The Cooler Kids Will Live Forever
Posted on September 23, 2005 at 12:04 pm | No Comments
First things first: Go pick up the new American Analog Set disc. That’s an order, soldier. You can thank me after you listen to the thing.
Ok, with that outta the way… hello! I’m really glad so many surfers have found their way to the Sigur Ros set I posted on Monday. The comments and emails of appreciation are, reduntantly, appreciated. I’ll follow that up in a few days with full sets from Buffalo Tom and Kay Hanley, who played outside at the Brookline 300th Anniversary Festival thang this past Sunday. Good stuff.
Busy work week past, although I’m thankfully off today so I can join the rest of the oft-mutating Broken River Prophet as we head down to Pawtucket, Rhode Island to play the finale of the Mirror Image Film Festival. Had a pretty good practice last night, and we’re squeezing in another one this afternoon before we hit the road. As Professor Hinkle says, I’m busy busy busy.
Looking forward to finally seeing A History of Violence this weekend, playing some poker with friends, and just some old fashioned relaxin’.
Well, I’ve done gone and run outta time, gotta head out to that last minute practice, then off to the show. Check back tomorrow afternoon for my irregularly scheduled link-purge, and maybe those two live sets I mentioned…
Oh, before I go, if you’re feeling generous, head here and donate to the Breast Cancer Walk that Amie and I are doing in October. I’ll beg more later, don’t you worry.
Until tomorrow then…
Mp3s: Sigur R�s live in Boston
Posted on September 19, 2005 at 8:51 am | No Comments

I could consult a thesaurus, but I still doubt I’d find the right words to describe last Thursday’s Sigur R�s at the beautiful Boston Opera House. Like-minded fans of this Icelandic band know what they’re capable of, and they delivered that evening with the help of the four-piece AminA, who not only provided strings for Sigur R�s, but opened up the night with a mesmerizing set of their own.

I hope to share the AminA set soon, but for now here’s the full Sigur R�s show. Thirteen songs over ten files, as I kept the linked ones together rather than split ’em up…
Sigur R�s
live at the Boston Opera House
Thursday, September 15th, 2005(files removed on 1/15/06)
1. Takk / Glosoli
2. Ny Batteri
3. Saeglopur
4. Vaka
5. Gong / Andvari
6. Vidrar Vel Til Loftarasa
7. Hoppipolla / Med Blodnasir
8. Hafssol
9. Smaskifa
encore…
10. Popplagio
For the detail minded, this was recorded using a Sony MZ-RH10 minidisc recorder and a Sony ECM-719 stereo clip-on mic, transferred to pc as .wav files, edited in Soundforge, and converted to 192kbps mp3s. Also, for the audio-snobs, I’ll try to post some original wav-to-flac files at dimeadozen when I find the time (i.e. I have no idea when), or you could always ask for a straight burn.
As always, the files will be up for a few weeks, maybe a bit longer.

