illustration by Johnnie Cluney
Daytrotter took a trip to Nashville a while back and invited Lambchop to play a session at Signal Path studios for them. The results are lovely! Visit Daytrotter.com to stream and download songs from the session.
Video and audio of Lambchop’s transcendent performance at XX Merge is available for digital download in the Merge store.
To help celebrate Merge’s 20th Anniversary, Lambchop showed up in one of their largest lineups in recent memory — 11-strong, including multiple guitars, keyboards, piano, and a horn section. Lambchop performing live is always a powerful proposition, but on this night they started quietly with “I Will Drive Slowly” from their first album (I Hope You’re Sitting Down) and accelerated from there, each song seemingly faster and more intensely played than the last, building to a furious finale of “Up With People” and an epic “Give It.” By the end of their set, everyone in the packed Cat’s Cradle – band and audience both – was levitating a few inches off the ground.
Join the 92Y Tribeca (200 Hudson St.) in New York City on Wednesday, March 31 for a special screening of the concert film, with a Q&A moderated by Anna Thorngate, an assistant editor at the Criterion Collection. The concert film will be preceded by Buttons, a 7 minute short film featuring Kurt Wagner playing a song at Friendly Barber Shop in Carrboro, NC.
Spoon’s eagerly anticipated new album, Transference, is available in stores and at your favorite digital music outlet today!
You can order your copy of Transference on CD, 180-gram vinyl LP (with digital download coupon) and digital download in the Merge store now! And don’t forget to order the limited edition “Written in Reverse” 7-inch on pink vinyl featuring non-album B-side “Mean Red Spider,” too!
There are a multitude of release-week activities planned in Los Angeles, New York, and Austin. Visit spoontheband.com or follow Spoon on Twitter for updates and opportunities to celebrate the release of Transference with the band!
Also, Spoon has announced their spring North American tour. The dates kick off with a March 17th headlining appearance at Stubb’s in Austin as part of the annual South by Southwest conference, and include the band’s first-ever headline engagement at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.
Tonight!
Spoon on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien on NBC at 11:35 p.m. EST
Wednesday, Jan. 20
Spoon on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic—streaming live beginning at 11:15 a.m. PST / 2:15 p.m. EST
Thursday, Jan 21
Spoon play live at the Mercury Lounge in NYC. Password: Transference
Saturday, Jan. 23
Britt Daniel solo at Sound Fix in Brooklyn at 7 p.m. EST
Monday, Jan. 25
Spoon on KGSR 93.3 FM in Austin at 12 p.m. CST
Spoon performance at Waterloo Records in Austin at 4 p.m. CST
American Music Club at XX Merge. Photo by Brian Vetter
Mark Eitzel & pianist Marc Capelle will visit KEXP tomorrow while they’re in Seattle for a live session on air! You can listen at 1pm pacific time at KEXP.org or on the airwaves if you’re lucky enough to live in Seattle.
Mark Eitzel performs American Music Club:
09.19.2009 Seattle, WA Triple Door
09.20.2009 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios
09.24.2009 San Francisco, CA Red Devil Lounge
The Telekinesis rock invasion of Raleigh continues today as Michael Benjamin Lerner & friends play live on WKNC! Tune in around 6:15pm (Eastern Time) to catch the set & interview, then come by Tir Na Nog in Raleigh for a FREE show tonight around 10pm!
You can now listen to the entire M. Ward concert recorded at the 9:30 Club July 30th by NPR!
Visit NPR Music to listen to the show!
Destroyer joined by Loscil will perform a rare collaborative set of original music from each artist’s catalog as part of the Wordless Music series at the Miller Theatre at Columbia University in New York on September 12th.
Wordless Music is a series of performances devoted to the idea that the sound worlds of classical and contemporary instrumental music — in genres such as indie rock and electronica — share more in common than conventional thinking might suggest. Their goal is to bring audiences together, and to introduce listeners from both worlds to composers that they might otherwise not encounter, for a completely new concert experience.
Wordless Music
September 12, 2009
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
2960 Broadway (at 116th Street)
DESTROYER
LOSCIL
JACK QUARTET
Doors open at 7:30pm, show at 8pm. Tickets on sale via the Miller Theatre box office and Web site.
Earlier this month, Spoon returned to their hometown, Austin, TX to commandeer Stubbs Amphitheater for SPOONX3. The band played three consecutive sold-out nights, and debuted material from their forthcoming new album.
Long-time Spoon sound engineer Hot Pockets mixed multi-track HD recordings of each of the three shows, and they are now available as MP3 or FLAC downloads in the Spoon store.
Get Spoon’s new single, “Got Nuffin’” on CD and digital download now in the Merge store. Preorder your limited edition copy of the “Got Nuffin” 12″ vinyl, too!
Decider Austin has a fun interview with Britt Daniel in advance of SPOONX3 that begins tonight in Austin. The Austin American-Statesman did a little overview of the “steady ascent” of Spoon, too.
Spoon will return to its birthplace to commandeer Austin’s Stubbs Amphitheater July 9, 10 and 11 for SPOONX3, which will feature the live debut of new material from the band’s forthcoming album as well as different special guests nightly, all handpicked by the band. Spoon will also perform as part of our 20th anniversary celebration, XX Merge July 22-26th.
The lineup for the shows at Stubbs is as follows:
July 9 – SPOON, Quasi, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
July 10 – SPOON, Low, Dale Watson
July 11 – SPOON, Atlas Sound, the Strange Boys
For further information, check www.spoontheband.com.
Wye Oak’s album release show is July 21 at Ottobar in Baltimore, and then they play Memorial Hall as part of XX Merge on July 26! Tickets still available!
M. Ward visited KEXP while he was in Austin for SXSW this year! The session is now available as an MP3 download and part of the KEXP Live Performances Podcast!
M. Ward on tour:
04.27.2009 Toronto, ON The Phoenix
04.28.2009 Montreal, QC Le National
05.15.2009 Visalia, CA Fox Theater
05.16.2009 Oakland, CA Fox Theater
05.22.2009 Eugene, OR McDonald Theatre
05.23.2009 George, WA Sasquatch Music Festival
07.23.2009 Salt Lake City, UT Twilight Concert Series FREE!
07.27.2009 Athens, GA 40 Watt Club
07.28.2009 Nashville, TN Cannery Ballroom
07.30.2009 Washington, 9:30 Club
08.01.2009 New York, NY Central Park Summerstage FREE!
A couple songs for you, in what we hope to be a regular Merge Blog series of rare/live mp3s:
Destroyer & The Treacherous Fops – The Music Lovers (mp3): Live @ Cats Cradle, Carrboro, NC, July 31, 2004 at the Merge 15th Anniversary Festival.
This cut is culled from the one and only performance to date by The Treacherous Fops–comprised of Mac McCaughan on guitar, Spott on trumpet, Paul Finn on keys, Paul Cardillo on bass, and the incomparable Lee Waters manning the skins. Destroyer is Mr. Dan Bejar.
The Broken West – Brass Ring (mp3): Live at the Great Scott, Allston, MA, March 3, 2007. Special thanks to Bradley’s Almanac, one of the best blogs in Blogland, for the Broken West show!
For non-digital, real life shows near you, check out the Merge Tour Dates.
Anyone with rare/live recordings (especially lossless) of any Merge bands and a disposition towards sharing, please send a message to:
wilson
wilson (at) mergerecords (dot) com
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