Here’s the CD release show for Joshua Novak’s latest album, Dead Letters.  Grab a copy from bandcamp, iTunes, or Twist and Shout.

Joshua Novak
10.16.2010
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

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

Setlist:
1. Tidal Wave
2. Somenights
3. Makeup
4. Heart Hits the Wall
5. New Start
6. There’s Been an Accident
7. unknown
8. unknown
9. La Muerte Del Amor
10. The Love That I Want
11. Shallow Dull Stars
12. My Darling Criminal Lover
13. unknown
14. Irreplaceable

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

Here’s one of two CD release shows Maxwell Hughes played to support his new album, Express.  (The other show was held at Everyday Joe’s in Ft. Collins.)

Maxwell Hughes
1.22.2011
The Mercury Cafe, Denver, CO

Source:  Oktava MK-012’s > Lunatec V3 > 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. Hot Flashes
3. Ode to Kaki
4. unknown
5. Return to Mediterrainia
6. No Name
7. Charlie Girl
8. unknown
9. Sun vs. the Moon
10. Hammerhead

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

On the eve of their album release show for Rare Forms, Woodsman played a warm-up set across town opening for Tennis.  Keep an eye out for the release party to be posted soon, and be sure to pick up a copy of Rare Forms from Lefse or Fire Talk!

Woodsman
2.10.2011
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  [Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3] + [SBD > 1/4″] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Mixdown > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave

Setlist:
1. Burial Ground
2. Inside/Outside
3. Insects
4. When the Morning Comes
5. Sunglass
6. Serfer
7. Balance

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

Dovekins headlined the Long Spoon Collective’s re-launch in January.  The collective plans to host a monthly series of shows at the Mercury Cafe.

Dovekins
1.22.2011
The Mercury Cafe, Denver, CO

Source:  Oktava MK-012’s > Lunatec V3 > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. unknown
2. The Dalles
3. The Dells (He Smells, She Repels)
4. Waltz (Dictionary; I)
5. Raining Buttons
6. Walks So High
7. Little Baby
8. unknown
9. unknown
10. No Ability
11. Broke Trombone
12. unknown
13. Great Eastern Sun

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

After waiting out interstate closings and making a laborious drive through the Rockies, Apex Manor arrived in Denver tired, but in high spirits.  The new band teams former The Broken West frontman Ross Flournoy with Brian Whelan (also of TBW), frequent co-writer Adam Vine, Andy Creighton (The World Record), and Derek Brown (of numerous west-coast bands).  One week after the release of The Year of Magical Drinking, Apex Manor played their very first show to a Santa Cruz audience.  This week sees them road-testing the live act with a short tour.

After returning home for a few weeks, the band will once again hit the road, playing SXSW and various East Coast dates:

Feb 12 Los Angeles, CA Satellite
Feb 24 San Francisco, CA Cafe Du Nord (Noise Pop Festival)
Mar 16-19 Austin, TX SXSW Festival
Mar 21 Washington, DC Red Palace
Mar 22 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
Mar 23 Cambridge, MA TT the Bear’s
Mar 26 New York, NY The Mercury Lounge
Mar 28 Chicago, IL Schubas Tavern
Mar 29 Minneapolis, MN 400 Bar

No shows booked in your vicinity? The new album can be purchased directly from Merge Records or at your favorite record shop.  The following live tracks, from the band’s fifth show ever, are a perfect supplement to the studio material.  In addition to songs from Magical Drinking, the setlist includes several Broken West songs and a great cover of Nilsson’s “Jump Into the Fire” (complete with Derek playing a Jim Gordon-style solo).

Apex Manor
2.08.2011
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  [Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3] + [SBD > 1/4″] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Mixdown > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Under the Gun
2. I Know These Waters Well
3. The Party Line
4. Southern Decline
5. Perfect Games
6. Gwen, Now and Then
7. My My Mind
8. Down in the Valley
9. Jump Into the Fire
10. Teenage Blood

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