Southern Shelter: January 2007

Dave Marr & The Tiny Velveteen Mice @ 40 Watt 10/5/06

Dave Marr (ex-Star Room Boys) played a set at Musickfest, backed by a full band this time, The Tiny Velveteen Mice. Philip McArdle, John Neff (SRB co-conspirators) and Hayride's Nick Bielli and Dave Gerow round out the lineup.

Track 1 - Gastonia
Track 2 - Both Our Towns
Track 3 - Almost Doesn't Count/"Spanish Bombs" Tuning
Track 4 - Why Do Lonely Men And Women Want To Break Each Other's Hearts?
Track 5 - White Lies, Blue Tears
Track 6 - Looking For The Magic
Track 7 - Cocaine Parties

FLAC files are here.

Squat @ Home Park Festival 9/5/99

This set by the long-running jazz-funk group Squat (they've been together since 1994) holds the distinction of being the first recording I ever made.

Track 1 -
Track 2 - Confession
Track 3 -
Track 4 -
Track 5 - Veggie Cuban
Track 6 - Don't Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down
Track 7 -

FLAC files are here.

of Montreal DVD

To celebrate of Montreal's release today of Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?, I've torrented a DVD I made last year (2/11/2006 to be exact). I've posted the above excerpt before, unfortunately technical difficulties at the moment are preventing me from assembling a fresh clip.

Songlist is as follows:

01) Rapture Rapes The Muses
02) So Begins Our Alabee
03) Suffer For Fashion
04) Forecast Fascist Future
05) You've Got A Gift
06) Eros'Entropic Tundra
07) My British Tour Diary
08) Disconnect The Dots
09) Wraith Pinned To The Mist And Other Games
10) Cato As A Pun
11) More Noir Blues And Tinnitus
12) Don't Ask Me To Explain
13) Lysergic Bliss
14) Requiem For O.M.M.2
15) Voltaic Crusher/Undrum To Muted Da
16) Chrissy Kiss The Corpse
17) Oslo In The Summertime
18) I Was Never Young
19) The Party's Crashing us
20) E:) The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch
21) Tired Of Waiting For You
22) Spike The Senses
23) The Repudiated Immortals

Download DVD here.

Out-Of-Towners: How I Became The Bomb @ Little Kings 8/9/06

It's always a joy to get turned on to a great band on a bill with another band I came to tape. Such was the case with How I Became The Bomb (from Murfreesboro, TN). They almost got lost in the shuffle of seeing over 25 bands in a week at Popfest but Happy Happy Birthday To Me/Popfest honcho Mike Turner caught up to me and said I should be sure to catch these folks (thanks Mike!). I quickly picked up their EP, Let's Go; every track is a keeper, and I'm anxious for a full-length release.

How I Became The Bomb are returning to Athens, playing the Caledonia February 3 with Casper And The Cookies and Russian Spy Camera. Let's Go . . .

Track 1 - Kneel Before Zod
Track 2 - Killing Machine
Track 3 - Bar Song
Track 4 - Fat Girls Talkin' Bout Cardio
Track 5 - Minute Romance
Track 6 -
Track 7 - Robo
Track 8 - Secret Identity

FLAC files are here.