Blank Dogs Shows Scheduled for Market Hotel and Less Artists

January 2, 2009
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[photo by Impose Magazine]

When Blank Dogs were announced for No Fun Fest a few weeks ago, they were also set for ToddP shows on February 6 and February 7 with venues TBA. Today Todd posted the venues — the Blank Dogs show on February 6 will be at the Market Hotel and February 7 is tentatively (now confirmed) for Less Artists More Condos. These shows will be recorded by nyctaper.

Both the dates include Woods on the bill. Our one experience with Woods was our positive impression of the opening set at Monster Island with Love Is All. Woods are also scheduled to play Bard College and Vassar College in early February.

Sharon Van Etten: December 8, 2008 Pianos – Flac and MP3 Downloads + January Gigs!

January 2, 2009
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[photo by Matt]

This is another one of those recordings that sounds a lot better than we originally thought. The process of recording Sharon Van Etten is always subject to the room noise, and during this particular night at Pianos there was much — including what sounded like a reconstruction of the soundboard booth directly behind us. Fortunately, the directional microphones avoided a good amount of the noise so that this is definitely a very listenable capture. In terms of a review of the performance, we will defer to Matt from The Music Slut blog, who wrote an excellent piece on this Sharon show the day after the event. Read it [HERE].

Sharon Van Etten will perform quite a bit this month. Tomorrow night, she appears at Cake Shop with The Antlers and Pet Ghost Project. And on January 11, she will open the NYCTaper Presents show at Pianos with members of Camper Van Beethoven. Sharon will also perform this month at Zebulon, Glasslands, Secret Project Robot and Joe’s Pub. Complete information is at her MySpace page.

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

Sharon Van Etten
2008-12-08
Pianos
New York, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Recorded from Front of Board
30 Feet from Stage

Neumann KM-150s (AK-50 Hypercardiod Capsules) > Monster XLR cables > Apogee Minime > digital coaxial > M-Audio Microtrack > 24bit 48kHz wav file > Soundforge 8.0 (set fades, slight level boost, resample 16/44) > CD Wave 1.95 > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac

Recorded and Produced by
nyctaper
nyctaper@nyctaper.com
2009-01-01

Setlist:
[total time 43:15]
01 Consolation Prize
02 Strong (false start/tech problems)
03 Strong
04 I Fold
05 I Am Giving Up On You
06 Call It a Joke
07 You Didn’t Really Do That
08 Picking Up Rocks
09
10 I Wish I Knew
11 Damn Right

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Sharon Van Etten, visit her website, visit her MySpace page, purchase one of her custom-made self-released CDs directly from her website, and purchase her new CD Because I Was In Love when it is released in 2009.

“The Dead” to Tour in Spring of 2009

January 1, 2009
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This was just announced this morning, that “The Dead”, which includes original Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and longtime member Mickey Hart, will tour the East coast in April and May. The band also includes Warren Haynes and Jeff Chimenti.

The local dates include one MSG date, two shows in the Meadowlands, and one at Nassau. The presale date is January 13, and the regular onsale date is January 23.


April 12 Greensboro NC Greensboro Coliseum
April 14 Washington DC Verizon Center
April 15 Charlottville VA John Paul Jones Arena
April 17 Albany NY Times Union Center
April 18 Worcester MA DCU Center
April 19 Worcester MA DCU Center
April 21 Buffalo NY HSBC Arena
April 22 WilkesBarre PA Wachovia Arena
April 24 Uniondale NY Nassau Coliseum
April 25 New York NY Madison Square Garden
April 26 Hartford CT XL Center
April 28 E. Ruther NJ IZOD Center
April 29 E. Ruther NJ IZOD Center
May 1 Philadphia PA Wachovia Spectrum
May 2 Philadphia PA Wachovia Spectrum
May 5 Chicago IL All State Arena
May 7 Denver CO Pepsi Center
May 9 Los Angel CA The Forum
May 10 MountView CA Shoreline Amphitheater

Best Friends Forever: October 23, 2008 NYCTaper CMJ Show at Cake Shop – Flac and MP3 Downloads (Soundboard!)

January 1, 2009
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[ Best Friends Forever in Philly this summer: photo credit]

We became big fans of Best Friends Forever this year. We saw them live four times in 2008, including this opening set of the NYCTaper CMJ show. The band had three shows scheduled that day, but still agreed to do our show, for which we are eternally grateful. The downstairs of Cake Shop quickly filled for their 3:30 set and BFF delivered a burst of their energetic pop to start off the day. Expect to hear more from BFF in 2009, as they have gathered some major label interest.

This recording was a surprise holiday present. We were going through some old wav files, including the soundboard feed that we ran for this CMJ show — a recording we originally thought was unusable. Fortunately, while the rest of the downstairs sets have problems, the BFF set is actually quite well mixed soundboard recording and has very little of the peak distortion that plagues the others. Enjoy!

The nyctaper recordings of Best Friends Forever in August and at another CMJ show are [here] and [here].

Direct download of MP3 files (HERE)

Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].

Best Friends Forever
2008-10-23
NYCTaper CMJ Show
Cake Shop
New York, NY USA

Digital Soundboard Master Recording

Soundboard > Edirol UA-5 (Oade Digimod) > digital coaxial > M-Audio Microtrack > 16bit 44.1kHz wav > Soundforge 8.0 (level adjustments, set fades) > CD Wave > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac

Recorded and Produced by nyctaper
2008-12-31

Setlist:
[Total time 18:42]
01 Eisenhower is the Father
02 HWF
03 Circus
04 Handpocket
05 Twins in Love
06 Disaster

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Best Friends Forever, visit their MySpace page, and purchase their official releases at the Plan-It-X Records Website [HERE].

Camper Van Beethoven at Bowery / Camper Members at Pianos – NYCTaper Show

January 1, 2009
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It has been two and half years since Camper Van Beethoven performed live in NYC. We were there to record that Irving Plaza performance (listen below) and we will be there when they return to NYC for two nights at Bowery Ballroom on Friday January 9 and Saturday January 10.

The shows are being billed as a 25th Anniversary celebration, although the actual 25th anniversary show took place last February at the Fillmore in San Francisco. CVB bassist Victor Krummenacher is performing the opening set at the Friday show.

NYCTaper Presents Show:


[Victor Krummenacher and Jonathan Segel of Camper Van Beethoven]

On January 11, NYCTaper presents Victor Krummenacher and Jonathan Segel from Camper Van Beethoven as each perform solo sets at Pianos. The evening begins with a set by the incomparable Sharon Van Etten at 9 p.m. Special guests are expected for this Sunday evening show.

When: Sunday, January 11, 2009
Where: Pianos 158 Ludlow
Sets:
9 p.m. Sharon Van Etten
10 p.m. Jonathan Segel
11 p.m. Victor Krummenacher
Tickets: $10 at door

Listen to the NYCTaper recording of the last Camper show in NYC:

The Loom: Pianos Residency in January + Other Gigs

December 31, 2008
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The Loom / Secret Garden, part 2 from hoovesontheturf on Vimeo.

As they move on fresh from a very big 2008, The Loom begin 2009 with a series of January gigs, highlighted by three-gig residency at Pianos. The dates for the Pianos shows are January 6, January 13, and January 27. We are particularly excited about the show on the 13th, which also features Treasure — a band that so impressed us at Glasslands in November.

For all the January gig information, visit The Loom’s MySpace page.

The video embedded above was produced by the excellent Hooves on the Turf blog, and features The Loom performing “Patience for Books” inside the many rooms of Retro Fret, an old Brooklyn specialty music store — a neat conceptual video.

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