When Peter Walker helped found Dangerbird Records back in 2004, he imagined a label with a family feel to it. A label where the bands he signed could share stages, strategies and even musicians from time to time. Fast forward to 2009, and those dreams are coming true, and in a first hand way through his own band, Eulogies. While out on the road with another Dangerbird band, The Dears, Eulogies stopped into our Lounge for an excellent acoustic set of songs from their second full length album, Here Anonymous.
As you will hear from Peter in the interview, the songs began in a simple way, starting with nothing more than a bass guitar, an echoplex and a microphone. Hearing the tunes in this stripped-down fashion bring to mind how they may have been born.
Enjoy these songs from a new perspective during this session.
Track Listing:
Bad Connection
The Fight (I’ve Come To Like) - interview -
This Fine Progression
Day To Day
In celebration of our double dip in the WOXY.com Lounge this Friday with The Dears and then with Eulogies, we have a cool contest to offer up. The good folks at Dangerbird Records, home to both bands, have been kind enough to offer us 2 prize packs for giveaway in celebration of this Friday’s lounge acts.
***CONTEST CLOSED, THANKS FOR ENTERING!***
So, two lucky winners will receive…..
-1 Copy of The Dears - Missiles CD
-1 Copy of Eulogies - Here Anonymous on Vinyl
The contest is open to all US residents and will end this Friday, to qualify, send an email to woxycontests at gmail dot com with the subject line reading “Dears/Eulogies”. In the email, tell us your favorite Dears or Eulogies song and you are entered to win!
Also, The Dears have recently released some exclusive B-sides and demos from thier latest album. Here are a couple for your consumption.
In the midst of a big US tour that made a stop at the Southgate House here in town, we asked Jeremy Greenspan of Junior Boys to stop into our studios and guest DJ. While Jeremy would have been just as at home behind two turntables, he picks some great music and talks to Mike a bit about why he chose it. Listen below to the music and conversation featuring Jeremy from Junior Boys!
For their third visit to the Lounge, Cincinnati’s Pomegranates stopped by on the eve of the official release for their new album Everybody, Come Outside!.
Advance praise for their sophomore effort has helped to raise their profile. They’re also embarking on a month long tour with Baltimore-based Wye Oak which will take them out on their longest and most widespread tour across the U.S.
In this performance, they play 3 tracks off of the new album, a popular b-side and give us a brand new track called Thigh High which they expect to make their third album.
Track Listing:
Everybody, Come Outside!
This Land Used To Be My Land,
But Now I Hate This Land
Thigh High (new/unreleased) - interview -
Sleepover
Jerusalem Has A Bad Day
Another week, and another great show here in the Cincinnati area that we want to send you to, for free. That’s right, if you did not win tickets to the WOXY.com presents show last week at the Southgate House, you have another shot this week as WOXY.com is proud to present Lucero and Titus Andronicus at the Southgate House on Thursday night, April 23rd.
Lucero are always a great great band to catch live, and we know you want a dose of the young upstarts from Titus Andronicus as well. So, just send an email to woxycontests at gmail dot com with the subject line “Lucero” and you will be entered to win a pair of tickets to the show this week. Just like last week, you will have until the end of the day on Wednesday and we will announce the winners on Thursday.
We were fortunate enough to have a doubleheader in the Lounge, catching both The Spinto Band and their touring partners The Rural Alberta Advantage on an otherwise cold & gloomy April day in Cincinnati.
Both bands were following up a successful SXSW experience and had stopped the night before to play a WOXY-sponsored gig at the Southgate House.
For The RAA, it was their first journey across the United States. Last year, they self-released an album called Hometowns which started to attract the attention of bloggers at home and abroad and was part of the eMusic Select series.
In this performance, they play 3 cuts from the album and even treat us to a brand new track to start things off. They’re planning a full-scale U.S. tour this summer and hope to ‘properly’ release Hometowns soon.
Track Listing:
TBD (new/unreleased)
The Dethbridge In Lethbridge - interview -
Luciana
Edmonton
The third time is the charm for The Spinto Band, who return to the Lounge after far too long. While finishing up the promotion for their Moonwink album, the guys said that they “saved the best for last” when popping back in to play a set of tunes for us on an early Friday morning.
Fresh off a local stop at the Southgate House with The Rural Alberta Advantage, they played an irresistible set of tracks from their latest album.
On their way back towards Pennsylvania after almost 6 months of solid promotion & touring, they’re planning to get back and start work on a new album this Spring.
Track Listing:
Needlepoint
Later On - interview -
They All Laughed
Summer Grof
The band also performed a cover of the theme song from Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil”, which we cannot legally include in the podcast
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.com
***UPDATE*** The first Pampelmoose New Music Hour on WOXY airs today at 6pm!!!!
Dave uses his web site to bring his readers and listeners the best new music from independent bands around the world. More than 100 labels and PR companies send MP3s each week into the Pampelmoose inbox overwhelming Dave with some of the finest independent music out there. Dave also attempts to include as much music from unsigned band as possible as well as including music from the thriving independent music scene of Portland, Oregon where Pampelmoose is based. For three years now at Pampelmoose, Dave has been collecting and filtering what he considers some of the best new music released each month resulting in a collection of free and legal MP3s that can be downloaded from the site.
By partnering with WOXY.com for an online weekly New Music Hour, WOXY.com’s listeners around the world will now be exposed to what we hope they will consider to be some of the best new music available for independent music fans. The Pampelmoose New Music Hour will kick off the week of April 13th 2009 so get ready for “even more new music” from WOXY.com and Pampelmoose!
***UPDATE*** The first Pampelmoose New Music Hour on WOXY airs today at 6pm!!!!
This should be an excellent night of music that you should not miss, and just in case you were thinking of missing it, we want to send you to the show for free. That’s right, we have 4 pairs of tickets for the show which is this Thursday night and want to send you.
In order to enter, just send an email to woxycontests at gmail dot com with “Margot” in the email title. Do that and you are entered to win! The contest will run until the end of the day on Wednesday and we will announce the winners on the air Thursday morning. Good luck!
Amy Schaefer is a friend of WOXY.com and a lover of music. She resides in San Fransisco and is a regular at the local music venues. She was in attendance last week for The Love Language at Bottom Of The Hill in San Fransisco and files this report….
Language is a peculiarity that makes us human. And inevitability as a human, you will at some point experience a broken heart. The Love Language is a result of just that. Stuart McLamb locked himself in a bedroom, wrung his pain into an 8 track player, and wrote and recorded nine tracks of redemption.
Now a seven piece band, The Love Language is on the road with Headlights promoting their self-titled debut. Recently they filled San Francisco’s Bottom of the Hill with their fuzzed out lo-fi 60s-inspired indie rock. The band pulled up 20 minutes before they were scheduled to play. Empty Red Bull cans roll out of the van, they scurry inside, run into the back patio, greet Headlights Nick Sanborn with a hasty hi. yeah. we’re here. sorry man. just came from Portland.
Despite the race and scramble to get there, they hit the stage seemingly unphased and played every song off the album. McLamb and his brother Jordan took us on a little walk with “Stars”, a simple, sweet duet carried along with a tender tambourine and pulsing bass drum. During “Two Rabbits” I got lost in the prancing piano and pleading croons “I could have died in your arms, now I’m back at your feet.” I bopped and swayed to “Sparxxx”, a brighter song with a sparkling xylophone, tambourine, oohs and ahhs, rhythmic guitar, and a howling outpour of defeat at the end. The set wrapped up with accompaniment from Headlights’ Sanborn on accordion. Missy Thangs pixied through the audience shaking a happy tambourine during “Lalita”, the most upbeat track with a strong guitar riff, enthusiastic percussion, and shouty lyrics “don’t you hate these kisses” and “I’m talking to the devil but I think I heard an angel sing.”
Love speaks between joy and fear, delight and pain, bliss and madness. The band conveys this conflict through lyrics of love, death, and addiction but with an open, earnest heart while friendly, catchy melodies and hooks offset the darkness. McLamb turned his heartache into a beautiful story, but there are no words to describe The Love Language live.
