NYCTaper Upcoming Schedule: Fall 2013

August 14, 2013
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Its been an interesting Summer here at NYCTaper. We’ve had some great experiences both locally and on the road, but also the bittersweet experience of the last excellent month of Maxwell’s followed by its untimely closing. The Wilco all-covers set was certainly a benchmark for the site, as we received links web-wide and something like 20,000 downloads. This Fall we’ll continue on with a strong schedule of shows with both new bands to the site and some old favorites.

[Caveat: Below is the updated schedule. We expect to attend and record these events. However, circumstances will prevent some of these from being done, and others will be added in the meantime.]

If you want nyctaper to record your band, a band you represent, a show you’re promoting, or even your favorite band in the world, get us in the door and make sure everyone who needs to approve of the recording gives permission. Also, remember each person on the nyctaper crew does this all for free, the recordings, the post-production, the reviews, the links, etc., so treat us fairly.

Schedule:

Pop 1280:
August 16, 2013 Mercury Lounge NYC

Daughn Gibson / Hiss Golden Messenger:
August 17, 2013 Glasslands Gallery Brooklyn

Ski Lodge:
August 20, 2013 Glasslands Gallery Brooklyn (permission pending)

Mac DeMarco:
August 28, 2013 East River Park NYC

Ty Segall:
August 29, 2013 Music Hall of Williamsburg

She Keeps Bees:
August 29, 2013 Glasslands Gallery Brooklyn

Ty Segall:
August 30, 2013 Bowery Ballroom NYC

Captured Tracks Festival:
August 31 and September 1, 2013 The Well Brooklyn

Swearin:
September 4, 2013 285 Kent Brooklyn

Hopscotch Festival:
September 5-7, 2013 Various Venues Raleigh NC

North Mississippi Allstars:
September 11, 2013 Irving Plaza NYC

Deervana:
September 13, 2013 Brooklyn Bowl

Waxahatchee / Screaming Females:
September 16, 2013 Bowery Ballroom NYC

Obits / Prince Rupert’s Drops:
September 21, 2013 Bell House Brooklyn

Lady Lamb the Beekeeper:
September 22, 2013 Glasslands Gallery Brooklyn

The Suburbs:
September 27, 2013 Mercury Lounge NYC

Superchunk:
September 27 and 28, 2013 Bowery Ballroom NYC [permission pending]

Dent May:
October 3, 2013 285 Kent Brooklyn

Oneida / Dump:
October 4, 2013 Glasslands Gallery Brooklyn

Meat Puppets:
October 12, 2013 Brooklyn Bowl

Hawkwind:
October 13, 2013 Gramercy Theatre NYC [very tentative]

NYCTaper CMJ Day Party:
October 17, 2013 Cake Shop NYC

Lee Ranaldo:
October 25, 2013 Bell House Brooklyn

Matt Nathanson:
October 30, 2013 Terminal 5 NYC

Sebadoh:
November 1, 2013 Bowery Ballroom NYC

Spirit Family Reunion / Hurray For The Riff Raff:
November 2, 2013 Music Hall of Williamsburg Brooklyn

John Vanderslice:
November 5, 2013 Mercury Lounge NYC

Built to Spill:
November 7, 2013 Irving Plaza NYC

Lucero / Titus Andronicus:
November 8, 2013 Terminal 5 NYC

Kevin Devine:
November 22, 2013 Webster Hall NYC

The Love Language: August 1, 2013 Glasslands – FLAC/MP3/Streaming

August 13, 2013
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[Photos by acidjack]

The Raleigh, NC band The Love Language just released its third record, Ruby Red, but in some ways it feels like a debut. Frontman Stuart McLamb delivered his first album under this moniker in 2009; the band’s Merge Records debut was a similarly insular affair. Both Ruby Red and the band’s live show represent a vision blown wide open. Two years in the making, the record gave McLamb all the tools he needed to make the pop-driven, big-room-filling style of rock that he was born to make.

This show at Glasslands fulfilled the promise of the record in every way, with one big number after another making the case for a band on its way to the next level. McLamb’s songs manage to toe that narrow line between earnestness and bombast without over delivering either. Ruby Red itself is a high-gloss production that features a cast of twenty musicians, grand flourishes and ear-pleasing micro-details. The live show, with a touring cast of five, felt comparatively stripped down, but it gave the songs the chance to prove themselves. The Love Language came across as a hungry, tightly-rehearsed unit, delivering tracks like the album opener “Calm Down” with a sense of purpose and poise. Taking full advantage of every second they had before the usual 11:30 p.m. switchover to dance music in this venue, the band played homage to a now-classic New York band with The Strokes’ “The Modern Age”. In that context, not to mention the choice of city, covering the last band tasked with “saving” rock felt right. I won’t freight The Love Language or Ruby Red with that baggage, but for those still looking for new rock music that excites them, they’re a find.

I recorded this set with our usual combination in the venue of Naiant X-R microphones and a soundboard feed from house engineer Josh Thiel. As the band’s very loud guitar amps were not run through the board mix, this mix leans more heavily on the audience mics than normal, and is slightly lower in quality than the absolute best of our Glasslands recordings. That said, it’s still more than worth checking out. Enjoy!

The Love Language is currently touring the Southeast, Midwest and West Coast. Click here for tour dates.

Stream “The Modern Age [The Strokes]”

Stream “Calm Down”

Download the complete show [MP3] | [FLAC]  

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The Love Language
2013-08-01
Glasslands
Brooklyn, NY USA

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

Naiant X-R (cardiod, DFC, ORTFish)+Soundboard (engineer: Josh Thiel)>Roland R-26>2x24bit/48kHz WAV>Adobe Audition CS 5.5 (align, mix down)>Izotope Ozone 5 (EQ, effects)>Audacity 2.03 (fades, tracking, amplify, balance, downsample, dither)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks
01 Kids
02 Hi Life
03 On Our Heels
04 For Izzy
05 [banter1]
06 Providence
07 Heart To Tell
08 First Shot
09 Golden Age
10 Sparxxx
11 [banter2]
12 Manteo
13 Faithbreaker
14 Gray Court
15 Pilot Light
16 [banter3]
17 Calm Down
18 [encore break]
19 The Modern Age [The Strokes]
20 Lalita
21 This Room

If you enjoyed this recording, please support The Love Language, visit their website, and buy Ruby Red from Merge Records [HERE].

Amanda Palmer: August 9, 2013 Damrosch Park Lincoln Center – Flac/MP3/Streaming

August 11, 2013
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On the final weekend of Lincoln Center’s “Out Of Doors” Summer concert series, Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra brought their “punk cabaret” for a free show in a public park that was packed with all manner of folks. There were young parents with toddlers, teenage kids, older couples, and oddballs of all sorts — devoted fans and curiosity seekers all the same. Damrosch Park was packed and it remained so throughout the supremely entertaining show and spectacle that is an Amanda Palmer concert. We were treated to Grand Theft standards, a semi-surprise appearance of Amanda’s old partner in the Dresden Dolls Brian Viglione, a mid-show ukelele solo set, a Nirvana cover, and an all-guests-on-stage finale (“Leeds United”) that filled the huge stage to capacity. At the center of it all was Palmer, who amongst the agenda-driven is derided as a polarizing figure, but on this night received nothing but adoration, particularly from the rabid screaming standing-room-only crowd upfront. I make no secret of my personal admiration for Amanda’s personality, performance-style, and in the case of her May show at Bowery, her extreme generosity. Regardless of varied opinions, there’s no denying that Amanda is a stellar entertainer and given the positive reaction of a true cross-section of the NYC population that attended this entire free show, her reach is perhaps greater than perhaps previously believed. That reach will include tours of Australia and Europe throughout the Fall of 2013, tour dates here.

To say I am disappointed in my own performance on this night would be an understatement. Due to some bad decisions on my part, not the least of which was setting up way too far back, this recording falls well below the usual standards of this site. The distance, the elements, and the outdoor noise all conspired to create a recording that sounds very much like an outdoor stadium show made with inferior equipment. The details are that I ran the Sennheiser cards from directly in front of the soundboard about 200 feet from the stage. The samples will give you an idea of the best of this recording. Caveat listener, but otherwise enjoy!

Stream “The Killing Type”:

Stream “Smell Like Teen Spirit” (Nirvana cover):

Download the Complete show [MP3] / [FLAC]

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Amanda Palmer
and the Grand Theft Orchestra
2013-08-09
Lincoln Center Out of Doors
Damrosch Park
New York, NY USA

Digital Master Audience Recording

Sennheiser MKH-8040 Cardioids > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 24bit 48kHz wav file > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper 2013-08-11

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:14:24]
01 A Grand Theft Intermission
02 Do It With a Rockstar
03 The Killing Type
04 [band introduction – Brian intro]
05 Missed Me
06 Want It Back
07 Astronaut: A Short History Of Nearly Nothing
08 Smells Like Teen Spirit [Nirvana]
09 [banter – magic word]
10 Map Of Tasmania
11 [banter – Gaga intro]
12 Gaga Palmer Madonna
13 Bigger On The Inside
14 Lost
15 [banter – thank you]
16 Leeds United
17 [encore break]
18 Ukelele Anthem

If you download this recording from NYCTaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Amanda Palmer, visit her website, and visit the Shop at her website [HERE].

Walking Shapes: May 15, 2013 Glasslands – FLAC/MP3/Streaming

August 8, 2013
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When the opening band has as big or an even bigger crowd than the headliner, it’s often a clue that they’re on their way up. So it went for this Walking Shapes show at Glasslands, where even on the earlier side the club had a packed house — and for a band that didn’t have a single record out. Now, they do — the Brooklyn band released their Mix Tape (Vol. 1) in increments throughout July, and now the full LP is available free from No Shame Records and on their bandcamp page. (It’s also on Spotify as well). The band’s sound on record shares some of the nostalgic glaze that’s made Foxygen such a hit this year, with an equal nod to some of the better moments of the Britpop sound that ruled the mid-90s.

Which is all to say that Walking Shapes are a very accessible band; this is music for the masses, nothing obtuse about it. Listen to the big-chorus-driven “Keep”, for example, and imagine how that song could possibly not make it on the radio. For that reason, the band’s live show seemed almost incongruous with the intimate Glasslands setting. As they played song after song of big-tent, bombastic rock, I kept feeling like I ought to be in Terminal 5. Musically tight, well-rehearsed and armed with heart-on-your-sleeve lyrics to go with it, I wouldn’t be shocked to see them get there.

I recorded this set in the same manner as the other recording from this night, with a pair of Naiant X-X omnidirectional mics split at the stage lip, our installed Naiant X-R mics in the audience and a soundboard feed by Glasslands engineer Jeremy. Owing to Jeremy’s extremely tight mix plus the additional pair of mics, this is a truly outstanding recording. Enjoy!

Walking Shapes play the Knitting Factory on September 3 with Seasick Mama. Get your tickets [HERE]

Stream “Pusher”

Download the Complete show [MP3] | [FLAC]  

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.

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Walking Shapes
2013-05-15
Glasslands
Brooklyn, NY USA

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

[Naiant X-X (split omni, ROC stagelip, 3ft split) + Soundboard (engineer: Jeremy)>Edirol R-44 [OCM]] + [Naiant X-R (cardiod, DFC, ORTFish)>Sound Devices USBPre2 (clock sync to R-44)>Sony PCM-D50]>6x24bit/48kHz WAV>Adobe Audition CS 5.5 (align, mix down)>Izotope Ozone 5 (EQ, tube effect)>Audacity 3.0 (fades, tracking, amplify, balance, light parallel compression, tagging, downsample)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks
01 Zombies
02 Pusher
03 Mechanical Arms
04 Keep
05 Elle Deadsex
06 Waves (XYZ)
07 Measure for Measure
08 Horse

If you enjoyed this recording, PLEASE SUPPORT Walking Shapes, like them on facebook, and buy Mixtape (Vol. 1) from No Shame [HERE]

Hurray For The Riff Raff: August 1, 2013 Knitting Factory – Flac/MP3/Streaming

August 7, 2013
By

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[photo courtesy of Sean Rowe]

Hurray For The Riff Raff is one of those rare bands that seem to be even better every new time you see them. We were amazed at their growth when we saw them twice last summer. Those two shows are on constant play in my listening rotation and I expect to add last Thursday’s show at Knitting Factory to the mix. Fresh off what Alynda Lee called their “magical tour”, which included an appearance at the Newport Folk Festival and a leg of the tour opening for the Alabama Shakes in large venues, the Knit show was a band at its peak having fun and playing a varied setlist. We’ve spoken in previous posts about the brilliant 2012 release Look Out Mama, definitely a sleeper for those disconnected with today’s Americana music but a unanimous best-of for those who were paying attention. Hurray For The Riff are currently working on a new album which is expected in the Fall and the Knit show also saw the performance of what we believe were nine new songs that will eventually see release on that new record. Of those new songs, we’d heard a few at prior shows, including “Small Town Heroes”. But this particular version of Small Town Heroes was so intense and awe inspiring that we have to stream it below.

Hurray For The Riff Raff will perform a free show in Lincoln Center at Hearst Plaza on Saturday August 10 at 1:30 pm. HFTRR will return for a full show in the Fall, venue and date to be announced by the band later today (along with full tour news).

I recorded this set with the Sennheiser cards on a stand at the front corner of the soundboard and mixed with an excellent feed provided by the Knit’s FOH Rob. The sound quality is superb. Enjoy!

Stream “Small Town Heroes”:

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Hurray For The Riff Raff
2013-08-01
Knitting Factory
Brooklyn NY

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Sennheiser 8040 Cardioids > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2 x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, EQ, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced by nyctaper
2013-08-04

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:15:22]
01 Old San Francisco Bay Blues
02 Blue Ridge Mountain
03 Instrumental
04 Look Out Mama
05 Slow Walk
06 I Know Its Wrong
07 The End of the Line
08 [banter – murder ballads]
09 The Body Electric
10 [banter – rock camp for girls]
11 Small Town Heroes
12 Crash on the Highway
13 Lake of Fire
14 No One Else But You
15 St. Roch Blues
16 Everybody’s Talkin [Fred Neil]
17 [band introductions]
18 Little Black Star
19 [encore break]
20 Daniella
21 Ode to John and Yoko
22 Be My Baby [Ronettes]

If you Download this recording from nyctaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Hurray For The Riff Raff, visit their website, and purchase Look Out Mama from the Euclid Records website [HERE].

Lee Ranaldo: July 30, 2013 Maxwell’s – Flac/MP3/Streaming

August 6, 2013
By

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[Photo courtesy of Kenneth Bachor]

Since the apparent demise of his longtime band, Lee Ranaldo has been hard at work forging ahead with his solo career. Although last year’s Matador release Between the Times and the Tides certainly was not a “debut” album for Lee, it represented his first post Sonic Youth work and was a very strong “start”. We were present for two early gigs in support of the album, months before its release and while the band was certainly strong, there was perhaps a bit of trepidation about the new format. A year later, in the same venue as one of those early shows (Maxwells), Lee and the band (now called The Dust) were anything but shy — this is a powerful confident quartet performing material that has been fully developed live. As this night was the final regularly scheduled gig in the history of Maxwell’s, there was a weird kind of celebratory doom energy in the room which Lee likened to an “Irish wake”. After the gig opened with a wedding proposal from one former Maxwell’s employee to another, the band seemed to play off the weird energy and played with a sense of urgency and purpose. Lee and the Dust basically played their entire current catalog in a show that approached two hours. The setlist included the entire Time and Tides album, four new songs, one of Lee’s Sonic Youth tracks, and a handful of eclectic and excellent covers. At the conclusion of this night, I broke down my equipment, said thanks to the people involved in the venue, and walked out of Maxwell’s for the last time. The sadness of that exit overshadowed what I realize now — that Lee Ranaldo had closed Maxwell’s for me with one of the best shows we’ve seen all year.

I recorded this show in the way we’ve done for the many years we recorded at this venue and the sound is superb. Enjoy!

Stream “Lost”:

Stream “Revolution Blues” (Neil Young cover):

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Lee Ranaldo
2013-07-30
Maxwells
Hoboken NJ

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Neumann TLM-102s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2 x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper 2013-08-03

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:45:23]
01 [intro/wedding proposal]
02 Stranded
03 Waiting on a Dream
04 [banter – irish wake]
05 Tomorrow Never Comes
06 Off The Wall
07 Angles
08 [Xtina intro]
09 Xtina as I Knew Her
10 Keyhole
11 Hammer Blows
12 Lost
13 [Shouts intro]
14 Shouts
15 Last Night on Earth
16 Everybody’s Been Burned [Byrds]
17 Thank You For Sending Me an Angel [Talking Heads]
18 Fire Island
19 She Cracked [Modern Lovers]
20 Lecce Leaving
21 [encore break]
22 Home Courts
23 Genetic
24 Revolution Blues [Neil Young]

If you download this recording from NYCTaper we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Lee Ranaldo, visit his page at the Sonic Youth website, and purchase Between The Times and The Tides directly from the Matador Records website [HERE].

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