Last year, we invited Knoxville’s Royal Bangs in for a performance at our Cincinnati studio after we heard their album We Breed Champions. When they came through Texas in early September, we were not quite ready for them to play in the new digs and, instead, they co-hosted a great guest DJ hour with Joe. Over Fun Fun Fun Fest weekend, they made history as the first band to perform for us in our new home on South Congress Avenue.
Earlier this fall, they released Let It Beep on Patrick Carney’s Audio Eagle Records. As much as we dug their first album, this time around the band sound bigger with more layers to their instrumentation and the catchiest songs we’ve heard in a long time.
In this performance, they inaugurate the Austin Lounge with four tracks from Let It Beep and talk about their first live dates across the pond which are happening here in late November and early December.
Track Listing:
Poison Control
Tiny Prince Of Keytar - interview -
My Car Is Haunted
Brainbow
The buzz is really building for the debut release from West Palm Beach, Florida’s Surfer Blood. After wowing crowds at CMJ and several other live venues, the guys will be releasing Astro Coast in January on the Kanine label. During this whirlwind tour leading up to the albums release, the guys were kind enough to stop in to our studios and do a guest DJ hour with Shiv.
Below is the tracklisting, along with the full hour of conversation and music on demand. Enjoy!
Web In Front - Archers Of Loaf
Black Rice - Women
Dreamsucker - Grooms
Damaged Goods - Gang Of Four
Just Like Honey – The Jesus And Mary Chain
Phones Don’t Feud – Holiday Shores
1000 Pounds - Superchunk
Paper Cup Exit – Sonic Youth
No. 13 Baby – Pixies
This Must Be The Place - Talking Heads
I Have A Secret – Half-Japanese
Pool Swimmers - Real Estate
It was another successful Fun Fun Fun Fest here in Austin over the weekend. If you were here, you know that dozens of bands took stages and treated fans to some amazing live music. What you might not know is we were in the midst of it most of the weekend, doing some interviews and taking pictures. Here are our photos from Saturday at this years Fun Fun Fun Fest.
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!
