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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].

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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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[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!

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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]

Ty Segall: February 1, 2013 Webster Hall – Flac/MP3/Streaming

February 4, 2013
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[photos by PSquared Photography]

Our last visit with Ty Segall was less than six months ago in the intimate DIY venue Death By Audio, when Ty played an unannounced “secret show” to a frenzied crowd of about 100 people. That show was one of our favorite ones of 2012 for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was that we were able to see this exciting and uber-talented performer from only a few feet away. Ty is perhaps the premiere current garage rock purveyor and his star continues to grow. On Friday, Ty Segall sold out Webster Hall. This was not a soft sell out — tickets prices were inflated five times over on various secondary markets for weeks before the show. After two outstanding opening sets by Ex-Cult and Mac DeMarco (coming soon), Ty took the stage in front of a completely manic crowd literally stuffed into every inch of the floor. It didn’t take long for space to clear however, as the moshing was frequent and intense and consisted of a majority of the floor dwellers. Our vantage point was quite different from DBA, as we occupied our usual Webster spot on the right side of the soundboard perch which gave us a full vantage point of the entire crazy floor. But while the crowd was certainly entertaining and a hoot to watch, the real action was on stage where Ty and his band ripped through an hour-long set. The setlist included five songs from his latest album the outstanding Twins and a good mix of old and new material going all the way back to his first official 7″ “Skin”. Ty Segall’s tour continues through the middle of February and moves through the midwest, dates here.

I recorded this show from the soundboard perch with the Sennheiser cards mixed with an excellent board feed and the sound quality is outstanding. Enjoy!

Stream “I Bought My Eyes”:

Stream “Standing at the Station”:

Download the Complete show [MP3] / [FLAC]

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Ty Segall
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
2013-02-02

Setlist:
[Total Time 56:06]
01 [introduction]
02 Thank God for Sinners
03 You’re the Doctor
04 I Bought My Eyes
05 Tell Me What’s Inside Your Heart
06 Finger
07 Standing at the Station
08 Girlfriend
09 The Tongue
10 Handglams
11 The Hill
12 Skin
13 [banter – Judith]
14 Wave Goodbye
15 [banter – crowd]
16 Oh Mary
17 [banter – Chris Shaw intro]
18 Imaginary Person [Chris Shaw vocals]
19 [banter – ZZ Top]
20 My Sunshine
21 I Am With You
22 Inside Your Heart

If you download this recording from NYCTaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Ty Segall, visit his website, and purchase his latest album Twins from Drag City Records [HERE].

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

January 31, 2013
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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]

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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]

My Brightest Diamond: January 23, 2013 Bowery Ballroom – FLAC/MP3/Streaming

January 27, 2013
By

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[photos by acidjack]

I can still recall my short, sharp gasp upon first hearing Shara Worden, aka My Brightest Diamond, bring the song “Be Brave” to its climax. It was one of those precious moments for me when an artist’s gift comes into focus, and goosebumps and rapt awe follow; when you realize you’re hearing somebody who is that good.  The song’s theme of metamorphosis is expressed in both the mask Worden wears while performing it, as well as in its explosive peak.  “Be changed, or be undone” is the song’s refrain and message, and it is an apt one for Worden’s music.  With a singular vision that combines classical training, cabaret flair and colorful arrangements, Worden’s palette has few borders and her ability to use it has few equals. Her music evolves, progresses, breathes, grows.

Like Björk, David Byrne, and The Dirty Projectors, Worden achieves the feat of making intellectually engaging music without alienating her music’s pop core. That skill affords her both the critical acclaim that she so deserves, as well as a dedicated, educated audience large enough to easily fill the Bowery Ballroom on a Wednesday in the dead of winter, after a holiday weekend. At least New York’s freezing temperatures of late are no worse than the weather conditions in Worden’s adopted home of Detroit, where she decamped in the late 00s after spending the formative years of her musical career here. Surveying the adoring crowd, she told us she missed us.

Now three albums in under the My Brightest Diamond moniker, Worden’s writing has never been sharper or more engaging than on 2011’s All Things Will Unwind, which has a follow-up in the works.  Worden played three of these new songs, “That Point When”, “Looking at the Sun” and “A Bronze Head” at this show. The first two tracks suggested a continuing evolution toward the orchestral pop of All Things Will Unwind, but “A Bronze Head” is pure angular rock, pairing No Wave-ish guitars with a soaring vocal that reminds you, if you’ve forgotten, of Worden’s opera training.  After last seeing My Brightest Diamond in smaller configurations duo recently (once at a private Obama fundraiser, once at a late afternoon performance at MoMA), experiencing the project as a full band, doing a full set, reminded me of just how awesome the range of Worden’s styles can be; the straight-ahead rock of “Golden Star” from her first record and “Inside A Boy” from her second fit right alongside songs like “Be Brave” and “Escape Routes”. Worden is indeed a brave artist; she is also an indisputably great one.

I recorded this set with Schoeps MK5 microphones and a soundboard feed of the flawless house mix by longtime Bowery engineer, Kenny. The sound quality is outstanding, perhaps the best recording I have made in this venue. Enjoy!

Special thanks to Shara Worden for giving permission to make and share this recording.

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

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My Brightest Diamond
2013-01-23
Bowery Ballroom
New York, NY USA

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

Schoeps MK5 (cardiod, slightly LOC, balcony, PAS)>KC5>CMC6>Sound Devices USBPre2 + Soundboard (engineer: Kenny)>>Edirol R-44 [OCM]>2x24bit/48kHz WAV>Audacity 3.0 (mix down)>Izotope Ozone 5 (light EQ, exciter)>Audacity 3.0 (set fades, tracking, gentle parallel compression, amplify, balance, downsample)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks [Total Time: 1:18:18]
01 Golden Star
02 Reaching Through to the Other Side
03 Escape Routes
04 Be Brave
05 That Point When [new]
06 Looking At the Sun [new]
07 Magic Rabbit
08 I Have Never Loved Someone
09 [North Wind banter]
10 From the Top
11 Dragonfly
12 High Low Middle
13 Apples
14 A Bronze Head [new]
15 [banter]
16 Inside A Boy
17 [encore break]
18 We Added It Up

If you enjoyed this recording, PLEASE SUPPORT My Brightest Diamond, visit their website, and buy their records from Insound or your favorite retailer.

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

January 23, 2013
By

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[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].

She Keeps Bees: December 15, 2012 Cameo Gallery – Flac/MP3/Streaming

January 17, 2013
By

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[photo courtesy of Amanda Hatfield and brooklynvegan]

Last month at Sharon Van Etten’s secret show at Cameo Gallery, we weren’t entirely certain until well into the evening as to whether Sharon would actually play. But we were ok with that, since the bill included our old friends She Keeps Bees. We hadn’t seen Jess and Andy in quite a while, likely in over a year. They spend a lot of time recording and playing in Europe, since, well, our brethren overseas have caught on to the magic of She Keeps Bees better than the audiences and industry folk over here. Their 2011 release Dig On was one of Rough Trade’s albums of the year, but it hardly made a blip in America. In the US, its not to say that when a crowd is at an SKB show, they don’t have a great time. Its just that the crowds aren’t big enough and the industry buzz isn’t loud enough given the immense talent and likeability of this duo. Eventually, it will happen. And perhaps the friendship of performers like Sharon Van Etten will help — it certainly can’t hurt. At Cameo last month, She Keeps Bees played a forty minute set in a style to which we’ve become accustomed — a nice mix of material old and new, plenty of hilarious banter, and some outstanding individual performances. We’re streaming the finale of “Ribbon” because it encapsulates much of what’s great about this band, talent, energy and lots of soul.

I recorded this set in the same manner as Sharon’s set, and the sound quality is outstanding. Enjoy!

Stream “Ribbon”:

Download the Complete show [MP3] / [FLAC]

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She Keeps Bees
2012-12-15
Cameo Gallery
Brooklyn, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Recorded from Front 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
2013-01-16

Setlist:
[Total Time 36:02]
01 Sister Beware
02 Breezy
03 Counter Charm
04 Pillz
05 All or None
06 See Me
07 [banter]
08 Vulture
09 Gimme
10 Howl
11 Ribbon

If you download this recording from NYCTaper, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT She Keeps Bees, visit their website, and purchase Dig On from their Bandcamp page [HERE].

Hospitality: January 10, 2013 Bowery Ballroom – FLAC/MP3/Streaming

January 14, 2013
By

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[Photos by Dominick Mastrangelo]

Hospitality‘s eponymous LP on Merge Records was one of the more underrated records of 2012. Short on gimmicks but filled with concise pop songwriting and excellent hooks, Hospitality is one of those records that may not blow your mind, but it can make your afternoon.  Here in New York, the band sold out Glasslands handily for the record release party, and played other area shows at bigger venues like Brooklyn Bowl. But their Bowery moment ended up being postponed; this show was originally scheduled for the week in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, when Manhattan’s best-loved venue was without power. Despite that bit of bad luck, the band put on a hell of a show for us at this rescheduled date. Along with some of their finest ear worms like “Friends of Friends” and “Betty Wang”, the band debuted three new songs, “Nightingale”, “Experience” and “Going Out”. But the set’s highlight may have been them playing both sides of their 2012 seven-inch release back-to-back in a seamless jam, with “The Drift” moving seamlessly into “Monkey”. The new songs have a slightly harder edge, and that suits the band well. I am glad they got this much-deserved second chance at their Bowery moment; Hospitality has much more to offer.

I recorded this set with Schoeps MK5 cardiod microphones and an excellent soundboard feed from the Bowery Ballroom’s longtime FOH, Kenny, with the band’s mix provided by Hospitality’s own FOH, Jiwoo Han. The sound is excellent. Enjoy!

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

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Hospitality
2013-01-10
Bowery Ballroom
New York, NY USA

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

Schoeps MK5 (cardiod, slightly LOC, DIN, balcony)>KCY>Z-PFA + Soundboard (engineer: Jiwoo Han)>>Roland R-26>2x24bit/48kHz WAV>Adobe Audition CS 5.5 (adjust levels, align, mix down)>Izotope Ozone 5 (mild HPF, tube exciter)>Audacity 3.0 (set fades, tracking, amplify, balance, downsample)>FLAC ( level 8 )

Tracks [Total Time 54:47]
01 Eighth Avenue
02 The Right Profession
03 Friends of Friends
04 [new song 1] Going Out
05 Betty Wang
06 Nightingale [new]
07 [banter1]
08 Experience [new]
09 Liberal Arts
10 Sleepover
11 Julie
12 The Drift>
13 Monkey
14 All Day Today
15 Half An Apple
16 [banter2]
17 Argonauts

If you email nyctaper for access to this recording, we expect that you will PLEASE SUPPORT Hospitality, visit their Facebook page, visit their artist page at Merge’s website, and purchase their debut album from the Merge Records website [HERE]

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Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby: December 1, 2012 Maxwell’s – Flac/MP3/Streaming

January 11, 2013
By

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[still from this video]

Intrepid reporter and frequent NYCTaper contributor neild was out in Hoboken in December (weren’t we all), and he was fortunate to capture the unique couple of Amy and Eric. He reports:

If you only know Wreckless Eric from his late ’70s Stiff Records hits (“Whole Wide World,” “Reconnez Cherie”) and Amy Rigby from her breakout ’90s singer-songwriter albums (“Diary of a Mod Housewife,” “Middlescence”), man, have you been missing out. The duo have been a couple on- and off-stage for close to eight years now — ever since a chance meeting at a Yo La Tengo Hanukkah show, hilariously related by Amy in her new song “Do You Remember That?” — and recently relocated from a small town in France to an equally small town in the Catskills. Fortunately for their U.S. fans, this has meant a lot more local performances, with a recent tour for their new CD “A Working Museum” culminating in this return to Maxwell’s, a perfect showcase for their country-folk-meets-psychedelic-punk duets and always-riotous stage banter.

A Working Museum is Eric and Amy’s third album together (plus one brilliant 7-inch, “Bobblehead Doll/Teflon Wok,” available from their website), and most of this set is drawn from it, along with a handful of songs from their previous albums plus a few solo favorites. This show also featured the surprise addition of special guest Chris Butler of the Waitresses, who added acoustic guitar and percussion on several songs, including an epic set-penultimate performance of “Whole Wide World.”

I recorded the audience portion from about ten feet back of stage center with Core Sound binaural mics; I’d planned to hook up a separate recorder to the soundboard, but when one of my cables turned out to be bad, heroic Maxwell’s soundguy Carson stepped in and burned a soundboard feed directly to CDR. (There were a couple of SBD dropouts, one at the start of the show and one in the middle of “Whole Wide World,” but these were mostly inaudibly patched with the plain AUD recording.) The result is an excellent matrix of possibly the best of several Eric and Amy shows I’ve had the pleasure of attending. Huge thanks to Carson for his help, and to Amy for signing off on posting this here.

Stream “Whole Wide World”

Download the Complete show [MP3] / [FLAC]

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Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby
2012-12-01
Maxwell’s
Hoboken, NJ

Exclusive download hosted at nyctaper.com
Recorded and mastered by neil d

Source 1: AUD > CoreSound Binaurals > MM-EBM-1 battery box (with bass roll-off) > Line In > iRiver H320 (Rockboxed) > AIFF > Sound Studio
Source 2: Direct SBD feed > CDR > Toast > AIFF > Sound Studio
Mixed in Sound Studio > AIFF > XAct > FLAC

01 intro
02 Astrovan
03 When I Get Out of Breath
04 Ballad of Easy Rider
05 Another Drive-in Saturday
06 Please Be Nice to Her
07 Til The Wheels Fall Off
08 Duvet Fever
09 Rebel Girl, Rebel Girl
10 The Doubt
11 Days of Jack and Jill
12 Genovese Bag
13 Zero to Minus One
14 Teflon Wok
15 Bobblehead Doll
16 Do You Remember That
17 Whole Wide World
18 Dancing With Joey Ramone

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