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THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER TUESDAY APRIL 3 3E the latest on happening WCCJ goes hip-hop as ratings fade out for rhythmic oldies mnimaD TODAY Candye Kane "Toughest Girl Alive" Candye Kane returns to Charlotte with her big bluesy voice raunchy tunes and sassy attitude Double Door Inn 218 Independence Blvd 9:45 pm Covervaries (704) With new sound 927 takes on Power 98 IN THE LOOP Competition does nothing but make everybody better It will do nothing but help the community more through public Morning personality Don Russell and the rest of the DJs have left the air and the station will be all-music for a few weeks while new talent is hired Kwei said Radio One is looking to see if it has openings in some of its other markets for them Radio One is known nationally for its strong urban programming It has 66 stations in 22 states In local ratings WCCJ was No 13 in the market among all listeners and had lost nearly 20 percent of its audience in the fall ratings over the same period a year earlier WPEG WCCJ and WBAV are the biggest players on the FM dial for the African American audience which is 28 percent of Mecklenburg population according to the latest census WPEG program director Andre Carson said the new format would compete directly with his station but there were no plans to change anything going to continue to give our audience the best music and most familiar artists we can he said Reach Mark Washburn at (704) 358-5007 or e-mail mwashbumchar lotteobservercom By MARK WASHBURN TVRadio Writer The volume of music shot up Monday in the Charlotte area with a format change at WCCJ (927 FM) The station which had specialized in rhythmic oldies from the and switched to a faster-paced sound rhythmic oldies format has been declining in said Debbie Kwei WCCJ general manager ratings have demonstrated Kwei said the nickname will be and it is seeking approval from the FCC to change its call letters to WCHH for want a fresh different unique she said It is the third format in two years In August 1999 WCCJ switched from smooth jazz to the rhythmic oldies The new format which features a universe of artists from Jennifer Lopez to Eminem to Snoop Doggy Dogg to Child has proven popular in urban areas across the nation and is the format for the Charlotte No 1 station WPEG 979 FM) Kwei who was the sales manager at Infinity WPEG before moving to Radio WCCJ last year says she has great respect for the competitor is managed and programmed by fantastic people 376-1446 Linda Sutton Inspired by a visit to the Double Door Inn Charlotte poet Linda Sutton recorded an album of poems about spirituality intersecting with sensuality The disc the strings blends poetry with jazz funk and soul instrumentation Tonic 1427 Fourth St 10 pm $3-5 (704) 347-2582 WEDNESDAY Country Western Bill Rank Outsider Bill Noonan is spicing up his longtime midweek gig: He Bill" decked out in cowboy duds) and sidekick Walpole on lap steel (attired appropriately) will crank out weekly shows featuring the best of cowpoke country music Bayou Kitchen 1958 Seventh St 8 pm No cover (704) 332-2256 Rachelle Ferrell Rachelle Ferrell is a crossover artist who's equally at home with urban contemporary pop gospel classical music and jazz Comedy Zone 5317 Independence Blvd 7:30 and 10 pm (704) 568-HAH A or wwwcomedyzone charlottecom THURSDAY Papa Roach Alt-metal rockers Papa Roach creep into Charlotte fora show with Alien Ant Farm and Snap-case Grady Cole Center 301 Kings Drive $22 $20 (704) 522-6500 ACDC lead singer Brian Johnson (left) sang chatted and danced two-hour show Saturday night Angus Young (check out the Band stop moving throughout the show (The (Charlotte Observer DANIEL COSTONSpecial to The Observer his way through the Aids on his knees) U2 fans join in the fun from the rest room Sights and sounds from the U2 concert last week at tiie Charlotte Coliseum: Zealous fans holding up their mobile phones so their friends could hear the show Women in the rest room cursing their timing as they heard the opening chords of They started singing along as they quickly dried their hands and ran back to their seats Superstar record producer Daniel Lanois hanging out at the soundboard Besides Bono and the boys Lanois has worked with Bob Dylan Emmylou Harris Peter Gabriel Luscious Jack-son and Willie Nelson Lil Bow Wow Journey plan Charlotte shows Pollstarcom says Train will play Tremont Music Hall on May 7 Lil Bow Wow will play Cricket Arena on May 19 Enuff Poison Quiet Riot and Warrant will rock out the hairspray metal at Verizon Wireless Ampith-eatre on June 5 Bad Company Billy Squier and Styx will share a bill at Verizon on June 22 and Journey and Peter Frampton roll into town for a show at Verizon on June 23 Did you see a celeb at the Harris Teeter? 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Call your shameless pal the Loopster and we'll do the dirty work Call (704) 358-5158 or e-mail entertainmentchar-lotteobservercom BEST BETS ON THE DIAL TODAY Fear of the unknown The detectives of don't like the icy tough detective who replaces Lt Fancy and then -bingo their prayers are answered and she leaves And then they start worrying about their next leader (10 pmWSOC Channel 9) Esai Morales joins the cast Apple producers and the Grove Park Inn Spa are featured on (7:30 pm Channel 58 WUNG) David Copperfield runs through magical tricks then stands in the middle of a 25-fbot-tall fiery cyclone on CBS's Tornado of Fire" (8 pm WBTV Channel 3) Trouble trouble trouble was the real story of the making of as revealed on (8 pm AMC) Judith (Delta Burke) quits smoking and becomes an anti-tobacco zealot on (8:30 WCNC Channel 36) Hodges teams with Hootie to help SC music ed Hootie the Blowfish and SC Gov Jim Hodges have something to hoot about a music education campaign As part of the the partnership with VH1 and Time Warner Cable new and used musical instruments will be collected and distributed to schools The VH1 Save The Music Foundation works with local cable systems public school boards and administrators to restore instrumental music programs that have been dismantled The program has donated more than $10 million worth of musical instruments to 530 public schools in 40 cities since its creation in 1997 The program will help people realize grades drop when music programs are lost said Rusty Harmon Hootie the Blowfish manager Hodges has the feeling lately he also recently signed a bill to make beach music the official popular music of South Carolina The law makes beach music the second official state music In 1999 Hodges signed legislation giving that designation to the spirituaL which in dollars might have cost $400 million to make Mankiewicz shot the production as two three-hour films the first linking Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison) with Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor) and the second introducing Marc Antony (Richard Burton) In the hands of Daryl Za-nuck who took over the studio as the film was being finished the two parts became one at roughly half the running time The new DVD version comes in at 246 minutes Cleaner set of films is due out in June Warner has announced a June release date for a new DVD collection of seven Stanley Kubrick films: "A Clockwork Lyndon" Metal A Space Odyssey" and Wide contribution to swords and sandals is not among them but it will be released on April 24 by the Criterion Collection Warner had put the same seven films out on disc last year but aficionados howled at the image quality The new set has been cleaned up by digital technolog There is also a fine documentary about Kubnck by Jan Harlan a longtime associate New York Times Veiled in enough symbolism to make a religious skin crawl a sold-out crowd at the Charlotte Coliseum jumped on board the ride that is ACDC on Saturday While some fans broke out lighters most relied on red blinking devil horns (yours for only $8 in the concourse) to show their love From the opening strains of Shook Me All Night to the cannon-firing close of Those About to Rock (We Salute the boys in the band showed incredible enthusiasm and en-ergy given their relative age (mid-40s to 50s) Guitarist Angus Young's stage antics drew awe from the Loopster-he simply stop moving during the two-hour show: jumping running and even stripping (we could have done without that mighty skinny and small) Theatrics were front and center all night from the monster moving statue of Angus that spit smoke had glowing eyes and retractable horns to tire inflatable stripper that gyrated on stage during Whole Lotta Not to be outdone lead singer Brian Johnson worked the catwalk like a pro jumping on and riding a giant bell for the start of Johnson scored major points with the crowd he appeared on stage for the encore in a Dale Earnhardt tank top ot wso nd of Arabia bow today Everything about DVD just 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