We’ve been playing this Brooklyn trio since they sent us their Teenage Cop EP in 2006. Last year, they put out another excellent EP called Night Choreography.
When the band set off from New York to hit a few midwestern dates, they stopped in for their debut in the Lounge. In this performance, they play a few older favorites and also hit us with two new tunes.
Get ready for a new feature here on The Futurist, right now I am gonna call it WOXY-Tube, where I embed 5 new music videos from artists that we like. Enjoy these, in no particluar order from Pomegranates, Saul Williams, Radiohead, MGMT and Kate Nash.
Pomegranates - Whom/Who
Saul Williams covers U2
Radiohead Live In-Store Performance
MGMT Live On Letterman
Kate Nash on The Late Late Show
Feel free to send me video links you think should be included in this segment, joe at woxy dot com…..
I’m pretty excited to announce a new show we are toying with a bit here at WOXY.com, and it should be no surprise that I’m excited. The show will be tentatively called the WOXY.com Music Blogger Hour and will feature a different music blogger for each episode.
The guest and I will sit for an hour and go through a playlist of songs that they choose. We will play music and also chat about the tunes and talk a bit about the guests blog in the process as well. Afterwards, this show will be available on demand to stream.
I am not sure how often we are going to do this yet, but I do have the first episode lined up for next Tuesday, January 22nd at 8pm. Our first blogger will be Matt Jordan of the Lexington, KY based blog, You Ain’t No Picasso.
Should be alot of fun, so join us next week for the very first episode. And please help me think of something better to call it than Music Blogger Hour.
Yep - we’re lacing up the skates and bringing it downtown. Rock ‘n’ Skate returns to the ice rink on Fountain Square in Cincinnati, Friday, Jan. 25th from 7-10pm. You skate, we crank the WOXY, all for a mere 97 cents (skate rental is just $2)!
Ample parking is close by, including the Fountain Square garage. Hungry? You’ll be close to a number of restaurants right on the Square or you can hit the concession stand which features adult beverages, snacks, and hot & cold drinks.
Enjoy a night on the town with family, friends and fellow WOXY.com listeners. Join us for the first Rock ‘n’ Skate in years at Fountain Square next Friday the 25th!
This trio from Washington, D.C. earned a lot of new fans last year on the strength of their infectious self-titled debut EP. We played it enough to earn them the #51 slot on our 97 Best countdown and now the guys have prepped their full-length debut.
We caught the band a few weeks in advance of their cd release show. They discuss the natural progression of the band since forming (as ‘The Sunday Mail’) while in college and take us up to the recording of the new record which will feature all of the songs performed in this session.
It has been way too long since we did an Inside The Studio post here on The Futurist. As you probably know by now, when a band comes by for a lounge performance, they sign huge boards that are in the studio. For the entire year of 2007, and a chunk of 2006 also, they have been signing a large piece of dryway actually, and it is really full at this point. Actually, if anyone wants to tote a piece of drywall to our studio, we could really use a new piece, seriously.
Anyway, here are some photos of the most recent sigs. Click on the thumbnail to see the photos full size.
The Big Sleep, Coyote Bones etc.
Ben Kweller
Yo La Tengo
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Pays tribute to the 1990 World Series Champions.
Frank Black does a double marker signature, he said his new band name was “Shwarma”, and wrote that also.
Trying something new here today on The Futurist. WOXY.com To Go. As much as we would love to have your attention 24/7, we know that it not totally possible, at least not yet. But for now, here are some new free and legal songs to download that you will also find on the WOXY.com playlist currently.
I’m happy to announce our winners of the Aloha Lightworks EP today. I asked you guys to leave your favorite Aloha song in the comments and you did a great job. Here are our winners and their winning comments!
miami2112
“if i lie down”… that organ gives me the feeling of being somewhere spiritual, maybe a church, during an eulogy “i hold this vision of you high” just seems to be about loss or unrealization of what could have been. “will i lose you, if i lie down?” its just so soulful to me, full of loss, perhaps regret. i lost my aunt last year and this is the closing song to my mix tribute to her.
Brian A
Man, when I first heard “Brace Your Face”, I was astounded. A friend told me about Aloha, and I went out on a limb and bought “Some Echoes”. The composition, instrumentation and mix on “Brace Your Face” is just perfect. It’s so mysterious. But the best part of that song is even though it’s six and a half minutes long, that song is consistant the whole way through. It doesn’t feel long at all, or drag like some other longer tracks do.
Katherine
Between the Walls is the best by far.
Why? It’s a happy little song about imprisonment (self-evident in the title), anger management (the lyric “counting down from ten”), and the inherent futility of life (”one by one the days get done”).
Krist
I am partial to Roanoke born on the first EP. So good. So different from everything at the time.
Love it to this day.
krist
Congrats everyone! I will be emailing you today to get your addresses, look for another great contest on here very soon!
After a nice holiday lay off, it is time to get things warmed up in our Lounge again here in January. The dance card is beginning to fill up and you can expect alot more in the coming months, but I wanted to tip you off to some great upcoming sessions on the docket this month.
Just in case you missed out on our 97 Best Of 2007, we have the whole shebang loaded up and available for you to stream over on WOXY.com (and also below). This was the 24th annual 97 Best, and I think it stands up to any of the previous lists. So enjoy this stream, it won’t be up forever, of our most played albums of 2007 at WOXY.com.
