Austin’s Okkervil River released their 4th full-length album, The Stage Names, last summer. It garnered massive critical acclaim and enough airplay here on WOXY to hit #10 on our 97 Best Of 2007 countdown.
We were excited to grab Will Sheff and his band in the Lounge right after they finished a very successful tour with The New Pornographers. With a lineup that currently includes Charles Bissell from The Wrens, the band served up a set that includes some old favorites and even a brand new tune.
In the interview with Joe, it is revealed that “Lost Coastlines” will be released on an appendix release for The Stage Names which should be out later this year.
Track Listing:
Lost Coastlines (new/unreleased)
A King & A Queen - interview -
A Hand To Take Hold Of The Scene
It Ends With A Fall
Ra Ra Riot have spent damn near all of 2008 thus far on the road here in the U.S. They joined us in the Lounge back in late January for an extended Lounge Act session that included quite a few new tunes. Since that time, they played about 105 times during SXSW this year, hit the road with The Cribs, and now are finishing up a fairly lengthy North American tour with The Little Ones.
For those of you on the west coast who want to see Ra Ra Riot play live, this is going to be your last chance until the fall. The band are going to take a little bit of time off for the summer to rest before their debut full-length album comes out later this year. The next major tour for the band will likely be in September, but if you live in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, or Los Angeles you don’t have to wait that long.
We have 1 pair of tickets to giveaway to see Ra Ra Riot w/ The Little Ones in each of those four cities next week!
MONDAY MAY 12th — Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey
TUESDAY MAY 13th — Portland, OR @ Towne Lounge
WEDNESDAY MAY 14th — San Francisco, CA @ Café Du Nord
THURSDAY MAY 15th — Los Angeles, CA @ The Troubadour
All you have to do to win is send an e-mail to: woxycontests@gmail.com
Your subject line should contain the city you’d like to win tickets for.
Example: Ra Ra Riot - SAN FRANCISCO
Please include your full name in the body of the e-mail so that we can pass it along to the band for their guestlist if you win. We will select our winners for all 4 cities by 12 Noon Pacific Time on Monday, May 12th. You will be notified via e-mail if you win and will be placed on the Ra Ra Riot guestlist for the show. It’s that easy!
Have a look at the details behind last week’s new episode of Local Lixx below. Also feel free to download it or stream it right now…..
05/01 - Episode #18
This new episode of Local Lixx highlights music from the sophomore album from Peter Adams. Adams is a Cincinnati singer songwriter who is starting to get some national buzz. Check out a song from his new album, I Woke With Planets In My Face, in addition to several other great local goodies as well in this episode.
As you likely know, we’ve been in cahoots with the folks over at Lala.com for some time now, and they’ve been hard at work on a new beta site that focuses on music listening and exploration. It’s definitely worth checking out, and we have some invites to check out the beta for those who are interested.
In a nutshell, the new Lala beta allows you to browse their growing catalog and listen to any song full-length. The first listen is free and you can then add the song to your online collection for 10 cents to get unlimited listening (the first 50 songs are gratis). You can also buy (cheap) CDs or MP3 versions if you’re into that, and even quickly add your existing MP3s to your online collection for free. Yup, all from a standard web browser which means you can access your online collection from anywhere.
They’re still building out the catalog and have been adding a ton of new albums every day plus expect a huge new influx of music from indie labels in the weeks to come. Just as an example, right now you can listen to the new albums from Elbow, The Kills, Gnarls Barkley, The Black Keys and many others.
To snag a beta invite, shoot an email to bryan@woxy.com with the following info:
1) Your name
2) Your email address
3) Are you a current Lala user?
Life on the road is a constant for this band. When we did finally catch up with them, they were finishing up the remaining dates of a tour with Carbon/Silicon. During the interview, Matt talks about the thrill of touring with legendary musicians like Mick Jones and Tony James.
We also talk a little bit about the ups and downs of such a transient lifestyle. After all, one minute you’re hanging out with a former member of the Clash and the next moment, two members of your band are being held up at gunpoint (which had actually just happened the night before our session). Luckily, everybody was safe and sound and for Matt Pond PA, the good experiences have far outweighed the bad.
In this set you’ll hear several tunes from Last Light, their most recent cd.
We head across the pond again tonight for another new episode of Artrocker on WOXY.com. Artrocker is a great show based in London that we have the pleasure of being the only US outlet for currently. Be sure to tune in tonight at 6pm ET for 90 minutes of what is hot in music in the UK. Also, have a listen to last week’s episode right now, streaming below….
Artrocker 4/30
Tracklisting
ACOUSTIC LADYLAND “Iggy” (opening theme)
MUCK AND THE MIRES “Doreen”
THE EXCITERS “Spending Cash, Talking Trash”
WHITE DENIM “Shake Shake Shake”
CUTTING PINK WITH KNIVES “IDIC”
TIMES NEW VIKING “RIP Allegory”
EXPERIMENTAL DENTAL SCHOOL “Jane Doe Loves Me”
PAPER PLANES “Exchange”
KAPUTT “Family Tree”
JOHNNY FOREIGNER “Lea Room”
2 HOT 2 SWEAT “Microscamp”
ELECTROCUTE “Bad Legs”
THE O’LOVELYS “Scatterbrain”
COLLAPSING CITIES “Or So I Said”
GHOSTWOOD “Run”
HOT CLUB DE PARIS “For Parties Past and Present”
GIANT PAW “Flood”
POST WAR YEARS “You And Me Both”
PERE UBU “Non-Alignment Pact”
THE FUTUREHEADS “The Beginning Of The Twist”
LATE OF THE PIER “Space and the Woods”
As a longtime staple of the Saddle Creek roster, Omaha may always be where Cursive’s heart is. In the past few years, the band members have actually scattered across the country. Lead singer Tim Kasher (who also plays in The Good Life) has been trying his luck in Los Angeles and is writing screenplays when he’s not making music.
It’s been two years since Cursive unleashed Happy Hollow and now they are in the process of recording again. In this session, they play two tracks that will likely end up on the next album, although they tell Mike that they’ve written about 25 songs and only 8 or 9 are in serious consideration thus far.
We were very fortunate to host the band in the Lounge while they were on a brief Midwestern tour to road test some of this new material.
View the entire photoset here….
Track Listing:
Bad Sects
The Donkey (new/unreleased) - interview -
Sierra
We’re Going To Hell (new/unreleased)
Jamey See Tai and Chad Blevins comprise this instrumental duo from Louisville, Kentucky who made quite an impression on us with their debut Pictures Of A Changing World.
Turns out, it was a long road to the release of this album. The guys actually started playing music together about five years ago. They’ve become known regionally for their excellent live shows, which also include video projections from Jamey’s brother Jesse.
Fans of Explosions In The Sky, Sigur Ros, and Mogwai should check out this album post-haste.
Jesse Elliott is a Washington D.C. area musician whose debut album, A Picture Of The Three Of Us At The Gate To The Garden Of Eden, was released earlier this year.
His band is truly collaborative, with a revolving lineup of musicians and friends. The band’s lineup even changes while from city to city while on tour, as Jesse plays with different folks at almost every stop.
For this lively performance, he brought along multi-instrumentalist Tom Hnatow and some Lounge alumni in the form of Mark Charles Heidinger and Robby Cosenza (from The Apparitions, among many other projects).
