Episode two of Local Lixx Austin is packed with more local gems just waiting to be discovered. This week’s show has earthy folk from David Wingo’s Ola Podrida, some pub-rock revival from Leatherbag, spare folk from Silent Land Time Machine and even more great indie rock from Wiretree and Sunset. Stay tuned till the end of the broadcast because I saved the best for last: Burywood’s tune — off his new album There Is an Abstraction Ladder — is perhaps the most impressive of the bunch.

Ola Podrida “Donkey”
Leatherbag “Pretty Tuff”
Silent Land Time Machine “I Should Not Be at School”
Wiretree “Luck”
Lost River/Old River “Lost River”
Sunset “Our Dreams Did Weave a Shade”
Burywood “The Storm (The Applause)”
The Eastern Sea “The Sea”

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2130 S Congress Ave
Austin TX 78704

We get a little twangy this week on Local Lixx, featuring an artist nominated for a Cincinnati Entertainment Award for Best Americana/Folk category (Magnolia Mountain) and also for best singer/songwriter (Billy Catfish). In addition we get our first taste of some other great Ohio groups like Sparrow Bellows and Jesse Remnant & the Trainwrecks and also catch up with our friends Paper Airplane.

Magnolia Mountain – “Autumn Rose”
Billy Catfish – “Cowboy Machine”
Sparrow Bellows – “Dish It Out”
Paper Airplane – “Until It’s Gone”
Jesse Remnant & The Trainwrecks – “Same Sun”

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WOXY is proud to be a sponsor of this year’s Carnival-O-Pizza, celebrating Home Slice’s 4th Anniversary. On Saturday, December 5 at Home Slice on South Congress, we’ll be there for free entry to games, carnival-style booths, live music, raffles, break dancers, contests* (Pizza Tossing, Extreme Pizza Eating, Pizza Box Folding, and “Hands on an Eggplant Sub”), beer, pizza and much more! We’ll be on-hand introducing Austin to our independent radio programming and bright smiling faces.

All proceeds from the event go to Austin Pets Alive, Austin’s non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to promoting and providing resources, education and programs needed to eliminate the killing of companion animals in Austin. For more information, visit Austin Pets Alive online.

Home Slice is an independent neighborhood pizza joint serving authentic NYC-style pie. They’ve been praised by everyone from Rachael Ray to Texas Monthly. They’re great supporters of live music in Austin and help us feed bands at WOXY regularly for our Lounge Act Meet & Greets, so come on out and show your support – it goes to a good cause!

We’re proud to be sponsoring the carnival and look forward to seeing you there! For more information, visit Home Slice Pizza online.

We’ll be sponsoring the The Hands on an Eggplant Sub Contest (based on the Hands on a Hard Body contest) — a challenge that once lasted 27 hours, ending in a tie that had to be broken with Home Slice trivia. Check out the blog of Seth, last year’s winner of free pizza for a year.

*To sign up for the contests, stop by Home Slice and fill out a contest card.

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.

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All photos by Joe, see them all here as well.

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

On four stages in two days, Fun Fest will span genres to bring us bands like Ratatat, Destroyer, GZA, Danzig, 7 Seconds, HEALTH, Why?, Crystal Castles, of Montreal, Shonen Knife, Death, Atlas Sound, Broadcast, Lucero and many (many) more. That’s just for starters: there will be on-site shopping, comedy, art, food and a skate ramp at the park this year, keeping fans young and old entertained during what’s usually one of the mildest weekends of the year.

We’re excited to be partnering with Transmission Entertainment to bring you all the latest news, updates, after party information and more regarding the festival. Between now and November 7, WOXY will be spinning the artists, offering ticket giveaways, breaking news and being your one-stop-shop for news about the fest. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for all the updates that don’t make it to the Futurist.

Follow the jump to see the complete lineup. Buy tickets right here, or enter to win a pair of weekend passes by emailing woxycontests @ gmail.com and using “Fun Fun Fun” as your subject line.

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The latest edition of Soundcheck Magazine is on newsstands and is also available as a PDF.

This issue includes interviews with Ume, Mutemath, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Twilight Sad, T-Bird & The Breaks and also includes tons of photos from recent Austin shows like U2, Muse, Pearl Jam, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Phoenix, Them Crooked Vultures, The Dead Weather, Black Crowes, Wilco, Semi Precious Weapons, Ra Ra Riot, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Walkmen, Avett Brothers, Flogging Molly and The Felice Brothers. There’s also a nice recap of ACL 2009.

Elliot Cole’s talk with Lauren Larson of Ume is the WOXY pick in this issue. “I’m an unlikely candidate to be some sort of rocker woman,” she tells Cole. He’s right on the money, though, responding “She is soft-spoken and articulate, inoffensive but direct. She’s also dead-on in her analysis: with her long, blonde hair; petite frame; and infectious, upbeat spirit, she doesn’t make for the typecast rockstar. She’s far too intelligent, far too jovial, and far too composed to be the same girl that, night-in and night-out, is known for thrashing around on stage like a crazed banshee.”

Sounds like the Lauren we know and love! Don’t miss the latest issue of Soundcheck Magazine, and while you’re at their site, stream WOXY and grab our iPhone app.

WOXY is proud to present New York’s Elvis Perkins in Dearland, coming to the Parish Room on November 11. He’ll be supported by AA Bondy.

Perkins and his troupe will be supporting their October 20 release, the Doomsday EP and the self-titled full length from earlier this year. We’re giving you a chance to win tickets to the show – but that’s not all! Email us at woxycontests @ gmail.com, and you’ll be entered to win a tour of WOXY’s new studio as well as front row seats for Elvis Perkins’ Lounge Act here in Austin. We’ll also send you to the show at the Parish on us. Enter today!

Of the new songs, Perkins says, “We call this thing The Doomsday EP for obvious reasons, and its middle name to which it also answers is The EP of the Id. Being drawn to the many faces of the American strain it seems we have more or less subconsciously produced a collection speaking to/and or from several of them at once. It’s a document of impulses sleeping egos and their superiors let pass to tape. I myself didn’t know what these songs sounded like in the hands of EPID until they were processed and played back. You have a song that arrived like the rest of us by boat, a selection from the Sacred Harp, a rock ‘n roll heralding the eternal advent of rock ‘n roll, an ode to the soul of the undead and, finally (and firstly), two takes on a single song called Doomsday, one which comes from our March release and the other which leans in the direction of its original conception as something of a gospel number . And here they all are, risen from their cribs and graves, under one moonlight while their folks and undertakers look the other way.”

For more information, visit the Parish web site. Tickets available here for $14.

Thanks to Home Slice Pizza and Sweet Leaf Tea, the winners will get lunch with the band and some delicious tea to wash it down!

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It’s our very first Local Lixx Austin episode and we couldn’t be happier. Each week, we’ll be bringing you 30 minutes of tunes from Austin area bands big and small. This week’s episode features a couple of tracks from up-and-coming Austin bands like Beautiful Supermachines and Follow That Bird, but we also give you some familiarity with and old Okkervil River song and Brazos. Enjoy!

Zookeeper “Mama Jean”
International Waters “Salt and Sea”
Brazos “Tell”
Follow That Bird “I Want You To Know”
Beautiful Supermachines “The Miserablists”
Balmorhea “Harm & Boon”
Okkervil River “A Stone”

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Local Lixx is a local music show that covers Austin and beyond. To submit your music for consideration for the program send a CD, band bio and contact information to:

WOXY Radio
ATTN: Local Lixx Austin
2130 S Congress Ave
Austin TX 78704

Catch up on previous Local Lixx episodes right here.

While out on the road with Port O’Brien and in Austin to play the Pablove benefit show, Alex from Sea Wolf was kind enough to stop in to the WOXY studios. For his hour of guest DJing, Alex picked a nice mix of tunes including music from Bob Dylan, Antony & The Johnsons and Cat Power. The full tracklisting is below and you can also listen to the hour of music and conversation with Shiv on demand.

The Beast In Me - Johnny Cash
The Moon - Cat Power
His Master’s Voice - Monsters Of Folk
Black Swan - Thom Yorke
All Fires – Swan Lake
My Lady Story - Antony & The Johnsons
The Ballad Of Frankie L.. - Bob Dylan
The Fairest Of The Seas.. - Nico
Close The Lid - Port O’Brien
Dew In The Grass - Sea Wolf