What the hey? I thought I was on time to catch the live stream of Retribution Gospel Choir at The Current, but it turns out it is already archived. They performed "Feel It, Superior", "Maharisha", "The Stone/Revolution", and "Take Your Time". You can listen to the .mp3 here:

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/dis...pelchoir-live/

Anyone has any idea how to rip that .mp3? I can see it's a rtmpe link, but my StreamTransport crashes when trying to grab it. Can't remember how I snagged the other Low/Retribution Gospel Choir stuff The Current have other there.

Anyway, this is the most recent Sub Pop e-mail:

Low - 2012-03-24 Cine-Teatro António Lamoso, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal
Uploaded by Stutter

Including a performance of "From Your Place On Sunset" and maybe a new song, too. :)


Unrelated but good news: Charlie Parr will perform a live in-studio session for KEXP tomorrow at 7:30 PM Pacific Time.

Should be on LMA in 15 minutes, uploading the last few tracks right now

sorry for being late :)
LMA link: http://archive.org/details/low2012-03-24

Thanks. Some torrent-impaired people I know will certainly appreciate this.

Did anyone else listened to Charlie Parr's session for KEXP? There were good news for Alan Sparhawk fanboys in the interview: They might have a collaborative album coming out later this year!

no and wow :cool:
I don't know him so well, but hopefully someone recorded it

obh2o did record it, he now has a torrent up and running at dimeadozen:
Charlie Parr - Live In-Studio On KEXP - 2012-03-26 - Seattle, WA - with samples

KEXP? Where you from, man?

Querétaro, Mexico. But I know how to listen to streaming shit on the internerdz. :)

Alan Sparhawk got candid with The Quietus in regards to his thirteen favorite albums. Great read:
http://thequietus.com/articles/08391...vourite-albums


Half an hour of Low awesomeness on this downloadable podcast from RTVE. The questions are in Spanish, though (not that I'm complaining):
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/h...03-12/1361567/



Retribution Gospel Choir's latest newsletter:

Hi Folks,

Lots of RGC news. The 'revolution ep' came out on Tuesday on 7 inch at Sub Pop, vinyl collectors can grab it here.

Our friends at A.V. Club launched the new RGC video for "The Stone (Revolution)". Watch it here
Also, if you missed RGC playing at The Current, you can stream the interview and session here.

Tour Dates

April 4 – The Harley – Sheffield, UK
April 5 – Old Blue Last – London, UK (SOLD OUT)
April 7 – First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN (with Caroline Smith and the Goodnight Sleeps)
April 27 – Union Pool – Brooklyn, NY
April 28 – Red Palace – Washington, DC
April 30 – The Basement – Nashville, TN
May 1 – Hi-Tone Cafe – Memphis, TN
May 2 – The Bishop – Bloomington, IN
May 3 – Schuba's – Chicago, IL

Full details and ticket info available at www.retributiongospelchoir. com. And don't forget to follow RGC on Twitter or [Facebook.

-RGC HQ

Will anyone attend Low's performance in London tomorrow? Seems like it's going to be kind of a different show to what they've been doing recently. I hope it will be filmed for a future official release.






Mimi & Alan interviewed by The Quietus:
http://thequietus.com/articles/08409...wk-mimi-parker

A mixtape by Alan Sparhawk to get you in the mood for the upcoming Duluth Homegrown Music Festival:
http://duluthhomegrown.bandcamp.com/

Here's a recording of Low's set in Birmingham UK of a couple days ago.
Dime: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-d....php?id=400072
LMA: http://archive.org/details/low2012-0...mingham.flac16

The set-lists for their recent tour of Spain and Portugal, and those dates in the UK have all been really great. They've brought back some really nice oldies or otherwise rare treats like "Words", "Shame", and "From Your Place On Sunset", and I like the new song, "Waiting", a whole lot. This is a great recording by auto_pilot; emmanuel mentioned that he'd be in attendance to the show in Barcelona so I suppose it's highly possible that he taped and will share his recording at some point. Hopefully some others will surface too.

Alan mentioned last year that they had plans to put out an EP, but judging by a recent interview, that might have evolved into a possible release of an actual new LP at the end of the year. :)

Low + Lanterns On The Lake, Glee Club, Birmingham, UK 2012-04-02 (24 bit alternative recording) [lowtorrent]
Uploaded by dnarg1

LMA links for dnarg1's source:
16/44.1: http://archive.org/details/low2012-0...-bmc-12.flac16
24/96: http://archive.org/details/low2012-0...-bmc-12.flac24

(the support act is not included of course in the LMA filesets, if anyone does still want them, let me know)

the latest Newsletter:


I might have gone to see them on 7/7, but already going to :D Disappears :D that day

Low - 2012-03-27 - Sala Apolo, Barcelona, SP

Low - 2012-03-31 - Círculo de Arte, Toledo, SP

Both uploaded by emmanuel

From facebook:

Low will be playing Latitude Festival on July 14th in Southwold, Suffolk, UK - http://www.latitudefestival.co.uk/

I wouldn't mind going to this as it's not far from me but it's £75 for a day ticket :eek:

Holy shit, that is indeed pretty expensive. It's almost the exact equivalent of what is charged for some lame festivals with only a decent name on the line-up around here, though. In case you catch them (although it will be reasonable if you wouldn't), please do not forget to tape. I found it too disappointing that none of their short sets opening for Death Cab For Cutie were recorded apparently. They brought back "Shots And Ladders" and who knows what else, and played "Words" with Ben Gibbard on guitar and vocals at one show, which I'd be curious to hear (hopefully he didn't actually butchered it). Seems like Low will be taking a rest for a while, and Alan and Steve will focus on touring briefly with Retribution Gospel Choir. Last I heard, Eric Pollard was looking for a label to release his solo record as Actual Wolf. There are also a few performances already booked by The Murder Of Crows (one of which will include visual accompaniment by the work of silk painting artist, Lee Zimmerman), and according to Gaelynn Lea there is a possibility that they might record an album sometime in the summer, or even sooner.

Poster for The Murder Of Crows' upcoming performance at Homegrown Festival in Duluth, MN, on May 5th; by Shawn Stigsell:








Details about "A Murder In Silk", a collaborative performance between The Murder Of Crows and Lee Zimmerman on June 1st and 2nd, 2012:
http://www.duluthplayhouse.org/index...emid=68#Murder

Big fat bump.

BYUtv's AUDIO-FILES will be broadcasting a special program focused on Low, today, Tuesday, May 15, at 6 PM (MT Time); which will include interviews with the band as well as some of the most stunningly filmed live versions of "Point Of Disgust" and "Hand So Small" currently in circulation, and hopefully some other treats as well. Not to be missed. Please, tune in and record and share it if you can. I know BYUTV has an archive of their three previous AUDIO-FILES programs on their site, and might offer this one too, but such an awesome content deserves to be around in better quality than compressed HD files.

Info stolen from AUDIO-FILES' official website:






Audio-Files


Low


The indie rock band discusses their 20-year musical career and performs at the Sacred Heart Music Center in Duluth, Minnesota.



May 15 at 6:30PM (MT)
May 15 at 9:30PM (MT)
May 16 at 12:30AM (MT)






"Point Of Disgust" performed by Mimi on piano and vocals, and Alan on guitar and vocals, for AUDIO-FILES, at Sacred Heart Music Studios in Duluth, Minnesota:
http://youtu.be/LvaqUYqrghk

"Hand So Small", performed by Low, at Velour Live Music Gallery, in Provo, Utah, on September 23, 2011, for AUDIO-FILES:
http://youtu.be/IGslY2va5mI


Unrelated with AUDIO-FILES, but here's some great photos of that show in Utah, by Ashley Thalman:
http://ashleythalmanphoto.blogspot.m...rovo-utah.html

Low performing "Nightingale" at Velour Live Music Gallery, in Provo, Utah, on September 23, 2011, filmed by Ashley Thalman:
https://vimeo.com/29590382

This was posted by Gaelynn Lea at a Low group I frequent on facemuff:

Alan & I, as The Murder of Crows, are releasing an EP on June 1st! We're planning to set up a way to order it online/mail it out to folks... we shall keep you posted here:

www.facebook.com/lea.sparhawk.crows

Have a beautiful Wednesday! :)



So excited about this, and there's more joyful news: BYUtv's AUDIO-FILES Low special is now available to watch online at their website:
http://byutv.org/watch/8c03736a-f6a3...udio-files-low



ヽ(^o^)丿

UK/Ireland friends – Low returns in July for a few shows. Dates include July 9 Lancaster, Jul 10 Dublin with Explosions in the Sky , Jul 11 Cork, July 13 Halifax and July 14th Latitude Festival….

And heads up Lancaster friends – only a handful of tix remain , purchase now before they are gone. See you soon…

-Low.

And all I wanted was a Pepsi ....

http://www.avclub.com/articles/portl...-low-co,70709/



Portland Cello Project and Alan Sparhawk of Low cover Suicidal Tendencies

- Portland Cello Project made its name mostly by covering reimagining hip-hop tracks for strings; the group even caught Jay-Z's attention with its cover of "H.A.M." (They're interviewed on Jigga's blog about it, even!) We thought it would be cheating for an instrumental group to participate in Undercover, though, so we helped PCP connect with Alan Sparhawk of Low, who's visited the round room twice before. The song they chose, "Institutionalized" by Suicidal Tendencies, is the song I was most excited about at the beginning of this year's Undercover. It's such a strange beast: a hardcore/thrash track whose verses are mostly spoken-word, and a painful personal story that's simultaneously pretty hilarious. It sounds incredibly dated, but in 1983, it sparked a lot of other bands (and got an incredible amount of MTV airplay, believe it or not). Sparhawk took the challenge seriously, donning a blue bandana and grabbing himself a Pepsi (all he wanted--and she just wouldn't give it to him!) for the performance. For those unfamiliar with the original, the video is embedded below. Watch 'em both! And then go see Portland Cello Project on tour, dates below, in support of its new album Homage.

"Imperfecta", debut EP by The Murder Of Crows (Gaelynn Lea & Alan Sparhawk) has been released today, it can be ordered from here:
http://duluthartists.org/Crows.html

It will also be on iTunes soon (probably in a week or two) and, according to Gaelynn Lea, it might be posted to Soundcloud for streaming at some point, too.

bought it and very much looking forward to hearing it :-) Looks like Mimi is singing on one track too (according to the back art posted on Facebook)

Bought it as well. Also expecting great things from it. Yes, Mimi contributes vocals to one track ("When We Were Young"). By the way, thanks for spreading the word to the Chairkickers Google Group, _tunic_.

"Let It Go", from The Murder Of Crows' "Imperfecta" EP can be streamed here:
http://blog.thecurrent.org/post/2012...-and-minnesota

Bump.

"Imperfecta", by The Murder Of Crows, is now available for streaming on SoundCloud:
http://soundcloud.com/themurderofcrows/sets/imperfecta

A new batch of CDs will be pressed and distributed by Noiseland Industries.

Low - 2012-07-07 - Cactus Festival, Brugge, Belgium
Uploaded by emmanuel

here's the LMA link: http://archive.org/details/low2012-07-07.brugge.flac16

That new Low record will be produced by Jeff Tweedy, according to AV Club:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/lows-...eedy-al,85219/

KUMD FM will be broadcasting/streaming a live session by The Murder Of Crows tomorrow. Info at the link below:
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kumd/arts.artsmain?action=viewArticle&sid=14&id=1946848 &pid=392

_tunic_, can you please capture it? Or do you know someone at the Chairkickers List who could? I'm afraid my work is currently keeping me away from the Interneck a little bit too much lately, and I've been missing the good shit. Thanks for any and all efforts in regards to this matter. :)

I completely forgotten about watching the stream yesterday. I was too occupied with listening to my Wedding Present capture of the night before ;-)
I've asked the list whether someone taped it, hopefully someone did

i thought this thread was about cam'ron and now i'm disappointed

Sometimes it seems either you document Low or no one does (kudos and respect to emmanuel, stu666, obh2o, Nibbler, and many others, though). Really hoping this show was indeed captured (they covered Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" apparently; I wonder if there were new tunes as well)... They'll be performing at some other venues which aren't exactly part of the Duluth scene. Hoping some of those gigs will be taped by someone.

Wanted to catch the KUMD session, but alas, it was a shitty day at work and so I ended up missing this as well. Maybe they'll have it up for lossy streaming at some point over at KUMD's website.

The Murder Of Crows KUMD session is now archived here for lossy streaming:
http://www.prx.org/pieces/85241-murder-of-crows

The Murder Of Crows will be on WDSE's The Playlist on November 15th:
http://www.wdse.org/shows/playlist/whats-coming

Bumpity, bump.

KAXE Northern Community Radio, from Minnesota, did broadcast an interview and segments of a live show by The Murder Of Crows (Alan Sparhawk & Gaelynn Lea); which passed unnoticed to us, but I now just crossed paths with it on Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/amy-lynn-6/mur...ows-kaxe-radio

Snöbarn (Gaelynn Lea on violin, vocals and bells & Ariane Norrgard on guitar and vocals) are planning on recording and subsequently releasing their debut album, which is likely to have some kind of participation by Alan Sparhawk. Quoted below what it was posted at their official facebook:

"Snöbarn is looking forward to an exciting winter! In December we are planning to launch a Kickstarter project that would fund our very first full-length album. We hope to start recording at Sacred Heart in February; the talented Eric Swanson and Alan Sparhawk have already agreed to take the lead on recording/mixing/mastering. With any luck we'd have a soft release of the album in early May... just in time for Homegrown 2013! Stay tuned, folks!"