While the Tedeschi Trucks Band have succeeded in putting out a fantastic debut LP in Revelator, there’s no doubt that live is where they thrive. The dynamic drumming duo of
We’re sad to report that English vocalist Amy Winehouse has been found dead in her London flat today. The singer, who had become better known for her drug habits and
This week we’ve presented Andrew Bender’s extensive journals from last weekend’s All Good Music Festival [Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday] and while we wish we could have joined him at Marvin’s
The hardest working man in the scene, Warren Haynes, told his fans a long time ago that Gov’t Mule would be put on the backburner in 2011 while he hit
Radiohead’s King of Limbs in-studio performance that was filmed for BBC will finally make its American premiere on Palladia this Saturday night at 9PM ET. The innovative Brits tackle all
[Originally Published: April 14, 2011]
Back in 1989, when MTV was still living up to its Music Television title, the cable network debuted a show with a simple premise called Unplugged. Artists from a wide variety of genres would perform acoustic sets in front of a small audience. By 1992 the show had produced a #1 single (Mariah Carey’s I’ll Be There) and a #1 album (Eric Clapton’s Unplugged) and dozens of memorable performances.
MTV’s Unplugged is currently in its 21st season with Lykke Li, Train and Adam Lambert among the latest batch of underwhelming performers visiting the show. It’s been quite some time since an episode of Unplugged has generated lots of buzz and we’d like to see that change. For this week’s B List, I’ve put together a list of ten acts I think would kill on Unplugged…
10. Fleet Foxes
While appearing on Unplugged wouldn’t exactly take Fleet Foxes out of their comfort zone since frontman Robin Pecknold usually plays an acoustic, we would love the whole band eschew electricity for a set of pastoral folk-rock.
READ ON for nine more acts that would revitalize Unplugged…
We’ve been watching the proliferation of music festivals in Florida over the last few years with great interest and this morning a new player has emerged in the form of
With new longer upload length limits on YouTube these days, we’re seeing more people share entire sets as one clip on the video portal. For example, check out this sidestage-shot
Phish rolls into Lake Tahoe for a pair of shows on August 9 and 10 adjacent to the Harvey’s Resort and Casino. Before the second show, on August 10, the
Shortly after Hidden Track launched, our site’s founder Slade Sohmer posted an article about the killer Leeds-based funk band The New Mastersounds and we’ve been covering the four-piece’s comings and goings
