For their third visit to the Lounge, Cincinnati’s Pomegranates stopped by on the eve of the official release for their new album Everybody, Come Outside!.

Advance praise for their sophomore effort has helped to raise their profile. They’re also embarking on a month long tour with Baltimore-based Wye Oak which will take them out on their longest and most widespread tour across the U.S.

In this performance, they play 3 tracks off of the new album, a popular b-side and give us a brand new track called Thigh High which they expect to make their third album.

Track Listing:
Everybody, Come Outside!
This Land Used To Be My Land,
But Now I Hate This Land
Thigh High (new/unreleased)
- interview -
Sleepover
Jerusalem Has A Bad Day

Pomegranates - Everybody Come Outside! (Live On WOXY.com)
Pomegranates - This Land Used To Be My Land, Now I Hate This Land (Live On WOXY.com)
Pomegranates - Thigh High (Live On WOXY.com / New-Unreleased)
Pomegranates - Sleepover (Live On WOXY.com)
Pomegranates - Jerusalem Had A Bad Day (Live On WOXY.com)

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

For last year’s SXSW Lounge Act sessions, we invited A Place To Bury Strangers to EAR Studios and they definitely turned out to be one of the loudest sessions that week. This year, we followed up with some good friends of APTBS, Atlanta’s All The Saints. Both bands were initially labelmates on Killer Pimp before All The Saints found their debut record Fire On Corridor X reissued through Touch & Go in 2008.

In 2004, Matt Lambert, Titus Brown and Jim Crook relocated to Atlanta, GA from Tuscaloosa, AL. While they had known each other from college, they didn’t start playing music together until they hit Georgia. They worked with producer/engineer Ben H. Allen to craft their debut over a period of almost 2 years. In the interview, the guys say that Ben helped bring them to the next level & used his “pop sensibility to clean things up a little bit” in their recording process.

SXSW week ended up being pretty busy for the trio because not only did they have several shows to play, but they were also on the prowl for a “cozy new home” after the recent announcement that Touch & Go would be closing up shop. While it’s definitely a letdown that the band were unable to release their already completed 2nd album through the label, something tells us they’ll find another great home soon.

They run through a few cuts off their debut and made it through through 2 brand new songs during this performance. They were attempting a 3rd new track called “Half Red Halfway” when they blew an amp in the studio and we had to cut things short. The full podcast of this session has been edited so you’ll only really hear the bizarre moments after this happened, as it took a minute or two during the live session for everybody to figure out what was going on. But, All The Saints literally closed out the day with a bang and we wouldn’t have had it any other way.

Tracklisting
Closer Owner (New-Unreleased)
Farmacia
-interview-
Now Boy (New-Unreleased)
Regal Regalia

All The Saints - Closer Owner (Live On WOXY.com / New-Unreleased)
All The Saints - Farmacia (Live On WOXY.com)
All The Saints - Now Boy (Live On WOXY.com / New-Unreleased)
All The Saints - Regal Regalia (Live On WOXY.com)

All The Saints - Live On WOXY.com (full session download)

After we heard the debut EP from The Deep Vibration, Veracruz, we really wanted to have the band come in and play live in our lounge. And then, after the band performed for us in studio, we became even bigger fans after their stellar performance. So when we were asked to be a part of their upcoming tour, it was an easy decision to make.

The Deep Vibration have exploded onto the music scene since signing to Nashville based Dualtone Music just last spring. All of the attention surrounding the release of their debut EP Veracruz suggests The Deep Vibration could be “a rock and roll legend in the making” according to American Songwriter Magazine—fitting for a band who was actually named by one of Rock n’ Roll’s most legendary pioneers, Lou Reed.

The Deep Vibration will hit the road with Roman Candle for a 30+ market tour sponsored by WOXY.com and Paste Magazine, beginning in the Mid-west on April 13th and concluding on the East-coast at the end of May. We are excited to be a part of this tour along with Paste and The Deep Vibration and encourage you to get out and see these guys live if they are coming to a city near you, you won’t regret it.

Enjoy a couple songs from their recent WOXY.com Lounge Act today, and get even more right here….

The Deep Vibration - Worried Mind (Live On WOXY.com / New-Unreleased)
The Deep Vibration - Oklahoma City Woman Blues (Live On WOXY.com)

***UPDATE***We have a pair of tickets for each of the following dates on the tour to giveaway:

Keep checking back in on The Futurist. The tour keeps on going into May and we’ll have more tickets to offer for other cities soon.

A full listing of the upcoming tour are listed after the jump….
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We try to be supportive of local bands here in the Cincinnati area, but certainly do not play a band just because they are native to the Tri-State. Frontier Folk Nebraska are really not from Cincinnati anyway, but rather all reside south of the river in Northern Kentucky, but when we first got wind of them early this year after the release of their album Pearls, it did not matter where they were from, we wanted to hear more.

So it was a natural progression to have the guys into our studios for a lounge act session, and the results were nothing short of lovely. The 4-piece band have been playing together for a couple of years, and make earnest, heartfelt, roots music that brings to mind some of our favorite Americana sounds.

Enjoy this set of tunes and interview from Frontier Folk Nebraska.

Track Listing:
Ballad Of A Dead Man
On The Devil’s Time (Black Horse)
- interview -
Tonight A Rainfall, Yesterday’s Nightmares
City Lights
Open Chords

Frontier Folk Nebraska - Ballad Of A Dead Man (Live On WOXY.com)
Frontier Folk Nebraska - On The Devil’s Time (Black Horse)
Frontier Folk Nebraska - Tonight A Rainfall, Yesterday’s Nightmares (Live On WOXY.com / New-Unreleased)
Frontier Folk Nebraska - City Lights (Live On WOXY.com)
Frontier Folk Nebraska - Open Chords (Live On WOXY.com)

Another week, and another great show here in the Cincinnati area that we want to send you to, for free. That’s right, if you did not win tickets to the WOXY.com presents show last week at the Southgate House, you have another shot this week as WOXY.com is proud to present Lucero and Titus Andronicus at the Southgate House on Thursday night, April 23rd.

Lucero are always a great great band to catch live, and we know you want a dose of the young upstarts from Titus Andronicus as well. So, just send an email to woxycontests at gmail dot com with the subject line “Lucero” and you will be entered to win a pair of tickets to the show this week. Just like last week, you will have until the end of the day on Wednesday and we will announce the winners on Thursday.

Good luck!

Lucero - That Much Further West (Live on WOXY.com / June 2005)

***Contest Closed, Thanks for playing!

Our very first new music hour with Dave Allen is in the books and will get an encore presentation this Sunday at 11am ET if you missed it. If you can’t catch that one either, we have you covered, with the archive of the show to listen to below.

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!

Weird Owl - Skeletelepathic
Dead Meadow - Between Me and The Ground
Dan Auerbach - I Want Some More
Fever Ray - Triangle Walks
The Knife - Neverland

Bonde Do Role - Gasolina [Girl Talk Megamix]

We were fortunate enough to have a doubleheader in the Lounge, catching both The Spinto Band and their touring partners The Rural Alberta Advantage on an otherwise cold & gloomy April day in Cincinnati.

Both bands were following up a successful SXSW experience and had stopped the night before to play a WOXY-sponsored gig at the Southgate House.

For The RAA, it was their first journey across the United States. Last year, they self-released an album called Hometowns which started to attract the attention of bloggers at home and abroad and was part of the eMusic Select series.

In this performance, they play 3 cuts from the album and even treat us to a brand new track to start things off. They’re planning a full-scale U.S. tour this summer and hope to ‘properly’ release Hometowns soon.

Track Listing:
TBD (new/unreleased)
The Dethbridge In Lethbridge
- interview -
Luciana
Edmonton

The Rural Alberta Advantage - TBD (Live On WOXY.com)
The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Dethbridge In Lethbridge (Live On WOXY.com)
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Luciana (Live On WOXY.com)
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Edmonton (Live On WOXY.com)

The Rural Alberta Advantage - Live On WOXY.com (full session download)

Born in Alabama, Dorothy Mae Whitsett (aka Lady Dottie) got her start singing in a gospel choir. She was raised in a family of 14 but it’s hard to imagine that she ever had trouble being heard with her powerful voice. Her musical prowess knows no bounds. She started singing the blues at age 20 and, at one point, even performed jazz standards in a piano bar.

Along with her band The Diamonds, Lady Dottie has become a San Diego staple, serving up a raucous mix of the blues, soul, and rock with three current weekly residencies across the city. Their live performances are legendary, sometimes even crossing the 4 hour mark. They do a mixture of covers & original tunes, many of which surfaced last year on a self-titled debut release from the Hi-Speed Soul label. We were hooked from the moment we heard the band’s single “I Ain’t Mad At Ya” and started spinning a few cuts from the record. When the
possibility of a Lounge Act session was mentioned for our week in Austin, it was one of the easiest decisions of the week.

Lady Dottie proved that she can tear the roof off at any time of the day or night when she showed up for this 9am performance on the last day of SXSW. You’ll hear a full set of original tunes from the band in this session which we hope will turn even more listeners on to this talented group of musicians.

View the entire photoset here…

Tracklisting
I Ain’t Mad A Ya’
Come Along Together
Crazy Bout’ You Baby
-interview-
Livin’ It Up
I’m Ready

Lady Dottie & the Diamonds - I Ain’t Mad At Ya’ (Live On WOXY.com)
Lady Dottie & The Diamonds - Come Along Together (Live On WOXY.com)
Lady Dottie & The Diamonds - Livin’ It Up (Live On WOXY.com)
Lady Dottie & The Diamonds - Crazy Bout’ You Baby (Live On WOXY.com)
Lady Dottie & The Diamonds - I’m Ready (Live On WOXY.com)

The third time is the charm for The Spinto Band, who return to the Lounge after far too long. While finishing up the promotion for their Moonwink album, the guys said that they “saved the best for last” when popping back in to play a set of tunes for us on an early Friday morning.

Fresh off a local stop at the Southgate House with The Rural Alberta Advantage, they played an irresistible set of tracks from their latest album.

On their way back towards Pennsylvania after almost 6 months of solid promotion & touring, they’re planning to get back and start work on a new album this Spring.

Track Listing:
Needlepoint
Later On
- interview -
They All Laughed
Summer Grof

The band also performed a cover of the theme song from Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil”, which we cannot legally include in the podcast

The Spinto Band - Needlepoint (Live On WOXY.com)
The Spinto Band - Later On (Live On WOXY.com)
The Spinto Band - They All Laughed (Live On WOXY.com)
The Spinto Band - Summer Grof (Live On WOXY.com)

The Spinto Band - Live On WOXY.com (full session download)

With a name like Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, you have to start with some intrigue. And there is alot more about this band that is both interesting and most importantly, worth hearing. The name was coined by the 11 year old brother of lead singer Benjamin Verdoes, who is named Marshall and is now 13 years old and also happens to be the drummer in the band. The Seattle based band caught the attention of lots of people before they had even released a song with some clever PSA like commericials that spread around the web like wildfire through You Tube.

And when the band was finally ready to let the music out, people were more than ready. The full length debut album from MSHVB is a really excellent album, combining so many of the things we love about indie rock. The band was kind enough to make EAR studios their first stop in town during their first SXSW as a band, ever.

But as you can tell, the results from the session don’t sound like a band that just fell out of a van after a long road trip, but rather of a seasoned group placing another notch on their belts.

View the entire photoset here…..

Tracklisting
Cheer For Fate
Who’s Asking
-interview-
On The Collar
Albatross, Albatross, Albatross

Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band - Cheer For Fate (Live On WOXY.com)
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band - Who’s Asking (Live On WOXY.com)
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band - On The Collar (Live On WOXY.com)
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band - Albatross, Albatross, Albatross (Live On WOXY.com)