Oneida, James McNew, MV&EE & more this weekend @ 285 Kent (where Crystal Stilts & Woods recently played)

Oneida at Ecstatic Music Fest (more by David Andrako)

As previously mentioned, live concert recording site NYC Taper just turned five years old and is throwing a party at 285 Kent on Saturday (5/12) to celebrate, with performances by Oneida, Sightings and Prince Ruperts Drops. Joining Oneida onstage will be James McNew of Yo La Tengo/Dump fame and Greg Fox (Guardian Alien/GDFX). If you can’t make it, we’re going to guess someone will make an downloadable audio document of it. Meanwhile peruse NYC Taper’s awesome catalog of nearly live recordings. There’s nearly 1000 of them at present — like the recent Lower Dens show at Glasslands, and the Crystal Stilts/Woods show that took place at 285 Kent last weekend. The flyer for the NYC Taper show is at the bottom of this post.

Greg Fox plays the Stone earlier the same night as part of the ongoing Buke & Gase-curated series of shows.

While we’re talking about 285 Kent, tonight (5/11) the Brooklyn venue hosts an evening of electronic avant garde and noise, with former Yellow Swan man Pete Swanson, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Forma, and SSPS.

Then on Sunday (5/13), Woodsist Records is throwing a record release party for MV&EE‘s Space Homestead, with a live performance by the band as well as Steve Gunn and Herbcraft. MV&EE have some tour dates coming up and those are below, along with a stream of a song from the new album….

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MV&EE – 2012 Tour Dates
05/13 – Brooklyn, NY @ 285 Kent (record release show) &
05/14 – Philadelphia, PA @ Level Room %
05/15 – Baltimore, MD @ Golden West Cafe
05/16 – Washington, DC @ DC9
05/17 – Hudson, NY @ Spotty Dog
05/18 – Montague, MA @ The Bookmill
05/19 – Biddeford, ME @ The Oak And The Ax $
06/03 – Becket, MA @ Dreamaway Lodge
07/14 – Asheville, NC @ Inner Mountain Festival @ The Grey Eagle (acoustic and electric sets) #

* = w/ Herbcraft & Mmoss
& = w/ Herbcraft & Steve Gunn
% = w/ P.G. Six
$ = w/ BR Garm
# = w/ Dredd Foole, Willie Lane, Samara Lubelski & Herbcraft
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