Every now and then I like to highlight new additions to our hour of new music, which is at 6pm eastern time everyday on WOXY.com. It is one of my favorite hours of the day and while I know some folks would rather hear familiar stuff all the time, some of our more adventurous listeners are dedicated NBN fans.
Below is a listing of new songs we have been spinning on the program, with mp3 links when available.
Time to announce the winners of our Go! Team Proof Of Youth CD Giveaway. Here are our 5 winners, with their winning comments as well. Congratulations to our winners, and stick around because another giveaway is just around the corner…..
Harriet -
“Junior Kickstart” is my personal theme song and I spread the gospel of The Go! Team on every mix CD I make for friends. I sadly missed their show at the Double Door in Chicago last weekend because of prior travel plans, so I would love to have the chance to submerge myself in the gloriously retro, unpredictable, and wholly invigorating sounds of their newest album.
Brendan -
Whenever I’m at work, half-heartedly crunching away at some boring project I’d rather not being doing, and I hear “Flashlight Fight” come on, my mind is magically transported away to a world of old kung-fu movies that somehow involve Chuck D backed up by a crazy 80s-tracksuit clad street-crew of assorted b-boys, bombers, and other hip-hop stereotypes, while a plethora of samurai and cyborg ninjas do battle all around. This is a MUCH better place to be than the boring office, and if I had the CD, I could choose when I got to be whisked away to this wonderful land of beats, ninja fights and other badassness.
Dan -
I work in radio. It’s a station in a small market where they never send us cool CDs. And as you know, being in radio pretty much means I’m broke. So getting a free CD would be really sweet. Plus nobody ever gives me anything which is really sending me into a downward spiral of introspection, and the world doesn’t really need more of that. Begging, guilt, I’ve got it goin’ on.
Matt-
I live in a Des Moines suburb where there are no decent record stores, the only place to even start to find some indie CD’s is at Half Price Books, and who knows where those people found those CD’s. There is no way that there is a Double Disc version of Proof Of Youth in this city.
Annie -
I just saw the Go! Team at Double Door in Chicago last Saturday night! Fantastic show and I’m still reeling from it. I first heard the band on WOXY.com… I listen all day, every day at work and every once in a while a great song will catch my attention and I will check the playlist to see who’s piqued my interest… every Go! Team song has done that for me. I don’t have the album because I’m on a tight, tight budget, but now that I’ve seen them live, I want to listen non-stop. Please award me the new album… plllleeeeeaaaaaaase!!! :)
Hopefully you guys are a fan of our Song Of The Week feature here on The Futurist. Mike, Shiv and myself, and an occasional guest have given our choices for the majority of the past three months. And now, we want to give you a chance to become a Futurist contributor. All we need is your choice for song of the week, with a short write up (usually one paragraph or so) and a link to one of the following things…..
1. A legal MP3 provided by the band or the bands label
2. A You Tube video of the song
3. A link to streaming audio of the song that we can link to.
Also, please keep your choice to something that is relatively new.
So, do your write up and send it to me, joe at woxy dot com. On Friday of this week, I will post a few of them here on The Futurist.
WOXY.com is proud to be partnering with the Amplify: New Music Series again for another great show this weekend. On Sunday night, October 21st, you can catch Company Of Thieves, Tenniscourts, and WOXY.com favorites Love Like Fire at Schubas Tavern in Chicago.
Love Like Fire recently joined us for a Lounge Act as well, you can download the entire session by heading here, and look for a proper recap post here on The Futurist soon as well.
So save some time in your weekend for this concert on Sunday night at 9:00 PM. The show is 18+ and looks like a great way to finish up your weekend if you are in the Chicago area.
We really love the new album from The Go! Team and want to share it with you. Thats why we are giving away some copies of the new album, Proof Of Youth, right here on The Futurist. The CD is the double disc version, and the 2nd disc had remixes and other goodies so this is one you might wanna go after.
Here is how to enter the contest.
Make your case for why you should win this CD, it is as simple as that, we really want to give em away, so why be complicated. So, leave a comment making your case, be convincing, but not annoying.
I will announce the winners here next week, probably late Monday, so make sure you have your comment in by then!
Check out the video below for the new song, “Grip Like A Vice.”
Well, with Shiv and Bryan on their way to New York for CMJ, we thought it would be great to whet your appetite for the acts playing at the Gothamist House this week before things get underway up there. So enjoy a bunch of downloadable music from artists taking the stage this week.
The Wrens - Live On WOXY.com (Oct 2006 Session) (Charles Bissell of The Wrens does a solo performance at 6:45pm on Wednesday)
After a bit of a hiatus, Song Of The Week returns to The Futurist this week, even though Mike is absent and out of town. Take a peek at a choice by Shiv and Joe and please feel free to leave your choices in the comments……
Even though I was never what you could call a hardcore fan of GBV, I’ve always had an affinity for the music of Robert Pollard. I think that part of it comes from growing up in Dayton, but mostly it is because the man knows how to write some well-crafted tunes. Sometimes you have to wade through 6 songs that don’t even hit 2 minutes in length to get to them, but they are always in there somewhere.
This week, Bob released two separate albums on the same day from Merge Records. If you manage to somehow keep up with his musical output, you’ll know that this doesn’t even reflect half of the material that Bob will have recorded and released through various means before the year ends. I’ve never paid much attention to the myriad of smaller releases he embarks on, but I must admit to being pleasantly surprised after getting through Coast To Coast Carpet Of Love.
His song titles still appear like they’re plucked randomly out of a hat or a hazy late night game of Mad Libs, but ‘Coast’ contains some terrific little gems like this.
This song from WFANFC is actually from their debut album, but it never saw a release here in the states back then. It is however a part of the double disc US debut from the band, Businessmen & Ghosts. The set takes tunes from their debut full length, the Rocket EP and includes a bunch of new songs as well for what is one of the best debut’s this year. The band combine strong dance beats with distorted vocals that in the end, simply rock. I can easily say that if you enjoy this song, the album is something you should look into.
Take a look and listen to this song, Troubled Son, which can be found on the Businessmen disc of the 2 CD set from the band, the video also was the runner up at the Manchester Film Festival in 2005.
You think we’re on top of things??? Well, say hello to ARTROCKER, Britain’s leading music magazine. Not just a magazine, though, ARTROCKER also hosts their own club night in London showcasing many of today’s hottest buzz bands.
Oh, and a radio show…of which WOXY.com will be the exclusive broadcast host in the USA. 90 minutes every week of the very newest music straight from London, spotlighting a mind-boggling number of up-and-coming UK bands. On the bleedin’ edge, they are!
So make sure to carve out some time & pay a visit to ARTROCKER, coming soon to WOXY.com.
To get an even better idea of what ARTROCKER is about, here are a couple of ARTROCKER TV videos to check out……
The Black Lips
We’ve got one last recap from the WOXY.com stage at the Monolith Festival to give you today. As darkness fell on the 2nd night of the festival, we were treated to a performance from Au Revoir Simone. The trio of lovely ladies from Brooklyn have almost as tricky of a setup as White Rabbits did. You see, they all sing and perform from behind a wall of keyboards and assorted samplers. Getting all of those things running in perfect harmony can be difficult, especially when doing a show after recently returning from overseas. One of the small snafus for the band was when Heather realized that she had an outlet for European voltage on one of her machines.
It didn’t take long for things to get sorted out and they played a terrific set. Their live set has gotten even better since I saw them last, which makes sense because they’ve been touring incessantly to support their album The Bird Of Music. In fact, shortly before arriving at Red Rocks, they were invited by Air to open up dates this fall across Europe.
Below you’ll find 2 downloads from their live set at Monolith and also a video interview that Shiv recorded after their set with Erika and Annie.
We’re heading to New York next week for the annual CMJ Music Marathon & confab but more importantly, we’re teaming up with the Gothamist blog to present 4 days of live broadcasts at the Gothamist House, located at White Rabbit, 145 Houston Street (between Forsyth & Eldridge). The House is rockin’ October 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th from 2pm to 8pm each day, so everyone who’s in NYC or coming in for CMJ is invited! Admission is free and CMJ badges are not required.
Check out this lineup (start times are approximate):
