10,000 Lakes Festival Adds Some Untz Untz
Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, get ready for an influx tilted hats and pacifiers. The 10KLF Festival announced its first round of additions to the lineup today… Added to the festival today: The Disco Biscuits, Pnuma Trio, Keller Williams, New Riders of the Purple Sage, God Johnson, GypsyFoot, Bump, Mr. Blotto, The Burnin’ Smyrnans and The Heavy […]
Uncle Billy’s Wrench
Grateful Dead Hour host David Gans has posted some great photographs from his private collection. Some of his best work is from the Grateful Dead’s show at the Hollywood Bowl in 1972 and from The Last Waltz. Gans also shared this random shot from Phil Lesh’s kitchen in 1983: What the fuck is going on here? Click here to […]
The B List: Top Ten Badass Guitar Riff Intros
For this week’s B List, we’re honored to introduce our friend Stuart Hartstone. Stuart has worked many festivals with “oo” at the end of the title for Superfly Productions, and most recently he has helped promote concerts and manage artists under the Hartstone Productions banner (along side his brother Jarrett).
“I’ve never been a fan of Top 10 lists when it comes to music — to me, the premise is kind of silly. I’ve always believed that art was in the eye of the beholder, so who’s to say one person’s art is better than someone else’s? But I also generally tend to disagree with most Top 10 lists. I don’t know who writes these things, but with the exception of The B List’s recent Top 10 Side Projects, I often come away feeling like the author has his head firmly affixed up his ass.
Well, that didn’t stop me from taking this opportunity to put together a Top 10 list of my own. I was listening to the Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers the other day, and Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’ came on. I’ve always loved that song, especially the intro. For lack of a better word, it’s just so badass. So it got me thinking: What other songs have similar badass intros like that one? You know, an intro that is just so good it makes you want to pump your fist in the air and yell ‘Yeah!’
So while I know some of you probably won’t agree with me on all of this — I’m still not 100% convinced I do — here without further ado is my Top 10 Badass Guitar Riff Song Intros. While you might not agree with all my choices, I think you will find that for the most part, the intros to these songs are pretty fuckin’ badass!”
Read on below for Stuart Hartstone’s guest edition of The B List…
NOLA JazzFest Lineup Announced
While most music blogs are busy flickin’ the bean today to tawdry thoughts of Coachella (pre-sale today by the way), the hot-off-the-presses lineup for this year’s New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival will likely fly under the radar.
Steely Dan, Van the Man, Dr. John, Allman Brothers Band, Norah Jones, ZZ Top, Bonnie Raiit, Ludacris, John Legend, Counting Crows, Rod Stewart (Faces reunion?!), New Edition, Allen Toussaint, George Benson, Jerry Lee Lewis and Harry Connick Jr. closing out the show? That’s just dyn-o-mite, and we haven’t even heard what’s in store for the night crew. Read on below for the full JazzFest lineup…
Runnin’ With The Devil: Part II
The reunion news just keeps flooding in to the Hidden Track corporate headquarters out here in sunny Mom’s Basement. Rumors began flying a few months back that David Lee Roth would soon reunite with the Van Halen brothers. But we’d been there before: In 1996, David Lee Roth appeared at the MTV Music Awards with […]
Filler: This Wheel’s On Fire
If your memory serves you well…I was going to confiscate your lace. [youtube]DT_UO3sTLsY[/youtube] That little number’s from Pittsburgh’s now-defunct Syria Mosque in November of the Year of Our Lord Nineteen-Hundred and Seventy. Oh, Danko.
Van Halen Reuniting with David Lee Roth For Summer Tour
As posted on Billboard.com Sources tell Billboard.com a contract could be signed as soon as today for Live Nation to produce a 40-date amphitheatre tour by Van Halen this summer, with original frontman David Lee Roth back in the fold for the first time in more than 20 years. As previously reported, guitarist Eddie Van […]
Antibalas Sets U.S. Tour Dates
Antibalas, the acclaimed, socially and politically-minded group will release its Anti- debut on March 6th. Titled Security, the collective – with an active lineup of about a dozen musicians – recently wrapped work in Chicago with innovative producer John McEntire (Stereolab, Tom Ze) of Tortoise on the new disc. In conjunction with the disc’s release, […]
Kunek: Flight of the Flynns
Kunek doesn’t belong in the ambient bin, as it’s a bit more Badly Drawn Boy with a couple of Beatles moments thrown in, but most fans of the genre would appreciate the album.
Tokyo Police Club To Head Out with Cold War Kids
The Canadian quartet, Tokyo Police Club have announced the dates of their forthcoming US tour. The Canadian quartet, recently named by NME as a band to soundtrack your year, will kick off their tour in Minneapolis on March 6, and wrap things up at the Coachella Festival in Indio, California on April 27. They’ll play […]