nyctaper posts

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.

This just came over the wire out of Portland, OR. Mitch Mitchell, the drummer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience and currently on tour with the Experience Hendrix project died in his hotel room today. There are no further details, but this was confirmed by a local Portland paper.

Naked Hearts are one of our new favorite bands. The trio was awesome at the NYCTaper CMJ Show and their first show since that performance is tonight (November 6) at Glasslands in Williamsburg. Naked Hearts go on at 9 p.m. We won’t be able to attend this show, having purchased tickets to the Drive-By Truckers / Hold Steady show at Terminal 5 months ago.

Naked Hearts have two more NYC dates to report in the near future, as follows:
Nov 22 2008 Union Hall Brooklyn, NY
Dec 18 2008 Cake Shop

That November 22 appearance is on the same bill with Jeremy Messersmith, which we reported about earlier this week.

This one caught me a bit by surprise as it popped up on the Bowery Presents website today or yesterday. Animal Collective will appear at the Manhattan Center Ballroom on January 20, 2009. Tickets went on sale about a half hour ago. I just got one through ticketmaster, so its not sold out…yet.

This is Animal Collective’s first appearance in a full band show since September 30 / October 1, 2007 at Webster Hall. We recorded both of those sets, along with an Avey Tare / Deakin / Kria Brekkan set in January.

Jeremy Messersmith is an outstanding singer-songwriter from Minneapolis with a sweet voice and lilting melodies. His new album The Silver City is an ode to his hometown and contains a cover of “Skyway” by the Twin Cities greatest band, The Replacements. The CD was produced by Dan Wilson of Semisonic.

Jeremy begins a tour this week that begins in St. Paul and comes East. The tour includes stops at World Cafe and a session with Daytrotter.

The two NYC dates are a follows:
November 21 Pianos NYC
November 22 Union Hall Brooklyn

NYCTaper will be there to capture audio of one of the two NYC shows.

Sample a track from Jeremy Messersmith’s new CD The Silver City:
Virginia MP3 [here]

[image by Songbirdnest]

We are taking a deep breath after CMJ and catching up with the backlog. NYCTaper will resume recording shows on Thursday, with a two-for in Brooklyn. After that, its back to multiple shows a week.

Here are the shows for this week:

Thursday October 30:
Sharon Van Etten 9 p.m. at Spike Hill
O’Death 11 p.m. at Music Hall of Williamsburg

Friday October 31:
ToddP Halloween Bash at Danbro Studios, Brooklyn

Saturday November 1:
The Loom 6:30 p.m. at Mercury Lounge

And next week we’ll be attending The Hold Steady and Drive-By Truckers at Terminal 5 (two nights), The Mountain Goats and Kaki King at Webster Hall and Music Hall (two nights) and Steve Wynn & Miracle 3 at Lakeside Lounge.

And the best news of all…A NEW SERVER is coming. Stay tuned.

We don’t do photos here, just recordings. For the photos we rely on the generosity of others. On many occasions that generosity has been extended by Bryan of the excellent Subinev blog. Yesterday we had pleasure of meeting and chatting with him and bonding over our mutual admiration of one Ms. Van Etten. Bryan took some amazing photos at our show as you can see below:

Sharon Van Etten headlines the Upstairs room at Cake Shop with an entrancing and captivating set. The room was packed and the audience was quite vocal in their support. This was one of the best sets we’ve ever seen from Sharon, and was the highlight of CMJ for NYCTaper. Punkcast captured audio and video of this performance.

Bearsuit performs to an extremely vocal crowd of dancing bloggers. Perhaps the nicest and most loyal group of people we’ve ever met in the music industry, Bearsuit watched every act of the entire show and spent 4 hours of being fans before wowing everyone as performers.

More Photos at Bryan’s Flickr Page [here].

The Music Slut have become our friends since we partied together at the After The Jump Fest in June. After their excellent CMJ Show on Tuesday, Matt spent a lot of time at our show and captured some excellent photos.

Bridges and Powerlines perform their infectious melodic pop downstairs. We overheard “I loved that last song” (it was Uncalibrated) as the crowd filtered upstairs after the set.

Check out more of Matt’s CMJ Day 3 Photos [here] and [here].

MUCH MORE TO COME.

Impose | e4e1 present:
2-stage T.G.I.T fest
P&L celebrate the release of their new record on jagjaguwar

12am: double dagger [baltimore]
11:30pm: the coathangers [atlanta]
11pm: parts & labor [record release!!]
10:30pm: flying [tour kickoff!!]
10pm: rahim
9:30pm: boo and boo too [lawrence, KS]
9pm: dinowalrus
8:30pm: fiasco
8pm: pwrfl power
7:30pm: pictureplane [denver, CO]
7pm: BDRMPPL [denver, CO]
6:30pm: scary mansion
6pm: air waves

$5
TUESDAY october 21 – death by audio
49 s 2nd st btw kent & wythe
doors at 5, show at 6
L to Bedford
-or-
JMZ to Marcy
-or-
G to Broadway

In 7 days, Bridges and Powerlines will perform at the NYCTaper CMJ Showcase at Cake Shop — Thursday October 23 at 4 p.m. Its no secret that here at NYCTaper we are big fans of Bridges and Powerlines. They played at the NYCTaper Anniversary Concert in May, and we have featured recordings of Bridges and Powerlines here three times — at Pianos in May, Cake Shop in May, and the After the Jump Fest in June.

We are also big fans of the Pop Tarts Suck Toasted blog, one of the best sites for NYC music news and reviews on the web. Today, as a preview to their appearance at the Pop Tarts CMJ Show, PTST interviewed Bridges and Powerlines [here].

NYCTaper recorded the entire show last night — almost 2 hours of Of Montreal and 40 minutes of Love is All. It was an amazing and spectacular show, and we have much to report. The complete recording will be posted on Monday. We will have some nice photos too.

In the meantime, here is the setlist:

of Montreal
2008-10-10
Roseland Ballroom
New York, NY USA

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:47:25]
01 Introduction
02 Id Engager
03 So Begins Our Alabee
04 Triphallus, To Punctuate!
05 She’s a Rejecter
06 For Our Elegant Caste
07 Touched Something’s Hollow
08 An Eluardian Instance
09 Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse
10 Gallery Piece
11 Wraith Pinned To The Mist (And Other Games)
12 Women’s Studies Victims
13 St. Exquisite Confessions
14 Eros’ Entropic Tundra
15 Nonpareil Of Favor
16 October is Eternal
17 Wicked Wisdom
18 Disconnect the Dots
19 And I’ve Seen A Bloody Shadow
20 Plastis Wafers
21 Beware Our Nubile Miscreants
22 Mingusings
23 A Sentence Of Sorts In Kongsvinger
24 [encore break]
25 Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)*
26 Gronlandic Edit

*with Andrew VanWyngarden (MGMT)