Live at O'Leaver's

06/09/2016

What to do on this HOT Thursday? Stay inside and listen to music? Yeah! Outside will be way too much, like always. Here's a 27 song playlist which seems to be, I think, every cover song we've mixed here at Live at O'Leaver's. There's a few tracks on this playlist that haven't been released yet, so make sure to listen so you understand the importance of being the first to listen to new music before it's become super duper popular. Oh and who doesn't like a good cover? I'm sure someone, but I have yet to meet such a monster.

So anyway, here are a bunch of covers that have been performed at O'Leaver's with CJ Mills covering High Up, Rothsteen performing Adele, Dolores Diaz and the Standby Club taking on Bob Dylan, Johnathan Rice playing 'Oh La La' by The Faces, Fire Re****ed ripping through Ausmuteants, Eileen & the In-Betweens channeling Arcade Fire and just a whole bunch more.

https://soundcloud.com/live-at-oleavers/sets/covers-at-live-at-oleavers

-IA

A collection of all the covers we could find that have been performed at the club. Covers by Dolores Diaz and The Standby Club, Rothsteen, Carl Miller and the Thrillers, Eileen and the In-Betweens, Ch

05/25/2016

You may have noticed a slight (okay, major) dropoff in releases from us recently. I'll spare you the details, but here's the gist; during an electrical storm, we happened to lose both our main and backup drives which we thought were safe as they were stored at separate locations. This means nearly everything from July to February has been lost. Whoops.

The data recovery companies we have contacted have all said the same thing; they will charge us money to possibly recover the data. A lot of money. A LOT of money. Since Live at O'Leaver's is a side project that we pay for from our own pockets, we sadly cannot afford to spend the $900+ these companies are asking for to maybe get the data back.

We have a better redundancy system in place now; multiple backups of each session spread across five drives placed in multiple locations and a cloud backup of the entire shebang. All told, we have over 11 terabytes of data since the February restart. That's a lot of data management.

So as a token of my honest and sincere apology, here's HEALER's sole remaining song from the pre-crash days; an anthemic and massive track performed by the quasi-supergroup in late October. Certainly one of the best sounding tracks we've put up.

Thanks again for listening. We'll have more for you soon.

-IA

Rainy Day Song is written and performed by Healer Recorded by Ian Aeillo at O'Leaver's Pub in Omaha, Nebraska Mixed by Ian Aeillo at B&S for Live at O'Leaver's Photo by Bill Sitzmann

04/07/2016

Finishing up the mixes for the next release on Tuesday. While we are finishing the mixes, here's a peek at what we will be sharing. Bossa Nova, electronic indie pop with a Toychestra, and a super group of sorts.

Call off work on Tuesday. It'll be a good one.

-IA

Here's a preview of the bands we will be releasing on Tuesday the 12th.

03/24/2016

Well, our songs are back online, thanks SoundCloud!

If you follow us on SoundCloud, you'll notice we post quite a few tracks that aren't immediately promoted on this page. Often when bands play a set after a Live at O'Leaver's release, we'll wait a few weeks or months to update it on this page as we have a lot of new stuff to share. Today we are sharing an updated playlist for our wonderfully insane friends in Universe Contest from their most recent show. Check us out on SoundCloud and enjoy UC yelling at your face about jackets and stuff.

http://www.liveatoleavers.com/recordings/universe-contest/

https://soundcloud.com/live-at-oleavers

-IA

03/14/2016

Are you heading to South By Southwest this year? Oh boy. Lucky you. In case you were interestested, we've created a playlist of the bands that are playing SXSW that have also played at the club. We'll be adding their showtimes as we gather them. We spent yesterday remastering Kill County's performance for release on this playlist and there are two bands on this playlist we haven't yet released on the site. Enjoy!

Featuring Kill County, Xetas, previously unreleased Wild Powwers, Beach Slang, Small Houses, Universe Contest, previously unreleased BUHU, The Kickback, Bonehart Flannigan, Iska Dhaaf.

Did I miss you? Let me know and I'll throw you up on this list.

-IA

All the bands that we could find that we recorded that are playing at SXSW 2016. All bands recorded by Ian Aeillo at O'Leaver's Pub. Buhu, Xetas, Wild Powwers mixed by Ian Aeillo at A Sun Room Th

03/07/2016

Prior to today, had we been running a series called Song Of The Week or whatever, the feature would immediately cease to exist after this release as this would henceforth be gifted the title of the song of every week. The Hottman Sisters performed at the club on January 30th for Take Cover and this shimmering, arching, and beautiful song was the result. I am incredibly excited for their return this Friday. Come hear Pleiades & the Bear, Justin Ready and the Echo Prairie, The Hottman Sisters because there might not be anything better than hearing this song performed live.

-IA

Recorded by Ian Aeillo at O'Leaver's Pub Mixed by Ian Aeillo at A Sun Room for Live at O'Leaver's Photo by Lindsey Yoneda

03/01/2016

Our friends at Hear Nebraska hosted their wonderful Take Cover series at the club a month ago and we absolutely had a blast. We've collaborated with HN to provide audio for their videos, which they've already released and you can watch on their website. Today we are also releasing them so you can listen to them on the go (or stationary, we don't care).

CJ Mills, Uh Oh, Mint Wad W***y, and Hand Painted Police Car were among the 14 artists that took part in the Hear Nebraska benefit and released by them over the last few weeks. We also decided to mix Marcey Yates as Op2mus because oh my god it's so good.

-IA

A selection of the 14 bands that played at the club on January 30th, 2016 for Take Cover, a benefit for Hear Nebraska. Photos by Lindsey Yoneda Recorded by Ian Aeillo at O'Leaver's Pub Mixed by Ia

02/11/2016

THANKS Tim McMahan! We are stoked to be sharing these recordings from such great artists!

Because I don’t have a photo of Conor Oberst and Corina singing at O’Leaver’s, here’s a photo of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash.

02/10/2016

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the kind words and sharing these awesome artists Kevin Coffey!

One of the coolest ongoing projects in town is Live at O’Leaver’s.

01/29/2016

Thanks to everyone who reached about the latest recordings, featuring full live sets from Head of Femur, Xetas and Mint Wad W***y! Three great sets from three awesome bands!

We wish we could always do full sets! It takes considerable time to complete each custom mix, tailored to each individual band’s size and set up, among other variables. With this time commitment, we are often only able to mix 3-5 songs when a show is successfully recorded. This is done at no cost to the band of course and hopefully helps promote the band’s next show here or elsewhere.

However, if a band would like to have their whole set mixed, we would like to help make that happen! Just reach out to Ian via [email protected]. He can best provide you with an idea of the time it would take and therefore what it would cost to mix the remainder of the set for you. Depending on the size of the band and length of the recording, prices can vary quite a bit so best to discuss directly with him. - MM

Photo: Molly Misek

01/07/2016

Thanks Kevin Coffey and Omaha World-Herald!! We love these bands and so stoked you checked out and enjoyed the recordings!! We appreciate it immensely. More to come!!!

Live at O'Leaver's has produced three more great sets.

12/31/2015

Happy New Year! On June 15th of 2015, we went live. 2015 has been a great year for us, and here are a few of the statistics.

-308 artists performed at O'Leaver's in 2015
-201 artists recorded by Luke Polipnick, Ben VanHoolandt, Molly Misek, Thor Dickey, and Ian Aeillo for Live at O'Leaver's
-168 complete mixes finished
-516 tracks mixed
-98 recordings released
-72,668 listens on Live at O'Leaver's

Most Listened to Tracks of 2015
1. Witch Hunt - PRO-MAGNUM | 11,257 plays
2. Swing Back Baby Blues - All Young Girls Are Machine Guns | 6,595 plays
3. The Recluse - Cursive | 4,452 plays
4. The Hand Clapping Song - All Young Girls Are Machine Guns | 3,401 plays
5. Foolin' - All Young Girls Are Machine Guns | 2,428 plays
6. Look at Miss Ohio - Mike Schlesinger | 1,492 plays
7. Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet | 905 plays
8. Some Red Handed Sleight Of Hand - Cursive | 821 plays
9. Dity Ci******es - Beach Slang | 770 plays
10. Coolie Trade - Mike Schlesinger | 755 plays

25. Oh S**t Guy | 348 plays

Most Listened to Bands of 2015
1. Pro Magnum
2. All Young Girls Are Machine Guns
3. Cursive
4. Mike Schlesinger
5 Beach Slang
6. Speedy Ortiz
7. Matthew Sweet
8. The H***y
9. Oquoa
10. CJ Mills

And thanks to you for listening! Here's a track from Tuesday's upcoming release; Austin-based Xetas' song The Sentence.

Happy New Year!

-IA

Listen to The Sentence - Xetas by Live at O'Leaver's on