So last week was an awesome week for music here in the swamps of Jersey but for various reasons I didn't see a single show. I did do some playing, reconnecting with old friends, and that was great.
Looking at the calendar, this could be a great week to get into NYC for some jazz. Joe Lovano is simply a monster: emotion, chops, stage presence, tone, stylistic range/facility. A truly inspiring musician's musician.
Then the weekend offers way too many choices, with Marah, Radiators, Bob Mould all playing Friday and/or Saturday. Posts of each of these coming up soon...perhaps :-)
But I leave you this morning with several links to one of the true marvels of the net, that being the Live Music Archive. Over 42,000(!) live concerts archived and available for free download, often in multiple formats. It's just astonishing.
Anyway, there are of course many old favorites on LMA (2000+ Dead shows, hundreds of Feat, Rads, Ryan Adams) but here are a few more contemporary artists you might be getting into, that have a few shows up on LMA.
Spoon (I'm listening to http://www.archive.org/details/spoon2005-06-09.flac16 at this very moment in fact), Mp3 Sample Sister Jack
Josh Ritter (I have
this show on tap for later, still acoustic I think.)
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals who are just fantastic, as Brian H and many others have written so eloquently about in the past few months...
Marc Broussard who sounds way too soulful, world-weary and wise to be in his 20s. (I saw him at SXSW this year, and stood next to his best friend from high school -- a talkative fun Louisiana kid that I suspect had not yet started shaving! :-)
mp3 sample: Hard Times from 10/12/2006
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