woxy - the music of the future
so, i learned from pitchfork (trying to find dates for the ruins shows) that woxy is shutting down it's online only operations and maybe (possibly) returning to broadcast somehow.
i personally have never listened to woxy.com, but I credit the station with a lot of influence in my life. i went to grade school right across the street from the studio and they were chill enough to let me walk on over in 6th grade and make requests directly in the on air studio. the station was pretty good during the day, but it was great during the evening/late night hours. i remember the more underground stuff being played then, it was hard to get them to play the minutemen during the day for example (husker du was another story in light of the candy apple grey/warehouse success of the mpls rockers). I definitely owe a lot to robin (plant?) and planet x, probably not as much as anne fluekeiger and jim antonio, but hey.
i also fondly remember doctor demento's show which they syndicated.
we all had great laughs when dustin hoffman got excited about woxy in rainman, but for me the coolest part about the station was hangin' out with jeff dreeves (who worked at loony t. bird's with the totally awesome amy altenberger) and phil manning (woxy's program director and probably the person most responsible for making "alternative" music a separate category from "college radio" - even more so than jeff mccluskey I'd guess, though with much less recognition). Phil will remain forever cool in my mind for giving me a promo copy of ciccone youth's LP (I had the EP already of course ;)) because he'd never be able to play it on air (which seemed strange to me, but hey, he was the program director, not me).
other highlights from my woxy memories - when jodie foster was directing little man tate in oxford the PAs I had regular contact with (trying to sell them my shoes among other things) swore she loved the station and listened to it all the time.
that and nick spahr got an internship there when he was at miami. this also was very funny to me.
Also noteworthy is Jeff Dreeve's chicago based record label which first released the flying lutenbachers. oh and jeff, if you're still out there - you have my minutemen official bootleg of that radio show in arizona - the one that was limited to 500 copies. i still want it back ;)
and so, woxy, I close with husker du (sort of): All this i owe to you.
i personally have never listened to woxy.com, but I credit the station with a lot of influence in my life. i went to grade school right across the street from the studio and they were chill enough to let me walk on over in 6th grade and make requests directly in the on air studio. the station was pretty good during the day, but it was great during the evening/late night hours. i remember the more underground stuff being played then, it was hard to get them to play the minutemen during the day for example (husker du was another story in light of the candy apple grey/warehouse success of the mpls rockers). I definitely owe a lot to robin (plant?) and planet x, probably not as much as anne fluekeiger and jim antonio, but hey.
i also fondly remember doctor demento's show which they syndicated.
we all had great laughs when dustin hoffman got excited about woxy in rainman, but for me the coolest part about the station was hangin' out with jeff dreeves (who worked at loony t. bird's with the totally awesome amy altenberger) and phil manning (woxy's program director and probably the person most responsible for making "alternative" music a separate category from "college radio" - even more so than jeff mccluskey I'd guess, though with much less recognition). Phil will remain forever cool in my mind for giving me a promo copy of ciccone youth's LP (I had the EP already of course ;)) because he'd never be able to play it on air (which seemed strange to me, but hey, he was the program director, not me).
other highlights from my woxy memories - when jodie foster was directing little man tate in oxford the PAs I had regular contact with (trying to sell them my shoes among other things) swore she loved the station and listened to it all the time.
that and nick spahr got an internship there when he was at miami. this also was very funny to me.
Also noteworthy is Jeff Dreeve's chicago based record label which first released the flying lutenbachers. oh and jeff, if you're still out there - you have my minutemen official bootleg of that radio show in arizona - the one that was limited to 500 copies. i still want it back ;)
and so, woxy, I close with husker du (sort of): All this i owe to you.
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I can't believe I came across this post. I worked at Looney's with Amy as well. Jeff wasn't there when I was, but there was Amy, Mary, Jamie, John and of course, Dave (the owner). Good times working there.
On the WOXY subject - it's not surprising they are shutting down the online bit. The RIAA and Soundex are making it impossible for anyone to stream music. Royalties have been gone way beyond the ridiculous amount.
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