2007

The Police Week rolls on at Hidden Track with a special edition of Grousing The Aisles. As we mentioned a few weeks ago, the fine people over at the forums on thepolice.com have been assembling the mother lode of Police bootlegs.

So while we wait for full audio of the band’s comeback shows to finally surface, feel free to get your fill of the band in its absolute prime…

Pre-Outlandos D’ Amour shows

08-05-1977 / Mont de Marsan / Punk festival / FRANCE

Read on for, oh, about 100 more awesome shows for your perusal and download…

It might be strange to click on HT and find video post in this department about a country music singer-songwriter, but there’s more to this edition of Pullin’ ‘Tubes than a David Allan

Wade Ellis Wilby has experienced many angles of the music biz. He’s written songs for Rane, headed up production at Higher Ground, and his latest gig has him working for Umphrey’s McGee. This past weekend Wade served as a jack of all trades for the Summer Camp festival, and he was kind enough to share his thoughts on the weekend…

If I ever thought Summer Camp was this great growing up as a kid, my parents would have had many more carefree summers.

As for the adult version, JAM Productions and Jay Goldberg have put together a great entertainment package at a quaint little site in the heart of America. It’s no wonder their numbers continue to grow — a huge thank you to them for all the hospitality and hard work. What a great weekend in Illinois.

This summer’s lineup was headlined, once again, by moe.‘s three nights, with Umphrey’s McGee opening on Friday and Saturday. This set-up makes for a great situation: moe. and UM have a great rapport with one another, and UM’s sharing the stage with them is not only very professional and easy, it’s also a blast. It also lends itself to both bands being extra comfortable, allowing for much better sets musically. Now, about those incredible sets…

Read on for the rest of Wade’s recap of Summer Camp, including the inside scoop on why Brendan Bayliss showed up to play in a dress and a feather boa.

A report in Monday’s New York Post cited Liv Tyler as the source of a rumor that her father Steven will be leaving Aerosmith due to the way the band’s been treating him.

It’ll take an excess of positive mojo to erase the debacle of a certain Vermont music festival, but that state’s second most famous rock foursome is itchin’ to try. Come July 21-22, RAQ will welcome all comers to the second installment of the Lew-Au, the band’s very own festival on Hillcrest Farms in Newport, Vermont.

I’m not sure throwing a festival down the street from the Great Coventry Trainwreck of 2004 is the best way to draw a like-minded crowd, but if the rapidly growing, rabidly impassioned fanbase is any true indication of what’s in store, RAQ should have no problem expanding on the 600 attendees that braved a foul-weather weekend in August 2005 for the first Lew-Au.

The band made the initial Lew-Au II announcement at RAQ’s most recent trip to New York’s Bowery Ballroom, a truly raging part of last month’s otherwise lackluster Green Apple Music Festival. That night’s show displayed the immense kind of talent each individual band member possesses, and it’s always a genuine pleasure for me to watch a group of musicians so at ease on stage, having fun with each other and whipping the crowd into a total frenzy. I like a total frenzy.

I caught up with RAQ just before they went on stage that night, and I was surprised by how level-headed and grounded they were. Read on after the jump for parts of my conversation with RAQ, fantastic pictures from Jonathan Healey and a clear soundboard matrix of the audio sodomy unveiled at the Bowery…

The Police Week continues here on Hidden Track, and so does the so-called East Coast Bias many of you sports fans decry on a regular basis. First, SportsCenter shows nonstop Red Sawx-Yankees

Our friend Gragek recently implored us to forget all the versions of Frankenstein and Boogie On Reggae Woman that we’d ever heard and check out Marcus Miller‘s renditions instead. So I