The Best Live Shows Of 2010

A good live show can lift you out of a funk, make you look around and realize there is no where else on earth you’d rather be, make the hairs on your arms stand on end, remind you that there is still magic in the music being made today. These are the eight shows from 2010 that achieved all the above and then some.

Octopus Project @ SXSW + KFN

[MP3] Wet Gold (Daytrotter Session)

Mumford & Sons @ The TLA

[MP3] Cousins (Vampire Weekend cover) – Mumford & Sons

Dawes @ Johnny Brenda’s

[MP3] When My Time Comes (Daytrotter)

Beach House @ The Sanctuary of The First Unitarian Church

[MP3] Norway

Menomena & Suckers @ The Sanctuary of The First Unitarian Church

[MP3] It Gets Your Body Movin

[MP3] Wet & Rusting

Futureheads @ The Basement of The First Unitarain Church

[MP3]  Struck Dumb

Megaphonic Thrift @ SXSW

[MP3] Candy Sin (Live SXSW 2010)

Roots & John Legend @ NonComm