Northwestern’s student-run radio station WNUR will be holding a kickoff concert featuring two prominent local bands this Sunday on Norris East Lawn.

WNUR is the largest student-run station in the country, according to WNUR representatives. The station sets itself apart by aiming to play music that is underrepresented by most outlets, seating more and more independent music each year.

“We try to play music that if we weren’t playing it, you wouldn’t hear it anywhere else,” says Doug Kaplan, a Communication junior and general manager of WNUR.

This kickoff concert is the first one for WNUR in recent years and will hopefully increase awareness of the station.

“We’re better known in the community than in the school, so we’re just [trying] to gain awareness for WNUR and have fun,” Kaplan says.

The concert will also work to help integrate new DJs into the station and get them excited about the year to come. Prepping a concert is a side of the radio station that’s different from the day-to-day schedule of shows.

“It’s a different aspect of getting to work with a radio station,” says Kate Watson, a Weinberg junior and the phonathon director for WNUR. “Not just doing your own show, but doing promotions and planning events.”

This year’s concert features two local bands, Owen and Joan of Arc. The bands individually feature the Kinsella brothers, Mike and Tim respectively, who have been active and influential members of the Chicago music scene since the mid-’90s. The Kinsellas have been playing in bands together for years: Cap’n Owl, Joan of Arc and Owls, to name a few.

Owen, Mike Kinsella’s solo project, will take the stage at 3 p.m. Listeners can expect a mellow, folk-based sound with plenty of acoustics. Mike’s softer sound might segue oddly into Joan of Arc’s harsher, experimental indie rock. Tim Kinsella is Joan of Arc’s only permanent member. Since the band is not a very active project, it has an elastic, continually shifting 11-person lineup. People can expect around five or six performers for Sunday.

“They’re really important local bands that we’ve been playing on WNUR for years,” Kaplan said. “They’re bands we really like, that are fun and that are popular in Chicago.”

The concert will be broadcast live on WNUR, 89.3 FM or streamed online. In case of rain or unseasonably cold temperature, the concert will be moved to the Louis Room. Students interested in WNUR should contact the general manager at gm@wnur.org.