First off, apologies for the lack of recent updates. As you have noticed, the site has gotten a much needed makeover. This took up much of the time that would have been used to compose the updates. Please let us know if we missed anything! Anywho, with things wrapping up, we have some serious catching up to do!

Set lists and photos from recent shows at Tupelo Music Hall, Asylum, Paradise Rock Club and Jerky's Bar. Check out the new, consolidated Dates page for those links, as well as the upcoming schedule.

In addition to set lists and photos, there are four(!) new full shows available from these dates on archive.org. Huge thanks to everybody for their contributions!

Labels: Audio, Pictures, Rustic Overtones, Setlists, Site News

Pictures, setlist and recording of the Rustic Overtones performance at Bull Moose on Saturday have been added to our archive. Check out the gallery and setlist while you await your download.

A big thank you to Nuphus for the photos, and you guessed it, Onlycrayons, for the audio. Thanks to Donna as well for the clip above as well as one of Troublesome, which you can see here.

Labels: Audio, Links, Pictures, Rustic Overtones, Setlists, Video

As promised, there is a recording of their release party show available for download. Huge thanks go out again to Forum member Onlycrayons for taping and sharing it.

Part 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?d0rojm3uv1s
Part 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?yvddfwi0mmb

Setlist (PSC and AFA setlist archives are in the works) is as follows:

Homewrecker
Beakless Bird
Meow
Gretchen My Creep
Your Lips to Gods Ears
Somebody's Fool
Skin the Kat
Road to Hell
Can I See You Tomorrow
Destroy the Plastic Man
Dancing a Murderous Tango (with all six horn players from Murder of Crows)
What a Shame > All the Young Dudes

For My Life
Open Letter to the Damned
Bad Math (!!!)
Sleighjacking

Labels: As Fast As, Audio, Links

While you're over at the Bull Moose page, reserving your new Rustic CD, you may want to double up and get the new As Fast As album, Destroy The Plastique Man. Their latest creation became available just last week, following an in-store performance of their own.

You can download a recording of the Bull Moose performance here. Thanks to forum member Onlycrayons for that. As Fast As held a CD release party on the 14th at the Asylum, which he also taped, and should be available soon.

A few more quick points on Destroy the Plastique Man:
- As Fast As on WCYY's Spinout - Thurs. 3/20 7pm-10pm
- Story/interview and acoustic performance on WCSH's "207"
- As Fast As Myspace - listen to a few of the new tracks
- Destroy The Plastique Man - Discussion thread

Labels: As Fast As, Audio, Links, Video

I've finished going back through my collection, and I have more goodies for you. Yeah, it took me over a week, but I was comparing what I had to items available on the Official Media Thread before I posted them to avoid duplicates. I believe these will all be new additions.

Without further ado, here's your links:

Rustic Overtones - Black Leather Bag.mp3
Rustic Overtones - Happy.mp3
Rustic Overtones - Last Night's Band.mp3
Rustic Overtones - Check.mp3
Rustic Overtones - Rock Like War.mp3
Rustic Overtones - Simple Song.mp3

Labels: Audio, Links, Rustic Overtones

As promised, here's another full Paranoid Social Club show. This was live at the State Theater, from November 30, 2002. Download it now: ParanoidSocialClub-11-30-2002.zip

There is a copy of this show on archive.org, but it is .flac format, which is a high quality, lossless file. It is also significantly larger file size. Options are always good, though, so grab your mp3s or your flacs, and enjoy the show!

As you can see with the archive page, this was taped and created by Aaron Parker. All credit goes to him and I'm going to take this opportunity to thank him for all the work he's shared with us. It is much appreciated!

The order of the set is as follows:

1. Bully
2. Evolution
3. Last Cigarette
4. Fucking With My Head
5. In My Headphones
6. Theme Song
7. Combustible
8. She Gets Me High
9. The Big Picture
10. Soul Demolition
11. Ricochet
12. Save Me
13. Wasted

Labels: Audio, Links, Paranoid Social Club

I'm going through my stash of Rustic-related files and have uncovered a few things to upload in the next few days. The first of which I've sorted out, is what appears to be the debut of Paranoid Social Club. I'm not sure where I got it, to be honest, so I'm trying to piece together the details.

Before we get into that, here's your link so you can get that download started now! ParanoidSocialClub-FirstShow.zip

Originally, it was a single mp3 file, PSC_live_jun5.mp3 which obviously leads us to believe that the date of the show was June 5th, 2002. Listening to the recording, they state it is their first performance, and also we learn that they are opening for 2 Skinnee J's. That's what we'll go with, but if you have any knowledge as to the date, the venue, and so forth; or can confirm this as correct, by all means please do so!

While I've split it into separate tracks, all credit goes to the original taper. The order of the set is as follows:

1. Save Me
2. Can't Buy Me Love
3. In My Headphones
4. Theme Song
5. Soul Demolition
6. She Gets Me High
7. Everybody Run (Ricochet)
8. Last Cigarette
9. Evolution
10. Rocksinger
11. The Big Picture
12. Wasted

Labels: Audio, Paranoid Social Club

As promised, the New Year's Eve Bash was recorded. The quality isn't the best, unfortunately, due to input levels, but it's better than nothing, and there's some great moments in each set that are worth checking out, absolutely. The setlist is up (yes, finally) with notes from the message board by Darek.

Here's links to the recordings, I sliced up the three sets posted on the board into tracks, and zipped them by set: As Fast As, Paranoid Social Club, Rustic Overtones

Capping things off in a big way, here's a boatload of Youtube links. A huge thanks to Kane for capping them!! Nice work!!

As Fast As
Open Letter To The Damned
Gretchen My Captain (embedded above)
This Is Real Part 1
This Is Real Part 2

Paranoid Social Club
Theme Song
Rhythm Is (With Spencer)
Fuckin With My Head

Rustic Overtones
The Letter & Hardest Way Possible
C'Mon
Sector Z

Labels: As Fast As, Audio, Paranoid Social Club, Rustic Overtones, Setlists, Video

Missed the Rustic Overtones show at the Waterville Opera House? As you can see, MPBN has it! But they're not alone. There's a few versions of this performance available for download.

Board member Nuphus recorded it from the live stream (Part 1, Part 2) although experienced an occasional cut-out in the sound. Next, you can download it from the MPBN site, as one huge mp3. Your third option is courtesy of Darek, who cut the MPBN copy into separate tracks. You can download that zip file here.

MPBN has also made Marie Morsehead's set available. You'll have to grab that from their site, however.

I've tacked on the setlist for the show which includes a long commentary by Nuphus, so check that out while you wait for your downloads. Also, if you were in attendance at the Pickle Barrel, on the 27th, we are missing that setlist and/or details. Get in touch with us if you have something! Thanks to everyone for their efforts!

Labels: Audio, Links, Rustic Overtones, Setlists

Rustic is playing NOW at the Waterville Opera House. It is an acoustic show featuring an orchestra composed of local musicians, mostly high school students. More information can be found here.

You can listen to a live stream of the show broadcast by Maine Public Broadcasting Network here, and if you miss it, don't worry! The show will also be made available to download in the coming week. Apologies for the late notice, but better late than never, no?

Labels: Audio, Rustic Overtones

Here are links to a recording of Friday's show at Harpers Ferry. There are two options to download, track by track as single mp3s, or in 2 parts (part 1, part 2) in zip files. Huge thanks to Peter (Onlycrayons) for getting this taped!

Labels: Audio, Links, Rustic Overtones

I am off to Boston for the weekend, to catch Saturday's (and maybe Friday's too) performance at Harpers Ferry. Getting together with my old roommate, and with questionable weather, it could be a few days until I'm able to upload and post my pictures. I'm bringing my camera junk with me, so if there's time I'll do it there.

In the meantime, I leave you with some old goodies. First item of business, all of the photo galleries have been revamped. The images have been moved to a dedicated photobucket, and the galleries were reworked so that it's no longer a single column down the whole page. Faster loading, less scrolling, happier fingers!

The second item is another bootleg, featuring Rustic Overtones, live at Fletcher's, in Baltimore, Maryland. This set is from June 14, 2001. I thought it was on Archive.org, but I can't find it anymore, so I put it up. You can download it here. Have a great weekend!

Labels: Audio, Rustic Overtones, Setlists, Site News

In case you don't read the message board (you should!) members Darek & 4khiker unearthed an old gem of a show and have shared it with us. It is a live acoustic recording from The Big Easy on August 17th, 2001. You can a) download it here, b) check out the setlist here, or c) read (and register!) for the forum here.

Labels: Audio, Links, Rustic Overtones, Setlists

Rustic played Friday night, at Higher Ground, in Burlington, Vermont. A handful of board members were in attendance, including Adam/Handsingloves, who was kind enough to tape the show and hook us up. As always, get it here or head on over to the Rustic media section for it and more goodies. A gallery is also in the makings, courtesy of Darek, which I will put up soon. Thanks again, you two!

Labels: Audio, Links, Rustic Overtones

The moment we've all been waiting for. Earlier this evening the guys played their first real show, with all the guys there, plugged-in and everything.


You can see a small gallery here at MaineToday, and more importantly you can find a recording(!) of the performance, broken into individual tracks, courtesy of Tim over at RockLikeWar. If you've got any shots of your own, pass 'em on to us and we'll get them into a gallery.

Labels: Audio, Links, Pictures, Rustic Overtones

Chances are you're already scoring all the goodies there, but if you haven't found it yet, click on over to www.rocklikewar.com. Some great finds, mastered live recordings both new and old. Be sure to drop in and sign up on the forums, join the discussion, and get to know fellow rustic fans.

Labels: Audio, Links, Rustic Overtones, Video