Neon Indian’s Psychic Chasms has garnered praise from all over, and his live show has blossomed into one of the most notable on the tour circuit. His other outfit, Vega, is also still in full effect, keeping Texas-raised Alan Palomo and his visual affects artist Alicia Scardetta busy. The nostalgic indie pop mixed with fuzzed-out psychedelics fuse effortlessly throughout the record, and we just know that the intimate stage at Stubb’s indoors will be a perfect showcase for the visual and aural experience of Neon Indian.

The Tunnels just released a 7″ on Austin’s Super Secret Records and will be featured on an upcoming episode of Local Lixx Austin. Their blend of psych-daze music is a perfect compliment to Palomo’s hazy sounds.

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When they stopped in to our new Austin studio for their second Lounge Act performance, the band was recovering from van troubles and on the tail end of a fairly length stretch of dates.

Even with a hectic schedule that found them performing three times in one day, the band treated us to a phenomenal set that includes four songs off the new album.

Track Listing:
Know Better Learn Faster
Body
Good Bye Good Luck
The Give
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Thao With The Get Down Stay Down – Know Better Learn Faster (WOXY.com Lounge Act)
Thao With The Get Down Stay Down – Body (WOXY.com Lounge Act)
Thao With The Get Down Stay Down – Good Bye Good Luck (WOXY.com Lounge Act)
Thao With The Get Down Stay Down – The Give (WOXY.com Lounge Act)

Thao w/ The Get Down Stay Down – WOXY.com Lounge Act (full session download)

To balance out all the modern rock tunes, we have a nice mix of classic tracks from artists like Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and James Brown. You’ll also hear some of these truly vintage artists get a more contemporary spin off of compilations like the new “Verve Remixed Christmas” CD. To round things out a little more, we’ve also included some tunes about winter, snow falling, and the month of December, mainly because we know you can only hear “Jingle Bells” so many times…

A lot of the tracks we selected are out-of-print or hard to find and we had a lot of fun rounding them all up for you. We hope you enjoy the WOXY Holiday Mixer, and all of us at WOXY wish you a safe and happy holiday season!

After an unexpected reunion, merely for a couple shows in 2002, few would have anticipated that the gigs would spawn a full-fledged comeback. Now seven years later, their three post-reunion full-lengths exceeding their initial output, Burma has rightly been lauded as pioneers of a particularly American brand of punk rock, appearing at the All Tomorrow Parties Festival and performing their Vs. album in its entirety at the Pitchfork Festival.

A different festival, the Fun Fun Fun Fest, brought them to town, with their Lounge Act just the second held in our new studio. Opening with two songs from their latest, The Sound The Speed The Light, they followed that with a “Devotion”, a song that’s been ‘in development’ for nearly 25 years as they explained to Mike. They finished with a cover of The Yardbirds’ “Happenings Ten Years Time Ago” that we cannot legally include in the podcast but listen for us to spin it on-air, because it’s a scorcher.

If the interview sounds a little rushed, well, it was. The band chose to play their set in full before gathering for the interview. However, like any music fan would, they were eager to see one of their favorite bands, the reunited Jesus Lizard, at Fun Fest and were keenly aware they were cutting it close. In all, a blistering session from a pioneering band who’ve lost none of the vigor and intensity that made them special in the first place.

Track Listing:
After The Rain
Good Cheer
Devotion
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Mission Of Burma – After The Rain (WOXY.com Lounge Act)
Mission Of Burma – Good Cheer (WOXY.com Lounge Act)
Mission Of Burma – Devotion (WOXY.com Lounge Act)

Mission Of Burma – WOXY.com Lounge Act (full session download)

The Low Lows “Elizabeth Pier”
The Ghost Songs “Do Run”
The Laughing “Runner”
The Tunnels “No Love”
Way No Way “Boys & Girls”
Yellow Fever “Rat Catcher”
Woven Bones “If You’re Gold, I’m Gone”
We’ll Go Machete “All at Sea”

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Keeping in line with his upcoming record (revealed during the show to be All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu, coming in March 2010), the show was predominately just Rufus and a piano. On a handful of songs, like crowd pleaser “California”, he played on acoustic guitar. In fact, he joked that “Dad would be so proud” when he tuned the guitar on stage at one point instead of calling for his tech, saying that you have to be serious about your guitar when you are in Austin!

The set list was eclectic, mixing fan favorites with some deep album tracks and even 4 brand new songs. One of those, an ode to his sister entitled “Martha”, was played live for the first time to an enthusiastic response by the audience. My favorite of the new songs was called “What Would I Do With A Rose”. He mentioned that the new album would be all piano & voice, with more complicated piano work than his usual fare. The show, like every performance of his that I have attended, was fun and felt incredibly spontaneous (even though a quick search of the internet shows that the set lists were remarkably similar between the two evenings). If he messed up a lyric or line, he simply laughed it off and started again.

The encore had two of the evening’s greatest moments. Upon returning to the stage, Rufus sat down at the piano and said “This song is dedicated to everyone fighting for marriage equality.” He then launched into “Going To A Town”, a song that was written in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, but also touches on the frustrations that all LGBT people have against the Religious Right (”Tell me, do you really think you go to hell for having loved?”).

Rufus was then joined onstage by Joan Wasser, who had performed as the opening act under her stage name of Joan As Police Woman. They performed Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” as a duet, a choice made all the more poignant by the fact that Joan was Jeff Buckley’s girlfriend at the time of his death in 1997. It was just one of many remarkable moments in a show that was tailor made for the hardcore fans in the audience.

To get an idea of what you’re missing, buy the Milwaukee at Last! DVD online.

Rufus Wainwright
Paramount Theatre, Austin, TX
November 17, 2009

Grey Gardens
Leaving For Paris
Beauty Mark
Sanssouci
Peach Trees
Vibrate
Give Me What I Want (new)
What Would I Do With A Rose (new)
Sonnet 20 (new)
California
Rebel Prince
Want
The Art Teacher
Martha (new/1st time played live)
Cigarettes And Chocolate Milk
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Going To A Town
Hallelujah (duet with Joan Wasser)
Zebulon
Feux d’artifice

Final Fantasy is the moniker that Owen Pallet uses to release his solo work. Owen has released two album and has plans for a new one that is slated for release in early 2010. In addition to his work as Final Fantasy, Owen is also well known for his instrumental contributions and string arrangements for bands like Arcade Fire, Grizzly Bear, Beirut and even The Pet Shop Boys. Most recently, Pallet played violin on the latest Mountain Goats album, part of the reason behind this tour pairing.

If you are a fan of one or both bands, or just want to get out and see some great live music, send us an email to enter our contest to win tickets. Title your email, “Mountain Goats” and send it to woxycontests at gmail dot com. The show is Wednesday November 18th and we will be accepting entries until the day before the show. However, this show could easily sell out, so if you would prefer to buy some tickets, you can do so now right here.

So good luck and even if you are not a winner, we hope to see you out at the show!

The Mountain Goats – Genesis 3:23