During Noise Pop 2007, we invited San Francisco-based quartet Love Like Fire into Coast Recorders to play some new tunes for us.

We got turned on to the band with their self-released EP called Bed Of Gold. In this session, they perform four brand new, previously unreleased tracks that will likely appear on another EP before the end of the year. Check below for photos from the session, the full session download, and two songs cut out of the set now available for download.

Check out the entire photoset here.

Love Like Fire - I Will (Live On WOXY.com/Unreleased)

Love Like Fire - S.O.S. (Live On WOXY.com)

Love Like Fire - Live On WOXY.com (full session download)

New Music focuses on something just added to the WOXY.com playlist. Today the spotlight is on the new album from Dungen, Tio Bitar, the album was just released this week and is in stores now, you can also purchase it from our friends at lala.com for $9.49.

• Fourth full length from Swedish band helmed by wunderkid Gustav Ejstes
• Tio Bitar translates to Ten Pieces but as with previous Dungen records, all lyrics are sung entirely in Swedish
• Ejstes credits an early gift for his mother, a copy of Jimi Hendrix’ Are You Experienced, as a major influence in his life, stating that’s where he discovered and understood what a ‘groove’ was.
  

Here are a few reviewers quotes about the new album.

• “It isn’t the sort of artistic statement that promises to change anyone’s life, but it’s no less a great work of escapist art, the sort of essential record I’d pick for any hypothetical list of desert island necessities.” - Stylus Magazine
• “Tio Bitar is Dungen’s most realized album yet and should resonate with anyone who likes rock music at all.” - All Music Guide
• “The influences may be antediluvian but the spirit is timeless.” - BBC Collective

Blog Buzz

• Culture Bully
• Stereogum
• Perfect Porridge
• Obscure Sound

Check out some Dungen songs

We gave away three brand new WOXY.com T’s last week here on The Futurist, and now two more to dole out today. See below for todays winners. Congratulations!

Veronica gives Wear Your WOXY Wednesday A Big Thumbs Up, Literally

Our man from the message boards, John (aka Hunta) tells Ted Leo how the WOXY.com boards changed his life…

One more of Ted and John, this time with John’s son in tow….

If you were not a lucky winner, then jump over to the store and buy one you cheapskate! They are only 10$….!

Another great batch of music hitting store shelves next Tuesday. One that tops alot of our lists is the new one from The National, Boxer. You better hit up this pre-sale because I just might get a couple copies at this price. Click the link to hit up the lala store and buy Boxer for only $9.29.

Also worth highlighting this week in the lala store is the debut full length from Voxtrot.

Head on over to the Lala store and see all the pre-release deals.

The National - Fake Empire

The Baltimore based four-piece, J Roddy Walston & The Business, stopped in for a session with us a few weeks ago. The band is touring supporting their debut full length album, Hail Mega Boys, which is also self released.

The guys played a blistering set that was one of the louder ones the lounge has seen in some time. All five of the tunes they played during the set can be found on the debut CD and are available for full session download below. We have also cut out two songs for individual download. Enjoy!

Check out the entire photoset here.

Track Listing:
Rock And Roll The Second
Nineteen Aught Four
Used To Did
- interview -
I’ll Tell You What
Go For It

J Roddy Walston & The Business - Go For It(Live On WOXY.com)

J Roddy Walston & The Business - Rock N Roll The Second (Live On WOXY.com)

J Roddy Walston & The Business - Live On WOXY.com (full session download)

A Lounge Act flashback today featuring Finest Dearest. The 5 piece San Fransisco band was the first to play a set in our San Fran lounge back in late January. The band is still at work on their debut full length album, which should see a release later this year. Check out some recap pictures and audio from the session below which was recorded at Coast Recorders.

Check out the entire photoset here.

Track listing:
Idaho
Night Blooming Flowers
-interview-
Making A Sound 2
Making A Sound 3
March Into Flames

Finest Dearest - Night Blooming Flowers (Live On WOXY.com/ Unreleased)
Finest Dearest - March Into Flames (Live On WOXY.com)
Finest Dearest - Live On WOXY.com (full session download)

Doesn’t the title just about say it all? Our annual Memorial Day tradition, counting down the 500 greatest songs in the history of modern rock. We’ll crank it up on the main WOXY.com stream starting on Saturday, May 26th at 10am and run through Midnight. Then, Sunday the 27th from Noon to Midnight and finally, Memorial Day from 10am until we reach #1. Prep yourself by having a look at last year’s 500.

So grab your beverage of choice, get comfy and enjoy lap after lap of great music on this year’s 500, Memorial Day weekend from WOXY.com!

Welcome to WOXY.com Recommends! This will be a weekly feature where we highlight new releases that are due out this week that we recommend you check out. Below you will find album art, links to the bands website and a link to the Lala store where you can either purchase the albums new for cheap, or add them to your Lala want list.

Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Rufus Wainwright - Release The Stars
Dungen - Tio Bitar
Au Revoir Simone - Bird Of Music
Great Northern - Trading Twilight For Daylight
Yacht - I Believe In You, Your Magic Is Real
Maps- We Can Create (out today in UK, June 19 in US)
The Macabees - Color It In (new on lala for $6.69)

The Narrator - All That To The Wall
Up The Empire - Light Rides the Super Major
1990’s - Cookies

Weekly Hit - Top 5 Blog Posts

1. Culture Bully provides the individual songs for download of LCD Soundsystem’s Coachella set.
   
2. Spill It Music Blog premieres the new Heartless Bastards video.
3. Sixeyes takes us back to 2001 with a Peel session from The White Stripes.
4. Stereogum has a video of Beruit, Final Fantasy and Arcade Fire performing together in NY.
5. GvB brought us some brand new M.I.A.

And Now The Top 5 News Items

1. NME lists thier top indie anthems ever.
2. Warner Music Group posts a 27 million dollar loss.
3. Okkervil River set release date for their new album, The Stage Names.
4. Cocorosie arrested, cancel tour dates.
5. Austin City Limits Festival lineup announced.

“Introducing” focuses on something just added to the WOXY.com playlist that is not only new to our playlist, but new to WOXY.com in general. Today the spotlight is on the new album from The Boggs, titled, Forts. The album is out on record store shelves this week.

• The Boggs is a collaborative project led by Jason Friedman, who every few years collects different musicians to record an album as The Boggs.
• This is the third album for The Boggs, and the first since 2003’s Stitches.
• Current Boggs members include Matt Schultz (Enon), Sam Jayne (Love As Laughter) and Heather D’Angelo (Au Revoir Simone).

Here are some reviewers quotes about Forts.

• “Forts is a fiercely-felt testament to Friedman’s compositional virtuosity: a rickety trip at times, to be sure, but thrilling as a ride on a wood-frame rollercoaster” - Harp Magazine
• “The garage-rock-disco-rave meltdown sound of 2007,
  get acquainted or get lost!” - NME
• “…a curious album colored with strained dialogue and urgent poetry. The words in total giving the feeling that something nearby is in danger of breaking very soon. The music follows this striking haphazard path, crashing, jangling, pumping and bumping on its way to something bright and great.” - Filter

Blog Buzz

• Each Note Secure
  
• Good Hodgkins
• My Old Kentucky Blog

Check out this song from the album as well.

The Boggs - Remember The Orphans