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Purple Rain tour

Find full concert footage or check out the recent album that came out. Insane. But also Springsteen at Hammersmith Odeon ’75 Björk Homogenic tour The Last Waltz Some bar somewhere in the south of Spain witnessing the flamenco greats go off To be a fly on the wall at Radiohead - From the Basement Sly & the Family Stone @ Woodstock OG shows of Rage Against the Machine Queen Live Aid ‘85 God, it’s endless

@thisryanegan

Feb 23, 2024

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Green Day: Jaded in Chicago (Full Soundcheck & Show, Uncensored) | Chicago, Illinois [11/18/1994]

nothing comes close. Best live version of "She" too to close it. Perfec

@Rattlesnake

Mar 5, 2025

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florence + the machine (orlando 2019)

i was on a bad date but completely forgot about it when she came on to the stage. her presence was genuinely supernatural. she could have started the midsommar cult right then and there if she wished

@dotmatrices

Aug 29, 2024

Top Recs from @jake-sillen

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Live Theatre

I’m trying to bring theatre back to the city! Back in January Sam Rolfes and I directed a huge one-night-only musical show called Diskokina, and I’m currently developing the Club Cringe showcase for festivals. As a result, theatre is seeping into everything else I’m doing right now. I’ve been spending a bunch of time in the Theatre archives up on 64th st, where you can watch the city’s archive of musicals and plays dating back over 50 years - but the catch is you can only view each production once in your lifetime. It’s so depressing that the only shows we see talked about online is shit like Hamilton. Plays used to be such a big part of New York’s cultural export and it feels like it’s kind of been handed off to the tourists. I think performers in general play it very safe and calculated these days, which is why I’m drawn to musicians who get up there and present a whole idea in their live shows. Frost Children and Club Eat come to mind immediately. It’s vulnerable and cringe to get up on stage and start sharing things that used to be just in your notes app, to a whole room full of people. I guess that’s where the name Club Cringe comes from. It’s more about the risk of performing something big and high concept and being okay with potentially seeing it flop or be ill-recieved, “coming off cringe” than it is about the work actually being intentionally cringey.

@jake-sillen

Mar 29, 2023

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Vampire Survivors

If you’ve been living under a rock, let me tell you. This is probably the best game released last year and it’s only $3. My business partners would be horrified to learn how many hundreds of hours I’ve given to this game. After a long day on set, there’s nothing better than posting up horizontal for a few half hour runs through the Inlaid Library while you listen to the new Lana album.

@jake-sillen

Mar 29, 2023

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Pannenkoek12’s 2016 masterpiece “Watch for Rolling Rocks 0.5 A Presses (Commentated)”

Speedrunning, if you don’t know, is a community that challenges each other to get to the endpoint of any video game as fast as possible, ignoring the actual content of the game often through glitches and exploits. As my good friend DJ Wallh4x once said, at its purest, it turns each title into a game of chess. Meaning that, it’s inner workings have been so poured over that every possible action has been mapped out into a matrix and optimized, so the closer a record holder gets to the absolute purest optimization, it starts to become years between any signs of progress. Seven years later, this video is still like a comfort stim blanket for me. It’s a breakdown of speedrun techniques used by pros and TAS in a specific world level of Mario 64 but it’s such a beautiful illustration of complex techniques used to an end that so many people would call pointless. I kind of think of it like that Malcom Gladwell 10,000 hours thing - and it’s so cool to think that that applies to anything, not just more conventional skills and trades. It’s meditative, genius, and weirdly anarchistic. And keep in mind this is just one level of one game. It’s art. I hope to make something as beautiful as this one day. If I try to explain it any more here I’ll sound insane so just watch it for yourself.

@jake-sillen

Mar 29, 2023