David Bazan Live at the Grey Eagle – 11.4.07

A huge thanks to Scott Bradford for providing me with this super-awesome exclusive Bazan goodness.

Not many things better than David Bazan live. The man can sing and the man can write amazing songs. At the end of the day, what else matters? Bazan is on tour and going pretty much everywhere, about half of the US left to go including the south, west, and west coast. See those dates here.

EDIT: Here’s a zip. People are shamefully lazy. This is a huge file on my server so it will only be up for about five days.

[zip] Zip removed to ease the pain on my server. Right click save-as or option+clikc in firefox and do it “the old fashioned way”

[mp3] David Bazan – Harmless Sparks / Fewer Moving Parts
[mp3] David Bazan – Cold Beer & Cigarettes
[mp3] David Bazan – Weeds in The Wheat (New song)
[mp3] David Bazan – Transcontinental
[mp3] David Bazan – Q & A 1
[mp3] David Bazan – Please Baby Please (New Song)
[mp3] David Bazan – Of Minor Prophets & Their Prostitute Wives
[mp3] David Bazan – Heavy Breath (New Song)
[mp3] David Bazan – Hot Girls
[mp3] David Bazan – Q & A 2
[mp3] David Bazan – Untitled (New Song)
[mp3] David Bazan – Selling Advertising
[mp3] David Bazan – Options
[mp3] David Bazan – Curse Your Branches (New Song)
[mp3] David Bazan – When They Really Get to Know You…
[mp3] David Bazan – American Flags (New Song)
[mp3] David Bazan – I Do
[mp3] David Bazan – Q & A 3
[mp3] David Bazan – Q & A 4
[mp3] David Bazan – Bands With Managers
[mp3] David Bazan – Hallelujah

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Ryan Adams @ World Cafe | 9.28.2000

There’s no Ryan Adams like early Ryan Adams and I’ve really been coming back to this super short, super early set from Ryan at Philadelphia’s World Cafe. 4 songs from Heartbreaker-era and 3 interviews with a young, sober Ryan. Especially nice is the bluesy stomp feel of To Be Young when done in this particular acoustic arrangement.

[mp3] Ryan Adams – Intro
[mp3] Ryan Adams – Interview 1
[mp3] Ryan Adams – To Be Young
[mp3] Ryan Adams – Amy
[mp3] Ryan Adams – Interview 2
[mp3] Ryan Adams – Just Like a Whore
[mp3] Ryan Adams – My Winding Wheel
[mp3] Ryan Adams – Interview 3

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Feist – Le Grand Rex: Paris, France, 4.26.2007

Continuing a series of excellent live shows, it makes me happy to offer for your listening pleasure this wonderful audio recording of Leslie Feist and her band of traveling minstrels playing to a warm and receptive crowd at the Le Grand Rex in Paris, France. Tis an audience recording, but it sounds pretty good to me!
If you don’t have Leslie’s newest album, The Reminder, then you’re pretty unintelligent.

[zip] Feist – Le Grand Rex: Paris France 4.26.07

[mp3] Feist – I Feel it All
[mp3] Feist – My Moon, My Man
[mp3] Feist – The Park
[mp3] Feist – The Limit to Your Love
[mp3] Feist – When I Was a Young Girl
[mp3] Feist – The Water
[mp3] Feist – Fighting Away the Tears
[mp3] Feist – One Two Three Four
[mp3] Feist – Banter / Introductions
[mp3] Feist – Brandy Alexander
[mp3] Feist – Sea Lion Woman
[mp3] Feist – Let it Die
[mp3] Feist – Intuition
[mp3] Feist – Mushaboom
[mp3] Feist – Now At Last

M. Ward @ KEXP | March 14, 2005

In case you haven’t noticed, I prefer to share good music, be it old or new, rather than simply tracking buzz bands every move and pandering to the highest searches. Hopefully you guys don’t mind this.

That being said here is another gem from the KEXP in-studios (you can stream but not download all these on KEXP’s archive in Windows media or real media). The following is a short but oh so sweet set by M. Ward from March of 2005, relatively fresh off the release of Transistor Radio, my favorite M. Ward album.

[mp3] M. Ward – You Still Believe in Me (Live @ KEXP)
[mp3] M. Ward – I’ll Br Yr Bird (Live @ KEXP)
[mp3] M. Ward – Intervew (Live @ KEXP)
[mp3] M. Ward – Radio Campaign (Live @ KEXP)
[mp3] M. Ward – Sweethearts on Parade (Live @ KEXP)

M. Ward is currently on tour with Norah Jones.

Damien Jurado & The Band – 11.20.2006 Mejeriet, Lund, Sweden

This is a wonderful, wonderful show from Damien Jurado and his Band last November in Sweden. The quality is A+ and the set list is as well. I’m a little busy and I don’t have much time to write, or wait on my slow ftp server so I zipped it and put it on sendspace
Enjoy!


Damien Jurado & The Band – November 20, 2006 @ Mejeriet Lund, Sweden

Hoquiam
There goes your man
Denton, tx
Tragedy
Gasoline drinks
Now that im in your shadow
Abilene
What were the chances
No Lie Detector (New Song)
Lottery
December
Montesano
Big let down
How i broke my legs
Lose my head
Letters and drawings

Damien Jurado – vocals, guitar
Eric Fisher – guitar, melodica, vocals
Jenna Conrad – cello, vocals
Josh Tillman – drums, vocals

Bright Eyes – November 22, 2005 The Palladium, Worcester, MA.

As previously mentioned Bright Eyes are touring in support of their newest EP Four Winds which is due out March 6 on Saddle Creek. The EP (from the four songs I’ve heard) is quite good, mixing some of the poppiest and some of the most subdued Oberst material to date. I thought those of you who are anticipating these dates could use a little taste. The following show was preformed by Oberst and a full cast of his friends and fellow musicians at the The Palladium in Worcester, MA. This tour was not in support of an album which gave Conor free rein of the setlist, making it a very good show with songs ranging from A Collection of Songs to newly written and unreleased material.

Bright Eyes @ The Palladium: Worcester, MA, Novemebr 22, 2005

[mp3] Sunrise, Sunset
[mp3] Old Soul Song
[mp3] Arienette
[mp3] Bowl of Oranges
[mp3] I won’t Ever Be Happy Again
[mp3] Hit the Switch
[mp3] The Calender Hung Itself
[mp3] We are Nowhere and It’s now
[mp3] False Advertising
[mp3] Hell is Coming, Hell is Here (Unreleased)
[mp3] Falling outta Love At This Volume
[mp3] Kathy with a K’s Song
[mp3] Goldmine Gutted
[mp3] True Blue
[mp3] To Love and To Be Loved

Enjoy! If I messed up any of the links let me know in the comments.

I Don’t Mind the Weather…

As I’m typing this I am fearing being labeled a fanboy . Has my death cab coverage seemed excessive? 4 posts in 4 months really isn’t that much but let me know if it is.
Moving on, I thought it would be fun to start a small series of posts about bands who have that one song. The one song that is a setlist staple and is always the highlight of the show. Some would argue that Death cab’s is We looked Like Giants and the double drum solo, but the most exciting part of a death cab show to me is seeing what they will tack on to the end of Blacking out the Friction. Below are a few of the better ones.

[mp3] Death Cab for Cutie – Blacking out the Friction
Seattle, WA. | June 16, 2001 | The Showbox
Straight ahead, the way it was originally performed.

[mp3] Death cab for Cutie – Blacking out the Friction / Brand New Love
This one appears on the limited edition live ep, The John Byrd EP, named after the band’s tour engineer. The cover of Brand new Love (sebadoh) is great and there is some crazy drum action from McGerr.

[mp3] Death Cab for Cutie – Blacking out the Friction / All is Full of Love
San Diego, CA | July 30, 2005 | Street Scene Festival
A Bjork cover which Death Cab did in full on their ep Stability.

[mp3] Death Cab for Cutie – Blacking out the Friction / Atmosphere
Philadelphia, PA. | March 13, 2002 | Trocadero
Joy Divison cover = Wonderful

[mp3] Death Cab for Cutie – Blacking out the Friction / Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Cleveland, OH. | March 31, 2004 | Odeon
The Lauper cover that Gibbard made famous at a solo show.

Previously:
Gibbard blogs about writing a new album
Death Cab for Cutie – Halloween Show (Re-Uploaded)*

Christmas: Live (Belle & Sebastian, Kozelek, Radiohead and more)

Posting some of my favorite shows has been quite satisfying for me this week, so in keeping with the Holiday Spirit (5 days left until Christmas Eve!) here are some live Christmas goods.
Taken from various shows, webcasts, in-studios and the such, they are all quite enjoyable.

[mp3] David Bazan – Silent Night (Live)
[mp3] Mark Kozelek – Little Drummer Boy (Live)
[mp3] Mark Kozelek – White Christmas (Live)
[mp3] Radiohead – Winter Wonderland (Live)
[mp3] Jose Gonzalez – Last Snowstorm of the Year (Live Low cover)
[mp3] Coldplay -Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Live)
[mp3] Belle & Sebastian – Christmastime is Here (Live)

Elsewhere:
T.W. Walsh took it upon himself to create dancing elf versions of himself and former Pedro the Lion bandmate David Bazan. They are both hillarious and you can view them at T.W.’s personal blog, or make your self an elf here.

Tapes n’ Tapes is the latest victim in the Indie Rock van robbery circuit. Brooklyn Vegan has more.

The Shins premiered their video for Phantom Limb on MtvU.

Ben Gibbard @ 5th Floor Coffee House, Bellingham, WA. 1/19/01

Thursday I posted my favorite show of 2006. Over the next few days I am gonna try to post a few of my favorite shows period, as a christmas present to all of you.

In January of 2001 Ben Gibbard played his first public solo show since the formation of Death Cab for Cutie, four years prior. The show was at the 5th Floor Coffeehouse in Bellingham, WA. Ben talks alot about how nervous he is and even has Nick (Death Cab’s bassist) sit on the stage with him for a few songs. The setlist could not get any better. It was the debut of his famed Backstreet Boys cover and more importantly one of the only acoustic preformances of songs like Your Bruise, Two Cars, Rules Broken, No Joy in Mudville and Line of Best Fit. The show was comprised of Ben with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine on Rules Broken (A song from Ben’s All-Time Quarterback project)

Ben Gibbard @ The 5th Floor Coffee House, Bellingham, WA. 1/19/2001

All Is Full of Love [Bjork]
Photobooth
Two Cars
Sweeter [Julie Doiron]
We Have The Facts And We’re Voting Yes
Your Bruise
Blue and Wonder [Richard Buckner]
26 Is Too Soon [Kind of Like Spitting]
A Song For Kelly Huckaby
Rules Broken
No Joy In Mudville
I Was A Kaleidoscope
Shiver Holds [The Prom]
I Want It That Way [Backstreet Boys]
405
They Don’t Know [McCall]
Line of Best Fit

Buy Death cab for Cutie Records
Buy All-Time Quarterback Records
Buy Ben Gibbard & Andrew Keny’s split EP “Home”

Undertow Orchestra (Bazan, Johnson, Eitzel, Chesnutt) 2/28/06 Nashville, TN

The best show I saw in 2006 was The Undertow Orchestra at the Belcourt back in February. The Undertow Orchestra was a band of four songwriters rotating instruments to form a supergroup backing-band for each other while each played six songs of his own.
The band was formed from four very legendary indie songwriters: David Bazan (Pedro the Lion: drums and guitar), Will Johnson (Centro-Matic, South San Gabriel: drums and guitar), Mark Eitzel (American Music Club: acoustic guitar) and Vic Chesnutt (bass), with help from Scott Danbom (Centro-Matic: keys and violin). Everything about this evening was wonderful: The Belcourt is by far my favorite venue in Nashville, the sound was great, the guys were joking through the entire set and I was seven feet away from four of my favorite songwriters of all time. Ya know when you’re sitting around with your friends thinking up your dream band? That’s what this show was for me, so I figured some of you may enjoy it as much as I did.

Merry Christmas!

Undertow Orchestra @ The Belcourt Theater February 28, 2006, Nasvhille, TN.

1.Tent of Total Mystery #
2.Vultures Await #
3.Just to Know What You’ve Been Dreaming…#
4.Bands With Managers %
5.Transcontinental %
6.Slow Car Crash %
7.Stupid Preoccupations ^
8.I’m Through ^
9.Iraq ^
10. Sleeping Beauty / My Pet Rat St. Michael *
11. Home *
12. Just Some Silence #
13. Fly My Sweet Dove #
14. Closing Down My Home #
15. Criticism As Inspiration %
16. The Devil Is Beating His Wife %
17. I Do %
18. Ladies and Gentlemen *
19. Bad Liquor (New song) *
20. The Pool ^
21. In My Way, Yes ^
22. Judas Iscariot ^

Enjoy!

# Will Johnson on Vocals
% David Bazan on Vocals
* Mark Eitzel on Vocals
^ Vic Chestnutt on Vocals

Buy Records from each member of the orchestra here