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.
Sharon Van Etten is the haunting angelic-voiced singer who as we posted yesterday, will appear as a guest vocalist on the upcoming Antlers record. Sharon will be performing several gigs in the NYC area over the next few weeks, including one of the Rooftop Films series gigs. On June 21, her rooftop gig will be on at the The Old American Can Factory in Gowanus [HERE] prior to the screening of the film “The Women of Brukman”.
Sharon’s other upcoming NYC dates include:
May 29 2008 9:00 Zebulon Brooklyn
June 6 2008 8:00 Pianos NYC
June 10 2008 8:00 Union Hall Brooklyn
June 14 2008 8:00 Union Pool Brooklyn
June 25 2008 9:00 Zebulon Brooklyn
Sharon will tour the East coast in July — check her MySpace page for more dates.
nyctaper has received permission to record the June 25 date at Zebulon.
Sharon Van Etten has a self-released custom-made CD of her excellent songs available for purchase at her website, and at the merch tables at her performances.
Deer Tick has just been added to the Rooftop Films concert series where they will perform on June 20. The Rooftop Films series screens independent films in outdoor locations throughout the City in the Summer. Deer Tick will perform at the “romantic short films” night which is listed on the site at “Lower East Side”, but we have learned is actually going to be 350 Grand Street between Essex and Ludlow.
This is the same series that Dirty on Purpose will open on June 6, which we posted about a couple of weeks ago. We have the permission of Dirty on Purpose to record that performance, but we are waiting to learn if the Rooftop people will allow recording. We expect to seek John/Deer Tick’s permission if the Rooftop people will permit, as John permitted our recording at Mercury Lounge in March.
John McCauley of Deer Tick will also perform solo at Bowery Ballroom, opening the Jaymay/AA Bondy show on June 10.
The Antlers were the third and most familiar band to perform at the nyctaper Anniversary Concert. This set was the third time we had seen the Antlers live, but the first time we heard some of the newer material that will appear on Hospice — the release planned for late 2008.
Hospice will be the first Antlers release to feature the complete band that has appeared at the live performances, rather than a recording produced entirely by Peter Silberman. The familiar faces of multi-instrumentalist Darby Cicci, bassist Justin Stivers and drummer Michael Lerner will add an ensemble feeling to the album, while such guests as the compelling vocalist Sharon Van Etten will round out this much-anticipated release. Check on Peter’s blog for updates.
See the Antlers Live in NYC at these upcoming performances:
Jun 16 2008 8:00 Cake Shop
Jun 21 2008 8:00 After The Jump Fest Brooklyn, New York
Jul 17 2008 8:00 Union Pool Brooklyn, New York
This recording is the same source as The Loom recording posted [here], a raw soundboard feed. We would have preferred to run microphones, but as we produced this event it was not possible. Enjoy!
This recording is now available to Download in FLAC and MP3 at Archive.org [HERE].
The Antlers
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
2008-05-22
Setlist:
[Total Time 31:09]
01 Kettering
02 East River Berlin Wall
03 Cold War
04 When You Sleep
05 In The Attic / Look! / Stairs To The Attic
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 their latest official release In the Attic of the Universe directly from the Fall Records website.
The National will play Summerstage on Monday August 4, it was announced today. Tickets for this show go on sale on Friday May 30. Yeasayer is the opener.
This week The National released The Virginia, an EP of b-sides and outtakes from Boxer, their acclaimed 2007 release. They will also appear as the opening band for REM and Modest Mouse at Madison Square Garden in June.
We expect tickets to go quickly for this Central Park gig. Our recording of The National’s outstanding show at BAM in February is one of the most popular recordings ever featured on nyctaper.
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