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Detailed playlist
1. “Exactly Where I’m At” – Ween (from White Pepper)
2. “Gravelly Mountains of the Moon” – Akron/Family (from Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free)
3. “Tomorrow’s Gonna Be Another Day” – The Monkees (from The Monkees)
4. “Rock-n-Roll Victim” – Death (from …For the World to See)
5. “5:30” – DNA (from New York Noise: Dance Music From The New Yorker Underground, 1978-1982 compilation)
6. “Chtonian” – Zu (from Carboniferous)
7. “Maya” – Invisible Circle (from Invisible Circle)
8. “Peace Age” – Dana (from Adult Weekend)
9. “Live From Earthdom” – Astro (from KFJC Presents Live from the Japanese Music Underground compilation)
10. “Malhini Mele” – HAT (from DSP-Holiday)
11. “Anything Could Happen” – The Clean (from I>Boodle Boodle Boodle EP)
12. “Ja Fun Mi (instrumental)” – King Sunny Ade and His African Beats (from Nigeria ’70 compilation)
13. “Blues Mecanique” – Pierre Bastien (from Les Premieres Machines 1968 – 1988 anthology)
14. “City Pulse” – Peter Walker (from Long Lost Tapes 1970)
15. “Paysages D’Ames” – Om (from Om)
16. “Yesterdays” – Sun Ra (from Solo Piano, v. 1)
17. “Cloud Chamber” – Boris with Michio Kurihara (from Cloud Chamber EP)
18. “Side A” – Strategy (from Noise Tape Reggae 7-inch)
19. “Sweet Sunny South” – Jerry Garcia and David Grisman (from Shady Grove)
20. “You’re A Big Girl Now” – Lambchop (22 October 2008 Graz, Austria)
21. “All-Night-Looking Lonesome Blues” – The Underground Failure (from The Underground Failure)
22. “Untitled” – Talibam (from Talibam!)
23. “The Dazzled” – Crystal Stilts (form Alright of Night)
24. “Coyotes/Space” – Sad Horse (from North Portland Music Series, v. 1 7-inch)
25. “Brainstorm” – Acid Mothers Temple & the Cosmic Infermo (from Sonic Attack split 7-inch)
26. “U Nungisa” – Spiritual Singers (from Ntsamina)
27. “Fat Mama Kick” – The Walker Brothers (from Nite Flights)
28. “Welcome To Heartbreak” – Kanye West (from 808s and Heartbreak)
29. “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)” – Willie Nelson (from Rainbow Connection)
30. “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” – Them
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Detailed playlist
1. “Superdeformed” by Matthew Sweet (from No Alternative compilation)
2. “Your Mother Should Know” – The Beat Boys (from The Beat Boys)
3. “Mexican Blues” – Pete Seeger (from Circles and Seasons)
4. “Buckeye Jim” – Judy Henske (from High Flying Bird)
5. “City of New Orleans” – Arlo Guthrie (from Together In Concert)
6. “Invocation” – Marc Ribot (from Spiritual Unity)
7. live set by John Biz
8. “You Broke My Heart”- Lavender Diamond (from You Broke My Heart EP)
9. “Bird Song” – Jerry Garcia (from Garcia)
10. “Shoulder Full of You” – Blitzen Trapper (from EP3 EP)
11. “Woodland Orchestra” – Steffan Basho-Junghans (from Late Summer Morning)
12. “Think Small” – Tall Dwarfs (from Fork Songs)
13. “The Face of Empty Me” – Christian Ward (from File Under: Male Vocal: The Golden Age of the Beat Balladeer compilation)
14. “Here I Set” – The Ronettes (from Georgia’s 2008 Hanukkah mix)
15. “She Shot A Hole In My Soul” – Clifford Curry (from Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm and Blues, 1945-1970 compilation)
16. “Katie’s Been Gone” – The Band (from The Basement Tapes)
17. “What For the Stables” – King Darves (from The Sun Splits For… the Blind Swimmer)
18. “Observations” – Tristan Perich
19. “A Stone For Angus Maclise, no. 1” – Pelt (from A Stone For Angus Maclise)
20. “Mangungu” – Hector Zazou and Bony Bekaye (from Noir Et Blanc)
21. “When Doves Cry” – Prince (from Purple Rain: Live in Syracuse bootleg)
22. “Young Subjects” – Steve Gunn (from Steve Gunn)
23. “Witch’s Will” – Wilburn Burchette (from Guitar Grimoire)
24. “Wood Between Worlds” – Laura Barrett (from Victory Garden)
25. “These Few Presidents” – Why? (from Almost Live From Eli’s Room CD-R)
26. “So Long, Old Bean” – Devendra Banhart (from Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon)
Features:
The Notorious M.O.V.I.E., Jamal Woolard feature (Paste)
Gospel Zone, on Dylan’s gospel period (Boogie Woogie Flu)
2008 faves (WFMU’s Beware of the Blog)
Albums:
Old Money – Omar Rodriguez Lopez (Paste)
At the Cat’s Cradle – Ween (Paste)
The Atavistic Waltz – Ralph White (JamBands.com)
Indie-Weirdo Round-Up, featuring: Bird Show, Stag Hare, DJ Olive, Yeti, v. 6, Chris Watson (JamBands.com)
Pleasant Obsolescence, featuring: Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship, Charles Mingus, Willie Nelson, Lou Reed, Peter Tosh (JamBands.com)
Live:
Julian Koster at Andrew Frisciano’s Apartment, 13 December 2008 (Village Voice blog)
Neil Young at Madison Square Garden, 15 December 2008 (Village Voice blog)
Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s, 21-22 December 2008 (Village Voice blog)
Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s, 21-28 December 2008 (Village Voice blog)
Books:
Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric by Bob Dylan and Barry Feinstein (The Forward)
Don’t Stop Believin’: How Karaoke Changed the World and Saved My Life by Brian Raftery (San Francisco Chronicle)
Movies:
Che (Paste)
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (Village Voice blog)
Gomorrah (Paste)
Columns:
BRAIN TUBA: Song of the Refreköx (JamBands.com)
BRAIN TUBA: Ten Years, part 4 (JamBands.com)
In print:
o Paste #50 (Neko Case cover): feature on Jamal Woolard, album reviews of Ween, movie reviews of Gomorrah, Che
o February/March Relix (The Dead cover): album reviews of Neil Young, Animal Collective, M. Ward, Ernest Stoneman, Frank Zappa; book review of San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde
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Detailed playlist.
1. “I Know There’s An Answer” – Sonic Youth (from Goo deluxe edition)
2. “Frow Show Theme” – MVB
3. “Goodbye” – Justin Heathcliff (from Justin Heathcliff)
4. “No Way Around That” – Yoshimi (from Hark Too! Tribute to the Hark Album by Wim T. Schippers compilation)
5. “Whether U Like It Or Not I Love U” – The Frogs (from The Frogs)
6. “I Don’t Want To Do It” – George Harrison (from Beware of Abkco demos)
7. “Putting Myself Together Again” – Lambert & Nuttycombe (from At Home)
8. “Remember” – Thelonious Monk (from Thelonious Alone in San Francisco)
9. “Shift Register” – Robert Henke (from Atom/Document)
10. “Absence of Redemption” – Chas Smith (from An Hour Out of Desert Center)
11. “Hall of Flowers (part I)” – Philip Perkins (from Hall of Flowers)
12. “Gragnana, Italy” – Steven Feld (from The Time of Bells, v. 1)
13. “Even Wild Horses, Act III, Scene 1” – Harry Partch (from Harry Partch Collection, v. 1I)
14. “Medium III” – Iancu Dumitrescu (from Medium III)
15. “Gomul Visa Um Vori” – Kria Brekkan (from Wildering 7-inch)
16. “Rothko Chapel” – Morton Feldman (from Rothko Chapel/Why Patterns?)
17. “Quiet Morning” – Chihei Hatakeyama (from Dedication)
18. “This Time Tomorrow” – The Kinks (from Lola Vs. the Powerman and the Money-Go-Round, Part One)
19. “It Seems Like Nothing’s Gonna Come My Way Today” – The Outsiders (from CQ)
20. “Seastones (Original February 1975 version)” – Ned Lagin (from Seastones reissue)
21. “Prarie Ghost” – Meredith Monk (from Songs From the Hill/Tablet)
22. “Diane Dean” – Heart (from Best of the Night Air, v. 1)
23. “Upon Composition” – Ron Geesin (from As He Stands)
24. “Gotcha” – Bobby Hutcherson (from Solo/Quartet)
25. “Restin” – Jason Moran (from Same Mother)
26. “Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye” – Leonard Cohen (from Songs of Leonard Cohen)
27. “I’ll Fly Away” – Johnny Cash (from My Mother’s Hymnbook)
28. “Maria Bethania” – Caetano Veloso (from Caetano Veloso (1971))
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Detailed playlist
1. “My World Fell Down” – Saggitarius (from Present Tense)
2. “Frow Show Theme” – MVB
3. “Ted Fucking Williams” – The Baseball Project (from Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails)
4. “Rod Poole’s Gradual Ascent To Heaven” – Nels Cline (from Coward)
5. “I’m A Believer” – Robert Wyatt (from Solar Flares Burn For You anthology)
6. “Lumpy Gravy” (original orchestral edit) – Frank Zappa (from Lumpy Money box set)
7. “Mean Old World” – Sam Cooke
8. “Amime” – Eddie Marcon (from Shining on Graveposts)
9. “Streets of Laredo” – Michael Hurley (from The Ancestral Swamp)
10. “Kalemba (Wegue Wegue)” – Buraka Som Sistema feat. Pongolove (from Black Diamond)
11. “Cheyla ya Haiuune” – Group Doueh (from Guitar Music of the Western Sahara)
12. “Green Vines” – Bird Show (from Bird Show)
13. “Feel the Drip” – Black Moth Super Rainbow (from Don’t You Want To Be In A Cult? 12-inch)
14. “River Mara at Dawn, Massai Mara, Kenya” – Chris Watson (from Stepping Into the Dark)
15. “Cosmogenesis” (excerpt) – Ela Lamblin (from Orbitones, Spoon Harps, and Bellowphones compilation)
16. “Ghost” (Birchville Cat Motel remix) – Pyramids
17. “Do You Like Worms? (Do You Dig Worms?)” – Olivia Tremor Control (from Smiling Pets compilation)
18. “Metastasis” – Iannis Xenakis (from Metastasis Pithoprakta Eonta)
19. “Can I Sleep In Your Arms” – Phospherescent (from To Willie)
20. “Everything’s Big” – Here We Go Magic (from Here We Go Magic)
21. “Hard Times Wondering” – Euros Childs (from The Miracle Inn)
22. “Gentle Hour” – Yo La Tengo (from Dark Was the Night compilation)
23. “Lazybones” – Soul Coughing (from Irresistable Bliss)
24. “Wait For You” – The Mountain Goats (from Babylon Springs EP)
25. “Going, Going, Gone” – Legion of Mary (from Garcia Sings Dylan anthology bonus disc)
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Detailed playlist.
1. “God Only Knows” (instrumental) – The Beach Boys (from The Pet Sounds Sessions box set)
2. “Wish I May” – Os Rocks (from Cazumbi: African Sixties Garage, v. 1 compilation)
3. “Don’t Worry About the Government” – Talking Heads (from ’77)
4. “Her Past Are the Trees” – Panther (from 14ktGod)
5. “Boghassa” – Group Bombino (from Guitars From Agadez, v. 2)
6. “Nenavizhu Zhenshchin (Takih, Kak Ti)” – Grazhdanskaya Oborona (from Poganaya Molodyezh anthology)
7. “I Have Got No Money” – The Peace (from Black Power)
8. “Baby Don’t Go Downtown” – Niela Miller (from Songs of Leaving)
9. Live set from Kittybaby!
10. “George Harrison” – Mugison (from Mugiboogie)
11. “A Happy Sort of Melancholy” – Melodium (from My Mind Is Falling To Pieces)
12. “Red Flowers” – Masato Minami (from The Tropics)
13. “Blown Light” – Festival (from Come, Arrow, Come!)
14. “Grand Marcher” – Ethan Rose (from Oaks)
15. “Steal Dream March” – Stereolab and Nurse With Wound (from Crumb Duck EP)
16. “Study For Player Piano #44” – Conlon Nancarrow (from Studies For Player Piano box set)
17. “Bird Cage, part 6” – John Cage (from Bird Cage)
18. “Queen Among the Heather” – June Tabor (from Airs and Graces)
19. “Blue Sky” – Animal Collective (from 20 January 2009 Grand Ballroom)
20. “Keinsin” – Teeth Mountain (from Tour EP)
21. “In The Aeroplane Over the Sea” – Neutral Milk Hotel (from In The Aeroplane Over the Sea)
22. “Reflects Motion” – Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra (from Secrets of the Sun)
23. “The End of the Tar” – Ralph White (from The Atavistic Waltz)
24. “Ballad of the Hot Ghost Mamas #1 & #2 (from Blood Moon Riders 12-inch)
25. “Stations of the Tide” – Henry Kaiser & Jim O’Rourke (from Tomorrow Knows Where You Live)
26 “Led By Sheep” – Casperelectronics (from Aboard a ship of fingers and nails)
27. “Here Comes Sunshine” – Grateful Dead (from Dick’s Picks, v. 1)
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Detailed playlist.
1. “Kolyada #2” – The Music Tapes (from Music Tapes For Clouds and Tornadoes)
2. “Behind That Locked Door” – George Harrison (from All Things Must Pass)
3. “Round-Up Time In Texas” – Girls of the Golden West (from Flowers in the Wildwood: Women In Early Country Music, 1923-1939 compilation)
4. “Long Walk To D.C. ” – Staple Singers (from Soul-Folk In Action)
5. “Void” – Julius Hemphill Sextet (from At Dr. King’s Table)
6. “Power Source MQ LP39” – John Baker (from The John Baker Tapes, v. 2: Soundtracks, Library, Home Recordings, Electro Ads, Rare and Unreleased, 1954-1985 anthology)
7. “Rain of Earth” – Bruce Haack (from Together)
8. “D.E.S.” – Gilius van Bergeijk (from Anthology of Dutch Electronic Tape Music, v. 2: 1966-1967 anthology)
9. excerpts from The Lonesome Executive’s Fantastic Tape Recorder)
10. “Timesteps” – Walter Carlos (from Clockwork Orange OST)
11. “Dream” – Dom (from Edge of Time)
12. “Church of Anthrax” – Church of Anthrax (from Church of Anthrax)
13. “Ride into the Sun” – Velvet Underground (from Fully Loaded)
14. “Shoo Be Doo Be” – The Clarendonians (from Shoo Be Doo Be)
15. “Knotty Pine” – Dirty Projectors feat. David Byrne (from Dark Was the Night compilation)
16. “South Indian Line” – Jan Jankeje (from B-Music: Drive In, Turn On, Freak Out compilation)
17. “Empire of Light” – Friendsound (from Joyride)
18. “O Amor e Feio” – Tribalistas (from Tribalistas)
19. “The Starry Wisdom” – Telecult Powers (from The Amazing Laws of…)
20. “Gyorgy Ligeti: Cordes a vide” – Pierre-Laurent Aimard (from At Carnegie Hall)
21. “Periwinkle” – Big City Orchestra (from Reach For The Moon)
22. “Rap” – Grateful Dead feat. Neal Cassady (from The Social History of the Grateful Dead flexidisc)
23. “Listen, the Snow Is Falling” – Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet (from The Breadwinner)
24. “At the Foot of Nameless Roads” – Enemble Economique (from At the Foot of Nameless Roads)
25. “Angels and Insects” – David Newlyn (from A Nervous State of Mind cassette)
26. “Seemingly Stranded” – Lambchop (from Rainer On My Parade CD-R)
27. “Mom” – Brian Woodbury (from Variety Orchestra)
28. “Conference of the Birds” – Dave Holland Quartet (from Conference of the Birds)
29. “The River of 3 Crossings” – Miho Hatori (from Ecdysis)
30. “Father Winter” – Antique Brothers (from Sons of Music)
31. “Witchi Tai To” – Harper’s Bizarre (from 4)
32. “Winterlude” – Bob Dylan (from New Morning)
33. “Obama Is Beautiful World” – Everyone Brothers Band
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Detailed playlist.
1. “Andalucia” – John Cale (from Paris 1919)
2. “Frow Show Theme” – MVB
3. “It Sucks To Lose” – GreenSleep (from Half and Half 7-inch)
4. “Butterfly” – Screaming Trees (from Sweet Oblivion)
5. “The Valley” – Young People (from War Prayers)
6. “My Girls” – Animal Collective (from Merriweather Post Pavilion)
7. “A Final Paddle” – Lextrical (from Lextrical)
8. “Slow Breath, Silent Mind” – Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey (from Slow Breath, Silent Mind)
9. “Don’t” – Seu Jorge (from Cru)
10. “Here Comes The Sun” – Eric Idle (from Saturday Night Live, 10/2/76)
11. “Little Honda” – Yo La Tengo feat. Janet Weiss (from 21 December 2008 Maxwell’s)
12. “Termite Prayer” – Wasteland Jazz Unit (from Ecstatic Jazz Duos 12-inch)
13. “The Wild Bull (Part B)” – Morton Subotnick (from Silver Apples of the Moon/The Wild Bull)
14. “Background Story” – Tetsu Inoue (from World Receiver)
15. “Then The Letting Go” – Bonnie Prince Billy (from The Letting Go)
16. “Stradbroke Verse” – Joel Stern (from Objects. Masks. Props.)
17. “Second Movement” – Glenn Branca (from Symphony No. 6: Devil Choirs at the Gates of Heaven)
18. “Little Honda” (reprise) – Yo La Tengo feat. Janet Weiss (from 21 December 2008 Maxwell’s)
19. “Sag Harbor Bridge” – Women (from Women)
20. “Private Idaho” – The B-52s (from Wild Planet)
21. “Black River Song” – Angels of Light (from We Are Him)
22. split LP with the Jealous Party – Talibam!
23. “From the Moon” – The News (from Waking Up Scheherazade: Arabian Pysch Nuggets compilaton)
24. “Skylight” – Jackie O Motherfucker (form The Cryin’ Sea 12-inch)
25. “Basically Frightened” – Col. Bruce Hampton (from Arkansas)
26. “As Tears Roll By” – Daniel Lanois (from Shine)
27. “Our Changing Skins” – Musee Mechanique (from Hold This Ghost)
28. “One Way Swimming” – Doug Randle (from Songs for the New Industrial State)
29. “Swim” – The Glands (from The Glands)
30. “Sonhando (Dream)” – Elis Regina (from Viva A Brotlandia)
31. “Lonesome Town” (78 acetate demo take 1A) – Ricky Nelson
32. “Georgia On My Mind” – Richard Manuel (from Whispering Pines: Live at the Getaway)
33. “Sing It Again” – Beck (from Mutations)
34. “Suzanne” – Pearls Before Swine (from Balaklava)
35. “Twilight Time” – John Fahey (from Return of the Repressed anthology)
36. “Box of Rain” – Robert Hunter (from Jack O Roses)
The hippie punx continue to roam Bourgwick. Maybe more MC5/fucking-in-the-streets style than (re)united Dead Freaks, they’ve nonetheless colonized a shredded subway ad at my stop with their manifesto-like graffiti.
(I wasn’t at this show, but I’ve gotten a few requests to post the setlist. Here ’tis, via Choccosalo/Boomy. Feel free to comment with corrections, if you’ve got any.)
Yo La Tengo at Wellmont Theater
Montclair, NJ
31 December 2008
The Vivian Girls and the Feelies opened.
It’s Almost Like Being In Love (Frederick Loewe/Alan Jay Lerner) (karaoke version)
Emulsified (Rex Garvin & the Mighty Cravers)
Pass the Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind
Madeleine
Stockholm Syndrome
Beanbag Chair
The Weakest Part
Mr. Tough
Our Way to Fall
Nowhere Near
Cast A Shadow (Beat Happening)
From A Motel 6
(midnight)
Big Day Coming (fast)
Tom Courtenay
Watch Out For Me, Ronnie
The Story of Yo La Tango
*(encore)*
Autumn Sweater
Red, Red Rose (David Mallett)
What Goes On (Velvet Underground) (with Glenn Mercer and Bill Million of the Feelies)
Roadrunner (Modern Lovers) (with Glenn Mercer and Bill Million of the Feelies)
