Another brand new blogger hour airs tonight at 8pm ET on WOXY.com. This episode we welcome in Jared Hoke of the great music blog 5acts.com. Jared is based in the Washington D.C. area and takes the hour to share loads of new music with us. He actually makes a point to choose bands and artists that have yet to grace the WOXY.com airwaves.
So, if you want to get turned on to some new tunes (on a new tunes Tuesday no less), check out the blogger hour tonight at 8pm on WOXY.com.
Here are a few artists you can expect to hear from this evening…..
Lightspeed Champion is the new project of Dev Hynes, formerly of caustic noise punks Test Icicles, and it’d be hard to imagine any artist pulling a more drastic 180% change in terms of musical direction. For his solo debut, he flew to Omaha to work with Saddle Creek’s in-house producer Mike Mogis on a set of rather intimate, acoustic based numbers which became Falling Off The Lavender Bridge.
Dev was a hard guy to miss in Austin, with his trademark specs and ever-present winter hat (no matter how warm it got), he played nearly a dozen shows during SXSW when he wasn’t being followed around by a film crew or interviewed by MTV and the BBC.
For this highly entertaining Lounge Act session, he played exactly half of the full-length CD in a lovely, stripped down manner, alternating between acoustic guitar and piano, accompanied only by violinist Mike Siddell (ex-Hope Of The States).
View the entire photoset here…..
Tracklist –
Tell Me What It’s Worth
Everyone I Know Is Listening To Crunk
No Surprise (For Wendela)
Dry Lips
-interview-
Galaxy Of The Lost
Midnight Surprise
Since there is so much content still to come from our week down in Austin at SXSW, I thought it was a good time to pause for a sec and link you up with all of our recaps thus far. So, check below for all the links you need to get to the sessions and videos. And remember, lots more to come…..
Why don’t we start the week off with another great video that our friends from PROJECTMILL and Soft City Lights did for us during our stay at EAR Studios in Austin? This is a really fun one to watch, featuring Lightspeed Champion. This might be one of my personal favorites, enjoy!
We first caught a whiff of The Whip, a dance rock band from Manchester, last Fall when we started dropping their “Divebomb” instrumental into our playlists. It was one of those songs that garnered instantaneous response from WOXY listeners. So, when we heard they were coming to SXSW, we jumped at the chance to have them play a session for us. As it turned out, this marked the band’s very first performance of any kind in North America.
A foursome comprised of members who all enjoyed label deals with previous bands, The Whip arrived in Texas seeking a Stateside deal for their excellent debut X Marks Destination, released on Fatboy Slim’s Southern Fried label in the UK.
They turned EAR Studios into a daytime dance party with five tunes from their debut record and chatted with Mike about welcoming any and all comparisons to the legendary band that inspires them, New Order.
Our first performance on Wednesday morning was from Ed Harcourt. Last year, Ed parted ways with EMI who squeezed out a best-of retrospective disc but never released his final album, The Beautiful Lie, in the United States. Almost two years after its release overseas, this album has been picked up here by Dovecote Records, who are putting it out this summer. SXSW proved the perfect opportunity for Ed to play in the states with a full band for the first time in almost five years.
Our early morning session was not without some mild difficulty. About five minutes before we went live with the performance, Ed’s lovely wife Gita dropped her violin. She tinkered with it quite a bit but the look on her face said it all. She seemed quite uncertain about how she was going to play. The mood was tenuous during the first song after we went live, but she was able to get things back in working order and the show did indeed go on. It was a lovely way to start the day. The session contained a few tracks from The Beautiful Lie, but Ed also reached back to his 2nd album, From Every Sphere, as well.
Birdmonster played a great session for us last week during SXSW with loads of new material. But this video is a little extra footage that was taken outside the EAR Studios. Enjoy this video of “I Might Have Guessed”, out in the Austin sun.
We last saw The Kills in the spring of 2005 when they stopped in to our Cincinnati studios to play some tunes from their “No Wow” release. Flash forward to three years later: we met up with Jamie and Allison in Austin, Texas during SXSW.
The UK duo were on a whirlwind trip, over just to play at the festival, and were headed almost immediately back overseas to begin a European tour by the end of the week. This appearance happened just a week in advance of the domestic release of their new album Midnight Boom and they were in fine form as they rocked through 6 tracks off the disc.
Look for more and more SXSW content here as the week goes on, and I have another video to share today as well. And also, need I remind you we still have not finished giving you even the first days worth of content in it’s entirety yet.
We already recapped the Moonlight Towers session here this week, where you can download the entire session if you choose. And now another great video to share as well, enjoy!
