B. Lance’s Rollin’ Man album (from A List of the Lost)
Bad Veins perform on WOXY
Bad Veins did a Daytrotter Session
The Buddy System live at Caledonia on 07.11.09 (from Southern Shelter)
Delta Spirit live on KEXP (from FMA)
Floating Action did a Daytrotter Session
Hola Halo live at Tasty World on 07.14.09 (from Southern Shelter)
The Ironclads live on KEXP [...]
1. NYC Taper posted recording of a recent Tortoise performance in New York at (le) Poisson Rouge. It’s a pretty solid recording, but even the worst hiccups are worth it for what was a pretty stellar set. The set opens with “Prepare Your Coffin” from their new disc Beacons of Ancestorship, which might be my [...]
Conor Oberst made his name on Bright Eyes, to many people, no matter what he does, he is Bright Eyes. But Oberst had been quoted in last month’s Rolling Stone as saying, “It does feel like it needs to stop at some point. I’d like to clean it up, lock the door, say goodbye.” Now [...]
The yearly award judged by British music critics and industry types that tells everyone what the best British album of the year is, or a decent album you should get if you don’t own it already, has announced the shortlist. Frequently the Mercury Prize seems a little crazy. There are always a few big names [...]
1. Wilco just played a huge show at Keyspan Park in New York, with Yo La Tengo, and NYC Taper captured all the glory. It was an epic show (29 tracks played), a version of “Spiders” with Yo La Tengo, and Feist came out for “You and I.” Damn. As a supplement to this download [...]
This week I’m doing to split this fella up. The usual list of free shit that’s worth looking at, slightly shorter than usual, and then another list of some ways to abuse Amazon’s download system.
Patrick Wolf recorded a Daytrotter session.
Coyote Eyes Live at Monster Island in NYC, June 19th.
Moe Tucker (formerly of The Velvet Underground) [...]
That’s right kids. The coolest indie-rock reunion continues as Mission of Burma continue their slightly under the radar comeback. They first reunited in 2002 after over a decade of non-existence. Now they are pumping out new tracks that rival their original releases. The Matablog announced yesterday that the band will be releasing a new album [...]
1. NYC Taper posted a recording of Iron & Wine’s May 18, 2009 set at Abrons Arts Center. It was a solo set from Sam Beam that was widely reviewed as a beautiful intimate evening. The posting of this show was delayed because Iron & Wine sold the show (at a slightly higher quality) over [...]
So, it’s happened. We’ve crossed the half way point of 2009. The year no longer seems fresh. It means a little more when someone tells you that Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, or Andrew Bird is the best album of 2009. And it’s time for that great music journalist past-time, list-making. Ah, the great lists that [...]
The Ohio-based lo-fi punk outfit announced plans today, over at the Matablog, to release their fourth album this fall. The album, out through Matador, is titled Born Again Revisited, and will come out on September 22. You can see the cover just lines above these words.
The band are sticking with their lo-fi aesthetic. They have [...]
