Our Concert Could Be Your Life celebrated the 10th Anniversary of Michael Azzerad’s phenomenal book Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991. The show contained a nice mix of contemporary bands performing roughly 10 minute sets of material from each of the bands featured in the book. The show kicked off with members of the Dirty Projecters playing a solid set of Black Flag songs including “Rise Above” and “Gimme Gimme Gimme”. Next up was Delicate Steve who took the stage to perform as The Minutemen with a guest filled set including Tim Harrington of Les Savy Fav and Lee Renaldo of Sonic Youth. Then Ted Leo covered Minor Threat on an empty stage to a pre-record tape reel, that may sound lame reading this, but it was fucking amazing as Ted performed each song with tons of energy and precision in an artful way.

Titus Andronicus had a raucous set of early Replacements tunes including “Kids Don’t Follow“, “Raised In The City” and “Treatment Bound”. St. Vincent came out and stole the show with her intense shredding while covering Steve Albini’s Big Black. Other notable performances were Dan Deacon embodying the madness that is The Butthole Surfers and Wye Oak tackling the massive fuzzed out riffs of Dinosaur Jr. Unfortunately, with this many bands playing there were some let downs including Tune-yards rendition of one Sonic Youth song (luckily Callers took the stage afterward to play 2 more, well) and Buke and Gass‘s tame Fugazi covers. I have nothing against playing the songs differently and making them your own but Buke and Gass was just completely underwhelming, though we captured some video of them so you can decide for yourself. Check out some photos and video footage below.

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New LP from Sonic Youth frontman coming on May 24th, his first album produced by Beck Hansen.

Record Store Day 2010 taking place on April 18th is rapidly approaching and the release listing is finally available. Many of the releases are exclusives and will sell out fast. Our recommendations of what vinyl to pick up are below as well as pressing information if available.

It’s about time! Sonic Youth’s guitar wizards Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo have been changing the way people approach playing a guitar for 20 + years and have officially made noise an art. Fender has given the two their own signature line of Jazzmasters, one of their most used guitars according to their extremely extensive gear guide.

You can find out all the techy stuff and a download of a new Sonic Youth track from The Eternal on the official site for the guitar.

Record Store Day will cometh this Saturday April 18th with a lot of new and exclusive vinyl fromSlayer, Mastodon, Jesus Lizard Russian Circles, Bad Religion and more. Check out all of our recommended releases after the jump.

Our New York pick for Record Store Day is Generation Records where the Bouncing Souls will be performing a special acoustic set at 2 PM in the basement if you buy their 7 inch at the store. More details on their site.

Fear not, New England Metal Festers, there is a store in Worcester called That’s Entertainment that is part of Record Store Day. Only about 2 miles away from the venue, so it’s a convenient stop on the way to the fest.