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Live Concert Recordings

As a feature on the site, I will be dredging my own personal archive of taped shows to showcase rare or otherwise unheard performances from artists I love.
What started as a typical mid-summer’s evening in San Francisco, warm weather quickly shut out by fast moving clouds and wind, I found myself and maybe 40 [...]

Damien Jurado toured last Fall opening for Okkervil River. He brought with him his band, Eric Fischer and Jenna Conrad, to play quite a few new songs they’d been in the process or getting recorded for about a year.
At the time his rendition of Low’s “Murderer” had just been released on the blogs [...]

Last summer we got together with Jesse Sykes at the 4th Annual Songwriter Festival at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, CA.
She played a quick set to a very excited crowd with songs almost entirely from her latest album Like, Love, Lust & The Open Halls Of The Soul.

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Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks played an in-store performance at Haight/Ashbury’s Amoeba Records in support of their latest album Real Emotional Trash. The crowd was primed and ready as we all waited, filling up half of the entire store’s rows of LPs, for the Jicks to take the stage. The band took the stage after [...]

On the evening of September 17th, we had the pleasure of meeting up with the Handsome Furs duo before their show at the Rickshaw Stop. On tour with with fellow Wolf Parade band member, Dante, playing as Johnny And The Moon, the bands rolled in a little late to their soundcheck. Listening to both acts [...]

On August 28th, Santa Cruz’s The Crepe Place put on the show with the help of Folk Yeah!. The turn out was not that great for the amount of talent the bands brought, I think maybe 30 people at the most showed up by the end of the evening although some apparently drove down [...]

Back in July we caught Benni Hemm Hemm playing at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco for a rare appearance stateside. The Icelandic artist played mostly material from his two full length albums, Kajak and a self-titled album.
Enjoy the streaming concert!

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We met up with Jesy and Ben before their show August 15, 2007 at the Elbo Room in San Francisco to work out various logistics of filming and recording them as well as getting to know them. Jesy and Ben’s job at a Mexican resturaunt, how great it is to have a booking agent now [...]

Last last month, going on a few hours of sleep after the Casiotone For The Painfully Alone show (Part 1/Part 2/MP3s) we had caught the night before, we jumped in the car and headed south to catch the Bodies of Water record release show at Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles. After the long drive [...]

As mentioned in the prior post, last month we met with Michael Andrews on a short tour of his opening for The Bird And The Bee. It was a great and low tempo show. Other than that, I don’t think there is much else to say that hasn’t been gone over in the [...]

Last week we caught Casiotone For The Painfully Alone at the Bottom of the Hill. It was the last stop on the tour with The Donkeys and they both put on great shows.
The Donkeys picked things up after the opener and really kick started things for a wild night. As Nate already mentioned in the [...]

Marissa Nadler played to a small crowd last month at the Hemlock Tavern and luckily for us we were there and granted permission to document the show. Marissa’s soft spoken voice and dreamy lyrics really captivated the crowd and made for an amazing show at the Hemlock.
She’s recently gotten some great publicity as part of [...]

The team of Cameraphonic was incredibly fortunate to have the pleasure of spending a few hours with Essie and her guitarist, Patrick in Santa Cruz. With some time to spare before her scheduled performance at Café Pergolesi, we all relaxed over a meal and enjoyed the mellow and lighthearted conversation that flowed around the [...]

Continuing with the Essie Jain love-fest, here are the mp3s from the San Francisco show. It was a great show and too bad she had to deal with a Friday night bar crowd.
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David Bazan, ex-Pedro The Lion, came through town again last week (06/21) opening for The New Year on one of the last solo tours he will be on for awhile after beginning to tour this Fall under the name Black Cloud. We made it out to see him and catch up a bit as we [...]

Dolorean, fronted by Al James, is a Portland, OR based group who came through town playing three shows in the Bay Area last May in support of their latest release, You Can’t Win. I had the pleasure of catching up with Al again at all three of the shows and meeting his great touring band [...]