Just when you thought 2007 was over, we have one last thing for you. A New Years Eve party in New York City! That is right, this year, WOXY.com, along with the folks from Metromix and some great bloggers are bringing you a music filled New Years Eve in the Big Apple.

Here are the details…..

With so many exciting things in store for After the Jump in 2008, including SXSW and an even bigger Summer festival, the blogger collective has decided to celebrate early with a HUGE New Year’s Eve party, taking over all two floors of the Knitting Factory. And best of all, After the Jump is proud to announce that this event will be in support of the small non-profit Education Through Music. Education Through Music creates entire music programs in underfunded schools. From teaching interested musicians how to teach to buying instruments and providing a curriculum, ETM is working to ensure music touches the lives of all students.

Well, the lists keep on coming as we wrap up 2007 here at The Futurist. Right now, lets take a peek at the DJ choices for their top 20 albums of 2007. Here are some interesting facts about the three top 20’s, it shows how we as DJ’s tend to cover each others “blind spots” and compliment each other…….

- Only 2 Albums were represented on all three DJ’s lists (Boxer, In Rainbows)
- 49 Different Albums were mentioned from the three lists
- 10 Albums received a vote from 2 of the 3 DJ’s
- 12 Different Debut albums were represented

#20 - Mike - My Ion Truss - Minus Story/ You Follow Me - Nina Nastasia & Jim White
#20 - Shiv - Out Of The Woods - Tracey Thorn
#20 - Joe - Wincing The Night Away - The Shins
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#19 - Mike - Mapmaker - Parts & Labor
#19 - Shiv - Desire - Pharoahe Monch
#19 - Change States - The Seedy Seeds
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#18 - Mike - Friend And Foe - Menomena
#18 - Shiv - Icky Thump - The White Stripes
#18 - Joe - Cease To Begin - Band Of Horses
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#17 - Mike - Liars - Liars
#17 - Raising Sand - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
#17 - Transparent Things - Fujiya & Miyagi
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#16 - Mike - Let’s Stay Friends - Les Savy Fav
#16 - Shiv - 5:55 - Charlotte Gainsbourg
#16 - Joe - Widow City - The Fiery Furnaces
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#15 - Mike - The Stage Names - Okkervil River
#15 - Shiv - All Things, Forests - Palomar
#15 - Joe - Make Sure They See My Face - Kenna
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#14 - Mike - Hideout - Film School
#14 - Shiv - Fantastic Playroom - New Young Pony Club
#14 - Joe - Neon Bible - Arcade Fire
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#13 - Mike - Our Ill Wills - Shout Out Louds
#13 - Shiv - The Magic Position - Patrick Wolf
#13 - Joe - Sing The Greys - Frightened Rabbit
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#12 - Mike - One Way Kiss - The Neutrinos
#12 - Shiv - Kala - M.I.A.
#12 - Joe - Autumn Of The Seraphs - Pinback
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#11 - Mike - Boxer - The National
#11 - Shiv - Back To Black - Amy Winehouse
#11 - Joe - Octopus - The Bees
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#10 - Mike - Sound Of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
#10 - Shiv - Version - Mark Ronson
#10 - Joe - Sky Blue Sky - Wilco
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We really have a great dedicated community of our listeners that congregate on our message boards over at WOXY.com. One of the things they put together on their own, and it is very impressive, is a full listing of their own top albums of the year. Here are the top 97 albums of 2007, as voted by the WOXY.com message boarders.

01.Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

02.The National - Boxer

03.Radiohead - In Rainbows

04.Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

05.LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver

06.Feist - The Reminder

07.Okkervil River - The Stage Names

08.The Shins - Wincing The Night Away

09.Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?

10.White Stripes - Icky Thump

11.Peter Bjorn & John - Writer’s Block

12.Band Of Horses - Cease To Begin

13.New Pornographers - Challengers

14.Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

15.!!! - Myth Takes

16.Menomena - Friend And Foe

17.Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha

18.Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

19.M.I.A. - Kala

20.The Fratellis - Costello Music

21.Panda Bear - Person Pitch

22.Interpol - Our Love To Admire

23.Blonde Redhead - 23

24.Tegan & Sara - The Con

25.Kings Of Leon - Because Of The Times

26.Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City

27.Battles - Mirrored

28.Beirut - The Flying Club Cup

29.Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81

30.Amy Winehouse - Back To Black

31.Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare

32.Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Is Is

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Here she is, all wrapped up and ready for you during the holidays, the 97 Best of 2007, as determined by airplay here at the Future Of Rock N Roll. And you know what, it really does not differ that much from lots of critical lists I have seen. It is the 24th year we have done this, but this is officially the first time we are posting the listing here on The Futurist.

If you missed it, don’t worry, we will be replaying the countdown during the holidays.

97. Minus The Bear - Planet Of Ice
96. New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom
95. The Lodger - Grown Ups
94. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
93. Sonde Lerche - Phantom Punch
92. The Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
91. Ra Ra Riot - S/T EP
90. Imperial Teen - The Hair, The TV, The Baby & The Band
89. Jose Gonzalez - In Our Nature
88. Kevin Drew - Spirit If
87. Stateless - S/T
86. Robbers On High Street - Grand Animals
85. Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures
84. Project Jenny, Project Jan - xoxoxoxoxoxo
83. Underworld - Oblivion With Bells
82. St. Vincent - Marry Me
81. The Go! Team - Proof Of Youth
80. A Place To Bury Strangers - S/T
79. Dntel - Dumb Luck
78. RJD2 - The Third Hand
77. Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
76. Arizona - Welcome Back Dear Children
75. Via Audio - saysomethingsaysomethingsaysomething
74. Matthew Dear - Deserter
73. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder
72. The Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
71. Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
70. Frightened Rabbit - Sing The Greys
69. UNKLE - War Stories
68. Mother Mother - Touch Up
67. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
66. Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War
65. The Good, The Bad & The Queen - S/T
64. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81
63. Black Kids - Wizard Of Ahhs EP
62. Justice - †
61. Rilo Kiley - Under The Blacklight
60. Tegan and Sara - The Con
59. Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
58. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
57. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
56. Maps - We Can Create
55. Bjork - Volta
54. Cloud Cult - The Meaning Of 8
53. Matt Pond PA - Last Light
52. David Vandervelde - The Moonstation House Band
51. Jukebox The Ghost - S/T EP
50. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer
49. The Cribs - Mens Needs, Womens Needs, Whatever
48. The Fratellis - Costello Music
47. The Eames Era - Heroes & Sheroes
46. Wussy - Left For Dead
45. The Bees - Octopus
44. Pela - Anytown Graffiti
43. Les Savy Fav - Lets Stay Friends
42. Iron And Wine - The Shepherds Dog
41. The New Pornographers - Challengers
40. Palomar - All Things, Forests

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It has been almost exactly a year since we had Buffalo Killers in for a lounge session, and what a year it was for the band! The trio worked a brutal road schedule supporting their debut self titled disc, a good chunk of which was spent opening for The Black Crowes and getting some great exposure.

The band are also fresh off their Artist Of The Year Award at the 11th Annual Cincinnati Entertainment Awards. BK play a set consisting almost entirely of new material for us in this set, with one familiar song as well. We expect most, if not all, of these new songs to turn up on their next proper release in 2008.

View the entire photoset here.

Track Listing:
Take Me Back Home
River Water
-interview-
If I Get Myself Anywhere
Heavy A

Buffalo Killers - If I Get Myself Anywhere (Live On WOXY.com / unreleased)

Buffalo Killers - Take Me Back Home (Live On WOXY.com / unreleased)

Buffalo Killers - Live On WOXY.com (full session download)

Although we have not done it for some time, I thought I would toss our all of our wonderful Wear Your WOXY pics today into one post to wrap up 2007. I expect lots of new ones from you guys in 2008, especially with the new shirts many of you have received and another new round of shirts on the way early in the new year. The one above is new, and pretty cool as well as one of our boarders, “Dizzy”, flying over Iraq. Emjoy the rest of these great Wear Your WOXY Wednesday photos…..

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The last WOXY.com presents of 2007 show is tonight at Schubas in Chicago. A great lineup of bands playing there this evening, including former local boys, now based in Chicago, Coltrane Motion. Also on the bill are Let’s Get Out Of This Sandwich Shop and Butterfly Assasins. So, if you are in the neighborhood, make plans to hit up Schubas this evening for some great music, more details below…..

WHEN - 9:00 PM 18+ $5.00

WHAT - Amplify: New Music Series

WHO -
Coltrane Motion
with Butterfly Assassins
and Let’s Get Out Of This Terrible Sandwich Shop

WHERE - Schubas Tavern 3159 N. Southport Chicago, IL 60657

Brought to you in part by…
UR Chicago, WOXY, & Schubas

It has been quite a year in the lounge at WOXY.com. While I still have a couple sessions from last week to properly recap here on The Futurist, I thought you might enjoy this slideshow with some of our best and favorite photos of 2007. Our camera was used alot this year, and by a pretty wide array of photogs.

Our sound engineer Brian Niesz did the bulk of the work for lounge sessions, with myself and even Mike and Shiv filling in when needed. And at festivals, Bryan Jay did alot of photo work at CMJ, Monolith, and SXSW, while he and myself shared photo duties at Bonnaroo. Whew, anyway, its a big set (almost 200 photos), but do enjoy.

And if you are not a slideshow person, you can check all of our sets out at Flickr……

This Cincinnati 4-piece features two former members of the band Chalk and has really made an impact in a short time this year. They recorded a 4 song demo CD that got our attention and earned them a spin on Local Lixx, which led to us adding their music to the playlist and inviting them in for a Lounge Act.

In this session, we chat with the band about the Cincinnati music scene, their plans for the upcoming year, and also how Artrocker Magazine in London has recently taking a liking to their music as well. You’ll hear a few songs from their demo EP as well as some brand new material in this session.

Track Listing:
Blackeye
U Get It
Sixteen
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Distortions
Clap Your Hands
-interview-
Phobic

Eat Sugar - Distortions (Live On WOXY.com)
Eat Sugar - Clap Your Hands(Live On WOXY.com)

Eat Sugar - Live On WOXY.com (full session download)

I am happy to announce that 5 of our lovely readers are about to become the owners of a brand new Oasis DVD! While I kinda thought there were a few more Oasis fans than responded, those that did certainly have a passion for the band and their music, which makes this DVD a perfect fit. Here are our five winners, who I will be contacting today to set up shipping of their prize.

Congratulations to these readers/listeners/Oasis nerds for winning!

euro60
Lodi
Trevour
Chrissy
Soumyajit

That will wrap up our giveaways for 2007 here on The Futurist. Have a peek at the other goodies we gave away in our inaugural year……

Bloc Party Puma Bag
Cloud Cult CD’s
Headlights EP
WOXY T-Shirts
Pela Tour Tickets and Merchandise
Wilco Concert Tickets
Afghan Whigs Retrospective CD
Theory 8 Records Catalog
Monlith Festival Flyaway
Editors CD
Arcade Fire / LCD Soundsystem Tickets
The Go! Team CD’s
The Evens Concert Tickets
I’m Not There Soundtracks
My So-Called Life Box Set
The Brit Box

Lots more to give away here in 2008, stay glued to The Futurist…..