The Beaten Sea
7.23.2011
South Broadway Christian Church, The UMS, Denver, CO

Source:  DPA 4060’s > DAD6001’s > Lunatec V3 (opti-mod) > Nomad JB3 (CF mod) > Firewire > WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. It’s Hard to Resist
2. Grave Clothes
3. Sugarland Blues
4. Doctor’s Not Gonna Cure Our Ills
5. Track #05
6. Track #06
7. Track #07
8. One Last Night for Birthpains
9. Track #09
10. Hard Way
11. Living With Your Ghost
12. Turn Out Empty

Dana Falconberry
7.25.2010
The Walnut Room Pizzeria, The UMS, Denver, CO

Source:  SBD > RCA > Nomad JB3 > Firewire > WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Possum Song
2. Birch Bark
3. Crooked River
4. Track #04
5. Track #05
6. Petoskey Stone
7. Track #07
8. Clementine
9. Please Sparrow

Shapes Stars Make
7.22.2010
Hi-Dive, The UMS, Denver, CO

Source:  [Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3] + [SBD > 1/4″] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Mixdown > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. The Calm
2. Let It Be Morning
3. The Lion and the Bear
4. (We Are) The Hurting
5. Giant Bird

The final post from Titwrench 2010!   All shows from last year’s festival can be found here.

Lisa Frank
7.11.2010
Titwrench Fest, Glob, Denver, CO

Source:  [DPA 4060’s > DAD6001’s > Lunatec V3] + [SBD > 1/4″] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Mixdown > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Grrlz Just Wanna Have Fun
2. Authority Problems
3. Baby Animal Core
4. DeglopperLuv
5. Tall, Dark and Handsome
6. Fuk Luv Eat Pizza!
7. Money Fucks Shit Up
8. Megabitch!
9. conclusion

Here’s a Fishboy set from ’09, in a stellar lineup which included Iji, Red Pony Clock and more.  The band just released a new LP, available through Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records.

Fishboy
8.21.2009
The Trunk Space, Phoenix, AZ

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax > Oade Mod Edirol R-44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. stretch time
2. Cheer Up Great Pumpkin!
3. Gabe Saucedo Hates My Guts
4. Bricks Part 1
5. Iji story
6. “Flash Flood” (title unknown)
7. Parachute (Using The Ghost Of Buddy Holly As A)
8. Blackout / Flashback
9. A Surprise Return
10. Vespas In Texas
11. Half Time At The Proper Name Spelling Bee

(Photo by Vicki Robison.)

Shurman
12.11.2009
Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO

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

Setlist:
1. Best You Ever Had
2. She’s the One
3. I’m Not Crazy
4. So Happy
5. Lonesome LA Blues
6. banter
7. Small Town Tragedy
8. Wonder Where You Are
9. Here’s to Rock-N-Roll
10. Drownin’
11. Three Chords
12. Country Ain’t Country
13. Is It True?
14. 2 a.m.

Notes:
Opening for the Railbenders.

Hailing from Houston, Young Mammals stopped in Denver to open for Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.  Their full-length Carrots was released last year, and is available in physical and digital formats here.

Young Mammals
9.11.2010
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  [Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3] + [SBD > 1/4″] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Mixdown > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. The Man in the Cannon
2. Dragon Wagon
3. 8 4 8
4. unknown
5. Mosquitobot
6. unknown
7. Carrots

Notes:
Opening set for Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.

Scott H. Biram
5.23.2009
The Larimer Lounge, Denver, CO

Source:  Mix [Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax] + [SBD > XLR] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro
2. Time Flies
3. Downtown Chicken
4. Work
5. Sinkin’ Down
6. Cold River > Satisfied
7. Still Drunk, Still Crazy, Still Blue
8. I Be’s Troubled
9. (Two Fisted Mario’s Pizza rant)
10. You Gotta Move
11. Around The Bend > We Came To Party
12. Ain’t It a Shame
13. (band intros/banter)
14. Wildside
15. Plow You Under
16. Hard Time
17. Fannin Street
18. (Black Diamond Heavies story)
19. I Want My Mojo Back
20. Wind Up Blind
21. Have You Ever Loved A Woman
22. (banter)
23. Whiskey
24. Truck Driver

Notes:
Occasional PA distortion throughout the set.

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

Headlining a sold-out 2010 Westword Showcase, Ghostland Observatory lived up to the hype!

Ghostland Observatory
6.19.2010
Main Stage, Westword Music Showcase, 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

Setlist:
1. intro
2. Piano Man
3. Ghetto Magnet
4. Stranger Lover
5. Vibrate
6. Sad Sad City
7. Midnight Voyage
8. Move With Your Lover
9. Opening Credits > Heavy Heart
10. The Band Marches On
11. Darling Nikki
12. Silver City
13. Rich Man

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

Here’s the first of (hopefully) many sets from Titwrench, held over the weekend at Glob.  There was no end to the genres crossed during the festival’s three days, and Amy Annelle was one of the few straight-up singer-songwriters to grace the stage.  Sandwiched between some crazy techno-storytelling by Aubrey Heichemer and the one-two punch of noise presented by Baby Shampoo and Caldera Lakes, Amy’s mix of traditionals, country covers and panhandle-inspired originals were a much-welcome opportunity to just sit back and listen to some folk music.

Amy Annelle
7.10.2010
Titwrench Fest, Glob, Denver, CO

Source:  [DPA 4060’s > Lunatec V3] + [SBD > 1/4″] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Mixdown > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro
2. E. Tejas Son
3. Pretty Boy Floyd
4. Star’s Memory
5. Buckskin Stallion Blues
6. Wake Up, Little Dark Eyes
7. Let Me Be
8. Coat of Many Colors
9. The Hellhound’s Address
10. The North Country Maid
11. Texian Boys
12. outro

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

(Photo by Julio Enriquez of Cause=Time.)

Yet another welcome surprise for me at this year’s Westword Music Showcase was Neon Indian.  Like the Dirty Projectors set,  I was afraid this one would lose some of it’s steam in a mid-afternoon outdoor setting.  While there’s no question their music would go over better indoors, the band’s prismatic layering of sound drew a large and responsive crowd.  The trick was getting up close and submerging yourself in the sound.

Neon Indian
6.19.2010
Main Stage, Westword Music Showcase, 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. intro
2. Local Joke
3. Terminally Chill
4. Mind, Drips
5. Psychic Chasms
6. Should’ve Taken Acid With You
7. Sleep Paralysist
8. 6669
9. Deadbeat Summer
10. Ephemeral Artery

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

Last weekend’s Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers show at the Gothic was kicked off in style by The Mother Truckers out of Austin.  They won over the RCPM crowd, often fickle toward opening acts, with a set of (mostly) original country and blues tunes, which culminated in Steve Larson trading licks with Josh Zee on “Love Me Like a Man“.

The Mother Truckers
11.22.2008
The Gothic Theatre, Englewood, CO

Source:  Microtch Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 (opti-mod) > Nomad JB3 > Firewire > WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CDWave > Flac16
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Streets Of Atlanta
2. Dynamite
3. No Mercy
4. Can’t Sleep In Tucson
5. Van Tour
6. When I Get My Wings
7. Let’s All Go To Bed
8. I’ll Meet You There
9. Save My Soul
10. Love Me Like A Man *

Notes:
* = with Steven Larson on guitar

(As usual, here’s a link to a zipfile of the show.)

Hacienda
9.27.2008
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Now available on archive.org

South San Gabriel
9.09.2008
The Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Now available at archive.org

Wye Oak
8.31.2008
The Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Now available on archive.org

Shearwater
8.31.2008
The Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Now available on archive.org