Stream A Wilco Concert Tonight

photo by Biggie C

Thanks to Tiny Mix Tapes for the heads up. Wilco has been doing a residency in their home town of Chicago, and tonight 93XRT will be broadcasting the performance. It starts at 7:30pm central time (8:30pm for us East Coasters).

Go here to stream it

Video of The Day: Wilco

I've got the Wilco performance on Austin City Limits last week DVRed to jam out later but here's a vid from it with them doing my favourite song from Sky Blue Sky:

Photos: Voodoo Festival 10-28-07 at City Park - New Orleans, LA

Christian Scott












Clap Your Hands Say Yeah












Good Guys












Quintron and Miss Pussycat










Wilco

Live Review: Voodoo Music Experience

The weekend before Halloween, we went down to New Orleans to catch Voodoo Fest. We arrived downtown early Friday, checked into the bed and breakfast we were staying at, hung out for a second, and headed down to City Park where the fest was located. Since the line-up had been announced, one of the acts I was most excited about seeing was Ghost, whose album from this year, In Stormy Nights, I've loved. Unfortunately, when we went to set up to catch them, they weren't the Japanese noise-rock group Ghost, they were the New Orleans nu-metal, rap-funk group Ghost. We felt like we had just got punked. After that debacle, I went to catch Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and they were ok, but nothing really special.



Next up was Porcupine Tree, who put on a hell of a show jamming out hard. There was a relatively small crowd for this show and even Steven Wilson joked around about no one there knowing who they were. If you still haven't looked into this band, do it now!





After wandering around the fest for a little while, we caught M.I.A. from afar while we waited for Rage. I was disappointed with her sound live, but hip-hop live almost always leaves me wanting and i was pretty far from the stage, so I won't hold it against her, but I just don't think I understand completely why everyone is so into her. Her rap style is so monotone and repetitive. I've listened to her new album a few times and I just don't think she sounds that special.



After that, it was time for the main event, Rage Against The Machine. I had caught them at Phillips Arena back when they were touring for Battle Of Los Angeles and had loved that show so I was very excited to catch them here. They played a little longer than an hour, went through most of the hits, and by the end, I didn't think it compared to the first time I saw them at all. They were very sloppy and didn't sound like they were together at all, which is surprising to me since most of them have been playing together in Audioslave. The other main problem was the crowd didn't really seem to be into them at all. When I caught them before, my favorite part of the show was watching the entire crowd go nuts, and this time it just didn't seem to inspire that sort of reaction. Overall, though, it was still great seeing them again.









When we got back to our place Friday night, before heading down to Bourbon St. until 5am, we found a note from the woman running the bed and breakfast accusing us of eating her food in the freezer. The next morning, Biggie C woke up first to go through his photos from the day before and the woman came out and started screaming at him about the supposed missing food. After about an hour and a half of drama, the end game was that she was mistaken about the food and since Biggie C didn't apologize for disagreeing with her about the fact that we didn't eat the food, she kicked him out of the bed and breakfast. So we then had to waste another hour finding hotel to stay at for the rest of the weekend. The crappy B&B's email is hosts@ArtsBandB.com, so we urge all our readers to have some fun with that.

Saturday I didn't really get to catch much music because of the above fiasco, but i caught a little bit of Ghostland Observatory, Ben Harper, and Spoon, who were all decent but not inspiring.



The best show of the weekend in my opinion was next, The Smashing Pumpkins. While I had some trouble enjoying the Asheville show I had caught over the summer because I didn't know most of the songs they played, now that i know and love Zeitgeist, they were simply amazing. The almost two-hour set contained very little old-school hit songs you would expect from the typical festival show, but rather put on a compelling display of why the nu-Smashing Pumpkins are phenomenal in their own retro-rock 'n' roll way. If you can score a ticket to one of the make-up Atlanta shows this month, do it. For all of the music critic masses that just won't take the new album seriously, you're only depriving yourself of some great tunes.



After that, I caught the Tiesto set, who did some pretty good trance, capped by a Tegan And Sara remix that was, for better or worse, stuck in all of our heads for the rest of the weekend.



Sunday I started on the tiny stage to check out Good Guys, I really interesting hybrid of metal and Lounge music. This New Orleans native band came out dressed in Ghostbuster uniforms and were really cool and weird. If you want to hear something unlike anything you've heard before, i recommend checking them out.



Next up I checked out Quintron And Miss Pussycat. Despite the fact that Miss Pussycat , Quintron's wife, seemed more like a prop than a musician, Quintron tore it up with a really interesting array of instrumentation that apparently he has invented or built. I was way in the back for the show so I didn't really get to see everything he was using, but I hope to catch this New Orleans act again, maybe at one of their upcoming Mardi Gras shows.



After that I caught the end of the Black Crowes show, and it was better than the first time I saw them at Bonnaroo, which was terrible, but they just aren't my thing. Common came on next and I thought he put on a really great show, with a full band backing him. After that I caught Wilco to close out the fest and they rocked just as hard as their spectacular Bonnaroo set earlier this year, but I didn't quite like the song selection as much. There is no denying that Wilco as it is now is a pretty top-notch band and I will go see them every chance I get.





My overall impression of my second Voodoo experience was overwhelmingly positive. I'm a big fan of the two opposing stages going back and forth keeping music constantly going that both Pitchfork Fest and Lollapalooza also employ. The sound systems seemed to have a minimal amount of problems, although I did hear a few. My biggest complaint about the weekend would be the crowd. At the peak times on Friday and Saturday, there were ridiculously long lines for the bathrooms and food and beer outlets, but the Voodoo Fest's estimates on attendance were over 150,000 people for the weekend, up over 50% from the previous year's 93,000, so i don't think they were fully prepared for so many people. Also, the crowd seemed to remind me most of the Music Midtown crowds of a few years ago that don't exude the same level of respect for their fellow festival goers you expect at hippy fests like Echo Project and Bonnaroo. But for me, those were only minor annoyances that did very little to curb the fun I had this year at Voodoo and I'm looking forward to checking it out again next year.

Torrent Of The Day: Wilco (Summerteeth Demos)

There are some great Wilco torrents floating around the internets right now, and I will bring it to you:

Wilco Summerteeth Demos

cd trade > EAC > flac

01 Shot in the Arm
02 We're Just Friends
03 I'm Always in Love
04 Candyfloss
05 How to Fight Loneliness
06 Tried & True
07 She's a Jar
08 Pieholden Suite
09 Nothingsevergonnastandinmywayagain
10 Via Chicago
11 ELT
12 In a Future Age
13 My Darling

Download Lossless Torrent Here

Listen to some tunes:

Wilco : Summerteeth Demos : A Shot In The Arm


Wilco : Summerteeth Demos : How To Fight Loneliness


Wilco : Summerteeth Demos : Via Chicago

Voodoo Festival Initial Line-up!

This is a great line-up and now I'm definitely skipping ACLFest for this:

Rage Against The Machine
Smashing Pumpkins
Wilco
Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals
tiesto
Sinead O'Connor
Kings Of Leon
Porcupine Tree
Black Crowes
Fall Out Boy
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Mute Math
Common
MIA
Paolo Nutini
Spoon
La Coka Nostra featuring Everlast and members of House Of Pain
Coheed And Cambria
Galactic featuring Lyrics Born
Ghost
Dr. John
Toots and The Maytals
JJ Grey and MOFRO
many more... (see festival homepage)

Voodoo Fest takes place in New Orleans City Park October 26th-28th. Tickets go on sale for $100 this Friday at 10am, and then get more expensive as they sell. I attended the last one before hurricane Katrina and it was a really great time.

Voodoo Fest Website

Videos Of The Day: Bonnaroo 2007

Check 'em out:

Wilco:



White Stripes:



Regina Spektor:



More White Stripes:



The Police:



Ben Harper w/ John Paul Jones:



Superjam:



Ratdog:

Torrents Of The Day: Bonnaroo 2007

Just a little more Bonnaroo obsession before I move on:

Tool 2007-06-15 - Bonnaroo Music Festival - What Stage (16-bit) (FLAC)

Tool
What Stage - Bonnaroo Music Festival
Manchester, TN
06/15/2007

Source: Schoeps mk4 (ortf)> kc5> cmc6xt> Edirol R4 (24/96)
Location: FOB, LoC ~15', 5' high, 60' from stage
Transfer: r4> usb> Peak 4.13> xACT (fixed SBE's and converted to flac)
Taped and Transferred Patrick Moore (pat@taperssection.com)

One Set/Disc One
01 Jambi
02 Stinkfist
03 The Pot
04 46&2
05 Schism
06 Rosetta Stoned
07 Flood
08 Wings For Marie
09 10,000 Days

Disc Two
01 Lateralus*
02 Vicarious
03 Aenema

* w/ Tom Morello


Hot Chip 2007-06-15 Bonnaroo This Tent

Hot Chip
June 15, 2007
Bonnaroo - This Tent
Manchester, TN

Source: Core Sound Binaurals > Battery Box > Nomad Jukebox 3
Transfer: NJB3 > USB > PC > Sony Soundforge 7.0a
Edit: Sony Soundforge 7.0a (Splitting) > FLAC Frontend 1.7.1 etree edition > Tag & Rename


01) First New Song (Title Unknown)
02) Shake A Fist (New Song)
03) And I Was A Boy From School
04) Hold On (New Song)
05) (Just Like We) Breakdown
06) Fourth New Song (Title Unknown)
07) No Fit State
08) The Warning
09) Over And Over
10) Ready For a Fall (New Song)
11) The Beach Party


wilco 2007-06-17 Bonnaroo

Wilco
Bonnaroo
Manchester, TN
June 17, 2007

Source: Beyerdynamic mc930>mini me>mt
Mic config./location: ortf, 7', fob, dfc
Transfer: mt>wavelab>cdwave>flac
Editing: fades added beginning/end
Recorded and Transferred by Jon Buffington (stirinthesauce@hotmail.com)

2 discs

disc 1

01: You are my face
02: side with the seeds
03: shot in the arm
04: sb sky
05: walken
06: shake it off
07: hummingbird
08: via chicago
09: handshake drugs

disc 2

01: impossible germany
02: war on war
03: IATTBYH
04: ITMWLY
05: jesus, etc
06: spiders
e)
07: late greats
08: HM Drummer

Live Review: Bonnaroo 2007

We took a 16 car envoy from Atlanta to the event. We had some issues keeping everyone together, but at the end of about a 4 hour wait to get in early Thursday afternoon, we somehow managed to get everyone at the same camp. After setting up in Camp Han Solo, we got to drinking pretty hard and exploring the campgrounds before heading to see the music of the night. Upon entering Centeroo, we were held up in an extremely slow moving line to get in through security. The security didn't really seem to be checking people particularly hard, but they were very slow. Complaints about security would be a theme shared by many people over the weekend, but everyone in our entourage would only be minorly inconvenienced by it. I started out the night checking out the NBA Finals in the Cinema Tent, and then going to see The National. I have to say I thought they were downright awful. We stuck around for about half of it, and it got a big thumbs down from me. Next we watched Dubconscious in the Troo Music Lounge, which was pretty good but not really my bag. The best show of the night we caught would be Rodrigo y Gabriela. Really cool acoustic guitar stuff. On my way back to my camp to do more drinking, I checked out the Yard Dogs Road Show at the Bonna Rouge tent and I thought that was really interesting.













Friday started off with me checking out Tortoise. I thought this was a really solid set from them and enjoyed it a lot, especially them doing Seneca, my favourite tune of theirs, for the encore. This is one of the few sets that have already emerged on the torrents and you can download it here:

Tortoise 2007-06-15 Bonnaroo Music Festival. This Tent. (FLAC)



I stayed at the stage and managed to get front row for Hot Chip. This was one of my favourite shows of the weekend. They did really different renditions of stuff off of The Warning. I'm a big fan of organic dance music, and these guys are on top of that game. Some phlogs:







I briefly checked out the beginning of The Roots and then went to pregame for what would be the best show of the weekend, Tool. Unfortunately for me, I ended up getting too blotto and I blacked out halfway through the already legendary set complete with crazy visuals and a guest appearance jamout with Tom Morello. Hopefully one of the other Ohmpark folks who actually saw the entire thing will do a review for it later this week as I don't really have much to offer except it blew my mind. After regaining consciousness later on in the night, I went to see DJ Shadow. He was good but was the same exact thing I had seen recently in Atlanta and it seemed to pale in comparison to the Tool show. Plus Lateef The Truthspeaker is horrible and I had to leave when he came on. I caught the STS9 encore before heading back to the campgrounds and staying up until sunrise.

Saturday day seemed to be a ton of mediocre shows for me. I bounced around from Dr. Dog, to The Slip, to Regina Spektor, to Gogol Bordello, to Damien Rice, to Fountains Of Wayne. None of them were bad, but none of them really drew me in. The Warren Haynes interview at the Sonic Stage was pretty cool as you got to listen to him talk about the history of him and the Allman Brothers Band and Gov't Mule. After all of that though, it was time for Ween. I've seen these guys many times and have never really loved them hardcore, but for this show they just brought it, and the crowd for the show was going insane. I would have never expected it at the beginning of the weekend, but I think this ended up being my favourite show of the 'roo. Saturday night we went to see The Police, like just about every single person at the festival, and it was a bit of a let down for me. I don't know if maybe my expectations were too high or what, but it just seemed really underwhelming. I'm glad i got to see them, but I definitely wouldn't go see them again. Late night, I opted to check out Girl Talk over the Flaming Lips extravaganza that most everyone else caught. The Girl Talk show was a great dance party with a stage full of random folks getting down. After that I saw some of the Gov't Mule set, but my memory is pretty hazy at this point so I don't have a lot to say about it. Although I did not go see them, the Sasha and Digweed set would be the only late night set of the weekend that would creep into dawn.

On Sunday, we went extremely early to catch the Flight Of The Conchords. The 2 hours sitting in the hot sun were a high price to pay, but I'm glad to have seen these guys. Demetri Martin opened for them in the Comedy Tent. He was ok, but he seemed to be trying out a lot of new stuff, and not all of it was that great. The FOTC took the stage, they did a set consisting of older tunes, a couple off of the first HBO episode, and a few I didn't recognize. They were good, but it was hard to hear what they were saying at times, and the songs i didn't already know didn't seem as good to me as the others. They ended with a version of Albi the Racist Dragon featuring Demetri Martin on harmonica that was pretty cool.

After that i was off to catch the extremely jazzy Ratdog set. Always good stuff. Next up was The Decemberists show. I had been wanting to catch these guys forever and they were impressive. A heavy dose of The Crane Wife plus some other great gems. After that I went to see Wilco, and they did one of the best sets I've ever see them do. You can tell now that the nu-Wilco line-up has finally come into their own and they were on fire. If you get a chance to check them out tonight in the ATL, I highly recommend you do so. My final show of the weekend would be the White Stripes, who were good but seemed a little stale to me. They just seem to lacking something and i'm not sure what. Maybe it had to do with the extremely packed crowd and me being so far away, but it didn't impress me. Check it out for yourself:

The White Stripes 2007-06-17 Bonnaroo Which Stage

Overall, 2007 ranked fairly low among the other years for me personally, but that's not to say it wasn't unbelievably awesome, because it always is. I think I'm still coughing up dust. I feel like despite the move away from the Jamband heavy line-ups of the early days, they still don't have the quantity of this decades best artists that Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Pitchforkfest boast. The biggest change this year would be the absolute clamp down on non-official vendors and the banning of sales of glass pieces. i have to say I do not like this development and I believe it was the final nail in the coffin of this festival being significantly married to the Jamband community. I knew from the first year on that eventually Bonnaroo would either get shut down or get more controlled, and so I do not dismay as much as the Bonnaroo haters out there on the mainstreaming of the fest, but the old days are officially gone. On the bright side, I would not expect Bonnaroo to get much worse in this way and so if this is what Bonnaroo now is, then I have no problem with it and will continue to attend as long as they keep putting together great line-ups, but I'm gonna have to go check out another hippie fest once in a while to get that part of the experience that is almost completely gone at the 'roo. Here's some facts and figures from the weekend:

Ornette Coleman suffered a heat stroke while on stage.

One man died this year bringing the alltime Bonnaroo death count to 6.

The Coffee County Sheriffs reported 47 arrests over the weekend.

Bonnaroo grossed an estimated $17 million, breaking it's own record from last year as the highest grossing festival in the world.

Setlists of the weekend are being compiled here.

Humpday Random Bonnaroo Tracks

Bonnaroo is getting so close and i'm getting pumped up. Check these great tracks and click the picture for more info:

Wilco (Chicago, IL)



Wilco : Impossible Germany


Spoon (Austin, TX)



Spoon : The Ghost Of You Lingers


Aesop Rock (New York, NY)



Aesop Rock : None Shall Pass


Hot Chip (London, UK)



Hot Chip : And I Was A Boy From School

Friday Free-Style

Saturday night we got a great show for you featuring Passer By and From Exile's last show before going on tour. It's absolutely free, and we got some kegs of free beer for you 21+ kids. Come down and witness the spectacle:



Creative Loafing has a great article on the Atlanta scene blowing up. They also apparently just heard Darkside Of The Moon and just discovered Lenny's.

Interpol will be at Hi-Fi Buys on June 2nd for 99X's Big Day Out. They don't like Youtube. Here's a Youtube video:



Aereogramme are breaking up.

Arcade Fire don't have a beef with file sharing. That's probably because no one would know who they were without it.

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails is pissed at his label.

So, I sort of liked the Lily Allen album when I heard it, but I'm really tired of hearing about her in music news and blog sites. If you don't know anything about it you can find lots of stories here, but I recommend avoiding that. In response to her attention-seeking, annoying behavior, Ohmpark will not mention her for the rest of the year (with the exception of reporting on my heckling of her at Bonnaroo).

Kanye West's new album, Graduation, comes out in September.

Word on the street is that there is no more 2Pac material left to make new albums, so we will assume he has finally died.

The new Animal Collective album, Strawberry Jam, comes out in September.

Pink Floyd played at a Syd Barrett memorial concert, but David Gilmour and Roger Waters were never together on stage.

You can stream the new Dungen album, Tio Bitar, here.

The new Nile record, Ithyphallic, is due out in July.

Smashing Pumpkins have finally announced who will be in the band. Here's the new album cover:



Here's Wilco on David Letterman:



UNEARTH have parted ways with their drummer.

Cee-lo and Danger Mouse have another Gnarls Barkley album coming out in the fall.

Girl Talk has quit his day job.

Sunset Rubdown's new album, Random Spirit Lover, comes out in October.

Snoop Dogg will be on an episode of HBO's Entourage in July.

Neurosis has new album coming out called Given To The Rising, and you can stream it and watch a short documentary on the making of it here.

Interviews for your reading pleasure:

• Modest Mouse
• Love Of Diagrams
• Wilco
• !!!
• Hold Steady
• Mew
• The National

Bright Eyes will be at The Fox Theatre tonight, so here's some videos:





Over thirty minute performance on KCRW:

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

As you're reading this, I've already emarked on my journey to uber-drunkeness in Savannah to celebrate one of my favourite holidays. You can watch my intoxicated phone logs of the weekend here. Since i won't have many sober posts until I get back monday night, I'm leaving you with an action-packed "Friday Free-Style" featuring tons of mp3s, videos, links, etc. Have a fun weekend:

The Paper Chase blew my ear drums out at the Explosions In The Sky show Tuesday night. Check them out:



Kid Rock smacked a woman because she realized his music sucks. Seriously.

Watch the new video from Arctic Monkeys here. They will be playing the Tabernacle May 19th.

Chis Cornell has a few solo tour dates and a solo album out called Carry On April 30th.

Busta Rhymes is too dangerous to be in new York City.

The Greyboy Allstars are releasing their first studio album nine years. It's called What Happened To TV? and it's out April 17th.

Here's a new Disco Biscuits Video:



Ratatat are working on a second hip-hop mixtape. Listen to some tracks from it:

• Biggie Smalls - "Party & Bullshit (Ratatat remix)"

• Memphis Bleek - Alright (Ratatat Remix)

Remember Ratatat will be at the Loft on April 10th so get your tickets now.

Music For Robots has posted a list of mp3s from bands playing at SXSW. You should really check it out and listen/download that shiznit.

Listen to a track off the new Wilco album Sky Blue Sky: Wilco - What Light

Listen to a track off the new Blonde Redhead album 23: 23

Everybody is going crazy about the new Arcade Fire album. After a few good listens, I like it, but I'm not willing to crown them yet. I think if you compare it to the best albums to come out this year, it just doesn't hold up. It's definetly worth checking out though. Here's a track in case you haven't heard it yet(doubtful): Intervention

For you hip-hop heads, here's a track from the forth coming Hieroglyphics crew Souls Of Mischief member A-Plus: Patna Please

Meshuggah have new album due out in September.

Rush have a new album coming out May 1st and you can listen to a song off it at their site.

Ansur are working on their seocnd album.

Lenlow has done a mash-up with a Peter Bjorn and John track: “Bjorn Slippy”

Here's a Deftones video:



Here's a video of Portishead's live performance last month:



Here's a Nine Inch Nails video for a track off the new album:



Creative Loafing has an article on rapper Busdriver, who will be opening up for RJD2 next Tuesday at the Variety Playhouse.


Some SXSW related mp3s:

• Sparklehorse- "Morning Hollow"
• My Brightest Diamond- Something of An End"
• Beirut- "Elephant Gun"
• The Rosebuds- "Bluebird"
• Illinois- "Alone Again"

The Band Of Horses show Wednesday night was great. Here's some photos i took with my phone:

Arizona:



Carey Ann Hearst and The Gun Street Girls:



Band Of Horses:

• “The Great Salt Lake” — Band of Horses

Here's some interviews for you:

• Andrew Bird
• Girl Talk
• Arcade Fire
• Panda Bear (Animal Collective)
• The Shins
• Bill Frisell
• Of Montreal

Here's a Simpsons clip to get you into the holiday spirit:

Videos Of The Day: The Autumn Defense, Magik Markers, Eluvium

If you didn't get lucky and score some Explosions In The Sky tickets for tonight like i did, you should totally go beat up a hipster and jack them for their tickets. If you don't want to do that, there's still some great shows to see tonight. Magik Markers are playing at The Drunken Unicorn and The Autumn Defense (featuring members of Wilco) are playing at The Earl. Here's some vids:

The Autumn Defense:





Magik Markers:



Eluvium(opening for EITS tonight):

Torrents Of the Day

Neither the Jeff Tweedy at the Tabernacle, nor the Yo La Tengo show at Variety Playhouse recordings have surfaced yet. But while we hope and wait, here's some from the last couple weeks:

Yo La Tengo January 30 2007 @ The Social, Orlando, FL

Jeff Tweedy @ Paramount 1/31/2007 (mk41>m248>mme) *16bit*

Jeff Tweedy 2007-01-24 Hogg Auditorium - Austin, TX (FLAC)

Jeff Tweedy, Atlanta 1/29

Last night's show at the Tabernacle featured an enigmatic and very much in character Jeff Tweedy berating an adoring sold-out crowd. Having ditched his band for a tour in favor of the very direct and effective intimacy of a solo acoustic set, the show was able to wander between his campfire vibe alt-country (for the record, i hate saying that) tunes and Tweedy's confrontational and insecurity-prone banter as freely and unprofessionally as he saw fit. Halting in the middle of the first verse of "Via Chicago", Tweedy asked the audience to help him out --- he had forgotten the lyrics. Adopting the persona of a trapped hero, his surly treatment of the audience brought to mind conventional images of the behavior of other iconic frontmen crowd-bashers (Waters? Corgan?.....Bixler?). Although cautiously, he performed in a way that was ultimately confident in his spell over the audience, who fed off of the tension created by Tweedy's act. I would go as far to say that his use of stage banter holds more merit as a dualistic tool of dynamics; his songs are so delicate and revealing, that by the end, his natural reaction is simply that he must take back what he has given away. 'No, Atlanta, you do not know me as you think you might'. His compensation for what he gives away in song is the rejection of the crowd on a personal level. This tension sets the audience up for the shift in mood back to Tweedy's often melancholy tone within a song. In a strange reversal of roles; for some songs excitement was almost exclusively built in the margins between songs, and torn down during the course of the next song.

As for the actual performance (when Tweedy remembered the words), it was, of course, flawless. His vocals and guitar arrangements were surprisingly complete in covering some of the more instrument-heavy Wilco songs. He was 'prepared' for this set; it's cleanliness once he was in song only supports any argument affirming his stage persona's at least partial superficiality. He played a good spread across his career; heavy on some more recent Wilco hits. Some personal highlights: Heavy metal drummer (in an acoustic set, an obvious extension on the song's irony), The Lonely 1 (as the only man on a stage filled with nothing but 6 guitars, some harmonicas and a rug), and Passenger Side (Chris Carraba don't know shit about sing alongs).

On a side note, the Minus 5 opened as a three piece, apparently with only one member of the original band. They sucked, especially the only dude that was actually in the band.

I would have a hard time considering any other solo acoustic show from any other frontman/artist as engaging. Jeff Tweedy is at the special point in his career where he has the history and catalog to truly develop his character onstage, which he effectively used last night to drag the audience closer by pushing them away............ for 30$ a seat.

1. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
2. new song (Be Patient With Me)
3. Remember The Mountain Bed
4. Cars Can't Escape
5. Promising
6. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
7. Muzzle Of Bees
8. new song (What Light)
9. The Ruling Class
10. New Madrid
11. Via Chicago
12. Hesitating Beauty
13. Heavy Metal Drummer
14. Gun
15. A Shot In The Arm ]

Encore 1:
16. Someone Else's Song (without PA)
17. Theologians
18. Jesus, Etc.
19. The Lonely 1

Encore 2:
20. I'm The Man Who Loves You
21. Passenger Side
22. Dreamer In My Dreams (without PA)
23. Acuff-Rose (without PA)

Torrent of the Day

Our final Tweedy torrent:

Jeff Tweedy - 10/27/06 - Foellinger Auditorium, Urbana, IL

Jeff Tweedy
Foellinger Auditorium
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL
October 27, 2006

Taper: Reid Eickhorst (eickhorst_reid@hotmail.com)
Location: 2' from the left stack
Source: AT853s > SP-SPSB-6 > Nomad Jukebox 3
Conversion: Creative Nomad Jukebox 3 > Cool Edit Pro 2.0 > .wav > FLAC frontend

******************************************************
THIS SHOW IS NOT TO BE MP3-ENCODED
******************************************************

Disc 1:

01: Spiders (Kidsmoke)
02: I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
03: Cars Can't Escape
04: Instrumental
05: Sunken Treasure
06: Tweedy Talk - New Live DVD, Explanation of Punching Incident
07: Was I In Your Dreams?
08: Lullaby For Rafters and Dreams
09: The Ruling Class
10: Radio King

Total: 40:46


Disc 2:

01: New Song (Patient With Me?)
02: Summer Teeth
03: Gun
04: Theologins
05: I'm the Man Who Loves You
ENCORE
06: Bob Dylan's 49th Beard
07: What Light
08: In A Future Age
09: Wishful Thinking
10: Walken
11: Is That The Thanks I Get

Total: 41:28


NOTES:
------
- The punching incident that Tweedy talks about occured at a show
in Missouri on 10/16/06


Compiled by Reid Eickhorst on 10/28/06

Torrent of the Day

With Jeff Tweedy coming very soon, I'll be posting some Tweedy-related torrents. Enjoy:

Wilco 2005-04-30 Coachella Festival - Indio CA (24-bit) (FLAC)

Wilco
April 30, 2005
Coachella Festival
Indio CA

*** THIS IS A 24-BIT FILESET NOT INTENDED FOR AUDIO CD ***

SOURCE: schoeps ccm4 > sound devices 722 (24/96)
PROCESSING: soundforge 8.0 (tracking, fades) > flac 1.1.2

01 intro
02 Late Greats
03 I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
04 At Least That's What You Said
05 Muzzle Of Bees
06 Handshake Drugs
07 A Shot In The Arm
08 Hummingbird
09 Jesus etc.
10 War On War
11 Spiders (Kidsmoke)