Visitors to The Who’s official website will find an audio interview with front man Roger Daltrey in which the founding member of the band reveals that the group plans to
Widespread Panic has announced details of a two-show New Year’s run at the Pepsi Center in Denver, CO on December 30th and 31st. The band will be joined by G.
We covered tons of ground this week on Hidden Track and before we get back to the grind we wanted to recap some of the things we learned…
The new White House Chief of Staff is a Deadhead…
Pete Rouse, the gentleman President Obama tapped this afternoon as his interim Chief of Staff upon the departure of Rahm Emanuel is a Deadhead. He’s the guy who helped get The Dead back together to play a benefit for the then candidate’s campaign according to a New York Times profile. [READ MORE]
Built to Spill has started covering Ripple…
“The New Grateful Dead” has been tossed about in the past describing Built To Spill, it’s a comparison that a lot of Deadheads completely don’t understand – but I think it has some merit once you get past the obvious differences in overall sound. Well this tour, which is massive by the way with very few days off, they have been playing Ripple. The cover starts off slow and somewhat true to the original, but by the end it is a full-on rocker. [READ MORE]
Dark Star Orchestra is experimenting with original material…
JM: Right. We started working on that a little bit, as you said, it’s not going to replace what we do. But everybody also has this itch to be creative, so there’s no reason we can’t write songs and find a place to place them. I don’t think anyone should worry that we’re going to stop playing the Dead – that would upset a lot of people – but that doesn’t make it wrong for us to write and record together. Maybe we, I don’t know, maybe we open for ourselves some time playing original music. So, no one gets cheated out of [his or her] Grateful Dead experience, that’s still happening. But original music is a fairly new development for us. [READ MORE]
READ ON for more things we learned this week…
For this week’s Friday Mix Tape we scoured the Live Music Archive for six bands covering Ween and after a few bouts with the advance search feature we came up
Pete Rouse, the gentleman President Obama tapped this afternoon as his interim Chief of Staff upon the departure of Rahm Emanuel is a Deadhead. He’s the guy who helped get
The Live on Letterman series of webcasts continues this month with performances from Gorillaz on October 7th and My Morning Jacket on October 12th. You can watch both acts live
Season 36 of Austin City Limits premieres this week on PBS with an episode featuring legendary reggae singer Jimmy Cliff. The recent Rock Hall inductee performed a set that included
Last month we kicked off a new recurring B List topic where we posed five questions for which we’d love to know the answers. We got a number of great responses from our readers and even a couple of great unanswered questions submissions, so we’re back with another batch of unanswered questions including a couple from our readers.
In many cases, the answers may never be known or can only be answered by the people involved – who aren’t talking. Yet, for conversation’s sake we’re going to put these questions out there…
1. What’s up with the birthdate in Trey’s mugshot?
As we’ve noted earlier, today is Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio’s birthday. When Big Red was arrested on December 15, 2006 by Officer “I Saved Phish” Mija he posed for a mugshot with a piece of paper that listed his birth date as April 13, 1966. We always wondered why the Whitehall Police Department had Trey’s DOB wrong.
READ ON for four more unanswered questions…
DJ and HT staffer Wyllys teams up with horn players Peter Apfelbaum, Jennifer Hartswick and Natalie Cressman – aka The New York Hustler Ensemble – on December 30th for a
One of the most infamous shows in Wilco history took place on February 15, 1997 at Irving Plaza in New York City. The performance was being filmed for HBO’s long-dormant
