Monks of Doom: March 13, 2009 Club Europa – Flac and MP3 Downloads

March 16, 2009
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[photo courtesy of Kyra Kverno – more of her amazing work here]

When this curious Monks of Doom reunion at Club Europa in Greenpoint was announced a few months ago, I had three questions that were fortunately answered by Victor Krummenacher in a series of recent conversations. The “why here and now” was pretty simple — the Europa promoter was a big fan and made it happen. Will the Monks play again soon, or will we have to wait years for another reunion? Monks of Doom will play at the CampOut5 this year, and may even play some West Coast dates in the Summer depending upon Immy’s tour schedule with Counting Crows. And finally, how can a band who has played a half-dozen shows this decade and none in the last three-plus years sound so tight. Victor explained that the band rehearsed incessantly at its inception for thirty to forty hours a week, and established a cohesiveness that remains to this day.

The performances at these two reunion shows were truly remarkable. Each show was a lengthy set with songs throughout the entire Monks catalog. We were particularly impressed with the interplay between the guitars of Immy and Greg Lisher — quite clearly evident on this recording. The setlist for each show was substantially different from the other, with night two featuring some of the more eclectic cover songs that appeared on the Monks 2006 release What’s Left For Kicks.

This recording was made possible by the band and by professional audio engineer Ryan Streber. We recommend that our readers listen to this recording on headphones. Ryan’s mix has an incredible soundstage and stage-pan — as you hear Lisher on the left, Immy on the right, Victor in the center, and the outstanding drum work of Chris Pederson surrounding them all. Immy hired a multi-cam crew and multitrack audio to capture these concerts for posterity and potential release. After some confusion regarding permissions, ultimately this afternoon we received the band’s blessing to post (or re-post) the show.

We have also received many inquiries about assisting in the band’s expenses for this endeavor. If you choose to donate as a result of this recording, do not donate to nyctaper (paypal on the right), but please paypal to the band at Email Monks of Doom.

The March 12 show was also recorded by nyctaper (with the Neumanns) and will be available soon.

Direct download of MP3 files (HERE)

Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].

Monks of Doom
2009-03-13
Europa
Brookyn, NY USA

Digital Multi-Track Master Recording

24-Track Multitrack Recording via Protools > XLR cables > Apogee Minime > digital coaxial > M-Audio Microtrack > 24bit 48kHz wav file > Soundforge 8.0 (set fades, level adjustments, resample 16/44) > CD Wave 1.95 > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac

Multitrack Recording by Ryan Streber

Patch Rig (and minor post-production as above) by nyctaper
2009-03-14

Setlist:
[total time 1:53:42]
01 [introduction]
02 Vs. Montana
03 Jim Gore And The Ghost of Missouri
04 Oh Well (Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac)
05 The Traveler
06 Facts About Spiders
07 Light In The Sky (Steve Hillage)
08 Unexplained Murders
09 The Better Angels Of Our Nature
10 Poison ( Bert Jansch)
11 Powerhouse/Hieroglyphic
12 [band introductions]
13 La Dolce Vita Suite
14 Going South
15 Calvary (Quicksilver)
16 Cherry Blossom Baptism
17 No Looking Back (Blue Orchids)
18 The 15th (Wire)
19 All in Good Time
20 The Insect God
21 Let’s Split
22 Fur Immer (Neu!)

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Monks of Doom, visit their website, visit their MySpace page, and purchase their albums from their site and the Magnetic Motor Works [HERE].

Feelies to Perform Crazy Rhythms at NY ATP

March 13, 2009
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The Feelies announced a short while ago that they have committed to perform the complete Crazy Rhythms album from start to finish at the NY version of the All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival.

The ATP Festival takes place from September 11 through September 13 in Monticello NY. The complete line-up (thus far) for this event is posted [here].

nyctaper recorded The Feelies three times last year, on July 1 at Maxwell’s, July 4 at Battery Park, and again on September 20, 2009 at Music Hall.

Read Howard Wolfson’s recent interview with Glenn Mercer [here].

The Antlers: More Exciting News

March 12, 2009
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[photo by Matt – courtesy of The Music Slut – more here]

Fresh off the triumphant Hospice CD release show, The Antlers are full of exciting news. Today it was announced that they will perform a “lounge act” set for WOXY. They have also added a new NYC gig, at Mercury Lounge on April 2. There will also be a larger venue opening slot in April that we are not at liberty to announce yet. was announced today as Music Hall of Williamsburg on April 7 (opening for Here We Go Magic).

The Antlers tour continues tonight in Chapel Hill, NC. See the rest of the dates on their myspace page, which includes SXSW shows.

Crystal Stilts/Women/Blank Dogs at Music Hall Saturday Night

March 12, 2009
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There are still tickets available for this excellent lineup at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Saturday night. We saw Crystal Stilts open for Love Is All at Bowery in December, and they very nearly got called back for an encore. We saw Women three times at CMJ in October, and captured one of their Cake Shop shows. And of course, the Blank Dogs set from the lo-fi extravaganza at Market Hotel in early February was one of our favorite shows thus far this year.

Sadly, nyctaper can not make this show, but we will have a correspondent on the scene — can’t wait to hear that capture.

After The Jump at SXSW – NYCTaper a New Member of ATJ

March 9, 2009
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I guess now is as good a time as any to announce that in January NYCTaper was offered and accepted a membership in the After The Jump music blog cooperative.

Unfortunately, we will not be able to make the SXSW trip, but expect some great NYC stuff this summer.

Here is the official press announcement and the poster above is the final SXSW line-up:

“After the Jump is headed down to Austin for the second year in a row, bringing back our killer Official SXSW showcase, full of bands we think you’ll be reading about all this year, and our off the hook, out of control house party.

So for all those with a badge or wristband, come join us Thursday night, 9pm, at The Rusty Spurs.

And for those of you going rogue (or just looking to avoid the overpacked showcases of 6th St.), come out to the East Side of Austin, to an old school house party, FRIDAY, March 20th, Noon-???

Last year’s house party was a rager with 6 drained kegs in less than three hours and a bust up by the cops. But the law couldn’t bring that party down, we continued on into the wee hours of the night, and it certainly won’t again this year. We’ll be returning to the scene of the crime with headliners SUPERDRAG, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Cause Co-motion, US Royalty, Parenthetical Girls, Evangelicals, Howlies and more. And this time, Red Stripe and Vitamin Water will be making sure we don’t run out of drinks and Rugby (by Ralph Lauren) will be providing goodies.”

NYCTaper Update: The Sting of Rejection

March 9, 2009
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[image by Songbirdnest]

Over the last couple of weeks, we have had a bad time of it in terms of receiving permission from bands to record. Obviously, we respect the artist’s request to refrain from recording their performance, but nevertheless its pretty frustrating. On February 28, we had excellent seats for the Grizzly Bear special show at BAM, but their management asked us not to record. The following day, unauthorized poor quality recordings were all over the web and we were incredibly disappointed that such a show was archived and circulated in such a manner [edit: we just received a friendly email from the band that informed us that it was a venue issue and not the band’s decision].

Later that week, Dan Auerbach’s management denied a request to capture his Bowery show, despite the fact that The Black Keys permit open taping. That was a bit of a head-scratcher. And finally, a few days ago we received word that Throbbing Gristle does not want their first NYC show ever archived — we are not permitted to record the Masonic Temple show.

A large part of the frustration of such rejection is the fear that this site has not gotten its message across to the bands — that somehow we’re still stigmatized by the very old idea that tapers are “bootleggers”.

Ultimately, the good news is that the rejections are still the exception — the vast majority of artists that we approach do accept and understand the positive aspects of what nyctaper does for the bands and fans.

And in the spirit of soldiering on, we have added some new shows to the list below.

Upcoming Shows:

Monks of Doom:
March 12 -and- March 13, 2009 Europa Brooklyn

Crystal Stilts/Women/Blank Dogs: (correspondent)
March 14, 2009 Music Hall of Williamsburg

John Darnielle / John Vanderslice:
March 27, 2009 Ethical Culture Concert Hall (Wordless) NYC
-and-
Neil Halstead: (we need a correspondent for this show – list/early entry is available!)
March 27, 2009 Union Hall Brooklyn

Akron/Family:
March 28, 2009 Union Pool Brooklyn

Cowboy Junkies:
April 2, 2009 City Winery NYC

Langhorne Slim:
April 3, 2009 Bell House Brooklyn

North Mississippi All-Stars:
April 9, 2009 Highline Ballroom NYC

Of Montreal:
April 15, 2009 (correspondent) -and-
April 16, 2009
April 17, 2009 (correspondent or nyctaper) Music Hall of Williamsburg
-and/or-
Dead Milkmen:
April 17, 2009 Warsaw Brooklyn

Animal Collective:
May 13, 2009 Terminal 5 NYC

Thao With The Get Down Stay Down:
May 14, 2009 Bowery Ballroom NYC

NYC Popfest 2009:
May 15-17, Multiple Venues

Iron and Wine:
May 17 and May 18, 2009 Abrons Art Center NYC

Decemberists:
June 10, 2009 Radio City Music Hall NYC

Thunder Power / El Jezel / Coyote Eyes (and more):
June 19, 2009 NYCTaper Presents – Venue TBA

Oneida:
July 10, 2009 Maxwell’s Hoboken NJ

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