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Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers: Your Story (live)

Detroit artist Joe Hertler and his band The Rainbow Seekers put out a five song EP in April that is a great summation of the group’s live sound, recorded in the Russell Industrial Center in Detroit. After recording Joe Herler wrote, “Let me just say that it’s very rare that I feel content with a piece of artwork that I’ve made. We filmed these videos in Russel Industrial Center in Detroit. They are our attempt to share a 100% live performance with the world, and thanks to our friends help I think we were able to capture just that. No auto-tune. No quantizing. No digital tricks.” Without the brief interludes, the five track album could easily be mistaken for a studio recording. The Live at Russell sessions were also video recorded, providing a true look at the way Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers play together. Intimately shot and featuring candid moments in and around the worn yet charming Russell Industrial Center, the video captures both the hard work and play that makes this band what it is. Check out the live video for ‘Your Story’ below and visit their sites for more recordings and additional videos from the Russell Sessions. [via friends @ Green Light Go] WEBSITE | BANDCAMP | FACEBOOK | TWITTER [audio:http://insomniaradio.net/audio/irl-joehertler-yourstory.mp3] Download Your Story (live) Subscribe to IR: Live & Acoustic

Buffalo Killers: It’s a Shame (live)

Tear into that BBQ leg son, multitask with your favorite 12 oz, and get ready for some quality blues rock. The compilation ‘Alive at the Deep Blues Fest’ is arriving this November 27th via Alive NaturalSound Recordings and features 13 incendiary performances from the festival which occurred from June 29th to July 1st, 2012 in Bayport, Minnesota [a suburb of Minneapolis]. Earlier in the summer the owner of Bayport BBQ, Chris Johnson, resurrected the popular Blues Festival for three days of sold out performances. Twenty six bands from four countries and sixteen states were featured. The forthcoming compilation is a document of the intense freeflowing performances from the festival and was mixed by famed Detroit producer/musician Jim Diamond, who managed to capture the loose and spontaneous feel of classic live albums produced decades ago. Today’s feature from this forthcoming compilation is by Cincinnati, Ohio based band BUFFALO KILLERS. They really light up the stage for this meaty performance, a real quality track to enjoy on this lazy Sunday. Coming soon via CD, Digital & BBQ Sauce Red Colored Vinyl! [via Pavement] WEBSITE | SOUNDCLOUD | FACEBOOK | TWITTER | BAYPORT FEST [audio:http://insomniaradio.net/audio/irl-buffalokillers-itsashame.mp3] Download It’s a Shame (live) Subscribe to IR: Live & Acoustic

The Ascetic Junkies: Windows Sell the House (Acoustic Duo Basement version)

Kali Giaritta and Matt Harmon, about half of the Portland group The Ascetic Junkies will be on a ambitious Summer tour over the next month or two, starting off June 8th in California, then heading to Idaho, and Washington before heading back to some shows in Portland with the full band. While on their West Coast Tour they are open to the idea of house concerts, playing at other venues, crashing at your pad, and of course accepting support to help fill their Corolla’s gas tank. Today’s feature just released on their YouTube channel, and we’ve provided an embedded link to the video here. Its the Acoustic Duo Basement version of Windows Sell the House which you can find the studio version of on their 2008 release, One Shoe Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. In other news, the group is currently working on their fourth album, which will follow This Cage Has No Bottom. Also, in March they were one of many featured artists on the free digital compilation sampler Ides of March. Make sure to grab a copy, and enjoy… WEBSITE | BANDCAMP | FACEBOOK | TWITTER [audio:http://insomniaradio.net/audio/irl-theasceticjunkies-windowssellthehouse.mp3] Download Windows Sell the House [Acoustic Duo Basement Version] Subscribe to IR: Live & Acoustic Performance under Creative Commons Attribution license.

Mount Carmel: Swagg’s & Elliot (live)

Our musical crosshairs set themselves on Columbus, Ohio this psychedelic weekend, with an explosive set of blues flavored rock from trio Mount Carmel. The group has released a new album on Siltbreeze called Real Women, a great soundtrack as you spin donuts, jump bridges, and dodge explosions in your ’76 Trans Am. In 2010, a few months after their appearance at SXSW, and on the way out of Philly during their first East Coast tour, the band dropped by the studios of WFMU and played a twenty minute set on Brian Turner’s Show, 6/15/10. Check out and download all five track listings at the link below. They are really something else. WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | SOUNDCLOUD | WFMU 2010 SHOW [audio:http://insomniaradio.net/audio/irl-mountcarmel-swaggs.mp3] Download Swagg’s & Elliot [live in studio] Subscribe to IR: Live & Acoustic Live at WFMU on Brian Turner’s Show, 6/15/10 by Mount Carmel is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

Nico Stai: Skies Over Your Head (live acoustic)

Today we are featuring a new stripped down interpretation of a slightly older track from Los Angeles singer-songwriter Nico Stai, a favorite musician of mine here on our network, who has had repeat visits in the past few years. Every now and then you when you visit a live show, the bar chatter slightly drowns out a musician, not letting up as the music plays on. Often, when visiting one of Nico’s solo shows the room tends to be tamed as soon as he starts pouring his soul through the stage speakers, while his guitar-work is perfectly punctuated with his haunting yet very relatable lyrics. Here’s another one of those songs from Nico Stai, an acoustic live track called ‘Skies Over Your Head’, released a few short weeks back on October 10th. Stayed tuned for a new full length, coming in the very near future. WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | BANDCAMP | TWITTER [audio:http://insomniaradio.net/audio/irl-nicostai-skiesoveryourhead.mp3] Download Skies Over Your Head [live acoustic] Subscribe to IR: Live & Acoustic