Mid Year Best Live Shows

[Vas Deferens]

What's yours?
 
 Mine:
 
 1. Simian Mobile Disco/Cut Copy @ Mezzanine, SF
 2. Mission of Burma @ Black Cat
 3. The Delta Spirit @ DC9
 4. Sharon Jones @ BC
 5. The Coup @ Shattuck Down Low, Berkeley
 
 Also loved: Devotchka @930, Nicole Atkins @ RnR, Clinic @BC and Black Mountain @ RnR

[killsaly]

1. Bonde Do Role at Sonar
 2. Cloud Cult at RNRH
 3. My Morning Jacket at Bonnaroo
 4. Datarock at RNRH
 5. Cut Copy at Sonar

[walkonby]

only one, because no other can compare
 
 widespread panic  4/25 - 26  raleigh
 
 front row, night one
 best show for the boys, period, night two.

[azaghal1981]

Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
  What's yours?
 
 Mine:
 
 1. Simian Mobile Disco/Cut Copy @ Mezzanine, SF
 2. Mission of Burma @ Black Cat
 3. The Delta Spirit @ DC9
 4. Sharon Jones @ BC
 5. The Coup @ Shattuck Down Low, Berkeley
 
 Also loved: Devotchka @930, Nicole Atkins @ RnR, Clinic @BC and Black Mountain @ RnR

Surprised Carla and Dirty Projectors weren't anywhere on your list after all the raving you did about them.
 
 
 Off the top of my head, in no particular order:
 Six Organs
 Cornelius
 Carla
 Dirty Projectors
 Boris in NYC
 Boris last night
 Devotchka
 Gary Higgins
 Allen/Richard Bishop
 Jamie Lidell

[lancha]

in no order:
 
 Aphex Twin @ Coachella
 Kraftwerk @ Coachella
 Portishead @ Coachella
 Radiohead @ Bristow
 Gogol Bordello @ Richmond

[xneverwherex]

Coldplay @ Today show - best show so far hands down.        
 
 Orchestra performing Jonny Greenwood's music @ Church of St. Paul the Apostle
 Blonde Redhead/The Raveonettes @ Terminal 5
 Jose Gonzalez @ Highline Ballroom
 Digitalism @ Webster Hall
 Holy Fuck @ Music Hall of W'burg
 Swell Season @ Radio City
 Sondre Lerche @ Joes Pub
 Presets/Walter Meego @ Bowery
 The Cure @ MSG

[Vas Deferens]

carla bozulich and dirty projectors are in my top 10  

[Relaxer]

Been a piss-poor year for me, but it will improve once my domestic situation sorts itself out.
 
 Happily, I've enjoyed two great shows this year. Place to Bury Strangers (as opener for Sons and Daughters) was excellent, as were the Butthole Surfers a couple weeks ago.

[sonickteam2]

Radiohead @ Nissan (obviously)
 Bauhaus @ Rams Head Live
 Gogol Bordello @ Bonnaroo
 MSTRKRFT @ Ottobar
 Weakerthans @ Recher
 
  I dont get out much, sorry!

[azaghal1981]

That APTBS set should be somewhere in my top 10 too.
 
 
 I really wanted to include Jens but last october's show was so much better than april's.

[thirsty moore]

Chicha Libre - Velvet Lounge
 X - 930 Club
 
 I haven't really seen much this year at all.

[sweetcell]

top 3 are easy - in order:
 
 1) radiohead @ superpages center, dallas
 2) sigur ros @ grand ballroom, nyc
 3) radiohead @ bristow
 
 i'll have to think about the rest of my list.  early candidates for inclusion are sonic youth, digitalism, thievery/tvotr/ladytron, tom morello et al., and black angels.  not sure these counts as shows, but the Justice and SMD dj sets i caught in chicago were really really great, definite musical highlights for me.  
 
 i can guarantee you that marnie stern isn't on my list.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I'm surprised nobody has said the Wilco shows.
 
 I also enjoyed Nada Surf, Drive By Truckers, and Fleet Foxes.

[lagas]

The Cure @ Patriot Center
 REM @ Merriweather
 MRSKRFT @ 930
 Black Mountain @ RnR
 Peter Murphy @ Rams head
 Digitalism @ DC9
 Erykah Badu @ Constitution Hall

[sweetcell]

good point - i thought wilco were really good, they might take the slot in my top 10.  i'm only so-so on wilco, big-time fans probably got more enjoyment out of that show.