BONANZA! BANZAI! BAMMA-LAMMA!

Posted on May 28th, 2011 by ekko

- Comics Alliance‘s weekly review of great art includes Wolverine and Thor pics by Bill Sienkewicz, Mike Deodato’s portrait of Joker, a Nightwing kissing booth(!), and much, much more.  One of my favorite weekly articles.

- The archive has a new Drive-By Truckers show, with a great cover Mavis Staples’ Respect Yourself.  Check out the whole show here.

- Go here for the Heart Shaped Tron mashup.  I’m guessing just based on the title you’ll be checking it out.

-People are still remixing Siqo????

-CD’s write up of Fuel Box is pretty damn funny.

-Illroots has the new Chiddy Bang mixtape, titled “Peanut Butter and Swelly.“  I haven’t heard the whole thing yet, but these dudes tend to be damn good.  Start off with this one:

When You’ve Got Music (feat. The Knocks)

- I love this.  It’s genius.  Genius!  HATE MACHINE.

-AD has a Neil Young boot from 2008.

-And last but certainly not least, Paper Bag Records has (another!) free compilation available for the price of an e-mail address.  Go here.  Here’s the terrific track list:

CFCF – How Bizarre (OMC cover)
Winter Gloves – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana cover)
Woodhands – Electric Avenue (Eddy Grant cover)
Sally Shapiro – Dying in Africa (Nicolas Makelberge cover)
You Say Party! We Say Die! – Falling Out (Rikk Agnew cover)
Josh Reichmann – Daniel (Bat For Lashes cover)
Laura Barrett – Gamma Ray (Beck cover)
Rock Plaza Central – I Want You (Bob Dylan cover)
The Acorn – Strange Animal (Gowan cover)
Little Girls – Heinz (Artery cover)
Slim Twig – Behold A Lady (Outkast cover)
Under Byen – Du er min øjesten (Peter Malberg cover)

Tags: Bootleg, Covers, Go away, Hip Hop, Mash Ups, Mixtape, Thor

MORE JASON ISBELL . . .

Posted on May 15th, 2011 by ekko

I told you a few days ago that Jason Isbell’s new album is one of the best of the year so far. Well, now my wife agrees with me. So it must be true!

And just to prove how fantastic it is, I am posting a show from his recent tour, celebrating this wonderful record.

The show is Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit from April 8 in Florence, Alabama, and it features what I think is their first time covering “Hey Pocky Way,” as well as their “usual” cover of Talking Heads and less-usual covers of Springsteen and Hendrix. Hendrix? Now, that takes balls.

Set I:
01 Go It Alone
02 Try
03 Grown
04 Alabama Pines
05 Goddamn Lonely Love
06 The Magician
07 Hey Pocky Way
08 Outfit
09 Heart On A String
10 Gum On My Shoe > Band Intros
11 Decoration Day
Set II:
01 Codeine
02 Dress Blues
03 Danko Manuel
04 Psycho Killer
05 Never Gonna Change >
06 Stone Free >
07 Never Gonna Change
08 Cigarettes and Wine
09 Atlantic City

Cop the zip here or here!

Tags: Bootleg

A PANOPLY (OR PLETHORA) OF PREVIOUSLY PERFORMED PLATTERS!

Posted on May 14th, 2011 by ekko

Lots of FREE all-covers albums available this week–my in-box runneth over.  Here’s my “top 10″ new cover feasts going on right now!

TOP 10 FREE COVER FEASTS OF THE RIGHT NOW!

10.  BUSBUS offers “f/yuck”, an all-covers album featuring the songs of Pedro the Lion, Johanna Newsome, Velvet Underground, and more.  Free from Bandcamp.

9.  FROM EXILE offer an EP of Nine Inch Nails covers.  It’s metal takes on Reznor’s industrial metal sound, so you won’t find radically different takes on the tunes, but it’s still pretty solid work.  Go here.

8.  KELLY PARDEKOOPER.  In the first of several archive offerings, check out this barburning crooner’s 2010 set, recently posted here, with a bunch of cool classic rock covers, including this great version of Sympathy for the Devil.

7.  WEATHERSTAR will hit you with a 4-song EP of covers of Britney Spears, The Scene Aesthetic, Dashboard Confessional and The Starting Line.  All for the price of an e-mail addy.  Sign up here.

6.  JOHNNY FALSTAFF.  A new live set posted at the archive has some really great classic country gems on it.  Get it here.  My favorite?  Doin’ My Time by Johnny Cash.

5.  NEIL YOUNG TRIBUTE.  A tribute webalbum called “Headed for the Ditch can be bought-for-nothin’ here.  It’s a “coming together” of Bandcamp bands.  There’s a bunch of songs you’d expect to see here (After The Gold Rush, Helpless, Sugar Mountain) but some less-covered ones as well, like See The Sky About To Rain and Cripple Creek Ferry.  In all, a solid gathering of tribes and vibes.

4.  RYAN ADAMS.  Tons of RA covers are up at Cover Me.  I already had them, but if you don’t, you’ll probably want a bunch.

3.  MIKE MIZWINSKI has a remarkably high quality new live set posted on the archive, with covers of Grateful Dead, Allmans, and many others–acoustic-like.  It’s very, very good.  You definitely want to go get it here.

2. COVER LAY DOWN. I haven’t pointed y’all to this blog in a while. It’s a good one.

1.  MAYER HAWTHORNE covers classic R&B on his covers EP.  Love his take on “Work To Do,” which is probably one of my all-time favorite golden oldies anyway.  Here’s the full set:

1. Work to Do (The Isley Brothers cover)
2. Don’t Turn the Lights On (Chromeo cover)

3. You’ve Got the Makings of a Lover (The Festivals cover)
4. Fantasy Girl (Steve Salazaar cover)
5. Little Person (Jon Brion cover)
6. Mr. Blue Sky (ELO cover)
Get it here.

Tags: Bootleg, Covers, Extended Player (EP), Free Album!

GRATEFUL DEAD AND JOAN OSBORNE

Posted on April 17th, 2011 by ekko

I loves me some Dead, and this “show” is a true keeper.  Compiled by a fan, it contains all songs sung and performed by Joan Osborne, her band, and the Grateful Dead.  There’s tons of fan favorites and rarities in here, like the Beatles cover She Said She Said, Mr. Charlie, Addicts of My Life, Stella, Queen Bee . . . And the sound quality is fan-nomenal!

So, any love left for Jerry’s former band?

Disc One
1. Queen Bee 8:48 (Tweeter Center, Mansfield, MA, June 22, 2003 – Laford)
2. She Said She Said 4:03 (Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Dec. 30, 2003 – Unknown)
3. Built To Last 4:27 (Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Virginia Beach, VA, June 17, 2003 – Burns)
4. Casey Jones 6:29 (Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, June 18, 2003 – Carlson)
5. Mr. Charlie 5:27 (Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY, June 20, 2003 – Doughty/Cole)

6. Comes A Time 9:36 (Tweeter Center at the Waterfront, Camden, NJ, June 27, 2003 – Suraci)
7. All That You Are 7:04 (Verizon Wireless Music Center, Noblesville, TN, Aug. 5, 2003 – SMadigan)
8. Night of 1,000 Stars 8:08 (St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, FL, July 30, 2003 – Unknown)
9. Lovelight 9:24 (Tweeter Center at the Waterfront, Camden, NJ, June 27, 2003 – Suraci)

Disc Two
1. China Doll 9:02 (Tweeter Center at the Waterfront, Camden, NJ, June 28, 2003 – Suraci)
2. No More Do I 7:04 (Darien Lake, Darien, NY, Aug. 8, 2003 – Suraci)
3. Peggy-O 7:13 (Darien Lake, Darien, NY, Aug. 8, 2003 – Suraci)
4. Reuben and Cherise 6:54 (Darien Lake, Darien, NY, Aug. 8, 2003 – Suraci)
5. Morning Dew 12:47 (Verizon Wireless Music Center, Noblesville, TN, Aug. 5, 2003 – SMadigan)
6. Days Between 15:07 (Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO, July 6, 2003 – Evans-Sacks)

Disc Three
1. Stella Blue 8:37 (Jones Beach Theatre, Wantagh, NY, Aug. 9, 2003 – Traietta/McCreary)

2. Jam > 3:28 (Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Dec. 30, 2003 – Unknown)
3. Space > 5:24 (Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Dec. 30, 2003 – Unknown)
4. Sugaree 14:03 (Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Dec. 30, 2003 – Unknown)
5. Organ Donor Rap > Band Intros 3:36 (Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Dec. 31, 2003 – Phopely)
6. It Must Have Been The Roses 6:31 (Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Dec. 31, 2003 – Phopely)
7. Attics Of My Life 7:08 (Verizon Wireless Music Center, Noblesville, TN, Aug. 5, 2003 – SMadigan)
8. We Bid You Goodnight 3:39 (Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY, June 20, 2003 – Doughty/Cole)
9. Brokedown Palace 6:07 (Erie Canal Harbor, Buffalo, NY, June 27, 2009)

ZIP

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Tags: Bootleg, Grateful Dead

DEEP DARK ROBOT-8 Songs About a Girl

Posted on April 11th, 2011 by ekko

I hate Linda Perry for a lot of reasons.  First of all, 4 Non Blondes was a supercool rock group with a supertough female lead–something there’s not nearly enough of in modern rock–and she broke ‘em up because they were getting too big.  Then, she did this wicked cool solo album with another powerful female lead–Grace Slick–and didn’t follow that one up, either.  Then she loaned her strength to Pink and crafted a popgirl record that was actually pretty damn awesome. Now, she sends me a submission–Deep Dark Robot–that’s as good as anything she’s done before, and I see it’s on an imprint, Custard Records.  Unfortunately, it’s an RIAA album.  And I have a policy of not getting sued, and at the same time trying to help struggling artists who haven’t been able to get major label support yet (or have eschewed it).  Yeah, but it’s her own label, so it’s okay.  Really.  I hope.

This album is just too good–nay, too great–to ignore.  If you dug her prior work, you’ll love this.  If you always wished Melissa Etheridge would move away from formula blues and really knock an emotionally deep song out of the park, you’ll love this.  If you like Sleater Kinney or any other grrrl group, you’ll love it.  Goddamn it, you’ll just love it.  So taste it below and then go buy it.  And to all the girls Ms. Perry has helped to stardom, take note: This is what real, raw, and gutsy music sounds like.

Fuck you, Linda Perry.  Please don’t sue me for offering your brilliant music to my fans.

It Fucking Hurts

BONUS: MORE LINDA STUFF!

Pray (4NB, live, acoustic, Dec. 1993)

What’s Up? (4NB, live, acoustic, Dec. 1993)

Beautiful-Clem Snide (Xtina cover)

Tags: Bootleg, Indie-ish rock

GET YER BOOT ON! Andrew Bird and Calexico!

Posted on April 3rd, 2011 by ekko

Andrew Bird with Calexico – Newport Folk Festival; Fort Adams State Park; Newport, RI, July 31, 2010.

My Skin Is

Scythian Empires

Tables and Chairs

Tags: Bootleg

THE BROKEN WEST–LIVE

Posted on March 7th, 2011 by ekko

Remember how freakin’ great The Broken West were?  I do.  Another great Merge Records band who never went anywhere.

Here’s a boot to remind you.

THE BROKEN WEST
The Picador, Iowa City, Iowa
March 13, 2009

01 So It Goes
02 Auctioneer
03 On the Bubble
04 Please
05 Gwen, Now and Then
06 Ambuscade
07 Got It Bad
08 House of Lies
09 Back in Your Head (Tegan & Sara cover)

10 Perfect Games
11 Down in the Valley
12 Baby on My Arm

ZIP FILE
Alternate LINK.

Tags: Bootleg, Indie rock

THE HOT RATS: LIVE IN 2010

Posted on December 4th, 2010 by ekko

From February 8 of this year, the band was touring to promote its all-covers album (“Turn Ons”) which, by the way, was one of the top 20 albums of the year.  Which one?  You’ll find out soon enough, when I publish my list.  In the meantime, groove on this short set . . .

I Can’t Stand It
Damaged Goods
Fight For Your Right to Party

The Crystal Ship
Love is the Drug
Bike
Mirror in the Bathroom

Pump It Up
Queen Bitch

WHOLE SHOW HERE

Tags: Bootleg, Indie rock

TAKE A DUMP LIVE (bootleg)!

Posted on November 1st, 2010 by ekko

Dump was the name James McNew of Yo La Tengo when he recorded a bunch of home-jobbies that aren’t available pretty much anywhere, especially the all-Prince covers album “That Skinny Motherfucker with the High Voice?” It was so fucking cool that Prince himself sued and got it squashed. But that didn’t stop Jim from recording this set, along with his girlfriend on keyboards, when he opened for Oneida last year.

This is wicked rare, so scoop it up. I’ll probably take it down quick.

Setlist:

01 1999
02 When You Were Mine
03 The Beautiful Ones
04 A Love Bizarre
05 Pop Life

06 Erotic City

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Tags: Bootleg, Covers

JAY FARRAR, BRIAN HENNEMAN, AND TOM PARR

Posted on October 7th, 2010 by ekko

Back on September 14, 1991, Brian Henneman (Bottle Rockets/Chicken Truck), Jay Farrar (Uncle Tupelo/Son Volt) and Tom Parr (Chicken Truck) got together in St. Looey to play as The Dust Bowl Club in the KDHX radio studio. They performed all kindsa old classics and new rootsies. And since I haven’t been posting bootlegs so much lately (shame on me!), I figgered it’s time to get back into the concert groove and treat you all to this one.

Great quality, great tunes.  Enjoy!

TRACKLISTING
01 Waltz across Festus [Ernest Tubb as Waltz Across Texas]
02 Coffee Monkey
03 Green Acres [Vic Mizzy]
04 (Is Anybody Going to) San Antone? [Doug Sahm]
05 Loganberry
06 Wallflower [Bob Dylan]
07 Turn for the Worse
08 Indianapolis
09 Manhattan Countryside
10 I Ain’t Got No Home in This World Anymore [Woody Guthrie]
11 Moonshiner [Uncle Tupelo]
12 Hotel California [The Eagles]
13 I Saw the Light [Hank Williams]
14 Roll Another Number (For the Road) [Neil Young]
15 Waiting on a Friend [Rolling Stones]
16 Never Won a Grammy
17 Hillbilly Love
18 Stoned Faces Don’t Lie [Doug Sahm]
19 I Drink Stag/Partyman
20 Okie From Muskogee [Merle Haggard]
21 Wave That Flag

GIT IT!

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Tags: Americana, Bootleg