Wednesday Intermezzo

Every week in Wednesday Intermezzo we throw you a link to the latest edition of the Grateful Dead’s Taper’s Section. If you haven’t been clicking on that link and downloading all the tracks on the page, you are truly missing out.

David Lemieux and the archive staff are releasing tasty rare nugget after nugget each and every week. For example, this week’s edition features the band attempting a take on John Lennon’s Watching The Wheels from a 1995 rehersal.

Everyone jumped on the Dead when the organization put the kibosh on downloading shows from Archive.org, yet nobody’s giving them credit for making chestnuts from the vault available free on a weekly basis. So we will… ::golfclap::

• Heaven and Hell have added a batch of US dates
• Blogcritics looks at songs to drive by
• Pitchfork talks to Bjork about her new album Volta
• Spoon has announced a Northeast run of shows towards the end of April
• The top 10 corporate moments in rock
• It appears the Black Crowes are putting together a summer tour with the announcement of their gig at Bethlehem’s Musikfest
• Abbey Road studios will be host to a new Sundance Channel TV show
• ZZ Top returns to the road after a two year hiatus (I bet they were looking for some Tush)
• Everyday Companion’s latest podcast examines the rarest of rare Widespread Panic tunes
• The National Post compares the music of Wagner, Meat Loaf, and Arcade Fire (via Large Hearted Boy)
• Superfly announces their Jazzfest lineup
• How to master your iTunes EQ

What do you got for us? Or are you just gonna sit there and take take take?