Lone: “Alpha Wheel” (Live for Last.fm)Check out Matt Cutler’s excellent performance of “Alpha Wheel,” from his latest album Levitate, recorded live for last.fm.(Source:...
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Steve Reich: “Drumming” (performed by the Portland Percussion Group)The Portland Percussion Group recorded this great performance of Steve Reich, and the visuals add a whole layer to the experience....
Throbbing Gristle: “Don’t Do As You’re Told” (Heathen Earth, Industrial 1980)One of TG’s classic weird jams from their live sessions released as Heathen Earth in on their own Industrial label in...
Godspeed You Black Emperor: “Moya (Live at The Metropolis)” (2014)One of my personal favorites from the GYBE discography, performed beautifully by the band in Montreal; originally released on the...
Pan Sonic: Oksastus (Kvitnu 2014)Ilpo Väisänen and Mika Vainio’s last hurrah as Pan Sonic is actually a live recording from back in 2009, and I’d missed it when Ukrainian label Kvitnu released it...
Eleh: For Moussavi Atrium (Important) This single, thirty-eight minute drone from Eleh was composed for performance at the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art on September 28, 2013. Much...
Fenn O'Berg: “Vampires of Hondori” (In Hell, 2012 Editions Mego) Recorded live at Club Quatro in Hiroshima, Japan, 19 November 2010. The improvised live performances of Peter Rehberg,...
Throbbing Gristle: “Don’t Do As You’re Told, Do As You Think” (Heathen Earth, Mute 1980) Throbbing Gristle sounding at their best in this release from 1980. The combo of...
S.B.O.T.H.I. “C.B.A.” (Q.E.D., NL Centrum 1988) Vintage weirdness courtesy of Achim Wollscheid, under his early Swimming Behavior of the Human Infant acronym. The entire Q.E.D....
James Blake live @ Coachella Saw James Blake at the Masquerade last night in Atlanta, and was surprised by how good the set was. Somehow the recording here doesn’t do it justice, and daytime...
Einstürzende Neubauten: “Armenia” (Halber Mench, 1986) A Facebook thread reminded me of how significant the music of Einstürzende Neubauten has been to me formatively. Hearing about them...
Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm, Live Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm creating a song live in front of an intimate audience at Roter Salon, Volksbühne Berlin on July 26, 2011, as part of...
Saint Etienne, live at Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR I wasn’t sure I’d ever get the chance to see Saint Etienne live in the U.S. They’ve never really been able to gain...
Oregon: “Waterwheel” I have a recording of this by Robert Towner, released by ECM in 1978… it’s from the album Batik and it features Towner of Oregon alongside Eddie Gomez...
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