Ida Maria: Live at Kings College SU, London

Setlist:
1] Intro
2] Morning Light
3] Louie
4] Queen Of The World
5] Drive Away My Heart
6] Leave Me, Let Me Go
7] Forgive Me
8] Keep Me Warm
9] Better When You're Naked
10] Oh My God
11] Encore Break
12] Stella
13] We're All Going To Hell

Recorded by Powermonkey 2008-06-02.

[Download the whole show here]

Listen/Download:
"Oh My God" (Live)
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(Thanks Powermonkey)

Radiohead: Super Collider (New Song, Live in Dublin)

Listen/Download:
"Super Collider"
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Download Special: Radiohead Live in Berlin, 7.4.2000

As a special treat for Dead Flowers visitors, I've put up one of Radiohead's very best live shows. Recorded in Berlin on July 4, 2000, this bootleg quickly attained legendary status because it was mixed by none other than Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich.

Like many people who got into Radiohead because of OK Computer, I was initially puzzled by Kid A. Hearing this show was the first time the material really 'clicked' for me. Turns out that when they're injected with a bit of live energy, the Kid A tracks reveal themselves as some of the best Radiohead have ever composed.

Look out for a couple other surprises--The Bends era b-side "Bishop's Robes", for example, as well as a little snippet of "Big Ideas", which wouldn't properly be released until 2007's "In Rainbows". Enjoy and let me know what you think.

Setlist:

01. Optimistic
02. Morning Bell
03. Karma Police
04. The National Anthem
05. In Limbo
06. No Surprises
07. My Iron Lung
08. Dollars and Cents
09. Bishop's Robes
10. Talk Show Host
11. Kid A
12. You And Whose Army
13. Airbag
14. Lucky
15. How To Disappear Completely
16. Paranoid Android
17. Everything In Its Right Place
18. Pyramid Song
19. Exit Music
20. Knives Out
21. Big Ideas
22. Nice Dream

[Download the Whole Set in a .rar File]

***Update 6.1.07*** A helpful commenter let me know that track 18, "Pyramid Song", was missing. Here it is: "Pyramid Song"

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Glasvegas on Jools Holland

Daddy's Gone:

Listen/Download:
"Daddy's Gone"

Geraldine:

Listen/Download:
"Geraldine"

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From Dead Flowers to SXSW

Here's a cool development: Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth fame played the 'new' Velvet Underground song, "I'm Not a Young Man Anymore" at South by Southwest. The song was originally brought to wider attention on this very blog in February. You have to love technology.

Listen to "I'm Not a Young Man Anymore":

[Download the MP3 Here]
[See the Original VU 'Live at the Gymnasium' Post]
[Velvets Wiki]

Lou Reed, Nico, and John Cale: Live at Le Bataclan '72

With the enormous interest generated by the Velvet Underground bootleg I posted a few weeks ago, "Live at the Gymnasium 1967" (Link), I thought I would post another show. This one isn't quite as rare, but it's just as interesting. In it, Lou Reed, John Cale, and Nico have a semi-reunion and play VU songs alongside their own solo work. You could kind of say it's the VU "unplugged". Here's the tracklist:

1 I'm Waiting for the Man
2 Berlin
3 The Black Angel's Death Song (Reed, Cale)
4 Wild Child
5 Heroin
6 Ghost Story (Cale)
7 The Biggest, Loudest, Hairiest Group of All (Cale)
8 Empty Bottles (Cale)
9 Femme Fatale
10 No One Is There (Nico)
11 Frozen Warnings (Nico)
12 Janitor of Lunacy (Nico)
13 I'll Be Your Mirror
14 All Tomorrow's Parties (encore)

[Download the whole show]

Listen to "Heroin":

[Download the MP3 Here]
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Waiting for the Man:


Berlin:

The Velvet Underground: Live at the Gymnasium, NYC

Furious Wank writes on the Libertines Forum:

The Gymnasium, NYC

I'm not into VU bootlegs really, but apparently this is a big deal. It's the ONLY available live stuff from 1967 and has only become available in literally the last two days. Recorded just after the release of The Velvet Underground And Nico and featuring the debut performance of Sister Ray (19 mins long) and the *previously unheard* song I'm Not A Young Man Any More. That's right, A NEW VELVET UNDERGROUND SONG. And it's fucking good too. This version of Sister Ray absolutely shreds and is what the Velvet Underground are all about.

I'm just listening now and i can already say that, in addition to the historical importance of these five recordings, this thing rocks like a motherfucker.

DOWNLOAD IT NOW

http://www.mediafire.com/?9zcetzynbvo

1. I'm Not A Young Man Anymore (previously unheard VU song)
2. Guess I'm Falling In Love
3. I'm Waiting For The Man
4. Run Run Run
5. Sister Ray (debut live performance)

(feel free to pass this link around all you like - i think a lot of people are gonna be excited to hear this)

Listen to "I'm Not a Young Man Anymore":

[Download the MP3 Here]
[Band Wiki]

Radiohead on Jools Holland

Bodysnatchers:

[Download the MP3 Here]

House of Cards:

[Download the MP3 Here]

Weird Fishes/Arpeggi:

[Download the MP3 Here]

15 Step:

[Download the MP3 Here]

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[Band Wiki]
[Thanks Leaf]
[Thanks Radiohead Live 2008]

Radiohead: 93 Feet East Gig

Setlist:
'15 Step'
'Bodysnatchers'
'Nude'
'Weird Fishes/Arpeggi'
'All I Need'
'Faust Arp'
'Reckoner'
'House Of Cards'
'Jigsaw Falling Into Place'
'Videotape'
'Up On The Ladder'
'You And Whose Army?'
'The National Anthem'
'My Iron Lung'
'The Bends'

[Download the Show Here]
[Pictures of the show from NME]

Listen to "Up on the Ladder" (93 Feet East Version):

[Download the MP3 Here]
[Band Website]
[Band Wiki]
(Thanks Skinned Alive)

'Jigsaw' Video:

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Musicsnatchers?

Since it's futile to resist the Radiohead juggernaut this week, from this post on it'll be all Radiohead, all the time. Look for a review of the record once I've had time to digest it. Here's an article from The Guardian:

Within two hours of the announcement, three of my friends have left me messages - real voicemails, not even texts. Within a few hours, it's being reported on news sites and the news. The following day I hear two people on the tube talking about it. One looks like a student, the other a banker and they're calculating how many people will pay too little and how many will pay too much, and whether Radiohead are on to a huge profit thing.

The following day I read about the site crashing under the e-stampede. On the same day a friend tells me about a friend of his who went to the site and clicked through the ordering process and then got annoyed when he couldn't pay by paypal - so in a grump, he paid 1p. Which got me so annoyed that I went on the same site and paid a tenner.

Discussion, judgment, conjecture and passion that will no doubt sell downloads by the bucket-load - this is what all marketeers would special offer their soul to have. The twist is that Radiohead aren't marketeers. Although Maslow's Needs, Brand Onion and TGI Run all sound like brilliant Radiohead song titles, I seriously doubt the band has ever heard of the first, looked at the second or come close to commissioning the third. No, Radiohead just do what they do and it works. Maybe brands could do it too if they followed some basic Radiohead rules of unmarketing:

1. Make it great.

It's time to 'fess up here. Prince doesn't work for me because I just don't feel the funk and, in my humble emo opinion, Radiohead are just about the best band on this little planet. Although caricatured as depressive shoe-gazers on downers, they are in fact musical, melodic and experimental with an immaculate grip on ear-bleed rock, twitchy dance and delicate ballad all at once. If something's truly great - a shoe, a phone, a band - then marketing it, or unmarketing it, becomes a whole lot easier.

2. Believe in it.

Passion creates passion, belief creates belief and Radiohead absolutely believe in what they're doing. You can hear it in Thom Yorke's voice. You can see it in the way he loses himself on stage, dancing like a muscle hard-wired to the music. He believes that in this world of social, political and technological uncertainty there is some salvation in song - or something like that. Steve Ballmer believes in Microsoft so much that he jumps around whooping and sweating at conferences. Ingvar Kamprad believes in affordable design to such an extent that he still walks around Ikea stores checking that all the price tags are clearly displayed. Bands or brands that lose perspective create fans that lose it too.

3. Don't explain it.

If you asked a hundred Radiohead fans to explain the appeal of Radiohead, they would all explain it differently. Some might warble on about the band's preoccupations like I did just now; some might stick to the music; some might single out their integrity; or their lack of a record label; some might focus on their unpolished looks. A clever planner I used to work with would talk about brands as having DNA, different strands of which appeal to different people. I think this is right and if so, the reduction of a band/brand into a simple articulate proposition - which marketing is addicted to - isn't helpful. Say less to mean more. As guitarist Jonny Greenwood says on the Radiohead site. "Hello everyone. Well the new album is finished, and it's coming out in 10 days. We've called it In Rainbows. Love from us all. Jonny." Enough said.

4. One good eye.

I'm sure you know that Thom Yorke has a paralysed eye. It's a physical oddity but more than that, it's a perfect analogy. Where many brands (and a lot of bands) look to their product and to their audience, look to create and look to please, Radiohead don't look to please. They simply make music they want to make; try ideas like the pay-as-much-as-you-like download because they want to try them. It's a kind of an artistic approach that repects fans rather than seeks to ingratiate them. And of course, it's an approach their fans love.

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Listen to "Videotape" (Live):

[Download the MP3 Here]
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[Band Wiki]

Sigur Ros: Heima (Acoustic, Live)

Listen:

[Download the MP3 Here]
[Download the whole set here]
[Band Website]
(Thanks Darren)

"Heima" Trailer:

Up On The Ladder?

AtEase reports on the latest goings on in Radiohead world, including the possible return of "Up On The Ladder":

The latest post on Dead Air Space features a photo of Thom Yorke in front of a microphone… with the lyric ‘im stuck in the tardis’… Yes indeed… the first line of ‘Up On The Ladder‘. Even the photo’s file name is “upontheladder.jpg“. So, may we state here that the track is back on the map and actually one of those tracks that have been mastered recently for LP7?

It’s quite a surprise to see ‘Up on the ladder’ as a contender for Radiohead’s new album, as we haven’t heard anything about it since it was dropped for Radiohead’s 2003 album ‘Hail to the Thief’. The band were already working on the track during their Kid A sessions in 2000 and was performed live on their Iberian tour in 2002 and one of the few songs that didn’t make it to LP6. Good to see that ‘Up on the ladder’ isn’t dead and buried after all.

And we might have a release date:

The latest image on Radiohead’s Hodiau Direkton has been encoded as ‘MARCH WA X’. This whole Worm Buffet icon coding has been taken up a notch. ‘MARCH’ can be interpreted as the month of the release of Radiohead’s new album. Then the X could be a 10. March 10th?

[AtEase]

Listen to "Up the Ladder" (Live in Salamanca):

[Download the MP3 Here]
[Band Website]
[LP7 Wiki]

DJ Shadow: Live at Oxford Sound City (10.30.97)

As a special treat, here's what is quite possibly DJ Shadow's best ever live performance. Recorded for the BBC on October 30, 1997, the set witnesses Shadow, aka Josh Davis, at the height of his powers. After "Endtroducing", before "Psyence Fiction"--the confidence and creativity displayed in this recording is striking.

Highlights include a preacher sounding off on rock n' roll right before the incendiary "High Noon": "It hooks young people. And they become a part of this hooked generation and their lives are RUINED until they can shake themselves of this filthy beat and music and words that produces revolution, sex and drugs!" At the 31:19 mark, Shadow lays a sparkling piano part over "Midnight in a Perfect World" that casts the song in a whole new light.

Enjoy, and remember a time when Shadow was unbeatable.

Tracklist:
1) Intro
2) Lonely Soul (Instrumental Early Version)
3) Lost and Found
4) Painkiller (Kill the Pain Remix)
5) High Noon
6) Organ Donor
7) Midnight in a Perfect World

Listen:

[Download the MP3 Here]
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[Artist Myspace]
[Artist Wiki]

Sigur Ros: Hoppipolla and Meo Blodnasir (live on Later)

Listen:

[Download the MP3 Here]
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[Band Myspace]

Video:

Under Byen on KEXP

The excellent KEXP Blog does a nice write-up of Under Byen on occasion of their live session for the station:

If you’re a fan of Sigur Ros, Bjork, the experimental side of Radiohead, the meditative hypnosis of Godspeed You Black Emperor! and the moodiness of Portishead you need to see Under Byen. Seattleites have the fortunate opportunity to check out this Danish band open for the Album Leaf Tuesday night at Neumo’s (rounding out this killer bill is Arthur & Yu).

After obsessing the good part of a year over the majestic beauty of their third album (first North America release) Samme Stof Som Stof, I witnessed their splendor firsthand when they performed for KEXP during our March SXSW broadcast. The experimental electronic rock collective exceeded expectations creating deeply emotional soundscapes at times delicate and introspective, at times bombastic and mind numbing.

[Listen to the Session Here]

Listen to "Vinterbørn":

[Download the MP3 Here]
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[Band Myspace]