Dead Stars: September 28, 2013 Glasslands – Flac/MP3/Streaming

October 8, 2013
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[photo by PSquared Photography]

Dead Stars are one of those Brooklyn bands that have been on my radar and whose recorded output has impressed, but I’ve never actually seen live. That changed at Glasslands on Wednesday last, and Dead Stars did not disappoint. In a short and tight opening set, the band played all three songs from I Get By their 2012 EP (we’re streaming one below), a couple of songs from their recent EP High Gain (Uninhabitable Mansions), and a couple of new songs. The live Dead Stars sounds quite like Dinosaur Jr., which is certainly a good thing, and overall has a solid 90s-influenced sound. We talked to the guys briefly after the show out near their crazy tour van, and its clear that not only are these guys good, but they really like what they’re doing. That’s refreshing and welcome.

I recorded this set with our installed rig and the sound is superb. Enjoy!

Stream “Kill Me in the Summertime”:

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Dead Stars
2013-09-18
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 2013-09-21

Setlist
[Total Time 29:18]
01 Someone Else
02 I Get By
03 Leaving
04 Waste Away
05 Such A Bummer
06 Fractured
07 Kill Me in the Summertime
08 Face The Truth

If you enjoyed this recording, PLEASE SUPPORT Dead Stars, visit the their bandcamp page, and purchase their two EPs from their Bandcamp page or from Uninhabitable Mansions Records [HERE].

Oneida: October 4, 2013 Glasslands – FLAC/MP3/Streaming Full Set

October 6, 2013
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[Photos by acidjack]

An Oneida show is a fairly rare occurrence these days, an event not to be missed. Such was the case with this Friday night set at Glasslands, which found the band joined by James McNew (of Yo La Tengo and opening act Dump) to perform an unreleased 45+ minute song called “Get Brighter” (nominally an Incredible String Band cover), followed by “Sheets of Easter” to close out the set. “Sheets” reminds me of what a Bruce Nauman installation might sound like as a song, with its harsh, repetitive vocal giving it a claustrophobic feel that teeters on the edge of madness. “Get Brighter”, on the other hand, was a classic, percussive Oneida sprawl, which comprised the bulk of the set and set a new standard, perhaps, for “interpretive” covers. As always, this show both defied and exceeded expectations, cementing Oneida as one of those bands whose shows should always be a standing appointment.

I recorded this set with MBHO microphones at the stage lip, plus a soundboard feed by the Glasslands staff. The sound quality is outstanding. Enjoy!

Stream and download the full set

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Oneida
2013-10-04
Glasslands
Brooklyn, NY USA

Exclusive download hosted at nyctaper.com
Recorded and produced by acidjack

MBHO KA200N (onstage)>MBP603 + Soundboard>Roland R-26>2x24bit/48kHz WAV>Adobe Audition CS 5.5 (compression on KA200N source, mix down, fades)>Izotope Ozone 5 (EQ, effects)>Audacity 2.03 (tracking, amplify, downsample)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks
01 Get Brighter
02 [banter]
03 Sheets of Easter

If you enjoyed this recording, please support Oneida, visit their website, and purchase A List of the Burning Mountains and their other releases from Jagjaguwar [HERE]

Tom Carter: September 6, 2013 Three Lobed / WXDU Day Show, King’s (Raleigh, NC) – FLAC/MP3/Streaming

October 3, 2013
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[Photos by acidjack]

About two or three minutes into “Beauty Draws the Seed”, one of three compositions Tom Carter played at this year’s Three Lobed Recordings / WXDU Day Show during Hopscotch Music Festival, it was clear that this would be a session that would be unforgettable. I have seen Tom play several times, but this afternoon show was special — a day that every artist invited showed up with their absolute best.

Carter’s layered, carefully rendered guitar compositions start to resemble living organisms, expanding and contracting. They exist beyond words, beyond simple emotions. This was a set of profound beauty, Carter’s first solo set in North Carolina. He made it one for the ages.

These songs will be available in 2014 on releases from Three Lobed Recordings as well as an Italian label so new it doesn’t have a name yet. We are not only thankful for what Carter has accomplished to date, but what lies in front of him.

I recorded this set with a soundboard feed customized for this recording and Schoeps MK4V microphones. The sound quality is outstanding. Enjoy!

Stream “Beauty Draws the Seed”


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Tom Carter
2013-09-06
Three Lobed / WXDU Day Show
King’s
Raleigh, NC USA

Schoeps MK4V (onstage)>KC5>CMC6 + Soundboard (custom stereo mix)>Edirol R-44 [Oade Concert Mod]>2x24bit/48kHz WAV>Adobe Audition CS 5.5 (mix down, adjustments)>Izotope Ozone 5 (tube effect, EQ)>Audacity 2.03 (tracking, fades, amplify, balance, downsample)>FLAC ( level 8 )

01 [intro]
02 Beauty Draws the Seed
03 August Is All
04 Numinous

If you enjoyed these recordings, PLEASE SUPPORT Tom Carter by buying his music from Wholly Other, keeping an eye out for the forthcoming Three Lobed release in 2014, visiting the “Buy Music” links at the Tom Carter page and visiting the Tom Carter page maintained by Kranky.

The Suburbs: September 27, 2013 Mercury Lounge – Flac/MP3/Streaming

October 3, 2013
By

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[photo by Mark Hervey]

So yeah, its the Summer of 1986. About a month after I attended that legendary Replacements show about which I’ve written on this site, another one of the great 1980s Minneapolis bands played the Ritz. The Suburbs did not have the exposure of MN bands like Husker Du and The Replacements, but they were on Twin/Tone for five years or so before moving onto a major label. Love Is The Law was their first major album and it was a college radio staple for a couple of years. By the time they appeared at the Ritz in ’86 as the second of three bands opening for the Australian band The Church, the Suburbs had been together for eight years and released 4 albums and 2 EPs of their quirky glam new-wavish blue-eyed soul. And I had every single one of them on vinyl. I recall the set that night was all familiar material and since the band traveled with a horn section, the finale was “Love Is The Law”. I didn’t even stay for the “headliner”. But little did I realize on that warm summer night that it wouldn’t be for another 27 years before the Suburbs would play New York again. The band broke up in 1987 and although they’ve played multiple reunion shows over the years, all of the shows have been in Minnesota. But fate has a funny way of intervening and when the Minnesota marriage equality movement adopted “Love Is The Law” as their theme song and the Minnesota legislature legalized marriage for all, the Suburbs performed the song on the steps of the Capital with the Governor on guitar. The increased exposure seemed to give the band momentum to finish recording some new songs, and after a successful Kickstarter, the Suburbs’s first album of new material in nearly 30 years was born. If Si Sauvage is an historically unlikely album, its a remarkably good one. The Suburbs always had a quirky edge that has perhaps softened a bit, but the songcraft (and sense of humor) are as strong as ever. On Friday night the band returned to NYC and although it wasn’t 1986 all over again, the Suburbs delivered a tight one-hour set mixed between the new album and old classics. Of the older material, “Music for Boys” from 1981’s Credit in Heaven was a near perfect version and we’re streaming it below. But like the Ritz all those years ago, it was “Love Is The Law” to close the set. I suspect it won’t be another 3 decades before I see the Suburbs again.

I recorded this set with the Sennheiser cards mounted in front of the soundboard and mixed with a soundboard feed. The crowd is a little rowdy and you can hear that even in the mixdown, but overall the sound quality of this recording is superb. Enjoy!

Stream “Music For Boys”:

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Suburbs
2013-09-27
Mercury Lounge
New York, NY USA

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, set fades, downsample) > CDWave 1.95 > (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and Tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper
2013-09-28

Setlist:
[Total Time 54:41]
01 Born Under A Good Sign
02 Waiting
03 Reset The Party
04 Music For Boys
05 Dumbass Kids
06 Dish It Up
07 What’s It Like Out There
08 Turn The Radio On
09 Life Is Like
10 Rattle My Bones
11 Cows
12 [banter – cowbell]
13 Si Sauvage
14 Love Is The Law

If you enjoyed this recording, PLEASE SUPPORT The Suburbs, visit their website, and purchase Si Sauvage directly from their site [HERE].

Promised Land Sound: September 7, 2013 Paradise of Bachelors / WXYC Day Show, Hopscotch Music Festival (Raleigh, NC) – FLAC/MP3/Streaming

October 2, 2013
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[Photos by acidjack]

The young Nashville band Promised Land Sound represents a bold new move by the fledgling North Carolina label Paradise of Bachelors. It’s their first attempt to officially break a new act. And, if the quality of PLS’ live performance at the PoB/WXYC Hopscotch Music Festival Day Show is any way to gauge it, I’d say they have a good shot at succeeding. The Bachelors signed the band on a bit of a whim, having caught them as an opening act for established underground artists Wooden Wand and MV & EE at William Tyler‘s venue The Stone Fox. The band fits well into PoB’s musical vision, with a catalog that expresses a continuous line from the rock of decades ago to today’s artists. Which is to say that while PLS is new, their country-inflected barroom choogling could have lit a fire under people’s ass back when the band members’ parents were still on the prowl.

This set covered both material from their just-released debut LP, Promised Land Sound (which features Tyler as a guest performer), as well as some earlier material from their Stoned Eagle EP from 2012. The boys’ live performance emphasized the grittiness of their sound, and in many ways flattered the hands-off approach taken to the record’s production, which has a good bit of similarity to the live sound. Rocking out in the lovely Stephenson Amphitheatre in the late summer sun, I could see how the comparisons made between such luminaries as CCR, Jim Ford and Gene Clark in the press materials were more than fair. Promised Land Sound should have a lot to look forward to in the years ahead.

I recorded this set in the same manner as the other PoB Day Show recordings, with Schoeps MK4V cardiods at the stage lip and a soundboard feed. While the performance, and the quality of the capture of the instruments on stage is excellent, the PA suffered from some distortion that is evident on the recording, primarily in the vocals. With the understanding that this is a limitation of the equipment and not the band, this should be a worthwhile introduction to this up-and-coming young act. Enjoy!

Stream “Fadin’ Fast”

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Promised Land Sound
2013-09-07
Paradise of Bachelors Day Party
Louise “Scottie” Stephenson Amphitheatre
Raleigh, NC USA

Schoeps MK4V>KC5>CMC6 + Soundboard>Edirol R-44 [Oade Concert Mod]>2x24bit/48kHz WAV>Adobe Audition CS 5.5 (mix down, adjustments)>Izotope Ozone 5 (tube effect, EQ)>Audacity 2.03 (tracking, fades, amplify, balance, downsample)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks
01 [POB Intro]
02 [instrumental]
03 The Storm
04 Yes You Can
05 Weed and Wine
06 Fadin’ Fast
07 Fuck Cancer
08 If Only
09 All the Time

If you enjoyed this recording, PLEASE SUPPORT Promised Land Sound, like them on Facebook and buy Promised Land Sound from Paradise of Bachelors. Support the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s WXYC by paying them a visit as well.

Superchunk: September 27, 2013 Bowery Ballroom – Flac/MP3/Streaming

October 2, 2013
By

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[photos by PSquared Photography]

I couldn’t make the Friday night Superchunk show, as I was attending The Suburbs at Mercury (recording very soon). But fortunately, intrepid correspondent neild was there for the capture. Neil reports:

“First things first: Not to contradict our fearless leader, but Superchunk didn’t technically go on hiatus after 2001’s Here’s to Shutting Up. There were occasional shows and EPs here and there, whenever Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance could take time away from their main gig running Merge Records. But the band’s masterful 2010 CD Majesty Shredding still deserves to be ranked with the most impressive comeback albums of all time, featuring instant classics like “Digging For Something” and “Learned to Surf” that melded the band’s guitar crunch with McCaughan’s pop hookery more deftly than ever before. And this year’s I Hate Music (spoiler alert: they don’t actually) is more of the same – or rather, another step forward in the same direction, stretching the band’s boundaries while still staying true to its strengths in rocking out.

This show was the first of two nights at the Bowery Ballroom (the second is available here), and the sold-out crowd was not disappointed: From the opening clap-along bars of “This Summer” (a throwaway single release from last year that might just be their catchiest tune ever), the band was in fine form, with McCaughan bouncing around the stage for almost the entire hour and a half of music. (As my spouse, a Superchunk first-timer, remarked with understatement, “Mac sure has a lot of energy.”) With Ballance sidelined by ear problems, drummer Jon Wurster’s Bob Mould band mate Jason Narducy subbed in as a replacement, and was an excellent fit both on bass and on backing vocals. The setlist featured a spate of songs from I Hate Music, plus a selection from the band’s catalog that managed to be almost entirely different from the next night’s set; “Skip Steps 1 and 3,” “Hyper Enough,” “Rope Light,” and “Driveway to Driveway” (streaming below) were among the highlights here that didn’t reappear on Saturday.

I recorded this from the Bowery’s left balcony, which made for reduced crowd noise and a nice direct sound from the left speaker stack. It was recorded with two sets of mics, Core Sound Binaurals and Church Audio CA-14 cardioids, which were later mixed to provide optimum depth and presence.

Do not sell this under any circumstances, buy all of Superchunk’s records if you don’t have them already (did you get their 2008 EP Leaves In The Gutter? you probably believed that “hiatus” thing and missed it, didn’t you?), and by all means, do yourself a favor and go see them live when they come to your town.

(Special thanks to nitcomb for the setlist.)

Stream “Driveway to Driveway”:

Download the Complete Show [MP3] or [MP3] (off site) / [FLAC] or [FLAC] (off site)

Note: All of the material on this site is offered with artist permission, free to fans, at our expense. The only thing we ask is that you download the material directly from this site, rather than re-posting the direct links or the files on other sites without our permission. Please respect our request.

Superchunk
Bowery Ballroom, NYC
September 27, 2013

Source 1: AUD > CoreSound Binaurals > MM-EBM-1 battery box (with bass roll-off) > Line In > iRiver H320 (Rockboxed) > AIFF
Source 2: AUD > Church Audio CA-14 Cardioids > Line In > iRiver H320 (Rockboxed) > AIFF
Mixing: AIFF > Sound Studio > FLAC > XAct (for SBE and tags) > FLAC
Recorded and mastered by neil d
Extremely light dynamic compression in Sound Studio

01 intro
02 This Summer
03 FOH
04 Me and You and Jackie Mittoo
05 Learned to Surf
06 Skip Steps 1 and 3
07 Staying Home
08 Void
09 Out Of The Sun
10 Kicked In
11 Nu Bruises
12 Low F
13 Animated Airplanes Over Germany
14 Rope Light
15 Digging For Something
16 Slack Motherfucker
17 encore break
18 Tiny Bombs
19 What Do I
20 Brand New Love (Sebadoh)
21 Hyper Enough
22 encore break 2
23 Driveway To Driveway
24 The First Part

If you enjoyed this recording, PLEASE SUPPORT Superchunk, visit their website, and purchase I Hate Music directly from Merge Records [HERE].

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