The Decemberists - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 9-26-2015

Here's another concert from the great Capitol Theatre in Port Chester soundboard leak. Except to see a LOT more of these from me in the next couple of months! I'd love to post all of the 85 or so I have yet to post by the end of 2026, so I could start with a relatively clean slate in 2027. Out of all the musical acts I've heard from these shows so far that I wasn't familiar with yet, I think I was most impressed by the Decemberists. 

Their Wikipedia entry has this to say about the band: "The Decemberists are an American indie rock band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2000. ... As of 2024, the band has released nine studio albums with their lyrics often focusing on historical incidents and folklore. Audience participation is a part of their live performances, typically during encores. The band stages whimsical reenactments of sea battles and other centuries-old events, typically of regional interest, or acts out songs with members of the crowd."

Here's the link to their full Wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decemberists

In January 2015, the band released the studio album "What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World," and they were touring to support that at the time of this concert. Previously, the band generally released concept albums about some pretty esoteric concept. For instance, this concert ends with a bunch of songs from the band's 2009 album "The Hazards of Love," which is a concept album about a woman who falls in love with a shape-shifting boreal forest dweller, only to be opposed by the forest queen. But the band's 2015 album was more straight-forward, by their standards. A New York Times review said the album "strikes a note of pop concision and maturity, building on what worked on [their previous album] 'The King Is Dead.' Lyrically, there are fewer thistles and minarets and palanquins - and, musically, less digressive excess - than once made up the Decemberists' trademark style."

Like most albums I'm posting from the Capitol Theatre leak, I started with a single audio file consisting of a mono soundboard of the whole concert. Then I broke it into individual mp3s. That was tricky here, especially for their suite of songs from "The Hazards of Love," but hopefully I got the song breaks right. 

This album is an hour and 49 minutes long. 

01 talk (Decemberists)
02 The Crane Wife 3 [Instrumental] (Decemberists)
03 Leslie Anne Levine (Decemberists)
04 talk (Decemberists)
05 Down by the Water (Decemberists)
06 talk (Decemberists)
07 Rox in the Box (Decemberists)
08 talk (Decemberists)
09 Philomena (Decemberists)
10 The Wrong Year (Decemberists)
11 talk (Decemberists)
12 On the Bus Mall (Decemberists)
13 talk (Decemberists)
14 Why Would I Now (Decemberists)
15 Make You Better (Decemberists)
16 talk (Decemberists)
17 Carolina Low (Decemberists)
18 talk (Decemberists)
19 July, July (Decemberists)
20 talk (Decemberists)
21 O Valencia (Decemberists)
22 talk (Decemberists)
23 The Chimbley Sweep (Decemberists)
24 talk (Decemberists)
25 Fits and Starts (Decemberists)
26 talk (Decemberists)
27 Prelude - The Hazards of Love 1 [The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone] (Decemberists)
28 A Bower Scene - Won't Want for Love [Margaret in the Taiga] (Decemberists)
29 The Rake's Song (Decemberists)
30 The Hazards of Love 4 [The Drowned] (Decemberists)
31 talk (Decemberists)
32 Of Angels and Angles (Decemberists)
33 talk (Decemberists)
34 Dear Avery (Decemberists)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/kUoznWnV 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/XPeHRaIQjMNyWQ3/file

The cover image of the band's lead singer Colin Meloy is from this exact concert.

The Moody Blues - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 11-27-2012

I just posted an announcement, asking for feedback on which of the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester soundboard leak concerts I should post first. The first comment suggested the Moody Blues, so here we go.

By 2012, the Moody Blues were well past their glory years, with their last studio album coming in 2003. They were down to three members dating back to the 1960s: Justin Hayward, John Lodge, and Graeme Edge. But they still put on a good concert, at you can hear here. They stayed together until the end of 2018, when Edge died. Since then, all the original members have passed except Hayward, the band's main singer and songwriter.

I have to admit I "cheated" a bit with this concert. The Capitol Theatre soundboard leak mentioned above actually included all of this November 27, 2012 concert, plus the second half of the November 28th. The set lists were basically the same, except the November 28th portion we have included the song "Driftwood." So I stuck that into this concert, in the same spot it occupied on November 28th.

This album is an hour and 52 minutes long. 

01 Gemini Dream (Moody Blues)
02 The Voice (Moody Blues)
03 Steppin' in a Slide Zone (Moody Blues)
04 You and Me (Moody Blues)
05 Tuesday Afternoon (Moody Blues)
06 Gypsy (Moody Blues)
07 talk (Moody Blues)
08 Nervous (Moody Blues)
09 talk (Moody Blues)
10 Say It with Love (Moody Blues)
11 talk (Moody Blues)
12 Peak Hour (Moody Blues)
13 I Know You're Out There Somewhere (Moody Blues)
14 The Story in Your Eyes (Moody Blues)
15 talk (Moody Blues)
16 Driftwood (Moody Blues)
17 Your Wildest Dreams (Moody Blues)
18 talk (Moody Blues)
19 Isn't Life Strange (Moody Blues)
20 The Other Side of Life (Moody Blues)
21 talk (Moody Blues)
22 Higher and Higher (Moody Blues)
23 Are You Sitting Comfortably (Moody Blues)
24 talk (Moody Blues)
25 I'm Just a Singer [In a Rock and Roll Band] (Moody Blues)
26 Late Lament [Poem] (Moody Blues)
27 Nights in White Satin (Moody Blues)
28 talk (Moody Blues)
29 Question (Moody Blues)
30 Ride My See Saw (Moody Blues)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/FnMpQo5t

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/qNKEvbJsYLZMHox/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. 

More Port Chester Concerts Coming

In recent weeks, I've been listening almost exclusively to April 2026 Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York soundboard concerts. In my opinion, this is an amazing musical treasure trove, but most of it is in danger of being forgotten. 

I've posted about 35 concerts from the trove already. There are a few dozen different ones posted by others at bootleg sharing sites as well. But there are many dozens more that are not being shared anywhere I can see, not even at SoulseekQT, which normally has everything. It's been more than six months since the leak, and I don't see anyone else posting more concerts from this, not even in their raw form. So that's why I'm really focusing on getting these out there, even for musical acts I barely know or don't like all that much. And also even though it's a pain in the rear, since the vast majority of these were leaked as single files, which I then have to chop up into mp3s. I have a feeling that if I don't share these, nobody will. 

I've been a very busy bee. The following is a list of all the concerts I have all ready to go, with the mp3 splits and other audio editing, plus the cover art made. (Another thing I really like about these concerts is that there are good photos from the vast majority of them, due to the venue posting thousands of photos at Flickr.) All I need to do is upload them and write the write-ups. I could post these in any order, and so far I'm doing that pretty randomly. But if anyone wants me to post any of these sooner rather than later, please let me know which ones in this thread. I should start posting a lot more now that I've finished processing so many. I believe it's 53 more concerts in all. 

B.B. King
Beth Hart
Black Crowes (two concerts)
Bob Weir (three concerts)
Brandi Carlile
Bruce Hornsby
Chris Stapleton
Counting Crows
Elvis Costello & the Roots
Decemberists
Fishbone
Garbage
Gov't Mule (two concerts)
Grace Potter
Hot Tuna
Iggy Pop
Iron & Wine
Jackson Browne
J. Geils Band
Keb Mo
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
King Crimson
Lemonheads
Little Feat
Los Lobos
Lyle Lovett
Moody Blues
Neko Case
Neutral Milk Hotel
Old 97's
Peter Frampton
Phil Lesh & Friends (three concerts, all with Joan Osborne)
Psychedelic Furs
Queens of the Stone Age
REO Speedwagon
Roots
Sarah McLachlan
Sheryl Crow
Shins
Spoon
Steve Earle
Tedeschi Trucks (two concerts)
Trigger Hippy
Wallflowers
Warren Haynes
Willie Nelson

But wait, there's more! There are still more concerts that I haven't listened to or processed at all. These will take more time. Generally speaking, they consist of musical acts I'm less familiar with or completely unfamiliar with. (And, by the way, there are still dozens more concert recordings in the leak that I'm skipping entirely, because I checked at the rateyourmusic.com website, and they don't have many fans.) Out of the ones below, I'll probably process some of them, but not all. It depends on two things. One, how much do I like them. And two, how much popular demand there is for them. So if you want me to post some of these, let me know which ones, and that will influence what I do with them. I believe there's 37 concerts in this second list below. Thanks.

I gotta say I'm enjoying this project because my musical tastes are mostly stuck in the 1960s to 1990s. Since the vast majority of these are from 2012 to 2019, it's "forcing" me to listen to more musical acts I had overlooked. (There's a minority from after 2019 that weren't part of the leak, mostly webcasts from the same venue that I happened to find.) Some of these musical acts don't impress me much, but some do, so it's expanding my musical horizons a bit. Overall, I'd say the venue has very good taste in the kinds of musical acts they book, which is what makes this trove so interesting to me.

Alabama Shakes
Alejandro Escovedo
Avett Brothers (two concerts)
Blues Traveler
Claypool Lennon Delirium
Courtney Marie Andrews
Dan Auerbach
Dawes
Dion
Drive-By Truckers (2013)
Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians
Elf Power
Felice Brothers
Furthur
Gary Clark, Jr.
Geese (two concerts)
Grizzly Bear
Jane's Addiction
Jason Isbell (2019)
Jenny Lewis
Jim James
Mac DeMarco
Modest Mouse
My Morning Jacket
Ray LaMontagne
Regina Spektor
Ryan Adams
Spin Doctors
Strokes
Trey Anastasio Band (two concerts)
Warren Haynes (two concerts)
Ween
Wilco

The Flaming Lips - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 7-30-2019

I've been meaning to post some music from the Flaming Lips for years now. I have some BBC music collected from them, but I have get to get around to properly organizing it. But now I have an excuse to post something from them, because this concert was part of the April 2026 Capitol Theatre in Port Chester soundboard leak.

Here's part of the intro to their Wikipedia entry:

"The band started out playing garage punk and noise pop, before branching into more psychedelic and experimental territory. They recorded several albums and EPs on an indie label, Restless, in the 1980s and early 1990s. After signing to Warner Brothers they released 'Hit to Death in the Future Head' (1992), followed by 'Transmissions from the Satellite Heart' (1993) and the hit single 'She Don't Use Jelly' which broke the band into the mainstream. They later released 'The Soft Bulletin' (1999), which was NME magazine's Album of the Year, followed by the critically acclaimed 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots' (2002). In February 2007, they were nominated for a BRIT Award for 'Best International Act.' The group has won three Grammy Awards, including two for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. They were placed on Q magazine's list of the '50 Bands to See Before You Die' in 2002."

Here's a link to their full Wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flaming_Lips

Earlier in 2019, the band released the studio album "King's Mouth: Music and Songs." However, they only played a grand total of one song from that album: "Feedaloodum Beedle Dot." Instead, most of the songs are from the late 1990s and early 20002, widely considered their creative peak.

This album is an hour and 18 minutes long.

01 talk (Flaming Lips)
02 Also Sprach Zarathustra [Instrumental] (Flaming Lips)
03 Race for the Prize (Flaming Lips)
04 talk (Flaming Lips)
05 Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 1 (Flaming Lips)
06 There Should Be Unicorns (Flaming Lips)
07 talk (Flaming Lips)
08 She Don't Use Jelly (Flaming Lips)
09 talk (Flaming Lips)
10 True Love Will Find You in the End (Flaming Lips)
11 talk (Flaming Lips)
12 Feedaloodum Beedle Dot (Flaming Lips)
13 The Star-Spangled Banner (Flaming Lips)
14 talk (Flaming Lips)
15 The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (Flaming Lips)
16 talk (Flaming Lips)
17 Are You a Hypnotist (Flaming Lips)
18 talk (Flaming Lips)
19 All We Have Is Now (Flaming Lips)
20 talk (Flaming Lips)
21 Do You Realize (Flaming Lips)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/exs2yBh4 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/cMB2yGLJTApwmqO/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. The Flaming Lips are well known for their impressive visual props in their concerts. Lead singer Wayne Coyne can be seen below one of the robots from "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots."

Phil Lesh & Friends - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 11-15-2012

Here's another concert from the April 2026 Capitol Theatre in Port Chester soundboard leak. This one features Phil Lesh and Friends. There are gazillions of concert recordings from this Grateful Dead spin-off band, like there are for most such spin-off bands. But I want to post this anyway to be true to posting all the good stuff from the leak.

If you're not that familiar, Phil Lesh was the bassist for the entire duration of the Grateful Dead's existence. He was a great bassist, but had limitations as a vocalist. He was kind of the Ringo Starr of the Dead when it came to singing, meaning he might get one song on a studio album to sing, if even that much. He wasn't that prolific as a songwriter either, though he did write a few really good ones, especially "Box of Rain," the last song in this concert. 

Thus, even though he was the star attraction here due to his history with the Grateful Dead, it's hard to lead a concert as a bassist who only occasionally sings. So there's a lot of leaning on the "Friends" part of "Phil Lesh and Friends." Here are the other members of the band in this concert:
Jackie Greene: Guitar, Keyboards, and Vocals
Adam MacDougall: Keyboards and Vocals
John Kadlecik: Guitar and Vocals
Joe Russo: Drums 

Greene has had a pretty successful music career as a singer-songwriter, as well as being in some other bands, such as Trigger Hippy with Joan Osborne. John Kadlecik has an amaaaazing ability to sound like Jerry Garcia, both with his lead vocals and his lead guitar work. Even though it's an imitative thing, I still find it impressive, showing a lot of talent.

Phil Lesh and Friends existed from 2008 until when Lesh died in 2024. Here's the Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Lesh_and_Friends 

I believe every single song here was played by the Grateful Dead at some point, including the covers, such as "Dear Mr. Fantasy," originally by Traffic. 

The album is two hours and 47 minutes long.

01 talk (Phil Lesh & Friends)
02 Jack Straw (Phil Lesh & Friends)
03 Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo (Phil Lesh & Friends)
04 talk (Phil Lesh & Friends)
05 Crazy Fingers (Phil Lesh & Friends)
06 He's Gone (Phil Lesh & Friends)
07 Cold Rain and Snow (Phil Lesh & Friends)
08 Ship of Fools (Phil Lesh & Friends)
09 Mason's Children (Phil Lesh & Friends)
10 talk (Phil Lesh & Friends)
11 Dear Mr. Fantasy (Phil Lesh & Friends)
12 Help on the Way - Slipknot (Phil Lesh & Friends)
13 Viola Lee Blues (Phil Lesh & Friends)
14 Alligator (Phil Lesh & Friends)
15 The Eleven (Phil Lesh & Friends)
16 Standing on the Moon (Phil Lesh & Friends)
17 Uncle John's Band (Phil Lesh & Friends)
18 Slipknot (Phil Lesh & Friends)
19 Franklin's Tower (Phil Lesh & Friends)
20 talk (Phil Lesh & Friends)
21 Box of Rain (Phil Lesh & Friends) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/7fBFDhdq

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/YXgyXLMQ3bOCah0/file

The cover image of Phil Lesh is from this exact concert. I took the text at the top from a concert poster.

Power to the People Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, 10-3-2026, Part 10 - Bruce Springsteen

Here's the tenth and last out of ten albums of the October 2026 Power to the People Festival. This one stars Bruce Springsteen. But it also featured a number of special guests, and ended with all the stars from earlier in concert on stage for a couple of finale songs.

This was a rather strange set by Springsteen. I was expecting a more typical set from him, which are often long and mostly filled with songs he wrote. But the set was rather short by his standards, under an hour, and most of it felt like an extended finale. Weirdly, he only played two songs that he wrote, "Streets of Minneapolis" and "The Ghost of Tom Joad." Both of those had obvious political relevance for the festival's progressive themes, especially the recently written "Streets of Minneapolis." The covers were also along the same lines, such as "Clampdown," the Clash's song against dictators and fascism, and "Fortunate Son," the Creedence Clearwater Revival song about the unfairness of who fight in most wars.

There were special guests on almost every song, many with prominent roles. For instance, Springsteen sang a duet with Joan Baez on Bob Dylan's "Chimes of Freedom." And festival organizer Tom Morello was heavily involved, which was fitting, since he's been in Springsteen's touring band in recent years. He even was the main lead vocalist for Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land," including singing some verses that were mostly forgotten over the decades because of their overtly political nature.

I hope listening to the sets from this concert has helped inspired you to vote for the upcoming midterm elections, if you're an American citizen. Let's kick the bums out. Power to the people! 

This album is 49 minutes long.

01 talk (Tom Morello)
02 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
03 Streets of Minneapolis (Bruce Springsteen)
04 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
05 Chimes of Freedom (Bruce Springsteen & Joan Baez)
06 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
07 Clampdown (Bruce Springsteen with Tom Morello)
08 The Ghost of Tom Joad (Bruce Springsteen & Tom Morello)
09 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
10 Fortunate Son (Bruce Springsteen with Dave Matthews, Tom Morello & Nathaniel Rateliff)
11 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
12 Rockin' in the Free World (Bruce Springsteen with Dave Grohl, Dave Matthews & Tom Morello)
13 talk (Tom Morello)
14 This Land Is Your Land (Tom Morello, Bruce Springsteen & Everyone)
15 Power to the People (Tom Morello, Bruce Springsteen & Everyone)
16 talk (Tom Morello, Bruce Springsteen & Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/foUCzyi6 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/w3zdlbyzpLHKDZi/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. From right to left in the front row: Bruce Springsteen, Jordan Edward Benjamin of Grandson, Tom Morello, Joan Baez, Nathaniel Rateliff, and Dave Matthews.

Power to the People Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, 10-3-2026, Part 9 - The Foo Fighters

Here's the ninth of ten albums of the October 2026 Power to the People Festival. This one stars the Foo Fighters, led by Dave Grohl.

I don't have a lot to say about this set. So this is as good a time as any to post this link from Rolling Stone magazine. It's a gallery of about 25 photos from the festival:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-pictures/tom-morello-power-to-the-people-springsteen-foo-fighters-1235635540/

Also, one notable thing about the festival that made some news headlines is that Jack Smith, who was a special prosecutor investigating some of President Trump's many crimes, attended. Grohl pointed him out with his banter before the song "My Hero," though without identifying him by name, and dedicated the song to him. 

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band guested on Mose Allison's "Young Man Blues." Other than that surprise choice, the other songs were all originals.

This album is 45 minutes long.

01 Times like These (Foo Fighters)
02 Young Man Blues (Foo Fighters)
03 All My Life (Foo Fighters)
04 The Pretender (Foo Fighters)
05 My Hero (Foo Fighters)
06 talk (Foo Fighters)
07 Best of You (Foo Fighters)
08 talk (Foo Fighters)
09 Everlong (Foo Fighters)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/r6jdfFFf

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/cX6CFywFaBvHQFd/file

The cover image is from this exact concert.

Power to the People Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, 10-3-2026, Part 8 - Dropkick Murphys

Here's the eighth out of ten albums of the October 2026 Power to the People Festival. This one stars the rock band the Dropkick Murphys.

This band is from the Boston area, and you can tell if you listen to the banter between songs. Their music rocks, but has a strong Irish music influence. It's been called Celtic punk or Celtic rock. They also have a strong politically progressive stance in many of their songs, which you can see by looking at some of the song titles here.

Here's their Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropkick_Murphys

This album is 43 minutes long.

01 Who'll Stand with Us (Dropkick Murphys)
02 The Boys Are Back (Dropkick Murphys)
03 Citizen I.C.E. (Dropkick Murphys)
04 talk (Dropkick Murphys)
05 Don't Call Me a Fucking Terrorist (Dropkick Murphys)
06 talk (Dropkick Murphys)
07 Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya (Dropkick Murphys)
08 talk (Dropkick Murphys)
09 Bury the Bones (Dropkick Murphys)
10 talk (Dropkick Murphys)
11 First Class Loser (Dropkick Murphys)
12 talk (Dropkick Murphys)
13 The Men Behind the Wire (Dropkick Murphys)
14 talk (Dropkick Murphys)
15 Rose Tattoo (Dropkick Murphys)
16 Worker's Song (Dropkick Murphys)
17 I'm Shipping Up to Boston (Dropkick Murphys)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/CHyMfxnc

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/7NxFKm0KU0FR92z/file

The cover image of lead singer Ken Casey is from this exact concert.

Power to the People Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, 10-3-2026, Part 7 - Joan Baez, Stephen Stills

Here's the seventh out of ten albums of the October 2026 Power to the People Festival. This one features two short sets, only starring Joan Baez and the other one starring Stephen Stills.

Baez only sang two songs, both folk music standards. "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" was written by Woody Guthrie. No doubt it was chosen because of its sympathy to illegal immigrants coming to the U.S., which has been a hot button political issue. She was backed by Nathaniel Rateliff on both songs.

At the time of this concert, Baez was 85 years old. I gotta say, her voice wasn't quite up to the task at various points. Apparently she'd already decided to retire from concerts, but I guess worthy causes like this one keep pulling her back. 

Stills, surprisingly, only sang one song. But it also was a very fitting one for this festival, his 1966 classic "For What It's Worth." He also was backed by Rateliff, and well as Tom Morello.

This album is 20 minutes long.

01 talk by Tom Morello (Joan Baez)
02 talk (Joan Baez)
03 Deportee [Plane Wreck at Los Gatos] (Joan Baez with Nathaniel Rateliff)
04 talk (Joan Baez)
05 Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round (Joan Baez with Nathaniel Rateliff)
06 talk by Tom Morello (Stephen Stills)
07 talk (Stephen Stills)
08 For What It's Worth (Stephen Stills with Tom Morello & Nathaniel Rateliff)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/FNbbeuaJ

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/OUSKM9Ke6FrXIRG/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Power to the People Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, 10-3-2026, Part 6 - Dave Matthews

Here's the sixth out of ten albums of the October 2026 Power to the People Festival. This one is a set by Dave Matthews.

At the time of this concert, it's been a while since Matthews last released at studio album, about three years. But two of the songs in this short set are currently unreleased: "Peace on Earth" and "Papertown." Also, he finished with a cover of the Marvin Gay classic "Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)." Apparently, this is the first time he ever played the song in concert. 

The performance was mostly acoustic in nature instead of with his usual band. However, he did have some light backing by other musicians, including a prominent female vocalist helping out on "Mercy, Mercy Me." 

This album is 30 minutes long.

01 talk by Tom Morello (Dave Matthews)
02 talk (Dave Matthews)
03 Don't Drink the Water - This Land Is Your Land (Dave Matthews)
04 talk (Dave Matthews)
05 Peace on Earth (Dave Matthews)
06 So Damn Lucky (Dave Matthews)
07 talk (Dave Matthews)
08 Papertown (Dave Matthews)
09 talk (Dave Matthews)
10 Save Me (Dave Matthews)
11 talk (Dave Matthews)
12 Mercy, Mercy Me [The Ecology] (Dave Matthews)
13 talk (Dave Matthews)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/P5gFJom3 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/CxpPUyEYCMav9rd/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Power to the People Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, 10-3-2026, Part 5 - Public Enemy

Here's the fifth out of ten albums of the October 2026 Power to the People Festival. This one features the rap group Public Enemy.

If you've been following this blog for a while, you must have noticed I'm not a fan of rap music, since I almost never post that kind of music here. But I do like Public Enemy, especially their first few albums. Unlike most rap I've heard, they talk about important things, especially political things, in an intelligent way, instead of the usual about ho's, wealth, boasting, dissing, and so forth. I also like how their music is clearly based on an appreciation of classic soul music. Plus, lead rapper Chuck D has an awesome, righteous voice. It's exactly as if Martin Luther King, Jr. were a rapper. And that's no coincidence, since Chuck D has said he's closely studied King's voice.

Here's their Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Enemy 

This album is 39 minutes long. 

01 talk (Public Enemy)
02 talk (Public Enemy)
03 Harder than You Think (Public Enemy)
04 talk (Public Enemy)
05 By the Time I Get to Arizona (Public Enemy)
06 Can't Truss It (Public Enemy)
07 talk (Public Enemy)
08 Shut 'Em Down (Public Enemy)
09 talk (Public Enemy)
10 Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos (Public Enemy)
11 Welcome to the Terrordome (Public Enemy)
12 He Got Game (Public Enemy)
13 talk (Public Enemy)
14 911 Is a Joke (Public Enemy)
15 State of the Union [STFU] (Public Enemy)
16 Black Is Back [Back in Black] (Public Enemy)
17 Bring the Noise (Public Enemy with Scott Ian)
18 Fight the Power (Public Enemy)
19 talk (Public Enemy)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/NCpdTc6g 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/AwOzCPdvC1YqERZ/file

The cover image of band leaders Chuck D and Flavor Flav is from this exact concert. 

Power to the People Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, 10-3-2026, Part 4 - Tom Morello

Here's the fourth out of ten albums of the October 2026 Power to the People Festival. This one stars Tom Morello.

I don't think any musician had more fun at this festival than Morello. He was its main organizer, and took full advantage of that role. He was all over the place, guesting in the sets by others and having lots of guests in this, his set. For instance, he played guitar for the entire Suns of Soundgarden set I posted already, and he'll show up some more in later sets.

Morello has had a very interesting and unusual music career. He's probably best known as the lead guitarist for Rage Against the Machine. But he's also been part of the successful groups Audioslave and Prophets of Rage, and has had a solo career in a very different folk rock style. He's also done a lot of collaboration with Bruce Springsteen, including occasionally being a member of his touring band in recent years. 

On top of all that, he's a very educated guy, having graduated from Harvard University with a degree in political science, and has become a knowledgeable socialist political activist. His political stances have strongly come through most of his music projects. He's been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his role in Rage Against the Machine, and Rolling Stone magazine has listed him at the 18th best guitarist of all time.

Here's his Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Morello 

This set was actually billed to "Tom Morello and Friends," because there were special guests on a majority of songs, including some where the guests were the main lead singers. Here's some information about the guests. 
- Grandson performed a set earlier in the festival, which you can find in Part 1. 
- Serj Tankian is the lead singer for the band System of a Down. 
- B-Real is one of the two lead rappers in the band Cypress Hill, which also performer earlier, also in Part 1.
- DMC is Darryl McDaniels, one of the two lead rappers in Run-DMC.
- Chuck D and Flavor Flav are members of the rap group Public Enemy. Their set will appear later in this festival. Also, Morello, B-Real, and Chuck D were all members of the rock rap supergroup Prophets of Rage. 
- Scott Ian is the leader of the thrash metal band Anthrax.
- Sen Dog is also a member of Cypress Hill, as well as lead vocalist for the nu metal band Powerflo.
- Jack Black is a famous actor as well as member of the rock band Tenacious D. He sang for the Black Sabbath tribute band Jack Sabbath in Part 2 of this festival.
- Dave Grohl is lead vocalist for the Foo Fighters. Their set will appear later in this festival. 

The songs here are a mix of songs Morello did for Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, and his solo career. Plus, there are occasional covers, such "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith, "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy, and "Rock and Roll All Nite" by Kiss. 

By the way, for track 7, I couldn't list all the songs in the medley or the song wouldn't play on my computer, due to the folder name plus file name being too long. Here's the full name of that one: "Bombtrack - Know Your Enemy - Bulls on Parade - Guerilla Radio - Sleep Now in the Fire - Bullet in the Head - Cochise." 

This album is an hour long. 

01 Soldier in the Army of Love (Tom Morello)
02 talk (Tom Morello)
03 Date Night (Tom Morello)
04 talk (Tom Morello)
05 Hold the Line (Tom Morello with grandson)
06 talk (Tom Morello)
07 Bombtrack-Know Your Enemy-Bulls on Parade-Guerilla Radio-Cochise [Instrumental] (Tom Morello)
08 talk (Tom Morello)
09 Adjourn It (Tom Morello with Serj Tankian)
10 talk (Tom Morello)
11 Like a Stone (Tom Morello with Serj Tankian)
12 Prophets of Rage (Tom Morello with B‐Real & Chuck D)
13 talk (Tom Morello)
14 It's Tricky (Tom Morello with DMC)
15 talk (Tom Morello)
16 Walk This Way (Tom Morello with Scott Ian, DMC, Chuck D, B-Real, Sen Dog & Jack Black)
17 talk (Tom Morello)
18 Fight the Power (Tom Morello with Flavor Flav, Chuck D, B-Real, Sen Dog & DMC)
19 talk (Tom Morello)
20 Killing in the Name [Instrumental Version] (Tom Morello)
21 Rock and Roll All Nite (Tom Morello with Dave Grohl)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/8FhGo73G

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/Y3tNkumREwSWnVq/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Power to the People Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, 10-3-2026, Part 3 - Nathaniel Rateliff

Here's the third out of ten albums of the October 2026 Power to the People Festival. This one stars singer-songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff.

I've posted a Nathaniel Rateliff performance before, from the 2025 FarmAid benefit concert. So I won't say much about him this time.

At the time of this concert, he hadn't released a new studio album since 2024. So the songs here are from a variety of his albums. Plus, "Standing in the Rain Boys" is an unreleased song at the time of this performance.

This album is 33 minutes long. 

01 talk (Nathaniel Rateliff)
02 Tonight No. 2 (Nathaniel Rateliff)
03 talk (Nathaniel Rateliff)
04 Heartless (Nathaniel Rateliff)
05 South of Here (Nathaniel Rateliff)
06 talk (Nathaniel Rateliff)
07 Standing in the Rain Boys (Nathaniel Rateliff)
08 talk (Nathaniel Rateliff)
09 The Future (Nathaniel Rateliff)
10 talk (Nathaniel Rateliff)
11 And It's Still Alright (Nathaniel Rateliff)
12 talk (Nathaniel Rateliff)
13 Time Stands (Nathaniel Rateliff)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/gWR7UErc

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/4SCiAk4cr7DQN0w/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Power to the People Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, 10-3-2026, Part 2 - Jack Sabbath, Suns of Soundgarden

Here's the second out of ten albums of the October 2026 Power to the People Festival. It's the first "proper" one, since it contains mp3s of each song instead of just one big file per music act. Actually, this contains two acts, Jack Sabbath and Suns of Soundgarden. I've put them together because their sets are rather short. Both of them also are similar in nature, since they're tribute bands playing songs from just one artist.

First is Jack Sabbath. The lead singer of this band is Jack Black, the famous actor. For this concert, they only covered songs by the heavy metal band Black Sabbath. As far as I can tell, this has been their one and only concert, at least so far. They haven't released any recorded music either.

Although Black is primarily known as an actor, he's had a long and successful career in music as well. He has an excellent voice, which he's shown off in some movies, like "High Fidelity." He's been part of a rock duo called Tenacious D since 1994. For this apparently one-off performance, all the other musicians he played with were quite young. Looking at video footage of them playing, I'm guessing they're all in their early teens. It's just like a real life version of his movie "School of Rock." The other band members are Roman Morello, son of Tom Morello (who organized the festival), Revel Ian, son of Scott Ian (leader of the thrash metal band Anthrax), Yokoya Soma, and Hugo Weiss. For their last song, "War Pigs," they were joined by Geezer Butler, the original bassist and lyricist for Black Sabbath.  

The second band here, Suns of Soundgarden, is very similar to the first one, except they're a tribute band for Soundgarden instead of Black Sabbath. (And by the way, I double checked, and their name is "Suns," not "Sons." Perhaps that's a reference to Soundgarden's best known song, "Black Hole Sun.") This also seems to have their their one and only performance, at least so far, and they also haven't released any recorded music. The band consists of Taylor Momsen from the Pretty Reckless on lead vocals, Matt Cameron from Soundgarden and Pearl Jam on drums, Mike McCready from Pearl Jam on guitar, Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave also on guitar, and Robbie Mangano on bass.

These are a little out of order in terms of the order of the music acts in the festival, but I put them together for the reasons mentioned above. In case you're curious, Jack Sabbath performed before Killer Mike, and Suns of Soundgarden performed before Public Enemy later in the day. 

This album is 37 minutes long. 

01 talk by Tom Morello (Jack Sabbath)
02 Mr. Crowley (Jack Sabbath)
03 talk (Jack Sabbath)
04 The Wizard (Jack Sabbath)
05 talk (Jack Sabbath)
06 War Pigs (Jack Sabbath with Geezer Butler)
07 talk by Tom Morello (Suns of Soundgarden)
08 Loud Love (Suns of Soundgarden)
09 Outshined (Suns of Soundgarden)
10 Spoonman (Suns of Soundgarden)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/fLkRzyZR

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/XWCjDC0uTdq08aw/file

 The cover image of Jack Sabbath is from this exact concert.

Power to the People Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, 10-3-2026, Part 1 - The Early Acts

I write this on October 20, 2026. Two weeks ago, on October 3rd, there was a big rock festival designed to get people excited to vote out the Republicans across the United States. It was organized by Tom Morello, former lead guitarist for Rage Against the Machine who has often been part of Bruce Springsteen's back-up band in recent years. In two weeks, on November, 3rd, that election is due to happen. I am hopeful there will be a big blue (Democratic) wave that starts turning the country away from Trump-led insanity. To help with that effort, I am posting this entire festival. Maybe this will help inspire you to vote, since much of the music here has political themes. (And if you're a Republican supporter, please go away, this music blog is not for you. And what the heck is wrong with you, sticking with him after his approval ratings are near historic lows for any modern president? Sheesh!)

Anyway, the reason I can post this is because video footage of the entire festival was broadcast for free on YouTube. I haven't seen it shared on any of the music sharing sites I visit though, probably because it's a really big pain in the butt to break it up into songs, or even individual acts. It's over nine hours long, so that's a lot of splitting to do.

In fact, it was a bit too much splitting for me. The first three and half hours of the festival consists of eight relatively little known music acts. I listened to all of them, twice. Some were okay, but none of them really grabbed me. So I decided to split the music into individual songs for the last five and half hours of music (with the bigger name acts, like Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, and the Foo Fighters), but not this first three and half hours. For these, I only broke them into the sets of each act. If anyone wants to further split some or all of these sets into individual songs, I would love that. Send that to me and I'll repost this that way.

However, I did grab all the set lists for these acts from setlist.fm. So you can follow along with them in the song list below.

Probably the best known act of these early acts is Cypress Hill. They sold millions of albums, especially in the 1990s. But they're a rap group, and I'm just not that into most rap, so I didn't feel inspired to split their songs into individual mp3s. Sorry.

Many if not all of the music acts here have leftist political songs, sometimes pretty radical. So if you're one of those people still part of the Republican clown car driving off the cliff, and still reading this, the odds are pretty good you will not want to hear this.

This album is 3 hours and 29 minutes long. 

01 Neighborhood Kids

Biddi Bomb
Brainwash
Third World Problems
Kids in the Cages

02 Last Internationale
 
Kick Out the Jams
Animals
Wanted Man
Hard Times

03 State Radio

Democracy in Kind
CIA
Revolutionaries
Calling All Crows
Cry Out
Gang of Thieves
Camilo

04 Kneecap

Unconquered - with Tom Morello

05 grandson

Autonomous Delivery Robot
Bury You
We Did It!!!
Oh No!!!
Self Immolation
Masters of War
Blood // Water

06 Linda Lindas

Gotta Get Out
Oh!
Burning Out
Blood on Our Hands
Closer
Nothing Left
Everybody Told Me
Racist, Sexist Boy

07 Killer Mike

Down by Law
Shed Tears
Never Scared
Never Scared [Second Version]
Kryptonite [I'm on It]
Slummer
Reagan
Yes!

08 Cypress Hill

When the Shit Goes Down
Real Estate
How I Could Just Kill a Man
Hand on the Pump
I Ain't Goin' Out like That
Bombtrack
[Rock] Superstar
Insane in the Brain
Jump Around - with Flavor Flav

https://pixeldrain.com/u/83kfvDae

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/tpJpNS5ssS7ueFH/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. Rather than show an image of one of the early acts in favor of all the others, I wanted something that represented the festival as a whole. So this is from the finale, with lots of people on stage, highlighting the large "Power to the People" sign. The text at the top is taken from a poster promoting the concert. I then used the same font when writing the text at the bottom.

The Rolling Stones - Ballads and Love Songs, Volume 2 (1964-2026) (A Mike Solof Guest Post)

A couple of days ago, I posted "Volume 1" in this short series. Here's the second and final album of the Rolling Stones performing ballads / love songs. Like the first volume, this was put together by guest poster Mike Solof.

A commenter named Trivial Tony posted this in response to Volume 1, and I'll quote it here since it sums this up nicely: "Something we rarely talk about - the Stones were not known for their ballads but were remarkably good at them, even though they tended to be wearier than the Beatles' declarations of love." Here's another 15 examples of that. This doesn't gather up all of their ballads by any means, but hopefully it gets most or all of the best ones.

Pretty much everything here comes from the original studio albums. However, there are two tracks near the end where Mike made special mixes to make the songs more ballad-esque by toning down the drums and other rocking elements. 

Note that the track numbering continues from Volume 1, at Mike's request, in case you want to put all the songs together for a longer listen. 

This album is 58 minutes long. 

15 Angel in My Heart (Mick Jagger)
16 Ruby Tuesday (Rolling Stones)
17 You Better Move On (Rolling Stones)
18 Love in Vain (Rolling Stones)
19 Back Street Girl (Rolling Stones)
20 As Tears Go By (Rolling Stones)
21 Blinded by Love (Rolling Stones)
22 Play with Fire (Rolling Stones)
23 Blinded by Rainbows (Rolling Stones)
24 Almost Hear You Sigh (Rolling Stones)
25 Wild Horses (Rolling Stones)
26 Dreamy Skies (Rolling Stones)
27 Depending on You [Mike's Mix 2026] (Rolling Stones)
28 Back in Your Life (Rolling Stones)
29 Let It Bleed [Mike's Mix 2026] (Rolling Stones)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/eVubdRaz

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/ATHv1WnGq2NkDMA/file

Like Volume 1, the cover shows the Stones when they were young and the top and much more recently at the bottom. And, like the first one, I don't know the sourcing for these. The bottom picture had the colors so washed out that I effectively had to colorize it, even though it already was technically in color.

The Steve Miller Band with Sonny Charles - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 12-30-2012

Here's a concert by the Steve Miller Band from Port Chester in 2012.

To be honest, I'm not sure if this is from the April 2026 Port Chester soundboard leak or not. It was not included in the PDF file listing everything in that leak. But it matches the details of that leak perfectly. It's a mono soundboard of the same time period of everything else in the leak (roughly 2012 to 2019), and it showed up some time in 2026. So I would guess it's some kind of straggler that should have been included in the file but was missed. In any case, it has the same fantastic soundboard sound quality as everything else in the leak, and that's the most important thing.

At the time of this concert, Miller didn't have any new music to promote. He did release blues covers albums in 2010 and 2011, but he didn't play much from those. Instead, this is a long concert with lots of his best known songs. He also was joined by Sonny Charles, who sang lead or co-lead vocals on a few songs. Charles was the lead vocalist for the soul band Checkmates, Ltd., which had a big hit in 1969 with the song "Black Pearl." He toured regularly with Miller from 2008 to 2012.

Here's his Wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Charles

If you want a live greatest hits from Miller, this is a pretty ideal concert for that. All his best known songs are included, plus some bluesy stuff with or without Charles. 

This album is an hour and 59 minutes long. 

01 Jungle Love (Steve Miller Band)
02 Take the Money and Run (Steve Miller Band)
03 The Stake (Steve Miller Band)
04 talk (Steve Miller Band)
05 Abracadabra (Steve Miller Band)
06 Mercury Blues (Steve Miller Band)
07 talk (Steve Miller Band)
08 Farther Up the Road (Steve Miller Band with Sonny Charles)
09 talk (Steve Miller Band)
10 Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma (Steve Miller Band)
11 talk (Steve Miller Band)
12 All Your Love [I Miss Loving] (Steve Miller Band with Sonny Charles)
13 talk (Steve Miller Band)
14 Kow Kow (Steve Miller Band)
15 talk (Steve Miller Band)
16 Ooh Poo Pah Doo (Steve Miller Band with Sonny Charles)
17 Texas (Steve Miller Band with Sonny Charles)
18 talk (Steve Miller Band)
19 Sugar Babe (Steve Miller Band)
20 Serenade from the Stars (Steve Miller Band)
21 Wild Mountain Honey (Steve Miller Band)
22 talk (Steve Miller Band)
23 Gangster of Love (Steve Miller Band)
24 Dance, Dance, Dance (Steve Miller Band)
25 talk (Steve Miller Band)
26 Living in the U.S.A. (Steve Miller Band)
27 Fly like an Eagle (Steve Miller Band)
28 Jet Airliner (Steve Miller Band)
29 talk (Steve Miller Band)
30 Rock'n Me (Steve Miller Band)
31 talk (Steve Miller Band)
32 Swingtown (Steve Miller Band)
33 talk (Steve Miller Band)
34 Space Cowboy (Steve Miller Band)
35 talk (Steve Miller Band)
36 The Joker (Steve Miller Band)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/6HZXL3NP

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/F3A2bWJzuuIWs5K/file

The cover photo is from a concert at the L'Olympia, in Paris, France, on November 2, 2012.

Jason Isbell - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 5-20-2015

One thing I like about posting albums from the April 2026 Capitol Theatre, Port Chester soundboard leak is that it forces me to discover music that I previously never heard. This is a good case in point. This is a concert by singer-songwriter Jason Isbell with his backing band, the 400 Unit. I'd heard good things about him, but I'd never really heard his music. Now I have, and I was impressed. Maybe you will be as well.

Here's the into to his Wikipedia entry:

"Michael Jason Isbell is an American singer-songwriter. Considered one of the best contemporary songwriters in his genre, he is known for his honest, emotional lyrics. Isbell began his career as a member of Drive-By Truckers for six years, from 2001 to 2007. His first album with his backing band, the 400 Unit, was released in 2009.

"In 2013, Isbell released his solo commercial breakthrough, 'Southeastern,' which debuted at No. 23 on the Billboard 200 and appeared on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The album was later certified gold. Southeastern also featured his signature song, 'Cover Me Up,' which won Song of the Year at the Americana Music Honors & Awards. ... Isbell has earned praise from artists such as John Mayer, Bruce Springsteen, David Crosby, and Zach Bryan. He has won six Grammy Awards out of ten nominations."

Here's a link to the rest of the entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Isbell 

This concert took place a couple of months prior to the release of his 2015 album "Something More Than Free." So there are some songs from that one. All the songs are written by Isbell except the last one, a cover of Neil Young's "Like a Hurricane." 

Like most music from this leak, I had to work with a single mono audio file. So I chopped that into individual mp3s. Other than that, I didn't have problems here. The one alteration I made is boosting the volume of the applause at the ends of songs when I could. It wasn't super low, like it is sometimes with soundboards, but it did benefit from getting boosted.

This album is two hours and two minutes long. 

01 talk (Jason Isbell)
02 Stockholm (Jason Isbell)
03 Flying Over Water (Jason Isbell)
04 talk (Jason Isbell)
05 Tour of Duty (Jason Isbell)
06 Dress Blues (Jason Isbell)
07 talk (Jason Isbell)
08 24 Frames (Jason Isbell)
09 talk (Jason Isbell)
10 Decoration Day (Jason Isbell)
11 Go It Alone (Jason Isbell)
12 talk (Jason Isbell)
13 Different Days (Jason Isbell)
14 talk (Jason Isbell)
15 Live Oak (Jason Isbell)
16 Alabama Pines (Jason Isbell)
17 talk (Jason Isbell)
18 Traveling Alone (Jason Isbell)
19 Songs that She Sang in the Shower (Jason Isbell)
20 Cover Me Up (Jason Isbell)
21 Relatively Easy (Jason Isbell)
22 Codeine (Jason Isbell)
23 Elephant (Jason Isbell)
24 talk (Jason Isbell)
25 Something More than Free (Jason Isbell)
26 Never Gonna Change (Jason Isbell)
27 Outfit (Jason Isbell)
28 talk (Jason Isbell)
29 Danko-Manuel (Jason Isbell)
30 Like a Hurricane (Jason Isbell)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/qJPVHeuE

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/CZI1wE0WenyQIsP/file

The cover image is from a concert at the Prospect Park Bandshell, in Brooklyn, New York, on July 24, 2015.

The Rolling Stones - Ballads and Love Songs, Volume 1 (1964-2026) (A Mike Solof Guest Post)

Guest poster Mike Solof has been having some computer troubles lately, so he hasn't been able to post as much as usual. But he's back with a two volume series. His last posts were a series of albums collecting the best ballads and rockers done by the four Beatles in their solo careers. This time, he carries forth that concept with the Rolling Stones. However, he only made ballad collections. That's because the Stones have rocked pretty much their entire career, so probably 80 percent or more of their music would be rockers. But ballads / love songs are a more interesting proposition. They've had some big successes with that kind of music for sure, but it definitely cuts against the grain for them. So I think it makes a more interesting compilation.

As with the ex-Beatles collections Mike recently made, these generally all come from the studio albums. The only partial exception is that Mike made a mix of "Beast of Burden" to make it more ballad-y.

As usual, please check out Mike's PDF file included with the download for more text and some additional pictures too. Volume 2 should follow soon.

This album is one hour long. 

01 Waiting on a Friend (Rolling Stones)
02 Moonlight Mile (Rolling Stones)
03 Memory Motel (Rolling Stones)
04 No Expectations (Rolling Stones)
05 Beast of Burden [Mike's Mix 2026] (Rolling Stones)
06 New Faces (Rolling Stones)
07 Out of Tears (Rolling Stones)
08 Fool to Cry (Rolling Stones)
09 Angie (Rolling Stones)
10 Winter (Rolling Stones)
11 Evening Gown (Mick Jagger)
12 Keys to Your Love (Rolling Stones)
13 Time Is on My Side (Rolling Stones)
14 The Worst (Rolling Stones)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/aGR9mKBp

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/TuJX6egQTvwsNIX/file

The cover images are real photos, showing the band when they were young and much more recently. But Mike picked them out and I don't know the details. 

Billy Strings - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2-18-2021

Here's another concert from the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York. It's not actually from the April 2026 Port Chester leak. But I came across it while searching for more from that leak. It appears to have been some kind of webcast, so the sound quality is an excellent soundboard. The star this time is Billy Strings.

Strings occupies an unusual spot in terms of musical styles. He is typically called a bluegrass artist, and there is definitely a heavy aspect of that in his music. His father was a bluegrass musician and he developed a love for that kind of music from an early age. But he also grew to love rock and even heavy metal, and played in those kinds of bands as a teenager. 

He especially has found an audience with fans of "jam band" music, for instance sometimes playing entire concerts of Grateful Dead covers. Consider that when he got married in 2023, Trey Anastasio of Phish, Les Claypool of Primus, and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead played at the marriage reception. That's not what you'd expect of a typical bluegrass musician! 

And while this concert contains a lot of bluegrass songs, it also contains some left field choices, such as a cover of "Dark Star," probably the Grateful Dead's most praised psychedelic jam song, as well as "Bird Song," also by the Dead. Most of the rest of the songs are originals, except for "Home of the Red Fox," "Ole Slewfoot," "Sorrow Is a Highway," "Dusty Miller," and "Takin' a Slow Train."

Note that this concert took place during the social distancing phase of the Covid pandemic. So, while it took place in the Capitol Theatre, the venue was entirely empty. That's why there's no audience response at the ends of songs.

Here's his Wikipedia entry if you want to know more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Strings

This album is an hour and 58 minutes long.

01 The Fire on My Tongue (Billy Strings)
02 talk (Billy Strings)
03 In the Morning Light (Billy Strings)
04 talk (Billy Strings)
05 Long Forgotten Dream (Billy Strings)
06 Bird Song (Billy Strings)
07 talk (Billy Strings)
08 While I'm Waiting Here (Billy Strings)
09 talk (Billy Strings)
10 Home of the Red Fox [Instrumental] (Billy Strings)
11 Ole Slewfoot (Billy Strings)
12 talk (Billy Strings)
13 Sorrow Is a Highway (Billy Strings)
14 talk (Billy Strings)
15 Everything's the Same (Billy Strings)
16 talk (Billy Strings)
17 Must Be Seven (Billy Strings)
18 talk (Billy Strings)
19 Dusty Miller [Instrumental] (Billy Strings)
20 Dark Star (Billy Strings)
21 Love and Regret (Billy Strings)
22 Dark Star [Reprise] (Billy Strings)
23 talk (Billy Strings)
24 Takin' a Slow Train (Billy Strings)
25 Love like Me (Billy Strings)
26 talk (Billy Strings)
27 Pyramid Country [Instrumental] (Billy Strings)
28 Hide and Seek (Billy Strings)
29 talk (Billy Strings)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ZzS19Ji8

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/33gKEqXDm5hQrrR/file

The cover image shows Strings performing at the Capitol Theatre in February 2021, but on a different date. It's from February 23, 2021, a few days after this concert.

Leon Russell - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 1-15-2013

Recently (as I write this in mid-October 2026), I've been focusing on getting more concerts from the April 2026 Port Chester soundboard leak ready to post. I have about thirty of those ready to go, with the cover art made and all, so expect to see a lot more of those posted in the near future. Here's one of those starring Leon Russell.

Russell had a very long and successful music career, starting as a session musician in the early 1960s and then becoming a solo star in the early 1970s. His popularity declined some after the 1970s, but he had a strong late comeback in 2010, thanks to a joint album with Elton John called "The Union." This is a good concert to sum up his career, because his health was starting to fail. He died three years later, in 2016, at the age of 74.

Like all the recordings from the Port Chester soundboard leak, the sound quality is excellent. However, for this one, the lead vocals were rather low in the mix. Perhaps that was just the way it really was at the concert. But I didn't like it, so I used the MVSEP program to boost the vocals relative to the instruments for all the songs. I also boosted the volume of the cheering at the ends of songs. 

This album is an hour and 19 minutes long.

01 Prince of Peace (Leon Russell)
02 talk (Leon Russell)
03 Rolling in My Sweet Baby's Arms (Leon Russell)
04 Stranger in a Strange Land (Leon Russell)
05 Let the Good Times Roll (Leon Russell)
06 Dixie Lullaby (Leon Russell)
07 Baby What You Want Me to Do (Leon Russell)
08 Back to the Island (Leon Russell)
09 A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Leon Russell)
10 talk (Leon Russell)
11 Kansas City Woman (Leon Russell)
12 talk (Leon Russell)
13 Wild Horses (Leon Russell)
14 Georgia on My Mind (Leon Russell)
15 I've Just Seen a Face (Leon Russell)
16 Hummingbird (Leon Russell)
17 Tight Rope (Leon Russell)
18 Delta Lady (Leon Russell)
19 talk (Leon Russell)
20 Sweet Emily (Leon Russell)
21 The Ballad of Mad Dogs and Englishmen (Leon Russell)
22 Magic Mirror (Leon Russell)
23 Come On in My Kitchen (Leon Russell)
24 A Song for You (Leon Russell)
25 Jumpin' Jack Flash - Papa Was a Rolling Stone (Leon Russell)
26 Paint It, Black - Kansas City (Leon Russell)
27 Roll Over Beethoven (Leon Russell)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/WLuMkHHr

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Uun9YoPY8ZHEvXz/file

The cover image is from an unknown concert in 2014. 

Concerts for the People of Kampuchea, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 12-26-1979 to 12-29-1979: Day 3, Part 2: The Who

On Day Three of the Concerts for the People of Kampuchea, the Who were the headlining act, going on after opening sets by the Pretenders and the Specials. Previously, I posted one album containing parts of all three of their sets. However, in October 2026, I decided to post the entire Who set. So here it is. At the same time I'm posting this, I'm reposting a separate album containing the Pretenders and Specials sets.

When I first posted the albums from these Kampuchea concerts in 2023, I knew there was an available recording of the entire Who set, but I only chose to post some songs from it. In part that was because the sound quality was good, but not great. However, I have since found a source with excellent sound quality. 

The other reason I had at the time was that it was an off night for the Who. Lead guitarist (and occasional lead singer) Pete Townshend was going through a phase where he was going overboard with drugs and especially alcohol. It was very obvious to concert goers that he was very drunk during this concert. He danced around much more than usual, but sometimes flubbed his guitar or vocal parts. He also gave a kind of political speech during the "Dancing in the Street - Dance It Away" medley. It was meant to support the goals of the benefit concert, but it was done in a sarcastic style that could have been easily misunderstood. He also made a similar comment earlier in the concert, asking fans if they were happier to be living in London than in awful Cambodia/Kampuchea. That also was meant to be sarcastic, but might not have come across that way.

Anyway, it's true there are flaws like this. But I relistened to the concert and decided it was a damn good concert anyway. The Who were close to their prime (Keith Moon having died the year before), and there are very few excellent sounding recordings from 1979. I also wanted to post as much from these benefit concerts as I could. So I decided to post the whole performance.

Note that the song numbering begins with 12 in case you want to put this in the same folder as the Day 3, Part 1 performances by the Pretenders and the Specials. 

This album is two hours and 31 minutes long. 

12 talk (Who)
13 Substitute (Who)
14 I Can't Explain (Who)
15 talk (Who)
16 Baba O'Riley (Who)
17 talk (Who)
18 The Punk and the Godfather (Who)
19 talk (Who)
20 My Wife (Who)
21 Sister Disco (Who)
22 talk (Who)
23 Behind Blue Eyes (Who)
24 talk (Who)
25 Music Must Change (Who)
26 talk (Who)
27 Drowned (Who)
28 Who Are You (Who)
29 talk (Who)
30 5-15 (Who)
31 I Am the Sea (Who)
32 Pinball Wizard (Who)
33 See Me, Feel Me (Who)
34 Long Live Rock (Who)
35 talk (Who)
36 My Generation (Who)
37 I'm a Man (Who)
38 Sparks [Instrumental] (Who)
39 I Can See for Miles (Who)
40 Hoochie Coochie Man (Who)
41 Won't Get Fooled Again (Who)
42 talk (Who)
43 Summertime Blues (Who)
44 Dancing in the Street (Who)
45 Dance It Away (Who)
46 The Real Me (Who)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/61XsAiqm

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/v3rIXoAU5hT2zCo/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. Pete Townshend is closest to the camera. Roger Daltrey is in the middle ground, and John Entwistle is farthest away. I sharpened the picture using Krea AI, and made some additional changes in Photoshop. 

Concerts for the People of Kampuchea, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 12-26-1979 to 12-29-1979: Day 3, Part 1: The Pretenders, the Specials

Here's Day Three, Part 1, of the four-day-long Concerts for the People of Kampuchea. It has the highlights from the third night. Just like Part Two, there were three big music acts. This time, it was the Pretenders, the Specials, and the Who. The Who get their own album ("Day Three, Part 2"), so this is just the Pretenders and the Specials.

When I first posted this album in 2023, it was an hour longer. That's because it included a large portion of the set by the Who performed on the same night. But in October 2026, I decided to post the entire Who set as a separate album. So this now consists of just the sets by the Pretenders and the Specials. I'm deleting the old version and reposting it here to make it easier for you to find.

If you want to know more about these concerts in general, check out my write-up for Part One. 

As I mentioned previously, there was an official double album released of these concerts, but it is long out of print. Three songs by the Pretenders and one song by the Specials come from that. In addition, a bootleg of outtakes from the official album was made public eventually. The rest of the Pretenders and Specials songs come from that. 

I would have liked to have more songs by the Pretenders and the Specials, but I think there's just enough for both acts to put up a good showing. Both acts performed many more songs played that what's included here, since each of the three acts on this night basically performed their usual full concert set lists. For instance, the Specials played 15 songs, but there are only four here. Also, I'm guessing some of the banter between songs is missing.

This album is 33 minutes long.

01 The Wait (Pretenders)
02 Precious (Pretenders)
03 Tattooed Love Boys (Pretenders)
04 Brass in Pocket (Pretenders)
05 Private Life (Pretenders)
06 Monkey Man (Specials)
07 talk (Specials)
08 It Doesn't Make It Alright (Specials)
09 Stupid Marriage (Specials)
10 talk (Specials)
11 Too Much, Too Young (Specials)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/TJKHVjDF

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/0QnmrFTHpYfJ74I/file

The cover photo of the Pretenders is from this exact concert. It shows lead singer Chrissie Hynde prominently, and lead guitarist James Honeyman-Scott in the background.

Concerts for the People of Kampuchea, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 12-26-1979 to 12-29-1979: Day 2, Part 2: Matumbi, Ian Dury & the Blockheads

Note that I already posted a version of this album in 2023. However, I removed the Clash songs since I found enough to make a separate album out of those. I decided to delete the post of the remaining music of the Matumbi and Ian Dury and the Blockheads sets and repost it here to make it easier for you to find.

This is Day 2, Part 2 of the Concerts for the People of Kampuchea. It was actually a series of four concerts in a row, so it makes sense to post each of the concerts separately.

For the first night, the only musical act was Queen. But for this second night, there were three acts: Matumbi, the Clash, and Ian Dury & the Blockheads, in that order. I've numbered the songs so you can put all four parts together in the same folder if you want. That's why the first track here is already track 25.

I explained some in my Part 1 write-up how the only officially released album from this concerts was a double album that is now long out of print. Merely two of the songs here come from that. Luckily, a lot of music has come out unofficially on bootleg. Decades later, one bootleg emerged that was about as long as the official double album and had excellent sound quality. It seems these all were songs that were being considered for the album but didn't quite make the cut. That's where I got all but one of the songs but Ian Dury and the Blockheads and all the songs by Matumbi.

I had never heard of Matumbi before this. They were one of the most popular British reggae bands in the late 1970s. However, their 1979 song "Point of View [Squeeze a Little Lovin']" was their only Top Forty hit in Britain. They fizzled out, then broke up in the early 1980s.

There's a lot more music played than what is presented here. For instance, since the Clash performed an hour-long set, I'm sure the set by Ian Dury and the Blockheads was as long or longer, since they were the headliner act for the evening. If anyone has any of the other songs for this concert or the other ones with worthy sound quality, please let me know and I'll add them in.

This album is 50 minutes long.

24 Empire Road (Matumbi)
25 talk (Matumbi)
26 Come with Me (Matumbi)
27 After Tonight (Matumbi)
28 talk (Matumbi)
29 Point of View [Squeeze a Little Lovin'] (Matumbi)
30 talk (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
31 Clever Trevor (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
32 Blackmail Man (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
33 Blockheads (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
34 talk (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
35 My Ol' Man (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
36 Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
37 talk (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
38 Sweet Gene Vincent (Ian Dury & the Blockheads with Mick Jones)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/EA1Bb9oZ 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/oaN4VtJ9J04DADa/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. It's a screenshot of Ian Dury I took from a video that was taken from the movie.

Concerts for the People of Kampuchea, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 12-26-1979 to 12-29-1979: Day 2, Part 1: The Clash

In 2023, I posted four albums for the four nights of concerts that made up the "Concerts for the People of Kampuchea" benefit concerts in 1979. At that time, I was aware the full performance by the Clash was available, but I only included a few songs from it due to sound quality issues. But now, as I write this in October 2026, audio editing technology has improved by leaps and bounds. So I revisited the full Clash recording, and decided I could improve the sound quality enough to post it. So here it is.

But that's not all. There was a similar situation with the set by the Who on the next night. I had only posted part of it, but now I'm posting the whole thing. Day 1, a full set by Queen, is staying exactly the same. Day 4, consisting of sets by Rockpile, Elvis Costello, and Paul McCartney, is also staying exactly the same, because I couldn't find any more music from that one. But I'm splitting Day 2 into two albums and also splitting Day 3 into two albums.

When I posted some of the Clash set back in 2023, only three songs from this Clash performance had really good sound quality. "Armagideon Time" came from the official live album of highlights from these concerts. Two more, "Bankrobber" and "London Calling," came from a soundboard quality bootleg of more highlights. I've kept those the same as before.

That leaves the rest of the set. When shared on bootleg sites, it's often called a soundboard recording, but in fact it clearly is an audience boot. I used the MVSEP program to split it into six parts (vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, and other). I discovered from that that the drums and bass were way too loud, and the vocals and guitar were too quiet. So I did some remixed that hopefully improved that a lot. Also, the vocals had a lot of reverb on them, so I specifically ran the vocals through a de-reverb function. Furthermore, I got rid of some talking by people around the taper, although I couldn't always get rid of all of it.

I think this sounds much better now. It's still not great, still not up to soundboard level, but I think it's pretty close.

This album is 55 minutes long. 

01 Clash City Rockers (Clash)
02 Brand New Cadillac (Clash)
03 Safe European Home (Clash)
04 talk (Clash)
05 Jimmy Jazz (Clash)
06 talk (Clash)
07 Clampdown (Clash)
08 talk (Clash)
09 Guns of Brixton (Clash)
10 Train in Vain [Stand by Me] (Clash)
11 talk (Clash)
12 Wrong 'Em Boyo (Clash)
13 Koka Kola (Clash)
14 talk (Clash)
15 White Man in Hammersmith Palais (Clash)
16 Stay Free (Clash)
17 Bankrobber (Clash)
18 Janie Jones (Clash)
19 Complete Control (Clash)
20 talk (Clash)
21 Armagideon Time (Clash)
22 London Calling (Clash)
23 talk by emcee (Clash)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/9gxQ8aPt

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/qoyMGfe8oNDXVYW/file

The cover photo is of the Clash and was taken from this exact concert. On the right side in the background, you can see a big, round United Nations logo used for the Kampuchea concerts. I sharpened the image using Krea AI program. Then in October 2026, I further fleshed out the details with the Gemini program.