Back in the day, Denver was lucky enough to have the opportunity to see Liz Clark on a monthly basis.  She’s come a long way since, but this show celebrated the release of her second album, Who’s Your Angel, limited to 200 copies in hand-made cases.

Liz moved to NYC five or so years ago, and has been taking music worldwide ever since.    Luckily, she still manages to hang out in Colorado from time to time, and you can catch her at Denver’s Lilith Fair stop in July.

Liz Clark
4.16.2003
Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V2 > Sony D8 > DAT Master > D8 >
Edirol R-44 > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CDWave > LAME > mp3
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro
2. Love and War
3. Not the Point
4. Gemini Girl
5. Who’s Your Angel
6. Something I Can Live Without
7. Spiral
8. Junk Yard Dog
9. (thanks)
10. Justify
11. At the Door
12. Gospel Song
13. Carry Me Away [Concrete Blonde]
14. Safe in My Car
15. Encore
16. Paint It Black [Stones]

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

Possibly the last show Rainville played before disbanding, this Swallow Hill performance was atypical of most, foregoing raucous alt-country for an acoustic presentation of their material.  Several of these songs were penned just prior to this show, so this recording captures their only performance (though a few may have squeezed into the catalog of John Common’s next project, Goodnight Tulsa).

Rainville
5.16.2003
Tuft Theatre at Swallow Hill, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V2 > Sony D8 > DAT Master > D8 > S/PDIF > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 16/44.1 >SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CDWave
Taped by: Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro
2. How ‘Bout You?
3. Trains
4. Lonely Everywhere
5. What Keeps You Up At Night?
6. Real Man
7. Emma
8. Don’t Cry So Hard
9. (Pensacola story)
10. Run Away
11. Can’t Hide
12. Forty Days of Rain
13. (toy piano intro)
14. Evil Moon
15. Yeah I Like It
16. Now I’m Gone
17. Five-Dollar Shower
18. Poor White Trash
19. Christmas in Hollywood
20. Right Now
21. Such a Long Road
(Encore)
22. All You’ve Got is Tonight

FLAC files and other formats are available at the LMA.

Here are Grace Potter and the Nocturnals opening for Brett Dennen at the Ogden last December.  New band members Catherine Poppper and Benny Yurco fit perfectly, and Catherine lays claim to the best sounding bass tones I have ever heard in a live setting.

Grace Potter & the Nocturnals
12.03.2009
The Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro
2. Medicine
3. Joey
4. Oasis
5. Apologies
6. Goodbye Kiss
7. Stop the Bus
8. Low Road
9. Ah Mary
10. Colors
11. Paris (Ooh La La)
12. Watching You >
13. Nothing But The Water >
14. Sweet Hands
Encore:
15. Big White Gate
16. White Rabbit

FLAC files and other formats are available at the LMA.

Easily the most anticipated local act at the Westword Music Showcase, Snake Rattle Rattle Snake played to an enthusiastic, standing-room only crowd at the Curious Theatre.

Snake Rattle Rattle Snake
6.19.2010
curious Theatre, Westword Music Showcase, Denver, CO

Source:  Oktava MK-012 cardiods (12 foot split) > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro
2. Hastily
3. Dirt Cloud >
4. Sin Eater
5. Dead Mens’ Words
6. Warning
7. Ornament
8. Break
9. Kafka and the Milk

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be found via BitTorrent at Dime.

After all the great club shows I’d seen them play, I was a bit skeptical about seeing Dirty Projectors outdoors in the afternoon.  My worries were unfounded, as their songs were effortlessly translated to a festival setting.  Their ability to present such complex compositions (“brain music”) and entertain a general audience, many of whom had probably never heard the band, is another testament to the genius and talent of Longstreth and Co.

Dirty Projectors
6.19.2010
Main Stage, Westword Music Showcase, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 > digi-coax > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro
2. Robert Adams/New Topographics dedication
3. I Will Truck
4. No Intention
5. Knotty Pine
6. Fucked For Life
7. Temecula Sunrise
8. Cannibal Resource
9. Remade Horizon
10. Imagine It
11. Stillness Is The Move
12. Useful Chamber

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be found on Dime.