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We’re still in shock over losing Jay Bennett on Sunday morning. The cause of Bennett’s death still isn’t known after the preliminary autopsy reports came back inconclusive according to a

When a band releases their first single in nearly five years they usually tell their fans, but when does Phish do anything by the book? Last night a version of

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concluded the first leg of their latest World Tour at the Izod Center in East Rutherford on Saturday and from the widespread rave reviews each show has received it seems as if the band is firing on all cylinders. One of the more exciting elements Springsteen has added to most sets is the “Stump The Band” segments where The Boss takes requests from the crowd on new covers for the band to play.

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Over the past two months the E Street Band has covered songs from a wide range of artists including The Clash, The Who, ZZ Top, Jimmy Cliff and Creedence Clearwater Revival. To recap We made a list of the “Stump The Band” covers played thus far featuring the best YouTube clip of that performance available so you can check it out. Take a look…

April 15 – Raise Your Hand (Eddie Floyd):

READ ON for more Bruce Springsteen “Stump The Band” videos…

We’re saddened to interrupt a wonderful three-day weekend to share the awful news that musician Jay Bennett, a former member of Wilco, died early this morning. Details are sketchy at

We’d like to welcome back U-Melt keyboard ace Zac Lasher for the third set of entries from the Tour Diary he kept for Hidden Track. For parts one and two, Zac wrote about U-Melt’s journey through America’s Heartland. Now, we bring you the final installment of Zac’s Hidden Track Tour Diary…

4/27 – On the road to Tulsa

The county gets really big out here. Being from the Northeast, I’m used to everything being really close together. Not here. Another day of driving hours and hours with absolutely nothing around for miles and miles and miles gives me time to reflect. I found out about the pretty serious electronic music scene in eastern Colorado… I gotta say, it’s pretty hip – we opened for an electronic act that rocked the house at the Fox in Boulder, and on Saturday in Denver we played next door to a big electronic music circus complete with fire-dancers, stilt-walkers and live-painters. It was all very Burning-Man.

I’m very into that kind of scene, so I definitely enjoyed it, but it did all make me wonder as to the place of Rock ’n Roll in today’s (and tomorrow’s) world. It seems to me that electronica is a new kind of folk music. It doesn’t really require musical training, and it doesn’t require hours of rehearsal with a band. You just need a laptop, some key software and the inspiration and tenacity to learn how to use it, and you can get a crowd into a frenzy playing your produced tracks. READ ON for more of Zac Lasher’s Tour Diary…