Melvins - Englewood 2009

Melvins, live at the Gothic Theater, Englewood L.A., 22nd August 2009

The Melvins are a grunge band from Washington state who started life as a hardcore punk band. Lead by 'Buzz' Osbourne, the distinctive haired frontman, they've been making noise for 25 years now, and show no signs of stopping any time soon. Enjoy!

01. Second Coming (Alice Cooper)
02. Ballad of Dwight Fry (Alice Cooper)
03. Pigs of the Roman Empire
04. The Talking Horse
05. The Bloated Pope
06. Dog Island
07. Dies Iraea
08. Billy Fish
09. Mr DNA (Devo)
10. - Buzz talks -
11. Anaconda
12. Zodiac
13 The Kicking Machine
14. Civilized Worm drum intro
15. Blood Witch
16. Hooch
17. The Bit
18. The Smiling Cobra

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Melvins Gothic

Cold War Kids - Angouleme 2009

Cold War Kids, live at the Garden Nef Party, Angouleme, France, 18th July 2009

Cold War kids formed in Fullerton California, and amongst others are said to be influenced by Jeff Buckley (them and 6 million others if you beleive everything you're told...). Well, a little something to connect the two: In late 96, I think, Jeff took a poetry class while he was struggling to write for the follow-up to Grace, and while there wrote a piece called Fullerton Road Trick. Enjoy!

01. Mexican Dogs
02. Something Is Not Right With Me
03. I've Seen Enough
04. Every Man I Fall For
05. Passing The Hat
06. Tell Me In The Morning
07. Rubidoux
08. Hang Me Up To Dry
09. We Used To Vacation
10. Sermons Vs. The Gospel
11. Hair Down

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War Garden

Nine Inch Nails - New York 2009

Nine Inch Nails, The Downward Spiral Live, Webster Hall, New York, 23rd August 2009

As the headline suggests, N.I.N. played the final show of their current tour (and perhaps forever) at New York's Webster hall, by playing their iconic album The Downward Spiral in it's entirety. Of course they played more songs than that, but not until the job was done. Enjoy!

01: Mr Self Destruct
02: Piggy
03: Heresy
04: March Of The Pigs
05: Closer
06: Ruiner
07: The Becoming
08: I Do Not Want This
09: Big Man With A Gun
10: A Warm Place
11: Eraser
12: Reptile
13: The Downward Spiral
14: Hurt
15: 1,000,000
16: Terrible Lie
17: Trent Speaks & Band Intro
18: Metal
19: Lights In The Sky
20: Burn
21: Gave Up
22: Suck
23: Physical
24: The Hand That Feeds
25: Head Like A Hole

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NIN Spiral 1
NIN Spiral 2

Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed - Copenhagen 2007

Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed, live at the DR Koncerthus, Copenhagen, 16th July 2009

Laurie is a performance artist and experimental musician, and even part-time actress. Quite the busy lady. Lou Reed, he's her husband, dunno what else he does though...Enjoy!

01 Dorita
02 Progress
03 Mystic Child
04 Pale Blue Eyes
05 Beginning
06 Romeo Had Juliette
07 Maybe If I Fall
08 Who Am I
09 Halloween Parade
10 Story About A Story
11 Junior Dad
12 Only An Expert
13 The Lost Art Of Conversation
14 I'll Be Your Mirror

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Anderson & Reed 1
Anderson & Reed 2

Ed Harcourt - Seattle 2009

Ed Harcourt, live on KEXP, Seattle, (broadcast) 10th July 2009

A set comprising of unreleased songs (possibly appearing on the upcoming 2010 scheduled album) and a cover (Blues Run the Game by Jackson C Frank, most famously recorded by the fabulous Bert Jansch) , make up this live set, broadcast last month, by this English singer/songwriter. Enjoy!

01. Intro
02. Killed By The Morning Sun
03. Interview 1
04. The Church Of No Religion
05. Interview 2
06. Caterpillar
07. Interview 3
08. The Blues Run The Game
09. Poetry

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Harcourt KEXP

The Gutter Twins - Hamburg 2009

The Gutter Twins, live at the Stage Club, Hamburg, 16th July 2009

A very nice set from Dulli and Lanegan for you today, naturally featuring alot of songs written by the duo for other projects (Twilight Singers, Screaming Trees, etc.), with one or two covers thrown in for good measure. Enjoy!

01 Intro
02 The Body
03 The Stations
04 If I Were Going
05 Sworn And Broken
06 Down The Line (Jose Gonzales)
07 Creeping Coastline Of Lights
08 Resurrection Song
09 The Twilite Kid
10 Summer's Kiss
11 The River Rise
12 Sunset Machine
13 I Am In The Heavenly Way (Bukka White)
14 Encore-Break
15 Candy Cane Crawl
16 One Hundred Days
17 Three Hours (Nick Drake)

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Gutter Stage

Black Keys - Belvedere 2009

Black Keys, live at the Forecastle Festival, Belvedere, 10th July 2009

More summer festivalness for you today, recorded at the River Front in Belvedere, here are the Black Keys. The duo are 6 albums into their career now, and show no signs of slowing up their rawkessness. Enjoy!

01 Tuning
02 Thickfreakness
03 Girl Is On My Mind
04 Set You Free
05 The Breaks
06 Stack Shot Billy
07 Busted
08 Everywhere I Go
09 Strange Times
10 Your Touch
11 Same Old Thing
12 Have Love Will Travel
13 10 A.M. Automatic
14 I Got Mine

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Keys Forecastle

Fleet Foxes - Washington 2009

Fleet Foxes, live at the 9:30 Club, Washington, 29th July 2009

Some sunny Seattle harmonies for you today, from SubPops Fleet Foxes. I'm not really up on their full catalogue, but a few of these are apparantly new songs. I did find that the one new song is called Blue Spotted Tail. Enjoy!

1. Sun Giant->Sun it Rises->Drops in the River
2. English House
3. Banter/Tuning
4. New song 1
5. White Winter Hymnal->Your Protector
6. Tiger Mountain Peasant Song
7. Blue Spotted Tail
8. tuning/banter
9. New song 2
10. banter
11. He Doesn't Know Why
12. Mykonos->encore break
13. Oliver James
14. Blue Ridge Mountains

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Foxes Club

The Dead Weather - Minneapolis 2009

The Dead Weather, live at First Avenue, Minneapolis, 27th July 2009

Some more from Dead Weather's tour of the U.S. today, as promised. I'm sure you'll enjoy!

01 Intro
02 60 Feet Tall
03 Bone House
04 Hang You From The Heavens
05 You Just Can't Win (Van Morrison/Them)
06 So Far From Your Weapon
07 I Cut LIke A Buffalo
08 A Child Of A Few Hours Is Burning To Death (West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band)
09 Rocking Horse
10 No Hassle Night
11 Will There Be Enough Water?
12 Encore Break
13 Forever My Queen (Pentagram)
14 Treat Me Like Your Mother
15 New Pony (Bob Dylan)

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Weather First

Decemberists - New York 2009

The Decemberists, live at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, 10th June 2009

Another show from The Decemberists Hazards of Love tour, where the guys play the album in its entirety, followed by a set of their other songs. At this particular show (supplied by nyctaper), they were joined by Peter Buck of R.E.M. on his bands song Begin the Begin. Enjoy!

Set 1: The Hazards of Love

01 Prelude
02 The Hazards of Love 1
03 A Bower Scene
04 Won't Want for Love
05 The Hazards of Love 2
06 Isn't It a Lovely Night?
07 The Wanting Comes in Waves
08 An Interlude
09 The Rake's Song
10 The Abduction of Margaret
11 The Queen's Rebuke
12 The Crossing
13 Annan Water
14 Margaret in Captivity
15 The Hazards of Love 3
16 The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise)
17 The Hazards of Love 4

Set 2

01 The Crane Wife 3
02 July, July!
03 Billy Liar
04 Sleepless
05 The Bachelor and the Bride
06 Dracula's Daughter
07 O Valencia!
08 The Chimbley Sweep
09 Crazy on You (Heart)
10 [encore break]
11 Begin the Begin (REM)
12 Sons and Daughters

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Decemberists Hazards set
Decemberists Best of set

The Ting Tings - Angouleme 2009

The Ting Tings, live at the Garden Nef Party, Angouleme, 18th July 2009

Something slightly different today, some pop music. Okay, some might argue that The Ting Tings are an indie band, or pop art or something, but the two members (Kate White and Jules De Martino) have been in previous bands, and in that time supported Steps and Bros. I'll give Jules some credit though, he was the singer of a band called Mojo Pin...Enjoy!

01. We Walk
02. Great DJ
03. Fruit Machine
04. Keep Your Head
05. We Started Nothing
06. Shut Up and Let Me Go
07. That's Not My Name

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Ting Garden

Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - Portland 2009

Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, live at the Maine State Pier, Portland, 17th July 2009

After listening to Conors music for several years now, it's great that he finally has a real band, and not just guys playing his songs. The Mystic Valley Band have come of age with their second release, helping Conor reign in those self indulgent moments, and contributing alot more than just instrumental ability. Enjoy!

01. Intro
02. Air Mattress
03. Sausalito >
04. Nikorette
05. Ten Women >
06. Slowly (Oh So Slowly)
07. Big Black Nothing
08. Danny Callahan
09. NYC – Gone, Gone
10. Cape Canaveral
11. I Don't Want To Die (In A Hospital)
12. Moab
13. Snake Hill
14. Roosevelt Room

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Mystic Maine

The Dead Weather - New York 2009

The Dead Weather, live at Terminal 5, New York, 16th July 2009

I really think Jack White should start a Michael Jackson tribute act, with Jack Black, and call it...It Don't Matter if You're Black or White. Hey now! That's not too bad a joke for something I thought of this very second! Anyway...this is a cool set from Mr. White's latest musical daliance, with a few interesting covers. Enjoy!

01. Intro
02. 60 Feet Tall
03. Bone House
04. No Hassle Night
05. crowd
06. You Just Can't Win
07. A Child of a Few Hours is Burning to Death
08. So Far From Your Weapon
09. I Cut Like a Buffalo
10. crowd/intros
11. Rocking Horse
12. Treat Me Like Your Mother
13. Will There Be Enough Water?
14. encore break
15. Forever My Queen
16. Hang You From the Heavens
17. New Pony

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Dead Terminal

Blood Red Shoes - Angouleme 2009

Blood Red Shoes, live at the Garden Nef Party, Angouleme, 17th July 2009

BRS are duo Steve and Laura-May, not an unusual name for a lass from the southern United States, but slightly from the south of England. They've been playing together for quite a few years now, although only one album released thus far, and they've played with some fairly illustrious bands including, Biffy Clyro, Siouxie Sioux, Maximo Park and Rage Against The Machine, to name a broad ranging few. Their second album's in production, and a couple of tracks of which (Wheeze, Fade to Grey) are featured in this set. Enjoy!

01. Intro
02. It's Getting Boring By The Sea
03. Count Me Out
04. You Bring Me Down
05. Wheeze
06. Say Something Say Anything
07. Fade to Grey
08. This Is Not For You
09. Don't Ask
10. I Wish I Was Someone Better

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Shoes Garden

Of Montreal - Bonnaroo 2009

Of Montreal, live at Bonnaroo Music Festival, 13th July 2009

Another set from the This Tent stage at Bonnaroo, from Georgia's indie band Of Montreal. The photo above phtograph was taken during Beatle Bob's Intro, where the actors in OM's stage show, "knocked him out" before dragging him off stage. I'm sure it would've been amusing if you saw it. Enjoy!

01. MC Intro
02. Band Intro
03. Nonpareil of Favor
04. Bunny Ain’t No Kind of Rider
05. Id Engager
06. Rapture Rapes the Muses
07. The Party’s Crashing Us
08. Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse
09. October is Eternal
10. A Sentence of Sorts in Konsvinger
11. Beware Our Nubile Miscreants
12. Girl Named Hello
13. For Our Elegant Caste
14. Touched Something’s Hollow
15. An Eluardian Instance
16. She’s A Rejecter
17. The Past is a Grotesque Animal

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Montreal Bonnaroo

Neko Case - Bonnaroo 2009

Neko Case, live at the Bonnaroo Music Festival, Manchester TN, 13th June 2009

Recorded at the This Tent stage of the festival, sadly not the whole set, as the taper was going to record Phish. Makes no sense to me, but what can you do? Enjoy!

1. Intro
2. Maybe Sparrow
3. People Got A Lotta Nerve
4. Fever
5. Hold On, Hold On
6. The Pharoahs
7. Middle Cyclone
8. Deep Red Bells
9. I Wish I Was The Moon
10. I'm An Animal
11. Tigers Have Spoken
12. Triumph Intro
13. Swing Low Sweet Chariot
14. Red Tide
15. Don't Forget Me
16. That Teenage Feeling
17. This Tornado Loves You

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Neko Tent

Mogwai - Cergy-Pontoise 2009

Mogwai, live at the Furia Sound Festival, Base de loisirs de Cergy-Pontoise, 5th July 2009

Some lovely instrumental post-rock from the Scots for you today, recorded at the small, but pretty cool (they were headliners on the Scene 2 stage), FSF from France. Enjoy!

01. Friend Of The Night
02. Killing All The Flies
03. I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead
04. You Don't Know Jesus
05. Ithica 27 Ø 9
06. Mogwai Fear Satan
07. Batcat

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Mogwai Cergy-Pontoise

Sonic Youth - Royal Oak 2009

Sonic Youth, live at the Royal Oak Music Theater, 29th June 2009

Posted a few Sonic Youth shows in the past, but very few in the noughties. So, to make up for it, here's one from their latest tour. Enjoy!

01. Sacred Trickster
02. No Way
03. Calming The Snake
04. Catholic Block
05. Malibu Gas Station
06. Poison Arrow
07. Anti-Orgasm
08. Hey Joni
09. Antenna
10. Leaky Lifeboat
11. PCH
12. What We Know
13. Massage The History
14. World Looks Red
15. Sprawl
16. Cross The Breeze
17. Walkin Blue
18. Silver Rocket

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Youth Oak 1
Youth Oak 2

Nine Inch Nails - Clarkston 2009

NIN, live at the DTE Energy Music Theater, Clarkston, 31st May 2009

Seriously, I really hate these sponsored venues, how iconic a gig could ever take place at the "Some random phone/electric/computer company theatre"? Utterly horrid! Anyway, here's Trent and the boys, enjoy!

01. Now I'm Nothing
02. Terrible Lie
03. Sin
04. March of the Pigs
05. Piggy
06. The Frail
07. The Wretched
08. Discipline
09. Burn
10. Gave Up
11. La Mer
12. Lights in the Sky
13. Non-Entity
14. The Downward Spiral
15. Wish
16. Survivalism
17. The Hand that Feeds
18. Head Like a Hole

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NiN 1
NiN 2

Paolo Nutini - Dunfermline 2009

Paolo Nutini, llive at the Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline, 18th May 2009

Paolo's a former roadie/t-shirts sales person, and with support slots with David Sneddon (he won an impromtu competition to play when Sneddon was late), Amy Winehouse and KT Tunstall, Mr. Nutini spread his name well. His first single release was a free download, perhaps a bit old hat now, after all this his second single got to the dizzy heights of No.5 in the U.K. charts. Not too bad at all for a boy from Paisley. This bootleg was recorded at a pre-release show for his second album Sunny Side Up. Enjoy!

01. Forget It
02. High Hopes
03. Alloway Grove
04. Loving You
05. Mellow Down Easy
06. Pencil Full of Lead
07. Last Request
08. Simple Things
09. Growing Up Beside You
10. These Streets
11. Candy
12. (Bare Necessities)
13. Coming Up Easy
14. Down in Mexico (Coasters cover)
15. Funky Cigarette
16. Sleepwalking
17. No Other Way
18. New Shoes
19. Tricks of the Trade
20. Ritalin
21. 10/10
22. Jenny

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Nutini Alhambra 1
Nutini Alhambra 2