It’s February and that means it’s time for another by:Larm festival in cold but beautiful Oslo, Norway. Wait, you have never heard of the by:Larm fest? And yes, I said Norway, as in Scandinavia. Well, we here at the Future Of Rock N’ Roll are always trying to bring you the best of whats next, and sometimes, we travel far and wide to bring it to you. That’s why next week, Joe will be traveling all the way to Oslo, Norway, along with Larry from Future Sounds to bring you coverage from this years by:Larm festival.
The event itself has been taking place since 1998 in Norway, finally taking permanent residence in the capitol city of Oslo in 2008. It’s a music festival by night and a conference by day, so you might say it’s a smaller, colder, Scandinavian version of SXSW, or at least it has a comparable format, minus the day parties of course. The lineup for the festival is a great batch of interesting bands, although we know most of them you won’t be familiar with, at least not yet. So to get you more acclimated, here are the bands we are most excited about seeing next week in Norway along with some of their music for you to sample.
Seabear – This 7-piece band hails from Iceland and is getting ready to release their second album, We Built A Fire, in March on the Morr label. What started out as the lo-fi solo project of Icelandic singer/multi-instrumentalist Sindri Már Sigfússon’s (aka Sin Fang Bous) has now morphed into a full on indie pop celebration. In addition to playing by:Larm, Seabear will be making their US touring debut this year during SXSW.
Oh No Ono – Quickly becoming a WOXY favorite already, Oh No Ono are one of Denmarks most promising art-pop bands. Under The Radar magazine had this to say about the band.
“The second album by this Danish five-piece is the first to be released in the U.S., and it’s about time. Oh No Ono creates fantastical, experimental pop that knows no boundaries.”
Oh No Ono’s second album, the first to be released in the US, is out now from Friendly Fire Recordings.
Serena-Maneesh – Probably the most well known act on the bill, at least to us here in the States, has got to be Serena-Maneesh. After the success of their debut album in 2006, we haven’t heard much from the band, but the timing could not be better for this showcase in their home city because Serena-Maneesh have a brand new album on the way titled No. 2 : Abyss in B Minor due out March 22nd on 4AD Records.
Follow That Bird! began as an instrumental duo when Lauren Green and Tiffanie Lanmon were still in high school. The band evolved into a trio, vocals were added, and the current lineup took shape when Mitchell Tellstrom took over bass duties last year.
They’ve quickly become one of our favorite bands in Austin and their 10″ EP on Monofonus Press last fall earned a fair amount of airplay here at the station.
Now, they’ve got the lead track on Matador’s Casual Victim Pile: Austin 2010 compilation and are at least looking in the direction of a full-length album.
In this performance you’ll hear a few brand new tracks, a tune from their debut EP, one from the Monofonus Press 10″, and their recently released song, as featured on the Casual Victim Pile release, called “The Ghosts That Wake You.”
Tune in each week as Larry and John of Future Sounds bring you 2 hours of the top independent and unsigned bands.
Cherry Chapstick – The Drop – Silencer EP – Unsigned
What Laura Says – Training – Bloom Cheek – Unsigned
Nottee – Control – Kistune Maison Compilation 8 – Kitsune
Twin Shadow – Castles In The Snow – Demos – Terrible Records
Active Child – Wilderness – Single – RCRDLBL.COM
THE RUMBLE FEBRUARY PREVIEW
Jaguar Love – Polaroids & Red Wine – Hologram Jams – Fat Possum
Logan Lynn – The Last High – The Last High – Beat The World Records
My First Earthquake – Cool In The Cool Way – Downstairs – Unsigned
Butterfly Bones – XOXO – Pretty Feelings – Street Sauce Records
The Rhone Occupation – I Know I Did You Wrong – Would It Kill You To Talk This Out – Unsigned
THE RUMBLE FEBRUARY PREVIEW
Ultra Violent Lights – Sleep Now – Here In Filth – Unsigned
Kid Meets Cougar – It’s All In Your Head – For Breakfast – Unsigned
TV Torso – The Days Of Being Wild – The Days Of Being Wild 7” – Unsigned
Dirty Dancing – Black Blood – Mediocrity Is The Strongest Inevitability – Unsigned
The Happen-Ins – The Kids Don’t Dance – The Happen-Ins – Unsigned
The Satin Peaches – Well Well Well Well – Demos – Unsigned
Man/Miracle – Back Of The Card – The Shape Of Things – Big Hand Recordings
World’s Greatest Ghosts – Phantastes – No Magic – Lucky Madison Records
Hair Envelope – Largo Lagos – Demos – Unsigned
THE HOT 5
MNDR – C.L.U.B. – Single – Unsigned
Stornoway – Watching Birds – Stornoway – Unsigned
Regrets & Brunettes – Uh-Oh – At Night You Love Me – Unsigned
Follow That Bird! – The Ghosts That Wake You – Casual Victim Pile – Matador Records
Roadside Graves – Liv Tyler – You Won’t Be Happy With Me EP – Autumn Tone Records
On January 26, Matador Records will release Casual Victim Pile: Austin 2010, a compilation of Austin (and a bit of Denton) music. In February, WOXY and Austinist will join Matador in presenting a three-night showcase at Beerland celebrating the release.
The celebration is slated for February 4-6 at Beerland and includes Follow That Bird!, Dikes Of Holland, Kingdom Of Suicide Lovers, Distant Seconds, The Persimmons, Woven Bones, The Young, Wild America, Flesh Lights, Elvis, The No No No Hopes, Harlem, Golden Boys, Bad Sports, Love Collector, Stuffies and Lost Controls. That’s every band on the comp except Tre Orsi (who will be out of town) and The Teeners (broken up).
With a modest $5 cover for each night, we’re sure you’ll be able to squeeze in some tremendous local talent on all three evenings. Still unsure about whether or not you should show up? WOXY is giving away three-night passes between now and February 4: send us an email to woxycontests @ gmail.com and use the subject line Casual Victim Pile. We’ll let you know if you’ve won by Feb. 4.
Casual Victim Pile is still available for preorders from The Matador Store, double vinyl for the discount price of $15.30, single CD for $8.50.
Tune in to the Tuesday, January 5 episode of Local Lixx Austin, which will feature information about the shows as well as some teasers for the record.
This week on Local Lixx Cincinnati, we focus on the new album from Columbus, Ohio, collective The Super Desserts. The band just released a brand new album called Banjo Forever, and we have two new songs from the record to share. In addition, you get more new stuff from You, You’re Awesome, The Bellevue Project and our very first “Local Lixx Look Back.”
The Waiting Room is a 2 hour new music & non-sequitor chat show based out of Cardiff, Wales, UK. Co-hosted by the verbal miscreants one half of Drunk Country & The Woman of The House + the occasional guest, TWR delivers new bands, interviews & opinion at an alarming rate. All with an accent. Expect, then, music, blather, chaos & cheek.
Check out this weeks tracklisting and on-demand stream below.
John Mouse – Your Ass, Your Neck, Your Chest — or, Sex With You (Quickie Master)
The Treats – The Brief Ballad Of The So-So Kid
Puerto Muerto – Arcadia
Danny & The Champions Of The World – Your People
Rachael Dadd – Table
Pony The Pirate – Psychopedia
The Idaho Falls – Holding On To Your Name
Analog Rebellion – Brain ≠ Heart (I Need To Know)
Basia Bulat – Run
The Tallest Man On Earth – King Of Spain
UTE – Panic–Float
These New Puritans – Attack Music
Fragments Of Winter – Astonishing
Comaneci – Sleep Baby Slip
Jose Vanders – The Numbers Game
The Bears Of Blue River – Me, Me, Me
Galapaghost – You’re All I Need
Woozy Viper – Love Scented Candles
The Penny Black Remedy – You have Wasted Your Life, Now Please Stop Wasting Your Money
The Sleepy Trees – You Make Me Nervous
The Sandwitches – No No
Fredrik – Vinterbarn
The Secret Love Parade – Always You
Erland & The Carnival – The Sweeter The Girl The Harder I Fall
The Magic Theatre – Steamroller
Francis – I Was Never Bored At All
We kicked off our local residency series at Stubb’s back in November with Neon Indian, and now we’re back at the same venue for another installment of the WOXY Local Residency series.
This time, we’re excited to welcome one of our favorite local bands, the Golden Boys and the Crooks. The latest and fourth Golden Boys record, Thee Electric Wolfman is a “shambolic collection of party rockers and soulful wailers.” They’re a lot of fun — especially live — and we can’t wait to ramble through some punk rock with them on March 11. The Crooks will be on the road in early March before returning home to rock with us at Stubb’s.
The Trala-Lala Radio Hour is our newest show, hosted by Ben, Jeff and Jocie of The Low Anthem. We’ll let Ben give you the background:
Long before Low Anthem, Jeff and I used to DJ the graveyard shift on WBRU (Providence, RI). So, starting on January 31, we’re going to be doing a weekly program on WOXY. It’ll be fun to revisit. We’re calling it Trala-Lala Radio Hour and here’s the idea: we’re going to tape our shows from the tour van or wherever we may be traveling. Every week will feature a different theme based on God knows what and we’ll have “in studio” performances from guest artists if we can find any musicians who are cool enough to record live in a Ford Econoline…
THEME: RAMBLERS AND BROKEN HOMES
Tracklist -
Professor Longhair, Tipitina
John Prine, The Hobo Song
Jackson C. Frank, Blues Run the Game
Bob Dylan, I Threw It All Away
Captain Beefheart, Yellow Brick Road
Gram Parsons, Return of The Grievous Angel
Leonard Cohen, Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye
Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Wabash Cannonball
Nathan Moore, Travelin’ On
Led Zeppelin, Going to California
Mississippi John Hurt, Make Me a Pallet On Your Floor
Woody Guthrie, More Pretty Girls Than One
Lucinda Williams, Jackson
Joe Fletcher, My Idea (live)
Joe Fletcher, Sentimental Jury (live)
Tom Waits, Anywhere I Lay My Head
You may know comedian Aziz Ansari from MTV’s “Human Giant” or his current role on the NBC sitcom “Parks & Recreation”, but over the last few years, he’s also become on the best stand-up comedians in the
country. His first stand-up special Intimate Moments For A Sensual Evening recently aired on Comedy Central and has now been released on cd & dvd.
This hour-long performance is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a very long time. Aziz covers a myriad of topics, but hits his stride when he tells stories about harassing his younger cousin Harris on Facebook and the night he went out on the town with Kanye West.
Here’s a clip from the special where Aziz decides to have a little fun with the employees at his local CVS.
Thanks to our friends at The Syndicate and Comedy Central, we have 5 copies of the Intimate Moments For A Sensual Evening dvd to give away! It features the full, uncensored hour-long special (along with a bonus encore performance from Aziz’s “Funny People” character RAAAAAAAANDY) and also a bonus 30-minute performance that was filmed at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade in Los Angeles last fall.
If you would like to win a copy of the dvd, just send an e-mail to woxycontests at gmail dot com and put Aziz in your subject line for a chance to win. Please include your mailing address in the body of the e-mail
so that we can ship your dvd to you if you win. We’ll accept entries thru February 10, 2010 and notify the winners via e-mail.
Tune in each week as Larry and John of Future Sounds bring you 2 hours of the top independent and unsigned bands.
Bear Hands – What A Drag – What A Drag Single – Cantora Records
Man/Miracle – Back Of The Card – The Shape Of Things – Big Hand Recordings
World’s Greatest Ghosts – Phantastes – No Magic – Lucky Madison Records
TV Torso – The Days Of Being Wild – Days Of Being Wild 7” – Unsigned
Vanaprasta – Color Of Sin – Forming The Shapes EP – Unsigned
Cherry Chapstick – The Drop – Silencer EP – Unsigned
Lilofee – Destroy Me – The Only Years – Unsigned
Jump Clubb – Let’s Crash This Party – The Love Of No Dance – Unsigned
Twin Shadow – Castles In The Snow – Demos – Unsigned
Asa Ransom – Red – The Gold EP – Unsigned
Stornoway – Zorbing – Zorbing Single – Unsigned
Goldhawks – 1996 – 1996 – Unsigned
Cloud Control – Gold Canary – Gold Canary – Ivy League Records (AUS)
Super Extra Bonus Party – Comets (ft Heathers) – Night Horses – Unsigned
Black Camaro – Calypso – Pistachio Moustachio – Unsigned
Jaguar Love – Polaroids & Red Wine – Hologram Jams – Fat Possum
Dirty Dancing – Black Blood – Mediocrity Is The Strongest Inevitability – Unsigned
French Miami – Motor Skills – Motor Skills – Unsigned
Apes Of Wrath – Fireproof – Apes Of Wrath – Unsigned
Regrets & Brunettes – Uh-Oh – At Night You Love Me – Unsigned
Ebony Bones – We Know All About You – We Know All About You – PIAS
Savoir Adore – We Talk Like Machines – In The Wooded Forest – Cantora Records
Spirits – Open The Door – Spirits – Sonic Unyon Records
What Laura Says – Training – Bloom Creek – Unsigned
Gavin Guss – Lifeboat – Mercury Mine – Obsolete Media
THE HOT 5
Hair Envelope – Largo Lagos – Demos – Unsigned
Nottee – Control – Kistune Maison Compilation 8 – Kitsune
Chasing Kings – The Current State Of Our Future – The Current State Of Our Future – Unsigned
The Vision Of A Dying World – Mantra/What Is And What Is Not – I Will Not Fear What I Don’t Understand EP – Single Screen Records
Monogold – Dead Sea Minerals – We Animals – Unsigned
wide to bring it to you. That’s why next week, Joe will be traveling all the way to Oslo, Norway, along with Larry from Future Sounds to bring you coverage from this years by:Larm festival.
