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Mike Goldsmith's choices

High Places: Sandy Featuring
"No selections from me last week due to a trip to NYC to catch up with our sister mag/site, the mighty GuitarWorld. Couldn't resist visiting two of my favourite record stores whilst I was there – and here are a couple of clips related to the tunes bought in each. First off, hipster hangout Other Music shook me down for plenty bucks, including a great singles comp by new Brooklyn's übercute polyrhythmic/trancey/multi-instrument duo High Places. There are plenty of live vids available online but check out this animated video. And yes, it does sound like the Belle Stars." MG

Flower/Corsano Duo: Live
"Round the corner from Other Music on Bowery is Downtown Music Gallery – a truly staggering underground jazz/noise shop with great staff who flogged me all manner of genius, including (ulp) Ghanan honk horn music. However I did keep it jazz by buying some great tunes by Paul Flaherty and Chris Corsano. Corsano is the hep drummer of choice for everyone from Bjork to Thurston Moore but here's a clip of him playing as a duo with Mick Flower. Yeah sure, it's all a bit Wire and, yes Beatles fans, that is a shahi baaja he's playing but by the hairy teeth of Thor, they don't half rock live!" MG

Chris Vinnicombe's choices

Nirvana lead crowd karaoke at Reading 1992
"Nirvana's will they/won't they appearance at Reading 1992 is one of the all-time classic festival performances. A friend of mine was there but got too drunk to remember much beyond Smells Like Teen Spirit, but the Lithium singalong is what most people regard as the high point of the set. The band's set-closing gear smashing is pretty entertaining too." CV

Radiohead perform My Iron Lung at Reading 1994
"Bleached blond hair was clearly all the rage for angsty alt. rock frontmen in the early 1990s, and here's Thom Yorke and his Radiohead chums captured on the cusp of greatness before the release of The Bends the following year." CV