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!

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Playlist -

Prefab Sprout - “Goodbye Lucille #1″
Larry Heard - “The Sun Can’t Compare”
Caribou - “Irene”
Laurie Spiegel - “Appalachian Grove 1″
The Russian Futurists - “Our Pen’s Out Of Ink”
Sparks - “When I’m With You”
Simple Minds - “Big Sleep”
Kelley Polar - “Satellites”

We were recently turned on to Oklahoma’s Stardeath And White Dwarfs with their WB debut, a 7″ single for “I Can’t Get Away.” The guys have actually been together for a few years now, not only making music, but also working on the road crew for The Flaming Lips.

Both bands also recently partnered up for a cover of Madonna’s “Borderline” for a Warner Bros. 50th Anniversary compilation. It is also being issued as an exclusive 7″ single for Record Store Day this weekend. The band performed their cover here in the Lounge, although we cannot include it in the downloadable podcast for legal reasons.

What we can give you is a taste of their original cuts, which will give you a good idea of what to expect when their debut full-length The Birth is released later this Spring. You can expect the vinyl edition in stores on May 19th and the cd/digital download to follow on June 2nd.

Track Listing:
The Age Of The Freak
New Heat
-interview -
The Birth
Those Who Are From The Sun Return To The Sun

Stardeath & White Dwarfs - Age Of The Freak (Live On WOXY.com)
Stardeath & White Dwarfs - New Heat (Live On WOXY.com)
Stardeath & White Dwarfs - The Birth (Live On WOXY.com)
Stardeath & White Dwarfs - Those Who Are From The Sun Return To The Sun (Live On WOXY.com)

Stardeath & The White Dwarfs - Live On WOXY.com (full session download)

Having a session with The Rosebuds is one prime example of why we go to SXSW every year and do what we do. You see, we have always been fans of the band, and have played music from each and every one of their studio releases. But for whatever reason, tour routing, lack of a show around us etc., we have never had the pleasure of hosting Ivan & Kelly in the WOXY.com studios.

So, it was a natural fit to have them close out one of our days at EAR studios during SXSW 2009. Ivan and Kelly were playing a string of shows at the festival again this year along with a full band but it was just the two of them that joined us for this stripped down set. The longtime North Carolina residents, have played SXSW several times now, and we chat about the festival, the creative process for their latest album, Kelly’s love of good literature and the possibility of writing a book of her own.

The married couple truly charmed us all with their music and even more so with their gracious and kind personalities. In this session you will hear tunes from both of their most recent full length albums, Life Like and Night Of The Furies. I think you will especially enjoy the acoustic version of “Get Up, Get Out.”

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Tracklisting
Cape Fear
-interview-
Life Like
When The Lights Go Dim
Get Up, Get Out

The Rosebuds - Cape Fear (Live On WOXY.com)
The Rosebuds - Life Like (Live On WOXY.com)
The Rosebuds - When The Lights Go Dim (Live On WOXY.com)
The Rosebuds - Get Up, Get Out (Live On WOXY.com)

Local Lixx returns after a hiatus with some of the best music in the Tri-State area. This week we have a couple of Lounge Act songs from Cincinnati artists to share, and a few artists that are new to Local Lixx in Brian Olive and Smug Brothers. Enjoy a brand new episode of Local Lixx!

Frontier Folk Nebraska - “Open Chords” WOXY Lounge Act
Smug Brothers - “Fortune Rumors”
Brian Olive - “There Is Love”
Pomegranates - “Thigh High” WOXY Lounge Act
You, You’re Awesome - “Fantastic & Flying”

Local Lixx - Episode 35

Tune in Thursday night at 8:30 for another new episode of Local Lixx!

How we stumbled upon The Distant Seconds is probably not unlike how you’ve come across a band or two: we found them online.

Matador Records chief Gerard Cosloy, an Austin resident, raved about them during an interview, leading us to make direct contact for a copy their freshly minted debut Spectral Evidence. Recalling the nervy guitar work of the likes of Television, Bottomless Pit, and even Spoon, the disc quickly made its way onto our playlist and became one of WOXY’s most played records during the first few months of 2009. So when we went looking for locals to round out the early portion of our week at SXSW, The Distant Seconds received one of the first calls.

Singer & guitarist Matt Baab and drummer Charlie Ewing were previously in The Soft Set, another well-received Austin outfit before forming The Distant Seconds with Kirk Miles and New Orleans-transplant Brandon Bunch in 2005. After a self-released set of demos made the rounds, the four recorded Spectral Evidence in Denton, TX, with producer Matthew Barnhart (Shearwater, The New Year). In fact, they’d recently recorded a batch of new songs, once again with Barnhart, for an upcoming EP and were good enough to premiere a few of them during their set.

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Tracklisting
Akron Bureau (new/unreleased)
Between The Brackets (new/unreleased)
- interview -
We’re Unstoppable
Spectral Evidence
I Don’t Want To Go Back To Memphis (new/unreleased)

The Distant Seconds - Akron Bureau (Live On WOXY.com/New-Unreleased)
The Distant Seconds - Between The Brackets (Live On WOXY.com/New-Unreleased)
The Distant Seconds - We’re Unstoppable (Live On WOXY.com)
The Distant Seconds - Spectral Evidence (Live On WOXY.com)
The Distant Seconds - Don’t Want To Go Back To Memphis(Live On WOXY.com/New-Unreleased)

When we were investigating some local bands for our SXSW bookings this year, we came across a great record called Space Punk Starlet from The Frontier Brothers. While the band have called Austin home since
2006, they have quite an interesting mythology. You see, the Dallas Observer have already called them “the love children of Randy Newman and Stephen Malkmus”, but it goes farther than that. Much farther in fact, as they claim to be from a planet over “700 billion light years away” in our interview where every band sounds like U2.

A quick online search yields several videos of the band in brightly colored, skintight spandex outfits, roaming the streets of Austin during last year’s SXSW. While their spacesuits weren’t on for this session (they decided on their “human disguises”), they explain how the Austin music scene is so strong that even bands from other planets want to call it home.

In this live performance, you’ll hear several cuts from Space Punk Starlet, the band’s debut full-length album. You find it online digitally or order a cd from cdbaby.com!

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Tracklisting
Jump Blues
How Do You Make Movies When You’re Under The Sea / Kickstand Woman
-interview-
Don’t Try And Take My Guns (new-unreleased)
Space Punk Starlet

The Frontier Brothers - Jump Blues (Live On WOXY.com)
The Frontier Brothers - How Do You Make Movies When You’re Under The Sea (Live On WOXY.com)
The Frontier Brothers - Don’t Try And Take My Guns (Live On WOXY.com / New-Unreleased)
The Frontier Brothers - Space Punk Starlet (Live On WOXY.com)

One of the true “good guys” in the indie rock scene is John Vanderslice. John is known as one of the most generous, easy to talk to musicians you will ever meet that can also sell out a venue. And usually, this does not lend itself well to “good” music, but that is just the opposite with John, who like fine wine, seems to get better with age.

John’s latest album, Romanian Names, is his first for Dead Oceans Records, and his seventh overall, and could possibly be his best to date. The record capitalizes on everything that you already love about Vanderslice’s songwriting and voice and takes things up a notch with stellar production (once again by Scott Solter at JV’s Tiny Telephone Studios) and a catchy pop sensibility that should not be overlooked.

I read that John wanted the songs on Romanian Names to be “shorter, faster songs that were all about the melody lines” and that is evident on some of the most addicting tunes on the record. Have a listen to one of those right now, “Fetal Horses” and get ready for the full length to be released on May 19th.

John Vanderslice - Fetal Horses

Have a listen below to the latest Pampelmoose New Music Hour hosted by Dave Allen!

Dave has also been kind enough to host all the songs he played during his show if you enjoyed them, feel free to grab them below or on the archive page.

And don’t forget, the next Pampelmoose New Music Hour is slated for this coming Tuesday at 6pm ET right here on WOXY.com!

Twin Tigers - Sexless Love
Cage The Elephant - Tiny Little Robots
Great Northern - Houses
Cortney Tidwell - 17 Horses

Luminous Things - White Ceiling
James Yuill - Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box
Radiohead Vs Dave Brubek - 5 Step
The Saturday Knights - 45
Quest For Fire - Bison Eyes
Red Fang - Prehistoric Dog

Dead Confederate - It Was A Rose
The Streets - Heads Will Roll
Metric - Help I’m Alive [The Twelves Remix]

This San Francisco trio have been playing together since 2006. Roland Curtis & Chris Crawford became friends when they were working in a record store together. They met singer Jason Heiselmann soon after and worked through a few setups before settling on playing together as a trio. All three guys have recording & engineering experience, but decided to hit the studio with Trans Am’s Phil Manley so that they could capture their live sound with a little outside input from someone who is genuinely a musical hero for the guys. Late last year those recordings became their self-titled debut cd and we fell in love with it immediately, giving it quite a bit of airplay here at the station.

The best thing about our yearly excursion to EAR Studios is the ability to meet up with bands that we really love who may not be stopping in Cincinnati anytime soon. We started inquiring about French Miami’s availability in Austin almost as soon as we started making plans for this year’s performances. Turns out that it was the first SXSW trip for the band and their stop at EAR was their first of many, many performances for the week. In the interview, they give us the heads up that they’ve already started working on a second album, so hopefully we won’t have to wait too long for some new music from the band.

In this performance you’ll hear several tunes from their debut record, most of which will be familiar to anyone who has regularly listened to WOXY over the last few months.

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Tracklisting
Goddamn Best
SFO
Science Fiction
-interview-
Multi-Caliber Rifles
Lil’ Rabbits

French Miami - Science Fiction (Live On WOXY.com)
French Miami - Multi-Caliber Rifles (Live On WOXY.com)
French Miami - Lil’ Rabbits (Live on WOXY.com)
French Miami - Goddamn Best (Live On WOXY.com)
French Miami - SFO (Live On WOXY.com)

French Miami - Live On WOXY.com (full session download)

We decided to take in a nearly a full week’s worth of Austin this year, so we set our course for EAR Studios once again, focused on bringing WOXY listeners SXSW 2009. Since we were starting our live broadcasts two days prior to the official start of the music portion of the festival and before most bands hit town, we sought out a few of the city’s finest to begin our week. Being the “Live Music Capitol of the World” and truly one of the globe’s music centers, the local scene in Austin easily ranks with those of cities three and four times its size. Our lineup on Monday was comprised solely of local bands that, collectively, more than held their own against the rest of the week’s schedule of national and internationally based artists.

The first band of our 27 bands, Brazos, formed a few years ago as the bedroom project of Austin’s Martin Crane. Both a well-received debut EP and a follow-up single released in 2007 got people talking, while Crane recruited some help and morphed Brazos into a full-fledged band. Phosphorescent Blues will be Brazos’ debut full-length, scheduled for release later in 2009.

Now a trio, the band boasts a classic indie pop sound driven by shimmering guitar work and Martin’s literate, insightful lyrics, treating us to four unreleased songs, which should feature on the record. However, they opened the session by taking a poem from Adrienne Rich and putting it to their own music.

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Tracklisting
The Observer
Tell
-interview-
Day Glo
For So Long Now

Brazos - The Observer (Live On WOXY.com)
Brazos - Tell (Live On WOXY.com)
Brazos - Day Glo (Live On WOXY.com)
Brazos - For So Long Now (Live On WOXY.com)

Brazos - Live On WOXY.com (full session download)