Music

Happy Birthday, Jerry Garcia

Happy 68th Birthday, Jerry.

Please enjoy The Grateful Dead from 1973-08-01 Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, NJ

Set 1:


The Promised Land, Sugaree, The Race Is On, You Ain't Woman Enough,

Bird Song, Mexicali Blues, They Love Each Other, Jack Straw, Stella Blue,

Big River, Casey Jones


Set 2:


Around And Around, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Me And My Uncle,

Row Jimmy, Dark Star > El Paso > Eyes Of The World > Morning Dew,

Sugar Magnolia


Encore:


Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > One More Saturday Night

Stream via the Live Music Archive at Archive.org

Keller Williams Electronic Experiment 2010-06-09

Wednesday, Fredericksburg, Virginia’s Otter House played host to a little something new. Announced as K. Lovedub And The Sun, local-boy-made-good, Keller Williams took his recent “Electronic Experiments” to a new level.

The evening began with Magic Hat beer specials and a 90 minute set of roots, dub, and dancehall reggae from DJ One Drop. He got the room ready to party and, as midnight approached, the curtain pulled back and the bass from the stage merged with the bass from the records and the experiment was underway. Onstage with Keller was Scott Sunn, a visual/video artist who has worked with Radiohead, SCI, as well as Keller at many of his festival performances. As Keller laid down bass, midi-guitar and more Sunn mixed video on the screen near the stage and the two appeared to collaborate on selecting and triggering samples via the onstage mixer.

Keller’s longtime sound engineer, Lou Gossain, was mixing in the front-of-house position, of course, and he had the room sounding as good as I’ve ever heard it. This made for a great 90 minutes of dance music that definitely had the room on their feet and dancing well into the night.

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K. Lovedub And The Sun (Keller Williams & Scott Sunn)
The Otter House - Fredericksburg, VA
Dance music > Fire On The Mountain / More Than A Little >
More dance music > Don't touch that button > Freeker * >
More dance music > Freshies > More dance music >
Old School hip hop groove > Cosby "Himself" groove **

Encore:
Celebrate Your Youth

* HR Puff N Stuff on the screens
** with thanks

Watch this post or follow my twitter for updates, including audio links and an improved video.

Pics are here.

http://www.kellerwilliams.net

Scott Sunn/Tracer Visuals

Megafaun 2010-06-08

Megafaun played the Iota Club & Cafe in Arlington, Virginia, last night and, if I could set aside my so-called objectivity for a bit, it was awesome.

Got there nice & early because it’s right across the river from my office and too far to go home first. So I had dinner in the area and rolled into the venue right as the band arrived. I had tweeted my request to tape earlier in the day and gotten an affirmative response so I checked in with the band and chatted with the club owner (whom I had heard was sorta tough on tapers but I found him to be very nice) and secured permission and prime position to setup. As the band loaded in and setup, I secured my mics to a pole about 6 feet from the stage, dead center, and about 7 feet high. I taped soundcheck then hung out and met the band. We chatted about a lot of different things including the Gayngs album (on which they all play and in support of which two of the band members will be touring in the fall. Gotta see that!) and an upcoming project for UNC involving Alan Lomax’s field recordings… Continue reading →

Dr. Dog – Shame, Shame

Dr. Dog - Shame, Shame

Great records are like old friends. As we move through life, we often drift apart due to geography, time limitations, other relationships that might have taken precedence, whatever. But, being friends, we reconnect periodically. Some you only see at a party; others for a quiet evening at home. Sometimes you get together and it’s a flurry of intense catching up- reliving details of the past and intervening years- other times history and time passed need not be rehashed and the present can simply be as if there were no time apart. All of this can be true with great albums and even ordinary albums that you love. With “Shame Shame”, Dr. Dog has blended the new with the familiar and crafted a new old friend for all of us. Continue reading →

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Reunites

Pardon my giddiness as I blast this info to all media but I’m very psyched to hear, (via Pitchfork) that the media-eschewing, politically charged, Canadian, post-rock collective will be touring in the Winter.

They will first curate and headline All Tomorrow’s Party’s “Nightmare Before Christmas” in Minehead, UK. Then, according to the announcement on their website, they will play a “handful” of UK and EU dates followed by exactly nine US dates.

Here’s a little taste of what they do:

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