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.

(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.

Even though they took the stage at just past noon, an eager, early crowd gathered at the main stage to see Oh My Stars kick off the Westword Showcase.  In this short set, they managed to squeeze in plenty of new material, fan favorites, and even a few covers.

Oh My Stars
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 > LAME > mp3
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Miss Morose
2. Your Own Way
3. unknown
4. Bad Romance [Lady Gaga] >
5. Empire State Of Mind [Jay-Z] *
6. Any Easier
7. unknown
8. Bloody November

Notes:
* = w/ Handlebars teases

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

Easily the most anticipated local act at the Westword Music Showcase, Snake Rattle Rattle Snake played to an enthusiastic, standing-room only crowd at the Curious Theatre.

Snake Rattle Rattle Snake
6.19.2010
curious Theatre, Westword Music Showcase, Denver, CO

Source:  Oktava MK-012 cardiods (12 foot split) > 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. Hastily
3. Dirt Cloud >
4. Sin Eater
5. Dead Mens’ Words
6. Warning
7. Ornament
8. Break
9. Kafka and the Milk

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

After all the great club shows I’d seen them play, I was a bit skeptical about seeing Dirty Projectors outdoors in the afternoon.  My worries were unfounded, as their songs were effortlessly translated to a festival setting.  Their ability to present such complex compositions (“brain music”) and entertain a general audience, many of whom had probably never heard the band, is another testament to the genius and talent of Longstreth and Co.

Dirty Projectors
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. Robert Adams/New Topographics dedication
3. I Will Truck
4. No Intention
5. Knotty Pine
6. Fucked For Life
7. Temecula Sunrise
8. Cannibal Resource
9. Remade Horizon
10. Imagine It
11. Stillness Is The Move
12. Useful Chamber

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be found on Dime.