Mid Year Best Live Shows

What's yours?

Mine:

1. Simian Mobile Disco/Cut Copy @ Mezzanine, SF
2. Mission of Burma @ Black Cat
3. The Delta Spirit @ DC9
4. Sharon Jones @ BC
5. The Coup @ Shattuck Down Low, Berkeley

Also loved: Devotchka @930, Nicole Atkins @ RnR, Clinic @BC and Black Mountain @ RnR

1. Bonde Do Role at Sonar
2. Cloud Cult at RNRH
3. My Morning Jacket at Bonnaroo
4. Datarock at RNRH
5. Cut Copy at Sonar

only one, because no other can compare

widespread panic 4/25 - 26 raleigh

front row, night one
best show for the boys, period, night two.

Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
What's yours?

Mine:

1. Simian Mobile Disco/Cut Copy @ Mezzanine, SF
2. Mission of Burma @ Black Cat
3. The Delta Spirit @ DC9
4. Sharon Jones @ BC
5. The Coup @ Shattuck Down Low, Berkeley

Also loved: Devotchka @930, Nicole Atkins @ RnR, Clinic @BC and Black Mountain @ RnR

Surprised Carla and Dirty Projectors weren't anywhere on your list after all the raving you did about them.


Off the top of my head, in no particular order:
Six Organs
Cornelius
Carla
Dirty Projectors
Boris in NYC
Boris last night
Devotchka
Gary Higgins
Allen/Richard Bishop
Jamie Lidell

in no order:

Aphex Twin @ Coachella
Kraftwerk @ Coachella
Portishead @ Coachella
Radiohead @ Bristow
Gogol Bordello @ Richmond

Coldplay @ Today show - best show so far hands down. :D

Orchestra performing Jonny Greenwood's music @ Church of St. Paul the Apostle
Blonde Redhead/The Raveonettes @ Terminal 5
Jose Gonzalez @ Highline Ballroom
Digitalism @ Webster Hall
Holy Fuck @ Music Hall of W'burg
Swell Season @ Radio City
Sondre Lerche @ Joes Pub
Presets/Walter Meego @ Bowery
The Cure @ MSG

carla bozulich and dirty projectors are in my top 10 :)

Been a piss-poor year for me, but it will improve once my domestic situation sorts itself out.

Happily, I've enjoyed two great shows this year. Place to Bury Strangers (as opener for Sons and Daughters) was excellent, as were the Butthole Surfers a couple weeks ago.

Radiohead @ Nissan (obviously)
Bauhaus @ Rams Head Live
Gogol Bordello @ Bonnaroo
MSTRKRFT @ Ottobar
Weakerthans @ Recher

I dont get out much, sorry!

That APTBS set should be somewhere in my top 10 too.


I really wanted to include Jens but last october's show was so much better than april's.

Chicha Libre - Velvet Lounge
X - 930 Club

I haven't really seen much this year at all.

top 3 are easy - in order:

1) radiohead @ superpages center, dallas
2) sigur ros @ grand ballroom, nyc
3) radiohead @ bristow

i'll have to think about the rest of my list. early candidates for inclusion are sonic youth, digitalism, thievery/tvotr/ladytron, tom morello et al., and black angels. not sure these counts as shows, but the Justice and SMD dj sets i caught in chicago were really really great, definite musical highlights for me.

i can guarantee you that marnie stern isn't on my list.

I'm surprised nobody has said the Wilco shows.

I also enjoyed Nada Surf, Drive By Truckers, and Fleet Foxes.

The Cure @ Patriot Center
REM @ Merriweather
MRSKRFT @ 930
Black Mountain @ RnR
Peter Murphy @ Rams head
Digitalism @ DC9
Erykah Badu @ Constitution Hall

good point - i thought wilco were really good, they might take the slot in my top 10. i'm only so-so on wilco, big-time fans probably got more enjoyment out of that show.

I listened to that Wilco set on NPR and was kinda happy I sold my ticket.

The less experimental Wilco is just not for me.

1. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss @ Merriweather
2. Alejandro Escovedo CD release show @ Continental Club
3. Urban Verbs @ 9:30
4. Jon Dee Graham @ O St. Mansion
5. Waco Brothers @ Rock & Roll Hotel

YMCK@kencen

Oh god, so many this year…

1. Radiohead @ Nissan Pavilion
2. Mission of Burma @ Black Cat
3. REM @ Merriweather
4. Flight of the Conchords @ Lisner
5. Wilco @ 9:30
6. The Hives @ 9:30
7. Nada Surf @ 9:30
8. Oxford Collapse @ Black Cat (Backstage)
9. Vampire Weekend @ Rock'n'Roll Hotel
10. Buffalo Tom @ Black Cat

Having gone to only one show this year due to my son's birth.. Firewater kicked all other shows butts.