While I’ve always enjoyed Grouper’s recorded work, she’s a whole other beast live. The first 15 minutes of her performance at last month’s ATP festival *slamming head on desk for not going* is nothing but the most epic nature music ever. Flying over mountains, exploring oceanic trenches – her live shit is stratospheric and aquatic. I can’t stop listening to this excerpt. Thanks WFMU for winning at everything.

You can grip the entire bootleg here.

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Grouper – Live @ ATP [excerpt]

Told ya the bootlegs would come fast. Yesterday’s Atlas Sound ATP set is provided below. Lots of new stuff, lots of jammage, lots of Bradford gabbin’ and trying to fix his shit on stage. Enjoy.

Also, my boi Nathaniel from IGIF is at All Tomorrows Parties NY right now (bastard) and he’s reporting that B Cox told the crowd later that night during the Deerhunter set that yesterday’s show will be the last for the group “in quite a while.” This might be disconcerting if you don’t consider the fact that “quite a while” in Deerhunter years probably means “a couple of months.” I’m sure attention will turn to Atlas Sound, Lotus Plaza, and whatever other side projects the dudes are instituting in the interim. Fear not (hopefully).

Logos is still set to come out on October 20, which will be a super Tuesday (new Tickley Feather and Do Make Say Think also drop that day), courtesy of muhfuckin’ Kranky. Considering how much free shit Bradford gives you, buy it when it’s out. Seriously, guys.

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Atlas Sound – All Tomorrows Parties, Kutscher’s, Monticello, NY, 9.12.09

From what I’ve heard, All Tomorrows Parties is hands-down the best organized music festival in the country (with certainly the best lineup). And good ol’ ATP will be broadcast again, for the most part, all weekend long on the mighty WFMU. This means, of course, that you can expect the webcasts to be recorded and archived for all your bootlegging needs, which I will happily be sharing here when they become available. Here’s the scoop:

This year’s lineup is co-curated by the Flaming Lips, and WFMU’s simulcasts will happen Saturday Sept. 12 from 6PM-Midnight, Sunday the 13th from 5PM to Midnight, and some other sets Monday the 14th from Noon to 5PM after the fest. We’re still working out assorted artist permissions, but Saturday evening we’ll be airing Panda Bear, Grouper, Black Dice, Antipop Consortium, Atlas Sound, and Akron/Family. Sunday will include Deerhunter, the Melvins, Animal Collective, Boss Hog, Deerhoof, and the Caribou Vibration Ensemble.

I was unable to go this year due to lack of funding (which sucks since I had a fraggin’ photo pass), but I definitely plan on being there next year! Those of you guys that are going, tell me about your experience on Twitaaar.

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WFMU dot org

The mighty WFMU brings the goods once again, archiving a soundboard quality recording of Oneida’s insane performance at last month’s Primavera Sound Festival (known for its beautiful ambience along the Spanish Mediterranean and the location where Wavves lost his shit but I totally don’t blame him for it). The recording includes an Acid Mothers Temple-esque, undeniably evil, kaleidoscopic, 43-minute brain busting rendition of “Each One Teach One.” It’s fucking ridiculous and delightfully unnecessary. I feel stoned listening to this right now. Love this band.

Unfortunately, the kraut punk collective opted to not play any new material from the forthcoming Rated O. But who gives a shit – it’s Oneida, and it’ll be good. Nevertheless, the group will be celebrating its July 7th release with a couple of stateside dates, and a couple of European ones, too. The domestic rockshows will feature some big ballaz – Amps For Christ, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Wooden Shjips, and more:

07.10.09 – Hoboken, NJ – Maxwell’s
07.11.09 – San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill #
07.12.09 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echoplex &
07.24.09 – Brooklyn, NY – Todd P Event – TBA %
07.25.09 – Medford, MA – Outside the Lines Studio %
07.26.09 – New Haven, CT – BAR
08.07.09 – Kutna Hora, CZ-  Art Festival
08.08.09 – Berlin, GER – Berlin Festival
08.09.09 – Scheer, GER – Klangbad Festival
08.14.09 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso
08.15.09 – Tilburg, NL – TBC

# – Wooden Shjips, Jonas Reinhardt
& – Amps for Christ, Clipd Beaks
% – Sunburned Hand of the Man

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A Quick, Odd, Fun Email Exchange With Oneida

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Oneida – Spanish Jam / Each One Teach One (Primavera Fest, Barcelona – 5.30.09)
Oneida – All Arounder (Primavera Fest, Barcelona – 5.30.09)
Oneida – Sheets of Easter (Primavera Fest, Barcelona – 5.30.09)

WFMU, the freeform radio station that is the manifestation of everything good in the world, is currently broad/webcasting the most excellent acts from the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona. Quite jealous, of course, that I cannot even fathom buying a plane ticket to Spain right now. However, I’m totally thankful WFMU has a high bandwidth stream to enjoy the likes of: Sunn o))), Magik Markers, Wooden Shjips, th’ Faith Healers, Yo La Tengo, Lightning Bolt, the Vaselines, Fucked Up, the Vivian Girls, the Jesus Lizard, Spectrum, Oneida, and more. Spectrum is playing right now.

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WFMU @ Primavera

I don’t toss around the word “brilliant” too often. I recently rediscovered visual and sound collage demon People Like Us, and it’s absolutely brilliant. I find old film reels, archaic educational videos, public domain images, technology that was supposed to change our lives but didn’t, and general oddities of American industry terrifically intriguing. People Like Us, the A/V project of Viki Bennett, combines all these images with a Raymond Scott-esque audio pastiche.

People Like Us do tour and perform installations occasionally, and I had the pleasure of seeing them back in, I think, 2004 when they came to my school. Their live show is, in essence, a live VJing of these images and sounds. I saw it sober, but I wish I was stoned. And of course, People Like Us is associated with the mighty, avant-retard WFMU. Unfortunately, Viki’s show Do or DIY is not on the current schedule (though she fills in every now and again).

Below are some of my favorite videos. The first is 2003’s The Remote Controller, which features “found footage sourced from educational films to explore the way human body and machine interface in the 20th century.” The second film, “Resemblage,” features a lot of the images I saw at the live show. The last is 2005’s Story Without End, extracted from “a public domain film of the same name made in 1950 about the development of microwave radio transmission and the transistor.”

UbuWeb hosts these videos, and I encourage you to visit them. The site compiles a variety of audio and video from “outsider” artists, and it’s incredibly awesome.

Good gawd, ya’ll. The bootlegs keep coming in, but this time from the official source. WFMU just posted their archive of Growing’s performance at the absolutely immaculate All Tomorrow’s Parties. The attractive photo above is also from your menacing friends at Beware of Blog.I’m super bummed that I missed not one, but two festivals that were curated to my specific taste in music – as in, I would be stoked to see any given group on the festival roster. The other festival I speak of was Terrastock 7 in Louisville. Sure, ATP would’ve been a hike from Chicago (not to mention additional investment of time and money into exterminating bedbugs from my luggage due to an alleged infestation at Kutschers), but Louisville is just five hours and some change due south on I-65. I had no excuse other than pure dumbassery.

Anyway, Growing slays, and I hope they frightened each and every Hot Chip dork with their opening sets this month.

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Growing – Live at ATP

Hey you, plaid shirt starin’ at your feet! Why are your arms crossed? You’re in the sacred inner circle of Lightning Bolt’s Church of Noizze… you don’t just stand around, wenis! The F is wrong with you? You can get away with that at the Low show, but not in the Church. Anyway, I feel very fortunate to be able to grip a recording of Lightning Bolt’s entire monolithic, late Friday night set via WFMU’s weekend broadcast! And it’s so evil. They brought out my favorite LB jam, “Dead Cowboy,” and I will never be able to sleep soundly again after hearing it.

In a truly unfortunately turn of events, I’ve not yet had the opportunity to witness LB’s decimation first hand, though I have had Gibson’s side project Wizardzz rape my brain. The fact that they can succinctly toggle between tempos like a sampler would is beyond my compositional understanding.

The sound quality of this bootleg is as good as you need it to be. You can hear the stream drop in and out occasionally, probably from rebuffering, but very little audience interference. This bootleg (with more to come) are from a reader/commenter named “woj.” I don’t know who you are, but you are the hero. So to “woj”:

In other news, Brian Gibson and I have the same trousers, as evidence in the picture above, and Brian Chippendale only uses bass strings manufactured by Aleister Crowley’s estate. Treated.

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Lightning Bolt – Live @ ATP, 9.20.08

The Chicago by way of Texas no wave psych fright fest Indian Jewelry recently laid down a gross set on WFMU (still the best station on the planet) who posted the entire performance up on the Beware of the Blog. They played a pretty eclectic cross section of their catalog, including grooves off of their latest, excellent and surprisingly catchy record Free Gold, their previous, more sinister Inevasive Exotics, and some choice miscellany. My favorite live shows tend to gravitate toward quite different, but not unrecognizable, performances of the recorded material, and Indian Jewelry seem to pretty much feel the same way. The extended version of “Lost My Sight” is sexy like my tractor. Trenchant and nefarious – these dudes are prophets.

I had the privilege of seeing Indian Jewelry live in the fall of 2005 with sludge warriors Warmer Milks, and it was psychotic. The stage was ornate with intense strobe lights, billowing smoke, shawls, industrial sized aluminum foil, animal skulls, and the Lone Star State flag. Not for the faint of brain, Indian Jewelry steer the helm of a very ominous head trip. Worth seeing if you have the chance. I definitely recommend tryin’ to grip Free Gold, so hey, why not preview it here.

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Indian Jewelry – Live on WFMU