Live Recording Goodness

My new favorite thing is KEXP’s (Seattle public radio) *free* podcast of live indie band performances. I wish more awesome radio stations like this existed, especially near me. I downloaded something like 18 of their in-studio/live performance recordings and have been listening to them all of today. Highlights include the We Are Scientists set, a surprisingly high-energy (for a purely audio recording) Ratatat set, a really nice, if short, Cold War Kids set (providing more satisfaction overall than their strange, quasi-drugged performance at Sasquatch), and my favorite rendition yet of Beirut’s “A Sunday Smile” on one of their (many) live recordings, which I like so much that I’m posting here: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?i=19627226&id=76030848

Vive la musique gratuite. Nothing better than free live music.

~ by mlygng on July 5, 2008.