Melvins “Lite”: October 4, 2012 Music Hall of Williamsburg – FLAC/MP3/Streaming

October 16, 2012
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[Photos by Dana “Distortion” Yavin and used with permission. Originally hosted at BrooklynVegan]

The “Lite” version of the Melvins (one drummer instead of two, no electric bass) is still a hell of a lot heavier than most bands on their best day, and this show at Music Hall of Williamsburg continued that trend. The band is on a quixotic mission to play 50 states in 51 days (possibly setting a world record), and this Brooklyn show found the band a little over halfway through their quest. If they were burned out from the relentless schedule, they didn’t show it; the band came out charging, in good spirits, and as ear-bustingly loud as ever. Even without their usual dual-drummer setup, one Dale Crover can provide a whole lot of percussion, and Buzz Osborne’s guitars and Trevor Dunn’s upright bass similarly held their own. Dunn’s rocking out with the upright bass was a special thrill, as he manhandled the big bass like a smaller electric, playing on his back, twirling it over his head, and doing just about everything but smash it to bits all over the stage.  This set included some crowd pleasers from the band’s best-known album, Houdini  (“Hooch”, “Set Me Straight” and “Sky Pup”), but as usual, dug deep into the back catalog, kicking off with “Eye Flys” from the band’s first album, Gluey Porch Treatments. One highlight at several stops on this tour has been the “Inner Ear Rupture” and “Shevil” combo, and that closed the night’s set in special style, with the song stretching to a full 12 minutes. The band has a ways to go before they get the record, and we’re pulling for them!

Johnny Fried Chicken Boy and I were in the balcony of the venue in our usual spot for this set.  We used two pairs of mics that made roughly equal recordings, so much so that there didn’t seem to be much point combining the two sources.  This is my Schoeps MK41 supercardiod microphones in tightly-spaced configuration to provide as much direct sound as possible. The results are comparable to the site’s other excellent Melvins recordings from Music Hall, which you can locate by clicking the “Melvins” tag below. Enjoy!

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Melvins Lite
2012-10-04
Music Hall of Williamsburg
Brooklyn, NY USA

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Recorded by acidjack and Johnny Fried Chicken Boy
Produced by acidjack

Schoeps MK41 (Balcony, DFC, DINa)>KC5>CMC6>Sound Devices USBPre2>Edirol R-44 [OCM]>24bit/48kHz WAV>Izotope Ozone 5 (EQ, harmonic exciter)>Audacity 3.0 (set fades, tracking, amplify, balance, downsample)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks [Total Time 1:19:43]
01 [intro]
02 Eye Flys>
03 Captain Pungent
04 Berthas
05 National Hamster
06 Worm Farm Waltz
07 Leon vs. the Revolution
08 Mr. Rip-Off
09 A Growing Disgust
10 A History of Drunks>
11 Hooch>
12 Baby, Won’t You Weird Me Out
13 Holy Barbarians
14 Let Me Roll It [Wings]
15 Set Me Straight
16 Deserted Cities of the Heart [Cream]>
17 Sky Pup
18 Electric Flower
19 Inner Ear Rupture
20 Shevil

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Thee Oh Sees: September 24, 2012 Death By Audio – Flac/MP3/Streaming

October 16, 2012
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[photo by Jeremy D. Larson – courtesy of Consequence of Sound]

As I wrote in the review of Ty Segall’s set, this show was one of the most fun nights of the year. DBA has always been a venue with a kinetic energy, but on a night when two bands who these days play much larger venues came in for a special secret show, the atmosphere was electric. Thee Oh Sees are a great live band — leader John Dwyer is indefatigable, and on this night the band played an extended set. From the very outset opening with “The Dream”, the band never really came up for air as they delivered garage-rock rave ups one after another. Seemingly at the end of their show, the crowd wouldn’t let them leave the stage and Thee Oh Sees played two more songs, including an extended jam on “Destroyed Fortress” that veered back into the melody of “Dead Energy” before closing at more than ten minutes. We don’t expect to see Thee Oh Sees at a venue the size of DBA again, but this show certainly left a lasting memory.

I recorded this show in the same manner as the Ty Segall set and the sound is excellent. Enjoy!

Stream “The Dream”:

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Thee Oh Sees
2012-09-24
Death By Audio
Brooklyn, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Berliner CM-33 > 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 2012-10-11

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:13:56]
01 [introduction]
02 The Dream
03 Lupine Dominus
04 Carrion Crawler
05 I Was Denied
06 Robber Barons
07 Block of Ice
08 Contraption/Soul Desert
09 Enemy Destruct
10 Dead Energy
11 [new song]
12 [encore break]
13 Tidal Wave
14 Destroyed Fortress Reappears/Dead Energy Reprise

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Vetiver: September 21, 2012 Glasslands – FLAC/MP3/Streaming

October 15, 2012
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[Photos by acidjack]

Vetiver aren’t the kind of band you usually find at the top of the bill on a Friday night at Glasslands. The Williamsburg club is best known for cutting-edge young rock and wild DJ nights – all good things, but not exactly this band’s style. Vetiver, on the other hand, seems at times to come from a different era, with a measured, melodic 60s-inspired sound that has more to do with Simon and Garfunkel and the Grateful Dead than what’s is trending in Brooklyn right now. They are a grown-up style of band in sound, style and sentiment, and they are outstanding at what they do. It’s a testament to the good taste of both the PopGun Booking team (who run Glasslands) and that of the ATP Festival, where the band was playing the following night, that quality counts for more than trend-following. Like fellow travelers and Sub Pop labelmates Fruit Bats, Vetiver’s music transcends trends and era-specific fixations; while there’s a strong vein of the late 60s going on with the San Francisco band, their melodic, lightly psychedelic sound doesn’t simply stay there. The leadoff track to their 2011 album and current release, The Errant Charm, was one of my favorites of last year, a slow-builder whose anthemic acoustic guitar riff combines with frontman Andy Cabic’s sweet, soothing vocal to create a six-and-a-half minute slice of blissed-out perfection. This show found the band playing to a fully-packed house, and despite the early set time (Friday nights at Glasslands means late-night DJs) they gave us a fantastic 13-song set into the 65 minutes they had. The set focused on Errant Charm material, but they did reach all the way back to their 2005 debut to give us “Luna Sea” and to its 2006 double LP followup, To Find Me Gone for “Idle Ties”.  The band made the most of their encore, too,firing off a faithful rendition of Townes Van Zandt’s “Standin'”.

I recorded this set with Berliner CM-33 cardiod microphones and a soundboard feed provided by Josh Thiel, the head engineer at Glasslands.  The sound quality is excellent.  Enjoy!

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Vetiver
2012-09-21
Glasslands
Brooklyn, NY USA

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Recorded and produced by acidjack

Soundboard + Berliner CM-33 (DFC, ORTF)>Aerco MP-2>>Edirol R-44 [OCM]>2x24bit/48kHz WAV>Audacity 3.0 (mixdown)>Izotope Ozone 5 (EQ, effects)>Audacity 3.0 (set fades, tracking, amplify, balance, downsample)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks [Total time approx 64 min.]
01 It’s Beyond Me
02 Strictly Rule
03 [banter]
04 Hard to Break
05 Streets of Your Town
06 Wonder Why
07 Can’t You Tell
08 [banter]
09 Pay No Mind
10 Idle Ties
11 You May Be Blue
12 Luna Sea
13 Another Reason To Go
14 Ride Ride Ride
15 [encore break]
16 Standin’ [Townes Van Zandt]

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Pipe: September 7, 2012 Hopscotch Festival, Slim’s (Raleigh, NC) – FLAC/MP3/Streaming

October 11, 2012
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[Photo courtesy of Ash Crowe]

Correspondent David Schwentker reports:

“There are bands of larger stature that emerged from the Triangle scene, but you’d have trouble finding one more beloved in the area than Pipe.  For much of the 90’s, Pipe played their brand of SST-inspired punk throughout the region, threatening to blow away all other bands on the bill.  They toured with the likes of Archers of Loaf, New Bomb Turks, and Bad Brains, and released a handful of 7″s and three great albums.  Eventually, injuries and line-up changes forced an end to the band before the decade was out.  After being essentially dormant for almost 10 years, the band was asked to play Merge XX in 2009 and played to an ecstatic crowd and a maelstrom of beer cans.  Since then, the original line-up of the band (Ron Liberti, Mike Kenlan, Dave Alworth, and Chuck Garrison), has slowly lurched toward becoming an active concern and not just a reunion act, playing with increasing frequency, adding new songs to the setlist, and even heading out for a weekend tour to New York and Boston with Archers of Loaf last spring.

When trying to pick bands at a festival as broad and eclectic as Hopscotch, it’s tempting to skip local bands in favor of a bigger name down the street.  This Pipe set, in a packed, sweaty, narrow bar, appropriately named Slim’s, shows why skipping the locals can be a mistake.

This set was recorded with Countryman B3 omnidirectional microphones mounted on the ceiling, near the speakers and above the crowd, and it a great representation of what it is was like to be packed near the front of the stage doding drinks, elbows, and guitars.  Enjoy!”

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Pipe
2012-09-07
Hopscotch Music Festival
Slim’s
Raleigh, NC USA

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Recorded and produced by David Schwentker
Microphones courtesy of Dan Schram

Countryman B3>Church Audio CA-9100>Olympus LS-10>24bit/48kHz WAV>Audacity (mix down, tracking, amplify)>Trader’s Little Helper>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks
01 intro
02 Venable
03 Human Gutterball
04 Kirk’s Floor
05 Bug Boy
06 Backstroke
07 You’re Soaking In It
08 Bender
09 Ashtray
10 Breakfast In Veronica
11 Bowling For Fuckers
12 Submariner
13 Little Black Lies

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Hiss Golden Messenger: September 7, 2012 Three Lobed/WXDU Day Show, Hopscotch Festival (Raleigh, NC) – FLAC/MP3/Streaming

October 9, 2012
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[Photos by acidjack]

This second day of this year’s Hopscotch Music Festival has to have been one of the best days of music I’ve had all year. Though there were many high points, the main reason was getting the chance to see the Durham, NC recording artist MC Taylor, aka Hiss Golden Messenger, for the first time – and twice in the same day, at that. The first of those was Taylor’s stripped-down acoustic set at the Three Lobed Recordings/WXDU Day Show at King’s Barcade, and it held a singular beauty that was the equal of, but distinct from, the full-band set that HGM played later that night (that recording [HERE]). Taylor began the set with the a cappella “Father Sky”, and it’s a beautiful, brief religious allegory. The next songs were two of my absolute favorites – the band’s most approachable number, “Call Him Daylight” and the new “Red Rose Nantahala”, with its simple refrain of “Oh Lord, let me be happy”. Sung in Taylor’s voice, such a simple line can strike a deep emotional chord; he delivers the line with a canny mix of resignation, pleading, and hope.

Joined at points by Nathan Bowles, Scott Hirsch and Terry Lonergan, who would play in the full band that night, Taylor’s arrangements were much simpler during this day show. Compared to the full band set later that night, this show necessarily placed the emphasis on Taylor’s vocals and, thus, his actual words, and it was absolutely riveting to listen to. Taylor followed “Red Rose Nantahala” with “A Working Man Can’t Make It No Way”, “Bad Debt” from his Bad Debt debut LP, and ended with another stellar country-blues number, “O Little Light”, from his critically acclaimed current album, Poor Moon. He will eventually be putting out a follow-up to Poor Moon that should include “Red Rose Nantahala” as well as “Brother, Do You Know the Road”, which was played at the night set. Until then, settle in with this recording, and let Tyalor bend your ear.

I recorded this set with a soundboard feed provided by the King’s staff combined with Schoeps MK5 mics in the omnidirectional setting split wide onstage.  The results are excellent. Enjoy!

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Hiss Golden Messenger
2012-09-07
Three Lobed/WXDU Hopscotch Festival Day Show
Kings Barcade
Raleigh, NC USA

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Recorded and produced by acidjack

Soundboard + Schoeps MK5 (omni, onstage, 3ft split)>KC5>CMC6>>Edirol R-44 [OCM]>2x24bit/48kHz WAV>Audition CS 5.5 (mixdown)>Izotope Ozone 5 (tape effect exciter)>Audacity (set fades, tracking, amplify, balance, downsample)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks
01 [intro – Cory Rayborn]
02 Father Sky
03 Call Him Daylight
04 Red Rose Nantahala
05 A Working Man Can’t Make It No Way
06 Bad Debt
07 O Little Light

Players:
MC Taylor (vocals, guitar)
Scott Hirsch (guitar)
Nathan Bowles (banjo)
Terry Lonergan (percussion)

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The Invisible Hand: September 6, 2012 DiggUp Tapes Hopscotch Festival Day Show, King’s (Raleigh, NC) – FLAC/MP3/Streaming

October 8, 2012
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[Photos by acidjack]

The young band The Invisible Hand hails from Charlottesville, VA, and with a lead singer named Adam Smith, yes, their name is an econ reference. But other than that, and one song called “Black Tie Formal”, there’s little in the way of college references here, and the band’s sound has more to do with power pop and protopunk than the kinds of jams Charlottesville is normally associated with (I’m looking at you, Dave Matthews). The set opener, “Psychic Cat” was a caffeine jolt to the daytime crowd at this Hopscotch Music Festival day show, and that energy sustained throughout this set that covered much of the band’s forthcoming 12″ EP on Funny/Not Funny Records as well as their self-titled LP on that same label. Smith’s style of performance recalls heyday-era Billie Joe of Green Day, and the band’s high-energy, no-bullshit set made me long for more bands like them. Playing a day show – especially when you’ve just shown up at the venue – can be a challenge, but Invisible Hand showed us they are ready anytime.

I recorded this set with local taper bryonsos’ AKG 460 microphones hung from an optimal spot on the venue ceiling, combined with a soundboard feed customized by the King’s staff.  The sound quality is excellent. Enjoy!

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The Invisible Hand
2012-09-06
Hopscotch Festival Day Show
King’s
Raleigh, NC USA

Recorded and produced by acidjack
Microphones courtesy of bryonsos

Soundboard + AKG 460/ck61>Edirol R-44 [OCM]>>2x24bit/48kHz WAV>Adobe Audition CS 5.5 (adjust levels, mix down)>Izotope Ozone 5 (EQ, tube effect)>Audacity 3.0 (set fades, tracking, amplify, balance)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks
01 Psychic Cat
02 Death Bellows
03 New Top
04 Lies, lies, lies.
05 Eating Out
06 Home at Last
07 Call me Ishmael
08 Kraut 1
09 Kraut 2

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