Animal Collective - June 1, 2007

River to River - South Street Seaport [7 pm] ~Free

Yes... they played mostly new stuff, and a few older ones at the end. the only one from feels that i believe i heard was 'loch raven' if i have the name right. anyway, the new stuff sounds like it will be really good. now we just wait for the album to leak. but no, no 'banshee beat' for us...Doug...

Menomena & Beat the Devil - July 13, 2007

River to River - South Street Seaport [7 pm] ~Free

Again, I was away the first two weeks of July, but Christopher was there:

My Big Show Review Strikes Again: 7.13.07-7.14.07

The National & Takka Takka - August 18, 2007

River to River - South Street Seaport [7 pm] ~Free

I got to the Seaport late and caught about seven minutes of a song from The National. It was a great seven minutes, but it was their last song! It was all over before 9:30 pm. Apparently, one blogger believes that the rain caused the event organizers to shorten the opening bands' time allotment to get The National on by 8 pm and avoid any later rain. Whatever the case, I didn't make it to see more than a few minutes of The National's set. Doug and Eric, you'll have to tell us how it was!

Here's the set list from Scoboco's blog:

1. Start a War
2. Mistaken For Strangers
3. Secret Meeting
4. Brainy
5. Baby We'll Be Fine
6. Slow Show
7. Abel
8. Squalor Victoria
9. Racing Like a Pro
10. Apartment Story
11. Daughters of the Soho Riots
12. Fake Empire
13. Mr. November
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14. Murder Me Rachel
15. About Today

Download the live recording of this show from NYCtaper.com.