We continue our WOXY Wants To Know series with a quick interview from Bad Veins after their recent WOXY Lounge Act. Watch it below.

As some of you are well aware, WOXY has a pretty storied history spanning the past 26 years. We came across this short documentary put together by WOXY fan Zachary Herche about the station online last week and wanted to share it with all of you. The doc is about 10 minutes long and features some WOXY staffers, past and present. Enjoy!

WOXY DOC from Zachary Herche on Vimeo.

This weekend in Chicago, the 4th annual Pitchfork Music Festival took over the Windy City’s Union Park for three days of great music. WOXY was on hand and chatted with a few bands we love. Have a look at this WOXY Wants To Know with Bowerbirds.

Also, check out our session with Bowerbirds from 2008 right here.

This weekend in Chicago, the 4th annual Pitchfork Music Festival took over the Windy City’s Union Park for three days of great music. WOXY was on hand and chatted with a few bands we love. Have a look at our very first WOXY Wants To Know with Cymbals Eat Guitars.

WOXY Wants To Know – Cymbals Eat Guitars from WOXY on Vimeo.

And don’t forget, Cymbals Eat Guitars will be live in the WOXY lounge this Wednesday afternoon!

We are big fans of our friends from The Answering Machine and their debut album, Another City, Another Sorry.

And with the new album making the rounds overseas and here in the US, the band are playing plenty of dates to help promote it. Among those dates is an upcoming gig with Doves at City Of Manchester Stadium next Friday! And we have 2 pairs of tickets to give away right here on The Futurist. Finally, something for our UK fans! The show is July 17th, (next Friday) and to enter the contest send an email to woxycontests at gmail dot com with the subject line reading TAM-Manchester. And of course, be sure you can attend the show. We will draw a winner in less than a week so be sure to get those entries in now!

They recently wrapped up a handful of dates at different hostels in the UK, concluding with a gig at Clink Hostel in London.

Enjoy some exclusive footage of that show and of the hostel below. And if you have not already done so, be sure to pick up the debut record from The Answering Machine.

The Answering Machine – Clink Hostel from WOXY on Vimeo.

Jack White’s new band, The Dead Weather, will grab WOXY’s controls for two exclusive DJ Sets both Monday and Tuesday at 1pm. He’ll be joined by bandmates Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Dean Fertita (QOTSA) and Cincinnati’s own Jack Lawrence (Greenhornes, Raconteurs) and will be completely in charge: spinning tunes, talking, and maybe even previewing music from their new Horehound album. So tell a buddy, bring a friend, ‘cuz you won’t here this anywhere but on WOXY.com.

Wow, this is a pretty exciting thing to be giving away. Fresh off of their number 1 placement on this years Modern Rock 500, we have a stellar new box set to give away here on The Futurist from Pixies!

******CONTEST CLOSED, THANKS FOR ENTERING!*****

The deluxe edition box set will include all five Pixies studio albums – Come On Pilgrim (1987), Surfer Rosa (1988), Doolittle (1989), Bossanova (1990), and Trompe le Monde (1991) – on 24k layered CD and Blu-ray (five discs total), with reinterpreted artwork by Vaughan Oliver, the graphic designer who created all of the artwork that accompanied the Pixies’ studio albums. Also included in the Deluxe Edition will be a DVD of a Pixies 1991 performance at the Brixton Academy in London, the group’s videos, possible bonus tracks, and a 54-page book, all housed in a custom slipcase.

Maybe you saw this article about it today, sincepre-orders for that bad boy are starting today, but if you can’t quite justify plopping down the cash for it, well, we have an option for you. We have one deluxe edition to give away here on The Futurist and I know you want a shot at it.

So, to enter this contest send an email to woxycontests at gmail dot com with the subject line reading “Pixies Box”, feel free to say whatever you want in the email that might sway our opinion, cash bribes, your undying love for the band and for WOXY etc.

Good luck! And in the meantime, check out these two videos about the box sets!

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.

The Dears – Meltdown In A Major (demo)
The Dears – Crisis 1 & 2 (boy, boy version)
The Dears – Halfmast (b-side)

When Thomas, Dede and Darren were all working together at a major label in the UK a couple years ago, I don’t think any of them dreamed that they would find themselves with their own band, playing to crowds in Austin, Texas USA during SXSW. But that is exactally the situation the band found themselves in this year during SXSW 2009.

After one of the most talked about sets at the Hot Freaks day party, We Have Band dropped into EAR studios to play a session for us. The trio have only been making music together for a little over a year, but the chemistry and pure fun they incorporate into their performances is nothing short of contagious.

Thus far, the band have only released a few singles and done some remixes for others, but with a full length album on the way, they previewed some of their material for us, and had all in attendance in our studio dancing throughout their set.

View the entire photoset here…

Tracklisting
How To Make Friends (not included at management’s request)
Oh!
WHB (not included at management’s request)
-interview-
You Came Out
Honeytrap

We Have Band – Oh! (Live On WOXY.com)
We Have Band – You Came Out (Live On WOXY.com)
We Have Band – Honeytrap (Live On WOXY.com)

As if we did not get enough of live studio sessions last week during SXSW, we are now back in Cincinnati and have a full week of Lounge Acts to bring you starting today. First up isBear Hands, who hail from Brooklyn and have already garnered postive attention from the likes of Spin, NME and several influential blogs.

The band will be joining us in the studio at around 4:30pm ET today, so be sure to listen for it. In the meantime, enjoy this video the band did for their song, “What A Drag.”