Hidden Track

I’m off to the wonderful city of Tampa for a quick work adventure, so I’ll be out of commission today. Your first order of business: Watch this pretty cool clip of Waste by a fiddler, a bassist and an acoustic guitarist. Next: Scroll down to read Monk’s recap and see his disgustingly cool photos of […]

We sent our resident left-coast photographer and good friend Felonious Monk down to the 12/3 Primus show in the California capital to snap a few shots of the action and deliver us a brief report of the evening…

Monk’s cherry-popping experience in the pit was so bizarrely overwhelming that he decided to share with us the ridiculousness of being a credentialed photographer. Maybe that lead-in sounds a little boring, but when a half-naked girl magically appears in the story, you’ll realize how interesting a night up front can be.

Using cliché-riddled math, the pictures he sent over should be worth exactly 7,000 words. But because he’s such a good guy and he took such exquisite pictures, I think we can bump that up to, like, 7,150. Check these puppers out…

This week, Grousing The Aisles takes a look at the best podcasts on the web.

Just in case you are living in the early 2000s, a podcast is a file (usually mp3) distributed by subscription for use on a portable music device or on a computer. In researching this piece, it really surprises me more up-and-coming bands haven’t taken advantage of this cheap and easy way to market their music. For now, these podcasts are the best music you can buy (legally) for absolutely nothing:

Umphrey’s McGee: UM was the first band in the so-called jam genre to use podcasting to market their music. Just about every two weeks, the band releases a new 70-minute “Best Of” compilation…for free. This week the band released the 35th installment of the series that features the best music of July 2006. Jon McLennand, podcast coordinator for the band, reports “It’s been a fairly steady growth since the inception, starting from around 6,000 downloads per podcast initially to 20,000 currently.” Yes, 20,000! That’s a serious model for success…

Can’t make it to one of the 417 Allman Brothers Band shows at the Beacon Theater every year? Want to see Gregg Allman look like Jon Voight dressed as Willie Nelson for Halloween from the comfort of your home couch instead of the deep balcony? Don’t wanna stand right behind Bill Walton’s enormous torso as One Way Out starts? Then get on over to the to the ABB site and vote in support of Butch Trucks’ new plan to stream the band’s Beacon run and beyond…

Read on for more details on this potentially awesome plan from a group of guys I wouldn’t automatically classify as all that tech-savvy…fix a laptop, eat a peach.

I’m not sure what kind of coincidence this is — after all, as a kooky Russian author told Elaine Benes, there are no big coincidences and small coincidences, there are only coincidences — but two of the first three randomized songs on my iPod this morning were Boston tunes. Maybe someone’s trying to tell me […]

I think it’s time to give our associate Chilly Jackwater a bigger platform ’round these here parts, maybe once a week. Nobody on the cyberwebs makes me spit milk out of my nose on a more consistent basis than this yuckster. And because I basically guffawed audibly in my boss’ face while reading his response […]

Some people might argue that a purple blouse may be a wardrobe malfunction in itself, but the master of androgynous style and ambiguous sexuality will be rocking Miami at the Super Bowl XLI Halftime Show anyway. That’s right, nothing symbolizes the brute force and awesome power of football quite like Prince. But what Prince lacks […]

Prepare to call your father from the road, hippies and hipsters. Unless you live on a farm in Tennessee, you won’t be celebrating Father’s Day with your pops this year. No, you’ll be down in the flood of heat and the stench of grilled cheese.   Superfly Productions and A.C. Entertainment are proud to announce the dates for the Sixth […]

Midnight passed, and my only truly hip co-worker turned to me and said, “Where are we going tonight after the holiday party ends?” I’d been planning on returning to the loving embrace of my couch, the combination of mild drunkenness and all-out exhaustion settling in this Friday evening. But this co-worker and JazzFest veteran was in from out […]

As another work week begins, take solace in the fact that Christmas is a mere two weeks from today, New Year’s Day just three weeks from today. So keep your chin up and your mind entertained with the best the interwebs have to offer: Trey Anastasio’s Buried Alive from The Warfield on Friday night is even better […]

It’s not that we’re actively attempting to alienate as many newcomers to this site as possible, but I thought I’d throw some of this weekend’s glorious must-share soccer action on top of all this hippie music shit. Most people lament this time of year, when the lull in college football makes Saturday seem so empty, […]

Thanks to the headiest message board in town, the glorious PhantasyTour, we’ve got a great sample of Mike Gordon playing bass with Victor Wooten’s band on 12/5/06. “What’s his name? What’s his name? Mike Gordon, Mike Gordon.” Cactus with Victor Wooten’s Soul Circus at Higher Ground I kinda wish Victor and Mike had a more […]

This week dragged on and on, but we’ve finally made it to Friday. I wanted to raise the bar higher this week with plenty of links, so let’s get down to business: Trey Anastasio is also trying to raise the bar with his latest round of shows Another preview of Trey’s weekend shows in San […]

If you’re looking for something productive to do today around noon, tune in XPN.org to stream a live performance from unsung singer/songwriter Chris Harford and The Band of Changes. Sitting in with the talented Mr. Harford today will be Dean and Gene Ween, Diamond Dave Dreiwitz, Scott Metzger and Young Eric Slick. Ya know, I was looking to […]

As I said last week, “I recently coaxed my good friend over at Newmradio to create some podcasts with the Hidden Track audience in mind, especially since he’s been doing it anyway on his own for years now. The real beauty of this non-fluid exchange, though, is that Newman and I share a love of […]

Even a perfunctory scan of the cyberwebs will lead you to hundreds of blog posts and professional reviews raving about the genius of Ryan Adams. His three-night run at NYC’s Town Hall received much of the same glowing praise. Not so, says our resident contrarian Chilly Jackwater, this guy’s not really, uh, very good. Before you get your […]

To paraphrase a line from the music of the ’90s, 10KLF is gonna rock ya… The increasingly attractive 10,000 Lakes Festival announced its 2007 line-up mere moments ago, and so far it’s more solid than a turd in Mexico. The 5th annual festival takes place July 18-21 in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, and I think I’m about to make my first […]

My dear friend TJ in OH would probably kick me in the junk if I didn’t at least link to a stream of what he likes to call “THE show of THE tour” today. I mean, does it get better than AC/DC Bag > Psycho Killer > Jesus Left Chicago to start things off at the Ervin J. […]

Now that December is moving along quickly, it’s time to look back at some of the best releases of the year. This week I’ll tackle DVDs, and this year there were plenty to choose from (with the exception of Okonokos and Heart of Gold, all of these DVDs are archival releases). And for the sake of […]

Good news, you can finally take down that same 1988 wall calendar with risqué pictures of Paulina Porizkova and start masturbating to Internet porn like the rest of us. See, there’s a new wall calendar in town, and we strongly recommend you buy it for the sake of the keeedz. JamBase believes that children are our future… JamBase is […]