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Lady Lamb the Beekeeper: May 11, 2013 Glasslands – Flac/MP3/Streaming

May 13, 2013

It was three years ago that we saw what I believe to have been one of the first Lady Lamb the Beekeeper shows in New York, a solo set at the opening night of the Rock Shop. That was back in the days when Skippy was still in NYC and billed a show for the ages that night — Sharon Van Etten and TuneYards headlined the bill. Aly Spaltro was still a teenager at that point, but it was obvious that she was abundantly talented with unlimited potential. She was signed to Bada Bing Records, and after several self-released albums, the first proper Lady Lamb album came out this year. Ripely Pine is a superb album that highlights Aly’s strengths — emotional vocals, intimate songwriting and aggressive musicianship. This is also an album that will profile her talents to a much wider audience. We saw the beginnings of that at a packed Glasslands on Saturday night. While the front half of the crowd consisted of fan-boys and fan-girls who seemed to know all the words to the songs, the back half of the crowd contained those “here to be seen” types who are both a blessing and a curse to an artist — more ticket sales but less attention. Aly’s set consisted of much of Ripely Pine and a few older songs. We were particularly impressed with “Bird Balloons” which opened the set with a fury that never let up. Lady Lamb continues the tour on the East Coast before heading to Europe in the end of May.

I recorded this set in our usual manner in this venue, with the mounted Naiant cards matrixed with an excellent board feed mixed by Glasslands excellent house FOH Josh. The packed Saturday night crowd presented some challenges as the din of chatter is present at quiet moments. We were also visited by persistent thumps from the DJ at 285 next door. Otherwise the sound quality is excellent, and with those caveats, enjoy!

Stream “Bird Balloons”:

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Lady Lamb the Beekeeper
2013-05-11
Glasslands Gallery
Brooklyn, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Naiant X-R Cardioid > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, set fades, downsample) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and Tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper
2013-05-12

Setlist
[Total Time 1:02:22]
01 Bird Balloons
02 [band intro]
03 Aubergine
04 [banter - TJ]
05 Hair to the Ferris Wheel
06 Between Two Trees
07 Florence Berlin
08 Milk Duds
09 Regarding Ascending the Stairs
10 You Are the Apple
11 [banter - thanks]
12 The Nothing Part Two
13 [banter - loud voice]
14 Crane Your Neck

If you download this recording from NYCTaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, visit her website, and purchase Ripely Pine from Bada Bing Records [HERE].

NYCTaper is 6 Years Old Today

May 11, 2013

By nyctaper

It was six years ago today, May 11, 2007 that I opened NYCTaper as an experiment in a new way to distribute live recordings in the context of a music blog. Today I can say that the site has exceeded my expectations in every imaginable way. Thanks for our faithful readers, the addition of three other excellent editors and multiple other contributors, the site is now a mainstay and something for which we can all be proud. So thanks for six great years!

Last year we had a big party for our Fifth Anniversary, an epic show at 285 Kent headlined by Oneida. Their set is still available [HERE].

The Brooklyn What: April 21, 2013 Bowery Ballroom – Flac/MP3/Streaming

May 5, 2013

By nyctaper

[photos by PSquared Photography]

If you’re the opening act and at the end of your set the crowd is literally chanting the name of your band, you’re doing something right. A couple of weeks back, the Brooklyn What opened for Dead Milkmen at Bowery Ballroom and their set was so damned entertaining that there was a mosh pit, stage diving and yes indeed, as you can hear at the end of the recording, the crowd chanting their name. The Brooklyn What are an amalgam of styles, with influences as wide at the New York Dolls, the Minutemen, and 1960s Brooklyn do-wop — performed with an uninhibited and indefatigable style. Lead singer and frontman Jamie Frey is a ball of energy who from the outset of the show engaged the crowd. As a result, the band got the attention they deserved throughout the set, built the momentum and finished with perhaps the best response we’ve ever seen from an opening set. The Brooklyn What played much of their new album Hot Wine, some older material and a couple of well-received covers. The band will play again later this month in a show at Shea Stadium on May 16.

We recorded this show in the same manner at the Dead Milkmen set and the sound quality is superb. Enjoy!

Stream “The Basement”:

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Brooklyn What
2013-04-21
Bowery Ballroom
New York, NY

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Sennheiser MKH-8040s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2 x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper 2013-05-02

Setlist:
[Total Time 35:35]
01 Catastrophe Kids
02 Come To Me
03 Punk Rock Loneliness
04 She Gives Me Spasms
05 Game Of Pricks [Guided By Voices]
06 Sledgehammer Night
07 Hot Wine
08 [banter]
09 The Basement
10 I Want You On A Saturday Night
11 I Wanna Be Your Dog [Stooges]

If you download this recording from NYCTaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT The Brooklyn What, visit their Bandcamp page, visit their Facebook page, and purchase the new album Hot Wine from their Bandcamp page [HERE].

Swearin: April 20, 2013 Maxwell’s – Flac/MP3/Streaming

May 1, 2013

By nyctaper

[photo by Chris Casciano of PlaceNameHere blog]

We’re big fans of Crutchfields here at NYCTaper. First, there was Katie’s band Waxahatchee, from the Don Giovanni showcase earlier this year. Today its Swearin, the Brooklyn/Philly quartet co-fronted by Allison Crutchfield with Kyle Gilbride. Swearin were the third of the five band bill assembled at Maxwell’s to celebrate the new CD release by Shellshag on Saturday last. I was initially unfamiliar with the band, but immediately perked up my ears as their set contained instant catchy hooks and an energy that was hard to miss. As with their self-titled debut album, all of the songs in their set were 2-3 minute bursts of pop-punk goodness. We’re streaming “Movie Star” below which features Allison belting out her most heartfelt vocals of their short show. Swearin will play Death By Audio on May 10, also sharing a bill with Shellshag.

I recorded this set in the same manner as the Screaming Females set, and except for some noticeable crowd chatter in between songs, the sound is superb. Enjoy!

Stream “Movie Star”:

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Swearin
2013-04-20
Maxwells
Hoboken NJ

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Neumann TLM-102s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2 x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper 2013-04-30

Setlist:
[Total Time 28:22]
01 Here to Hear
02 What a Dump
03 Mermaid
04 [new song]
05 Just
06 Crashing
07 Dusted
08 Kenosha
09 Movie Star
10 Kill em With Kindness

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Swearin, visit their Bandcamp page, and purchase their debut album and EP from the Bandcamp page [HERE].

Akron/Family: April 24, 2013 Bowery Ballroom – Flac/MP3/Streaming

April 30, 2013

By nyctaper

[Photos by PSquared Photography]

To paraphrase the Beatles, I thought I knew Akron/Family, what did I know. A band that I had returned to see live ten or so times were “must-see” because their shows have always been immensely enjoyable — celebratory and tribal, the material has alternated between melodic and hypnotic jamming and sweet (and sometimes very quiet) ballads. The current tour for the new album Sub Verses (officially released today April 30) is a very different affair indeed. As I tweeted during the Bowery Ballroom show on Wednesday, this current incarnation of Akron/Family is dense and very heavy. There wasn’t much banter or crowd participation, as we’ve experienced at older A/F shows, but the music was equally moving in a profoundly different way. The band has added electronics wiz M Geddes Gengras for this tour and his contribution of throbbing electronic bass and crunch/noise fits perfectly with the thematic nature of Sub Verses, which has been described by the band as having a “SciFi aesthetic” and “propulsive and driven by it’s physicality”, which are both very much accurate. At Bowery, the band played all but one of the new album’s 10 tracks, and just two songs of older material. We are streaming “Sand Time” below. The current tour swings South this week before finishing in LA on May 8.

I recorded this set from our standard balcony rail location in this venue and mixed with an excellent board feed provided by Akron Family’s FOH Tom Tierney. The sound quality is superb. Enjoy!

Stream “Sand Time”:

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Akron Family
2013-04-24
Bowery Ballroom
New York, NY

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper 2013-04-28

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:36:21]
01 [intro]
02 No Room
03 Way Up
04 Until The Morning
05 Sand Talk
06 Light Emerges
07 Sometimes I
08 Holy Bourbon
09 Drums
10 Sand Time
11 Samurai
12 [encore break]
13 When I Was Young
14 Ed Is a Portal

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Akron/Family, visit their website, and purchase Sub Verses from the Dead Oceans Records website [HERE].

Screaming Females: April 20, 2013 Maxwell’s – Flac/MP3/Streaming

April 27, 2013

By nyctaper

[photo by Chris Casciano of PlaceNameHere blog]

Last Saturday at Maxwell’s, Screaming Females came out in support of their friends. The night was a special one, a party to celebrate the new Shellshag CD and to salute the DIY veterans. The Don Giovanni Records roster seem to all be friends and supporters of each other and this night was solid proof of that. Screaming Females played fourth of five bands, allowing the stars of the night to headline. And the band kept their set relatively short, eight songs in thirty minutes. But that didn’t mean that one of our favorite bands didn’t reach that level of live intensity that makes their performances universally must-see. We are streaming our own personal highlight, a six-minute scorching “High” that closed the set in raging fashion. Screaming Females announced this month that they will be opening the two Thermals shows at Bowery Ballroom on May 28 and May 29. Other tour dates include some northeast shows and a trip down south.

I recorded this set with the large diaphragm Neumann cardioids mixed with an excellent board feed and the sound is superb. Enjoy!

Stream “High”:

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Screaming Females
2013-04-20
Maxwells
Hoboken NJ

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper 2013-04-25

Setlist:
[Total Time 30:04]
01 Normal
02 It All Means Nothing
03 Rotten Apple
04 I Do
05 Bell
06 [new song]
07 Tell Me No
08 High
09 [outro]

If you download this recording from NYCTaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Screaming Females, visit their website, and purchase their official releases including Ugly and Chalk Tape from the Don Giovanni Records store [HERE].

Dead Milkmen: April 21, 2013 Bowery Ballroom – Flac/MP3/Streaming

April 24, 2013

By nyctaper

[photos by PSquared Photography]

The old corporate music industry used to do this band-kill all the time — label a legitimate band the “next big thing”, turn their career upside down and ultimately cause them to crash and burn. The most extreme example is the Bangles, who went from LA paisley-folkies to glamor girls to defunct in about two years. After several excellent albums and a few breakthrough songs, in 1991 the Dead Milkmen went through the music industry meat grinder, and did not survive. The band broke up in the mid-90s and it stayed apart for over a decade. It took the death of original bassist Dave Schulthise to bring the band together for a tribute concert, and fortunately for their fans it sparked a permanent reunion. Unburdened by industry pressures and aided by decades of life experience, the Dead Milkmen are back as live performers to where they were in the late 80s, a relaxed humorous group of regular guys who also happen to be an extremely entertaining band. At Bowery Ballroom on Sunday night, a packed crowd saw the band work through an excellent selection of choice older material mixed in with some new songs, in a 85-minute set that was everything we’d hoped for, energetic, well-played and an absolute hoot. Rodney Anonymous wasn’t feeling that well, but rather than letting his health to negatively effect his performance, he turned it into a positive as he allowed a revolving group of rabid fans to sing selected lines from songs they all knew by heart. He even used it as a joke — “how do you get sick on a 3-show tour”. Ultimately, the band used the theme of the night — that “Dream On” should be the State song of Massachusetts — as motivation for an unexpected (not on the written setlist) tongue-in-cheek full-on cover of the Aerosmith classic to end the show. After an extended encore segment, the crowd departed with what this band has always given their fans, a big smile.

I recorded this set with the Sennheiser Cards mounted in our usual balcony position and supplemented with a board feed. Since the room sounded excellent on this night, the mix is predominantly room mics, with a 20% feed used to clarify the vocals and keys. The result is a superb recording which captures the crazy energy of the show. Enjoy!

Stream “Punk Rock Girl”:

Stream “Surfin Cow”:

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Dead Milkmen
2013-04-21
Bowery Ballroom
New York, NY

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper 2013-04-23

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:22:00]
01 Beige Sunshine
02 Tiny Town
03 Tacoland
04 She’s Affected
05 Punk Rock Girl
06 Methodist Coloring Book
07 Serrated Edge
08 Meaningless Upbeat Happy Song
09 Dean’s Dream
10 If You Love Somebody Set Them on Fire
11 Now I Wanna Hold Your Dog
12 Stuart
13 Nutrition
14 Bitchin Camaro
15 Beach Party Vietnam
16 Fauxhemia
17 VFW
18 Hangman
19 Smokin Banana Peels
20 Right Wing Pigeons
21 Undertown
22 Ronald Reagan Killed The Black Dahlia
23 Big Lizard in My Backyard
24 Life is Shit
25 Dream On [Aerosmith]
26 [encore break]
27 The Guitar Song
28 In Praise Of Sha Na Na
29 Life is Shit (Reprise)
30 The Woman Who Was Also A Mongoose
31 Surfin Cow

If you download this recording from NYCTaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Dead Milkmen, visit their website, purchase their official releases from the Milkmen Shop! link at their website [HERE].

Old 97s: March 15, 2013 Capitol Theatre Portchester – Flac/MP3/Streaming

April 18, 2013

By nyctaper

[photo by Joe Madonna]

There was a brief time in my life when the Old 97s were one of my top 3 favorite bands. 1999′s Fight Songs is a perfect album and one that I played on rotation an infinite number of times. I’ve always felt that Fight Songs was a more consistently excellent album even than Wilco’s Summerteeth, also released in ’99 — a more truly realized blend of alt-country and pop that both albums sought to achieve. Although Satellite Rides was a worthy follow-up, and I’ve seen them a few times this century (including this 2007 concert on nyctaper) I’ll admit that I lost touch with the band over the years. But its always rewarding to catch up with an old favorite and that we did at the Capital Theatre in Portchester last month. Old 97s performed a superb 20-song headliner-length set opening for Drive By Truckers, and the magic was back. They barreled through many of the hits in a set that was high energy, focused, and virtually never came up for air. We’re streaming “Lonely Holiday” below. The Old 97s will return to NYC for a three-night run at Brooklyn Bowl on June 27-29.

This recording was captured in the same manner as the Drive By Truckers set and the sound quality is excellent. Enjoy!

Stream “Lonely Holiday”:

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Old 97s
2013-03-15
Capitol Theatre
Portchester, NY

Digital Master
Four-Track Audience Recording

Sennheiser MKH-8040 Cardioids + Neumann KM-150s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 24bit 48kHz wav file > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced by nyctaper 2013-04-09

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:12:25]
01 Barrier Reef
02 Won’t Be Home
03 Brown Haired Daughter
04 Lonely Holiday
05 Champaign Illinois
06 West Texas Teardrops
07 Ivys Got A Boyfriend (Problem)
08 The Other Shoe
09 The Dance Class
10 Four Leaf Clover
11 Stoned
12 Mama Tried (Merle Haggard)
13 Question
14 Big Brown Eyes
15 Every Night is Friday Night
16 Can’t Get A Line
17 Jagged
18 Dance With Me
19 Rollerskate Skinny
20 Timebomb

If you download this recording from NYCTaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Old 97s, visit their website, purchase their official releases from the Store at their website [HERE].

Spacin’: April 4, 2013 285 Kent – Flac/MP3/Streaming

April 17, 2013

By nyctaper

[uncredited photo from last.fm - will credit if info provided]

The band Spacin’ began as the solo project of Jason Killinger, who was also a member of Birds of Maya. Philadelphia has produced a plethora of superb gargage-influenced music over the last several years and Killinger’s contribution is no less impressive than others such as Kurt Vile, The War on Drugs, and Purling Hiss. In fact, Killinger teamed with Purling Hiss’ Mike Polizze in Birds of Maya, and their solo bands just completed a tour together. On Thursday last, we caught Spacin’ opening for the Hiss at 285 Kent and their set, although short in song titles and total time was a superb neo-psych/garage workout which included a couple of numbers from their debut album Deep Thuds, a couple of apparent new songs, and a killer cover the the MC5′s “American Ruse” (streaming below). Now that Spacin’ is on our radar, we won’t miss their NYC shows.

This set was recorded in the same manner as the Purling Hiss set and the sound is excellent. Enjoy!

Stream “American Ruse [MC5 cover]:

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Spacin
2013-04-04
285 Kent
Brooklyn, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Neumann TLM 102s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 24bit 48kHz wav file > Soundforge (level adjustments, set fades, downsample) > CDWave 1.95 > (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and Tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper
2013-04-12

Setlist:
[Total Time 33:53]
01 Human Condition
02 Sunshine No Shoes
03 [banter]
04 American Ruse [MC5]
05 [new song]
06 Oh Man

If you download this recording from NYCTaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Spacin’, visit their bandcamp page, and purchase Deep Thuds from Richie Records / TestosterTunes [HERE].

Caveman: April 10, 2013 Webster Hall – Flac/MP3/Streaming

April 14, 2013

By nyctaper

[photo courtesy of Will Oliver of We All Want Someone to Shout For]

Caveman has come a long way very quickly since we first saw them 18 months ago as an opening band at Cameo Gallery. At that show, opening for fellow quick-climbers The War On Drugs, it was fairly obvious that Caveman would be going places. A couple of months later they were playing larger gigs, and when their debut CoCo Beware was picked up by Fat Possum Records, the band went national. This month, the band released their anticipated follow-up to CoCo, a self-titled second album that retains the band keen sense of melody and 80s-influenced pop while taking the next step. Caveman is a more mature and more consistently excellent album — just exactly the kind of second album that bodes well for the long term future of Caveman. On Wednesday night at Webster Hall, the band celebrated a homecoming and the CD’s new release with a triumphant show before a packed house. The setlist included most of the band’s recorded material and they were simply ebullient throughout the seventy-five minute set. Matthew Iwanusa spent much of the between-song banter thanking the crowd and acknowledging the band’s fortunes, and the feeling was mutual.

We recorded this set with the Sennheiser cardioids mounted inside the soundboard booth and mixed with an excellent feed provided by the band’s touring FOH. Enjoy!

Stream “In The City”:

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Caveman
2013-04-10
Webster Hall
New York, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Sennheiser MKH-8040s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, downsample set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and Tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper
2013-04-12

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:14:35]
01 Thankful – Backwards
02 Shut You Down
03 Easy Water
04 A Country’s King of Dreams
05 In The City
06 Over My Head
07 My Time
08 December 28th
09 [banter]
10 I Never Want to Know
11 Ankles
12 Vampirer – Old Friend
13 Decide
14 [encore break]
15 Great Life
16 Where’s the Time

If you download this recording from NYCTaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Caveman, visit their website, and purchase Caveman from the Fat Possum Records site [HERE].

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