Yummy

Here's two great tastes that taste great together: WOXY and Jem. WOXY used to be traditional radio 97X, 97.7 out of Oxford, OH. For 23 years, they rocked the college kids at Miami University and the Cincinnati/Dayton area with, well, pretty much whatever they wanted to play, but mostly college rock stuff. I have a lot of good college memories with 97X as the soundtrack, and a large portion of my musical tastes were shaped by this station. After I graduated, I was able to keep listening via their streaming web-based broadcasts and eventually through iTunes. In January 2004, the physical station was sold and they went exclusively internet-based. But funding quickly disappeared, and the station signed off in May of 2004, only to return rather quickly due to the intervention of two anonymous investors who relocated the studio to Cincinnati. It's a pretty interesting story which is rather better told on the WOXY website. They do a great job of updating the website with current playlists and new releases.

Anyway, the new studio has become a stop for "modern rock artists" (as they like to call them at WOXY), and they've featured a lot of cool music (Ben Lee, Sondre Lerche, Joseph Arthur, David Lowery of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven) in their Lounge Act series, where as you can see from the photos, bands literally set up and play in the lounge at the station. Back in November, Jem stopped by to do one of these shows. I may have mentioned my crush on her before, but as much as I already liked her and her music, the acoustic set she did made me love her even more. You can listen to the songs on her site. She may not jump out at you as a traditional beauty, but when she sings, she's dead sexy. Mee-yow.