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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Titus Andronicus opened up their set of Replacements covers at the Our Band Could Be Your Life 10th anniversary show with a rendition of “Kids Don’t Follow” featuring Craig Finn of the Hold Steady taking on the role of the Minneapolis police officer. Watch out for some crowd diving from Finn half way through. More photos and video of the event coming soon.

Check out a playlist below featuring our favorite tracks that were released right before or during the summer of 2010. The mix includes jams from Deftones, Colleen Green, Ty Segall, Wavves, Titus Andronicus, Coliseum, Best Coast, The Get Up Kids, The Soft Pack, Noun, Against Me!, RVIVR, Fang Island, Phantogram and Far.

Brooklyn Vegan’s SXSW day party at Emo’s has a killer lineup with the likes of Fucked Up, Torche, Titus Andronicus, Japandroids, GZA, Salome and more. Check out the details below.

Titus Andronicus warmed up the stage for Fucked Up’s full performance of The Chemistry of Common Life. Check out some pictures below of the Jersey hipster punks below.

Fucked Up have announced that they will be performing The Chemistry of Common Life in it’s entirety at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple on November 5th. To make the night extra special the band has announced a slew of killer guests including Andrew W.K. (Keyboards) / Vivian Girls (Backup Vocals) as well as Titus Andronicus and Katie Stelmanis. So keep a pair of shorts ready for November because it gets sweaty in the Masonic Temple. Chemistry was one of our favorite records of 2008, we are stoked for this.

Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 AM.