Corey Teruya invited several friends to join him at the Hi-Dive last night in an opening set for Laura Gibson.  The evening was very informal, yet highly enjoyable.  Hello Kavita songs took back seat, making room for some great cover songs and two of Emily Knight’s originals.

Corey Teruya and Friends
1.16.2011
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 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Silent Bed
2. Tape Machine
3. Lotta Love [Neil Young]
4. OK
5. You Can Call Me Al [Paul Simon] (w/ one “Colorado” verse)
6. “I’ll Still Think About You”
7. “Moving Day”
8. Peng! 33 [Stereolab]
9. One By One [Guthrie/Tweedy]
10. Motion In The Sun

Lineup:
Corey Teruya – vocals, guitar, lap steel
Emily Knight – vocals, guitar, bells
Luke Mossman – guitar
Andrew Simons – bass

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

This was the very last time Magnolia Electric Co. played in Denver.  Here’s to hoping Jason is doing well these days!

Magnolia Electric Co.
8.04.2009
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  Mix [Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax] + [SBD > 1/4″] > Oade Mod Edirol R-44 @ 24/48 > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Mixdown > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. An Arrow In The Gale >
2. Little Sad Eyes
3. Down The Wrong Road Both Ways
4. Shiloh
5. Leave The City
6. What Comes After The Blues
7. London Bridge
8. Josephine
9. Song For Willie
10. O! Grace
11. Hard To Love A Man
12. I’ve Been Riding With The Ghost
13. Lawyers, Guns, and Money
(Encore)
14. The Handing Down
15. Texas 71

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

More goodness from Friday night at the Underground Music Showcase.

Houses
7.23.2010
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. intro/soundcheck
2. Rainy Day Parade
3. Red Feather
4. Fairweather
5. Holiday
6. unknown
7. Circles and Squares
8. Black Hawk
9. Hangman’s Noose
10. We’ll See the Sun

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

(Photo by Sarah Law.)

I didn’t actually see this show.  But based on the recording, These United States must have been one of the 2010 Underground Music Showcase’s Friday highlights.

These United States
7.23.2010
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. Nobody Can Tell
2. Susie at the Seashore
3. The Business
4. One You Believe
5. The Great Rivers
6. Just This
7. The Important Thing
8. What Do You Want with My Heart? *
9. Life&Death She&I *
10. I Want You to Keep Everything

Notes:
* = with members of Paper Bird

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

Sarah Slaton played several new songs when opening at the Hi-Dive for Jen Korte and The State Of in September.

Sarah Slaton
9.21.2010
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. Hospital *
2. The Nothing
3. I’ve Got a Love
4. Laundry Room Romance
5. Girl
6. West Texas
7. Arrow

Notes:
* = w/ Tavis Alley

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

The Raven and the Writing Desk will be releasing their debut album at the Walnut Room on December 10th, sharing a lineup with local favorites A. Tom Collins and 200 Million Years.  Please come down next month to help celebrate the birth of Recidivist!  If you haven’t heard this band yet, you’re forgiven–they’ve been participating in the Denver music foray for less than a year.  For a taste of what you may experience at the the Walnut Room, here’s a recent show from the Hi-Dive.

The Raven and the Writing Desk
11.17.2010
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  Mix [Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3] + [DPA 4060’s] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Mixdown > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Space Grenade
2. Somnambulist
3. Marionette
4. Evil Stars
5. Do You Want Me
6. Wooden Lover
7. Control
8. Walk in the Water
9. Roads [Portishead cover]
10. Firefly

Notes:
Matt Murphy’s first show with the band (drums/percussion).

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

Constellation of Cars
9.19.2010
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  Mix [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. unknown
2. Feel It In My Bones
3. unknown
4. Meet Me Where
5. Red Curtains
6. Three Chords
7. The Ghostman
8. My 559 Degrees

Notes:
JoJo and Brett joined Andy and Kellie for a full band set.

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

Kissing Party
10.16.2010
Hi-Dive, 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. ?
2. Jacey Finch
3. Ashley Smashley
4. Life in Girard
5. Commit A Tiny Crime Together
6. A Billion Brain Cells Later
7. Let’s Face These Times
8. ?
9. ?
10. ?
11. ?
12. The Game

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

SSLYBY brought a very enthusiastic crowd out to the Hi-Dive this weekend.  I haven’t seen an audience sing along like this in months!  The band released their third album in August–grab it now from Polyvinyl.

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
11.06.2010
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. Some Constellation
2. Everlyn
3. I Am Warm and Powerful
4. Heers
5. Think I Wanna Die
6. Made to Last
7. Pangea
8. Anna Lee
9. House Fire
10. Modern Mystery
11. In Pairs
12. Back in the Saddle
13. Dead Right
14. You Could Write a Book
15. Sink / Let It Sway
(Encore)
16. Banned (by the Man)
17. Glue Girls

Notes:
The Lonely Forest and Sour Boy, Bitter Girl were also on the bill for this night.

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

Despite a fairly talkative and rude audience, the audio from Azure Ray‘s set last week came out great!  Please support the band by purchasing their latest release, Drawing Down the Moon, on sale as a $5 digital download through November, and available in LP or CD formats from Saddle Creek.

Azure Ray
11.01.2010
Hi-Dive, 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. Make Your Heart
2. Displaced
3. Signs in the Leaves
4. Don’t Leave My Mind (Take 1) *
5. Don’t Leave My Mind (Take 2) *
6. Larraine
7. These White Lights Will Bend to Make Blue
8. Sleep
9. Safe and Sound
10. November
11. If You Fall
12. Raining in Athens
13. On and On Again
14. Hold on Love

Notes:
* = Orenda’s mic went out, so she ended up sharing Maria’s for the song

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

New Ben Franklins
9.15.2010
Hi-Dive, 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 > LAME > mp3
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Summer Sun
2. Horse
3. Best Friend
4. Guess Things Happen That Way
5. Here With Me
6. Love Like That (tentative title)
7. Someday Never Comes
8. Miserable
9. Mourning

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

Fingers of the Sun
9.01.2010
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  Mix [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. intro
2. Goodbye Summer
3. Heaven Only Knows
4. I Know Something
5. Mystery Remains
6. Every House
7. Cup of Tea
8. Static Summer
9. Cashmere Paisley Polyester

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

The Hand that Rocks the Dreidel called it quits earlier this summer, but you can bet that Yuzo Nieto will remain on the local scene performing solo, with Pink Hawks, or guesting in other outfits.  Here’s a throwback show from last October.

Yuzo Nieto & The Hand that Rocks the Dreidel
10.16.2009
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

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

Setlist:
1. Elongating the Foreshortened Perceptions: An Illusion of ‘S p a c e’
2. Track #02
3. Villa Del Mar
4. Track #04
5. I Wanna Be a Gangster
6. Track #06
7. Bumblebee
8. Love Isn’t Enough
9. Track #09
10. Baby Got Back

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

Jesse Daniel & The Reckoning
8.26.2010
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  Oktava MK-012’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. Mental Illness
2. The Great Snake Is Coming
3. Western Sunrise
4. Army of Cool
5. Never Easy
6. It’s So Amusing
7. Moscow *
8. When U Gonna Live?

Notes:
* = first time played

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

Paper Bird
4.11.2009
Hi-Dive, 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. St. Louis
2. Mo-town Man
3. The Structure of Love
4. Steady As
5. Lullaby
6. Jesus and Arizona
7. Lost Boys
8. Dead as Deadman’s Bones
9. Pennies
10. Spit Spot
11. Livin’ Lucky
12. Bye Bye Love
13. Band of Angels

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