Remember the first Bonnaroo when the schedule for the event fit nicely on one page? Those days are long gone as the 2010 edition of Bonnaroo features six main stages
Iconic rocker Neil Young kicked off his Twisted Road Tour at the Palace Theatre in Albany on Tuesday night in and opened by dusting off the classic My My, Hey
More than half of this week’s selections come from the first Hangout Beach, Music, and Arts Festival in Gulf Shores, AL. The reviews coming in from those in attendance have been overwhelmingly positive and many more had the luxury of watching many of the headliners live, or almost live, via a free iClips webcast. Beyond the jambands featured from Hangout Fest, we round out our selections with two very different piano-playing-frontmen.
[Thanks to DATBRAD for this week’s photo]
And we continue to take all the selected tracks, normalize them, create some simple fades and put it into one easy to download MP3 for you.
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Artist & Title: Ben Folds – Annie Waits, My Philosophy, Such Great Heights
Date & Venue: 2010-05-16 The Warfield – San Francisco, CA
Taper & Show Download: star curtain
Picking three tunes from the Ben Folds concert was easy, well the categories were easy anyway. One solo tune, one Ben Folds Five tune, and one cover of The Postal Service. This is very crisp sounding tape, fans of his should definitely add this show to their collection. Ben Folds next performs July 17th with the Utah Symphony as part of the Deer Valley Music Festival.
[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/bensauce.mp3]From the same show, Ben riffs on Heaven On Their Minds from the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar
READ ON for tracks from the likes of The Black Crowes, Gov’t Mule, Marco Benevento, and Trey Anastasio & Classic TAB…
Now that we’ve all had time to properly digest Phish’s 2009 and allow our respective iPods to sift through the weeds, it’s fair to put some things in the broader context. One thing that keeps coming up is whether anything from 2009 deserves consideration as a legendary Phish show?
While there are certainly heaps of people with strong feelings on both sides of this debate, I think the December 30, 2009 show deserves inclusion, at least to round out say a Top 50 all-time shows list. So, here is a defense of the rationale. All I ask is before you string me up from the rafters is that you read the list.
8) Like a Broken Record – Any Phish dork worth their weight in notepads knew that as the New Years run wound down, Phish narrowly approached their own record for the most unique songs played in a single year – which previously sat at a Wilt Chamberlain-esque 240. When the band stormed out of the gates with a first set that included a debut of Dixie Cannonball, a new song in Gone and a massive helping of 2009 first-timers (What’s the Use, Rocky Top, Corrina and Tela), it became clear they wouldn’t even need New Year’s Eve to eclipse the record. Like many holiday runs past, the night preceding New Years Eve took home top honors over the actual holiday, and the record got shattered.
7) A Lullaby the Breezes Whisper – Phish fans have short memories when it comes to craving for the band to play a song that’s been shelved for an extended period of time. Hence, the buzz for Tela has probably waned somewhat now that it’s been played, but leading up to the Miami show; this was without question the song everybody wanted to hear. A dust off of this magnitude usually runs the risk of some flubs, but the band tackled this intricate number with relative ease and a whole lot of excitement.
READ ON for six more reasons 12/30/2009 kicks fucking ass…
When Elton John set out for his first headlining tour in 1971, his label didn’t provide enough funds to cover a full band so the soon-to-be legendary pianist hired bassist
On August 29, 1966, The Beatles played their final live concert in the United Stated to a sold out crowd of screaming fans at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park. Now, some
Check in on Wednesday of every week during Season 6 of Lost to share your thoughts, theories, complaints and assessments of the previous night’s episode. Big time SPOILER alert for anyone didn‘t watch yet.
Synopsis: As always, we teamed up with the Joker from Coventry for this week’s setlist and recap. Side note: Joker ran a reprint of his epic LOST/Phish Tees if anyone missed out the first time around. Check ’em out.
Geronimo Jackson, May 18, 2010
Set I (Off Island): Milk and Cereal (1), Cremation Services (2), Slow and Low (3), Watching The Detectives (4), Mr. Nice Guy (5), I Found a Reason (6), Jailhouse Rock (7), Cortez the Killer (8)
Set II (On Island): Bullet with Butterfly Wings (9), Throwing Stones (10), The End (11), Loving Cup (12), Secret Door (13), The Payback (14)
Encore: Wishing Well (15) > Seek and Destroy (16)
(1) G Love and the Special Sauce; David, Jack, and Claire
(2) Jerky Boys; Desmond and Jack
(3) Beastie Boys; Desmond with “we’re here to help you let it go” banter
(4) Elvis Costello; Miles and Sawyer
(5) Will Smith; Alex and Mr. Linus
(6) Velvet Underground; Locke with Alice in Chains “Angry Chair” teases
(7) Elvis Presley; Kate, Desmond, and Sayid
(8) Neil Young; Officer Cortez (aka Ana Lucia), Sayid, Kate, and Desmond
(9) Smashing Pumpkins; Kate and Jack
(10) The Grateful Dead; Young Jacob and Hurley
(11) The Doors, Jacob and the Candidates
(12) The Rolling Stones; Jack and Jacob
(13) Arctic Monkeys, Ben and Flocke
(14) James Brown; Ben and Widmore
(15) Blind Melon
(16) Metallica
READ ON for this week’s Epic One Liner, summary and discussion points…
Our friends at Charity Folks have launched a series of auctions to benefit HeadCount that include a number of unique experiences such as two VIP tickets to the Summer Camp
The summer concert season is upon us and the Hidden Track staff know that it’s virtually impossible for us to afford every show we want to hit, and still be able to pay our insanely expensive New York City rents. Luckily for us, there are a plethora of fantastic free concerts throughout the summer that don’t cost a dime. We decided to weed through all the listings and present to you our 3rd Annual NYC Free Summer Concert Picks. Let’s take a look…
HT Recommends: She & Him / Oakley Hall
Where: The Beach @ Governors Island
When: Sunday, July 4, Beach Opens At 10 AM, Show 4 PM
Official Info: She & Him make music for an eternal springtime, when the temperature is warm enough to go riding with the top (or at least the windows) rolled down and the radio turned up. They occupy an alternate universe where the saddest of songs feel as warm as sun showers; the rain may be coming down, but somewhere nearby, everything looks bright. What began as a fascinating, no-strings attached collaboration on 2008’s Volume One has evolved into a bona fide, touring band, and She & Him are here to stay. Zooey Deschanel and Matt Ward are as comfortable and complementary a musical pair as Les Paul and Mary Ford; hearing them again on Volume Two feels like getting together with two old friends. This time, the harmonies have grown more angelically layered, the string arrangements more dramatic, the songwriting even sharper and more confident. But, as with Volume One, the prevailing mood is bittersweet, dreamy, and romantic.
Other Free Shows At Governors Island: 6/5 – Yeasayer, 7/3 – Portugal. The Man / Alberta Cross, 7/10 – Lucero, 7/16 – Caribou / Phantogram / The Chain Gang of 1974, 8/8 – Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band / Justin Townes Earle / Dawn Landes & The Hounds, 8/14 – Neon Indian, 8/15 – Dr. Dog / Cheif
READ ON for the rest of our list of free summer concerts in NYC…
The Drive-By Truckers are no strangers to being in front of the camera, being not only the subject of a recent documentary on the Southern-rock band, but also making numerous
