California duo Foxygen is set to release their fourth studio album, Hang Friday. Although Jonathan Rado and Sam France have released three other albums under the Foxygen moniker, Hang is bands first proper release. Recorded at Electro Vox Studios in Los Angeles, the album was recorded & mixed entirely on 2″ tape using no computers. In addition, the duo used a 40+ piece symphony orchestra on every track. Download “Follow The Leader” off Hang and learn more about Foxygen at their Official Website, “Like” them on Facebook and follow them on Twitter.
“Never Let Go”
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“The Only One”
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“Where The Sun Shines”
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“C’est La Vie”
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WTTS just wrapped up one of our favorite musical traditions of the year: WTTS A To Z. This year, we selected exactly 2,017 songs to ring in the year 2017. Our first song? “A” by Barenaked Ladies. The last? “Zooropa” by U2. Thank you for listening and providing such great feedback. All of this wouldn’t be possible without the best listeners in local radio! WTTS A To Z was proudly presented by Dreyer & Reinbold.
View the WTTS A To Z playlist by clicking here. (You can download the playlist by right clicking the link and selecting save as)
The “Official” WTTS Rules of the Alphabet:
-The articles “A” and “The” will be recognized this year. So songs that start with “A” will fall in the first letter, while all “The” songs will play during the letter “T.”
-Parenthesis are ignored, eg. “(Sittin’ On The) Dock Of The Bay” will play during “S.”
-All numbers and years are spelled out, eg. “1979” will be recognized as “Nineteen Seventy Nine.”
-Abbreviations go first in the letter, eg. “Mr.” and “Mrs.” songs
-Same song, different artist? We’ll break the alphabet and play the original song first.
-Same title, different song? We’ll defer to alphabetical order based on the artist’s name.
Nothing evokes passion and emotion like music, especially music that has been a part of the soundtrack of our lives. These songs that we love from our favorite artists are like snapshots in our family photo album. Each one provides clues to our history, our tragedies, our triumphs and our loves. Music bonds us as a community. And when one of the contributors to our life’s soundtrack dies, we lose a piece of ourselves, a friend who has been “through it all” with us. The heartbreak is shared and the feeling of our own mortality is real. This past year as we have experienced the loss of many in our musical family, I feel strengthened by our shared grief and expression of gratitude. I ask to find comfort together in the music they created for us and remember those times in our lives punctuated in song.
Here’s to a brand new year, brand new music and brand new memories.
Hard Love, Tim Showalter’s latest release as Strand of Oaks, is a record that explores the balancing act between overindulgence and accountability. Recounting Showalter’s decadent tour experiences, his struggling marriage, and the near death of his younger brother, the album emanates an unabashed, raw, and manic energy that embodies both the songs and the songwriter behind them. “For me,” Showalter says “there are always two forces at work: the side that’s constantly on the hunt for the perfect song, and the side that’s naked in the desert screaming at the moon. It’s about finding a place where neither side is compromised, only elevated.” Download “Radio Kids” off Hard Love and learn more about Strand Of Oaks at their Official Website, “Like” them on Facebook and follow them on Twitter.
Singer-songwriter Matt Pond is the driving force behind the band Matt Pond PA. This past November, the band released their eleventh album Winter Lives. The record is a bold celebration of what blooms in the coldest, stillest time of the year. By now, fans of the band are not unfamiliar with the enduring love affair Pond’s lyrics and arrangements have with his shift-shaping environment: an embodiment of the season, the beauty in a prosaic exchange, the weight of expectation and hope, a moment that says a kiss is not a promise. But it can be something close to the truth. Download “Whoa” off Winter Lives and learn more about Matt Pond PA at their Official Website, “Like” them on Facebook and follow them on Twitter.
