owl and bear - live audio and dvd downloads for people who don’t like mp3s
How Can You Mend A Broken Heart - Al Green
Highway Knees - T. Rex
Treefingers - Radiohead
Oh Well, Okay - Elliott Smith
Fruits Of My Labor - Lucinda Williams
Long Day Short Night - Dawn Penn
Timorous Me (Live) - Ted Leo
C + F - Sam Prekop
Mine’s Not A High Horse - The Shins
I Can Help - Billy Swan
Glory - The Acorn
Love Vigilantes - Laura Cantrell
The Lonesome Wind that Blows (Live) - Jeff Tweedy
Outlaw - Cast King
Huck’s Theme - Bob Dylan
There are a ton of free live shows available through the iTunes store.
Check out these links:
KEXP: Includes shows from Thurston Moore, Twilight Sad, Battles, Beirut, Watson Twins, Stars, Grizzly Bear, Wrens, Magic Numbers, Okkervil River, etc.
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We’ll be updating the site again soon–things have been busy around here.
Lord only knows how much Owl&Bear loves Harpers Online’s Scott Horton:
With two extraordinary infomercials, MTV asks its viewers to think seriously about what happens in a police state. Is the prospect so unthinkable? Watch these scenes and reflect on it a bit.
2007, Sony Picture Classics
Written/Directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
Starring: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Danielle Darrieux, Simon Abkarian
I have a bit of a thing for French/Iranian far-left cartoon women, so this movie was kind of my territory. If you don’t know, Persepolis is a beautifully hand-drawn film based on an autobiographic graphic novel of the same name by Marjane Satrapi. It has a few flaws, but it’s very entertaining–assuming you can get past its blatant socialist message.
Tom Waits
KPFK Sessions
1973-1975
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Annie Clark, also known as St. Vincent, is another female virtuoso that you really should hear. Her decidedly unique 2007 release “Marry Me” made our top 20 and won the hearts of the esteemed AV Club and Pitchfork, and for a hair model-turned musician who has worked with goody two shoes groups like Sufjan Stevens and The Polyphonic Spree, the tone of her music is surprisingly devious.St. Vincent
December 12, 2007
Soundboard (FM)
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Kaki King is hands-down an amazing guitarist. Pick up …Until We Felt Red (her 2006 album produced by Tortoise’s John McEntire). I haven’t yet heard her new one, Dreaming of Revenge, but it’s supposed to be excellent as well. Rolling Stone has called her a “guitar god”(dess), and I heartily agree.
Kaki King
September 4, 2006
Soundboard/audience mic matrix
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Nirvana
February 1, 1992
Soundboard
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Henry & The H-Bombs (Live) - Golden Smog
Josephine - Brandi Carlile
Side of the Road (Live) - Lucinda Williams
When You Love Somebody - Fruit Bats
The Limit To Your Love - Feist
Deportees - Billy Bragg
Guess I’m Doing Fine - Beck
Marry Me - St. Vincent
Dirty Old Town - Ted Leo
Back Burner - Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
Quarter Horses (Live) - Califone
The Black Angel’s Death Song - The Velvet Underground
Anyone Can Have a Good Time - Owls
Just You - Angelo Badalamenti
Theme From Retro - Blur
Grizzly Bear and the LA Philharmonic split a bill at the impressively designed Walt Disney Concert Hall. You must see this monstrosity designed by Frank Gehry. I swear there is not a single right angle inside or outside, and I’m willing to wager that it was constructed with stealth technology.The LA Philharmonic played the first set, and the clarity delivered by the venue is phenomenal. It’s easy to realize that no medium (be it vinyl, CD, or reel-to-reel) really does a symphony justice. Selections of their performance were pieces chosen as influences by Grizzly Bear.
To celebrate our newly-launched live Wilco Archive, here are a variety of recordings from the band’s 2008 five night residency in Chicago:
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This is fucking amazing:
