The pride of New England, Ray LaMontagne, makes his first visit to Conan O’Brien’s Tonight Show this evening on NBC. Ray will be in Los Angeles for a concert at
Pitchfork’s annual music festival returns to Union Park in Chicago on July 17 – 19 for three full days of eclectic bands (and presumably lots of tight jeans and small pins). Hidden Track will be there covering the good, the bad and the ugly with a full review to follow the fest. In the meantime, we’ve put together a list of the top five bands we’re most excited to catch. From the genius soundscapes of Tortoise on Friday through the closing circus of the Flaming Lips on Sunday, this promises to be a great event.
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1. Tortoise [Friday 5PM @ the Connector Stage]
Any day I can see Tortoise is a great day. Their set next Friday night is part of the “Write the Night” series where fans vote for what songs the bands playing that night will tackle. For a band whose catalogue runs as deep as Tortoise’s this is quite an exciting prospect. Personally, I’m hoping for gems – tunes such as Gamera, Djed and Onions Wrapped in Rubber. I’m also quite interested to see if any tunes off of their recently-released Beacons Of Ancestorship
READ ON for four more bands to catch at the Pitchfork Festival…
The promoters of Camp Bisco VIII have just unveiled the schedule for each of the three stages. CBVIII kicks off on July 16 and runs through the 18th at the
A few months back we mentioned that former Phish collaborator Kid Rock was throwing his hat in the craft beer business ring. The Detroit native will debut the new brew
Mazzy Star – Black Session #38 Paris, France – 1993-10-26 [.zip archive] 01 Mary of silence 02 Ghost highway 03 She hangs brightly 04 Bells ring 05 Halah 06 Blue
With all the new columns being started around here I figured I’d get in the act by kicking off Through The Years. Each month we’ll provide a YouTube playlist with one song from each year of a band’s existence.
For our first edition of Through The Years we’ve got a killer playlist of Wilco tunes from 1995 to 2009. Let’s take a look…
READ ON for a list of the tracks we used this week…
[youtube]YMPF6lpM0XM[/youtube] Dirty Projectors – Stillness Is The Move
While the Music-Hole mp3 bootleg blog isn’t updated often, the latest update has been well worth the wait. Their Glastonbury 2009 post contains recordings from the BBC broadcast of the
Let’s set the God Street Wednesday Time Machine for the Spring of 1998 as we take a look at an interview GSW bassist Dan Pifer did for In Music We
Each month, HT Contributor Ben Wiser will take a closer look at notable performances of Dark Star. If you have any favorite Stars you would like him to cover, send the date over to darkstarstories@yahoo.com
This coming Monday will mark 25 years since the Grateful Dead kicked off a three-night run at the Greek Theater in the hot summer of 1984. 1984 was an interesting year for the band – there were good nights and there were…eh…not so good nights, but the concert the Dead played in Berkeley on July 13th is a strong candidate for show of the year.
The first set rocks, but the second set is what the show is best known for. Starting with an amped up Scarlet Begonias that tears into a speedy Touch of Gray (which was already well established in the band’s repertoire) and finally winds down into a groovy Fire on the Mountain. Phil drops a serious bass assault during I Need a Miracle and Jerry delivers the goods with a sublime and breathtaking Stella Blue. After Bobby leads the boys in a stomping Sugar Magnolia finale, only then does the real magic begin.
“If we could have your patience for another five or ten minutes, we’re going to try something a little special tonight, one night only.” – Phil Lesh
The road crew ran around the stage, setting up screens and projectors. Images of deep space appeared, and then the familiar triad of notes begins.
READ ON to find out more and to listen to the Greek ’84 Dark Star…
