Public Image Live in Concert - Streaming Audio from NPR Worth a listen! This was one of the best concerts I have ever attended - and I have been to a lot of shows in my life. "Public Image Ltd. was frequently overlooked when it originally formed and released a string of records in the 1980s and early '90s, or maybe it was looked at for the wrong reasons. The band is the creative vision of John Lydon, not the angry punk he called "Johnny Rotten" in The Sex Pistols. When The Sex Pistols broke up, it was expected that any new band Lydon fronted would be a punk group. In fact, the first single from Public Image Ltd. pretty much was. It was called "Public Image," and was straight out of The Sex Pistols' bag of tricks. Lydon, in fact, wrote the song back in the day, but everything that came after that cut was so different: The music was slower, more open and groove-based. The poetry and the subject matter was all different, while the singing — though distinctly Lydon — was more spacious. It was still in your face, but it wasn't ugly. "
posted by lucysun
on May 14, 2010 -
50 comments
French website Le Cargo has a long-running series of live performance videos by alternative musicians,
all of which can be watched on their YouTube channel. Here are a few that I liked:
Erin McKeown - Put the Fun Back in the Funeral,
Kings of Convenience - Mrs. Cold,
Soltero - I'll Be a Writer,
The Concretes - Military Madness,
My Brightest Diamond - Be My Husband,
Jose Gonzalez - The Nest,
Jaymay - Lonely Men Build Lonely Cities,
Vic Chestnutt - Supernatural,
Metric - Gimme Sympathy,
Françoiz Breut - Les jeunes pousses,
Bowerbirds - Moonshiner,
Joseph Arthur - A Smile That Explodes,
Lambchop - You're a Big Girl Now,
Alela Diane - The Rifle,
Ane Brun - The Puzzle,
Matt Elliott - Broken Bones and
Fredo Viola - Sad Song. There are roughly 600 more videos.
posted by Kattullus
on May 13, 2010 -
6 comments
“So toss away stuff you don't need in the end; but keep what's important, and know who's your friend...” Phish, live at the Rockpalast, Wartesaal, Cologne, February 16th, 1997:
Set One Beauty of my Dreams, Split Open and Melt, Bouncing Around the Room, Crosseyed and Painless, Guelah Papyrus, Ginseng Sullivan, Tweezer, part 1 / part 2, Waste, Cavern, Chalkdust Torture
Set Two Sample in a Jar, Cars Trucks Buses, Free, Sparkle, Simple -> When the Circus Comes to Town, Swept Away -> Steep -> David Bowie, part 1 / part 2, Loving Cup, Tweezer Reprise
Encore Theme from the Bottom, Johnny B Goode One of the greatest shows Phish have ever played, captured live on video.
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posted by koeselitz
on Apr 11, 2010 -
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From the Borough of Brooklyn comes
Dollar Van Demos: a showcase of talented musicians, rappers and comedians performing inside a dollar van with real passengers.
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posted by Drexen
on Mar 13, 2010 -
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Metafilter is certainly no stranger to
music mashups, or even
live music mashups, but a few artists are taking things a step further with live music and video mashups. Not prerecorded mashups of live music and video, but live performances of DJs (often calling themselves "VJs") mashing up music and video together on the fly.
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posted by Grimp0teuthis
on Apr 8, 2009 -
14 comments
Feel like listening to a concert tonight? Something
classical? Or maybe
folk is a bit more your style?
World?
Jazz? Nearly every day, two or three more live concert recordings are added to CBC Radio2's '
Concerts on Demand' library, with nearly 900 concerts now in the list. Each concert is given just as presented live, and you can either stream the whole thing, or choose track by track. Timings are given for all the music, and photo galleries and full descriptions and credits round it all off. All in all, it's a fabulous presentation, and there is more music here than you will ever be able to keep up with!
posted by woodblock100
on Feb 10, 2009 -
22 comments
Punkcast is a long running series of videos of live underground music in NYC shot by
Joly MacFie. Each video is usually one song. The Internet Archive hosts
its videos and offers downloads in a variety of formats. MacFie also has a
YouTube channel with
480 videos and a video podcast
[iTunes link, feedburner link]. Here are a few bands that caught my fancy:
The Icicles and The Besties, The Slits (
1,
2 ),
Andrew W. K., Oneida (
1,
2),
The Long Blondes,
The Gossip,
Acid Mothers Temple & Cosmic Inferno,
Art Brut,
Be Your Own Pet,
Cansei de Ser Sexy,
Lesbians on Ecstasy,
The Fall,
Fred Frith,
Rose Melberg and Jennifer O'Connor,
The Horrors,
The Homosexuals,
Bat for Lashes,
Radio 4 and Teddybears,
Kimya Dawson and Tiny Masters of Today,
Yeah Yeah Yeahs and
Nikki Sudden.
posted by Kattullus
on Dec 25, 2008 -
12 comments
AOL Sessions has live videos from more than 150 different artists specially recorded for the series. Here are just a few of the artists on offer:
Paul McCartney,
Mary J. Blige,
Modest Mouse,
Tori Amos,
Robyn,
Tom Petty,
Rhymefest,
Red Hot Chili Peppers,
Natasha Bedingfield,
Cat Power,
Toby Keith,
Lil' Wayne,
Robert Plant,
Yeah Yeah Yeahs,
Kelly Rowland,
Weezer and
Brian Wilson. To the left of the videos there's a Q&A link that has short interview videos with the artists as well as
behind the scenes footage and
longer interviews.
posted by Kattullus
on Sep 22, 2008 -
20 comments
Dutch broadcast station VPRO's
website is Holland’s biggest platform for alternative music. Here's a
link to a shitload of streaming live concerts and tracks.
You'll have to do a bit of cut and paste once there, but it's the easiest way for me to link to the list. For the cut-and-paste-inept, there's a standard
interface, but the site's not in english.
posted by dobbs
on Jul 8, 2006 -
11 comments
NPR’s Live Concert Series site offers recordings of recent live performances by
James Brown,
Sinead O’Connor,
Iron & Wine and Calexico,
Son Volt,
My Morning Jacket,
The White Stripes, M. Ward,
Sigur Ros,
Bloc Party,
The Decemberists, and live tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. ET,
Colin Meloy.
posted by ND¢
on Jan 27, 2006 -
46 comments
KVRX, University of Texas' radio station, has an archive of tracks recorded live in their studio.
Artists include
The Magnetic Fields,
Brian Jonestown Massacre,
Broken Social Scene,
Devendra Banhart,
Explosions in the Sky,
Sebadoh,
Mojave 3,
Okkervil River,
Japancakes,
Call and Response,
Super Furry Animals,
Cat Power,
I Am The World Trade Center and the sublime
Paul Burch, among others.
posted by dobbs
on Aug 8, 2004 -
24 comments
Clear Channel Limits Live CDs. A company called
DiscLive has been working with a handful of artists to sell concert-goers a live CD -- of the show they've just seen -- after the concert. However, "Clear Channel Entertainment has bought the patent from the technology's inventors and now claims to own the exclusive right to sell concert CDs after shows."
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posted by sarajflemming
on May 27, 2004 -
31 comments
Live CDs, immediately after the concert. Many times after I've seen a great show, I've wished I could have a recording of the evening. Now, using CD Burners hooked up to the sound boards, ClearChannel is beta testing a program that would make soundboard quality concert CD's available to audience members immediately after a show ended. I'm torn; it's a great idea, but it's ClearChannel... I want to like it... but I want to hate it, too...
posted by jonson
on Feb 8, 2003 -
25 comments
Tonight, I saw (for the 4th time) one of the greatest live bands on the planet:
Sweep The Leg Johnny. They played to a half-empty room in Toronto. Recently, the band put out their
fourth CD. Sadly, they're calling it quits after
this tour. What are some of the bands you've told folks to
Go see now!, but no one seems to listen?
posted by dobbs
on Jul 11, 2002 -
36 comments
I just came from a terrific set by the local (Pittsburgh) band
Boxstep and was curious, do you have a favorite "local band" or two (i.e. probably unheard of outside your city/area) you would recommend? What makes them worth checking out? [more inside]
posted by arco
on Sep 9, 2001 -
23 comments
