Podcasts: We Still Love You, New York – “Yeah Yeah Yeahs Live in Mexico City” and “The Velvet Underground Live at Hilltop”

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Though Web in Front is slanted towards the enchanted sounds of L.A.-based music, we do listen to songs other than the smog-soaked tunes we hear nightly at Spaceland or the Echo, and strive to maintain a balance between our coverage of La La Land and the outside music world. As such, we’ve decided to make our debut podcast a double-feature of New York noise: concerts from both the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Velvet Underground.

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The first show, by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, was recorded on September 21, 2004, on the last leg of their tour for Fever to Tell (2003). It’s a violent, sweaty performance, and (to paraphrase lead singer Karen O.) listening to it makes you want to chew through raw hamburger. Though the ethereal single “Maps” and the Velvets drone of “Modern Romance” offer brief respites from the noise, this is a molten, throat-bled and speaker-cracking performance of NYC rock.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Live in Mexico City

1. Rich (4:51)

2. Pin (2:38)

3. Cold Light (2:36)

4. Honey Bear (2:49)

5. Black Tongue (3:40)

6. Maps (6:32)

7. Date with the Night (2:49)

8. Modern Romance (6:06)

9. Y Control (5:20)

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The second show, recorded at the Hilltop Rock Festival in 1969, features the unfathomably excellent Velvet Underground while touring for their self-titled third album. The Velvets turn in a gritty, raucously loud set of long, squalling sheets of melodic chaos, capped off by a version of “Sister Ray” recorded six months earlier, the lone recorded survivor of their monstrously loud January 28 performance at La Cave in Cleveland, Ohio.

The Velvet Underground- Live at Hilltop

1. I’m Waiting for the Man (7:20)

2. Run, Run, Run (10:36)

3. Pale Blue Eyes (6:05)

4. What Goes On (11:40)

5. Heroin (6:55)

6. Sister Ray (31:18)

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April 25, 2008 | Filed Under Podcasts 

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