Just when you thought you couldn’t possibly squeeze another festival into your busy summer concert calendar comes the news that influential indie-music label Sub Pop will be hosting a festival
This week’s Stormy Monday is the songwriter edition, and really just an excuse to plug two excellent albums released last week. The first is Jackie Greene’s Giving Up the Ghost
U-Melt triumphantly returned to their old stomping grounds last Friday and Saturday at the recently refurbished Sullivan Hall in NYC. In their first shows back since New Year’s Day, U-Melt started up where they left off by opening with Through The Prism – a song begun over two weeks ago during their residency in Boston.
Moving deftly through old favorites Marvin the Pussy, Air, and Folded, were placed the classic covers of Once In A Lifetime sang by keyboardist Zac Lasher and Cosmik Debris by drummer George Miller. Added to all this was the debut of a new tune: Twilight’s Song. Such tracks as Disclaimer/Disillusion segued into a hot Elysian Fields to end the second set. Finally, with the first night drawing to a close, the band sent the crowd dancing off into the night with the upbeat trance jams of Bubblehouse.
The second night can be summed up in three words: The Sullivan Palindrome. As a band known for dedicating an entire night to Frank Zappa or an entire set to Floyd’s Shine On You Crazy Diamond, to take six of their own songs and wrap them around each other in a Mobius strip or a palindrome is pure delight to any fan.
Read on for more of Jeremy’s review and amazing photos of U-Melt…
Radiohead made a lot of people very happy today with the announcement of the dates for the second leg of their North American tour. We’re gonna skip the preliminaries and
While nearly every band in the world has a presence on MySpace, only a few of them are actually making money from the site. That may change with last week’s
Normally something like the passing of acting legend and NRA nut Charlie Heston wouldn’t get coverage here. But we’re unabashed Simpsons fans around these parts and for better or worse
Forty years ago James Brown played a concert at the Boston Garden that helped the city heal after learning of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. VH-1’s Rock Docs takes a
If you ask us there is nothing better then seeing music outside in the summer. So we couldn’t be more excited when we saw the announcement of the Governor’s Island
We couldn’t go another Friday without dropping a Mix Tape, so we’ve enlisted our friend Neddy to do our dirty work. Take it away, Neddy… I guess if you were
Throughout history, politics has had a significant impact on music. Likewise music has had a significant impact on politics (thanks, Tipper). With that in mind, I thought it would be a good idea to create a dialog with you, the Hidden Track readers. I hope to address issues concerning the campaign trail, current hot button issues and candidates and then contrast them with artists, occurrences in the music business, lyrics and perhaps even a little music history.
Recently, there has been a lot of discussion on the Umphrey’s McGee fan message board about a recent podcast released by the band. Over the years, Umphrey’s has done several cover songs, including several hip-hop songs such as Regulate, Gin & Juice and Xxplosive. The podcast mentioned features a cover of Snoop Dogg’s Ain’t No Fun.
UM guitarist Brendan Bayliss keeps to the original by performing all the lyrics to the song. The specific lyric that caused controversy over on the message board is the “N-word.” Indeed, many rap artists have embraced this term to simply take on the meaning of a person. But does this not perpetuate the racial problems in our country? On the other hand, Widespread Panic changes the same lyric in question when they cover Curtis Mayfield’s Pusher Man.
Read on for more of Land of Confusion, and be sure to tell us your opinion…
