Another edition of WOXY.com To Go Today. I hope you are enjoying these, here are a few new songs you probably have or will hear on WOXY.com. Look for them especially on Nothing But New or New Tunes Tuesday.
New music zeros in on the second album from The Whigs today, Mission Control. All the details to follow.
Second disc from the garage rock outfit out of Athens, GA. A slicker sound this time around courtesy of producer Rob Schnapf (Beck, GBU, Elliott Smith)
The album is full of heavy guitar rhythms, powerful drums, and touches of southern steel guitar and psychedelic pop, with vocals by Parker Gispert that can be easily compared to Dave Grohl.
Here are a few reviewers quotes about the new album.
“Right from the start, on “Like a Vibration” and “Production City,” the surprisingly big-sounding trio pummel listeners with their riff-friendly fuzz, Parker Gispert’s wavering, but wailing vocals and the rambunctious rhythms of bassist Hank Sullivant and drummer Julian Dorio.” - Synthesis
“Sadly, [The Whigs] fail to add a “modern twist” to the classic style of hard rock ‘n’ roll. Personally, though, I couldn’t care less; every track on the album is a wonderfully tuneful singalong song.” – Fredericksburg.com
“The music is stripped down but doesn’t sound minimal. Mission Control is a collection of catchy, raucous tunes. “ – Prefix
“Taking pages out of some very strong playbooks (think Superchunk, Guided by Voices, early Wilco), the Whigs find a way to revive honest-to-goodness pop rock for a new generation.” – Billboard.com
I’m not sure if you are familiar with the Langerado Festival or not, after all, in this day and age of what seems like too many festivals to keep up with, it can be tough. Langerado though is a very cool event that takes place in south Florida on the Big Cypress Indian Reservation, this year from March 6th-9th. This is the sixth year for Langerado, and from the looks of things, it is the strongest lineup yet.
Get a taste of some of the bands playing the festival….
New Music for today looks at the second album from Thao Nguyen and her band, The Get Down, Stay Down. The album is in stores today and is titled We Brave Bee Stings And All.
Virginia-bred Thao Nguyen and her band The Get Down Stay Down debut their second album, We Brave Bee Stings And All on today on Kill Rock Stars. She is currently touring in Europe, but will be back stateside at the end of January to tour with labelmates, Xiu Xiu.
Nguyen’s raw, back of the throat delivery brings to mind Chan Marshall, Karen O, or Erica Wennestrom of the Heartless Bastards.
Here are a few reviewers quotes about the new album.
With the support of her stage band The Get Down Stay Down, Nguyen’s second album We Brave Bee Stings and All) brings together a sound rooted in soulful alt-country blues and indie-folk. The songs are elevated by her skillfully picked guitar, as well as energetic arrangements that employ melodicas, low brass, and a Wurlitzer electric piano.” - NPR
“Whether using an acoustic guitar strummed with a toothbrush or a sharpie pen, or employing keyboards, horns and a full rhythm section with her band The Get Down Stay Down, her songs are always buoyant, littered with catchy riffs and lyrics gripped with intimate details.” - LunaPark6
“Breezy overdubs of vocals and instrumentation, lyrics full of regular day romanticism and wonder, Thao’s voice something of an unquivering Conor Oberst (think much younger) mixed with a not-hanging-off-the-ledge Fiona Apple.” - The Culture Of Me
Our tenth episode of Local Lixx has us once again hitting a few different regional cities, and this week it also has us hitting a few different genres of music. The Photographic bring us some great instrumental rock, while Zephuros and his song “Lonely Spider” touch on lo-fi bedroom pop. We also hear new unreleased material from Eat Sugar, captured live in the WOXY.com Lounge last month with their song, “Clap Your Hands.” Enjoy episode 10 of Local Lixx.
Today, New Music focuses on the latest album from The Helio Sequence, which is out in stores tomorrow from Sub Pop Records.
This is the fourth full length album from the Portland based duo
Keep Your Eyes ahead is a much more pop based effort than previous albums, and is arguably their best to date.
Here are a few reviewers quotes about the new album.
“The Helio Sequence’s fourth album, Keep Your Eyes Ahead, is impressive in so many more ways than a listener without background knowledge of the band would even begin to comprehend”. - Obscure Sound
“Stripping its sound down enough so those well meaning but misguided comparisons to My Bloody Valentine should no longer be an issue, the Sequence resists the temptation to over-pile, overwork and overtax its songs. They’re simple, direct and deal a major blow to the notion that more power and more capabilities can solve any songwriting deficiency.” – Aversion.com
“While the group stays grounded in pop songwriting, their music absorbs a demure and warm ambiance from soft keyboard textures, loose guitar lines and gentle but eerie, emotive vocals.” – Spin
Earlier this week we kicked off a new program here at WOXY.com that we are still tentatively calling The Blogger Hour. Matt Jordan of You Ain’t No Picasso joined me live in studio for our first episode and we had alot of fun talking music, blogging, festival and even photography. Here is the playlist Matt chose from our episode.
The Magnetic Fields - The Nuns Litany Islands - Joy Grizzly Bear - Blackcurrant Jam De Novo Dahl - Be Your Man Tullycraft - Fangs On Bats Bishop Allen - Rain Vampire Weekend - Bryn Death Cab For Cutie - World Shut Your Mouth XTC - Generals And Majors Deerhoof - Milking Peelander Z - Panda Punk The Flaming Lips - The W.A.N.D. Harry Nilsson - The Beehive
Join us again in a couple weeks on February 5th at 8pm as Memphis blogger E.J. Friedman from Loudersoft joins us for another hour of music and conversation.
New music targets the new album from Lightspeed Champion today, Falling Off The Lavender Bridge. The new album is in stores now from Domino Records.
Ex-Test Icicle, Devonte Hynes pulled a 180 change and flew to Omaha to record his first record as a singer/songwriter.
Debut album was produced by Mike Mogis (Saddle Creek)
Catchy acoustic-based indie rock are combined with full-orchestrations and backing vocals by Emmy The Great
Here are a few reviewers quotes about the new album.
“Falling Off the Lavender Bridge is a confident and enjoyable introduction to Hynes’ latest musical project. One that, if quality’s any indication, should last a lot longer than his last.” - Popmatters
“While impatient listeners may toss Falling Off aside as nothing more than indie-acoustic whimsy, the strength of the album (and what sets it apart from many others of its ilk), is Hynes’ jarringly candid sentiments.” - BBC
“’Falling Off the Lavender Bridge has the same kind of lush yet lo-fi orchestration as Adam Green. What makes it, though, is Hynes’ woe-is-me delivery, which makes the whole album feel like one long plea for a hug.” - The Independent
“Falling off the lavender bridge” is a beautiful collection of warm, interesting pop-songs, and since I’m writing this early in January, I guess I can say that this is definitely the best album I’ve heard so far this year!” - Eardrums
