After 97X signed off in 2004, “the future of rock and roll” stayed alive as woxy.com – with many fits and starts (and stops) along the way. “Angel investors”… LaLa.com… Future Sounds… Oxford… Longworth Hall in Cincinnati… Austin, Texas. The dot-com version had several homes, and more lives than a cat, before finally ending quite abruptly on March 23, 2010.

We talk to the folks who experienced all those ups and downs, and lived to tell the tale: Shiv, Mike Taylor, Joe Long, Brian Niesz, and Bryan J. Miller share their stories of the woxy.com era.

One of the highlights of the move to woxy.com (and the move to a former recording studio in Cincinnati) was the expansion of live, in-studio performances – the fabled “Lounge Acts” engineered by Brian Niesz.

WOXY.com presents: Frightened Rabbit from WOXY on Vimeo.

Frightened Rabbit – "Swim Until You Can't See Land" – WOXY Lounge SXSW from WOXY on Vimeo.

You can find a boatload more of these Lounge Acts videos here: https://vimeo.com/woxy and here: https://www.youtube.com/@woxyloungeactsarchive5619/featured

And Brian Niesz, who moved back to Cincinnati after the Austin demise of woxy.com, now works at WCPO-TV (Channel 9) and revived the Lounge Acts format.

Check out more of those performances here: https://www.wcpo.com/loungeacts