The Loom: September 4, 2012 Glasslands – FLAC/MP3/Streaming

November 12, 2012
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[Photos by acidjack]

If you read this site regularly, it should be pretty clear by now that we just can’t say enough good things about the Brooklyn band The Loom, who we’ve been fans of for four years now. We continue to watch this band grow, develop and change, evolving and tweaking their sound and taking their music in new directions. What has not changed over those four years is the high quality of this band’s live shows, or their kindness and generosity as performers. This year has found the Loom completing a touring cycle for their first LP, 2011’s Teeth, and charting a course toward finishing their second album, which should be out next year. While the shift is subtle, the band is seeing some evolution in their sound as they approach the new record. Where the Teeth-era material would easily locate the band in the “acoustic indie folk” realm, the band’s newest songs show the influence of some of the heavier bands they have been playing shows with, like The Phantom Family Halo. While The Loom have hardly given themselves over to psych rock, songs like the new “Fire Makes” are drenched in heavier guitar riffs than we have seen from them before. “Morning Song, Mountain Song”, which we first heard back in December, is a more high-octane version of the band’s style from Teeth and “The Reading Room”, perhaps my favorite new track, falls somewhere between the two. Hearing the new material at Glasslands – possibly my personal favorite Brooklyn venue, and also one where new music and new musical directions flourish – seemed appropriate. As long as The Loom continue to put out this kind of effort, they will always be a favorite of ours.

I recorded this set with Naiant X-X microphones split on stage, combined with a soundboard feed from the Glasslands engineer Josh Thiel. The sound is outstanding, even by the standards of our other recordings of this band.  Enjoy!

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The Loom
2012-09-04
Glasslands
Brooklyn, NY USA

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

Naiant X-X (3ft split onstage A-B) + Soundboard>>Edirol R-44 [OCM]>2x24bit/48kHz WAV>Audacity (mixdown, set fades, tracking, amplify, EQ, balance)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks
01 Song For the Winter
02 Snowed In
03 [banter]
04 Like Lampglow
05 For the Hooves That Gallop and the Heels That March
06 Fire Makes
07 The Reading Room
08 Your Wilderness Years
09 Morning Song, Mountain Song

Please support The Loom by seeing them on their current tour and by visiting their MySpace. If you’ve enjoyed this recording, you may also purchase a copy of their new album directly from the band’s bandcamp page or from iTunes.

Futurebirds: October 27, 2012 Irving Plaza – FLAC/MP3/Streaming

November 9, 2012
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[Photos by acidjack]

Futurebirds continue to broaden their audience and appeal, as the Athens, GA band refines their live sound and, of course, books opening slots with well-loved acts like the Heartless Bastards. When I caught them last year at Union Pool, the venue and the atmosphere gave the proceedings a more boozy, party-band vibe. That isn’t necessarily untrue of this Irving Plaza set – it was Halloween weekend, the band was the only one of the night’s acts to roll in with Halloween costumes, and the crowd was drinking plenty – but the bigger stage and sound system gave the band a more commanding presence. Here, their music had a bit more of an epic scope, so much so that they reminded me of a pedal steel-playing, more countrified version of fellow Southerners My Morning Jacket. The band, whose last record is a live album that documents the strength of their live sound, is using these Heartless Bastards shows to work out new material, and three of those as-yet-unnamed tunes were on offer on this night. Together with regular tour classics like their cover of Stevie Nicks’ “Wild Heart” and “Johnny Utah”, this show reaffirmed my view that we’ll be seeing more of Futurebirds in the years to come.

I recorded this set with MBHO KA200N cardiod microphones from the center of the floor. Despite the challenges of the boomy room, with some TLC the recording is quite good. Enjoy!

Stream “[new song 2]”

Stream “Johnny Utah”

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Futurebirds
2012-10-27
Irving Plaza
New York, NY USA

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

MBHO KA200N (FOB, DFC, PAS)>MBP 603a>Aerco MP-2>Sony PCM-M10>24bit/44.1kHz WAV>Izotope Ozone 5 (EQ)>Audacity 3.0 (fades, tracking, amplify, balance, downsample)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks
01 [new song 1]
02 Battle For Rome
03 [new song 2]
04 M J B
05 [banter]
06 Johnny Utah
07 [banter]
08 [new song 3]
09 [banter]
10 Wild Heart [Stevie Nicks]
11 Ski Chalet

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He’s My Brother She’s My Sister: October 25, 2012 Knitting Factory – FLAC/MP3/Streaming

November 8, 2012
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[Photos by acidjack]

The L.A. band He’s My Brother She’s My Sister have multiple personalities: Their twang suggests country, their style suggests retro, the natural bounce to their songs suggests a touch of swing. You cannot fairly call them any of these things, but once it’s all happening on stage, it makes sense – and it’s a fun, theatrical affair to boot.  This pre-Sandy, pre-Halloween weekend show at the Knitting Factory seems like it was a long time ago now, but it otherwise would have been the perfect way for its crowd to enter the big weekend.  He’s My Brother She’s My Sister (which does include siblings Robert and Rachel Kolar) is a millennial party band through and through, and if you couldn’t get that from the upbeat first chorus of “How’M I Gonna Get Back Home”, their costumes probably gave it away. Their fan base – drawn heavily from those millennials – seemed to know them well, and they did their part by partying their asses off through the full hour. And they should have – in just over one hour, this band gave us a veritable tour of some of the best music of the last fifty years, from the dancefloor ready honky tonk of “Let’s Go” to the 60s rock of “Escape Tonight” and the combo of bluesy guitars and Broadway exuberance of “Touch the Lightning”. The band has just released its debut full length record, Nobody Dances In this Town, and while no recorded music could fully bottle the lightning of the band’s live show, it comes pretty damn close. Appropriate to the Halloween spirit, the set ended with the band’s signature number “Tales That I Tell”, made all the more festive by the band inviting scores of costumed, dancing audience members onstage with them.

I recorded this set with a soundboard feed provided by the Knit’s great engineer, Rob, as well as new MBHO cardiod microphones. While a malfunction in the microphone bodies results in some odd-sounding distortion during the applause between tracks at points, the sound of the recording is overall excellent, and does not have this flaw during the music itself. Enjoy!

Stream “Let’s Go”

Stream “Touch the Lightning”

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He’s My Brother She’s My Sister
2012-10-25
Knitting Factory
Brooklyn, NY USA

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

Soundboard (Engineer: Rob) + MBHO KA200N>MBP 603a>>Edirol R-44 [OCM]>2x24bit/48kHz WAV>Adobe Audition 3.0 (compress SBD, mixdown, fades)>Izotope Ozone 5 (EQ, exciter)>Audacity 3.0 (track, amplify, balance, downsample)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks
01 How’m I Gonna Get Back Home
02 Let’s Go
03 Let It Live Free
04 Escape Tonight
05 [banter]
06 Touch the Lightning
07 [banter]
08 Choir of the Dead
09 Slow It Down
10 Lazy Days
11 Can’t See the Stars
12 The Same Old Ground
13 Clackin’ Heels
14 Electric Love
15 [banter]
16 Tales That I Tell

If you enjoyed this recording, PLEASE SUPPORT He’s My Brother She’s My Sister, visit their website, and buy Nobody Dances In this Town from the band [HERE]

Lightning Love: October 18, 2012 NYCTaper CMJ Day Show, Cake Shop – FLAC/MP3/Streaming

November 7, 2012
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[Still courtesy of Bleary Eyed Brooklyn. Watch video of the show (HERE)]

Lightning Love are one of those bands we fell in love with quickly. After catching their set at Spike Hill recently, we loved their upbeat, pop-driven sound and lead singer Leah Diehl’s sweet, plaintive vocals. When we called them “irresistible” in our preview of the show, we weren’t kidding; the Ypsilanti/Detroit, MI-based trio has a way of worming its way into your brain in a hurry. It was great news to us that the band was around our way again so soon for CMJ, and naturally we were excited to have them as the opening act for our unofficial CMJ showcase at Cake Shop. This set consists of the same songs as the Spike Hill show, in slightly different order, but is of somewhat better quality, owing to the fact that our mics were placed almost on stage and thus picked up the maximum direct sound.

I recorded this set with a soundboard feed provided by the house engineer Justin, together with Schoeps MK5 microphones. The sound is excellent. Enjoy!

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Lightning Love
2012-10-18
NYCTaper CMJ Day Show
Cake Shop
New York, NY USA

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

Soundboard (engineer: Justin) + Schoeps MK5>KCY>Z-PFA>>Edirol R-44 [OCM]>Adobe Audition CS 5.5 (mix down, fades, align, adjust levels)>Izotope Ozone 5 (EQ, thicken, exciter)>Audacity 3.0 (tracking, amplify, balance, downsample)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks
01 Together
02 Deadbeat
03 Just Friends>
04 I Know>
05 Awkward
06 CP80
07 I’ll Never Love No One Else
08 Good Time
09 So Easy
10 When You Sleep

If you download this recording from NYCTaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Lightning Love, visit their website, and purchase their new album Blonde Album directly from their bandcamp page [HERE].

Woods: November 3, 2012 Music Hall of Williamsburg – FLAC/MP3/Streaming

November 6, 2012
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[photos by PSquared Photography]

After a week without power, internet, regular food, and just about any semblance of normal life, it was extraordinarily comforting on Saturday to get back to something familiar — a show. This wasn’t just any event though, but prolific nyctaper-recordees Woods at Music Hall of Williamsburg. It also helped that the support bands included two other NYCTaper favorites, Widowspeak and Purling Hiss. We’ve recorded Woods for five years, and there are more than a dozen recordings on this site. Its a testament to the band that we keep coming back and find new things to enjoy about their music. In May at 285 Kent, we noted that longtime drummer Jarvis Taveniere had come out from behind the kit and played most of the set on guitar. As we learned speaking to Jarvis before the show, that change is now permanent. With a new drummer, Woods is now also apparently a quartet as original member tape-loop/effects player G. Lucas Crane was absent from this gig. But it was the addition of Jarvis’s guitar work, which included several different axes including a neat 12-string, that ignited the guitar interplay within the band. The main focus of the set was precise back and forth between Jarvis, Jeremy and bassist Kevin Morby, who anchored center stage. The show began with a segue of three folk numbers before the band got a chance to stretch out and jam a little with new album title track and longtime jam vehicle “Bend Beyond”. The guitar trio seemed to be having fun on stage and their enjoyable interplay culminated in the highlight of the night an intense 15-minute “I Was Gone” that we are also streaming below. Its these types of performance that will keep us coming back, as this band continues to evolve into one of the best live acts around.

Acidjack and I recorded this set from the center and back of the soundboard booth mixing the Sennheisers with an excellent feed. The result is a superb capture. Enjoy!

Stream “I Was Gone”:

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Woods
2012-11-03
Music Hall of Williamsburg
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, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and tagging via Foobar)

Recorded by nyctaper and acidjack
Produced by nyctaper 2012-11-03

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:04:19]
01 Pushing Onlys
02 Suffering Season
03 Cali in a Cup
04 Bend Beyond
05 Size Meets the Sound
06 Is it Honest
07 Be All Be Easy
08 Find Them Empty
09 Blood Dries Darker
10 I Was Gone
11 [encore break]
12 To Have in the Home
13 Rain On

If you download this recording from nyctaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Woods, visit the Woodist page and purchase their official releases including new album Bend Beyond from Woodist Records [HERE].

Mac McCaughan: October 18, 2012 Merge Records CMJ Showcase, Mercury Lounge – FLAC/MP3/Streaming

November 5, 2012
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[Photo by Jill Harrison of For the Love of Brooklyn]

Merge Records co-founder and Superchunk and Portastatic frontman Mac McCaughan has more than earned his beloved status in the indie rock community. His contributions to the Chapel Hill and Durham, NC music scenes, and music in general, could have taken two lifetimes, and his confessional, direct songwriting continues to resonate and remain fresh more than two decades into his music career. As for Merge, the label has been one of those remarkable and rare successes in music, remaining staunchly independent and committed to promoting quality releases – and finally earning a Grammy for its current mega-artist, Arcade Fire. So, after we wrapped up our own CMJ showcase down the street at Cake Shop, the NYCTaper crew headed over to Mercury Lounge where McCaughan joined William Tyler, Mount Moriah, Reigning Sound, Eleanor Friedberger and Telekinesis for Merge’s CMJ Showcase.

McCaughan performed as a solo act, an uncommon treat to see in the New York area. As usual, this set combined new and old Superchunk songs with Portastatic classics like “Autumn Got Dark.”  The set also included a brand new number that McCaughan said should appear on a Superchunk release next year, which we are streaming below. Though the singer-songwriter format lacked some of the punch of a normal Superchunk gig, it gave McCaughan’s lyrics and voice the spotlight. McCaughan’s exuberant, earnest delivery still comes across like that of a brash, young artist, and the themes of his writing continue to prove their timelessness. On a night that in many ways celebrated McCaughan’s success, this set was another one.

I recorded this set with a soundboard feed provided by house engineer Kevin Mazzarelli, with Schoeps MK5 microphones providing just a bit of room ambiance. The quality is excellent. Enjoy!

Stream “Autumn Got Dark”

Stream “[untitled new Superchunk song]”

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Mac McCaughan
2012-10-18
Merge Records CMJ Showcase
Mercury Lounge
New York, NY USA

Soundboard (engineer: Kevin Mazzarelli) + Schoeps MK5 (cardiod, ROC, PAS)>KCY>Z-PFA>> Edirol R-44 [OCM]>2x24bit/48kHz WAV>Audacity 3.0 (mixdown, set fades, amplify, balance, downsample)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks
01 [intro]
02 Trash Heap
03 Good Dreams
04 Rope Light
05 Through With People
06 Autumn Got Dark
07 Home At Dawn
08 Driveway to Driveway
09 [banter]
10 A Small Definition
11 [new song 1]
12 Digging For Something
13 [banter]
14 I Wanna Know Girls
15 [banter]
16 San Andreas

If you enjoyed this recording, PLEASE SUPPORT Mac McCaughan and Merge Records by visiting the Merge website and buying the many fine releases available there, including Superchunk and Portastatic’s albums.

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