Archive: 2007

New West Records & Ammal Records are excited to announce the release of Working Man’s Café, a new studio album by legendarysongwriter Ray Davies. Available in North America on February 19th, 2008 Working Man’s Café, features 12 new songs written by Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame member Davies, and co-produced with Grammy® Award winning […]

Velour Music Group is proud to announce the March 4, 2008 release of the new record by guitarist/songwriter Kaki King, Dreaming of Revenge. Produced by Grammy Award-winning musician and producer Malcolm Burn (Emmylou Harris, Peter Gabriel, Daniel Lanois), this is King’s first record since 2006’s …Until We Felt Red. Red found King branching out with […]

Jerry Garcia would chuckle to think of a multi-day event hosted by a major American university designed to dissect Grateful Dead culture and history. No doubt too as the weekend long series of events progressed, he would become more than bemused by the proceedings.

hy are so many people on the multilingual bus with Gogol Bordello? Because getting into them is as much as layered, depth-creating experience as it is the well-documented hyper-visceral one. That is, the more layers you peel back and the deeper you entrench yourself in what the band's laying down, the richer the experience gets.

The Noise Pop Festival returns in 2008 from February 26 to March 2. Over six nights, Noise Pop 16 will take over the best-loved venues in San Francisco, to host unforgettable performances by Magnetic Fields, The Mountain Goats, The Gutter Twins and dozens of other important indie rock, electronic, punk and cutting edge musical artists, […]

The latest FIFA football rankings are out, and a scrappy Northern Ireland side has risen four places to 32nd in the world. That’s three spots ahead of the Republic of Ireland, and clearly this week, Northern Irish eyes are smiling. And pointing and laughing at the Irish, I’m sure. As someone whose borderline obsessed with […]

We’ve noticed some striking similarities between two of our favorite shredders and two of our favorite villains. Any doppelganging in your nape of the neck? Above: RAQ’s Chris Michetti and Whitestarr’s Cisco Adler [kudos to the_coach] Above: Umphrey’s McGee Jake Cinninger and The Hamburglar Previously on Hidden Track: I Beg My Mirror Image

Here’s a survey that must be flawed: “The poll by Harris Interactive…showed that…83 percent of people earning $150,000 or more had a music education.” Then how do I know tons of poor folk that’ve played the skin flute for years?

The beginning of the year is generally considered the leanest part of the live music calendar, yet January tour dates have been flying into Hidden Track headquarters faster than Ricky Williams could injure himself upon returning to the NFL. And here we thought we were gonna be able to save some cash after the holidays. […]

It shouldn’t come as a big surprise that White Chalk is another interesting slice of Harvey that is calmer but just as pleasing beginning with “The Devil” and continuing on with “Dear Darkness.” Perhaps the album brings to mind her “Dance Hall At Louse Point” period most clearly during the carnival-tinged “Grow Grow Grow” that is quirky, unsettling and yet strong. Throughout it all, Harvey plays the light, airy vocals to a tee, especially on the haunting, retro-laced title track.