Woxy.com Update (Updated)

Jun 18, 2010 by classicgrrl

Update to an update:  Some Scottish Dude 

“Hi guys,

I’m Ian the Scottish guy who wrote the post.
Basically I wrote it thinking that it was common knowledge as when I asked about WOXY at goNORTH all I was greeted with was ‘WOXY will be back’. It wasn’t some ‘Scottish dude’ who told me this either, it was Adam from Planetary Sounds. Who I believe are owned by Future Sounds? I don’t really know the logicistics of all this so I won’t pretend to. All he said is that it is getting a new owner and that it will be back at some point.

I don’t know if this means it will be the same DJs to make it the WOXY I know and love but I really do hope so.

I didn’t mean to get anyone’s hopes up as I truly did think it must have been common knowledge due to the manner in which I was told and the fact I was allowed to write about it.

I hope you can make some sense out of this.

WOXY forever. Cheers,

Ian”

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HUGE thanks to Matt Sledge who posted this on twitter tonight:

@mattsledge  woxy.com fans will want to hit the link… RT @ohjawbone Amended version of this; Go North; Thursday and Friday. Have Fun At Dinner 

Halfway down the page is this quote: “Admittedly, I did raise a rather redundant question (in terms of SxSW) as I mentioned the closure of WOXY, the American independent radio station and website. I was met with a very frank ‘WOXY will be back’. In the ensuing hours I would learn that a company has stepped in and it is looking as though WOXY will be up and running sooner than expected. I don’t know if that is a scoop or not. Fuck it. WOXY is coming back, so I don’t care if it is.”

Have  no idea of the validity of the post and there has been nothing from the DJ’s or the boards to indicate this is verified.  Just an update for those of us who are following the station. 

My own opinion is without the DJ’s Woxy.com isn’t Woxy.com.  Joe Long has accepted a position with the Cincinnati Enquirer and is seeking to move back to the Cincinnati area.  He also runs Each Note Secure.  Mike Taylor is seeking work in the Austin, TX area and has recently started his own blog The Big Beat. Matt Shiverdecker is also seeking work in Austin, TX and can be found at Hotter Than Georgia Asphalt.

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The Loss of Woxy.com

Mar 29, 2010 by Loki

Since I’m involved in the Southwest Ohio Gathering of Gamers (FB Page here)and I am a huge music fan, it seemed like a no brainer  to get reprint rights for this piece about the beloved WOXY by one of my personal favorite game designers – Monte Cook. If you don’t know who that it take a look at “Monte Who? ” I’d like to thank him now for his generosity in allowing me to reprint it here. So here you go, trust me- it’s a natural 20! – Loki

The shutdown of the Internet radio station woxy.com came as a shock. I saw the announcement on Facebook just as I was getting up from my computer to go out to dinner with Sue. It didn’t seem real to me until I tuned my Sonos to listen to woxy.com last night and got only sorrowful silence.

For the last couple of years, woxy.com has been my conduit to new music. I thought, for a moment, of listing the bands that I love discovered thanks to woxy.com, but it only took me a few moments to realize that to do so would be ridiculous. The list would be hundreds of bands long. Hundreds and hundreds. I listened to woxy.com virtually every day.

I can’t help but think that there will be a significant ripple effect here. I mean, not only did I and thousands of listeners like me get exposed to new music thanks to woxy.com, but then I–and I assume many others–spread the word ourselves. I know I mentioned many, many bands here with each blog post, and I likely sent out a hundred more recommendations for great bands I discovered there on Twitter.

Woxy.com was a fire hose of creativity and freshness putting out the flames of mediocrity. There’s a real danger of being fooled into believing that the only new music anymore is the corporate, manufactured music of pop. It’s like forgetting that there are other restaurants in the world besides McDonalds or Applebees.

But I’m a guy in my 40s, and there’s another–probably greater–danger for me. It’s all too easy for someone like me to give up on new music (perhaps in response to the first danger) and fill my iPod with 1000s of songs from when I was a teenager or in my twenties and just tune out. For me, this would mean a weird mix of British New Wave and a lot of prog rock that was already old when I was young. The lure of that comfortable nostalgia is strong. With just a few exceptions, the entire city of Milwaukee seems to have succumbed to that trap, for nearly every station, it seems, is Classic Rock or “All the Hits” (which is code for top 40 from the 70s and 80s).

But with woxy.com, I found a way to stay in touch with what’s happening creatively in music right now. Andrew Bird, Phoenix, Animal Collective, St. Vincent, Minus the Bear, Glasvegas, Band of Horses, Editors, DeVotchKa, the Answering Machine, the Jaguar Club, and hundreds more bands are out there making great music. And now I know about all of them, thanks to woxy.com. I can still listen to all of them. But now, how will I find out about tomorrow’s new music?

-Monte Cook, author and game designer

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The Power of Community

Jan 19, 2010 by classicgrrl

On January 19, 2007, Sean Beall’s apartment complex caught fire. He did not make it out. I knew him as JSpaceman, his handle on The Future of Rock-n-Roll.

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