Category: live

The Score: The Best of the Rest

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 [...]

The Score: The Best Free Downloads This Week

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 [...]

The Score: The Best of the Rest

Sam Roberts Daytrotter Session
Michael Zapruder Daytrotter Session
Curumin Daytrotter Session
The Handsome Family Daytrotter Session
Blind Pilot Daytrotter Session
Suckers Daytrotter Session (this is pretty awesome)
We Versus the Shark live at Morton Theater 06.26.09
Wavves live at Bowery Ballroom in NYC 07.15.09
Sigur Ros live in Lisbon 07.16.09
An album titled forgiven from A List of the Lost

White Rabbits Perform “The Salesman” at KEXP

Watch White Rabbits perform “The Salesman (The Tramp)” from their newest album

Thom Yorke Premieres New Song at Latitude Fest

That’s right, a new track from Thom Yorke. He performed over the weekend at Suffolk’s Latitude Festival, doing a 12 song set that included tracks from The Eraser and some Radiohead tracks. The new track is titled “The Present Tense,” and Stereogum has posted an MP3 of the track. Or if you go visit Stereogum [...]

The Score: Best Free Downloads This Week

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 [...]

The Score: The Best of the Rest (Free Downloads)

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) [...]

The Score: Best Free Downloads This Week

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 [...]

The Antlers Record a Luxury Wafer Session

The Antlers performed their track “Two,” from their most recent album Hospice, in a recent Luxury Wafer Session you can see below. The band just took off on a short tour with Frightened Rabbit. Tour dates below.

The Antlers – Two – Luxury Wafers Sessions from Luxury Wafers on Vimeo.
Tour Dates:
07.15 The Vollrath – Indianapolis, IN
07.16 The [...]

The Score: The Best of the Rest (Free Downloads this week…)

Bing & Ruth live from the ISSUE Room.
There is a new Flavorpill Mix Tape featuring tracks from Fever Ray, Modest Mouse, Santigold and more.
Los Campesinos! did a Daytrotter session.
Rivulets doing a Phoning It In Session from 2005, that was just posted to the FMA.
Three live recordings from Minus the Bear.
Explosions in the Sky live from [...]