For this week's New York Night Train show list go here. For information about the venues go here. Click the names in bold to learn more about the artists.

Monday, May 1, 2006

Today’s is significant because its my first attempt to include downloadable audio samples with the recommendations. So start listening...

Mt. Eerie, Thanksgiving, Jason Anderson - 98 Ingraham Street $10:
This show is consists of three northwestern solo artists who go by a number of aliases. The headliner, and reason for this recommendation is K Records’ The Microphones, AKA Phil Elverum, who’s been going by Mt. Eerie the last couple of years. For those of you who haven’t heard him since The Microphones days, his music gets more expansive, sophisticated, and ambitious over time. While his homegrown recordings have become the highest fidelity of lo-fi universe - rich, spacious, and gigantic – live it’ll be more barebones by necessity – either with a band or alone accompanied only by his guitar. If you’d like to hear what he’s all about as Mt. Erie, check out these two songs: Universe (MP3) and Lanterns (MP3). Elverum also has his own label, P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd and one of his artists is Portland’s Thanksgiving, i.e. prolific Portland singer-songwriter Adrian Orange who also performs with the instrumental trio The Watery Graves of Portland. Opener Jason Anderson, otherwise known as Wolf Colonel, and also on K Records, is a more strummy and traditional troubadour.

Feu Therese, Tokyo Police Club - Mercury Lounge $10
I also thought you might be interested in the artful post-rock noise of a new-ish Montreal band on Constellation, Feu Therese. I don't know much about them myself and I couldn't find you any MP3s, but this page includes a stream of a song from their self-titled debut LP.

Home, Megan Reilly - Tonic $8
Home is back! Check out "Our Blue Navy" , "Blame It" , "Tres ci est" , "My Name Is John"