[photo from Thee Oh Sees MySpace page]

Acidjack reports:
“San Francisco’s Thee Oh Sees are unmistakably Californian, with a fuzzed out garage/surf sound that gets the bodies moving and puts a smile on the faces of all. The band gave an energetic performance at Mercury Lounge to a packed crowd on Thursday night, showcasing some new material and a lot of the songs from their latest album Help in the process. Fans more familiar with bands like San Diego’s Wavves and Brooklyn’s Woods will find some similarities here — except these guys have been doing this (in some form or another) since 1997. Enjoy! Thanks to Thee Oh Sees for permitting this recording.”

Acidjack recorded from the standard location at this venue with his newly refurbished AKG’s and the sound quality is outstanding.

Download and stream the complete show [HERE].

https://archive.org/details/TheeOhSees2009-10-08.acidjack

Thee Oh Sees
2009-10-08
Mercury Lounge
New York, NY

An ACIDJACK master recording

Equipment: AKG ck91 carded capsules (Busman Active Mod)>custom battery box>R-09HR (24/44.1)
Position: Clamp with pole to right of SBD cage, approx 10′ up, DIN
Mastering: WAV>Audacity (set fades, downsample to 16bit, slight EQ, tracking)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Setlist (courtesy of John Dwyer)
1) Enemy Destruct
2) Block of Ice
3) I Was Denied (from forthcoming album Warm Slime)
4) Meat Step Lively
5) Ghost in the Trees
6) Blood in Your Ear (from Warm Slime)
7) Mega-Feast (from Warm Slime)
8 ) Tidal Wave
9) Poison Finger
10) Quadrospazzed/Warm Slime medley
11) [crowd]
12) Destroyed Fortress Reappears

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Thee Oh Sees, visit their MySpace page, and purchase their album Help from In The Red Records [HERE].

[photo by nyctaper]

Holly Miranda’s voice can be melodic and it can be percussive, but at her gig opening for The Antlers at Maxwell’s on Saturday she proved that it never lacks for passion and character. From the opening acappella number to the closing Floydian segue, the strength of Holly’s set proved why she is now regarded as one of hottest Brooklyn-based artists in circulation. This set was recorded with the exact same equipment and location as the Antlers recording, and the sound quality is outstanding. Enjoy!

Download and stream the complete show [HERE].

https://archive.org/details/HollyMiranda2009-10-03.nyctaper

Holly Miranda
2009-10-03
Maxwell’s
Hoboken, NJ USA

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Neumann KM-150s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac

Recorded and Produced by nyctaper
2009-10-05

Setlist (via):
[Total Time 35:31]
01 Pelican Rapids
02 Secret Identity
03 Joints
04 Sleep On Fire
05 [new song]
06 No One Just Is
07 Breathe / Time / Breathe Reprise (Pink Floyd)

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Holly Miranda, visit her website, visit her MySpace page, and purchase her debut EP Sleep on Fire from her website [HERE].

[photo by nyctaper]

One of the special treats at last night’s Antlers show at Maxwell’s occurred during the end of Holly Miranda’s set. Holly and her guitarist Tim welcomed the three Antlers on stage for a cover of the Pink Floyd classic segue from Dark Side of the Moon — Breathe / Time / Breathe Reprise. Holly handled the lead vocals while Tim played David Gilmour’s slide guitar parts. For the Antlers, Peter provided the background vocals, Darby the Rick Wright-style keys, and Michael did his best Nick Mason impression.

Download the songs.
Holly Miranda and The Antlers:
Breathe/Time/Breathe FLAC
Breathe/Time/Breathe MP3

The balance of Holly set will be posted tomorrow.

[photo by nyctaper]

On their return home after another extensive and triumphant tour, last night The Antlers continued their evolution at Maxwell’s. As a headline band, they packed the legendary Hoboken club and performed a sixty-five minute set of Hospice material — with several reworked numbers. Opening with a quiet rendition of “Bear”, the band immediately turned up the energy as the song growled to a intense conclusion. “Thirteen” followed, with Sharon Van Etten’s vocals from the album filled in admirably by set opener Holly Miranda. Holly and her guitarist Tim returned and contributed to the set’s highlight — a thoroughly entrancing version of “Wake”.

The Antlers have only one more local appearance this year — at the brooklynvegan opening night CMJ show at Music Hall of Williamsburg on Tuesday October 20 — before they depart for an extensive tour on the West coast, and then a return trip to England.

We recorded this set with a stereo feed from the board mixed with two strategically placed room microphones and the sound is professional quality. Enjoy!

Holly Miranda’s set was also recorded and will be posted very soon.

This Recording is now available for Download in FLAC and MP3 at Archive.org [HERE].

Antlers
2009-10-03
Maxwell’s
Hoboken, NJ USA

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Neumann KM-150s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac

Recorded and Produced by nyctaper
2009-10-04

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:03:59]
01 [introduction]
02 Bear
03 Thirteen
04 Sylvia
05 Atrophy
06 Shiva
07 Two
08 [banter]
09 Wake
10 Epilogue

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT The Antlers, visit their website, visit their MySpace page, and purchase Hospice directly from Frenchkiss Records [HERE].