Posts by Ace Cowboy

As if the hot dogs, burgers, chicken, sausages, six pounds of steak and a table full of apps weren’t any indication, it’s Memorial Day, which if my history is correct marks the day we honor all the laborers killed in he building of the Lincoln Memorial. Tomorrow’s another day and another barbecue, but while we […]

Scotty and I are out the door in a matter of minutes to catch Apollo Sunshine on the Rocks Off Boat Cruise around Manhattan. In preparation of this evening’s nautical aural event, we offer this clip of the band playing Magnolia at the University of Massachusetts, a recent upload to The YouTube. Enjoy. [youtube]9xI2Hztx4Uc[/youtube] Click […]

In an apparent repeat of the early 2000s no-Phish improvisational rock scene, String Cheese Incident will attempt to fill the wank vacancy left by Trey Anastasio. Minnesota’s 10,000 Lakes Festival today confirmed what many people had been expecting for awhile, that Big Red will not be able to play this year’s July event after all. What […]

It’s time to tell your folks, your friends and your employers how much you really need a long weekend of introspection, how much you need an extended weekend overseas for personal reflection that includes somber visits to the Anne Frank House and the Van Gogh Museum. Some time around mid-March 2008.

Jam in the Dam organizers upped the ante this morning, announcing the event will stretch to six bands playing over four nights, a first for each number. After the fan-supported artist poll gauged proper interest, the festival has decided to add the Disco Biscuits, Perpetual Groove and Dark Star Orchestra to the 2008 edition of Jam in the Dam, a triumvirate that joins Umphrey’s McGee, Tea Leaf Green and Lotus on the bill. And if you want to see which bands are playing in which time slots, they’ve already released the schedule of events. Bully for us.

This thing’s becoming more and more can’t-miss by the day. I must ask, though, are they actively trying to collect the worst band names in music on one bill?

• Previously on Hidden Track: Red Lights Ahead: Jam in the Dam ‘08
• Read on after the jump for the full press release from JitD organizers

Every now and again we like to go spelunking through the extensive streamable archives on the SugarMegs server and recommend some hidden gems. And since we usually can’t get passed the first half of the alphabet — there’s too much! — we thought this time we’d start from the bottom and work our way north. […]

Every once in a while we’ll stumble upon something new to YouTube that has so few views it’s borderline criminal. These are there are stories… As of post time, this sick pro-shot video of My Morning Jacket playing Mahgeetah at Austin City Limits in 2005 has only registered 12 views on the site. And since […]

Blaxploitation never sounded as good as when Curtis Mayfield supplied the soundtrack. Unlike his peers, the funk pioneer’s lyrics throughout Superfly don’t serve to glorify the ghetto culture as much as they deliver biting commentary on the state of the black union at the time. But beyond even the lyrics, there aren’t many musicians like Mayfield that can […]

Living in Evanston, Illinois at the time, I had to choose between two trip options in the fifth month of the new millenium. I could hit the 126th running of the Kentucky Derby with all of my college friends and witness the depressingly awesome infeld debauchery, or I could wait two weeks and return to my home state […]

What can brown do for you? Apparently, we’ll all find out in less than three weeks. Here’s the latest long-winded rant from Ween’s official Chocodog website: With this update I’m pleased to announce the first new Ween release in a long while; “The Friends E.P.” will be released exclusively on Chocodog Records on June 8. […]

My buddy Fritz recently asked for some help in selecting music for his wedding reception down in Mejico. This song, and specifically this version, topped my list… There’s not much to say about Marvin Gaye that hasn’t been said ad nauseum by tons of white people trying to look hip (like myself). The guy had a tremendous […]

We’ll start off this week’s recap with a smidgen of news: The Chairman of the Boards has signed on to play the High Sierra Music Festival for the first time ever. Page McConnell joins an already illustrious lineup that includes Les Claypool, the Disco Biscuits, Tea Leaf Green, Yonder Mountain String Band, Galactic, Del McCoury, […]

Wednesday night presented a truly inexplicable double bill, and everyone that asked me where I was headed heard the same sheepish response: “Well, it’s a band most commonly called chk chk chk, but it’s really three exclamation points that can be pronounced with any three repetitive mono-syllabic grunts. Oh, and Holy Fuck is opening.” Okay, but then how do I pronounce chk chk chk?

The name dissection thing’s getting old, but it’s hard to escape your own branding. And when you’ve emblazoned the scarlet !!! on your traveling marquee, you best be prepared to bring the triple-exclamatory noise and/or funk. Luckily for my fellow speed-freak showgoers at the sold-out Bowery Ballroom, this quasi-hometown, eight-piece dance-punk troupe tore up the joint with a lively mix of rabidly energetic tunes from the new Myth Takes album and Louden Up Now.

Read on for more great Danfun photos and the rest of this evening’s review…

We’ve got a double dose of our regular Friday “The Kidzz Are Alright” subset of Pullin’ ‘Tubes. So instead of wasting time with our usual pre-video blather, let’s jump right into the magic and check in with rising stars Sierra Hull and Ryan Holladay pickin’ on Salt Creek. Damn, that’s pretty serious: [youtube]Evo6fb9sc7U[/youtube] And continuing with this post’s and this […]

Instead of outsourcing this end-of-the-week department to cheaper Indian or Chinse laborers, I’ve decided to take another stab at it myself. This week’s blends together some of the least eclectic tunes you’ll find in this space, but I’ve been cleaning out random music files from my the hard drive of my work computer, and these six jumped […]

The long-dormant drummer for the popular rock band Phish is slowly coming back to public music. On the heels of Jon Fishman’s sit-in with the potty-mouthed Touchpants before RAQ’s Green Apple Music Festival show at Bowery Ballroom last month, the four-piece Yonder Mountain String Band announced today it’s added Fishman to the lineup for its […]

I’m borderline obsessed with the short-lived Faces. Between the ridiculous musicianship of each band member and Rod Stewart’s appearance and stage presence, how are these guys continually overlooked? Footage from what’s billed as the Face’s Final Concert in 1974 has started to hit the ‘Tube of You, so let’s check out this clip of Keith Richards joining these […]

Our friend Rob with the sunny disposition and the well-cropped beard sent this clip my way yesterday, an astonishing video of a blind man kicking a drumset’s ass. Um, metaphorically, I guess. I only half-understand how Stevie Wonder can play so many instruments with such proficiency and élan, but this, this video, well I just don’t get it at all. […]

Bustle In Your Hedgerow is just another cover band, and this band of special occasion will be the first to admit that. But that doesn’t mean they won’t melt your fucking face off and piss all over the remains, and the huge crowds in San Francisco and Los Angeles this weekend will be the first to admit that.

America’s greatest rock cover band experience headed west this weekend for a twin bill at The Independent and the Knitting Factory, and everyone I’ve talked to says these shows were the best they’ve ever seen, the best the band has ever played. They may be Led Zeppelin tunes, but the rock is all their own.

San Francisco packed more than 600 people into the 500-person-capacity Independent, and the crowd proved itself to be so raucous they got a double encore of Immigrant Song and Bring It on Home for its troubles. So with the momentum-building left-coast run behind ’em, and with shows in the Midwest and East on the horizon, let’s take a look at 16 incredible photos from The Lovely Miss Rachel, posted for your pleasure after the jump…enjoy!

Not content to stand pat with a simple Ornette Coleman set, the festival organizers behind Bonnaroo are collaborating with Blue Note Records to expose some scenesters to genuine improv and build a real-deal jazz club on site: The first event of its kind, Somethin’ Else aims to create an authentic Jazz club atmosphere in the middle of […]

We’ve had a solid balance on the blog lately — it’s true, scroll down and see for yourself — so please indulge our longstanding Phish fetish for a second (it took every ounce of my intestinal fortitude to refrain from writing “phetish” there). There’s a YouTube user named tdunski that’s been uploading sick videos at […]