Earlier this year, The Low Anthem stopped into our Cincinnati studios for a Lounge Act. We hit it off really well with the band and invited them back in to our new digs in Austin for a guest DJ set recently. The band was in Austin continuing to tour off the back of their excellent album Oh My God, Charlie Darwin and picked some great songs during their time in the studio. Full playlist and on demand stream below.
Playlist
Airline To Heaven - Billy Bragg & Wilco
Leopard Skin Pill-Box Hat - Bob Dylan
It Makes No Difference - The Band
Paradise - John Prine
Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles - Captain Beefheart
Mountain Dew - The Stanley Brothers
Baby Please Don’t Go - Them
Saddle Up The Palomino - Neil Young
Lake Charles – Lucinda Williams
Louisiana 1927 - Randy Newman
Diamonds In The Mine – Leonard Cohen
Poor Edward – Tom Waits
Love Me Tenderly – The Felice Brothers
Marchin’ To The City – Bob Dylan
It’s been a Cincinnati tradition off and on for years here on WOXY and now Local Lixx is ready to return, and with a brand new trick up our sleeve. We are all settled down here in our new Texas home, but will never forget our roots, so to cater to both sides of the coin, we are ready to bring you two Local Lixx programs now on a weekly basis.
For our Austin friends, a brand new Austin Local Lixx will be curated and hosted by our newest addition to the WOXY staff Paige Maguire. The new show will be similar to what you have come to expect from the “double L” but with a flavor especially for Austin, Texas.
And for our friends back in Cincinnati and through the midwest, Local Lixx returns just like you remember it next week as well as Joe will continue to bring you some of the best tunes from Cincinnati, Dayton, Louisville, Lexington and more.
Both programs are slated to soon, with the first new Austin show airing Tuesday November 3rd at 7:30 Central and the Cincinnati show going down in it’s familiar spot on Thursdays at 8:30 Eastern, 7:30 Central, starting back October 29.
To get a jump on things, why don’t you go ahead and subscribe to both podcasts now, and have the shows delivered right to you. Austin Local Lixx page and feed coming very soon…
Earlier this year, Dangerbird Records co-founder Jeff Castalez and his wife Jo Ann lost their 6-year-old son Pablo to cancer. Jeff is currently cycling across the country on a 3,000+ mile journey to raise money to battle childhood cancer.
Jeff’s ride has brought him to Austin this week, where a benefit concert is being held inside at Emo’s on Wednesday night along with Sea Wolf, Port O’Brien, Sara Lov and Ben Kweller.
We will be welcoming Jeff in to the WOXY studios on Tuesday, October 27th around 2pm central / 3pm eastern to talk about his trip and the show. To learn more and to donate, go to The Pablove Foundation’s website.
You can also tune in this week to enjoy hour-long guest dj sets from Dangerbird artists BAD VEINS (Tuesday, October 27th @ 1pm central / 2pm eastern) and SEA WOLF (Wednesday, October 28th @ 3pm central / 4pm eastern).
If you are a fan of The Feelies, you probably already know that the band reunited last fall and have been playing here and there since then, much to the delight of their fans. Their most recent appearance was last month when they performed Crazy Rhythms live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow’s Parties-curated Don’t Look Back series In addition to the exciting live appearances, Bar None records has re-issued two of their classic albums on vinyl and CD this year, and we want to give you a chance to win them.
That is right, we have copies of both Crazy Rhythms and The Good Earth up for grabs on vinyl and CD. To enter the contest, send an email to woxy contests at gmail dot com. Type “Feelies” in the subject line and you are registered to win!
(photo from Wilco @ Bonnaroo 2007, taken by Joe Long)
There is a brand new venue just north of Austin in Cedar Park that recently opened up for business. And next week, one of our favorite bands (and one of our favorite up and coming acts as well) will be taking the stage there to help open the new place.
Liam Finn and Eliza Jane will be opening up the evening, fresh off the release of their latest EP, Champagne Seashells. And your headliner for the night is Wilco, returning to the Austin area for the first time since their appearance at ACL in 2007.
And we want to send you and a friend to the show! To qualify for the tickets, send an email to woxy contests at gmail dot come with the subject line reading “Wilco.” Within the email, tell us what your favorite Wilco album is and why. We will select a winner in the middle of next week, so keep checking back here and listening to WOXY for details!
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. Over the past few weeks, Dave has been away while we have been letting the dust settle here in our new home in Austin, Texas. But today at 6pm ET, 3pm PT, Dave and his show return with a brand new episode.
Listen in today and hear new music from James Yuill, Bonnie Prince Billy, The Portland Cello Project, and Nurses. So mark your calendar for new music with Dave Allen today at 6pm ET, exclusively on WOXY.com!
It’s time again for the Monolith Music Festival in Morrisson, Colorado this weekend! The festival is primed to deliver another great year of music, and it’s another great year of music on the WOXY stage as well. Things continue on Saturday September 13th on the WOXY stage downstairs at about 12:20 and run all the way until the last band of the day takes the stage at 7pm. Enjoy a quick preview of the WOXY Stage lineup for Sunday below!
These United States returned to our Lounge for their third session with us to celebrate the release of their third album Everything Touches Everything. Not only was it a repeat performance for the band, but it marked the last Lounge Act that we hosted in our Longworth Hall studios before the move to our new home in Austin, TX.
The band spend a lot of time on the road and the early promo set up for the new record is no exception. They played for us before kicking off a tour at the Southgate House which will find them crisscrossing the country through the end of October (including a stop on the WOXY stage out at the Monolith Festival in mid-September). Jesse was quick to point out that those are just the dates already booked and that they’ll probably be out playing the record for folks through the end of the year.
Track Listing: I Want You To Keep Everything
Will It Ever - interview -
Preface Painless
The Important Thing
We’ve been friends with Grant Widmer & Ted Joyner since their days in The Eames Era. Their new band, Generationals, has earned some great reviews for their debut album Con Law, which just hit stores recently. The guys have hit the road on a Park The Van tour across the west coast and have been making periodic updates from the road exclusively for The Futurist. Here’s their final update…
We’re back home and we had such a fun time. What a great tour!
We left off the story in Tucson, Az, last Tuesday night. That night, we plaid at Club Congress which is an amazing hotel and venue in downtown Tucson. Along with Schuba’s in Chicago and Cafe du Nord in San Francisco, Club Congress is one of the top mid-sized clubs we’ve played in all our travels. They really go out of their way to welcome bands; they even gave us a hotel room to sleep in for the night. That kind of hospitality will get you a lot of goodwill from touring bands.
Our labelmates Golden Boots are from Tucson. They headlined the show that night and they drew a big crowd there to welcome them home, which is not easy to do on a Tuesday. The show was excellent and we spent several hours in the hotel lobby drinking and telling stories with Floating Action, who by this time had become our very good friends. We love them.
(Tess At Caroline Collective in Houston)
The drive from Tucson to Austin, Tx., for the next show was divided up over two days, so on Wednesday we set our sights on Balmorhea, a small town in West Texas with a beautiful hot spring. We made it there by sunset and we all got to swim in the spring for about an hour before the park guards came to kick us out. Texas is a beautiful state, it’s a shame we haven’t made the effort to visit there more often. We will be back soon.
We finished the drive into Austin on Thursday morning. By the early afternoon, we were loaded in and ready for our in-store showcase at Waterloo Records which is one of the country’s best and most celebrated independent record stores. It was a real honor getting to play at Waterloo. Their staff was very nice to us, they even bought a keg of beer for everyone. The crowd at Waterloo was great too, we spent at least an hour after the show talking to fans and friends.
The show that night was at Stubb’s Barbecue in downtown Austin. Stubb’s is a great restaurant with an even better venue built into it. Anyone who’s been to SXSW in Austin can tell you that Stubb’s is one of the best-attended clubs in Austin. We were thrilled to be there. We had so many good friends come to the show, including WOXY’s own DJ Shiv himself who was in Austin hunting for a new apartment. One of the best things about a tour is getting to catch up with so many great friends who have spread out all over the country. So many of our friends have moved to Austin over the years (we had 21 guests on our guest list), and it’s easy to see why Austin is such an attractive destination for young people. The town is beautiful, relatively walkable and full of innovators and interesting things to do. It’s truly one of America’s great cities. With so many friends in the room, our show was a lot of fun. We stayed up into the wee hours that night hanging out with friends and walking the streets of Austin. None of us can wait to get back there.
(Eating At Alabama Ice House In Houston)
When we set out for Houston on Friday morning, there was a palpable eagerness to get home. After driving all the way to Seattle and L.A., it’s a weird feeling knowing you’re just a few hours from home but not quite their yet. That said, we knew Houston would be a blast. Ted and I have an old friend there named Matt Wettergreen who we met back in 2004 when we were touring with The Eames Era and he was a DJ at KTRU, Rice University’s radio station. In the years since, Matt has made some major strides toward making Houston a great place to live. For one, he founded a place called The Caroline Collective which is a non-profit, collaborative workspace where entrepreneurs and artists from all over Houston can take advantage of all the resources of a traditional office for free, and in a really cool and interesting facility. It really is a great resource for motivated people in Houston. Matt gave us a tour of the place then led us over to KTRU’s studio on Rice’s campus where Ted and I performed a few acoustic songs on the Friday afternoon radio show.
After KTRU, we rushed over to Cactus Records for another in-store performance with Floating Action, then we moved on to a local “icehouse” (like a barbecue party with a bar) called Alabama where we killed a few hours before our show that night at Super Happy Fun Land. After a short stop at the high school where “Rushmore” was made, we headed to the venue. Somewhere between the icehouse and the stage, we decided with Floating Action to set up both our drum kits onstage that night and turn our bands’ two set into one extended set.
That was the best idea we ever had. It was so much fun. Our bands get along so well and love each others’ songs. We had all been contributing some guest-performances to each other’s sets throughout the tour so it was only a matter of time before the lines between our sets got completely obscured. That trend continued at our homecoming show at the Hi-Ho Lounge in New Orleans an Saturday night and it was one of the most fun shows we’ve ever played. We played to an amazing, sweaty, packed house in our hometown and sent Floating Action on their way back to Asheville. If everyone could have the experience that we just had on our tour, I’m pretty sure everyone would start a band and hit the road. I can’t wait to start it all over again. Talk to you then.
-Grant
It’s been over a year since we last saw Chicago’s Panda Riot. Since that time, they’ve added a new member and been hard at work on a follow-up to She Dares All Things.
We caught them as they were setting out on a mini tour that takes them down to the Pop Mayhem Festival in Florida. They set up in the Lounge and gave us a set that includes three brand new songs.
We can expect to hear them and many more on their next album Northern Automatic Music, likely to be released in January 2010.
Track Listing:
The Jesus Demeanor
Motown Glass (new/unreleased)
Julie In Time (new/unreleased) - interview -
Amanda In The Clouds (new/unreleased)
Suspense Kiss
