My final post from Surfacing #9!

Night of Joy
6.26.2010
The Meadowlark, Denver, CO

Source:  Oktava MK-012 cardiods > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Concrete Jungle
2. Take Me To Your Dealer
3. Put Your Sunglasses On
4. Cool Runnings
5. Dead Road
6. Vein Popper Brain Ripper
7. Doo Wop (Dude Swap) Sunday Night

Full lineup for Surfacing #9:
Porlolo, Girls Walk By, Zayante Spoils, New Allante!, Night of Joy, Marara Air

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

I’d honestly never heard of Bob Log III prior to this Larimer (sans) BBQ show, and was completely floored by the energy one man could muster out of an early Sunday-evening crowd.  While I still prefer the songwriting of other contemporaries such as Scott H. Biram or William Elliott Whitmore, Bob bests them all in stage antics, crowd interaction, and debauchery.

Bob Log III
8.08.2010
Larimer Lounge, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300′s > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Bang Your Thing at the Ball
2. Bump Pow!
3. Mr. Sis Boom Bah
4. Wigglin’ Room
5. Shinkansen The!
6. Manipulate Your Figments
7. Bucktooth Photo
8. Bubble Strut
9. unknown
10. banter
11. Boob Scotch
12. banter
13. I Want Your Shit On My Leg

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

Nana Grizol
8.13.2010
Caledonia Lounge, Athens PopFest, Athens, GA

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300′s > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Blackbox
2. Galaxies
3. Circles ‘Round the Moon
4. For Things That Haven’t Come Yet
5. Voices Echo Down Thee Halls (For Jared)
6. Tamborine-N-Thyme
7. Gave On
8. Tiny Rainbows
9. Motion In The Ocean
10. Everything You Ever Hoped Or Worked For

A zipfile of the MP3s is available here.
FLAC files and other formats are available at the LMA.

San Francisco’s Eux Autres concluded their three-week tour across the country last week at the Larimer Lounge.  Hot Congress conducted a great interview with the band prior to their arrival in Denver.

Eux Autres
8.26.2010
Larimer Lounge, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300′s > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Ecoutez Bien
2. Queen Turner
3. Molly
4. Go Dancing
5. When I’m Up
6. You’re Alight
7. Under Rays
8. Other Girls
9. The Things They Carried
10. Cover Rights

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

I highly recommend this one–an awesome late-night DIY show featuring California’s Peaking Lights!

Peaking Lights
8.06.2010
Further Shoppe, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300′s > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Track #1
2. Track #2
3. Track #3
4. Track #4

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

Owen Ashworth is hanging up the Casiotone for the Painfully Alone moniker after 13 years to pursue other musical outlets, but he’s closing things out properly with an expansive tour across the US and Europe.  Your last chance to catch CFTPA in Denver is two weeks away, Saturday 9/11 at the Hi-Dive.  Last year’s Hi-Dive show is still available for streaming, but here’s yet another set I recorded during Owen’s Summer 2009 tour.

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
6.29.2009
Pilot Light, Knoxville, TN

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300′s > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro
2. Ice Cream Truck
3. Optimist Vs. The Silent Alarm (When The Saints Go Marching In)
4. Man o’ War
5. White Corolla
6. White on White
7. Nashville Parthenon
8. Scattered Pearls
9. I Love Creedence
10. Traveling Salesman’s Young Wife Home Alone On Christmas In Montpelier, VT
11. Harsh The Herald Angels Sing
12. White Jetta
13. Jeane, If You’re Ever In Portland
14. New Year’s Kiss
15. Young Shields
16. Cold White Christmas
17. Streets Of Philadelphia

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be found via BitTorrent at Dime.

Speakeasy Tiger appear to have fractured for the second time this year, but here’s a throwback to the old days with Kyle Simmons fronting the group.  This was the Meadowlark show where rain destroyed much of the PA system, so most sound is in the right channel.  Constant rain also added a unique vibe of the evening, resulting in a show noteworthy enough to post despite the technical problems.

Speakeasy Tiger
5.23.2009
Meadowlark, Denver, CO

Source:  Oktava MK-012′s (card capsules, -10db pads) > Apogee MiniMe > digi-coax > Hosa ODL-276 > Nomad JB3 > Firewire > Adobe Audition > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. I Was Born
2. Oil Rising
3. Awake
4. She Says
5. Death of You
6. Coma State Head
7. Not Something You Need
8. Up In Armor
9. Limbs

Evening’s Lineup:
iuengliss, Josephine and the Mousepeople, Speakeasy Tiger, Pictureplane

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

I finally added a page for Thee American Revolution at the Live Music Archive this week, and just completed an upload of the 2008 PopFest set.  Look for the 2010 PopFest to show up in the near future!

Thee American Revolution
8.16.2008
Athens Popfest
40 Watt Club, Athens, GA

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300′s > Lunatec V3 (opti-mod) > M-Audio MicroTrack II > CF > Adobe Audition > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. soundcheck/jam (a.k.a. “Waiting for Bill”)
2. Electric Flame
3. Subscriptions to Magazines (a.k.a. Grit Magazine)
4. Blow My Mind
5. She’s Coming Down

A zipfile of the MP3s is available here.
FLAC files and other formats are available at the LMA.

(Photo by Christopher Kuehl.)

It’s hard to get anyone out to the Hi-Dive at 8:30, so those in attendance for this set were mostly friends and family.  The sparse turnout didn’t impede Caleb Slade, who staged a stellar performance.  In fact, this intimate setting was a perfect complement to Caleb’s personal lyrics.

Caleb Slade
8.05.2010
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300′s > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist (unknown song titles noted in quotes):
1. (intro)
2. “Always on My Mind”
3. Given A Chance
4. “Come On”
5. “Shook and Stirred”
6. Andrew and Valentine
7. “Sure as Hell”
8. “Hurting You”
9. (Gavrilo Princip intro)
10. “Country and Blood”

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

Marara Air
6.26.2010
Meadowlark Bar, Denver, CO

Source:  Oktava MK-012 cardiods > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Piper Rose intro
2. Track #2
3. Track #3
4. Track #4
5. Track #5
6. Track #6

Full lineup for Surfacing #9:
Porlolo, Girls Walk By, Zayante Spoils, New Allante!, Night of Joy, Marara Air

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.