Turntablist Chris Are describes his music as Space Hop…
Wyllys: How would you explain your style to the Hidden Track audience?
Chris Are: Everything is based in Hip Hop and chopped up beat patterns. It’s like Trip Hop, but I like to call it Space Hop. It is much more sample-heavy and I tweak the samples a lot. Abelton gives me the ability to really mutate samples. In the studio I have been branching out more as far as style is concerned. I’ve been using a lot of guitars super wet with effects and that sort of thing. Whatever I do will ALWAYS be rooted in Hip Hop. [READ MORE]
Warren Haynes’ new soul band looks ferocious…
This show will mark the debut of The Warren Haynes Band, who presumably will play material from Haynes’ forthcoming “soul album.” No word yet on the members of this band, though Haynes has mentioned that Ivan Neville, George Porter Jr., Raymond Weber, Ian McLagan, Ruthie Foster and Ron Holloway performed on the album in interviews. We figure most, if not all, of these musicians will join Warren at the Christmas Jam. Regardless, it’s very weird not to see the words “Gov’t Mule” on a Xmas Jam announcement. [READ MORE]
Phish often delivers just what the fans are looking for…
Back in September we asked our readers what “one-timer” cover they would like to see Phish resurrect and the winner was TV on the Radio’s The Golden Age. Those readers should be happy tonight as the group dusted off Golden Age for the first time since its debut in Albany last November. Golden Age was jammed out a bit and went off into space until Trey played the Piper intro. [READ MORE]
Four years goes quickly when you’re working really hard…
As hard as this is for us to believe, today marks the fourth anniversary of Hidden Track’s launch. When Slade Sohmer and I started this site on October 15th, 2006, we aimed to get two or three posts up per week. Pretty quickly we developed a daily schedule of posts and now we average about six posts per weekday. In fact, this post is our 5,892nd post of all-time. Not bad for a team of part-timers who do this for our love of the music. [READ MORE]
Getting Nevermind, Crooked Rain Crooked Rain and 4/16/92 were three musical landmarks in Pitchfork writer Rob Mitchum’s life…
The three musical landmarks in my life were getting a dubbed copy of Nevermind in junior high, buying Crooked Rain Crooked Rain on a church choir tour my freshman year of high school, and receiving the 4/16/92 Phish tape my sophomore year. Pavement kind of finished what Nirvana started, which was pushing me down the path toward underground/indie/college rock when I was in high school, and that was always what dominated my listening… other than Phish.
As always, thanks for reading Hidden Track this week.
