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Showing posts with label updates. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

It's a wonder I get anything done, and you're just fool enough to keep me around

I cleared the cobwebs here just enough to toss up a few odds & sods that I'm told had fallen out of circulation, plus two "new" shows from 2003 that had managed to slip past me until now.

I also sadly learned that Morgan Taylor - who years ago worked as a sound engineer at The Living Room in Manhattan (where Regina played many times) and who was a gifted songwriter and artist in his own right - passed away suddenly just last week. Please consider pitching in to a GoFundMe to assist his wife (Rachel Loshak, a great singer-songwriter too) and two young children.

The world weighs a ton, and I'm too young...
2002-05-09 New York, NY | The Frying Pan
A relatively early video of Regina performing Samson, originally posted at bodyatomic.com

2003-02-13 New York, NY | NYU Thompson Center
Recorded by pattivill - featuring Dusseldorf, Carbon Monoxide, Your Honor, Dance Anthem of the 80s, Oh, Marcello!, Better, Ghost of Corporate Future, Prisoners, Poor Little Rich Boy, Ave Maria, Raindrops, The Soup, "the floor heard everything, and The Bronx

2003-02-28 New York, NY | The Baggot Inn
Recorded by pattivill - featuring Dusseldorf, Your Honor, Carbon Monoxide, Oh Marcello!, Sailor Song, The Flowers, Us, Silly Eye Color Generalizations, Poor Little Rich Boy, The Bronx, Aching to Pupate, and Music Box

2003-11-08 Atlanta, GA | 99X Studios (WNNX)
Live in-studio performance of Modern Girls and Old Fashion Men with the Strokes

2003-11-23 Amsterdam | Paradiso
Live show opening for Kings of Leon, originally available for streaming from VPRO radio - featuring Poor Little Rich Boy, Carbon Monoxide, Uh-merica, The Flowers, Folding Chair, and Summer in the City

2004-03-04 All Things Considered (NPR) - "Soviet Kitsch" & "Songs" Review
One of the earliest times Regina's music was featured/reviewed on radio - available from at npr.org

2004-08-01 Virgin Radio - Razor Cuts
Live in studio performances, originally available from virginradio.co.uk - featuring Carbon Monoxide, Poor Little Rich Boy, and Somedays

2005-07-20 New York, NY | Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Interview and live performance taped for "Liberal Arts" on Air America Radio - featuring Poor Little Rich Boy, Summer in the City, and The Flowers

2005-11 BBC Radio 4 - Loose Ends
Live in-studio performance of Poor Little Rich Boy

2005-12 BBC 6 Music - Evening Sequence Hub Sessions
Live in-studio performances of Prisoners, Us, Samson, and Baby Jesus

2005-12 BBC Radio 2 - The Janice Long Show
Interview and live in-studio performance - featuring Prisoners and Fidelity

2005-12 Transgressive Records Podcast
Brief interview with Transgressive Records founders Toby and Tim, touching on the making of Begin to Hope and clearing the rights for "Daniel Cowman

2006-01-26 BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour
Interview and live in-studio performance featuring Love Affair

2006-05-07 Seattle, WA | Chop Suey
Recorded by Jarod Watson - full set

2006-06 NY | BBC Radio 1 - The Blue Room
Acoustic performance for BBC Radio 1 - featuring Chelsea Hotel, Love Affair, and Sailor Song

2006-07-23 Oxfordshire | BBC 6 Music
Brief interview and live in-studio performance - featuring That Time

2006-08-24 BBC Radio 2 - The Janice Long Show
Interview and live in-studio performance - featuring Fidelity, Apres Moi, and On the Radio

2006-11-02 Hollywood, CA | Avalon
Recorded by Tom Riddle - full set

2007-02-09 BBC Radio 6 Music Hub
Interview and live in-studio performance - featuring Fidelity and Field Below

2008-04-19 Brooklyn, NY | Sound Fix Records
Live in-store for Record Store Day 2008 - I believe this recording is the version originally uploaded to RespektOnline and credited to Fallenquarter - featuring Summer in the City, Time Is All Around, Wallet, Baobabs, Genius Next Door, Real Love, and Hotel Song

2008-07-28 Bronx, NY | Words and Music from Studio A (WFUV)
Interview and live in-studio performance, available from wfuv.org - featuring Man of a Thousand Faces, Time Is All Around, and Summer in the City

2009-06-23 New York, NY | Good Morning America
Brief interview and live in-studio performance of Laughing With

2009-12-04 Philadelphia, PA | World Cafe
Interview and live in-studio performance, available from npr.org - featuring The Calculation, Laughing With, Eet, and The Sword and the Pen

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

There's a price to pay, and a consequence

The (outstanding) lead single from Regina's upcoming LP "What We Saw from the Cheap Seats" is available from iTunes .

Friday, December 24, 2010

These clothes don't fit us right, I'm to blame

A memorial show for Aaron Wilkinson, who passed away in July 2003.  Regina's set included the debut performances of Hero (with some additional lyrics and alternate phrasing not found in later performances), Après Moi, & Aquarius: 2004-06-29 New York, NY | Sin-é

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Go down the checklist, let's see...feelings are good...dishonesty is bad...and keeping it inside is worse still

A few tracks from this show have been out for a while (including the debut performance of Uh-merica); the full set includes a performance of the untitled song 'the devil come to Bethlehem' and a classic mid-song improv during Dance Anthem of the 80s: 2003-05-31 New York, NY | Sin-é

After his father crashed, he moved his family back and vowed to never leave the ground

Very early performances of several songs, including the Soviet Kitsch staples Us, Ghost of Corporate Future, Carbon Monoxide, and Chemo Limo (previously available): 2002-11-30 New York, NY | Sidewalk Cafe

I feel your fist and I know it's out of love

Regina's May 2002 tour of Manhattan continues with performances of Reading Time with Pickle, Just like the Movies, Ne Me Quitte Pas (with a few extra introductory bars), and more: 2002-05-15 New York, NY | The Living Room

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

I don't think you're right in the head (but I think you're just right for me)

An old show featuring Anders Griffen, what may be the first public performance of Poor Little Rich Boy, and a little something extra: 2002-05-01 New York, NY | Tonic

Monday, January 11, 2010

If you think like Thomas Edison, could you invent a word for me?


Video footage of Regina's much loved October 2004 set at Tonic, provided by Henry L.

The footage is a little dark, though.
Ghost of Corporate Future:
Full Set:

Thursday, October 01, 2009

We're having a party and we're happy to invite you

A special party following Radio City Music Hall concert
LifeBeat
The Music Industry Fights AIDS &
Chip Duckett
invite you to join

Regina Spektor

at a special party following
her Radio City Music Hall concert

Music by DJ Miss Guy
Complimentary cocktails 10:30PM - 12:30AM

10:30PM Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Aspen Social Club
157 West 47th Street

Tickets available at http://www.lifebeat.org
or at 212-352-3101
(Ask for the Regina Spektor Red Carpet Event)

$20 advance/$25 door if available.
The cost of the ticket is a donation to
LIFEbeat - The Music Industry Fights AIDS.

21 & Over only, please.

Monday, September 28, 2009

Carefully Laid Wires, Remembering It

Thursday 9/24 marked Regina's second performance of the unreleased song tentatively titled "Carefully Laid Plans" by the community, but known only as "Solo Song" on the set list.  This mysterious new track was captured in Philly in listenable quality for the first time, and is now available here, along with the rest of the show.  Also included is a quick rendition of "Happy Birthday" for Jack Dishel of past Regina openers Only Son and Little Joy.

2009-09-24 Philadelphia, PA | Electric Factory

The Calculation
Eet
Folding Chair
Ode to Divorce
Machine
Laughing With
One More Time With Feeling
Two Birds
Blue Lips
On The Radio
Dance Anthem of the 80s
Bobbin' for Apples
That Time
Apres Moi
Carefully Laid Plans
The Wallet
Man of a Thousand Faces
Samson
Us
Fidelity
Happy Birthday
Hotel Song
Love You're a Whore

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Saturday, June 20, 2009

possible leakage

Wednesday, June 17th
Regina kicks off her series of summer shows with a phee-nomenal show at the Beacon Theatre, featuring the live debuts for several songs from far, along with the previously unheard bonus track "Riot Gear" and the devastating "Ink Stains". The ushers haven't finished wiping the drool from my armrest before recordings are posted by both nyctaper and RespektOnline.
Thursday, June 18th
NPR begins streaming the new album in a bid to thwart the hackers. In related news, my biggest thrill remains that one time Björk brushed up against me at the Screening Room on Canal. ::sigh::
Friday, June 19th
Regina visits with John Schaefer at WNYC and plays "Laughing With", "One More Time with Feeling", & "Man of a Thousand Faces".
Saturday, June 20th
"[I have] daily arguments with myself...and I win" -- Regina confronts schizophrenia in a BBC interview (skip ahead to the 1:06 mark).
Sunday, June 21st
The Sunday New York Times reports that Jeff Lynne thinks "Regina’s music is high-class, bizarre and beautiful" and David Byrne is "a fan of Regina’s". I think those guys might be onto something.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

insert "far" pun here

Quite a bit going on...so much so that an ORDERED LIST is in...order:
  1. Apparently, far can be streamed online in its entirety right now, but only in the UK
  2. For the rest of us, the full album will be streaming online a full week before its release date
  3. In the meanwhile, thirty-second previews for all 13 tracks on far (plus the 2 Special Edition bonus tracks) are available from Amazon UK
  4. The Laughing With EP is also on sale now from indie retailers
  5. And Regina will be appearing on the "Late Show with David Letterman" and "Good Morning America" the week of far's release
  6. And there surely will be more than small handful of press features and interviews
  7. As well as radio appearances
  8. And last but not least, a few good seats are still available for Regina's show on June 17th at the Beacon Theatre (seriously, I just checked).

    I expect to see you there.

    Or else.