This was a joyous night time for 2 very particular causes:
- We had been celebrating the 20-year anniversary of one of many final really nice music sources on the web, the beloved Raven Sings the Blues.
- We may welcome again one of many final really nice Rock and Roll bands, Weak Sign.
Anybody who has adopted this website is aware of my emotions for Weak Sign. I imagine them to be one of many nice bands to come back out of NYC in current occasions. Since I final wrote about them, they’ve handled the lack of good buddy Doug Shaw, the heaviness of a most cancers battle, and a subsequent everlasting transfer to the UK. Should you requested me 6 months in the past, I’d have assumed Weak Sign had been over.
However right here they’re, again on this facet of the pond, taking part in a double invoice with their companions in crime, Garcia Peoples, and sounding like they by no means went away. The set opened with “I Don’t Miss You”, giving everybody an on the spot style of what now we have been lacking: snarling guitar tones, haunting harmonies, and my favourite rhythm part working in the present day. Over the course of the set, Weak Sign labored by way of tunes from their total catalog, together with an amazing telling of one in all my private favorites, “YR Deal,” which at all times brings to thoughts the darkish, sludgey psych of mid-90s Ween. The very best information of the night got here after the set, when phrase began to unfold that they might spend a while in NY to report new materials earlier than heading again to the UK.
As for Andy and Raven Sings the Blues: we must always all take a second to thank him for the time and vitality he frequently brings to championing bands that might, typically, haven’t any different champion. His mission assertion mirrors ours; there are unimaginable artists producing unimaginable issues that the mainstream has chosen to disregard, however he received’t. He’ll hearken to it, put it on the market, and provides us all a purpose to concentrate together with his pitch-perfect, concise opinions. Cheers to twenty extra years.
I recorded this from the same old spot with the MK22’s and a pleasant board feed from FOH engineer Wil. Play it LOUD!
Obtain and stream from the dwell music archive!
Weak Sign
2026-10-02
Tubby’s
Kingston, NY
Supply: Scheops MK22 > KCY > PFA + SDB > SD MixPre 3 > SD (24/48) > Adobe Audition/Izotope 9 > Audacity Flac (lvl8) > Mp3Tag
Because of Tubby’s FOH engineer, Wil, for the board patch!
Recorded and produced by kliked for nyctaper.com
- I Don’t Miss You
- Poor Individuals
- Hallelujah Child
- Wealthy Junkie
- Spooky Feeling
- Devotion
- Tera Tera
- YR Deal
- Medication In My System
- Chill
- Slightly Hum
- Dripping In Gold
- Inform me How You Like It
This was a part of the twentieth Anniversary celebration for the wonderful Raven Sings the Blues weblog!
https://ravensingstheblues.com/
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https://weareweaksignal.bandcamp.com/
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