Mp3s: Headphones, Pilot To Gunner, The Burdocks, A Northern Chorus
Posted on January 2, 2006 at 12:13 pm | No Comments
I’ll kick off ’06 by sharing up some of the last live songs I recorded during the final couple months of ’05. A little clearing of the decks, if you will. Some great stuff to be had in here…
On November 16th, Headphones warmed up for American Analog Set at TT the Bear’s in Cambridge. It was the first of a few dates that David Bazan’s no-guitar project would join AmAnSet on, and I was glad to get an opener that I dug. While I was surprised to not find either Frank Lenz or TW Walsh behind the drum kit (TW’s absence would be explained later), Western States drummer Nick Peterson did a fine job providing Bazan’s backbeat. Here are five songs from the set…
live at TT the Bears
Cambridge, MA
November 16th, 2005
“Pick out a good note, and play it a loud as you can…”
Major Cities
Shit Talker
The Five Chord
Pink and Brown
Hot Girls
The studio version of (the amusingly aborted and restarted) ‘The Five Chord‘ is a non-album track that can be found on iTunes. The other four songs come from their self-titled debut disc.
Brooklyn’s Pilot to Gunner had a fairly quiet ’05, but they snuck in one last show at Allston’s Great Scott on November 17th. The set included a couple pretty stellar new songs that I haven’t shared up, and they’ll likely find their way onto their next full length. Here’s hoping anyway…
live at Great Scott
Allston, MA
November 17th, 2005
The studio recording of ‘All The Lights‘ is an eMusic exclusive, and the other tracks can be found on PtG’s latest disc, ‘Get Saved’.
I hadn’t ever heard of Halifax, Nova Scotia’s The Burdocks before we ended up sharing a bill with them and their touring partners, A Northern Chorus, at the Lizard Lounge last month. Being a big ANC fan, I figured they’d likely be bringing along someone well worth hearing. I was most certainly not mistaken…
live at the Lizard Lounge
Cambridge, MA
December 3rd, 2005
1. Made In The World
2. Pop Cult
3. Ok Ok
4. Room Temperature
5. Let’s Cut Each Other Up
6. Icicle Knife
7. Werewolves
If you’re aware of the titles of those two unknown songs, let me know in the comments (thanks for the song titles, seth). Studio versions of most of the other tracks can be heard on their latest release, ‘What We Do Is Secret‘.
I was entirely blown away by Ontario’s A Northern Chorus the first time I saw them back in August, and I’ll be damned if they didn’t do it again. An absolutely beautiful set, layers of guitar, cello, and striking harmonies. Their fantastic new drummer fit in perfectly, and you really can’t beat a bass player who uses a broken string to make well-timed cymbal hits. Well played, sir. They were kind enough to play a bunch of songs we didn’t hear them do here few months back…
live at the Lizard Lounge
Cambridge, MA
December 3rd, 2005
1. Subjects and Matter
2. Let The Parrots Speak For Themselves
3. Red Carpet Blues
4. Don’t Think of Collapse
5. Until These Seams Are Sewn Again
6. Winterize
7. Louder Than Love
8. The Shepherd and the Chauffeur
You’ll find most of those songs on their third full-length, the excellent ‘Bitter Hands Resign’.
I’ll be officially closing the book on ’05 later on, when I finally get around to sharing up mp3s from the Jewcy party in NYC last month, and when I eventually post my personal best-of-year. Like most of you, I’m entirely listed-out, but I’m not gonna start ’06 by breaking a five year tradition…
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