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The National August 4, 2008 Summerstage – Flac and MP3 Downloads

August 5, 2008
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One night after their excellent gig at Lollapalooza in Chicago, and one day before they will fly to Norway to begin a tour of Europe, The National made a pit stop in the middle of New York City and performed an outstanding set at Central Park Summerstage tonight. Despite all the travel, the show was quite energetic from the start, as “Brainy” and “Secret Meeting” set the tone for a 90-minute set of The National at full power. The middle of the set featured some rare nuggets, including “The Geese Of Beverly Road”, and the set closing was top notch. Matt Berninger was so over the top during “Mr. November” that he pulled his microphone cord out of the jack more than once. The band seemed to be enjoying themselves and expressed disappointment that the set was over at the curfew.

We recorded from the perfect location at Summerstage with our best mobile rig. We thought we had captured an outstanding sound quality performance of The National at BAM in February, but frankly this recording is a significant improvement even over that excellent recording. We “nailed it” tonight. Enjoy!

This Recording is now available for Download in FLAC and MP3 at Archive.org [HERE].

The National
2008-08-04
Rumsey Playfield
Central Park
New York, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Recorded from Front of Board Center
30 Feet From Stage (“Sweet Spot”)

DPA 4021’s > Marantz PMD-660 (Oade BCM) > 16bit 44.1 wav > Soundforge (set fades, level adjustment, slight eq) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac

Recorded and Produced by
nyctaper 2008-08-04

Setlist:
[total time 1:31:11]
01 [Flume introduction]
02 Brainy
03 Secret Meeting
04 Baby We’ll Be Fine
05 Slow Show
06 Squalor Victoria
07 You’ve Done It Again, Virginia
08 Abel
09 The Geese Of Beverly Road
10 Ada
11 All The Wine
12 Daughters Of The SoHo Riots
13 Apartment Story
14 Green Gloves
15 Mistaken For Strangers
16 Fake Empire
17 [encore break]
18 Start A War
19 Karen
20 Mr. November
21 [band introductions]
22 About Today

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Fiasco June 21, 2008 After the Jump Fest – Flac and MP3 Downloads + Show Tomorrow and Tour

August 4, 2008
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Fiasco are young, bold, and on the move. In May, the proto-punk/speed-metal kids from Brooklyn signed with Impose Records, in June they headlined the Galapagos stage at After The Jump Fest, this week they are running away with the voting for Deli Magazine band of the month, in August they will tour the East Coast in support of their upcoming release, Native Canadians, which drops this October, and on October 24 Fiasco will play the Panache CMJ showcase at Knitting Factory. Tomorrow night, Tuesday August 5, the Fiasco tour kicks off with a gig at the Market Hotel.

Back in June, we recorded a small portion of the Fiasco set at After the Jump. We offer this ten minute portion to give readers a taste of the intensity of this excellent band. This recording was captured with the same rig as all previous bands from this stage. Enjoy!

After The Jump is a charitable organization of NYC music bloggers who donate all proceeds of their events to the advancement of music in NYC schools. nyctaper requests that if you download this recording, that you support this cause. Selected tracks from the recordings to be featured on this site from the ATJ Festival will be produced into a compilation, with all proceeds being donated to the music programs in NYC schools. When the compilation becomes available, all nyctaper readers who downloaded ATJ sets will be expected to purchase the release.

Direct download of MP3 files (HERE)

Download this Partial set in FLAC [HERE].

Fiasco
2008-06-21
Galapagos Main Stage
After The Jump Festival
Brooklyn, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard/Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Front of Board Neumann KM-150s > Edirol UA-5 (Oade Digimod) > digital coaxial > M-Audio Microtrack 24/96 > 16bit 44.1kHz wav file > Soundforge (set fades, level adjustments) > CD Wave 1.95 > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac

Recorded and Produced by nyctaper
2008-08-03

[total time 09:37]
Partial Set – 5 Tracks

Fiasco August Tour Dates:
Aug 05 – Market Hotel / Brooklyn [w/ Ninjasonik, The Homosexuals, Pony Pants]
Aug 06 – International Waters / Philadelphia [w/ Pony Pants]
Aug 07 – The Talking Head / Baltimore [w/Eyeball Skeleton, Smarts]
Aug 08 – Comet Pizza and Ping Pong [w/ The Apes, Double Dagger!], Washington DC
Aug 09 – AD Lib / Lancaster, Pa. [w/ DEERHUNTER, Times New Viking, Hot Guts]
Aug 10 – O’Reilly Club Parking Lot / Springfield, MA [w/ Bat Attack & American Business Machines]
Aug 11 – AS220 / Providence, RI [w/ The Brown Book & Bat Attack]
Aug 12 – House party / Boston, MA
Aug 13 – The Bakery / Burlington, VT [w/ Bat Attack + more tba!]
Aug 14 – Daniel St Club / Milford, CT [w/ PANTHER & Digital Leather]
Aug 15 – Silent Barn / Brooklyn [w/ Future Islands, EAR PWR, more]

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Fiasco, visit their MySpace page, and purchase Native Canadians when it is released in October.

Yo La Tengo – Two Upcoming Local Gigs

August 3, 2008
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The New York Times scooped the blogs late last week when they reported that Yo La Tengo will perform the final “Pool Party” at the McCarren Pool on August 24. This gig appeared on the Yo La Tengo tour page yesterday.

Today a new gig appeared on the Maxwell’s page.  On Friday, September 5, Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley (2/3 of YLT) will perform at Maxwell’s.  While technically not a specific YLT gig, this event is a benefit for Terry Karydes who played bass long ago for YLT, but is better known for her work with The Schramms. The benefit also features Glenn Mercer of the Feelies, Dave Schramm and drummer Dave Metz (Human Switchboard, Schramms).

We are in the process of obtaining permission for nyctaper recordings of both of these gigs. Stay tuned.

The Forms June 21, 2008 After The Jump Fest – Flac and MP3 Downloads

August 2, 2008
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The Forms unique melodic post-shoegaze songs translate well in an outdoor Summer setting. Their performance at the After The Jump Festival in June was well received but unfortunately, they had to split the audience with the concurrent amazing indoor performance by Ponytail. When we last saw and recorded The Forms it was last Summer in an opening slot for The National in the rain at the Seaport. The setlist at After the Jump was primarily material from their excellent Fall of 2007 release of The Forms (Rebel Music), and the band appeared more mature and confident than last year.

We recorded this set from the identical location and equipment as the Pela recording. The quality is quite excellent. Enjoy!

After The Jump is a charitable organization of NYC music bloggers who donate all proceeds of their events to the advancement of music in NYC schools. nyctaper requests that if you download this recording, that you support this cause. Selected tracks from the recordings to be featured on this site from the ATJ Festival will be produced into a compilation, with all proceeds being donated to the music programs in NYC schools. When the compilation becomes available, all nyctaper readers who downloaded ATJ sets will be expected to purchase the release.

Direct download of MP3 files (HERE)

Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].

The Forms
2008-06-21
After the Jump Festival
Main Stage (on N. 6th Street)
New York, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Recorded from in Front of Soundboard Booth

Neumann KM-150s (AK-50 Hypercardiod Capsules) > Monster XLR cables > Apogee Minime > digital coaxial > M-Audio Microtrack > 16bit 44.1kHz wav file > Soundforge 8.0 (set fades, slight level adjustments) > CD Wave 1.95 > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac

Recorded and Produced by nyctaper
2008-07-31

Setlist:
[Total time 30:54]
01 Alpha
02 Red Gun
03 Focus
04 Bones
05 Stravinsky
06 Sunday
07 Transmission
08 Blue Whale
09 Classical

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT The Forms, visit their website, visit their MySpace page, and purchase their official releases from links at their MySpace page.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band – Final (Ever?) Bow to New Jersey

August 2, 2008
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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band closed their three-night stand at Giants Stadium with a show for the ages, and one which by all inside accounts may be the final appearance of this legendary unit in its home state. The band performed for nearly three and a half hours, and closed the evening at 1 a.m. with a crowd favorite from the early years, “Rosalita”.

The death of original E-Street keyboardist Danny Federici, the age and fragile health of sax player Clarence Clemons, and the impending move of drummer Max Weinberg to LA to join Conan O’Brien’s Tonight Show have all led to the unmistakable conclusion that this is the final tour for the E Street Band. Thursday night’s performance was the final New Jersey night on the tour.

When we saw Springsteen in the Fall of 2007 and this past Spring, the setlists were still quite heavy in Magic material. Last night, as he has all Summer, Bruce collected placards of song requests from the front seating area. While the sign “collection” did take some of the momentum from the performance, these requests yielded some rare nuggets, including “Blinded By The Light”, “Candy’s Room” and “Incident on 57th Street”, along with Bruce’s own selection of the third-ever performance of “Pretty Flamingo”.

Ultimately, there was little reference in the songs or the banter to historical relevance of the evening, other than Bruce’s apparent emotional response near the end of the “Jungleland” — and of course the sheer length of this concert.

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
2008-07-31
Giants Stadium
East Rutherford, NJ USA

Setlist:
[Total Time 3:14:42]
01 Summertime Blues
02 Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
03 Radio Nowhere
04 Prove It All Night
05 Two Hearts
06 The Promised Land
07 Spirit In The Night
08 Light Of Day
09 Brilliant Disguise
10 Pretty Flamingo
11 Blinded By The Light
12 Cadillac Ranch
13 Candy’s Room
14 Night
15 Because the Night
16 She’s the One
17 Livin’ in the Future
18 Mary’s Place
19 Incident on 57th Street
20 The Rising
21 Last to Die
22 Long Walk Home
23 Badlands
24 [encore break]
25 Jungleland
26 Born to Run
27 Bobby Jean
28 Dancing in the Dark
29 American Land
30 Jersey Girl
31 Rosalita

A recording of this concert may be found at the dimeadozen website [here].

List of All Available nyctaper Recordings – 2008 Posts (Part 2)

July 31, 2008
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All 2007 Recordings Listed [HERE]
Part 1 of 2008 Recordings (January through June 13) Listed [HERE]

Alphabetical List of All Available Recordings at NYCTAPER.COM
(Click on Title for location):
Posted in 2008, Part 2 (posted since June 13, 2008) (28 Recordings):

Antietam May 31, 2008
Bell June 21, 2008
Bloodsugars June 21, 2008
Bridges and Powerlines June 21, 2008
Brilliant Sweaters June 21, 2008
Deer Tick June 10, 2008
Deer Tick June 20, 2008
Devo Jun 26, 2008
Feelies July 1, 2008
Feelies July 4, 2008
Fiery Furnaces July 17, 2008
Freedy Johnston June 15, 1997
Freedy Johnston July 25, 2008
Health June 21, 2008
High Places July 2, 2008
Ladybug Transistor June 14, 2008
Marco Benevento Trio June 24, 2008
Mark Knopfler July 23, 2008
Matmos July 18, 2008
Oh Custer! June 12, 2008
Pela June 21, 2008
Ponytail June 21, 2008
Ponytail July 13, 2008
Sharon Van Etten June 25, 2008
Sigur Ros June 16, 2008
Stephen Malkmus July 19, 2008
Steve Wynn July 25, 2008
Tom Tom Club June 26, 2008

Fiery Furnaces – Remember (Live Album) Due on August 19 – Free MP3

July 30, 2008
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We reported a couple of months ago that nyctaper recordings were used for some of the sections of the new Fiery Furnaces live album Remember. When we spoke to Matt Friedberger after we recorded the Furnaces at East River Park a couple of weeks ago, he confirmed that nyctaper recording were on the record in at least 3 spots, and also that we were thanked in the liner notes. Thrill Jockey Records confirms that we are on the liner notes by name.

The 2-CD / 3-LP release is due in stores on August 19. All merch copies were sold out before the Furnaces arrived back in NYC, but we expect our copy in the mail any day. In the mean time, Thrill Jockey has released a sample MP3 from the release. The sample track sounds like a multitrack soundboard recording.

Download:
Fiery Furnaces – Wicker Whatnots (Remember CD) MP3

Freedy Johnston Announces 7 Week Residency at The Living Room

July 30, 2008
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Fresh off the outstanding performance of his classic Can You Fly at Maxwell’s, Freedy Johnston announced on his website today that he will appear on following dates over the next two months at The Living Room (154 Ludlow Street) in Manhattan:

August 12th- The Living Room – New York, NY
August 19th- The Living Room – New York, NY
August 26th- The Living Room – New York, NY
September 3rd- The Living Room – New York, NY
September 10th- The Living Room – New York, NY
September 17th- The Living Room – New York, NY
September 24th- The Living Room – New York, NY

As The Living Room has its own in-house recording system, and an exclusive contract with XM Satellite Radio, its unclear whether nyctaper will be permitted by the venue to capture any of these performances. We will post any updates.

Carla Bozulich and Evangelista – Summer Tour Dates and “Experience Experiment”

July 30, 2008
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Carla Bozulich‘s Evangelista have announced a bunch of Summer US dates on their tour page, including an August 28 show at Bowery Ballroom opening for Xiu Xiu. As our previously scheduled August 28 recording date has been canceled, we expect to capture this set.

The more interesting part of Carla’s Summer tour announcement is the “Experience Experiment”, contained at the bottom of the tour page:

For the cost of us traveling plus $100 for each bandmember, Carla Bozulich’s Evangelista will play for at least an hour at your birthday party, graduation,funeral, going away party, existential malaise, excorcism, body aches, muscle soreness, clean/sober birthday or anniversary celebration, decapitation, wedding, art opening and closings, dance party, magazine, store or yaught launchings, cult-removal, viking funerals, removal of orthodontic contraptions and/or root canal, chili cook-off, catcentrics, batmitzvah, pet lizard funeral, et cetera.

And to make it more enticing:

included in this fee we will also:
1. write a song expecially for you and your friends.
2. arrange and perform any one cover song of your choosing, or any request from back catalog
3.give you one mix-tape made just for you from EACH BANDMEMBER.
[etc]

Feelies – Two NYC Shows Announced Today

July 29, 2008
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As we informed our readers last week, The Feelies will perform again in NYC this Fall. Today it was announced that The Feelies will play Music Hall of Williamsburg on September 20, and Bowery Ballroom on September 21. Tickets for both of these concerts go on sale on Friday August 1.

Our recording of the Feelies reunion at Maxwell’s and our correspondent recording at Battery Park have been two of the more popular downloads in recent months at nyctaper, and the download requests include two from members of the band! We hope to again capture this legendary band’s return to performance in September.

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