Hidden Track Staff

We had a little help from our friends putting together this week’s edition of Grousing The Aisles. Our friend Chappy turns us onto an incredible Dead show, while Terry O’Brien reports on The Breakfast’s new lineup. Hell, we even have Joel Berk contributing one of his amazing pictures from Riverview to our review of Umphrey’s McGee at the festival. And as an added bonus, we also take a look at YMSB’s Red Rocks debut with the help of their friend, drummer Jon Fishman.

Yonder Mountain String Band 09/02/2007 DAUD [FLAC]:

Photo via Timloco

This past weekend was a dream come true for the boys of Yonder Mountain String Band. The Colorado-based quartet not only sold out their debut gig at Red Rocks, they also persuaded Phish’s Jon Fishman to join them on drums. Fans of the band were so thrilled with YMSB’s performance that they started multiple threads on popular message boards begging for Fishman to be added on a permanent basis. After listening to Sunday night’s show, I don’t blame them. How can you?

Yonder started the show by playing most of the first set as a quartet. The band played some fan favorites, including the fitting 40 Miles From Denver. Towards the end of the set Fishman came out for a three-song bloc that featured the amazing coupling of Kentucky Mandolin > Steep Grade Sharp Curves. The band’s excitement is so obvious it comes through on tape. Fishman sat in for the whole second set, and he added a much-needed rhythmic base to the music. After Damned if the Right One Didn’t Go Wrong, Ben Kaufman asked the crowd if they thought Fishman passed the audition. As you can imagine the crowd went nuts. Hopefully we will all have the chance to see this pairing again soon.

Read on after the jump for three more great GTA downloads…

Eddie Vedder, Metallica, John Mayer and Tom Waits will headline this year’s Bridge School Benefit, where they’ll be joined by Tegan & Sara, Regina Spektor and Jerry Lee Lewis. Neil

By Uncle Neddy‘s count, we’re down to the last week of summer. So here’s a little one-a-day to take us all the way through to Labor Day. Gosh darn, that

It’s Uncle Neddy‘s semi-regular opportunity to unleash another six’er on the masses, and so he does. This time he’s chosen to display his jewels with both double vision, and cleverly,

He’s baaaack: Former 70 Volt Parade lead singer Trey Anastasio tonight made his first public appearance since…since, well, falling off the face of the Earth. Big Red ended his five-month

Most warm-up gigs tend to be disappointingly sucktastic, but that wasn’t the case with Pearl Jam’s epic performance at the Vic Theater in Chicago on August 2nd. Pearl Jam played a tight set that was chock full of rarities and obscure covers for the crowd of 1,300. Tickets were only available through Pearl Jam’s fan club, leading the ticketless to offer upwards of $5,000 to get into the intimate gig.

Our good friend Sharptoe was one of the lucky fan club members to receive tickets, and he has kindly shared some of his photos from the show with us — a full setlist and a link to downloads the live show follow this little picture book…

Above: Pearl Jam rockin’ out one of many rarities it played; Below: The line of lucky golden ticket holders stretched for blocks…

Read on after the jump for more Pearl Jam photos from The Vic…

HT Contributor Eliot Glazer has tremendously terrible taste in music. But he may or may not share with us a love for Growing Pains, which is pretty cool.

Who would have guessed that the guy who penned the theme to Wheel Of Fortune would [literally] produce one of the hottest R&B stars of 2007?

After a long, bumpy road during which his career garnered critical buzz domestically but never truly broke through commercially (although he scored hits abroad), Robin Thicke has become a bona fide R&B star. Having entered into the sparsely-populated club of White American urban music writer/performers in 2000 — writing songs for artists like Mya and Christina Aguilera — Thicke finally released his own solo album in 2002, and quickly became a mainstay on my Discman.

Read on after the jump for more rationalization of why Eliot loves bad music and whether or not Thicke’s also a mainstay in Eliot’s masturbatory thoughts…

It’s Uncle Neddy’s mix tape time, so let’s all gather ’round the campfire and listen to what our main man has in store for us this week… I promised some