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While we're cleaning out the cobwebs and talking about favorite things, let's hit another few points.

As Ideological favorite, stereogum points out, it's Pavement week in New York City (they'll hit Jimmy Fallon's show this Thursday/early Friday).  They'll be playing 4 shows in Central Park to the collected throng of hipsters (yeah, I'm jealous) over the next 4 days.  Blogger Big Ass Lens captured some excellent bootleg footage of the last four songs of last night's encore at The Williamsburg Waterfront - "Starlings in the Slipstream" (an Ideological favorite), "Gold Soundz" (ditto), "Kennel District", and "Range Life" (total classic) - check out the Vimeo video below:

Pavement - Starlings Of The Slipstream / Gold Soundz / Kennel District / Range Life from Big Ass Lens on Vimeo.

Yesterday's post of some live My Morning Jacket and Superchunk tunes inspired me to post some tracks from two of our other favorite folks whose albums will be jockeying for position in our Best of 2010 list.  Josh Ritter's So Runs The World Away didn't make a whole lot of noise when it came out (our vinyl copy was procured at Record Store Day a few weeks before the regular release date), but has been quite the "grower".  Ritter's prose is nearly unmatched among current singer/songwriters.  "The Curse" and "Folk Bloodbath" are the standout tracks on SRTWA and live versions from the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC back in May are below.
We've waxed poetic on the awesomeness of Spoon's Transference, which came out in January.  Archive.org, on their Live Music Archive, has a few excellent Spoon shows up for public consumption.  The two tracks below, "Got Nuffin" and "Written in Reverse", are taken from Spoon's set opening for the Arcade Fire at Radio City Music Hall last month (and were taped by another of our favorites, nyctaper).  Enjoy.

Josh Ritter - Live at the 9:30 Club - Washington, DC - May 8, 2010:
"Folk Bloodbath"
"The Curse"

Spoon - Live at Radio City Music Hall - New York City, NY - August 4, 2010:
"Written In Reverse"
"Got Nuffin"

Until next time... spend some time with the music of Josh Ritter, Pavement, and/or Spoon... and listen...