Voodoo Music Experience takes place Halloween weekend in New Orleans, and will feature performances by KISS, Jane’s Addiction, the Flaming Lips, Justice, Gogol Bordello, the Black Keys, the Pogues, Ween, Generationals, Mates of State and many more. To celebrate, we’ve partnered with Voodoo and VTech to offer one lucky listener a chance to go to the festival on us, as well as the swell prize of a IS9181 WiFi Internet Radio. The IS9181 WiFi Internet Radio combines with wireless Internet access to offer news, music, sports and talk from over 11,000 streaming stations around the world — including WOXY. Read more about it here.

We’re giving away:

* 1 VTech IS9181 Wi-Fi Internet Radio.
* 2 VIP passes to the Voodoo Music Experience.
* 3 Night’s hotel stay at the New Orleans Marriott
* Flights to and from the festival.

To qualify for the giveaway, just send an email to woxycontests at gmail dot com with the subject line reading “VTech/Voodoo Fest”. Be sure to include your mailing address. We will take entries through October 1 and notify the winners the following day. Please be sure you are able to attend the festival before entering.

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!

WOXY is proud to present an excellent show taking place in our new hometown of Austin this week. Known as the “Scottish Tri-fecta Tour” this Thursday at Mohawk (outside) the Scots are taking over Austin. The Twilight Sad, We Were Promised Jetpacks and Frightened Rabbit will all be taking the stage that evening and playing to what should be a great crowd. We are big fans of all three bands, having hosted a studio session with Frightened Rabbit during SXSW 2008, and with The Twilight Sad and We Were Promised Jetpacks playing out stage earlier this month during the Monolith Festival.

This is an evening that you will regret missing so go ahead and snag your tickets right now for the show. As mentioned, the show is Thursday night, September 24th at Mohawk.

Enjoy some sounds and a video from the Scots below!

The Twilight Sad – Reflection Of The Television
We Were Promised Jetpacks – Ships With Holes Will Sink

WOXY.com presents: Frightened Rabbit from WOXY on Vimeo.

This weekend during the Monolith Festival at Red Rocks we continued our “WOXY Wants To Know” video series. We caught up with The Answering Machine the day after their set on the WOXY stage and asked them a few questions.

The Low Anthem was formed out of the friendship forged by Ben Knox Miller and Jeff Prystowsky while they were DJ’s at Brown University’s student-run radio station, WBUR. Always a trio, the band added Jocie Adams prior to recording their third and latest record, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin. After self-releasing the disc in 2008, they caught the attention of Nonesuch Records, who signed them and re-issued it with much wider distribution in June 2009.

Despite the their propensity for more intimate, acoustic performances, The Low Anthem has been in demand for high profile festival lineups including Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, and several overseas.

For their first appearance in the Lounge, they played a pair of songs from Charlie Darwin and two others, including a new, unrecorded song “Sally, Where’d You Get Your Liquor From”.

Tracklisting
Charlie Darwin
Sally, Where’d You Get Your Liquor From?
interview
This God Damn House
Cage The Songbird

The Low Anthem – Charlie Darwin (Live On WOXY.com)
The Low Anthem – Sally, Where’d You Get Your Liquor From? (Live On WOXY.com)
The Low Anthem – This God Damn House (Live On WOXY.com)
The Low Anthem – Cage The Songbird (Live On WOXY.com)

It was another great year at the Monolith Festival, and the WOXY stage was once again the talk of the fest. Here is a scrapbook of sorts with some video clips of the action on the WOXY stage this year. Have a look and enjoy!

Yes, we moved. Yes, we miss you. We’re making it all right, though, as in coming weeks we revive Local Lixx (Cincinnati and Austin editions) and take up a residency at Stubb’s here in Austin showcasing our favorite Texas-based acts.

So, since we’re sure we’ve only crashed into the very tip of the iceberg, we’re calling for all Texas-based bands to send us their records. Our new mailing address is 2130 S. Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78704 and we’re taking everything. In the midwest? Same address – the Cincinnati edition of Local Lixx will still be serving you right.

Stay tuned for more details on our residency and the return of Local Lixx! Want to know faster than anyone else? Subscribe to our newsletter on the home page under “Stay In the Loop”.

This weekend during the Monolith Festival at Red Rocks we continued our “WOXY Wants To Know” video series. We had a chance to chat with a couple members of These United States, whose third album Everything Touches Everything is yet another excellent record from one of our favorite bands.

The Twilight Sad

This years Monolith Music Festival was another huge success, and the success of the WOXY stage continued as well. With another slate of excellent bands, we saw a full room for almost every act on both days. Here are photos from Day 2 at the WOXY stage, which featured A Shoreline Dream, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Bad Veins, The Twilight Sad, Neon Indian and Deer Tick. Have a peek below at a slideshow of the photos, or head on over to Flickr and view them there.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

This weekend during the Monolith Festival at Red Rocks we continued our “WOXY Wants To Know” video series. First up was a chat with Grant from Generationals, whose debut album Con Law is a station favorite. I was able to chat with Grant just after they opened up the WOXY stage at the festival on the first day.