Low and His Name is Alive were pretty amazing on Tuesday night. Ethan, Courtney, and I went and met up with Mike and Matt. His Name is Alive played some really old songs, reaching way back to Home Is In Your Head for “Are We Still Married?” and at least one song that sounded familiar from Mouth By Mouth, later confirmed to be “Cornfield” by Adam. Of course, I’m sure alternate versions have been released from the many cd-r releases that have come out that I don’t have. It was like the show Rich and I went to in like 1997 or 1998. Weird. Low was much better than their last trip to Philadelphia and the sound was better than their first performance in the Unitarian Sanctuary. They don’t play many of the pre-Kranky era songs live these days. I would kill (ha ha) to hear “Violence” or “Above and Below”. Jess will be here this weekend and we’re off to see the Saxon Shore/mewithoutyou show downtown. It’s apparently sold out already, so you’re out of luck. It’s a benefit show, but I’m looking at it more like a battle of the bands and am expecting the Saxons to notch…
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Thanks to Oliver, you can now get automatic podcast updates in iTunes by subscribing to the RSS feed here. I’ve posted Matthew Stone’s top ten from 2004. His top ten from 2005 will be up next week. A bunch of us are going to see His Name is Alive and Low in the Unitarian Sanctuary in Philadelphia tomorrow. See you there. :::scott:::
It’s been a hectic week. I was in North Carolina for a few days. I got to meet up with everyone at Redeye, our fine distributor, at their newish offices. It was good to see Greg, Steve, Lori, David, Aaron, Tor, and everyone else. They’ve been quietly assembling an indie rock empire for their distribution and now distribute GSL, Arena Rock, Three One G, File13, Gern Blandsten, Gearhead, TKO, Rainbow Quartz, Buddyhead, and Dirtnap. btv was one of the first indie rock oriented labels that Redeye added and we’re happy to be a part. I was happy to see piles of LPs in the warehouse, so we’ll be getting out the btv vinyl releases in the coming weeks and months to your favorite stores. Oliver is working on the xml feed for the podcast page. I tried and couldn’t do it manually in the five minutes I alloted to do it and I haven’t gotten a chance to fix it. I’m working on getting Matthew Stone’s list up next for later in the week. Tonight is a btv Super Bowl party. Hope to see you there. :::scott:::