At Antietam’s Brooklyn Public Library performance this afternoon, Ira Kaplan from Yo La Tengo sat in for the entire set on keyboards.
Due to the torrential rain, the performance originally scheduled for the steps of the library was moved indoor to the auditorium. Unfortunately, we were unable to attend, but according to the Antietam MySpace blog, there is video of the performance. Joly?
Bridges and Powerlines performed another excellent set last night at Cake Shop. Their set consisted of five tracks from the new CD Ghost Types, one from the debut EP, and two unreleased numbers. As the early slot in a four-band bill, the late start of the set exposed the band to new fans but also meant that some people who came to see other bands chatted throughout the set.
Some of that is evident on this recording — captured from the middle of the floor section of the venue. In the end, the crowd noise is less evident than we had feared and we feel that this recording represents Bridges and Powerlines in a better light than the dry soundboard recording from the nyctaper Anniversary Concert. Enjoy!
Direct download of MP3 files (HERE)
Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].
Bridges and Powerlines
2008-05-30
Cake Shop
New York, NY USA
Digital Master Recording
Recorded from Front of Board
30 Feet from Stage
Neumann KM-150’s (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
2008-05-31
Setlist:
[total time 32:08]
01 The Thieves They Are Everywhere
02 The Knave
03 Middle Child
04 The Cave-In
05 Carmen
06 The Great Fire
07 Uncalibrated
08 The Golden Age
If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Bridges and Powerlines, visit their website, visit their MySpace page, and purchase the new CD Ghost Types directly from the Citybird records webpage.
Athens Georgia is perhaps the smallest US city to generate the greatest collection of outstanding bands in the history of US music. In the late 70s, the Athens scene brought REM, Pylon, B-52s, Swimming Pool Q’s and Love Tractor, and in the 90s, of Montreal, Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel and the entire Elephant Six group of bands made their mark. These days, such bands as Drive-By Truckers, The Whigs and Dead Confederate rule the roost.
Last night Dead Confederate came to the big city and performed a smoldering set at a packed Pianos. The setlist included only two songs from the debut 2007 EP release, but as we learned at Ear Farm, the band has begun the recording of a new full-length album, and five of the tracks performed last night will appear on that release.
We recorded from our prime location at this venue, in front of the soundboard with our microphones pointed directly at the PA stacks from 30 feet. The volume at the venue was quite elevated, so that we saw some peaks but the Neumann/Apogee combination handled the driven levels with clarity and no distortion whatsoever. The result is a crystal clear recording of a superb band. Enjoy!
This recording is now available for Download in FLAC or MP3 at Archive.org [HERE].
Dead Confederate
2008-05-29
Pianos
New York, NY USA
Digital Master Recording
Recorded from Front of Board
30 Feet from Stage
Neumann KM-150’s (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
2008-05-30
Setlist:
[total time 49:10]
01 The Rat
02 Yer Circus
03 Heavy Petting
04 It Was a Rose
05 Flesh
06 All the Angels
07 Tortured Artist Saint
If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Dead Confederate, visit their MySpace page, and purchase their debut EP Dead Confederate
One of our favorite albums from 2007 is Civil War from Milwaukee’s Fever Marlene. Since that time they have released another album White China on Rev Pop Records, which was recorded on location at the Chelsea Hotel.
We have been waiting since October for Fever Marlene to return to NYC and today it was announced that they will appear here for two dates in June.
Here is the information:
Fever Marlene
When: June 5
Where: Pianos
158 Ludlow Street [MAP]
Time: 11 p.m.
When: June 6
Where: The National Underground
159 East Houston Street [MAP]
Time: 10 p.m.
Sample Two MP3s:
Fever Marlene: We Are All Colors MP3 (from Civil War)
Fever Marlene: Oh Berlin MP3 (from White China)
We saw the premiere of this video at the Glasslands CD Release party, but today Awesome Color have released the video for “Eyes of Light” from their new CD Electric Aborigines on Ecstatic Peace Records.
The video has the feel of an early 70s BBC music broadcast, which fits the Brit-Prog influence in the song. Awesome Color is in Europe for the next two months, with headlining gigs, and shows opening for Dinosaur Jr. and Black Mountain. Check their MySpace page for dates.
Bridges and Powerlines were the headliners and final band at the nyctaper Anniversary Concert. The new release Ghost Types has received a ton of positive press, from Pitchfork to Current TV to Paste Magazine. Stereo Subversion did a recent lengthy interview [here]. The positive reviews are well deserved, as Ghost Types is a superb collection of alt-synth-pop songs that seem to pull from a litany of influences and yet sound completely original. Their performance at Piano’s on May 11 was short and sweet, rushed by time constraints but long enough for this excellent band to exhibit their pop brilliance.
Bridges and Powerlines will perform again this coming week:
When: Friday May 30, 2008
Where: Cake Shop [MAP]
Time: Doors at 8 p.m.
Note Also: Spanish Prisoners are the 3rd band on the bill
This recording is the same raw soundboard feed as The Loom and Antlers recordings we have posted previously. The mix for B&P is too light on guitar and keys, and we hope to capture a better mix at the show later this week. Enjoy!
Direct download of MP3 files (HERE)
Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].
Bridges and Powerlines
2008-05-11
nyctaper Anniversary Concert
Pianos
New York, NY USA
Digital Soundboard Master
Soundboard > Edirol UA-5 (Oade Digimod) > digital coaxial >M-Audio Microtrack > 16bit 44.1 wav > Soundforge (level adjustments,set fades) > CD Wave (tracking) > Flac Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac
Recorded and Produced by
nyctaper
2008-05-26
Setlist:
[Total Time 33:18]
01 Floods and Fields
02 Mumbles
03 Thieves Are Everywhere
04 Middle Child
05 The Cave-In
06 The Great Fire
07 Carmen
08 Uncalibrated
If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Bridges and Powerlines, visit their website, visit their MySpace page, and purchase the new CD Ghost Types directly from the Citybird records webpage.
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