9/20 My Bloody Valentine [Roseland]
9/11 Land Of Talk [Mercury]
8/25 Lykke Li [LPR]
8/22 Lykke Li [Amoeba - Hollywood]
8/22 Radiohead [Hollywood Bowl]
8/20 Broken Social Scene, Menomena [Sunset Junction]
8/15 Manuel Göttsching [Lincoln Center]
7/31 The Long Winters [Castle Clinton]
7/24 Ambulance LTD [Bowery]
7/18 Deerhoof, Metropolis Ensemble [Prospect Park]
7/17 Ted Leo [Castle Clinton]
6/26 Devo [McCarren Pool]
6/21 After The Jump Fest [Williamsburg]
6/19 Man In Grey's farewell show [Delancey]
6/4 M83 [Bowery]
5/29 Hello Eden [Rebel]
5/28 Birdmonster [Mercury]
5/2 Stars of the Lid [Good Shepherd Church]
4/17 Gelsey Bell [Goodbye Blue Monday]
4/3 Helio Sequence [Bowery]
3/21 Jens Lekman [Hollywood, CA]
3/18 The Lisps [Los Angeles, CA]
3/12-16 SXSW [Austin, TX]
1/27 Laura Veirs [Union Hall]
1/16-17 Wordless Music Orchestra (Adams, Bryars, Greenwood) [St. Paul the Apostle]
2007
12/20 Wakey! Wakey!, Jason Joseph [Arlene's]
12/14 The Most Serene Republic [Mercury]
12/13 Cake, Brazillian Girls, Oakley Hall [Terminal 5]
12/12 Wakey! Wakey!, Jukebox the Ghost [Mercury]
11/28 Max Richter, Cepia, Assaff Weisman [Good-Shepherd Faith Church]
11/10 Mum, Hauschka, Bing and Ruth [Society for Ethical Culture]
11/9 Mum, Torngat [St. Paul the Apostle]
11/3 Grizzly Bear, Michael Harrison [Society for Ethical Culture]
10/16-20 CMJ (Spoon, The Octopus Project, The Most Serene Republic, Saturday Looks Good To Me,1900's, Biffy Clyro, Freezepop...)
10/5 Nico Muhly, Valgeir Sigurdsson, Sandro Perri [Good-Shepherd Faith Church]
9/24 Beirut, Colleen [Society for Ethical Culture]
9/21 The Most Serene Republic [Union Hall]
9/20 Beirut, Fifth Veil [Brooklyn Masonic Temple]
9/15 Do Make Say Think [The Middle East, Boston]
9/14 Do Make Say Think, Electric Kompany [Society for Ethical Culture]
8/29 Feist [McCarren]
8/25 After The Jump Festival [Studio B]
8/23 The Rentals [Nokia]
8/21 The New Pornographers [Bowery]
8/19 Wolf Parade [Warsaw]
8/12 Junior Senior [Soundfix]
8/12 Ted Leo/Pharmacists, The Thermals [McCarren]
8/9 Daft Punk [Keyspan]
7/28 Benni Hemm Hemm [Union Hall]
7/23 Eastern Conference Champions [Pianos]
7/4 The New Pornographers [Battery Park]
6/11 Feist [Town Hall]
6/2 Man In Grey [Union Hall]
5/12 LCD Soundsystem [Studio B]
5/8 The Shondes, Beat Radio [Delancey]
5/5 Arcade Fire, The National [Tower Theater]
4/30 The Books [Society for Ethical Culture - Wordless Music Series]
4/24 Pela [Mercury]
Wakey Wakey, Casey Shea [Pianos]
4/14 Cloud Cult, Young Galaxy [Mercury]
4/12 Eastern Conference Champions [Union Hall]
4/2 Amiina, Eluvium, Gilles Vonsattel [Good Shepherd Faith Church - Wordless Music Series]
3/31 The Long Winters, The Broken West [Mercury]
3/28 Menomena [Bowery]
3/23 Toca Loca, Polmo Polpo, Social Music Work Group [Good Shepherd Faith Church]
3/14-3/18 SXSW
3/9 Matt & Kim, Professor Murder [Bowery]
3/7 Mirah, The Blow [NYU]
3/1 Thunderbirds Are Now!, Tigercity [Knitting Factory]
2/20 Explosions In The Sky [Society for Ethical Culture]
2/19 Explosions In The Sky [Warsaw]
2/18 Malajube, Rock Plaza Central [Mercury]
2/17 The Muggabears, Please Dept [The Delancey]
Gelsey Bell [Vivaldi Cafe]
2/16 The Arcade Fire [Judson Memorial Church]
Pela [Mercury]
2/11 Steven Malkmus and the Jicks [Maxwell's]
2/10 Sure Juror [Pianos]
1/30 Peter, Bjorn and John [Bowery]
1/27 Liam & Me, The GoStation, White Rabbits, Seth Kallen + The Reaction [Sin-e]
1/19 The Wrens [Knitting Factory]
1/18 The Hold Steady [Northsix]
1/13 Gil Mantera's Party Dream, Free Blood [Knitting Factory]
1/6 Matt & Kim, Meneguar, Aa [Studio B]
2006
12/20 Bridges & Powerlines [Pianos]
12/16 Rainer Maria, Pela, Daylight For The Birds [Bowery]
12/15 Bell, Lismore, Theives Like Us, The Ballet [Delancey]
12/13 Bound Stems, Ra Ra Riot, The Muggabears [Sin-e]
12/09 Oxford Collapse [Northsix]
11/28 ¡Forward, Russia! [Bowery]
11/22 The Hold Steady [Warsaw]
11/20 The Little Ones, Small Sins [Mercury Lounge]
11/15 A Hawk and A Hacksaw, Andrew Bird [GSF Church]
11/14 Bad Viens [Knitting Factory]
11/13 Modest Mouse [Nokia]
11/10 The Shondes [Brooklyn Lyceum]
11/6 Voxtrot [Bowery]
Cloud Cult [Knitting Factory]
10/31 - 11/4 CMJ [Everywhere]
10/21 Maritime, Bound Stems [Mercury]
10/17 TV On The Radio, Grizzly Bear [Irving]
10/15 Okkervil River, Sam Champion [Bowery]
10/14 Okkervil River, Elvis Perkins [Bowery]
9/30 Sufjan Stevens, My Brightest Diamond [Town Hall]
9/29 Sufjan Stevens, My Brightest Diamond [Town Hall]
The Long Winters [Bowery]
9/27 The Big Sleep, The Rogers Sisters, The Occasion (Movable Hype 9.0) [Spiegeltent]
9/26 O'Death, DraculaZombieUSA (Beg Yr Pardon #9) [Delancey]
9/18 Wordless Music Series (Glenn Kotche & Nels Cline, Jenny Lin, Elliot Sharp) [GSF Church]
9/15,16,17 Austin City Limits Festival (Explosions In The Sky, Okkervil River, The Long Winters, Nada Surf, Ben Kweller, Ted Leo, Stars, The New Pornographers, Husky Rescue, What Made Milwaukee Famous...)
9/13 The Grates [Pianos]
9/12 The Dears, The Grates [Bowery]
9/3 Mono, Fridge [Bowery]
9/2 Explosions In The Sky [Bowery]
8/31 Asobi Seksu, Say Hi To Your Mom, Cassettes Won't Listen [Maxwell's]
8/29 Casey Dienel, Inlets [Union Hall]
8/25 Ted Leo (free) [South Street Seaport]
Beirut [Mercury]
8/24 My Brightest Diamond [Speigeltent]
8/23 826NYC benefit w/David Byrne, Sufjan Stevens, John Roderick [Beacon Theater]
8/21 The Diggs, Slowlands [CBGB]
8/18 The Mugs, The Isles [Union Hall]
8/17 Takka Takka, Slowlands [Union Hall]
8/12 Sleater-Kinney, The Thermals [Portland, OR]
8/8 The Long Winters [Mercury Lounge]
8/7 Silversun Pickups [Union Hall]
8/4 Hot Chip [South Street Seaport]
8/3 The New Pornographers [Summerstage]
7/23 Pretty Girls Make Graves [McCarren Park Pool]
7/21 Jens Lekman, Beirut [Bowery]
7/19 Jens Lekman [Mercury]
7/15 Casey Shea [Knitting Factory]
Siren Fest [Coney Island]
7/14 My Brightest Diamond [Joe's Pub]
7/13 Okkervil River [Castle Clinton]
Oh No! Oh My!, The Big Sleep [Supreme Trading]
7/11 Movable Hype 8.0 [Knitting Factory] w/ Takka Takka, Femme Generation, Goes Cube
7/9 Cursive [Mercury]
Les Savy Fav [McCarren Park Pool]
7/7 The Undisputed Heavyweights [Rockwood]
7/6 Broken Social Scene [Prospect Park]
Mates of State [Castle Clinton]
7/4 Belle & Sebastian [Battery Park]
6/30 Birdmonster, Tally Hall, The Talk [Sin-e]
Matt Pond PA, Voxtrot [Prospect Park]
6/29 Land of Talk, Tokyo Police Club, The Ballet [Syrup Room]
6/28 Gil Mantera's Party Dream [Knitting Factory]
6/27 The Grates [Mercury]
6/25 The Undisputed Heavywights [Rockwood]
6/22 Asobi Seksu [Mercury]
6/17 Beirut [SoundFix]
6/15 Saturday Looks Good To Me [Northsix]
6/14 !Forward, Russia! [Mercury]
6/13 Eels, Smoosh [World Financial Center]
The Boy Least Likely To [Knitting Factory]
6/11 !!! [Northsix]
6/6 Nada Surf, stellastar* [Starlight Ballroom]
6/2 Radiohead [Tower Theater, Philly]
5/27 & 5/28 Sasquatch Music Festival [The Gorge, WA]
5/22 Art Brut [Soundfix]
5/20 Pela [brooklyn rooftop]
5/19 Land of Talk, Slowlands [Mercury Lounge]
Land of Talk, Dr. Dog (KEXP in NYC) [Gigantic Studios]
5/17 Art Brut, Art Brut 47 (We Are Scientists) [Knitting Factory]
5/12 White Rose Movement [Bowery Ballroom]
5/10 Nada Surf (acoustic) [Mercury Lounge]
4/25 Jamie Lidell [Bowery Ballroom]
4/21 The Undisputed Heavyweights, Cloud Cult [Arlene's Grocery]
4/17 Cloud Cult [Knitting Factory]
4/11 Art Brut, The Rogers Sisters [Southpaw]
4/10 Wolf Parade [Webster Hall]
4/9 Voxtrot, Irving [Mercury Lounge]
4/7 The Hold Steady [Warsaw]
4/5 Art Brut, Gil Mantera's Party Dream [Bowery Ballroom]
4/4 Art Brut, The Ponys [Bowery Ballroom]
4/1 Dream Theater [Radio City Music Hall]
3/31 Nine Black Alps [Bowery Ballroom]
3/30 Editors, The Big Sleep [Webster Hall]
3/28 Editors, stellastarr* [Warsaw]
3/22 The Go! Team [NorthSix]
3/21 Magnet [Living Room]
3/11 Belle & Sebastian, New Pornographers [Riverside Theater, Milwaukee]
3/8 The Wedding Present [Bowery]
3/2 Ted Leo/Rx [The Hook]
2/11 Gelsey Bell [Cafe Vivaldi]
2/10 Feist, Mates of State, Jason Collett [Webster]
2/9 Jason Collett [Mercury]
1/27 Broken Social Scene [Webster]
1/16 Nine Black Alps [Mercury]
1/14 Sufjan Stevens [Lincoln Center/Allen Room]
1/12 Tapes 'N Tapes, Sam Champion [Rothko]
1/11 Imogen Heap [Avalon]
Pretty spot on about the set. “The Chills” and “Up Against the Wall” were definitely the highlights. Of course not everyone is going to be pleased and I don’t know how much better the Union Hall & Mercury shows could have been but I think they lived up to the hype. And there sure was a lot of hype. Thanks for the mp3’s.
Reading around, I see a lot of folks were displeased by Bjorn’s botched Amsterdam. Maybe it’s because I think the cd version’s kinda eh but I felt that when he finally got it right last night, its wistfulness and homesickness really came through.
It was cute when he and John couldn’t quite start the second verse together, but they started over too many times for me to enjoy the song as a whole. Maybe I’ll just splice together all the parts they got right and listen to it again.
It’s been a bit baffling to read Gothamnist and Broolyn Vegan go on the record claiming this was such a poor show. In my experience it was pretty amazing, all the people i talked to after the show felt the same way. As for the botched Amsterdam it was actually pretty endearing (although i agree with the comments above). If this was the bad show, the other two most have been outstanding. I also wonder if any of the people who are knocking it had heard anything besides “Young Folks”. It seemed like a lot of people were just there to talk and play with there cell phones. I’d definetly pay to see Peter Bjorn and John again. thanks for posting the mp3’s.