Meat Puppets, Live on KEXP, 9-23-2009

As someone we know once introduced them, "These are the brothers Meat Puppets. We're big fans of theirs."

Meat Puppets - Live, Acoustic, on KEXP 9-23-2009 (mp3 podcast)

Rain Machine (TVOTR's Kyp Malone), Live on The Current

Rain Machine, Live in The Current Studios, October 16, 2009 (audio stream).

Without Love (There Is Nothing)

Nothing, I said.

Oscar Toney, Jr. - Without Love (There Is Nothing)(mp3)

Thank you, Oscar Toney, Jr., for the lift.

From Take Me To The River: A Southern Soul Story 1961-1977, which has 74 more songs like it.

Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar - Live on KCRW, 10-23-2009 (video)

Video is up for Friday's KCRW in-studio. Watch the gents, on guitar and on Kerouac.

Ramona Falls - The Darkest Day (Live in a Paris Apartment)(Video)

Also: Ramona Falls - Russia (Live on KEXP, August 28th)(mp3)

Live October Streams & Downloads From Yo La Tengo, Dinosaur Jr, The Gossip

I'm a little behind here, and I'm cursing my courseload for taking me away from it.

I'll be posting when I find rare moments to breathe.

For now, check out very recent performances from Yo La Tengo (The Current, 10-7-2009), The Gossip (scorching!) at the 9:30 Club on the same day (NPR Live Concerts)(download mp3), and Dinosaur Jr., more like Dinosaur Sr. these days, but with a 3-Marshall stack show, still heavy and dissonant as a teenager, also an NPR Live Concert at the 9:30, (October 8th)(download mp3).

The Swimmers - A Hundred Hearts

I listen to this, and I can see the exploits of a complicated girl play out in a video that doesn't exist. Let me dream. Music Video, where have you gone?

The Swimmers - A Hundred Hearts (mp3)

From The Swimmers' People Are Soft, out Nov. 3.

Roseanne Cash + Neko Case

Roseanne Cash's forthcoming album, The List, features collaborators Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Rufus Wainwright and Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, and is streaming in its entirety on NPR Exclusive First Listen. Satisfied Mind, an iTunes exclusive, includes guest vocals from Neko Case.