Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton: Live at Joe's Pub, New York City, September 19, 2006

Emily takes her softer side to NYC. Here's to wishing we see more of the Metric vibe soon.

Intro
Our Hell
Band Intro
Doctor Blind
Crowd Surf Off A Cliff
Detective Daughter
Intermission - Chat
The Lottery
Mostly Waving
The Maid Needs A Maid
Nothing & Nowhere
Reading In Bed
The Last Page
Farewell
Winning

And of course, stream the new Hold Steady, in full.

Sparklehorse: Black Session, Paris, Maison de la Radio, Studio 105, September 25, 2006

So Sparklehorse is new discovery for me (God forbid a blogger should know all the music!). Got some pretty good review on their latest from Pitchfork so I decided to give it a try. Plus I always enjoy a good rock star with a drug problem story. It helps relate to the music (for an exhaustive account of this thesis, see The Libertines and Pete Doherty, coming soon to paperback stores near you). Well, I got myself a copy of Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain, and I have to say I like the "distorted sounds meets simple beats" and folk rock feel of the record. Highly recommended.

Found this boot of a radio broadcast in the usual places. Enjoy.

Gold Day
Sad & Beautiful
Apple Bed
Hammering the Cramps
Painbirds
It's Not So Hard
Eyepennies
Spirit Ditch
Weird Sisters
Ghost in the Sky
Don't Take My Sunshine Away
Someday I Will Treat You Good