Wild Yaks Acoustic At Time Out NY Offices

Wild Yaks got invited to the TONY offices to perform an acoustic set for Live at TONY.

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Tonight: Sigmund Droid, Bonnie Baxter, & More - Free Acoustic Show

Well this is going to be interesting! Sigmund Droid, Bonnie Baxter, and others will be playing acoustic sets at Northeast Kingdom. I'm super curious to hear what Sigmund Droid sounds like acoustic... I mean it's just drum and bass. I have an acoustic bass and it's pretty much useless unless it's plugged in. Also, Jeremy J will be DJing.

Toilet Records presents night of music with no electricity for musicians to plug their guitars, basses, or pedals in to. Features bands that need to creatively figure out how to make this transition. It's going to be a pretty amazing night.
Here are the bands;
www.myspace.com/leilolai (Drum and Bass Duo)
www.myspace.com/redromans (Tape Machine and Guitar)
www.myspace.com/Sigmunddroid (Drum and Bass Duo)
www.myspace.com/Bonniebaxter (Electric Ethereal)
DJ Jeraliscious (Jeremy J Cohen)
DJ Rusala will spin Vinyl (Bass Player from Asa Ransom)
and special secret guests (Aas Mosnar)...Come check it out! It's free.

TVOTR Acoustic Collection

Aquarium Drunkard put together an amazing post with five acoustic TV On The Radio tracks. Honestly I didn't think it was possible for TVOTR to get better but hearing these songs acoustic really blew me away. I listened to "Blues From Down Here" four times in a row.

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AD w/ TVOTR Acoustic

Jim Ward (Sparta, x-ATDI): Live Acoustic Set @ Bar Matchless

On Sunday night Sparta played a show at the Warsaw in Brooklyn. I wasn't able to make it to the show but I did manage to make it to the after party down the street at Matchless. I had heard that Jim Ward, Sparta's front man, would be performing an acoustic set. Of course I wasn't going to miss a chance to see a solo acoustic performance by a former member of At The Drive In.

I got to the bar before the show was over at the Warsaw but there was already a decent size crowd. A little after midnight the flood gates opened and everyone poured into Matchless. If you haven't been there it's not a big place, especially the performance room. Upon seeing the herd we headed into the performance room and secured a decent spot up front while the guitar tech set up.

Then Jim hopped up on stage and everyone started hooting and hollering. It was a very intimate environment and Jim actually looked a little nervous. He kept mentioning that he's not used to the crowd being louder then the guitar.

The set he played was composed mostly of Sparta songs, which was a bit of a let down. I was hoping to hear some stuff he had actually written specifically as a side project. Although it was cool to hear the whole crowd singing along. I'm not going to go into details about the set but it was very short (6 songs) and hardly exceptional. But as Jim said it was his first time doing the solo acoustic thing so I'll cut him some slack. The one thing that stood out was his voice which is exceptional - something you might not notice with Sparta.

Here are a couple pics and a video I shot - enjoy.

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