Living In Colour (You, You’re Awesome Remix) by You, You’re Awesome

We recorded a new song for this holiday benefit album. The song is called Cinnamon Snow, and it’s featured amongst many other great Ohio bands. It’s well worth the little bit of money. Please take a listen and if you like it, please give and help some folks.

LISTEN/BUY THE ALBUM HERE - http://ohiochristmas.bandcamp.com/

100% of proceeds will go to Gracehaven, a Ohio based charity. Gracehaven is a 501(c) 3 organization that raises awareness about the issue of domestic minor sex trafficking and also seeks to provide shelter and rehabilitation to girls who have been victims of commercial sexual exploitation. When Gracehaven opens, it will add 10 beds to the total of 39 in the United States for human trafficking victims.

1. Super Desserts – Children Go 03:17
2. The Celebrity Pilots – Cuyahoga Xmas Fairytale 04:40
3. Bird and Flower – Christmas Alone 03:27
4. You, You’re Awesome – Cinnamon Snow 04:17
5. Adam Remnant (of Southeast Engine) – Bob Cratchit 04:30
6. Bicentennial Bear – All I Want for Christmas (is an Afghan Whigs Reunion) 02:14
7. Brainbow – O’ Holy Night 05:42
8. Colin Gawel & The Lonely Bones – Try a Little Faith (featuring Marcy Mays) 03:17
9. No No Knots – Holiday Is U 04:21
10. Phantods – Christmas Won’t Get the Best of Me 03:29
11. Moviola – Will Santy Come To Shanty Town? 02:31
12. Paper Airplane – 1913 05:45
13. Megan Palmer and Jason Crosby - In the Bleak Midwinter 03:05
14. The Chocolate Horse – You and Me on Christmas Eve 03:54
15. The Town Monster – The Willows Grove 02:19
16. The Guitars – Sleigh Ride 03:01

Thanks to Jason Bayer for the above video.

Frightened Rabbit - Living In Colour

Bad Veins - Falling Tide

A lot of people have already talked about what WOXY meant to them, and I feel I should add my own words, since, well, there would be no “You, You’re Awesome” without them.

When I moved to Cincinnati in 2000 for college, music was already a huge part of my existence.  Since radio was already sucking pretty hardcore, I had to rely on other ways to find music I liked. Sometimes it was friend’s suggestions, or I would blindly pick something out based on the cover art, or I’d spend time on Amazon.com picking an artist and clicking on ‘sounds like’.

While I was driving up to Cleveland to visit the folks, a station began to come clear as I drove north of the city. I was amazed that I was hearing a radio station play Radiohead that was NOT Creep. I was amazed that I was hearing Pixies, and I was amazed that the DJs actually mentioned each song by name.

The signal was always hard to get around the University of Cincinnati, but I managed to find a sweet spot halfway up my driveway where I could hear them clearly.  One night, a DJ by the name of Shiv was playing a track by Orbital, and it was at that moment that I was hooked. My favorite electronic band being played on the radio? absurd!

In 2004, they ended their terrestrial broadcast. I couldn’t help but tear up listening to all the DJs say their goodbyes. I realized that the station was more than just a nameless place to listen to music. I felt like I knew these people. I cared about them even though I had not met them. I still remember how deafening the silence was when they pulled the plug. I sat in the silence for a while.  It fucking sucked.

Soon after the shut down, I joined the message boards.  Sounds pretty geeky, but I loved the conversations that happened, be it about music or other randomness.  The DJs were often sharing their own thoughts and it felt like a pretty cool community of like minded folks. I started meeting people’s real life persona’s at shows and board functions, and I made a lot of long lasting friendships.  One of those people was Kevin. I won’t bore you with how our friendship happened, but without the WOXY boards, we would’ve never met. Never become friends. Never joked about starting a surf band. Never become YYA.

We’ve been lucky in this band.  People seem to dig us, and we’ve been lucky enough to get a lot of great opportunities. Again, it can all be traced back to WOXY.

I’d been trying for years to get something I’ve written or been a part of to get played on air.  Nothing ever did. I never let it deter me. I figured it was because what I was writing was crap. Which it probably was. I couldn’t stop making shit though, so eventually YYA came into being, and we had our first show.  By this time, Kevin and I were good friends with Shiv and the other good folks at the station, so he came down to check it out.  The next day he played us on the air.  It felt unbelievably validating to me.  Something I created was finally deemed worthy to be played in the same company as Radiohead and Super Furry Animals. I was ecstatic.

The WOXY folks were kind enough to invite us down to their new home in Austin to be one of the first bands to play a SxSw lounge act.  Little did we know it would be one of the last too.  Even though I was friends with Shiv, who did the interviewing, I was nervous as hell.  I was finally fulfilling a musical dream I’ve had for almost ten years.  I’d like to share the entire session with you all, since WOXY can’t anymore.

http://youyoureawesome.com/index.php/site/music/

I hope that WOXY gets another chance, but I also realize that this may have been the last incarnation for the guys. I’m feeling quite empty. I’m not sure how to get to people’s ears without those folks behind us.  I want to personally thank Mike, Joe, and Shiv for always supporting us. Thanks to Brian Niesz for letting 5 folks from Cincinnati crash on his floor during South-by. And though I only met Paige for a brief second, thanks to her as well for being a part of the team. We’ll miss you.

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We’ll be at Mad Hatter tomorrow night with Bad Veins, Josiah Wolf and A Decade to Die For. On March 13th, we’ll be at Northside Tavern with Tobacco and The Chocolate Horse. Hope to see you out there.

In the following days & weeks, you’ll see the EP appearing in iTunes (U.S., Australia, Canada, UK, Japan, & Mexico), Rhapsody, eMusic, Amazon, Lala and Amie Street. We’ll post the links up on the music page as we’re made aware of them.

The online release of You’re Getting Old will most likely be in January and as soon as we have an exact date, we’ll post it up here. But without further ado, here’s a peak at the cover art and tracklisting.