Thao with the Get Down Stay Down have announced plans to release a new album this fall. The album will be titled Know Better Learn Faster and will be released on October 13 through Kill Rock Stars. Good news for anyone who, like me, thought We Brave Bee Stings and All was one of the [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
1. Atmosphere released a free EP for the 4th of July called Leak at Will. Atmosphere has definitely had their ups and downs with records of late, but it’s a rarity that there isn’t a little gold hidden away in a release and this EP isn’t an exception. (And it’s released through Fifth Element’s online [...]
1. Try this download of Sunn O))) live at Primavera Sound, courtesy of WFMU’s ongoing releases of live sets from Primavera. Their most recent album Monoliths and Dimensions is one of the best albums of the year, so far. Their haunting brand of metal is like something out of an Argento film.
2. A band I’ve [...]
1. Michael Gordon, this past week, released his incredible composition, “Trance,” for free online. Though, there is a catch – he’s split the piece into seven parts and made it a scavenger hunt. He did this in promotion of Signal performing “Trance” at (Le) Poisson Rouge this past week (they will be performing it again [...]
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For your listening pleasure, should you have missed any of these great downloads this week, I’m compiling a list for you to look back, appreciate, and get some great free albums / EPs / singles.
1. This is a rare one. Kjartan Sveinsson (keyboardist in [...]
