Song, by Toad

Well, well, well, here’s a bit of news for you all.  My – well, really, our – good friend DC will shortly be leaving us for some very swanky new shores indeed.  The Waiting Room has been commissioned by WOXY, one of the few remaining really top quality independent* radio stations.

For those of you who don’t know the details, DC had an almighty falling out with his old host, Error FM, back towards the tail end of last year and quit the station in the mother of all snits.  He started looking around for a new station, and I told him that he was welcome to put his show out on Toad until he found something a little more suitable, which is why he has been gracing our Wednesdays (usually) with his blethering for the last couple of months.  The WOXY deal has been a long time in the pipeline, and there have been a lot of sealed lips for the last little while, but it has now been formally announced at last.

It can’t be overstated how impressive a result this is.  WOXY really is a very cool station indeed.  And it also can’t be forgotted how important people like DC have been to this site over the last couple of years.  I love having readers and so on, but the people who make such active and (largely) intelligent contributions in the comments mean that Song, by Toad is able to be way better than I alone could ever make it.  So go to that WOXY thread and leave gushing comments to make him look good.  They’ll be as sick of him as we are before too long, no doubt, so it might as well at least start out as positively as possible.

Well done, mate.  You and the Lady of the House really deserve this, and I am bloody chuffed for both of you.  Best of luck to you two and to the show itself.

Twentymen – The Waiting Room

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The Magnetic Fields – Famous

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*Although they’ve just ‘joined Future Sounds‘, about whom I know absolutely nothing.  Is this a good thing?  Enlighten me, please.

Hmm, there are some interesting bits and pieces of Young Republic news floating about that I thought I might pass on, seeing as they are both a top band and really nice people.

You remember how I mentioned a while back that the move to Nashville had interrupted their flow somewhat and brought about some changes in the band.  MJ the pianist couldn’t settle in Nashville and losing their flautist resulted in the drummer going with her, so things were a little rocky for a bit.  Well Dusty Jensen has been on board for a little over six months, I think, playing the pots and pans and they have a new EP approaching quite soon.  They and the label are still deciding whether to put out the most obviously commercially appealing EP first, or its companion, a slightly darker, less jaunty affair.

So what do you do – there’s no point being willfully obtuse with the music press because their concentration span just isn’t that long.  But then, why not just release things how you would prefer to do it and commercial stategy be damned.  Let’s face it, who likes what and why is a pretty random equation and not one that is really all that easy to second-guess.  My advice would be to fuck it and go with what you’d rather do, but then if anyone gave a shit about my advice then they’d be paying me to give it to them, wouldn’t they.

Anyway, there’s a recent session with the band up on The Futurist at the moment, which is the blog associated with WOXY.com.  There’s an interview and a couple of session tracks to download, one of which I have reposted below.  I’ve only re-hosted it because I am guessing that the WOXY chaps would prefer that to hotlinking, but if you’re from WOXY and want me to take it down then just say so.

The Young Republic – Third Night Balcony (Live on WOXY – full session here)
The Young Republic – Blue Skies

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