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

From our friends at Austinist: “Though you can listen to the upcoming Midlake record The Courage of Others at NPR, we think it’s a lot more fun to get together with friends, have a couple beers, and give away some vinyl when we do a listening party. That’s why we’re teaming up with WOXY again for another listening party at the Scoot Inn on February 2 at the Scoot Inn. Join us!

In addition to the CD and digital album release, the band will release a deluxe edition, featuring a copy of the band’s short film directed by Jason Lee, a double LP, 45 rpm version of the record, a 32-page book and a live CD. We’ll have a few goodies (some vinyl included) for contest winners and much more at the event, so come on out and say hello.”

Visit Austinist to enter to win our vinyl contest.

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.

Nic Dawson Kelly – Thursday 3-23
Owen Pallett – Flare Gun
The Android Angel – Second Base
Puerto Rico Flowers – This Is Murder
The High Wire – A Future Ending
P J Bond – Skin & Bones
Larkin Grimm – Durge
Anna Ash & The Family Tree – Why Don’t You
A Singer Of Songs – Road To Nowhere

Kill It Kid Interview & TWR Session
Burst Its Banks (TWR Session 15.12.09)
My Lips Won’t Be Kept Clean (TWR Session 15.12.09)
Date It The Day (TWR Session 15.12.09)
Private Idaho (TWR Session 15.12.09)
Hot N Cold (Katy Perry cover) (TWR Session 15.12.09)

Aleks & The Ramps – Destroy The Universe With Jazz Hands
The Berndt – Leave Our Name Alone
Wartime Blues – Youth
Dick Diver – Biffo
History Books – Old Sakes
Brothers Of End – Too Late
Passenger – What Will Become Of Us?
Nana Grizol – From Here
Adam Green – Lockout
Twin Berlin – I Ain’t Gonna Change On You
The Miserable Rich – Gigantic (Pixies cover)

If you’ve been to Marfa, you’ve got a story to tell. You’re probably always looking for a reason to go back to the vast landscapes and friendly people, back to a place where the sheer beauty of our fair state shines through without hesitation. Everyone loves Marfa, and WOXY is so excited to be a part of the city’s legendary film festival, happening May 5-9. Marfa is a small town alone on a high plateau, a place defined by a history of separation, where life proceeds at its own distinct pace as a harmony of antithesis: cowboy culture and high-art. Designed as a gasp of fresh air, Marfa Film Festival is a retreat far away from the chaotic and competitive environments found on the festival circuit. It’s a get-a-way that is truly WAY out there.

Because Marfa’s wide-open plain, distant mountains and incomparably starry nights are part of the draw, Marfa Film Festival will have outdoor screenings during the festival. Indoor screenings – 30 hours of features, shorts and experimental works – will be anchored at the state-of-the-art Crowley theater. Festival headquarters will be at the famous Paisano Hotel (where James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor lived during the filming of “Giant”).

WOXY will be giving away some day passes to the festival between now and May – email us at woxycontests @ gmail.com with the subject line ‘Marfa’ to be entered to win.

Marfa Film Festival [Official] [Facebook]
May 5th to May 9th, 2010
P.O. Box 999, Marfa, TX 79843
Tickets ($20-$450)
info@marfafilmfestival.org

Shiv serves up 2 hours of modern dance remixes and new electronic music every Friday night at 8:00 PM ET. Catch an encore airing on Saturdays at 10:00 PM ET on demand below!

Check out this weeks episode and tracklist below!

Hour 1:
I BLAME COCO f/ ROBYN “Caesar (Diplo Remix)” (Island UK)
DAVID BYRNE & FATBOY SLIM f/ SANTIGOLD “Please Don’t” (Todomundo/Nonesuch)
MASSIVE ATTACK f/ HORACE ANDY “Girl I Love You (She Is Danger Remix)” (Virgin)
TEDDY PENDERGRASS “Life Is A Circle (Lee Douglas Do Right)” (white label)
N’DAMBI “Can’t Hardly Wait (Stonebridge Club – Clean)” (Stax)
MORGAN PAGE “Strange Condition (Inpetto Vocal Mix)” (Nettwerk)
FAITHLESS “Sun To Me (Gui Boratto Remix)” (Nates Tunes)
CROOKERS f/ KELIS “No Security (Bart B More Remix)” (Southern Fried)
LADYBOX “Cookies Fly” (Party Like Us)
FOUR TET “Sing” (Domino)
Hour 2:

FILTHY DUKES FabricLive.48 Radio Mix
Filthy Dukes “Twenty Six Hundred” (Polydor)
Popof “Serenity [Noob remix]” (Form Music)
Audio Soul Project “Reality Check [Vincenzo remix]” (Dessous)
Boy 8 Bit “Baltic Pine” (This Is Music)
SMD “10000 Horses Can’t Be Wrong” (Wichita)
Erol Alkan & Boys Noize “Waves” (Boysnoize)
Brodinski & Noob “Peanuts Club” (Turbo)
Joakim “Watermelon Bubblicious” (Versatile)

MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS “Hollywood (The Juan MacLean Remix)” (679/Warner UK)
HYPERCRUSH “Keep Up (Tommie Sunshine Brooklyn Fire Retouch)” (Universal Motown)
NIKKI & RICH “Cat & Mouse (LA Riots Remix)” (Reprise/WB)
BT “Suddenly (Ferry Corsten Mix)” (Nettwerk)

Will Johnson is probably best known for his role as frontman of the band Centro-Matic, who have been putting out quality albums since the mid 1990’s. In the past year or so though, Will has had his hands full with several other really interesting projects. Among them was a role as a touring member of Monsters Of Folk, where Will played drums and travelled across the world with the super group.

Will also stayed busy working on solo recordings and putting together a great record with fellow musician and friend Jason Molina. The Molina and Johnson album was put together over a couple weeks by the two prolific artists and sees them collaborating and creating some incredible songs. In this solo set with Will, we are treated to two songs from that record, one unreleased tune from an upcoming solo album and another new song that was originally written by Woody Guthrie that will be a part of an upcoming project Will is involved in along with Jay Farrar, Anders Parker and Jim James.

View the entire photoset here.

Will Johnson – Almost Let You In (WOXY Lounge Act)
Will Johnson – Twenty Cycles To The Ground (WOXY Lounge Act)
Will Johnson – Chorine, My Sheba Queen (WOXY Lounge Act)
Will Johnson – Blood Can Push (WOXY Lounge Act)

Will Johnson – WOXY Lounge Act (full session download)

Subscribe to the WOXY Lounge Acts Podcast.

In the fall of 2009, another buzz band was emerging from the very fertile New York scene, although not from the Brooklyn area for once. Freelance Whales claimed a different borough as home in Queens, and brought with them a melodic and layered pop sound that had us charmed immediately. One of the ways the band became well known in New York was due to the fact that they had a regular location and time slot to perform their music in the Subway tunnels. Then in the fall they were one of the more talked about new bands at CMJ and stopped by our studios in December to lay down this excellent session.

They treated us to 4 songs off of their debut album Weathervanes, which the band self released in the fall of 2009 and will be re-releasing in the spring of 2010 with help from Frenchkiss/MOM + POP Records. They also unveiled a brand new track that we are happy to bring you in this session as well. Enjoy the set and get ready to hear alot about Freelance Whales in 2010!

View our photo gallery.

Freelance Whales – Generator 1st Floor (WOXY Lounge Act)
Freelance Whales – Generator 2nd Floor (WOXY Lounge Act)
Freelance Whales – Ghosting (WOXY Lounge Act)
Freelance Whales – Starring (WOXY Lounge Act)
Freelance Whales – Rise & Shine (WOXY Lounge Act / new-unreleased)

Freelance Whales – WOXY Lounge Act (full session download)

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Oklahoma-based space rockers The Flaming Lips will make their triumphant return to Austin on March 12, performing at the Austin Music Hall. WOXY is proud to let you know that we’ll have a pair of tickets to give away to a couple of lucky listeners.

The Flaming Lips will be touring in support of their latest full-length, Embryonic as well as their collaboration with Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches and their version of Dark Side of the Moon. Embryonic has been hailed as a return to form for the band, garnering plenty of praise in 2009. Pitchfork said of the record, “Musically, too, Embryonic leans heavily on the Lips’ formative 60s/70s psych-rock influence (like In a Priest Driven Ambulance’s “Take Meta Mars” before it, Embryonic’s formidable opener “Convinced of the Hex” grooves heavily on Can’s “Mushroom”), but never before has the band recorded an album so unwaveringly sinister, or so devoid of pop-song levity. (Hell, even Zaireeka had “The Big Ol’ Bug Is the New Baby Now”.) Wayne Coyne no longer assumes the role of the endearingly creaky, puppet-toting crooner. Instead, he’s a world-weary fatalist describing scenes of environmental holocaust in a chillingly unaffected monotone on the rampaging “See the Leaves”. Or he’s a cult leader deviously summoning his minions on “Sagittarius Silver Announcement”, before leading them to a fiery demise on the monstrous, stoner-metal onslaught of “Worm Mountain” (featuring fuzzbox-stomping assistance from MGMT). The atmosphere of dread reaches its fever pitch in the album’s spellbinding seven-minute centerpiece “Powerless”, where, over top a coolly ominous bass riff, Coyne’s nervous verses yield to a Syd Barrett-on-Mandrax guitar freak out.”

Tickets on sale Jan. 30. ($35) Email woxycontests @ gmail.com with the subject line “Flaming Lips” to be entered to win tickets.

Fiery Furnaces are hitting the road and heading to Austin to play the Parish on January 28.

In 2009, the brother-sister duo Matt and Eleanor Friedberger released “The End Is Near”, a full length called I’m Going Away and its reworked covers companion Take Me Round Again. They also premiered the video for “Even in the Rain”, featuring the Friedbergers as well as Ted Travelstead (a friend and co-writer of the director Scott Jacobson), Jon Wurster (drummer for Superchunk and the Mountain Goats and part of the brilliant radio comedy team Scharpling and Wurster), Jason Loewenstein (bassist for The Fiery Furnaces and also a member of Sebadoh) and of course John Oliver (Daily Show).

The band didn’t make it to Austin on their last round of shows, so we’re happy to be presenting their show here in Austin together with Austinist and The Onion. Send an email to us at woxycontests @ gmail.com with the subject line ‘Fiery Furnaces’ to be entered to win a pair of free tickets to the show.

Artrocker music magazine is an independent monthly publication which is available across the United Kingdom. It provides an opinionated outlook on modern culture from the people who make music what it is, supplying the reader with up to date information on the happenings of the UK’s music scene with an emphasis on London.

Tune in every Wednesday at 9:00 PM ET for 90 minutes of new release singles, albums, demos, and myspace tracks from our friends at UK’s Artrocker Magazine.

Here is this weeks tracklist, stream the entire show below.

ACOUSTIC LADYLAND “Iggy” (opening theme)
BLACKLISTERS “Belt Party”
BUFFALO “Silver”
DUDEMAN “Mr. White”
ONO PALINDROMES “Man Onside”
LABASHEEDA “Subsoli Streams”
AN EXPERIMENT ON A BIRD IN THE AIRPUMP “Silent”
MARIA AND THE MIRRORS “From Egypt With Love”
THESE NEW PURITANS “Fire Power”
SO SO MODERN “Be Anywhere”
WILD PALMS “Bleached White”
FICTION “Parakeets”
HATCHAM SOCIAL “Sidewalk”
JOHN & JEHN “Time For The Devil”