Hidden Track

Hey, look! It’s another clever name for a glorified link dump! Those two cats really know how to slip the easy ones past the goalkeeper…shut up, Richard. It took a couple weeks (who says gotta-publish-now blogs are the only game in town?), but the good people at JamBase have finally put up a super-comprehensive look […]

Check out this cool (not for them) clip of real-life bumper cars in Portland, Oregon, the incredible result of a crazy ice and snowstorm. And since this is a music blog, rock out to the title’s allusion in this instrumental version of Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song by Bustle In Your Hedgerow.

So much has happened since Jack Bauer shaved his playoff beard and spoke his first word in two years…and in that time all of these videos came to my attention. Reunion rumors and innuendo — hints and allegations, notwithstanding — have captured the short attention of many music blogs, magazines and websites of late. Will The Police set aside their […]

After a slight delay, the clearly overwhelmed and oft-hounded winner of the Phish-Sirius “Live In Brooklyn” Barn Tour Contest has teamed up with the popular rock band’s management to offer the Headphones Jam on LivePhish, with the proceeds from the $9.99 FLAC track going to charity. Commendable stuff. To all the fonzanoons on Phantasy Tour, The […]

Back in November we celebrated Rhino’s decision to begin releasing great shit from the Grateful Dead archives that they acquired in a recent licensing deal.

Live at The Cow Palace: New Year’s Eve 1976 hits stores on January 23rd, but as part of our recurring Everybody Wins When I Plug Something And In Return They Offer Me Free Shit To Give Away contests, we’re riding in on our white horses with our assless chaps and giving one of these bad boys away. Yeah.

Even though I should just fake an entry and award myself the winner under an assumed non-affiliated alias, I guess we’ll just give this thing away instead. Some blogs like to throw trivia out there, but I’d rather get your creative juices flowing and allow everyone an equal opportunity to participate. We’re good like that.

So in order to win this stellar three-disc set, all you have to do is provide your answer to this thought in the comment section below: With strict parameters of 25 to 50 words, give us your most serious, headiest explanation for why anyone, however many years removed from the actual show, would ever want to listen to “Space” instead of just skipping from Drums to the next song. Convince me.

Follow these links below to stream some the tracks from the release, and read on for a full track listing and sveral YouTube teasers.

• Click here for the official Grateful Dead Live at The Cow Place E-Card
• Listening Party: Grateful Dead – Live at The Cow Palace NYE 1976 (click that link to stream Set II: Sugar Magnolia > Eyes of the World > Wharf Rat > Drums > Good Lovin’ > Samson & Delilah, Scarlet Begonias)

Welcome to another short week — as usual, we’ll kick it off with some links to interesting shit from around the information superhighway: Billboard posts a look ahead at Robert Plant’s 2007, which includes recording with Allison Krauss and a Honeydrippers reunion Here’s a cool preview of this weekend’s American Beauty Project R.I.P. Michael Brecker and Alice Coltrane […]

What a difference a week makes…Last Sunday, eight NFL teams thought they had a realistic chance to win the Super Bowl, Suzanne Somers still owned a fire-free Malibu beach house and Jack Bauer sat in a Chinese prison. Today, not so much. But strangely, our precious world of live music sat fairly idle. Here’s just […]

I spotted David Byrne in the hipster crowd at South Street Seaport in August ’05. Awaiting Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s gratis summer showcase, the former Talking Head was just a man in the throng, alone, standing there in a canary-yellow collared shirt, scarfing down a thick slice of Pizzeria Uno’s finest. And, really, how […]

You take two steps forward, I take two steps back We come together…to smoke…a little crack [youtube]Zt5-wn3fvlw[/youtube] Straight up now tell me, did you really have a full frontal lobotomy? Either Paula Abdul just got the Randall McMurphy treatment or she’s tanked like Namath. We’re no prudes, but if you’re gonna go on national television to represent a seemingly […]

The good people over at SugarMegs want you to stream away…at home, in the office, on the terlet, wherever. So make it your beeswax to hop on this growing-but-already-comprehensive list of New Year’s shows they have available. So get your ass on over there and beg those kinky files for naughty aural sex…