tonight

First night of the cover up. Wait 3 hours, then head over to the Highdive.

the great cover up

go go go go go go go go go go

if you miss this, you might as well leave champaign and never come back.

i'm droppin shows like girls be droppin babies

second semester arrives, and with it, more shows! anyways....

01/05 - Knifey Spoonie, Jet W Lee, NJCK Cowboys (sometimes blog contributor Aaron's band!), Rabble Rabble @ Terror House

01/07 - Alma Afrobeat Ensemble @ Highdive

01/15 - The Octagon @ Mike & Molly's

01/16 - The Satin Peaches, On Again Off Again @ Mike & Molly's

01/17, 01/19, 01/21 - GREAT COVER UP 19 @ Highdive

01/22 - The Gold Motel (Hush Sound side project), Empires, tba @ Canopy Club

01/23 - Jared Bartman, Good Night and Good Morning, You and Yourn @ Mike & Molly's
01/23 - Snowsera, The Natural @ Canopy Club
01/23 - We Must Dismantle All This, Hallowed Ground @ Dead Rodent House

01/28 - Kronos Quartet, Wu Man @ Krannert Center
01/28 - Strange Arrangement, Daphne Willis @ Canopy Club

01/29 - Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin @ Courtyard Cafe
01/29 - Keller Lolliams @ Canopy Club
01/29 - Jookabox @ Mike & Molly's

01/30 - Brighton MA, Elsinore @ Cowboy Monkey

02/04 - Gov't Mule, Jackie Greene @ Canopy Club

02/05 - Good Night & Good Morning, TBA @ Red Herring

02/06 - White Mystery, Stranger Waves @ Mike & Molly's

02/11 - Nomo, TBA @ Canopy Club

02/14 - Former Thieves, TBA @ Terror House

02/18 - Retribution Gospel Choir (Alan from LOW), TBA @ Canopy Club

02/20 - RJD2, Happy Chichester @ Canopy Club
02/20 - State Radio @ Highdive

02/27 - Cold Cave, Hair Police (Wolf Eyes side project) @ Canopy Club
02/27 - Lesser Birds of Paradise, World's First Flying Machine, My Dear Alan Andrews, Carl Hauck @ Cowboy Monkey

03/30 - Mavis Staples, JJ Grey, Booker T @ Krannert Center

04/03 - We Must Dismantle All This, Middle Class Trash, The Atrocities @ Dead Rodent House

04/24 - Joshua Redman @ Krannert Center

05/05 - Ozomatli @ Krannert Center


also, it looks like Icy Demons has been cancelled. SAD FACE.

Download: Walkmen at Krannert

we're not dead...we promise. to go along with the review, here's audio from Walkmen's show at Krannert last night, including three new songs and that AMAZING version of "The Rat".

http://www.archive.org/details/walkmen2009-11-14.spbmc2

01. On the Water
02. In the New Year
03. new song
04. Canadian Girl
05. Four Provinces
06. What's in it For Me
07. Thinking of a Dream I Had
08. Postcards From Tiny Islands
09. new song
10. The Rat
11. new song
12. Donde Esta la Playa
13. All Hands and the Cook
14. encore break
Encore:
15. Little House of Savages

Shows at Krannert

Walkmen last night were pretty fantastic. I'm not a big fan or anything; I only have Bows + Arrows. They played "The Rat" and "What's In It For Me" among others. The crowd was pretty good too. People in the front dancing, people in the back not talking all the time.

But some kid thought it would be a good idea to smoke pot in the Krannert lobby. If this was at the Canopy or High Dive, I'd pat him/her on the back: "What a badass," I'd say. Krannert is a great venue and it doesn't have good indie shows very often. The lobby even has a bar (which sold High Life and PBR)! I worry that the presence of drugs that indie shows bring will deter Krannert from hosting more. I don't see too many people getting high and going to see the Nutcracker, or being cool with smelling weed on their way to get a coffee or glass of wine after the opera.

My point, I guess, is that I want to keep seeing shows in the Krannert lobby, so get high outside.

Downloads: Some old, some new

First up, some old stuff from the archives. Here's a recording of the amazing Mountain Goats show from this past spring, espresso machine and all. Check out this setlist!

01. Free Fallin' [Tom Petty]
02. Going to Bolivia
03. Deinara Crush
04. Downtown Seoul
05. Cobscook Bay
06. Send Me an Angel
07. Whole Wide World
08. Twin Human Highway Flares
09. Sept 15, 1983
10. Cotton
11. Ice Cream, Cobra Man
12. Song for Dennis Brown
13. This Magic Moment [Jay & the Americans]
14. Shadow Song
15. No Children (crowd on vocals)
16. Standard Bitter Love Song #1

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Second, Hum's secret pre-reunion show from Cowboy Monkey last December...while the DIH material is somewhat rough, this show is more than worth a listen for the phenomenal version of "I Hate it Too", as well as the unreleased "Inklings"

01. Soundcheck/Intro
02. The Pod
03. Green to Me
04. Iron Clad Lou
05. Ms. Lazarus
06. Comin' Home
07. Suicide Machine
08. If You Are to Bloom
09. Inklings
10. Afternoon with the Axolotls
11. Stars
12. I Hate it Too
13. (encore break)
14. I'd Like Your Hair Long

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Lastly, The Antler's excellently played Pygmalion set:

01. Bear
02. Sylvia
03. Atrophy
04. Shiva
05. Two
06. Epilogue

Download

As always, if you download any of these, please support the artists by buying merch and attending shows...

movement

A few quick things--

The Cory Chisel show (9/28), while listed on the Canopy website as cancelled, is on the Cowboy Monkey site as an early show. Joshua James and Noah Harris open.

The Saturday (10/3) Vertebrats reunion show has moved back to Highdive, where it was originally. Don't miss this one...

Times New Viking on 10/16 is at Courtyard, not in the void room post-Blitzen Trapper as previously thought (source). The Axemen open....beware that Courtyard has moved their shows up, and unless a second opener is added to the bill, TNV could be on as early as 8:30