Another week, another live set from the 1992 Sub Pop Vermonstress Festival up in Burlington, Vermont. This time it's another Canadian band, and one of my faves from the weekend, Eric's Trip from Moncton, New Brunswick. 12 live songs, most from seven inches, early EPs, and their first album, Love Tara. If you're into this stuff, be sure to pick up their 2001 live-best-of collection, The Eric's
Had I sat down and written about Friday night's set by Montreal's The Arcade Fire immediately after coming home from it, you'd be reading a bunch of gushing, over the top gibberish. Seriously... it'd have been a stammering, probably embarrassing, hyperbolic freak-out, struggling for new adjectives, paragraphs that boiled down to 'Um... Wow!'. Two days later, I'm still feeling it, still reeling
Playing catch-up on mp3 action a bit, I've got yet another full set of live music from the 1992 Sub Pop Vermonstress Festival up in my beautiful (and almost entirely blue) homestate of Vermont. So far, I've posted sets from Codeine, Come, Drop Nineteens, Velocity Girl, Crow, Pond, Six Finger Satellite, Green Magnet School, Sloan, Giant Sand, Barbara Manning, and now... ... a fourteen song
Another week, another set from the 1992 Sub Pop Vermonstress Festival up in Burlington, Vermont. So far... sets from Codeine, Come, Drop Nineteens, Velocity Girl, Crow, Pond, Six Finger Satellite, Green Magnet School, Sloan, and Giant Sand. This week... a nine song set by Barbara Manning, backed by some Giant Sanders and assisted by her sister, Terri. In the coming couple months...
This week it's another archived set from the Vermonstress Fest, a Sub Pop celebration up in Burlington, Vermont back in October, 1992. Twelve years this past weekend, actually. Ages ago. Suddenly, I'm feelin' old again... time for more coffee. This latest set is from Howe Gelb & his band, Giant Sand. I'm an admirer, but not the most knowledgable fan, so if you know any of the six song
It's a three-fer this time, with tracks pulled from last week's late night tv...Tom Waits - Make It Rain (live on Letterman): A rare television appearance from Mr. Waits, whose latest record, "Real Gone", is out tomorrow. He's joined on this recording by Judah and Russell of the Blues Explosion. Wilco - Theologians (live on Conan): Not quite the title track, but at least the track where the
By request, another set from the 1992 Sub Pop Vermonstress Festival, this one from the Canadian boys of Sloan, one of the few fest bands that is still alive and rockin' today. When they hit the stage at Vermonstress, Sloan had just released their first full-length, Smeared, so they played mostly stuff from that record. My cassette copy of Smeared is long gone, so if you know any of the other
For anyone paying attention, I slacked a bit in the Mp3 of the Week department. House stuff, work, and the holiday threw a kink in there, and it seems I missed a week or so. Hopefully two songs from a long-out-of-print Slowdive flexi-disc will more than make up for it. I put the a-side, Beach Song, up here last week, and now I've posted its partner, another lost gem called Take Me Down. The
Feelin' a little guilty about all the illegal mp3's you've downloaded over the past few years? Can't live with thought of all the money you've stolen from the pockets of those poor record conglomerates? Well, now there's a cure for what ails ya! All you have to do is send them back. Go ahead, try it. I'm sure you'll feel so much better...
The conspicuous lack of an update for the past few days wasn't (only) due to distraction... access to my site went down for a little while there. All better now. Going to be doing a little end-of-the-year house cleaning here on the 'Nac over the next few weeks, and I'll be removing lots of mp3s in the process. If you haven't grabbed the past couple months of Mp3s of the Week, then get on
This week it's the late, great Unwound with the best recorded song they didn't actually write. "Torch Song" comes from a split single with the much-missed Versus, on which they both do a Flower cover (Richard Balyut's pre-Versus band). The Versus song is a keeper, too, so get on over to the Troubleman Unlimited site and grab some better-sounding wax (you've still got a record player, don't
This week's offering is another doubleshot, and yet another vinyl-to-digital conversion. It's also something of a novelty, given that it's a couple of all-too-familiar cover songs. It was late 1992 when I saw what is, to this day, what I often call the best live lineup of all time. Arcwelder, Six Finger Satellite, Jesus Lizard. Club Metronome, Burlington, Vermont. I was obsessed with Jesus
The fourth installment of my ongoing live music encoding project has arrived. I've been converting sets from old cassettes to mp3s, archiving my recordings of the Sub Pop Vermonstress Fest that took place in Burlington, Vermont over a couple days in the fall of 1992. I started back in May with a set from Six Finger Satellite, and quickly followed with Velocity Girl and Codeine. After a long
It was in 1994 that I discovered the Archers of Loaf. All it took was 'Web in Front' to make them one of my new faves, and it ensured I'd pick up just about everything they did from then on. That song still gets me, every single time. So when Boston label Sonic Bubblegum put out a split double 7'' with the Archers and the Treepeople (who I hadn't yet heard), of course I was gonna get it. It
Bradley's Almanac
Bison - Quill
Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
Shinichi Osawa – Big Beach Mix 2012
Mr Fogg - Eleven
