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Diane Cluck: February 5, 2013 Joe’s Pub – Flac/MP3/Streaming

February 10, 2013
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Diane Cluck live
[still from this video]

I think its fair to say that Diane Cluck has had an admirable but unconventional career. As part of the early 2000’s NYC anti-folk movement, she’s been an abundant songwriting and performing talent for well over a decade. But while some of her early contemporaries have moved to major labels, Diane has eschewed conventional success to pursue a more rewarding personal journey. But it seems that despite her uncompromising career choices, her time has come. Last Spring, Diane introduced her “Song of the Week”, where in a kickstarter-style subscription service her fans can receive one song at regular intervals until all 24 songs of her project are revealed. Each release is accompanied by lyrics and personal discussions with Diane. This is essentially artist-to-fan interaction at its purest form and represents an ideal format for this particular artist. At present, there have been eight releases which have included seven songs and set of poems. At Joe’s Pub on Tuesday night, Diane Cluck performed all seven of those songs in a compellingly beautiful seventy minute set. While the venue was not packed on this mid-week late show, there was nevertheless a healthy crowd of adoring fans, all of whom were quiet and rapt with attention to the performer throughout the music but who were also vociferous in their praise in between songs. Diane performed with a trio who included her recent collaborators cellist Isabel Castellvi and percussionist Anders Griffen, and the group worked through a setlist of highlights from Diane’s catalog with grace and precision. Diane Cluck does not perform frequently in NYC, but rest assured we’ll be there again when she returns.

There are some outstanding photos from this show at Gretchen Robinette’s tumblr [here].

I recorded this set with the DPA 4061 omnis attached to the large pole on the right side of the venue and mixed with a mono feed from the soundboard. Joe’s Pub has some hurdles to capture a clean recording, including the sounds of an active restaurant and the rumble of the 6 train below the venue. I mixed the sources about 60/40 in favor of the board over the mics, but some of the ambient sounds can still be heard, which are necessary in order to maintain the feel of the room. Overall, the sound of this recording is still quite excellent. Enjoy!

Stream “Content to Reform”:

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Diane Cluck
2013-02-05
Joe’s Pub
New York, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + DPA 4061s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, downsample set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and Tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper
2013-02-08

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:08:34]
01 Hai
02 Maybe A Bird
03 Content to Reform
04 [band introduction]
05 Grandma Say
06 [banter Song of the Week]
07 Heartloose
08 Far Too Witchy
09 Draw Me Out
10 Love-Letter Launches
11 Trophies
12 [banter – grandmas]
13 Roma
14 Soft Little Reach-Out
15 A Phoenix and Doves
16 Red August
17 Ainoneenany
18 Not Afraid to Be Kind
19 Why Feel Alone
20 Sara
21 [encore break]
22 Bird of Kindness
23 Easy To Be Around

If you download this recording from NYCTaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Diane Cluck, visit her website, and subscribe to her Song Of The Week [HERE].

Cracker: January 19, 2013 Stage 48 – Flac/MP3/Streaming

February 8, 2013
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[photo by Dean Keim]

On their annual co-tour with Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker usually gets the anchor spot. I guess this is because David Lowery, who gets double duty each night, sings louder and more vociferously for Cracker’s style of music than he does for CVB, and if the bands were reversed he’d have no voice at all for the Camper set. For the Stage 48 show a few weeks back, this was again the case. Lowery was his usual more animated Cracker self for a very energetic show. But on that night, we were doubly impressed with the work of Johnny Hickman whose energy, humor and guitar work always makes a Cracker show more entertaining. At the Stage 48 show however, Johnny seemed especially moved by the recent loss of a friend Mac Shingleton and the dedication to Mac of “Another Song About the Rain” ignited something special in that song and the moving version was the highlight of the evening. We’re streaming it below.

I recorded this set in the same manner as the CVB set and the sound is superb. Enjoy!

Stream “Another Song About the Rain”:

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

Note: All of the material on this site is offered with artist permission, free to fans, at our expense. The only thing we ask is that you download the material directly from this site, rather than re-posting the direct links or the files on other sites without our permission. Please respect our request.

Cracker
2013-01-19
Stage 48
New York, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Recorded from Inside of Soundboard Booth

Soundboard + Sennheiser MKH-8040s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 24bit 48kHz wav file > Soundforge (level adjustments, EQ, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and Tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper
2013-02-07

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:21:01]
01 Low
02 Teen Angst
03 The Good Life
04 Useless Stuff
05 I Could Be Wrong
06 Friends
07 Forever
08 [banter – tuning]
09 Turn on Tune in Drop Out with Me
10 Eurotrash Girl
11 Big Dipper
12 Guarded By Monkeys
13 Seven Days
14 Another Song About the Rain
15 [encore break]
16 Gimme One More Chance
17 I See The Light

If you download this recording from NYCTaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Cracker, visit their website, and purchase their official releases directly from the Store at their website [here] or from the 429 Records website [here].

Mac DeMarco: February 1, 2013 Webster Hall – Flac/MP3/Streaming

February 7, 2013
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Mac DeMarco - Hatfield
[photo by Amanda Hatfield – courtesy of brooklynvegan]

Mac DeMarco is pulling your leg. He acts the part of the hick from Canada just playing his guitar with his friends, joking about everything, drinking, burping into the microphone, and generally just goofing around. And then the music starts. The songs are typical for an early 20s performer, so yeah there’s also some goof in there, but the serious aspect is that Mac can write and perform top notch indie-pop. Captured Tracks is in on it too, as they’ve released the debut EP and Mac’s new album 2. At Webster Hall on Friday, all of the hijinx were present but the musicianship was there too. Mac worked through much of his still young catalog and threw in a few crazy covers — who goes from Brubeck to Limp Bizkit on a dime — but still managed to perform an extremely entertaining forty-five minute set. Mac DeMarco will continue to tour throughout the year and today it was announced that he’ll be the support on the new Phoenix tour.

I recorded this set in the same manner as the Ty Segall set and the sound is outstanding. Enjoy!

Stream “Ode to Viceroy”:

Download the Complete show [MP3] / [FLAC]

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Mac DeMarco
2013-02-01
Webster Hall
New York, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Sennheiser MKH-8040s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, downsample set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and Tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper
2013-02-04

Setlist:
[Total Time 43:31]
01 [introduction]
02 The Stars Keep On Calling My Name
03 Cooking Up Something Good
04 Rock and Roll Nightclub
05 Ode To Viceroy
06 [banter – its only smells]
07 Annie
08 Freaking Out the Neighborhood
09 Baby’s Wearing Blue Jeans
10 My Kind Of Woman
11 She’s Really All I Need
12 Take Five [Dave Brubeck]
13 Just One of Those Days [Limp Bizkit]
14 Schism [Tool]
15 She’s Really All I Need (Reprise)
16 Still Together

If you download this recording from NYCTaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Mac DeMarco, visit his artist page at Captured Tracks, and purchase his debut album 2 from Captured Tracks [HERE].

Woodsman: January 25, 2013 Mercury Lounge – FLAC/MP3/Streaming

February 6, 2013
By

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[Photos by acidjack]

The Brooklyn-by-way-of-Denver band Woodsman make a unique brand of rock that features unconventional song structures and a mystical, blissed-out vibe.  While their excellent 2011 release, Rare Forms, was a good listen, the band had already evolved beyond it by the time of its release, as evidence by the Mystic Places EP that followed it shortly after.  As evidenced by much of the new material played during this opening set at Mercury Lounge, the band’s last year or so found them moving the goalposts again.  Here, the band performed a series of pure instrumentals, all of them save their 2012 single release “All Tangled Up” being brand new. These songs are about developing texture and mood, almost totally absent the bombastic dance-floor sound that kicked off Rare Forms or the Spiritualized/Pink Floyd-style rock sound that characterized much of Mystic Places. Part of the change in feel owes to the band’s shift from a two-drummer four piece to one-drummer trio, which, depending on which of their styles you like best, could be addition by subtraction.  These new compositions show considerable promise for the forthcoming third LP, in particular the night’s final complete number, “Ruin”.

I recorded this set with MBHO KA500N hypercardiod microphones and a soundboard feed from the talented longtime Mercury Lounge engineer Kevin. The sound is excellent. Enjoy!

Thanks to Woodsman for letting us post the recording, and their help with the setlist!

Direct download of the complete show: [MP3] | [FLAC]

If the FLAC link is no longer working, email nyctaper for the FLAC files

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Woodsman
2013-01-25
Mercury Lounge
New York, NY USA

Exclusive download hosted at nyctaper.com
Recorded and produced by acidjack

Soundboard (engineer: Kevin Mazzarelli) + MBHO KA500N>MBP603>Sound Devices USBPre2>>Edirol R-44 [OCM]>2x24bit/48kHz WAV>Adobe Audition CS 5.5 (mix down, adjust levels)>Izotope Ozone 5 (light EQ, exciter)>Audacity 3.0 (set fades, mix down, amplify, balance, downsample)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks
01 All Tangled Up
02 Balance
03 Untitled
04 Teleseparation
05 Ruin
06 [outro]

The Amazing: January 25, 2013 Mercury Lounge – FLAC/MP3/Streaming

January 31, 2013
By

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The Amazing hail from Sweden and share some members with that country’s well-known retro-psych outfit Dungen (our most recent recording of them HERE).  While The Amazing also share some stylistic traits with that band, most obviously the stellar guitar work of both bands’ lead guitarist Reine Fisk, they also stand as a distinct entity. The Amazing’s sound is a more nuanced affair than the rock behemoth that is Dungen, and their songwriting is more wistful and textured.  Frontman Christoff Gunrup sings in English, and that combined with the instrumental approach gives The Amazing the caste of a folkier, almost countrified version of Dungen.  This show at Mercury Lounge found the band celebrating the release of their latest record, Gentle Stream, their second full-length LP and first to be released by our good friends at Partisan Records. The boys served up material from all three of their current records, with an appropriate amount of emphasis given to the latest effort. This was their final NYC show for a bit, but don’t ignore a chance to see these guys, wherever they may be.

I recorded this set with MBHO KA500N hypercardiod microphones and a soundboard feed from the talented longtime Mercury Lounge engineer Kevin. The sound is excellent. Enjoy!

Direct download of the complete show: [MP3] | [FLAC]

If the FLAC link is no longer working, email nyctaper for the FLAC files

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The Amazing
2013-01-25
Mercury Lounge
New York, NY USA

Exclusive download hosted at nyctaper.com
Recorded and produced by acidjack

Soundboard (engineer: Kevin Mazzarelli) + MBHO KA500N>MBP603>Sound Devices USBPre2>>Edirol R-44 [OCM]>2x24bit/48kHz WAV>Adobe Audition CS 5.5 (multi band compression on SBD, mix down)>Izotope Ozone 5 (EQ, exciter)>Audacity (set fades, additional EQ, tracking, amplify, balance, downsample)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks [Total Time: 54:41]
01 Head Beaches
02 [banter1]
03 Deportation Day
04 Dogs
05 [banter2]
06 The Fog>
07 Gentle Stream
08 Flashlight
09 Gone
10 When the Colours Change

If you enjoyed this recording, PLEASE SUPPORT The Amazing, like them on Facebook, and buy Gentle Stream from Partisan Records [HERE]

Camper Van Beethoven: January 19, 2013 Stage 48 – Flac/MP3/Streaming

January 23, 2013
By

CVB Keim
[photos by Dean Keim]

Yesterday, Camper Van Beethoven released their eighth album La Costa Perdida, and first since 2004. The album is a strong continuation of the band’s latter-era mature material. That is to say a melodic mix of CVB songwriting abilities and eclectic influences delivered with technical proficiency. The band’s traditional mini winter tour took them to NYC for the fifth consecutive January, but first at the new midtown venue Stage 48, a club similar in layout and vibe to the location of the three previous CVB NYC shows, Highline Ballroom, but with more “uptown” feel. While at last year’s show we got a sneak peek at 3 of the new songs, on Saturday night the band played five of the album’s ten tracks, including the single-quality number “Northern California Girls” that we are streaming below. While technically “opening” the show, these co-headline sets with Cracker (recording coming soon) are virtually full length, so the band played seventy minutes of material including quite a number of classics. Camper will continue to tour on the album with shows in the Southeast in January and the West coast in February.

This was our first trip to Stage 48. We were quite impressed with the sound quality of the room and the superb quality of this recording reflects the excellent system at Stage 48 and the talents of the venue’s FOH Will. I recorded this set with the Sennheiser cards from the soundboard booth, which is located above the floor but below the balcony and mixed it with a fine board feed. Enjoy!

Stream “Northern California Girls”:

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

Note: All of the material on this site is offered with artist permission, free to fans, at our expense. The only thing we ask is that you download the material directly from this site, rather than re-posting the direct links or the files on other sites without our permission. Please respect our request.

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Camper Van Beethoven
2013-01-19
Stage 48
New York, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Recorded from Inside of Soundboard Booth

Soundboard + Sennheiser MKH-8040s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 24bit 48kHz wav file > Soundforge (level adjustments, EQ, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and Tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper
2013-01-22

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:09:34]
01 [introduction]
02 Waka
03 Pictures of Matchstick Men
04 Seven Languages
05 Summer Days
06 All Her Favorite Fruit
07 Northern California Girls
08 One Of These Days
09 Too High For the Love In
10 Sad Lovers Waltz
11 Take The Skinheads Bowling
12 You Got To Roll
13 Tania
14 Peaches in the Summertime
15 New Roman Times
16 L’Aguardiente
17 Eye of Fatima Part 1
18 Eye of Fatima Part 2

If you download this recording from NYCTaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Camper Van Beethoven, visit their website, and purchase La Costa Perdida directly from the Store at their website [HERE].

Mission of Burma: January 18, 2013 Bowery Ballroom – Flac/MP3/Streaming

January 20, 2013
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[photos by PSquared Photography courtesy of brooklynvegan]

Mission of Burma has accomplished a singular feat among rock acts. They are both one of the seminal and most influential early post-punk bands and also one of the most compelling current purveyors of the genre. At Bowery Ballroom on Friday night, both aspects of the band’s catalog were on display. MOB is currently playing shows featuring their newest album Unsound (Fire Records), and the setlist included six of the album’s eleven tracks. The new material was seamlessly mixed in the set with older material, going all the way back to the earliest single “Nu Disco”, the band’s best known early song “Academy Fight Song”, and one of their best covers (from The Horrible Truth) the Stooges “1970” (streaming below). Throughout the night what was on display was the band’s singular proficiency at their instruments. Roger Miller’s genre-defining guitar work, Peter Prescott’s aggressive drumming and Clint Conley’s angular bass work define this band’s legendary sound. But also on this tour the band’s has been accompanied by a horn duo, and as is traditional, tape wizard Bob Weston joined on bass for the final encore “Good, Not Great” (also streaming below). Mission of Burma doesn’t really “tour” as much as they play a handful of shows in spurts throughout the year. NYC was the final show of January, but the band will return for three shows in the Southeast in March.

I recorded this set with the four microphone rig from the balcony rail and the sound is excellent. Enjoy!

Stream “1970 (Stooges cover)”:

Stream “Good, Not Great”:

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

Note: All of the material on this site is offered with artist permission, free to fans, at our expense. The only thing we ask is that you download the material directly from this site, rather than re-posting the direct links or the files on other sites without our permission. Please respect our request.

Mission Of Burma
2013-01-18
Bowery Ballroom
New York, NY USA

Digital Master
Four-Track Audience Recording
Recorded from Balcony Railing

Sennheiser MKH-8040 Cardioids + Neumann KM-150s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 24bit 48kHz wav file > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced by nyctaper
2013-01-19

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:15:05]
01 Second Television
02 Fell – H20
03 7s
04 Donna Sumeria
05 Sectionals in Mourning
06 2wice
07 Nu Disco
08 This Is Hi-Fi
09 What They Tell Me
10 ADD in Unison
11 Dead Pool
12 This Is Not a Photograph
13 Absent Mind
14 Red
15 1 2 3 Partyy
16 1970 [Stooges]
17 [encore break and loops]
18 Academy Fight Song
19 Spiders Web
20 Good Not Great

If you download this recording from NYCTaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Mission of Burma, visit their website, and purchase Unsound from the Fire Records website [HERE] and purchase other Mission of Burma material from the Store at their website [HERE].

The Infamous Stringdusters: December 27, 2012 Bowery Ballroom – FLAC/MP3/Streaming

January 2, 2013
By

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[Photos by acidjack]

Bluegrass music was born in Appalachia, far from Boston where the founders of The Infamous Stringdusters first got together. Many of the genre’s original players and adherents weren’t professionally educated in music, either – if they were educated at all. The Stringdusters were, but don’t let their skill with their instruments or their professionalism fool you – they are keeping bluegrass alive in the best of ways, paying homage to the past while moving the music into the 21st century. This Bowery Ballroom show was a homecoming for some of the band members who call New York home, and it felt like one, with the band members relaxed but on point as they delivered a nearly two and a half hour set of material from their latest record, Silver Sky, as well as wide-ranging covers that included the Police’s “Walking On the Moon” (covered on Silver Sky) and Pink Floyd’s “Fearless” as well as classic blues and country standards. I had not seen the Stringdusters live before and was kicking myself for taking this long. An evening with these guys makes for an outstanding evening of music.

I recorded this set with MBHO KA500N hypercardiod microphones from the balcony. Fortunately, hi and lo was with me to provide a second source to patch about 7 minutes of the set that were missed when I had an equipment problem.  The sound quality is excellent. Enjoy!

Direct download of the complete show: [MP3] | [FLAC]
You can also stream and download this recording on the Live Music Archive [HERE]

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The Infamous Stringdusters
2012-12-27
Bowery Ballroom
New York, NY USA

Hosted at nyctaper.com

Recorded by acidjack and hi and lo
Produced by acidjack

MBHO KA500N>MBP603>Aerco MP-2>Sony PCM-M10>24bit/44.1kHz WAV>Adobe Audition CS5.5 (combine tracks, patch 7min of missing sound from source #2)>Izotope Ozone 5 (EQ, exciter)>Audacity 3.0 (set fades, light DR compression, tracking, amplify, balance, downsample)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks [Total Time 2:20:31]

Set 1
01 Road to Boulder
02 In God’s Country [U2]
03 Get It While You Can
04 The Place That I Call Home
05 Night On the River>
06 Well, Well (w/ “Norwegian Wood” tease)
07 One More Bridge
08 Telluride
09 Like I Do>
10 Up On Cripple Creek [The Band]
11 Black Rock

Set 2
12 Bonaparte’s Retreat>Fork Tease
13 Travelin’ Teardrop Blues [Del McCoury]>
14 Foggy Mountain Breakdown
15 [banter1]
16 Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright [Bob Dylan]
17 No More To Leave You Behind>
18 17 Cents
19 How Far I’d Fall For You
20 A Hundred Years From Now [Elvis Presley]
21 Walking On the Moon [The Police]
22 Deep Ellum Blues [traditional]
23 Long Lonesome Day>
24 I Am A Stranger [Jeremy and Glen Garrett]
25 [banter2]
26 Some Wind
27 Gettin’ Down the Road
28 [encore break 1]
29 Fearless [Pink Floyd]
30 [encore break 2]
31 Fork In the Road

If you enjoyed this recording, please support The Infamous Stringdusters, visit their website, and buy their albums in their online store [HERE]

Animal Collective: December 4, 2012 Terminal 5 – Flac/MP3/Streaming

December 26, 2012
By

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[photo courtesy of Two Sails]

Ever the new music innovators, for their tour in 2012 Animal Collective has gone retro. Over the last decade the band has slowly evolved into a purely electronic live act. And when founder Deakin took a “leave”, the band was a trio for the last several years. But Deakin is back and so is a more traditional band layout on stage. At Terminal 5 earlier this month, Panda Bear spent the entire show playing a full drum set, Deakin was primarily on guitar and Avey Tare played keyboards. Surely, there were electronics — Geologist mostly, but each of the other three had their gizmos laid out in front of them. This year the band is touring on the strength of the new album Centipede Hz (Domino), a release that flew under the buzz radar but which is as solid as anything the band has ever produced. At Terminal 5 Animal Collective played two consecutive nights, a make-up of sorts for the Williamsburg Waterfront show postponed in August. AC seemed quite comfortable in the “new” config on the first night of the Terminal 5 shows, and played nearly two hours. The setlist began with almost all of Centipede before the classics to closed the show. Animal Collective will tour Australia after the New Year, and likely return to NYC for Spring or Summer shows.

I recorded this show with the 4-mic configuration from inside of the soundboard booth on the floor. The large venue swallowed up some of the sound on this night, so that while the recording is rich in bottom end, its also a bit “boomy”. With that caveat, enjoy!

Stream “Monkey Riches”:

Stream “My Girls”:

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

Note: All of the material on this site is offered with artist permission, free to fans, at our expense. The only thing we ask is that you download the material directly from this site, rather than re-posting the direct links or the files on other sites without our permission. Please respect our request.

Animal Collective
2012-12-04
Terminal 5
New York, NY USA

Digital Master
Front of Board Four-Track Audience Recording

Sennheiser MKH-8040 Cardioids + Neumann KM-150s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 24bit 48kHz wav file > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced by nyctaper
2012-12-10

Setlist:
[Total Time 1:47:45]
01 Rosie Oh
02 Todays Supernatural
03 Wide Eyed
04 Applesauce
05 Honeycomb
06 Lion In A Coma
07 Moonjock
08 Pulleys
09 New Town Burnout
10 Monkey Riches
11 Brother Sport
12 Peacebone
13 [encore break]
14 Cobwebs
15 My Girls
16 Amanita

If you download this recording from NYCTaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Animal Collective, visit their website, and purchase Centipede Hz from the Domino Records Store [HERE].

Kevin Devine: December 1, 2012 Webster Hall (3 Full Albums!) – Flac/MP3/Streaming

December 14, 2012
By


[photos by Corry Arnold – courtesy of Impose Magazine]

He’s been recording albums for more than ten years, and Kevin Devine decided to have a party to celebrate. And what a party it was, as Kevin came bearing gifts in the form of three of his albums played straight through in three sets at Webster Hall on Saturday last. He performed his first album Circle Gets The Square as a solo acoustic set, and mixed in one new Sandy-inspired song. The final two sets and the encores were played with two different version of the band, as set two consisted of the latest album Between the Concrete and Clouds with a stripped down God Damn Band, and the final set of Split the Country, Split the Street (and encores) with a full version of the band. This was an ambitious undertaking, but in the end it proved that Kevin and the God Damn Band were up to the task. Overall, the night saw the performance of thirty-eight separate songs in close to three full hours of music — a marathon of sorts, but also a full-scale celebration of the career thus far of one of indie-pop’s great songwriters and perhaps one of its most under-appreciated ones at that. The result was one of the best shows we saw all year.

I recorded this set with the Sennheiser cards mounted in front of the soundboard in the balcony and mixed with a superb soundboard feed. For the first set, I did not fully reset my levels after a high-volume soundcheck, so that Kevin’s quiet set has low levels on the master that had to be boosted, leading to some ambient noise. For the second set, everything was dialed in perfectly and the sound is superb. Finally, the rowdiness of the now-drunk crowd is maybe a bit too apparent in the third set, which sounds excellent but has quite a bit of shouting, even with the board feed boosted. With those caveats, enjoy!

Stream “Protest Singer”:

Stream “Between The Concrete and the Clouds”:

Stream “Cotton Crush”:

Download the Complete show [MP3] / [FLAC]

Note: All of the material on this site is offered with artist permission, free to fans, at our expense. The only thing we ask is that you download the material directly from this site, rather than re-posting the direct links or the files on other sites without our permission. Please respect our request.

Kevin Devine
2012-12-01
Webster Hall
New York, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Sennheiser MKH-8040s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, downsample set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and Tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper
2012-12-06

Setlist:
[Set 1 – Total Time 43:51]
01 [introduction]
02 Fingerprints and Photographs
03 [banter – Circle]
04 Write Your Story Now
05 Protest Singer
06 Guys With Record Collections
07 [banter – John]
08 If We Meet Today
09 [new song intro]
10 From Here
11 This Box Is Empty
12 Working in Quiet
13 Letting a Good One Go
14 Confessional at 6 PM
15 [banter – thanks]
16 Lullaby For a Snow Faced Girl
[Set 2 – Total Time 44:09]
17 Off-Screen
18 The First Hit
19 [banter]
20 Sleepwalking Through My Life
21 Awake In the Dirt
22 Between the Concrete and the Clouds
23 11-17
24 [band introductions]
25 Wait Out the Wreck
26 A Story A Sneak
27 The City Has Left You Alone
28 I Used To Be Someone
[Set 3 – Total Time 1:15:45]
29 Cotton Crush
30 Afterparty
31 No Time Flat
32 [banter]
33 Keep Ringing Your Bell
34 No One Elses Problem
35 Buried By The Buzz
36 Haircut
37 Probably
38 Alabama Acres
39 Yr Damned Ol Dad
40 [band introductions]
41 The Shift Change Splits The Streets
42 You Are The Daybreak
43 Lord I Know We Dont Talk
44 [encore break]
45 Every Famous Last Word
46 Just Stay
47 Noose Dressed Like A Necklace
48 [banter – thanks]
49 My Brothers Blood

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