Today we received great news from Pylon — an unexpected and just-announced performance in NYC in a few weeks. Pylon recently played a couple of dates on the West coast and did not have plans to return North — until now.
Pylon were so unbelievably tight when we saw them at the Mercury Lounge in November of last year, that it is not surprising that they will continue to perform.
Here are the details:
Pylon
The Knitting Factory
Monday, December 15, 2008
7 p.m.
WNYU 35th Anniversary
[photo courtesy of Rist Photography]
Our first experience with Hot Buttered Rum was as an opening act at the Highline Ballroom in April. Their set was so impressive that we made a mental note to definitely catch them again, preferably as a headliner. At Sullivan Hall on Wednesday night, Hot Buttered Rum performed two complete sets in impressive fashion. The extremely talented quintet plays their version of “newgrass” with precision and confidence. The genre can be shackled by the repetitive nature of round-robin solos and a slavish dedication to form. What separates HBR from their contemporaries is a playful unpredictability and a superb band cohesion. It was during the second set at Sullivan that the band really shined, utilizing the relaxed atmosphere to stretch out and explore.
This is an interesting recording. We decided to move very close to the stage at this venue as previous recordings had suffered from chatter in front of our microphones. We attached the microphone stand onto a pole about 10 feet from the stage, about 5 feet underneath the left PA stack. The right channel was positioned about 15 feet to our right. Since we were so close to the band, there is natural stage sound in the “center” of the recording, while the left channel is almost all PA and the right channel has quite a bit of the upfront crowd. There are several bursts of static in the second set which was the result of a large person backing up into my equipment on multiple occasions and hitting into the digital cable jack. Otherwise, this is certainly an enjoyable listen. Enjoy!
This recording is offered as a direct download as the files are hosted on the Internet Archive server. Right click and “save file as†or “save target as†to download individual tracks.
This recording is available on the Internet Archive [HERE]
Hot Buttered Rum
2008-11-19
Sullivan Hall
New York, NY USA
Digital Master Recording
Recorded from Upfront
10 Feet from Stage
Left Channel 5 feet from PA, Right Channel over audience
Mic Placement: Healy Method
Neumann KM-150’s (AK-50 Hypercardiod Capsules) > Monster XLR cables > Apogee Minime > digital coaxial > M-Audio Microtrack > 24bit 48kHz wav file > Soundforge 8.0 (set fades, slight level boost, resample 16/44) > CD Wave 1.95 > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac
Recorded and Produced
nyctaper
[email protected]
2008-11-22
Setlist:
Set 1
[total time 44:55]
01 Swing & Sway
02 Guns or Butter
03 Gumboots
04 Lulu
05 Golden Days
06 Bliss Monkeys
07 Howlin’ At The Moon
08 Big River
Set 2:
[total time 1:09:25]
01 Desert Rat
02 Idaho Pines
03 Tear My Stillhouse Down
04 Something New
05 Sexy Bakery Girl
06 Another Soul
07 Summertime Gal > Walls of Time > Summertime Gal
08 Amanda Lynn
09 Angeline The Baker > Cindy
10 [encore break]
11 Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (Dylan)
Information: txt file
Verification: md5 file
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Apologies to our readers for the downtime yesterday, which was somewhere in the range of about 18 hours. Our host server had some kind of huge crash and took way too long to fix it.
In the interim, we kept busy. We recorded Hot Buttered Rum at Sullivan Hall on Wednesday, attended the Antlers (the recording was not usable) on Thursday, and last night we recorded The Loom and most of Rafter‘s set at Cake Shop. I will try to post at least two of those recordings today.
Tonight its off to Union Hall for an amazing bill — The Secret Life of Sofia, Jeremy Messersmith, and Naked Hearts.
Sharon Van Etten at NYCTaper CMJ Show [photo by subinev blog]
The news was bad and good for Sharon Van Etten this week. On the same day we clicked on the excellent Hooves on the Turf music blog to find that Sharon Van Etten’s laptop (with new songs!) had been stolen, we picked up the Village Voice to find Sharon glowingly and prominently featured in the profile of one of NYC’s best and most underappreciated venues — Brooklyn’s Zebulon. We spoke to Sharon about Zebulon in the NYCTaper Interview last month.
Today the good news wins out. Sharon has booked a series of upcoming gigs (tonight!), including the next NYCTaper Presents show — January 11, 2009 at Pianos. We will have a lot to report out that NYCTaper show in the near future.
Sharon Van Etten will perform the following shows:
November 20, 2008 Cornelia Street Cafe NYC
November 25, 2008 Glasslands Brooklyn
December 8, 2008 Pianos NYC
January 11, 2009 Pianos NYC (NYCTaper Presents)
Its was only a month ago when we recorded the most outrageous concert of the year (or decade) — Of Montreal at Roseland on October 10. The NYCTaper recording of the cover of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” spread far and wide on the web, including on You Ain’t No Picasso, Merry Swankster, Prefix Magazine (without credit), NME (without credit), New York Magazine (without credit), and even ended up on Pitchfork and Stereogum.
The Bowery Presents website posted a short while ago a listing for Of Montreal at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on December 16. Tickets go on sale on Thursday November 20 at NOON.
[image by Songbirdnest]
After recording five full sets in four nights, we have taken a few days to get over the exhaustion. We will not be out in the field until next Wednesday, and then its a fairly full schedule for the rest of the year.
The new server seems to be working quite well. The number of hits to the site this week have more than doubled since last week and we have experienced no outages and certainly no complaints. Again, please consider making a donation to nyctaper to help defray the costs of this substantial upgrade to the site.
In 2009, we plan to add new tapers and also photographers. If you are interested in a “position” in either category, please email NYCTaper. These are obviously not pay positions, but you will get guest list passes and exposure of your work to approximately 10,000 readers per day.
We expect to attend and record the following shows, subject to change. There will be dates added in the interim.
Upcoming nyctaper Events:
Hot Buttered Rum:
November 19, 2008 Sullivan Hall NYC
The Antlers:
November 20, 2008 Knitting Factory NYC
The Loom:
November 21, 2008 Cake Shop NYC
The Secret Life of Sofia / Jeremy Messersmith / Naked Hearts:
November 22, 2008 Union Hall Brooklyn
Sharon Van Etten:
November 25, 2008 Glasslands Brooklyn
Teletextile:
December 2, 2008 Cake Shop NYC
O’Death:
December 5, 2008 Bowery Ballroom NYC
Love Is All:
December 7, 2008 Bowery Ballroom NYC
Sharon Van Etten / Hurray For The Riff Raff:
December 8, 2008 Pianos NYC
The Butthole Surfers:
December 12, 2008 Warsaw Brooklyn
Oneida (and others – Oneida Fest):
December 13, 2008 Knitting Factory NYC
Yo La Tengo:
December 23, 2008 Maxwell’s NYC
Yo La Tengo:
December 27, 2008 Maxwell’s NYC
Camper Van Beethoven:
January 9 and January 10, 2009 Bowery Ballroom NYC
Animal Collective:
January 20, 2009 Manhattan Center Ballroom NYC
Grizzly Bear:
February 28, 2009 BAM Brooklyn
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