Mother of Fire and More Tonight at Palmer's!

Mother of Fire
Food Pyramid
Leisure Birds
Anthony Janas (Chicago)

Palmer's Bar
Friday  May 4th 2012
$5 | 9pm?

(Be kind to Big John)

Crimes LP Release Show Tonight.

The 7th St Entry
Saturday October 22nd
8pm | 18+ | $5

Crimes
Leisure Birds
Teenage Moods

Yeti Records Benefit Show Tonight!

5 dollars | 10 p.m.

Leisure Birds
The Liz
Velvet Davenport
Visitor
Fortified Five

Yeti Records
Address: 3506 Nicollet Av. S., Minneapolis, MN 55408
Phone: 6128220490
Website: http://yetirecordsmixtapeexchange
Hours:
Tues - Sat: 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Sun: 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Thursdays Are Always Stacked Around Here.

The Triple Rock Social Club
8pm | $5 | 18+

Dragons Power Up!
Puppies & Trains
IS/IS

Dragons Power Up! / Puppies & Trains split 7" Release available on Guilt Ridden Pop.

The Kitty Cat Klub
10pm | No Cover | 21+

Perish11 w/
Transitional Species
Dustbuns

Perish is an "evening of dark music" presented every 3rd Thursday of the month at The Kitty Cat Klub. Highly recommended.

The Turf Club
9pm | $6 | 21+

Skoal Kodiak
Stacian (Milwaukee)
Leisure Birds
Fortified Five (ex-Knife World)

A pretty amazing bill going down on the other side of the river.

The Nomad
9pm | No Cover | 21+

With a Gun for a Face (last)
Dart Mouth
Hyperslob
Falcon Arrow (first)

The With a Gun for a Face miniseries continues.

HouseofLard
8pm | $6 | All Ages

Wiccans (Denton, TX)
Much Worse (TC Punk)
Getting Even (TC Punk
Brain Tumors (TC Punk)

Punk Rock. Brain Tumors and Much Worse are Empty's Tapes endorsed. Directions or more info? RockBottomWrex@hotmail.com

Strong Bones @ The Hexagon (First Show)

Strong Bones
The Hexagon Bar
Minneapolis, MN
Wednesday June 23rd 2010

(Select tracks from a 40 minute set. Right Click & Save Link As or the Mac equivalent)

01. "Untitled 01"
02. "Untitled 02"
03. "Untitled 03"

Ben Polk (NYC native)
Adam Harness (ex-Hockey Night)
Zach Rose (ex-Hockey Night)
Ben Hecker (ex-Malachi Constant)

"Strong Bones started jamming over two years ago and have finally decided to go public with their new project." This was their first public performance. Their next official show is August 25th at The Entry. Congratulations to the Hecker family and their brand new baby boy!

This recording was made with the Sony PCM-D50's internal mics on a tripod/table dead center. It was recorded at 24 Bits 48 Kilohertz. All dithering was done in Sound Forge 10 and an encoding to 320kbps mp3 was done using Razorlame. Thanks also to The Hexagon, Burnt Ones, Leisure Birds and American Cream.

Vampire Hands & The Songs of Television

320kbps mp3s. To download the files Right Click and Save Link As on a PC or Control-Click on a Mac.

Vampire Hands & The Songs of Television
The Turf Club
St. Paul, MN
Thursday December 31st 2009

Taper: empty (emptystapes AT gmail DOT com)
Location: AB, 5' LOC, 6' back, ~8' ^
Source: Studio Project C4s > Silver Quad customs > UA-5 (BM2p+) > iRiver h120 (Optical @ 16bit 44.1kHz WAV)
Transfer: h120 > USB 2.0 > PC [WAV > RazorLame > 320kbps]
Edit: CD Wave (tracking) Sound Forge 10 (fades)
TRT: 41:00

This Recording is for Promotional & Archival Purposes Only.

01. Guiding List
02. Prove It
03. See No Evil
04. Venus
05. Friction
06. Elevation
07. Marquee Moon

This was the Third Annual New Year's Eve Cover Night with Marijuana Deathsquads (Brian Eno), Vampire Hands (Television), Leisure Birds (Monks), Daughters of the Sun (Jesus and Mary Chain) and Secret Language (Fleetwood Mac). This set featured Nate Nelson (STNNNG, Private Dancer) on guitar with Vampire Hands, I mean Widescreen TV. If anyone else was in the line up I apologize, it was a long night! This rendition of "Elevation" is sure to make you flip your lid. Thanks to The Turf Club for hosting and to the bands for being cool with me sharing all of these sets.

Leisure Birds & The Songs of The Monks

Get your 320kbps mp3s here.

Leisure Birds & The Songs of The Monks
The Turf Club
St. Paul, MN
Thursday December 31st 2009

Taper: empty (emptystapes AT gmail DOT com)
Location: AB, 5' LOC, 6' back, ~8' ^
Source: Studio Project C4s > Silver Quad customs > UA-5 (BM2p+) > iRiver h120 (Optical @ 16bit 44.1kHz WAV)
Transfer: h120 > USB 2.0 > PC [WAV > TLH lvl 6 + Tested > FLAC]
Edit: CD Wave (tracking) Sound Forge 10 (fades)
TRT: 31:52

This Recording is for Promotional & Archival Purposes Only.

01. Monk Time
02. Shut Up
03. Boys Are Boys and Girls Are Choice
04. Higgle-Dy Piggle-Dy
05. I Hate You
06. Complication
07. Oh, How to Do Now
08. Monk Chant

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Another great set from the Third Annual New Year's Eve Cover Night with Leisure Birds (Monks), Marijuana Deathsquads (Brian Eno), Vampire Hands (Television), Daughters of the Sun (Jesus and Mary Chain) and Secret Language (Fleetwood Mac). The hits just keep comin'. Check back later for the Television set.

Marijuana Deathsquads & The Songs of Brian Eno

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Marijuana Deathsquads & The Songs of Brian Eno
The Turf Club
St. Paul, MN
Thursday December 31st 2009

Taper: empty (emptystapes AT gmail DOT com)
Location: AB, 5' LOC, 6' back, ~8' ^
Source: Studio Project C4s > Silver Quad customs > UA-5 (BM2p+) > iRiver h120 (Optical @ 16bit 44.1kHz WAV)
Transfer: h120 > USB 2.0 > PC [WAV > TLH lvl 6 + Tested > FLAC]
Edit: CD Wave (tracking) Sound Forge 10 (fades, mild normalization)
TRT: 37:44

This Recording is for Promotional & Archival Purposes Only.

01. The Big Ship
02. Needle in the Camel's Eye
03. The Great Pretender
04. Sombre Reptiles
05. Baby's on Fire
06. Third Uncle
07. Driving Me Backwards
08. Put a Straw Under Baby
09. The True Wheel

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This was the Third Annual New Year's Eve Cover Night with Marijuana Deathsquads (Brian Eno), Vampire Hands (Television), Leisure Birds (Monks), Daughters of the Sun (Jesus and Mary Chain) and Secret Language (Fleetwood Mac). What a frickin' blast of a NYE. This set features Marijuana Deathsquads playing the songs of Brian Eno with Chris from Vampire Hands and Gina on vocals. Definitely not to be missed!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

May 2010 be better than 2009!

Live musics to follow from the likes of; The Good Life (holy shit?!), Old Canes, Where Astronauts Go to Hide, Face Candy, No Bird Sing, Kristoff Krane, Puppy Dogs & Ice Cream.

What I'm perhaps most excited about at the moment is NYE. Pretty sure I chose The Turf Club. Third Annual New Year's Eve Cover Night with Vampire Hands (Television), Leisure Birds (Monks), Daughters of the Sun (Jesus and Mary Chain), Marijuana Deathsquads (Brian Eno). Unfortunately Secret Language (Fleetwood Mac) was not recorded...it was however very Punk and uplifting. You missed out? It happens. Later on, at the dawn of the new year Finger Pressure's annual NYE set at Community Gardens was recorded into a little metal box. Let me just say that these 1s & 0s are far to good for the likes of MTV or top 40 radio. Be excited to check this out!

Closing out the year at The Turf Club...

I've spent many late nights at The Turf Club this year. I'm quite fond of the place and that's why I'm happy to say it looks like I'll be ending 2009 with back to back nights at The Turf.

Please join me at these two fine shows to ring in the new year...

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Kristoff Krane, No Bird Sing, Puppy Dogs & Ice Cream and Face Candy (first show in over a year)
Doors 9:00pm | $6 cover

Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Third Annual New Year's Eve Cover Night with Vampire Hands (Television), Leisure Birds (Monks), Daughters of the Sun (Jesus and Mary Chain), Marijuana Death Squads (Brian Eno)
with DJ's and Secret Language in the Clown Lounge
Doors 9:00pm | $10 cover

Somewhere in Minneapolis last night.

Leisure Birds, Les Deux Magots, Shannon and the Clams and Vampire Hands played a show somewhere in Minneapolis last night. Of course Shannon and the Clams (Oakland) were the highlight of the evening. Their new LP/CD is available through No Idea Records. A friend noted that he's never seen so many people dancing on a Monday night in Minneapolis. Shannon even observed that Minneapolis has a boogie that would rival Oakland's boogie. While I have much respect for the establishment these are not my best recordings. I'll try to get a track or two from each band posted. There's some great stuff in there. Maybe the whole Clams set if I'm happy with the way it sounds. Perhaps next time I'll try a different mic placement. /end dork out

Fuck Buttons or Sleeping in the Aviary?

Having not had much luck recording Fuck Buttons the last time they played The Triple Rock I was leaning towards a Mute Era miniseries / Vic Chesnutt combo. Still, I thought I might stop in to see what the official word was this time around. Their FOH/TM was leery at first, asking me a few more than reasonable questions in a thick English accent. I assured him this was not for monetary gain and a TR manager was kind enough to vouch for me. Clearance was given but this changed things a bit. Two bands. Ten and Eleven. Normally I would be very aroused by this format but it only proved to create conflict. Now I needed to figure out how to record as much as possible at The Nomad and still make it back down in time to get the Fuck Buttons set. This predicament was soon semi-remedied when a friend in the bar offered the use of a mic stand he had in his trunk. Yes, we're sometimes six thick, you just don't notice us. With a stand taped down at The Triple Rock I headed down the street to set up at The Nomad.

Five band bills are always interesting but fortunate for everyone at 501 Cedar all 5 bands brought their salt. I caught Mute Era with Gospel Gossip at The Turf Club last June. There are more than one great rock duos in town but Mute Era are doing something completely different and you should definitely check it out. They didn't get a miniseries by being a couple of schmucks! Listen to the tracks. I'm not about to lie to anyone, Sleeping in the Aviary drew me to the show. First time seeing Teenage Moods but I was very surprised and impressed by what the three of them do. I predict good things. Also my first time catching Leisure Birds. Everyone knows how good these guys are so I'll just leave it at that. I was a supporter of Thunder in the Valley so this was another set that I had been looking forward to. Nick had requested a copy of the December '07 TITV tape (The Nomad) the night before at the STNNNG show. The drop was made. I remember listening to that recording for a long time. Dante & the Lobster were in attendance to release their new album and headline the evening. Go. Pick. Up. This. CD.

I started to think about the lonely stand at The Triple Rock and I started to realize that the Fuck Buttons set was not going to get recorded. Neither would Vic's across the street. The thousands of people reading this may be wondering why? I'm not going to blame it on a 5 band bill nor the late start. Irrelevant I say! I'm going with (C.) The music coming through the PA. After each band finished their agreeable 30 minute set I had a persistent itch to stay for the next one. This continued for the duration of the evening. Ill live tapes forthcoming.