Posts by Scott Bernstein

In between hitting live shows this weekend, why don’t you make the most of the $100 you spend each month for cable and set your DVR to record these shows… The Rolling Stones: Rock N Roll Circus on PBS Friday Night (all times Eastern) VH-1 Classic presents James Brown: Live From The House of Blues […]

This post marks the end of The Police Week here on Hidden Track. But we have one more treat to share before signing off: We’ve got full audio of the band’s opening gig from Monday night in Vancouver, as well as a review of the band’s first disaster gig in 23 years from Stewart Copeland himself.

The choice is yours: You can download the entire show in two separate segments, or you can go song by song below. Color us fairly impressed with the new arrangements of old songs, but these guys clearly need to get a few more shows under their collective belt before they hit a groove. Hopefully they’ll tighten up and fly right by the time they come through the East Coast…

Setlist: Message In A Bottle, Synchronicity II, Don’t Stand So Close To Me, Voices Inside My Head > When The World Is Running Down…, Spirits In The Material World, Driven to Tears, Walking On The Moon, Truth Hits Everybody, Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic, Wrapped Around Your Finger, The Bed’s Too Big Without You, Murder By Numbers, De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da, Invisible Sun, Walking In Your Footsteps, Can’t Stand Losing You, Roxanne
Encore: King Of Pain, So Lonely, Every Breath You Take
Encore 2: Next To You

Read on for Stewart Copeland’s take on the band’s first disaster gig in 23 years

The third-annual Mountain Jam kicks off today at Hunter Mountain, where Warren Haynes has prepared an extremely homogeneous, yet killer lineup for the three day festie. If you’re like us and unable to attend, you can stream many of the performances online thanks to the Q104.3. The Mountain Jam Blog will also provide updates throughout […]

We’re gaining momentum as we approach the end of The Police Week on Hidden Track, and today we present a special edition of The B List: We’re featuring 10 amazing Police videos from our friends at GooTube. Check ’em out…

1. Let’s start with a clip from the opening night of the reunion tour. King of Pain has always been a favorite song of mine — the studio track on Synchronicity is full of layered vocals and all sorts of percussion instruments, making this song a challenge in concert. For this tour, The Police are playing it straight: The major difference between King of Pain from this tour and the Synchronicity tour is the lack of background singers. Sting changes the phrasing of his words, as apparently Andy and Stewart aren’t capable of backing him up vocally.

Check out the full version of King of Pain from opening night, as well as nine more great Police videos from their prime, after the jump…

Apollo Sunshine once again proved that rock and/or roll is alive and kicking on last night’s Rocks Off boat cruise. Warm weather, blue skies and, well, sunshine offered a perfect environment for a three-hour floating rock show around lower Manhattan, and Apollo Sunshine provided a high-energy blast of power pop, heavy on the power.

The Police Week rolls on at Hidden Track with a special edition of Grousing The Aisles. As we mentioned a few weeks ago, the fine people over at the forums on thepolice.com have been assembling the mother lode of Police bootlegs.

So while we wait for full audio of the band’s comeback shows to finally surface, feel free to get your fill of the band in its absolute prime…

Pre-Outlandos D’ Amour shows

08-05-1977 / Mont de Marsan / Punk festival / FRANCE

Read on for, oh, about 100 more awesome shows for your perusal and download…

The most hyped reunion tour of all-time has finally started: The Police last night played its first full gig together in 23 years at GM Place in Vancouver, and the “all killer, no filler” setlist blended a terrific mix of the band’s best songs.

As previously announced, the band didn’t play any new tunes, which really must have thrilled the people who paid $250 a ticket and only know Roxanne and Every Breath You Take. We’ll also note that Sting, thankfully, left his lute at home.

The tour opener acted more like a full dress rehearsal, as tickets were only available to fan club members. Most of the reviews coming in have been positive: Stewart, Sting and Andy seemed to gel and get along throughout the two-hour show. In fact, Sting shed a few tears as the band took bows at the end of the show.

The few complaints about the show seen on message boards centered on the $40 T-shirts and the re-workings of songs such as Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic and Walking In Your Footsteps. But the fluffers far outnumber the haters.

Stay tuned to Hidden Track as The Police Week rolls on with a new post each and every day. And read on after the jump for last night’s full setlist and a handful of brief clips from GM Place, courtesy of Ben Frith…lucky Vancouver.

We know it’s Memorial Day, and most of you are sipping margaritas by the pool. But there’s still plenty of news to report from this weekend, and we live to serve and aim to please. Plus, we really wanted to debut our amazing new logo designed by the one and only Felonious Monk. Monk for President.

We’re also excited to announce this is The Police Week on Hidden Track. Every day this week we’ll have a new post about Sting, Andy, and Stewart, the trio that kicked off its reunion tour last night in Vancouver. Of course, we’ll still be covering the rest of the music world in graphic detail, never neglecting our regular duties.

Before you get back to your barbecue check out these links and setlists:

• Lou Reed played with Bright Eyes on Friday night
• Blondie played Heart of Glass with Lily Allen on The Today Show
• Some More From The Road tells a great story about John Morgan Kimock, who we featured on The B List last week
• Sly and the Family Stone turned their one-off performance into a tour
• A tale of life on the road with Led Zeppelin
• The Traveling Wilburys have a new website
• Perhaps the Ozzfest isn’t free after all
• Pitchfork announces the final lineup for their festival
• A Summer of Love playlist
• Brooklyn Vegan has some info from the Sasquatch Festival
• Dweezil Zappa on the upcoming Zappa Plays Zappa tour
• The Foo Fighters cover Born On The Bayou
• Peter, Bjorn and John are flying in from Sweden for a few U.S. dates
• Mary-Kate Olsen will join the cast of Weeds this season

And remember to read on after the jump for as many weekend setlists as we could find, including the Beastie Boys, Bright Eyes, the Disco Biscuits, Kings of Leon, moe., Smashing Pumpkins, Steely Dan, The Who and Umphrey’s McGee…

Apollo Sunshine once again proved that rock and/or roll is alive and kicking on last night’s Rocks Off boat cruise.

Warm weather, blue skies and, well, sunshine offered a perfect environment for a three-hour floating rock show around lower Manhattan, and Apollo Sunshine provided a high-energy blast of power pop, heavy on the power.

You can try to list some similar-sounding bands to describe their sound, but you’d have to list at least six or seven to even attempt to portray a realistic vision of what we heard last night. It was truly a perfect evening of music, friends, gorgeous views, the Queen Mary II and a gigantic double necked bass/guitar.

Read on to see whether Scotty got a good look up Lady Liberty’s knickers…

In between hitting live shows this weekend, why don’t you make the most of the $100 you spend each month for cable and set your DVR to record these shows… The Flaming Lips on Austin City Limits Friday Night The Silversun Pickups stop by Last Call with Carson Daly for a performance [NBC 1:35 am […]