Check out the details for another great Amplify New Music Series show in Chicago Thursday night at Schubas. Bands playing include, Murder Mystery, Elliott Brood, and Speck Mountain.

I’m standing between two members of Tottenham’s Hall of Fame, Martin Chivers (L) and Martin Peters. Peters scored a goal in England’s 1966 World Cup final game.

You don’t have to tell me that it’s a long way from WOXY’s first home underneath a fast food restaurant in Oxford, Ohio to White Hart Lane in London, England, home to soccer’s Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League. Still, that’s where my wife Jennifer and I were during a trip to the UK we took over the Holidays. We did more than just attend a game, though, I represented WOXY.com as the match ball sponsor in Tottenham’s December 29th contest against Reading. So just how did WOXY.com get in front of over 35,000 English soccer fans?

(L-R) Mick Scholefield, Dave Cooper, me, Jennifer Taylor, Chris Ryan, Andy Currell, Phillip Ryan, and Chris Cooper.

Well, it’s all thanks to our friend and rabid WOXY supporter, Mick Scholefield, director of Trak Image Music in London. Jennifer and I booked this holiday trip last spring and a few months ago, Mick & I strayed from our usual e-mail discussion about music long enough to discover that we were both Spurs fans. We then talked about catching a match, and it turned out to be the highlight of our trip.

Through his initiative, he arranged for WOXY.com to sponsor the match ball. Not only was our logo displayed on the front of the program, we were able to place an ad inside, and yours truly came back with a signed ball from the team to add to WOXY’s trophy cabinet. Actually, we don’t have such a thing but maybe now we’ve got a reason to get one! The hospitality was world class, the game a thrilling 6-4 Tottenham victory, and we got to spend the entire day with Mick and several other new friends. We couldn’t have had a better time.

me receiving the match ball from Tottenham First Team coach Gus Poyet.

He asserted that “maybe this will bring in some more listeners from the UK”. So, perhaps the next time you hear us acknowledge a request from London, it may be from someone who was in attendance that day. It sure helps to underscore the fact that lovers of great music are everywhere and “WOXY.com - Worldwide” is more than just a slogan.

Just one happy WOXY.com shirt wearer today, I hope to get more from you guys in the coming weeks. But enjoy this pic of Breeze doing his best Superman impression…..

Coming up next week our good friends in Ra Ra Riot are making a return visit to the Lounge. The band have decided to make their third session extra special and so they’ll be stopping by for an evening performance. What does this mean for you? Well, if you are one of our lucky winners, you’ll be joining us in the WOXY studios to watch them play!

We’ll be drawing 4 winners at random to attend this special Lounge Act event. If you win, you’ll be able to bring 1 guest with you and join us next Wednesday, January 30th at 6:30pm. We are going to order some pizzas and you’ll get to hang out around our Longworth Hall studios and meet the band. After we all have something to eat, the band will perform an extended live session for us around 7:30pm EST.

If this sounds up your alley, please submit just ONE entry.

Send an e-mail with ‘Ra Ra Riot’ in the subject line to –

woxycontests@gmail.com

Please include your name and your preferred way for us to contact you if you win. If you can get yourself to the WOXY studios in Downtown Cincinnati next Wednesday evening (from around 6:30-8pm) then feel free to send us your entry. If you do not think you could make it, please sit this one out. We want to make sure our winners can join us and the band for the evening!

All e-mail entries need to be received by Noon EST on Monday, January 28th. We will contact our winners and send directions to our studios via e-mail and/or phone on the afternoon of the 28th. We’ll be looking for confirmation that you can attend when we contact you. If for any reason a chosen winner cannot attend, we will choose an alternate from all entries received.

Shiv serves up 2 hours of modern dance remixes and new electronic music every Friday night at 8:00 PM ET on Xtrabeats. Catch an encore airing on Saturdays at 10:00 PM ET. Check out this recap of last weekends episode and stream the entire show below as well.

Hour 1:
Thom Yorke “And It Rained All Night” (Burial Remix)” (XL)
Burial “Raver” (Hyperdub)
Ghislain Poirier “Hit + Red” (Ninja Tune)
Goldfrapp “A&E (Hercules & Love Affair Remix)” (Mute)
Kylie Minogue “2 Hearts (Alan Braxe Remix)” (Parlophone)
Michael Jackson “Thriller (Woodhead Ghetto Re-edit)” (white label)
Air “Cherry Blossom Girl (Simian Mobile Disco Remix)” (Astralwerks)
Robyn “Be Mine (Jori Hulkkonen Vocal Mix)” (Universal/Island UK)
Hot Chip “Hold On” (Astralwerks)
New Young Pony Club “The Bomb (Dirty Disco Youth’s Maxima)” (Modular)
The Touch “Le Night Dominator (Zombie Disco Mix)” (Trunkfunk)
Hour 2:
Steve Bug DJ Mix (30 mins) – fabric37:
Manoo “Joparish” (Deeply Rooted House)
Dennis Ferrer “Touched The Sky (Joe’s Dub Beats)” (King Street Sounds)
White Label “C’Mon Dance” (Wasnotwas)
Einzelkind “Spam Bot” (Playhouse)
Perre Inspirescu “De Bou!” (Arpiar)
Argy “Unreliable Virgin” (Cocoon)
Martin Buttrich “Hunter” (Cocoon)

Eurythmics “Sweet Dreams (Chew Fu Refix)” (palmsoutsounds.com)
Miss Kittin “Kittin Is High (JoJo De Freqs Beauty is Terror Remix)”
(Nobody’s Bizzness)
Hercules & Love Affair “Blind (Hercules Club Mix)” (DFA)
UNKLE “Burn My Shadow (Junkie XL Remix)” (Surrender All)

Tune in Friday night for another new episode of Xtrabeats!

Local Lixx returns this week for our first episode of the new year. We focus in on a couple familiar bands this week with new music in Buffalo Killers and Turnbull ACs, as well as some new bands from Dayton in Ruetschle and In Endeavours out of Lexington, Kentucky. Enjoy a brand new episode below, and subscribe to our podcast if you have not already done so.

Local Lixx - Episode 9

Check back in for another episode of Local Lixx this Thursday night at 8:30pm EST.

For their third Lounge Act performance, Mason Proper broke out four brand new songs that are all in ‘consideration’ for their 2nd album later this year. They are still in the midst of the songwriting process for the new cd and one of the songs they play was so new that lead singer Jonathan Visger was referring back to his notebook during his performance.

While we wait for a new full-length to appear, the band will release an EP called Short Hand in March. Expect some live favorites and a dvd featuring several short films and videos to be included in the package.

View the entire photoset here.

Track Listing:
Only A Moment (new/unreleased)
Raise The Line (new/unreleased)
- interview -
Crumbs (new/unreleased)
Safe For The Time Being (new/unreleased)

Mason Proper - Safe For The Time Being (Live On WOXY.com/ New-Unreleased)

Mason Proper - Crumbs (Live On WOXY.com/ New-Unreleased)

Mason Proper - Only A Moment (Live On WOXY.com/ New-Unreleased)

Mason Proper - Raise The Line (Live On WOXY.com/ New-Unreleased)

Mason Proper - Live On WOXY.com (full session download)

I think this is the first week of 2008 where there are multiple releases that I have an interest in. Here are the albums due out this week we at WOXY.com have an interest in or are already playing.

Cat Power - Jukebox

Liam Finn - I’ll Be Lightning - Buy from lala
The Whitsundays - S/T

MP3 - The Whitsundays - Sorry James

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular - Buy from Lala
Times New Viking - Rip Off

MP3 - Times New Viking - (my head)

Black Mountain - In The Future

MP3 - Black Mountain - Tyrants

Evangelicals - The Evening Descends

MP3 - Evangelicals - The Evening Descends

Hello, Blue Roses - The Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed To Capture Your Beauty

MP3 - Hello, Blue Roses - Shadow Falls

Dead Confederate - S/T EP
Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creations Dark - Buy from lala.

Hey everybody, it is gonna be a busy week here at WOXY.com. This week there is quite a bit to remind you about so I thought I would put it all together in this post. If you do not subscribe to our Google Calendar feed, this will be mostly new news to you. If you would like to jump on board with the calendar folks, do so here.

Tuesday - Nothing But New Returns! Listen to an hour of brand new music from 6-7pm EST.

- The debut of our new show, The WOXY.com Blogger Hour. Matt from You Ain’t No Picasso joins me for an hour of music and conversation at 8pm EST.

Wednesday - De Novo Dahl is live in the Lounge at 3:30pm EST.

- A new episode of Artrocker Radio at 6pm EST.

Thursday - Another hour of new music on Nothing But New from 6-7pm EST.

- A new episode of Local Lixx airs at 8:30pm EST.

Friday - Our first Request The X Friday of the new year. Get your requests in from 9am - 6pm EST!

- A new episode of Xtrabeats from 8-10pm EST.

- Cincinnati area folks come join us for Rock N Skate at Fountain Square!

Certainly alot going on around here this week, we hope you can check in for some of it…..

Time for some more free and legal downloads of new music for you on this Friday. In anticipation of the return of Nothing But New, which comes back next Tuesday, check out some of the music that will most likely be featured in our hour of new tunes. Enjoy!

The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead (from their upcoming album, Keep Your Eyes Ahead, out Jan 29th on Sub Pop)
Say Hi - Northwestern Girls (from the upcoming album, The Wishes And The Glitch, out Feb 5th)
Beach House - Gila (from their upcoming album, Devotion, out Feb 26th from Carpark)
The Big Sleep - Bad Blood (from their upcoming album, Sleep Forever, out Feb 19th on FrenchKiss)
Dead Meadow - What Needs Must Be (from their upcoming album, Old Growth, out Feb. 5th on Matador.)

Have a great weekend!