The Monday Set: Love And Rockets – Irvine – 12/6/87
I finally got a new cassette player that plays at the correct speed, so I'm back in the business of transferring my old cassettes to CD. Here's an extremely short Love And Rockets show from the "Earth, Sun, Moon" tour in 1987. (More...)
The Monday Set: Beach Fossils – Los Angeles – 7/27/10
When Beach Fossils (who I constantly get mixed up with Beach House due to the similar "Beach" in the name) came through on their recent tour as one of the opening acts for Bear In Heaven, I made sure I had enough space on my drive to record their set just in case. (More...)
The Monday Set: School of Seven Bells – Baton Rouge – 10/11/2010
Brooklyn band School of Seven Bells arrived in Louisiana this week, minus one member. As reported on their website the day after this show, Claudia Deheza has just left the band. Her departure may have been a factor in the somewhat sour tone of the evening. (More...)
The Monday Set: The Hold Steady – New Orleans – 9/24/10
In the second part of a terrific double-bill, The Hold Steady tore the roof off Republic with this mammoth set. It was admittedly a little weird to see them without keyboardist/mustache-aficionado Franz Nicolay, but they still sound great. (More...)
The Monday Set – Low – Richmond – February 19, 2001
Back in the days before handy portable digital audio recorders, the enterprising fan was often at a loss when wanting to preserve some memory of a beloved band's live show (especially when such shows were legendary, and didn't often happen near said enterprising fan's place of residence). (More...)
The Monday Set – Wintersleep – New Orleans – 9/24/10
Let me start by saying I love Wintersleep. I don't know what it is about them; something visceral, I think. On their albums, they're more sedate than they are live, and I guess seeing them live first was what really turned me on to them. (More...)
The Monday Set: Gus Gus – Roskilde – 6/27/97
One of the most memorable shows I attended in the '90s was Gus Gus at First Avenue in Minneapolis. On tour for their Polydistortion record, they put on a multimedia show which was on par with what you would see today which was unheard of at the time. (More...)
The Monday Set: Stars – Amsterdam – 9/5/10
Montreal band Stars are touring in support of their new self-released album The Five Ghosts, which is pretty rock-solid. In brief, it seems that they're now attempting to take over The Cardigans' idea (circa 1998 - Gran Turismo-era) to process their their analog instruments so they sound electronic...and (also just like The Cardigans) I like it. (More...)
The Monday Set: Jonathan Fire*Eater – Cincinnati – 7/24/97
We had a request a couple months back to post this show for someone who had the great fortune of actually being in attendance. I saw them a couple of times on this same tour, once in Seattle at a bizarre club with the widest yet narrowest stage I have ever seen (More...)
The Monday Set: Faith No More – Brooklyn – 7/5/10
Faith No More was a band I was obsessed with for the majority of my formative years, since they released 1992's "Angel Dust" (the greatest hard rock album of all time, at least in this writer's humble opinion). I used to drop copious amounts of money on every import, single, and bootleg that my local CD shop owner could order, amassing quite an impressive collection in the end. (More...)
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