Ms Jenny Lewis. With the Watson Twins. And Jonathon Rice, Jason Boesel and Michael Runion = An amazing night of Music.

I found this show in my old "draft" folder. For whatever reason I meant to post it about 18 months ago and it never happened. It's an audience recording (no soundboards at this show), but still lovely.

I'm about to run out for the day, but I thought I'd put it out there in anticipation of her new record coming out in September. Looking forward to it!! Now where's that Dallas date I've been waiting on...

Live MP3s:
Intro
Long Black Dress (Run Devil Run)
The Big Guns
You Are What You Love
Melt Your Heart
The Charging Sky
Happy
Intro to...
Fernando
Rise Up With Fists!!
Carpet Baggers
Met Him On A Sunday
Into to...
When Jack Killed Mom
Born Secular
Encore Break
Acid Tounge
Handle With Care

Tour Dates:
Tue 09/16/08 Boulder, CO Fox Theatre
Wed 09/17/08 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
Fri 09/19/08 Chicago, IL Epiphany Church
Sat 09/20/08 Omaha, NE Anchor Inn
Sun 09/21/08 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium
Mon 09/22/08 Knoxville, TN Bijou Theatre
Tue 09/23/08 Fayetteville, AR George's Majestic Lounge
Wed 09/24/08 Oxford, MS The Lyric Oxford
Thu 09/25/08 Tulsa, OK Cain's Ballroom
Fri 09/26/08 Austin, TX Zilker Park
Tue 09/30/08 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse
Thu 10/02/08 Washington, DC Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
Fri 10/03/08 Wilmington, DE Grand Opera House
Sat 10/04/08 New York, NY Apollo Theater

Labels: audience mp3s, concerts, houston, indie, live mp3s, numbers, tour dates

Here's the Tilly and the Wall companion show that I referenced a couple of days ago - Pony Up's set from Houston. Unfortunately I missed 2-3 songs - but caught the bulk of the set.

So if you haven't heard of Pony Up! heres your chance - their another one of those fun bands from Montreal and formed on New Years Eve 2002, so I thought that we would celebrate their 4 year anniversay by posting a show.

Interesting note - Pony Up played a new and unreleased song during this set called "Wet", and posted it on their MySpace account - check it out here. The take they used was from the Houston performance that - but sounds like a completely different mix then what I got. Again, playing off the different performance/different sound discussion that I went into on Tilly the other day, here is another example of how two recordings of the exact same song (and both off of the soundboard, mind you) can sound like they came from two different shows.

A note on my recording - I actually got a stereo mix of this show - ie, you could hear unique instruments and vocals in each channel. Though I really liked the mix, I ended up combining the two seperate channels into a pseudo-mono recordining. A lot of the vocals were coming out of one channel (and were then alternatingh channels, depending on who was singing). It sounded a bit jarring, the "mono" mix is a lot easier to listen to, especially in a car.


Live MP3s:
Make, Model, Number
Only Feelgood
Possible Harm
Wet
The Truth About Cats And Dogs (Is That They Die)

Labels: concerts, houston, indie, live mp3s, numbers, soundboard mp3s

I love looking for images to go along with my posts - usually I run into something stunning - like this photo of Kianna Alarid from Tilly and the Wall, taken in the UK by wunderkind photographer Andrew Kendall. Check out more pictures from this show at Andrew's page here.

So here's the Tilly show from their recent stop in Houston - fantastic show with Pony Up and Houston's own The Western Civilization opening. For whatever stupid reason I didn't tape The Western Civilization, and I still regret it. Good news is that I did get Pony Up's set - and that will be coming later this week.

This was the 2nd time in 2006 that I've taped Tilly and the Wall - you can hear the one from June, here - and check out this one from their 2004 tour opening for Rilo Kiley. It's interesting to hear the sonic differences between the two shows - its not often that I get to tape the same band multiple times in the same year, and this opportunity presented a unique opportunity for me to hear the same band, with the same soundguy, at two different venues, taped off of two different boards.

This show, taped at Numbers Nightclub has a lot more of a "arena" rock feel to it - more prominent vocals, heavy reverb giving it a "big" sound - while the show from Walters on Washington was more keyboard and treble heavy, giving a more intimate feel to the audio. Check them both out and let me know what you think.

As always though, Tilly rocked - putting on a totally kick-ass and over-the-top performance encouraging wild crowd particaption. Someone had brought a bubble machine to the show and kept generating hundreds of bubbles which flow above the crowds head and exploding into various band members. If you have pictures, send em on!

Live MP3s:
Intro
Rainbows in the Dark
Reckless
Black and Blue
Love Song
Bessa
Fell Down The Stairs
The Freest Man
Sing Songs Along
You And I Misbehaving
Bad Education
Brave Day
A Perfect Fit
Lost Girls
Nights Of The Living Dead

Labels: concerts, houston, indie, live mp3s, numbers, soundboard mp3s