Taking you back to May of 2006 today as we caught up with Jason Lytle of Grandaddy as the band was doing their swan song tour, which really just consisted of Jason doing a handful of solo shows. Here are the notes and tunes from that session….
The final Grandaddy album, Just Like The Fambly Cat, just hit stores from V2 Records. Jason came through the tri-state over the weekend to perform at a benefit show and he stayed in town a little bit longer to do an acoustic session in the Lounge. Along with a terrific performance, Jason talked to Barb about the challenges of playing solo and moving to Montana.
Track Listing:
Go Progress Chrome
Elevate Myself
- interview -
Disconnecty
Underneath The Weeping Willow
This Brooklyn-based band did a stripped down set during CMJ at their Gothamist House performance, but they were fully plugged in when they stopped in to our Lounge.
On the road celebrating the recent release of their 2nd full-length album, you’ll hear four live cuts from the cd. The guys also talk about working with Steve Albini, touring in the “iVan”, and contributing to Stereogum’s recent online tribute to R.E.M.’s “Automatic For The People.”
The elves have been busy making additions to the playlist for the WOXY Holiday Mixer and the time for it to relaunch is almost here. When we get back from the Thanksgiving holiday, you’ll have a third streaming option on our website! That’s right, you can choose between WOXY, WOXY Vintage, and the WOXY Holiday Mixer!
It will return on Monday, November 26th. If you enjoyed the channel last year, you already know what to expect: a mixture of modern rock renditions of your favorite tunes along with some classic artists like Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra to help you swing your way through the holidays. Throw in a pinch of irreverance and genuine outrageousness for good measure and you’ve got a 24-hour mix of music specially programmed by your friends at The Future Of Rock And Roll!
Here is a new Christmas tune that will be a part of the mixer this year, from The Long Winters…
This song is part of a great new indie Christmas compiliation that you can find on the blog, Hard To Find A Friend. The compilation includes artists like Chris Walls of Death Cab for Cutie, Via Audio, Someone Still Love You Boris Yeltsin, Rosie Thomas, American Music Club and more. So head on over and pick up a copy for only $7, all proceeds go to Toys for Tots and you can only buy it from Hard To Find A Friend.
The Thursday of CMJ week was the second day of our live broadcasts from the Gothamist House @ White Rabbit. I was a panelist during CMJ and that was taking place on Thursday afternoon, so I had to miss the first few bands of the day. I was disappointed by this because The Muggabears were one of the groups I was very excited to have on the lineup. Their recent “Night Choreography” EP is terrific and I wanted to see them live.
I had to miss them, along with the other first few bands of the day while I was over at NYU participating on my panel and presenting a quick award during CMJ College Day. I missed a bit of excitement as well, as I guess that The Teeth were a bit of a handful during their performance (Gothamist recapped that particular event already)
I finally got back to the White Rabbit in time to see The Big Sleep, who totally kicked my ass. They started off their set with a bunch of new tunes and you’ll hear them all in this podcast. Cincy’s Bad Veins (who made a lot of new fans while they were in NYC) also sounded terrific and they were followed by Georgia rockers Dead Confederate. Those guys did not mess
around. Not only did they truly bring the rock on stage, they also brought their own lighting rig and fog machine.
Sam Champion’s performance was a real highlight for me. A lot of fans came to check out their set, which was actually a stripped down performance. They played some of their new tunes and clearly had a good time. Unfortunately, due to quite a few technical issues with the recording of their set, I only have one song to include in the podcast, but it’s a new one!
GOTHAMIST HOUSE @ CMJ 2007 — Thursday, October 18th
The Muggabears “Dead Kid Kicks”, “The Goth Tarts”
The Jealous Girlfriends “The Pink Wig To My Salieri”, “Carry Me”
The Big Sleep “Sleep Forever”, “Little Sister”, “So Long”
Bad Veins “Falling Tide”, “Fake Baby”
Dead Confederate “Is It A Rose”, “Wrecking Ball”, “Tortured Artist Saint”
Sam Champion “Direct”
We are taking the Wayback Lounge Act machine all the way back to April of 2006 for this post, of course pre-dating The Futurist. Here are the notes from the session from Editors……
“Tom and Chris from Editors came in for an acoustic session when they were in town with Stellastarr* and Mobius Band. Here you can grab 2 acoustic versions of tracks from their debut cd “The Back Room.” Please note: the guys also did a cover of “Road To Nowhere” from the Talking Heads, but we are unable to legally include that in the podcast.”
A great episode of Local Lixx tonight as I welcome City Beat Music Editor Mike Breen into our studio. Mike has been the Music Editor for City Beat for a long time and his passion and admiration for local music here in the city is unmatched. Mike also joined the blogosphere this year and can be found over at Spill It.
The show airs tonight at 8:30pm on WOXY.com and will probably be longer than the 30 minutes previous episodes have been as Mike and I will be chatting about the bands he chooses as well and a little about the Cincinnati music scene.
We first met Arizona when they were on the road supporting “Welcome Back Dear Children.” The guys were wrapping up a tour when they stopped into our Lounge the last time.
For their second appearance in the Lounge, the band were meeting up and getting ready to launch a new phase of touring. Earlier this year they self-released an EP called “Fameseeker and the Mono.”
This session features 2 tracks from that EP, the title track to their 2005 EP for “The Sun and the Room”, and begins with a brand new song!
Track Listing:
Don’t Have The Body (new/unreleased)
Thimble
- interview -
The Sun And The Room
Midday Midnight
When “My So-Called Life” premiered on ABC in the fall of 1994, I was a freshman at college and, shockingly, not watching much television. I had heard about the show, but didn’t catch it until I was home for the holidays that year and my younger sister urged me to watch it with her one night.
Looking back on the show now, it’s hard to believe that it ever made it to network television. None of the major broadcast networks cared about younger viewers at the time and they certainly didn’t know how to market to them. Executive Producers Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick had recently come off of the success of “thirtysomething”, which allowed them to bring this project to ABC and finally get it aired, even though the pilot was filmed a full year before it hit the airwaves in August of ‘94.
“My So-Called Life” may not have pulled in record-breaking ratings, but in just 19 episodes it brought one of the most honest and heartfelt looks at American teenage life ever written into homes across the country. Even though it didn’t last, you have to give ABC credit for having the balls to let the show explore and confront themes including teenage alcoholism, homosexuality, and school violence in prime time.
Like many others, I didn’t really get a chance to see the entire series until it began to run nonstop on MTV. Looking back, you can see how a show like MSCL (for better or worse) tapped into the MTV audience much stronger than ABC’s and it changed the nature of programming on that channel forever.
This new 6-DVD box set collects all 19 episodes along with a wealth of bonus materials, including episode commentaries from members of the cast with creator and head writer Winnie Holzman. Winnie also sits down for a one-on-one interview with Claire Danes on the set’s bonus disc. Damn near every member of the cast also participates in the extra interviews and retrospectives that appear here…all of them except Jared Leto anyway (who is apparently too busy being a major douchebag to recognize that his career would be nowhere without his role as ‘Jordan Catalano!).
It’s also important to note that all of the original music that appeared in the show (which plays as a who’s-who of modern rock radio at the time) is intact on the dvd. That means you’ll hear from the likes of The Afghan Whigs, Juliana Hatfield, Sonic Youth, Buffalo Tom, The Lemonheads, Jawbox, and Bettie Serveert among others while revisiting the show.
Check out a great preview of the Box Set in this fan video…..
We’ve got FIVE copies of the MSCL box to giveaway this week thanks to our friends at Shout! Factory. You have until midnight on Sunday, November 25th to register and we’ll announce our winners on November 26th.
To enter, just send an e-mail to:
msclwoxy at gmail dot com
Please include your name, age, and a mailing address where we should ship your box set if you are one of our five winners! One entry per person.
It was a long time coming to finally get Avec into the studio. We really enjoyed their debut record (2005’s If I Breathe, I Fall Asleep) and caught up with them while they were out touring to support their 2nd full-length release called Lines.
Hailing from Baltimore, MD, this 4-piece band balances some truly blistering riffs, strong melodies, and a pair of vocals being split between Shawna Potter and Brooks Harlan.
Lines was produced by J. Robbins and is available now from Civil Defense League, the label formed by Sparta’s Jim Ward.
View the entire photoset here…
Track Listing:
While You’re Down There
Bozarth
- interview -
Stellar
Man In Space Avec - Man In Space (Live On WOXY.com)
