We are all in a bit of a SXSW hangover here at WOXY this week. After knocking out a whole slew of live sessions last week and juggling day parties and official showcases, we are tired but really happy to have had the opportunity to put it all together. We hope you enjoyed listening last week and we promise to have the audio of our Lounge Acts for you soon.
In the meantime, enjoy another video from one last weeks sets, this time from Frightened Rabbit. It’s their excellent song, “Swim Until You Can’t See Land” from The Winter Of Mixed Drinks.
We had the pleasure of hosting Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings in our lounge during SXSW 2010. They have a brand new album coming out soon called I Learned The Hard Way and we have a video of one of the new songs to share with you below.
We have a glimpse into the SXSW WOXY Lounge Acts to share with you today, in the midst of the madness. The Megaphonic Thrift joined us in the studio yesterday all the way from Bergen, Norway and we are excited to share this video of their excellent song, “Talks Like A Weed King.”
The past year has been a good one for Portugal. The Man. They released their fourth album, The Satanic Satanist and played some big festivals like Bonnaroo and Outside Lands. The band toured like crazy last year and continued to build up a great fanbase in the process.
Now they are ready to take on anything after starting off their 2010 tour with sellout shows, including two nights here in Austin. Their brand new album, American Ghetto sees the band continuing to hone their craft as they prepare to make this year an even bigger success than last. Enjoy this session with Portugal. The Man.
A year after the release of their Sub Pop debut Tight Knit, we caught up with Vetiver right as they were completing a tour with The Clientele.
Led by Andy Cabic, the band is in fine form in this performance which begins with two tracks that were featured only on a limited edition 7″ single released for Record Store Day last Spring.
In the interview, Shiv talks to Cabic about partnering up with Sub Pop, the intricacies of hitting the road when he lives in San Francisco and the rest of the band is around Brooklyn, and his production work on the upcoming album from folk legend Vashti Bunyan.
When it became clear to John Davis in early 2008 that Georgie James was probably not going to last, he immersed himself in writing new material. He wasn’t sure if it would become a solo album or if things would possibly turn around and become a second Georgie James release.
By Summer 2008, the band officially called it quits and John had an entire album’s worth of material ready to go. He recorded solo, but eventually assembled a backing band that has become Title Tracks.
While on tour with Boston’s Pretty & Nice, John and the guys stopped in to play a set that includes some tunes from the debut album It Was Easy and even includes an unreleased track called “It’s Wrong.”
YellowFever is comprised of Austin natives Jennifer Moore & Adam Jones. They’ve been fixtures on the local scene for the last few years, sometimes with a third member but currently content as a duo. Jennifer’s voice recalls Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier and their brand of art pop has been singularly unique among Austin bands. They’ve been fairly DIY, with only an EP and a few hard-to-find single releases to this point. Fortunately, the Vivian Girls made a self-titled compilation of all of the band’s recordings the first release on their new Wild World imprint in late 2009.
For our Lounge Act though, they chose to feature all new, yet to be released material. It’s possible that some or all of the songs will be included on a new record, their proper full-length debut, that the two hope to release sometime in 2010.
Kieran Hebden’s last album as Four Tet was 2005’s Everything Ecstatic. Since that time he has released the Ringer EP, collaborated with dubstep producer Burial, released an album with his rock band Fridge, and also had a handful of releases with drummer Steve Reid.
For his new full-length album There Is Love In You, he has headed out on a brief North American tour. Austin was one of only 9 dates and WOXY was proud to sponsor the show here in town at The Mohawk. We recorded the entire gig, which will be airing back on an upcoming episode of Xtrabeats.
Here, we bring you some highlights from the show. You’ll hear an epic version of the album’s first single “Love Cry”, as well as the show’s encore of “Smile Around The Face” and “Spirit Fingers.”
At the artist’s request, this performance will not be made available for download.
Texas native David Wingo had spent some time living in Brooklyn, where he recorded most of Ola Podrida’s second album Belly Of The Lion by himself at home. After the album was completed, Wingo found himself back living in Austin and the album was released last fall on Western Vinyl.
In December, Wingo debuted a new live lineup for Ola Podrida here in Austin with a live show at the Mohawk. With this performance, that lineup remains mostly in tact, but with a new drummer playing for the first time with the band outside of the practice space.
All of the tracks in this performance originally appear on Belly Of The Lion.
If quiet is the new loud, then The Antlers are a scream. Taking the concept album to new places, their album Hospice is so real, so raw, so incredibly personal that we haven’t heard such a painful record since Bob Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks.
The band pulled into Swing House Studios in Hollywood the night before their date with Editors at The Wiltern and gave the private Lounge Acts audience of about 30 a set of music that made the hair on our collective arms stand on end.
The trio is an act that builds slowly, bubbling, lurking under the surface before rising above to absolutely slam you with sheer, brute force, proving you don’t have to wail to get your point across, and that cries of sadness and pain can sometimes make you deaf. We’ve included three songs from the set of six from this intimate event for your listening pleasure, enjoy!
