The Roseland was rocking in October and November of 1994. Shows included Pavement with opening acts Guided By Voices and David Kilgour! The Flaming Lips opening for Candlebox?!? Dinasour Jr with Kyuss (Josh Homme's pre-Queens of the Stone Age band) and The Offspring touring behind their mammoth album Smash with Rancid opening.

I was at three of these four shows. One of them is in my top ten concerts of all time (Pavement) and another them is one of the worst concerts I've ever seen (Dinasour Jr on a very, very off night).

As a bonus, here's the concert announcement for when the Pavement, Guided By Voices and David Kilgour show...

This concert poster appeared in the NME on July 28, 1979 (David Byrne was on the cover for a feature on the Talking Heads Europeon tour). This four-day mini-festival of up-and-coming bands was essentially in the basement of the London YMCA and featured such soon-to-be-legends as Joy Division, Throbbing Gristle, Red Crayola, Cabaret Voltaire, The Teardrop Explodes, Scritti Politti and the (plus one more to be added) on August 2nd ended up being Echo and The Bunnymen.

BONUS: Check out the review of the show that appeared in the August 11th, 1979, issue of the NME after the jump!

This the last show of U2's Boy tour. John Peel, Pete Townshend and Bruce Springsteen are in the audience. The previous night, Springsteen ended his European tour in support of The River.

The openers were This Heat and Altered Images, two bands that were also being heavily promoted by John Peel at the time.

SETLIST: Carry Me Home / Twilight / I Will Follow / I Fall Down / An Cat Dubh / Into The Heart / Fire / Another Time / Another Place / The Cry / The Electric Co. -> Yankee Doodle / Things To Make And Do / Stories For Boys / Boy-Girl -> I'm A Believer / Out Of Control // 11 O'Clock Tick Tock // The Ocean // I Will Follow

Blur | Academy | New York, NY | September 24, 1994
Lot 105 / Sunday Sunday / Jubilee / Tracy Jacks / Magic America / End Of A Century / Popscene / Trouble In The Message Centre / For Tomorrow / Chemical World / Badhead / There's No Other Way / To The End / Advert / Supa Shoppa / Mr. Robinson's Quango / Parklife // Girls & Boys // Bank Holiday // This Is A Low

Stereogum, Gothamist and Brooklyn Vegan were in the crowd when The Arcade Fire played a now-legendary CMJ showcase at the Mercury Lounge, which undoubtably helped launch them into stardom.

The old Product Shop NYC had a review of the show, but we - stupidly - deleted all our old entries before we relaunched in January of this year.

Also, notice that the Merc was hosting shows by Sufjan Stevens, Explosions in the Sky, The Thermals, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Greenhornes, Dead Meadow and, of course, Flickerstick.

For the Pixies eight sold out shows at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City (they played two shows on the 18th), the brought in a ton of great special opening acts including Le Tigre, TV On the Radio, Broken Social Scene, Mission To Burma, The Datsuns, 50 Foot Wave, Mike Watt and Reid Paley. Where you at any of these shows?