Our friends over at the Music Slut blog are hosting a concert at Pianos on Saturday June 14th to celebrate the 3rd Anniversary of the site. The event includes four bands, including headliners Drink Up Buttercup who recently killed at Cake Shop.
There is more information at the MusicSlut MySpace page and at the Pianos website.
Well, I guess we’re overdue for an update. The site has posted so much news lately, that the last update was buried four pages back. We have added quite a few shows, to the point where we’ll be out recording at least fifteen concerts in June alone. Death Cab won the battle of June 10th because a generous reader mailed us a ticket. Oneida was removed from June 13/14 because the Kitchen has denied taping permission, but fortunately we have permission to record Oneida at the ToddP outdoor event on July 12. In terms of the Rooftop Film series events, we are still waiting for permission from the show producers.
Unconfirmed dates are indicated with asterisks (**).
Upcoming nyctaper Events:
Fever Marlene:
June 5, 2008, Pianos NYC
Dirty on Purpose:**
June 6, 2008, Rooftop Film Series NYC (8 p.m.)
Sharon Van Etten:
June 6, 2008, Pianos NYC (12 a.m.)
Death Cab for Cutie:
June 10, 2008, McCarren Pool, Brooklyn, NY
Love is All:
June 12, 2008, Cake Shop, NYC NYC Popfest
Oh! Custer:
June 12, 2008, Cake Shop, NYC NYC Popfest
Ladybug Transistor:
June 14, 2008, Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY
moe.:
June 15, 2008, Governor’s Island, NYC
Sigur Ros:
June 16, 2008, Manhattan Center Grand Ballroom, NYC
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey:
June 20, 2008, Sullivan Hall, NYC
After The Jump Fest:
June 21, 2008, Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY
Marco Benevento Trio:
June 24, 2008, JVC Jazz Festival, Le Poisson Rouge, NYC
Sharon Van Etten:
June 25, 2008, Zebulon, Brooklyn
Devo:
June 26, 2008, McCarren Pool, Brooklyn, NY
The Hold Steady:
June 29, 2008, McCarren Park Pool, Brooklyn, NY
The Feelies:**
July 1, 2008, Maxwell’s, Hoboken NJ
Oneida (and others):
July 12, 2008, Unannounced Outdoor Venue, Brooklyn, NY
Fiery Furnaces:
July 17, 2008, East River Park NYC
and/or:
Ted Leo:
July 17, 2008, Castle Clinton NYC
Mark Knopfler:
July 23, 2008, Central Park Summerstage, NYC
Steve Wynn:
July 25, 2008, Maxwell’s, Hoboken NJ
Bon Iver:**
July 29, 2008, Bowery Ballroom NYC
-or-
July 30, 2008, Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
Old 97s:
August 1, 2008, Webster Hall NYC
The National:
August 4, 2008, Central Park Summerstage
My Bloody Valentine:**
September 23, 2008, Roseland Ballroom, NYC
Built to Spill/Dinosaur Jr./Meat Puppets:
September 26, 2008, Terminal 5 NYC
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At Antietam’s Brooklyn Public Library performance this afternoon, Ira Kaplan from Yo La Tengo sat in for the entire set on keyboards.
Due to the torrential rain, the performance originally scheduled for the steps of the library was moved indoor to the auditorium. Unfortunately, we were unable to attend, but according to the Antietam MySpace blog, there is video of the performance. Joly?
Bridges and Powerlines performed another excellent set last night at Cake Shop. Their set consisted of five tracks from the new CD Ghost Types, one from the debut EP, and two unreleased numbers. As the early slot in a four-band bill, the late start of the set exposed the band to new fans but also meant that some people who came to see other bands chatted throughout the set.
Some of that is evident on this recording — captured from the middle of the floor section of the venue. In the end, the crowd noise is less evident than we had feared and we feel that this recording represents Bridges and Powerlines in a better light than the dry soundboard recording from the nyctaper Anniversary Concert. Enjoy!
Direct download of MP3 files (HERE)
Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].
Bridges and Powerlines
2008-05-30
Cake Shop
New York, NY USA
Digital Master Recording
Recorded from Front of Board
30 Feet from Stage
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 by
nyctaper
nyctaper@nyctaper.com
2008-05-31
Setlist:
[total time 32:08]
01 The Thieves They Are Everywhere
02 The Knave
03 Middle Child
04 The Cave-In
05 Carmen
06 The Great Fire
07 Uncalibrated
08 The Golden Age
If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Bridges and Powerlines, visit their website, visit their MySpace page, and purchase the new CD Ghost Types directly from the Citybird records webpage.
Athens Georgia is perhaps the smallest US city to generate the greatest collection of outstanding bands in the history of US music. In the late 70s, the Athens scene brought REM, Pylon, B-52s, Swimming Pool Q’s and Love Tractor, and in the 90s, of Montreal, Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel and the entire Elephant Six group of bands made their mark. These days, such bands as Drive-By Truckers, The Whigs and Dead Confederate rule the roost.
Last night Dead Confederate came to the big city and performed a smoldering set at a packed Pianos. The setlist included only two songs from the debut 2007 EP release, but as we learned at Ear Farm, the band has begun the recording of a new full-length album, and five of the tracks performed last night will appear on that release.
We recorded from our prime location at this venue, in front of the soundboard with our microphones pointed directly at the PA stacks from 30 feet. The volume at the venue was quite elevated, so that we saw some peaks but the Neumann/Apogee combination handled the driven levels with clarity and no distortion whatsoever. The result is a crystal clear recording of a superb band. Enjoy!
This recording is now available for Download in FLAC or MP3 at Archive.org [HERE].
Dead Confederate
2008-05-29
Pianos
New York, NY USA
Digital Master Recording
Recorded from Front of Board
30 Feet from Stage
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 by
nyctaper
nyctaper@nyctaper.com
2008-05-30
Setlist:
[total time 49:10]
01 The Rat
02 Yer Circus
03 Heavy Petting
04 It Was a Rose
05 Flesh
06 All the Angels
07 Tortured Artist Saint
If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Dead Confederate, visit their MySpace page, and purchase their debut EP Dead Confederate
One of our favorite albums from 2007 is Civil War from Milwaukee’s Fever Marlene. Since that time they have released another album White China on Rev Pop Records, which was recorded on location at the Chelsea Hotel.
We have been waiting since October for Fever Marlene to return to NYC and today it was announced that they will appear here for two dates in June.
Here is the information:
Fever Marlene
When: June 5
Where: Pianos
158 Ludlow Street [MAP]
Time: 11 p.m.
When: June 6
Where: The National Underground
159 East Houston Street [MAP]
Time: 10 p.m.
Sample Two MP3s:
Fever Marlene: We Are All Colors MP3 (from Civil War)
Fever Marlene: Oh Berlin MP3 (from White China)
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