This is a major personal project for me, presenting edited and mastered versions of my extensive archive of live recordings of Santa Cruz indie rock shows I recorded 1999-2004, including both local and visiting bands. After trying every option I could think of, I have decided the only way to share these recordings is to stream them on my own server through the WordPress audio player. I wanted to put them on Bandcamp, but someone told me that Bandcamp wouldn’t like me putting a ton of stuff on there that were free downloads. The old releases are in alphabetical order, and the new releases will be featured at the top of this page for a week or two before they are organized into the rest (alphabetically).
This project is dedicated to Josh Alper (RIP) who to me represented the essence of the Santa Cruz indie rock scene when I was involved with it. Josh is the guy holding the guitar in the above photo. He is featured in The Lowdown recordings and more that I am soon to add. When I arrived in Santa Cruz I was completely manic and with no social/interpersonal skills, and by watching Josh I basically learned how to have a conversation. My present social ability is largely owed to him.
The music players will likely take a few seconds to load the files. Also, with this new setup if you click on “play” on a different player it will automatically pause the player you last engaged. Nifty. Lastly, if you appreciate my immense work on this project, please peruse my record label’s catalog at the Post-Consumer store, and consider purchasing one of the (I think really great) records my label put out.
Gross Gang
Exploding Crustaceans
The Texas X’s
Verstehen
AMCIS
The Whip
The Sun
Dead and Gone
Frog Eyes
The Automatones
Amortifera
Plug Spark Sanjay
Jed and Dan
Lady Fingahs and Laura Lymes (first ever show!)
The Prids
Throw Em to the Lions
Tommy Lasorda
————–(older releases)—————-
30 Years War (this band was screamo hardcore but they played some indie rock shows)
40 Acre
The Ancient Age
The Barometers
The Centimeters
Cherry Ames
The Curtains
Estrella
The Grief Counsel
Hate Mail Express (killer show!)
Jeffrey Manson Machine
KIT
The Lost Kids
The Lowdown
Lylah Katz
Maher Shalal Hash Baz
Nervous and the Kid
Outhud
Pedestrian
Roots of Orchis
Rosy Nolan
Run_Return
Sean Na Na
Sharp Dressed Man
Sin in Space
The Skinny Lewinskys
Static Drive
Subtle Oak Complexity
Sweet Nothing
Tracy and the Plastics
The Virgin Marys
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