Band In Boston

Ok, so we finally took a break yesterday. To make up for it, here are two today. Starting off with Detroit’s Child Bite, AKA Sean from Rescue. Woooo!

Song List:

* Banana Gorgin

* Jules Rules

* Muscle Chalet

* Do the Physical

It’s hard to pin down exactly where these guys are from. As best we can figure, it went like this: Boston, New York, Australia, back to Boston, and finally back to New York again. In their travels, they’ve worked out quite a few damn catchy glam-pop numbers.

Song List:

* City Boy

* Hit & Miss

* The Bomb

* Get it Right

* Washboard

* Dig

* Come On

Merry Christmas everyone. Our gift to you: Elizabeth and the Catapult. A little bit of Aimee Mann, a bit of Eleni Mandell, and a funky backing band all come together in a very festive manner.

Song List:

* Taller Children

* Race You Back Home

* Waiting for the Kill

* So Serious

* Apathy

* Just In Time

* The Wishing Well

Another one from the vault for you kids. St. Helena’s new album comes out mighty soon. Here they are just around when their first album came out!

Song list:

* Peppered Asaulted and Blue

* Lucy’s Hands

* Happy

* Oh Jane

* Number 13 and Counting

* Here

* Lay Me Down

* Henderson the Rain King

When you think of a power trio, the first thing that comes to mind usually isn’t saxophone. Bottle Up and Go are ready to change that. Guitar, drums, and sax come together to lay down some kickass rock and roll. They stopped by the same day as Abigail Warchild, and our advice remains the same for this session. Except, if it’s your car, feel free to do step #4 as well.

Song List:

* All My Trials

* Deep in the Woods (by Nick Cave)

* Train

* Low

* (No Known Title)

* Have You Seen My Baby

This is just some full-on, high energy rock and roll as god intended. Our recommendation: steal a car, turn on this session at full volume, drive as fast as possible until you run out of gas, set the car on fire, then ride a lion/dragon hybrid into the land of Hades.* I think you get the idea.

Song List:

* Being Soothed

* Dogs of War

* Brittle Life

* The Dive

* Get On Board

* Trash Can Fire

Abigail Warchild on the Myspace

(*Disclaimer: Don’t do that. Except steps 2, 3, and 5.)

Here’s another one in the “how did it take us so damn long to get this out?” category. And, like most of them, the answer is “I sucked too much at mixing to do it justice.” Hopefully that is no longer the case.

Song List:

* Manhattan

* Nectar

* Day 7 (by Notwist)

* The Innovator

* Into the Bright Light

* Apollo

* Set the World Alight

* I Am an Invention

I have no idea how to describe Paper Thin Stages. Let’s try… Improvised, experimental, atmospheric, and trippy as hell. I totally found myself drifting off into lala land a few times as they played. Not recommended while driving or operating heavy equipment. Perfect for a snowed-in weekend.

Song List:

* Love Barge

* The Reverend Blues Band

* Caruto’s Last Stand

* Computer Era

Paper Thin Stages on the infratubes

Here’s a great band from San Francisco. They will normally implode your eardrums in a flurry of volume and musical talent. In our living room, they showed just how big of a soul lies at the root of their songs.

Song List:

* Run Everywhere

* The Shores are Hardly Safe

* Mexican Disco

* Fun Crusher

* Shoot the Pass

* Mussels & Clams

Sky Pilots on the web

Hands down the largest band we’ve had in the living room, Earth People Orchestra consists of approximately 12 people (exactly 12 on this particular day), playing drums, buckets, slide guitar, glockenspiel, mandolin, digiridoo… well, just about anything they can find. I wasn’t entirely sure how to mic this one, but we lucked out and caught almost everything.

We don’t have any photos because we streamed video of this one live, and then the recording crashed. Argh.

EPO on the web