Columbus Museum of Art. Enjoy live music, great art, delicious bites, vendors and fresh libations in their garden space, as well as free general admission to the gallery from 5-9 pm.
• Every Thursday, you can still catch Flower Power over at Shadowbox Live! If you miss it Thursday, no worries! You can always catch the matinee on Sundays at 2 pm.
• Bonaroo kicks off in Manchester, Tennessee!

6/16

• Palace performs in our Big Room at noon, ahead of their show that night at the Newport Music Hall with openers Human Barbie. You can hear it on the airwaves at 3 pm!
• Grayson will be broadcasting live from Bonaroo from 3 pm-7 pm.

6/17

• The June edition of Front Street Flea will be taking place in our very own CD 92.9 FM parking lot! Shop local vendors who have everything from hot sauce to disco balls with cowboy hats! Last time, someone even had tomato-flavored macarons for sale! You can’t get that just anywhere! Artists, crafters, and resellers will be on site for a different kind of flea market you won’t want to miss. Visit for free from 11 am-4 pm, presented by the Greater Columbus Arts Council’s Columbus Makes Art.
• Young the Giant take the Stage at KEMBA Live! with Milky Chance and TALK.
• Or you can catch Ben Folds at The Rose Music Center in Huber Heights!
• Momma are playing a SOLD OUT show at the Rumba Cafe.

6/18

• As mentioned above, you can catch a matinee performance of Flower Power over at Shadowbox Live at 2 pm!

6/21

• Pierce the Veil and The Used play at the Andrew J. Brady Music Center with support from Don Bronco and Girlfriends.

Here at the station:

You still have chances this week to win tickets with all of the weekday DJs:

• Brian Phillips will be sending lucky winners to “Dinner and a Show.” He’s got tickets to Blue October at KEMBA Live! along with a $25 gift card to Skyline Chilli!
• Brian can get you into the Nickelback show at the Riverbend Music Center on September 30th if you are the lucky caller.
• Brian and Laura both have Big Room passes for Palace on Friday, June 16th. 
• Laura can send you Out For Lunch with tickets to see Dirty Heads with Lupe Fiasco, G. Love and Special Sauce along with a $25 gift card to Old Mohawk.
• Laura also has tickets to the recently-announced Smashing Pumpkins show at PNC Pavillion on September 5th. 
• Grayson (and Tom, filling in for him tomorrow) are giving away pairs of tickets to see Metric on June 30th and BoyWithUke September 21st at Newport Music Hall, as well as tickets to the just-announced 1975 show at Nationwide Arena on November 3rd.
• They also have tickets to pick your headliner at Louder Than Life music festival at the Kentucky Exposition Center.
• Tom Butler (and Nate, filling in for him tomorrow) have tickets to Wheatus at The Basement on August 18th.
• Tom Butler (and Nate) can also get lucky winners into The Big Room to see Codefendants next Friday, June 23rd.

Plus:

• TONIGHT at 9 pm on Frontstage, Tom Butler plays two songs back-to-back from Paper Airplane!
• THURSDAY: Tune in all day for another No-Repeat Thursday brought to you by Columbus Museum of Art.
• THIS WEEKEND: Catch three songs at the top of every hour from the men who shaped rock music as we know it today! The Fathers of Modern Rock specialty weekend (brought to you by Dad’s Coneys and Wraps) kicks off Friday at 7 pm and runs through Sunday at 9 pm. Celebrate Father’s Day with CD 92.9 FM and Dad’s Coneys and Wraps!
• Summer merch is out in our store so you can make sure everyone knows you’re listening to the hottest radio station and keeping cool through the summer. There’s a camping shirt AND a bucket hat. Need I say more?
• Don’t forget to sign up for a lounge account so you can get started with those 929 lounge points. And, of course, keep tuned in for lounge tips because you never know what concerts you might be able to win tickets to or who will be in The Big Room next!

–Just Emma (JustEmma@CD929FM.com)