We first met Pash last fall when they were touring their 2nd album The Best Gun and stopped in to the Lounge.
This month, they were out on the road supporting Washington D.C.-area musician Martin Royle on tour with Stars. You see, Martin’s former band (Washington Social Club) parted ways, but he was invited to open up this tour and didn’t want to miss the opportunity, so he had to come up with a quick solution.
The result was a few quick rehearsals and then Pash hit the van with him to open a few weeks worth of shows. As Meredith mentions in the interview, they went from playing basements and house parties to beautiful theaters around the country for this tour.
Aside from some blurry You Tube footage, this is the only real recording of their collaboration so far.
We’re big fans of the Canadian rockers TOKYO POLICE CLUB. We really liked their all too brief 2006 EP A Lesson In Crime, but I think it’s safe to say we fell in love last year when they released the single for “Your English Is Good.” That song was embedded in our brains for months and luckily the guys have seen fit to include it on their full-length debut. Elephant Shell which is hitting stores next week and is the band’s first release for the Saddle Creek label.
We’ve gotten our hands on a couple copies of the first pressing of the cd to giveaway here on The Futurist. This is a special 2-disc package that features a bonus EP featuring remixes from DNTEL, Los Campesinos!, Flowers Forever, The Good Life, and Field Music!
If you’d like to win, just send an e-mail with TOKYO POLICE CLUB in the subject line to: woxycontests @ gmail.com
Please include your name and an address you’d like us to mail the cd to if you win. We’ll draw our winners randomly on Friday, April 25th and get them out in the mail to 3 lucky Futurist readers. Good luck!
Our Chicago-area listeners should head out to Schuba’s tomorrow night for the monthly WOXY-sponsored AMPLIFY: NEW MUSIC SERIES night. We team up with Beer Nuts, UR Chicago and Schuba’s Tavern to help turn the spotlight on some great up and coming bands every month.
Thursday night, you can check out Louisville’s Wax Fang,Modern Skirts from Athens, GA, and Chicago’s own Unicycle Loves You. We just featured some tracks off of their upcoming album on New Tunes Tuesday this week!
This 21 and up event will only cost you $5 to get in, doors are at 9pm.
We’re proud to partner with Cloud Cult to present the east coast dates of their ‘2008 Feel Good Ghosts Tour.’ WOXY.com will be supporting their shows starting April 11th in Madison, WI, thru April 25th at Schuba’s in Chicago. Be listening to Mike from 9a-1p for ticket giveaways to selected concerts!
April dates include:
11 - Madison, WI (High Noon Saloon)
12 - Indianapolis (Radio Radio)*
13 - Ann Arbor, MI (The Blind Pig)**
14 - Toronto (El Mocambo)
16 - Boston (The Middle East - Downstairs)
17 - Brooklyn, NY (Union Hall)
18 - NYC (Bowery Ballroom)
19 - Washington, DC (Rock ‘n’ Roll Hotel)
21 - Chapel Hill, NC (Local 506)
22 - Atlanta (Smiths Olde Bar)*
24 - Columbus, OH (The Basement)
25 - Chicago (Schuba’s - 2 shows)$
* = with The Forms
** = with Mason Proper
$ = with The Forms & Mason Proper
Last fall, the band came through Cincinnati while touring their second EP, “An Ocean In The Air”, and we hosted them in our Cincinnati Lounge. This time around, we had the pleasure of meeting up with the band at EAR Studios in Austin during our SXSW sessions.
Even though they were the first session of the day and had to arrive at 8am to setup, they were excited to share a batch of new material with us. Their Lounge Act revealed 5 brand new songs that they’ve been working on and just from hearing those songs in a live setting, it is clear that their debut album will be worth waiting for.
Folks out in San Francisco have a chance to see the band play some of these tunes out live on April 22nd, when they hit The Independent for a show with The Teenagers!
Just when you think we are all out of SXSW 2008 content, we hit you with more. Enjoy this video of Sons & Daughters performing “The Nest” live in Austin last month…..
Cincinnati has certainly been experiencing a creative windfall in our local music scene as of late. The Chocolate Horse actually began a few years ago as a side project for some of the guys in Readymaid, but it has been in the last year that they’ve really made a name for themselves here in town.
Their debut record “Patience Works!” was released last fall (on 180 gram limited edition vinyl no less) and ended up being nominated for Album Of The Year at the 2007 CEAs.
Newly expanded into a 5-piece (with former Staggering Statistics member Joe Klug now on drums), the band have been hard at work on new material for their 2nd album. We caught up with them right before they left for their first appearance at the SXSW Festival.
Track Listing:
Your Daughter (new/unreleased)
The Caribbean
Patience Works - interview -
Whiskey Won, Fall Down
All The Notion
How Many Licks (To The Center Of Your Universe)
Enjoy this great video of Peter Moren performing the song, “Tell Me In Time” during SXSW 2008. Another great video from our friends at PROJECTMILL and Soft City Lights.
You really have to hand it to Frightened Rabbit. A relatively unknown band from Scotland with only a debut CD that’d received a limited release (ever hear of Hit The Fan Records?) to their name, they turned a wealth of positive reviews and blogger buzz into the catalyst for their first US tour in early 2007, a full six months after Sing The Greys release.
Initially appearing in press photos wearing something akin to Mexican wrestling masks, the band revealed themselves to be a trio from Glasgow, led by singer-guitarist Scott Hutchison and his brother Grant on drums. They eventually signed to FatCat Records, who reissued their debut in the Fall of last year, and that’s when we caught onto them…in a big way. Sing The Greys hit WOXY’s heavy rotation in October and earned enough airplay to make our list of the 97 Best of 2007 at #70.
Now in 2008 with their debut almost a full two years old and having expanded into a quartet, the band have emerged with The Midnight Organ Fight, their proper FatCat debut. Recorded in the US and produced by Peter Katis (Interpol, The National), the disc once again features Scott’s plaintive vocals and emotive lyrics. In this Lounge Act session, it’s just the two brothers performing a beautiful, stripped down set that includes four songs from the new record as well as “Be Less Rude” from Sing The Greys.
