In advance of headlining the opener of Cincinnati’s Indie Summer series, Peter Adams and his backing band The Nocturnal Collective returned for their second performance in the Lounge. They first played for us just over a year earlier, shortly after the release of I Woke With Planets In My Face, Peter’s second record, which came in at #54 on the 97 Best of 2008. It’s an orchestral indie-pop gem.

In fact, we were catching them just as they were preparing to go on hiatus in order to allow Peter to work on providing music for a pair of upcoming film projects. The quintet played a pair of tunes from both Planets, his 2004 debut The Spiral Eyes and a new tune that’s yet to be released.

View the entire photoset here…

Track Listing:
Listen Harmony
Feet To The Fire (unreleased)
Elevators
- interview -
Ghost In The Fen
Annabell Lee

Peter Adams - Listen Harmony(Live On WOXY.com)
Peter Adams - Feet To The Fire (Live On WOXY.com /new-unreleased)
Peter Adams - Elevators (Live On WOXY.com)
Peter Adams - Ghost In The Fen (Live On WOXY.com)
Peter Adams - Annabell Lee (Live On WOXY.com)

Peter Adams - Live On WOXY.com (full session download)

The summer concert season is in full swing and we have another great concert to present to you coming up next week. WOXY.com is proud to present Ted Leo & The Pharmacists along with Titus Andronicus and Pomegranates next Monday, June 15th at the Southgate House in Newport.

This should be great show as we are fans of all three of the bands on the bill. And, just like previous WOXY.com presents shows, we have tickets to give away to you!

To qualify for the ticket giveaway, just send an email to woxycontests at gmail dot com with the subject line reading “Ted Leo RX”. We will take entries up until this Saturday and notify the winners on Monday morning. Please be sure you are able to attend the show before entering.

Good luck!

Ted Leo - Bottle Of Buckie (Live On WOXY.com)
Pomegranates - Everybody Come Outside (Live On WOXY.com)

When we last caught up with White Rabbits, it was for their performance on the WOXY.com stage during the inaugural Monolith Festival at Red Rocks in 2007. At that time, the band was touring their debut album, Fort Nightly, which ended up being a station favorite, placing at #24 on our 97 best of 2007.

In the time since then, the band have released their sophomore effort, It’s Frightening on the TBD label and employed Britt Daniel of Spoon to help with production on the new album. The new record is a big step forward for the band, who we already loved, and we are really enjoying the new material.

In this performance, you get four songs from It’s Frightening, and the band chats with Joe about how a small mistake helped lead them to Britt Daniel, and the process of recording the new album as well.

View all of the photos here, taken by Keith Klenowski.

Tracklisting
Percussion Gun
They Done Wrong / We Done Wrong
-interview-
Midnight & I
The Salesman

White Rabbits - Percussion Gun (Live On WOXY.com)
White Rabbits - They Done Wrong / We Done Wrong (Live On WOXY.com)
White Rabbits - Midnight & I (Live On WOXY.com)
White Rabbits - The Salesman (Live On WOXY.com)

White Rabbits - Live On WOXY.com (full session download)

Dave Allen, founding member of the critically-acclaimed post-punk band Gang of Four and blogger at Pampelmoose.com, a music, media and MP3 web site, brings his weekly Pampelmoose New Music Hour to WOXY. Below, listen to the latest Pampelmoose New Music hour, and download some of the music Dave has selected below as well.

Ume - East of Hercules
Murder City Devils - Bear Away
Lightning Dust - I Knew
Cause Co-Motion! - You Lose
Tiny Vipers - Dreamer
Dirty Projectors & David Byrne - Ambulance Man

Yacht - Psychic City
Quebec Antique - Sleep
Andrew Bird - Oh No
Birds & Batteries - Out In The Woods
Bonfire Madigan - Lady Dubs The Dragon [Dub ID Remix]

Faux Hoax - Your Friends Will Carry You Home [Pocket Mix]
Junior Boys - Parallel Lines

We’ve known this Brooklyn trio for years now. Erika first played in the Lounge back in March of 2004 when she was a member of Dirty On Purpose. A few years later, we asked Au Revoir Simone to join us out at Red Rocks to play our WOXY.com stage during the first year of the Monolith Festival.

We finally were able to snag them for a proper in-studio session when they hit the road to support their third full-length album Still Night, Still Light.

They had just started this tour (out with The Antlers for a few weeks) when Annie’s main keyboard, a Casio MT-70, kicked the bucket. They have persevered and will be reunited with a replacement shortly while on the road. In the meantime, this session serves as a fantastic sampler of the new album, featuring four of its songs.

View the entire photoset here.

Track Listing:
All Or Nothing
Take Me As I Am
- interview -
Trace A Line
Tell Me

Au Revoir Simone - All Or Nothing (Live On WOXY.com)
Au Revoir Simone - Take Me As I Am (Live On WOXY.com)
Au Revoir Simone - Trace A Line (Live On WOXY.com)
Au Revoir Simone - Tell Me (Live On WOXY.com)

Au Revoir Simone - Live On WOXY.com (full session download)

Introducing another band from Ohio doing very cool things. This time the band is called Wheels On Fire and they hail from Athens, Ohio. The band have already toured here in the states and even across the pond in Europe, opened for the likes of King Khan & The Shrines, and fine tuned themselves as a gritty group of young rockers.

Their debut record, titled GET FAMOUS! is getting a proper release here in the states on this week from Fat Possum Records, current home to another Ohio band we know and love, Heartless Bastards. The band has a retro garage rock thing going on that the midwest should lap up like cool water on a hot August day.

Wheels On Fire - Turning Into You

Lots more great local music to bring your way this week on Local Lixx. Get ready for new music from a great up-and-coming Cincinnati band called The Read who we have played in the past, and a trio of artists from the Lexington area on this weeks show as well.

The Read - “Party Lines” (Cincinnati)
Wheels On Fire - “Turning Into You” (Athens, OH)
Big Fresh- “WTO” (Lexington)
Chico Fellini - “Hot” (Lexington)
Englishman - “Double Torch” (Lexington)

Local Lixx - Episode 37

Michael Nau and Whitney McGraw have been making music together for several years now. They used to perform in Page France but have transitioned their musical efforts over fully into Cotton Jones. In this session, the harmonies flow beautifully as they perform as a 6-piece band.

We caught the band on the first genuinely hot day of the year in Cincinnati. They were heading out for another full leg of tour dates to support Paranoid Cocoon, but on the afternoon before their dates began in Bloomington, they stopped in to play in our Lounge for the first time.

You’ll hear two track in this performance from Paranoid Cocoon, one from The Archery EP and they wrap things up with a song that has yet to be released.

Track Listing:
Blood Red Sentimental Blues
Midnight Monday And A Telescope
- interview -
Gone The Bells
Where You Stop For A Minute (And Clean Your Teeth) (new/unreleased)

Cotton Jones - Blood Red Sentimental Blues (Live On WOXY.com)
Cotton Jones - Midnight Monday And A Telescope (Live On WOXY.com)
Cotton Jones - Gone The Bells (Live On WOXY.com)
Cotton Jones - Where You Stop For A Minute (And Clean Your Teeth) (Live On WOXY.com)(new/unreleased)

Cotton Jones - Live On WOXY.com (full session download)

It’s a double shot in the lounge today, as we have two amazing bands coming into the WOXY Lounge. Both bands have yet to make it into our lounge here in Cincinnati, but both bands played on our stage at the Monolith festival in 2007. You can check out both sessions here and here. Today is a double shot of great bands in the studio, beginning with Au Revoir Simone, who are scheduled to play for us at 12:30 ET. The band is out on tour right now with The Antlers, who are WOXY Lounge alums, and have a new record right now called Still Night, Still Light.

Later today, we are happy to be hosting White Rabbits in the lounge. Another band that we have really loved for some time but have never had the pleasure of having into the lounge, these guys are white hot right now, with their brand new album It’s Frightening continuing to pick up steam after being released this spring.

So, thats Au Revoir Simone at 12:30, and White Rabbits at 4:30 ET!

Au Revoir Simone - All Or Nothing

White Rabbits - Percussion Gun

Vancouver-based Mother Mother have become a fixture at WOXY thanks to their first two albums. Back in 2007, their debut album Touch Up was picked up for distribution by the Last Gang label following an earlier (and slightly different) self-release of the disc. When we started to play songs like “Neighbour” and the title track “Touch Up”, listeners began to heavily request the band and they ended up hitting #68 on our 97 Best Of 2007 countdown.

Their second full-length release, O My Heart, was released in the fall of 2008 and, this time around, the response from WOXY listeners around the globe was even stronger. As the requests and e-mails poured in to the station, we gave the record quite a bit more airplay than the first. It ended up becoming our 20th most-played release of 2008 and we began to lament the fact that the band’s touring schedule never brought them anywhere close to our neck of the woods. As soon as we started to plan a return trip to EAR studios for SXSW, we reached out to the band’s management to see if they would be making the trip too. The stars finally aligned and we were able to host the band during our week in Austin.

Sometimes a band sounds so good on record that you assume there’s a bit of studio trickery involved to make it all work. When you listen to the songs in this live performance I think you’ll recognize that the opposite is in play here. Mother Mother replicate their vocal harmonies (frequently in triplicate) so effortlessly live that it’s almost scary. It’s all the more impressive when you realize that part of those unique harmonies is the band’s newest member Jasmin Parkin who just joined the lineup in late January (and replaced original member Debra-Jean Creelman).

In the interview here, Ryan Guldemond (lead vocals/guitars) discusses how he approaches the songwriting process, the experience of touring across the U.S. with fellow Canadian rocker Sam Roberts, and the possibility of working with R&B singer Solange Knowles who tracked them down at SXSW to express her love for their music. The fact that they haven’t broken through to a wider U.S. audience is a bit of a mystery to us, but hopefully they’ll continue making music as strong as Touch Up for a very long time.

Tracklisting -
O My Heart
Body Of Years
-Interview-
Burning Pile
Wrecking Ball
Miles

Mother Mother - O My Heart (Live On WOXY.com)
Mother Mother - Body Of Years (Live On WOXY.com)
Mother Mother - Wrecking Ball (Live On WOXY.com)
Mother Mother - Burning Pile (Live On WOXY.com)
Mother Mother - Miles (Live On WOXY.com)