(Photo by Julio Enriquez of Cause=Time.)

Yet another welcome surprise for me at this year’s Westword Music Showcase was Neon Indian.  Like the Dirty Projectors set,  I was afraid this one would lose some of it’s steam in a mid-afternoon outdoor setting.  While there’s no question their music would go over better indoors, the band’s prismatic layering of sound drew a large and responsive crowd.  The trick was getting up close and submerging yourself in the sound.

Neon Indian
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. Local Joke
3. Terminally Chill
4. Mind, Drips
5. Psychic Chasms
6. Should’ve Taken Acid With You
7. Sleep Paralysist
8. 6669
9. Deadbeat Summer
10. Ephemeral Artery

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

Last weekend’s Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers show at the Gothic was kicked off in style by The Mother Truckers out of Austin.  They won over the RCPM crowd, often fickle toward opening acts, with a set of (mostly) original country and blues tunes, which culminated in Steve Larson trading licks with Josh Zee on “Love Me Like a Man“.

The Mother Truckers
11.22.2008
The Gothic Theatre, Englewood, CO

Source:  Microtch Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 (opti-mod) > Nomad JB3 > Firewire > WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CDWave > Flac16
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Streets Of Atlanta
2. Dynamite
3. No Mercy
4. Can’t Sleep In Tucson
5. Van Tour
6. When I Get My Wings
7. Let’s All Go To Bed
8. I’ll Meet You There
9. Save My Soul
10. Love Me Like A Man *

Notes:
* = with Steven Larson on guitar

(As usual, here’s a link to a zipfile of the show.)

I posted Hi-Dive sets from Dr. Dog and Delta Spirit a few weeks ago, and wanted to introduce the opening act of that evening, San Antonio’s Hacienda.  These guys were a great addition to the lineup, and their flavor of psych-pop fit in perfectly with the other two acts.

Their debut album, “Loud as the Night” (produced by Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach), just hit the streets in September.  To be honest, I didn’t have a chance to pick it up at the show, and have only listened to the myspace tracks.  But based on the live set in Denver, I’m looking forward to checking it out!

Hacienda
9.27.2008
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtch Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 (opti-mod) > Nomad JB3 > WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CDWave > Flac16
Taped by:  Lance Stack (inthistube [at] gmail.com)

Setlist:
1. unknown
2. unknown
3. Shake Ya
4. Officer
5. Useless and Tired
6. Hear Me Crying
7. Angela
8. Sun
9. Little Girl
10. Baby Don’t Go
11. She’s Got a Hold On Me
12. unknown
13. unknown
14. unknown

Here’s the South San Gabriel set from the Hi-Dive Tuesday night.  I’d seen Centro-Matic several times, but quickly discovered I like this project even more.  Against expectations for them to rely on material from “Dual Hawks” (released in June), SSG managed to cover their full catalog.  It was great to see so many people coming down early, filling up the room before The Broken West and Centro-Matic hit the stage.

South San Gabriel
9.09.2008
The Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtch Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 (opti-mod) > Nomad JB3 >
WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CDWave > Flac16
Taped by:  Lance Stack (inthistube [at] gmail.com)

Setlist:
1. Emma Jane
2. Glacial Slurs
3. Smelling Medicinal
4. St. Augustine
5. Trust To Lose
6. I Feel Too Young To Die
7. From This I Will Awake

(Full zipfile availabe via megaupload.)
(FLAC files available on dime.)

Sunday night goes down in my books as one of the better shows of the year.  Shearwater, Wye Oak, and Hospital Ships (previously posted)–what more could you ask for?  Go check out Tom’s review of the show over at his Westword Blog, and then listen to see what all the hype was about:

Wye Oak
8.31.2008
The Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtch Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 (opti-mod) > Nomad JB3 >
WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CDWave > Flac16 > mp3
Taped by:  Lance Stack (inthistube [at] gmail.com)
Setlist:
1. Please Concrete
2. Warning
3. unknown
4. Family Glue
5. “Magic Johnson”
6. unknown
7. Take It In

(A zipfile of the full Wye Oak set is available here.)
(FLAC files are available here.)

Shearwater
8.31.2008
The Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtch Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 (opti-mod) > Nomad JB3 >
WAV > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CDWave > Flac16 > mp3
Taped by:  Lance Stack (inthistube [at] gmail.com)

Setlist:
1. intro
2. On The Death Of The Waters
3. Red Sea, Black Sea
4. Mountain Laurel
5. Rooks
6. White Waves
7. Leviathan, Bound
8. Seventy-Four, Seventy-Five
9. The Snow Leopard
10. (Abe Lincoln story)
11. I Was a Cloud
12. Century Eyes
13. Hail, Mary
(Encore)
14. North Col
15. Home Life

(A zipfile of the full Shearwater set is available here.)
(FLAC files are available here.)