Tradition runs rampant around Thanksgiving: generations of old recipes, football, Alice’s Restaurant , The Last Waltz, and, of course, a parade of balloons shutting down NYC. What else do you need? If […]
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The Incredible String Band :: Radio Unnameable – NYC, 1968
Imagine dialing around on the radio and stumbling across this utterly fried live session from The Incredible String Band late one night in 1968. Transmitted via Bob Fass’ legendary Radio Unnameable show, this is […]
Jason Molina :: North Star Blues Session – Belgium, 2003
Jason Molina (Songs: Ohia / Magnolia Electric Co) died March 16th, 2013. It’s impossible to overstate the depth and virtue of his songs or the way he poetically expressed the […]
Happy Thanksgiving :: Doug Sahm And Friends — Austin, TX 1972
Tradition runs rampant around Thanksgiving: generations of old recipes, football, Alice’s Restaurant , The Last Waltz, and, of course, a parade of balloons shutting down NYC. What else do you need? If […]
Sandy Denny :: Ebbets Field, Denver, Colorado, April 1973
Sandy Denny played with plenty of great bands in her all-too-brief life, from The Strawbs to Fairport Convention to Fotheringay. She even jammed with Led Zeppelin. But the British singer-songwriter didn’t need […]
Let Me Take You To The Empty Place: An Incomplete Story of Peter Laughner and Television (Slight Return)
Cleveland guitarist/singer/songwriter/scenemaker Peter Laughner , best known for co-founding Rocket From The Tombs and Pere Ubu, died at far too young an age in 1977. But he managed to pack an astonishing […]
Happy Thanksgiving :: Doug Sahm And Friends — Austin, TX 1972
Tradition runs rampant around Thanksgiving: generations of old recipes, football, Alice’s Restaurant , The Last Waltz, and, of course, a parade of balloons shutting down NYC. What else do you need? If […]
Sonic Youth :: Brixton Academy, London – December 14, 1992
Pavement played one hell of a show at London’s Brixton Academy on December 14, 1992. We know this because the BBC taped and broadcast the set — a set that […]
William Tyler: Live In Huntsville, Alabama / July 2015
On July 2nd, 2015, William Tyler , sidestepping I-65, drove his new-to-him Toyota south from his home in Nashville, down Hillsboro Pike and Highways 106 and 431, through Franklin, Lewisburg, Fayetteville, Hazel […]
The Velvet Underground :: The Freeman Tape Sampler, Max’s Kansas City, NYC, August, 1970
With the official release of (most of) the Matrix Tapes last year, there is very little unheard Velvet Underground live material left in the vaults. But there is a still-unreleased tape that should […]
Leonard Cohen: Yad Eliahu Sports Palace, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1972
“He was looking forward to playing Israel,” writes Leonard Cohen’s biographer Sylvie Simmons of the songwriter’s first tour of the Holy Land in 1972. “He was terrified of playing Israel.” […]
Neil Young :: Live At The Bottom Line – NYC, 1974
In 2013 we highlighted Neil Young’s “Pushed It Over The End”, culled from a 1974 performance captured at the now-defunct, long running NYC club, The Bottom Line . Below is that evening in its entirety […]
Fairport Convention :: Philadelphia Folk Festival, August 29, 1970
By the time Fairport Convention took the stage at the 1970 Philadelphia Folk Festival, they had already been through more lineup changes than most bands experience in decades. Since forming in early […]
Happy Thanksgiving :: Doug Sahm And Friends — Austin, TX 1972
Tradition runs rampant around Thanksgiving: generations of old recipes, football, Alice’s Restaurant , The Last Waltz, and, of course, a parade of balloons shutting down NYC. What else do you need? If […]
Television :: Piccadilly Inn – Cleveland, July 25, 1975
One hell of a night in Cleveland. Television played its first out-of-town shows deep in the heart of Ohio in the summer of ’75. The opening band was Rocket From […]