If you haven’t heard, Hello Kavita will be playing one last gig this weekend before going on hiatus.  They’re appearing at the UMS outdoor stage on Sunday afternoon, so don’t miss it!  Their penultimate performance last Friday was one of the band’s best:  they were aware that every song counted.  At one point, Corey mentions writing new songs, so hopefully we’ll be seeing him out again in the future.

Hello Kavita
7.16.2010
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. Pillar
2. Sunday (It’s A Chrome Tide)
3. OK
4. The Pangs are Closing In
5. The Last Time
6. You Can Call Me Al
7. To a Loved One
8. Burn
9. This May Be Over Someday
(Encore)
10. Silent Bed

Notes:
Lineup shared with The Lumineers and Roger, Roll.

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

(Photo taken by Tim Weilert.)

Directly following their opening set for Josh Ritter, Langhorne Slim hurried over to the Hi-Dive to headline night one of The UMS.

Langhorne Slim and the War Eagles
7.23.2009
Denver Post Underground Music Showcase
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

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

Setlist:
1. Honey Pie
2. Back to the Wild
3. Restless
4. Mary > Cut It Down
5. Diamonds and Gold
6. In the Midnight
7. Blown Your Mind
8. The Electric Love Letter
9. For a Little While
10. I Love You, But Goodbye
11. Hello Sunshine
12. unknown
13. Rebel Side Of Heaven

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

With this year’s Underground Music Showcase only a few days out, this is a great time to post a few more sets from last year.  (Previously posted UMS recordings can be found here.)  Today’s set features a rowdy performance by Megafaun on the final night of the festival.  We should have all been exhausted by Sunday night, but based on the crowd reaction, Denver wasn’t about to stop partying!

Megafaun
7.26.2009
Denver Post Underground Music Showcase
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. Kaufman’s Ballad
2. Beloved Binge
3. The Process
4. The Fade
5. Columns
6. Guns

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

Sporting a 7-piece lineup, frontman Eric Peterson brought Roger, Roll to the Hi-Dive last night in celebration of the release of his first 7-inch, Polaroid in Reverse.  The records are individually lathe cut and limited to a run of 50, so if you want a physical copy, track one down soon.  My suggestion?  Stop by Roger, Roll’s set this Thursday at the UMS. A more convenient (and cheaper) alternative is to purchase the digital download, which should be available online in the next few days.

Roger, Roll
7.16.2010
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. Foreward
2. Digging
3. Picture Perfect
4. Growing
5. Meaningless Pop Song
6. The Essence of Things
7. Is Anything Right

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

Weed Diamond played one last show in Denver last week, before head off on tour.  You can catch the all up and down the West Coast throughout July.

Weed Diamond
6.27.2010
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:
1. intro
2. unknown
3. Mr. Vacant Stare
4. unknown
5. Oklahoma
6. unknown

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

Elvis Perkins in Dearland
5.08.2009
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

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

Setlist:
1. 123 Goodbye
2. I Heard Your Voice In Dresden
3. Chains, Chains, Chains
4. Emile’s Vietnam In The Sky
5. Send My Fond Regards To Lonelyville
6. Hey
7. Hours Last Stand
8. Weeping Mary
9. I’ll Be Arriving
10. Stay Zombie Stay
11. Shampoo
12. Stop Drop Rock And Roll
13. How’s Forever Been Baby
14. May Day!
(Encore)
15. Doomsday *

Notes:
* w/ members of Other Lives

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

A sparse Sunday night crowd at the Hi-Dive didn’t prevent The Donkeys from giving it their all and bringing down the house!

The Donkeys
6.27.2010
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:
1. unknown instrumental
2. Nice Train
3. Come on Virginia
4. Dolphin Center
5. unknown
6. Bloodhound
7. Excelsior Lady
8. Gloria
(Encore)
9. Foggy Notion

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

Porlolo marks a triumphant return to Denver with a slew of new material!  (Song titles in quotes are nothing more than guesses.)

Porlolo
6.17.2010
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

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

Setlist:
1. intro/soundcheck
2. There is No I in Athens
3. Usetonaut
4. “Easy Way Out”
5. “Little Something”
6. “Noticed”
7. “Hell”
8. Scratch My Back
9. “Turn My Head”
10. “Thirty-Two”

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

Laura Gibson visited the Hi-Dive twice this spring, and while I missed her headlining appearance in March, I managed to catch the opening set for Damien Jurado in April.  This was easily the quietest and most attentive crowd I’ve ever experienced at the Hi-Dive!

Laura Gibson
4.05.2009
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave > LAME > mp3
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. “Frailty”
2. Come By Storm
3. Nightwatch
4. Hands in Pockets
5. Postures Bent
6. Funeral Song
7. Where Have All Your Good Words Gone?
8. Sweet Deception
9. Spirited
10. (Glory story)
11. Glory

Notes:
Opening for Damien Jurado.

Purchase Laura’s Discography:
(All purchases include album downloads.)
2009 – Beasts of Seasons (CD | Vinyl)
2008 – Six White Horses: Blues & Traditionals Vol I (Hush Records)
2006 – If You Come To Greet Me (Hush Records)

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

(Photo by Brian Carney.)

Here’s Houses on the March equinox, opening for Everything Absent or Distorted and d.biddle.

Houses
3.20.2009
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave > LAME > mp3
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Crossing the North Sea
2. Fair Weather
3. We’re Alright
4. Rainy Day Parade
5. Circles and Squares
6. Red Feather
7. untitled (Hangman’s Noose)

A zipfile of mp3s is available here.
FLAC files are available on dime.

Here’s The Magic Mice, opening for The Broken West and Blind Pilot last month.

The Magic Mice
3.11.2009
The Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave > LAME > mp3
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. unknown
2. Diamond Eyes
3. unknown
4. Storm Coated
5. Body/Soul
6. unknown
7. World of Trouble
8. Dreams of Reason
9. unknown

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

A short but pleasing set from one of my local favorites, Josephine and The Mousepeople.

Josephine and The Mousepeople
3.25.2009
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave > LAME > mp3
Taped by:  Lance Stack

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

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

Last night’s Nirvana Tribute was more fun than any of us could have imagined.  A Dualistics‘ performance of In Utero was spot on, transporting the entire crowd back to 1993.    Other friends invited to play were judiciously re-interpretting their own Nirvana favorites throughout the evening.  Creative highlights include Negative Creep as a blues jam, Come as You Are on casio, and a latin-flavored version of Drain You.

Nirvana Tribute Show
4.03.2009
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave > LAME > mp3
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
(Jen Korte and Jim Ruberto)
1. Where Did You Sleep Last Night
2. You Know You’re Right

(Mike Marchant and Maria Kohler)
3. Negative Creep
4. Big Cheese

(Dan Craig)
5. Been a Son
6. Smells Like Teen Spirit

(John Common and Jess De Nicola)
7. Come as You Are
8. In Bloom

(Achille Lauro)
9. Drain You

(Hello Kavita)
10. Lithium
11. Polly

(The Wheel)
12. Sliver
13. Something in the Way

(Dualistics)
14. Serve the Servants
15. Scentless Apprentice
16. Heart Shaped Box
17. Rape Me
18. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle
19. Dumb
20. Very Ape
21. Milk It
22. Pennyroyal Tea
23. Radio-Friendly Unit-Shifter
24. Tourette’s
25. All Apologies

Zipfiles of the mp3s are available here:  Part 1 and Part 2.
FLAC files are available via BitTorrent at cotapers.org.

While still maintaining a healthy roster of around ten members, Dark Meat has scaled back both the lineup and volume on this tour.  But a sacrifice of excess for the sake of cohesion was definitely to their advantage.  While I do miss the confetti, leaf blowers, and marching sousaphones, musically this set was superior to most Dark Meat shows I saw last fall.

Dark Meat
4.01.2009
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave > Flac16
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Oh To Find Her Gone
2. Future Galaxies
3. Freedom Ritual
4. unknown
5. No One Was There
6. unknown
7. When the Shelter Came
8. Changes Will Come
9. Three Eyes Open

FLAC files and other audio formats are available at the Live Music Archive.

Oakland’s Cryptacize were a last-minute addition to support Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti on tour, after the previously booked band had trouble making it into the states.  This isn’t your typical Cryptacize set, and it’s a wonder Denver was graced with a performance at all last week.  All cards were stacked to the contrary:

1. The band braved a drive from Salt Lake City through a snowstorm, and arrived only minutes before their set!
2. Corey Fogel was unavailable for the evening, making this a drummerless, stripped-down show.
3. Bass player Aaron Olson was on painkillers due to a dental visit earlier that day.

If you want a more representative performance (albiet prior to Aaron’s addition to the band), you can check out my previous posts here and here.  But the sound on this one is so great, the performance so fun, that I couldn’t restrain myself from posting it.  As a bonus, all songs but the first are from Cryptacize’s upcoming Mythomania album, due out 4/21 on Asthmatic Kitty.

Cryptacize
3.25.2009
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  Mix [Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax] + [SBD > 1/4″] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave > LAME > mp3
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro
2. Say You Will
3. The Loving Sun *
4. I’ll Take The Long Way
5. Galvanize
6. Mythomania
7. New Spell

Notes:
* = first time played

FLAC files are available on dime.
A zipfile of mp3s is available here.