Coachella live cuts (not mine).

This guy posted his tumblr account on the last.fm event page for Coachella, so I'd like to pass on the link to anyone who reads this. There are a handful of full-set recordings from various acts, many of whom I did get to see! Morissey, Antony and the Johnsons, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Liars, My Bloody Valentine's sets are all located on the 21 April 2009 page, which I mention because he seems to use it as a personal blog as well; entries will shift back accordingly with time. BIG UPS; THANK YOU, SIR!

In case you missed that above, click here for the link.

Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive (1976)

Every part of this album, particularly the gratuitous use of the talk box, rules. Completely.


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Sigur Rós - Live at the Southside Festival in Germany (2008).

I was fortunate enough to have seen Sigur Rós twice this year, though only the latter occasion was worth mentioning. The first wasn't as great not because they didn't sound as stunning and mind-numbingly beautiful as they usually do; rather, it was because I was sitting in a field at 2am with a bunch of hippies waiting for my acid to kick in. In fact, the only highlight of that show was when two members signed my copy of their new album before the show that night, which is not to say I'm at all disappointed about that. However, I saw them a second time in September at a proper venue, an old church that puts on shows during the week, in NYC, which was purely sublime. Here is a live cut from a festival they played in Germany.



1. Svefn-g-englar
2. Ný Batterí
3. Glósóli
4. Við Spilum Endalaust
5. Hoppípolla/Með Blóðnasir
6. Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur
7. Hafsól
8. Gobbledigook
9. Popplagið

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Roxy Music - BBC Sessions (1972/1973)

Here is some (more) live music by my all time favourite band!!! Aside from Viva!, which is available here a few pages back, this is about the closest I'll ever come to seeing Roxy Music live. I'd like to find a hard copy of this somewhere, but I haven't been able to locate one yet. Then again, maybe I'm not trying hard enough.



Disc One: 1 | 2
1. Bitter End (May 3,1972)
2. The Bob (medley) (Jan. 4,1972)
3. Chance Meeting (August 1972)
4. Chance Meeting (May 3,1972)
5. If There Is Something (Jan. 4,1972)
6. If There Is Something (July 18,1972)
7. Ladytron (May 3,1972)
8. Remake-Remodel (Jan. 4,1972)
9. Sea Breezes (Jan. 4,1972)
10. Virginia Plain (July 18,1972)
11. Would You Believe (Jan. 4,1972)
12. 2HB (May 3,1972)

Disc Two:
1. The Bob (medley) (August 1972)
2. Do The Strand (March 5,1973)
3. Editions Of You (March 5,1973)
4. Grey Lagoons (August 1972)
5. In Every Dream Home A Heartache (March 5,1973)
6. Pyjamarama (March 5,1973)
7. Remake-Remodel (August 1972)
8. Sea Breezes (August 1972)
9. Virginia Plain (August 1972)

Slowdive: Live at Reading: 26 February 1991

Slowdive was an English dream pop band that formed in 1989 and lasted until 1995. Their music is really soft, slow and melodic in addition to being conducive to the perfect, hazy nostalgia of which I am so overly fond. They sound like 90's England, or so I would imagine.




1. Shine
2. Catch
3. Slowdive
4. Morning Rise
5. Colours In Spin
6. She Calls
7. Avalyn

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The Gossip - Undead In NYC (2003)

The live Gossip album! The Gossip is a punky band out of Arkansas, probably most known for its lead singer, Beth Ditto, who is just fantastic. They're really awesome.



1. All This Waiting
2. Non Non Non
3. Don't Make Waves
4. The Truth The Gossip
5. Gone Tomorrow
6. Confessor
7. Arkansas Heat
8. Dangerr
9. Wanna Be Yr Dog
10. (Unlisted Track)

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Rage Against The Machine - Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium (2003)

If you never got to see Rage live in their prime as I never got to see Rage live in their prime, this is a nice, cheap alternative to one of the giant, stupid festivals they've reunited to play as of late. I highly recommend this.



1. Bulls On Parade
2. Bullet In The Head
3. Born Of A Broken Man
4. Killing In The Name
5. Calm Like A Bomb
6. Testify
7. Bombtrack
8. War Within A Breath
9. I'm Housin'
10. Sleep Now In The Fire
11. People Of The Sun
12. Guerrilla Radio
13. Kick Out The Jams
14. Know Your Enemy
15. No Shelter
16. Freedom

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Rasputina - A Radical Recital (2005)

This is the live recording by one of the creepiest bands I've experienced so far; the best part about them is not the unique stage presence concocted by two cellos and a drum set, not Melora Creager's wry humour or even their subject matters, many of which are products of having raided the Library of Congress; rather, it's that they actually do sound this good live.


1. Saline the Salt Lake Queen
2. Rats
3. Howard Hughes
4. Sign of the Zodiac
5. Secret Message
6. Watch T.V.
7. Hunter's Kiss
8. Things I'm Going To Do
9. If Your Kisses Can't Hold The Man You Love
10. Any Old Actress
11. Rose K.
12. The Mayor
13. Momma Was An Opium Spoker
14. Wicked Dickie
15. When I Was A Young Girl
16. Barracuda
17. Rock and Roll
18. A Quitter
19. High On Life

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Two Talking Heads albums.

I love Talking Heads, and you should too. Posted here are my favourite of their studio albums as well as their live album, which is superb, oh man.



Speaking In Tongues (1983)



Stop Making Sense: Live (1984)
1. Psycho Killer
2. Swamp
3. Slippery People
4. Burning Down the House
5. Girlfriend Is Better
6. Once in a Lifetime
7. What A Day That Was
8. Life During Wartime
9. Take Me To The River

Live Isis cuts.

Isis is a really special band, one that's successfully fused, if not totally transcended, a few of my favourite genres to create this really spectacular, intensely brainy breed of spaced-out, progressive metal. The following are bundles of some live sets, presumably from separate performances at various times. (I don't remember where I found these, so if you come across them and realize they're yours, let me know.)




Live One
1. Carry
2. Hymn
3. Weight
4. The Beginning of the End

Live Two
1. From Sinking
2. Glisten
3. Carry
4. Weight
5. The Beginning of the End
6. Celestial Ext [altered version]

Live Four
1. Gentle Time
2. Glisten
3. CFT
4. Celestial
5. Improv 1
6. False Light
7. Weight

Live Bundle #3 wouldn't upload for some reason, but I'm working on it.

Björk - Live Box (2003)

If you know me at all, you know that I live for this woman goddess and her work. I bought this last year when it became completely clear that I couldn't make it out to Coachella to see her.




Disc One
1. Human Behaviour
2. One Day
3. Venus as a Boy
4. Come to Me
5. Big Time Sensuality
6. Aeroplane
7. Like Someone in Love
8. Crying
9. Anchor Song
10. Violently Happy

Disc Two
1. Headphones
2. Army of Me
3. One Day
4. Modern Things
5. Isobel
6. Possibly Maybe
7. Hyper-Ballad
8. I Go Humble
9. Big Time Sensuality
10. Enjoy
11. I Miss You
12. It's Oh So Quiet
13. Anchor Song

Disc Three
1. Visur Vantnsenda Rósu
2. Hunter
3. You've Been Flirting Again
4. Isobel
5. All Neon Like
6. Possibly Maybe
7. 5 Years
8. Come to Me
9. Immature
10. I Go Humble
11. Bachelorette
12. Human Behaviour
13. Pluto
14. Jóga
15. So Broken
16. Anchor Song

Disc Four
1. Frosti
2. Overture
3. All Is Full of Love
4. Cocoon
5. Aurora
6. Undo
7. Unravel
8. I've Seen It All
9. Echo, A Stain
10. Generous Palmstroke
11. Hidden Place
12. Pagan Poetry
13. Harm of Will
14. It's Not Up to You
15. Unison
16. It's in Our Hands

Lesser-known Against Me! cuts.

Here is some stuff by this band that is less widely circulated, ie not the albums. There are the Crime and Acoustic EP's, both of which are really great. In addition, here are two live cuts; in my opinion, they translate pretty well. I've seen them live seven times now, and they blow me away every time. Seriously.



the Acoustic EP

the Crime EP

the WKDU radio session [31.1.07]

We're Never Going Home (DVD rip)

Roxy Music - Viva! (1976)

This is hands down one of the best live albums to ever have graced my discriminating ear. In fact, it's the first thing I heard by Roxy Music, and, even at 15, I knew this was going to be a long, steady, mutually beneficial relationship. If you haven't heard much / anything at all by this band, I think this is a good starting point; if you find them as amazing live as I did (and still do), their studio albums will be worth checking out. In fact, there will probably be a discography post as soon as possible.



1. Out of the Blue [live]
2. Pyjamarama [live]
3. The Bogus Man [live]
4. Chance Meeting [live]
5. Both Ends Burning [live]
6. If There Is Something [live]
7. In Every Dream Home A Heartache [live]
8. Do The Strand [live]

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