Our friends from Ra Ra Riot were in Austin last week playing with Princeton and Maps & Atlases. Before their set here in town they dropped by to say hello and also guest DJ for an hour. If you missed it or just want to hear it again, you can stream it below! In addition, here is a listing of the songs the band played during the hour.
“Hungry For You” The Police
“Useful Chamber” Dirty Projectros
“Woke Up Laughing” Robert Palmer
“Girl U Want” Devo
“Love Hurts” Roy Orbison
“Jeepster” T. Rex
“Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” Elton John
“A Sort Of Homecoming” U2
“Let Me Roll It” Paul McCartney & Wings
“Solsbury Hill” Peter Gabriel
“Show Some Love” Princeton
“Witch” Maps & Atlases
Enjoy this video of when The Breeders invaded our WOXY studios earlier this summer in Cincinnati. It’s never boring when Kim and Kelley Deal are around……
Our friends from The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir were on their way from Chicago to the MidPoint Music Festival in Cincinnati yesterday when they in a very serious van accident. They blew a tire and then rolled several times, eventually stopping with the van upside down in the median of the interstate.
All 6 members of the band were injured in the accident, with one still in serious condition. Their gear was also destroyed and their van totaled. Since this was to be the beginning of a touring cycle to support their new Bloodshot Records release “…and the horse you rode in”, this accident itself itself is expensive on many levels and they’ll be missing out on potential income from playing new shows. If you’ve enjoyed the band’s WOXY Lounge Act sessions, live shows, or cd’s over the last few years and would like to make a donation you can use PayPal to send a donation to: tsygc@bloodshotrecords.com
For continued updates on the condition of the band members and more information, Bloodshot has set up a page that will be constantly updated with more information on who’s in and out of the hospital, what’s going on, and what the band has to say. If you’re looking for information on the accident – for press or for personal reasons – check there before you ask us. We’ll just direct you there, most likely.
Not long after celebrating the 10th anniversary of the classic Moon Safari, Air are ready to return with a brand new album in a couple weeks, Love 2. The record is the french duo’s fifth and their first since 2007’s Pocket Symphony. Unlike the last album though, the band handles all the vocal duties this time around, and once again employed the percussion work of Joey Waronker, who played with them on their “Close Up” tour in Fall 2008.
The album is not out until next month, but we have an excellent “preview” mp3 to share with you today here on The Futurist. The mp3 gives you a “mash up” of a handful of the new songs from Love 2, and should whet your appetite until it hits independent record store shelves.
It’s no secret that we’ve been enjoying Let It Beep, the sophomore full length from Knoxville’s Royal Bangs. The album has already earned the band a fair amount of buzz from the likes of Spin, MetroPulse and more. We’re excited for their upcoming Austin show, happening at Emo’s on Tuesday, Sept. 29. They’ll be supported by Tigercity.
Royal Bangs first caught the eye of Patrick Carney (Black Keys) with their debut, We Breed Champions, and he quickly signed them to his label, Audio Eagle, for the follow up.
We’re giving away a pair of tickets to this show … send us an email to woxycontests at gmail dot com and use the subject line “Royal Bangs”. Leave us your full name and we’ll notify you if you’re our lucky winner.
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!
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
