Sorry, not a Halloween edition of Wear Your WOXY today, but a new one for you nonetheless. A great shot to share today of Joe from Austin, Texas. I like the way Joe captions the pic below…..

“Dad (Joe) teaches Patrick and Katie what independent music is all about.”

Got a pic of yourself in WOXY.com gear? Old or new, send em to me joe at woxy dot com. Also, I can confirm that a new round of WOXY.com t-shirts are right around the corner!

Another look at some of the freshest of the fresh from Nothing But New, which airs at 6pm on WOXY.com. Check out a handful of the new kids below, some with free mp3’s for download……

The Charlatans UK - You Cross My Path (download new material here)
Switches - Lay Down The Law

Dirty On Purpose - Like Bees
Red Monroe - Sundown Shade
To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie - I Box Twenty
Black Affair - Tak! Attack!
Prints - To Much Water

Listen up Cincinnatians! The Evens, a band featuring former Fugazi frontman Ian MacKaye and his girlfriend Amy Farina are coming to Cincinnati for a special performance at the Cincinnati Museam Center this Friday night! Should be a fun night in a venue that does not see alot of rock music.

If you are interested in the tickets we have to give away for the show this weekend, and live in the Cincinnati area, make your case in the comments section. We will be choosing a winner late Thursday and the winner will need to drop by the WOXY.com studios to pick up their prize on Friday. If you cannot attend the show and pick up the tickets, leave the commenting to someone who can.

Good Luck!

Whether you are a techie type or not, this should be a valuable resource for everyone that is a bit organizationally challenged. (like me) The folks at Google have made what I think is the best web based calendar out there and whether you already use it or not, this will be a great way for you to track not only our Lounge Acts series, but also our programming schedule.

I created two calendar options for you to subscribe to, so first off, if you already use Google Calendar, you can subscribe with Google or ICal.

WOXY.com Lounge Acts Calendar (Google)
WOXY.com Lounge Acts Calendar (ICal)

WOXY.com Programming Calendar (Google)
WOXY.com Programming Calendar (ICal)

If you have no idea what I am talking about, I have a nice little step by step for you, (with pictures) if you click on the read more button…. :)
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Over the past week or so I have received some great submissions for our song of the week feature here on The Futurist from our faithful (and very knowledgeable) listeners. I am going to highlight two of the listeners here today on due to their excellent choices. If you would like to be considered for a future SOTW Listener Edition, please send me your choice, following the rules laid out in this post.

Enjoy these choices, and feel free to leave some comments telling them how you think they did…..

Katybeth (Falling Leaves on our WOXY.com message boards) - Beirut - Cliquot from the CD The Flying Clup Cup
The story goes that Beirut appeared on the new Final Fantasy album in exchange for the use of the Arcade Fire’s Masonic church recording studio and their never-ending toy box of instruments. Whether that’s the case or not, Owen Pallet (aka Final Fantasy) contributes string arrangements to many of the tracks on the new Beirut album, “The Flying Club Cup.” On his sophomore effort, Zach Condon and his crew of gypsies give their take on French chanson and folk, rich with accordions, mandolins, and the aforementioned orchestrations. The end result is a thoroughly charming album that’s a slice of European yesteryear and certainly one of the best mood pieces of 2007.

The folks behind La Blogotheque’s Take Away Shows hit on a great concept that’s a perfect companion piece to the album, recording each of the songs on The Flying Club Cup for a full-album series of performances, available at. While Owen Pallet provides vocals for the album version of the show-stopping “Cliquot,” Ed Droste from Grizzly Bear takes the lead part in the video version here,
beautifully filmed inside a Brooklyn apartment.

Piers - Sambassadeur - Subtle Changes from the CD Migration

Okay, I’m a sucker for pretty girl voices, slick, nearly-syrup orchestration, sleazy saxophone middle eights and pizzicato string fade outs, and “Subtle Changes,” the first single from Sambassadeur’s Migration album, delivers all of these in all the right proportions. I had hopes that some enterprising soul would remix “Kate,” from last year’s “Coastal Affairs” EP, into a dance-floor sensation, drawing the attention it deserves to the song’s AWESOME bass hook, but sadly, it was not to be (though the song DID feature prominently in a Payless Shoe commercial…)

The bass-line in “Subtle Changes” is toned down a bit, and the orchestration is more prominent, with the disco turned up to 11, but the overall effect is the same, mature yet naive, compelling, luxurious and subtly dramatic. And that saxophone solo!

I’m still hoping and waiting for Sambassadeur to explode the way those other Swedes have done, and this new release could easily do it.

Sambassadeur - Subtle Changes

If you sent one in and it is not being used today, no worries as we may use it in a future installment…

Thanks to all who submitted!

It has been quite some time since we dug into our Lounge Act Archives to recap an older session here on The Futurist, but today, we take you back to 2005 when a band out of Indianapolis came by for a set with us, Margot & The Nuclear So & So’s. The notes from the session looked like this…..

Here’s a band we think you’ll be hearing a lot about in 2006. 8 members strong from Indianapolis, they were literally faxing their record contract to the label while they were visiting the Lounge.

Track Listing:
A Sea Chanty Of Sorts
Vampires In Blue Dresses
-Interview-
Broad Ripple Is Burning
Quiet As A Mouse

Margot & The Nuclear So & So’s - Vampires In Blue Dresses (Live On WOXY.com)
Margot & The Nuclear So & So’s - Quiet As A Mouse (Live On WOXY.com)

Margot & The Nuclear So & So’s - Live On WOXY.com (November 2005)

In my haste and excitement earlier this week, I decided it might be good to post the photos from our CMJ experience last week and leave out the Wednesday shots. My apologies, but here they are, in all their glory…. :)

To view the photos at your own speed, check em out on Flickr…..

We’ve heard from a lot of local HD adapters about getting a li’l Vintage Channel programming in the mix, and so it shall be! Starting this Saturday (October 27), rise & shine to a 3-hour block of handpicked tunes straight from the archives of the WOXY Vintage Channel. Join me this and every Saturday from 8-11a and we’ll listen to a bunch of great tunes that, I can safely safely say, comprise the History of the Future of Rock & Roll.

More great photos from last week at CMJ this morning. Among the bands captured in this set, Jukebox The Ghost, The Mugs, White Denim, Illinois and more.

Get ready for a barrage of CMJ related content here on The Futurist over the course of the next week or so. First up is just some of the excellent photos Bryan and Shivvy snapped during their week at the Gothamist house. Check out the slideshow for the first day below. Or if you would prefer, head over to Flickr to view em at your own speed.