Van Halen kicked off its long-awaited reunion tour last week, and bootlegs of just about every show are popping up at a fast and furious pace. If you’re curious about the quality of the new, old Van Halen’s playing, check out these links to both the Charlotte opener and Monday’s gig from Philly. Unlike The Police, it looks like Eddie and Dave didn’t need much time to warm up.
- Scarecrow Collection has just released their first podcast
- Here’s a Rod Stewart show from shortly after the breakup of the Faces
- Stereogum did a terrific job assembling an indie rock tribute to R.E.M.’s Automatic For The People
- NYCTaper posted a lossless copy of Animal Collective’s Monday night show
- Nazz Nomad helps Mets fans sulk with a collection of songs about being a loser and has posted one of Bruce Springsteen’s warmup gigs
- Have A Little Faith in this John Hiatt compilation
- Download one of the best Kinks show ever from 12/31/1980
- We found an Iron Maiden boot from 1981
- Bands That Jam features Baltimore’s The Bridge this week
- Licorice Pizza gives us Neil Young’s recent set at Farm Aid
- Smuggled Sounds gives us the 15th installment of Bjork’s Boots
- The Music-hole mega post features shows by Pearl Jam, Sheryl Crow, Bloc Party, Arcade Fire and many others
One last item of bid’ness, and it’s the opposite of bootlegs: Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings will be performing live on WNYC’s Soundcheck show at 2 pm today — check ’em out on 93.9FM or wnyc.org. It will also be archived on the site.
