Sometimes you wonder why some bands don’t get the nostalgic reacharound that others so readily do. Can’t get enough of The Stones, gotta have more of The Who…The Beatles could
I spent 13 minutes between 11:32 and 11:45 last night watching Wes Anderson’s short film, Hotel Chevalier, which iTunes has begun showing online freegratis. Whether or not the short film
Umphrey’s McGee has grown its fanbase extensively over the past two years, and the amazing podcasts that the band distributes to its fan and potential fans every two weeks can
Photos by Brian Diescher of the Karl Denson Trio performing at Johnny D's in Somerville, MA on September 20th, 2007.
Robert Pollard put Guided By Voices to pasture years ago, but the proficiency keeps on going with bands including Circus Devils.
It’s impossible not to fall in love with Ms. Sharon Jones at first glance. She’s at once a struttin’ storyteller, a sassmouthed soulstress, and a sensational seductress, all backed by
Live Nation has announced they are building a new Fillmore club in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside of our nation’s capital. The new Fillmore, which is due to open in
This week’s edition of GTA features a miscellany of terrific performances. We start off with an outstanding Ryan Adams’ show from last week before moving on to a Meters bootleg that comes straight from George Porter Jr. Prince, a funk all-star in his own right, recently completed a 21-show run in London, and we’ve got his hot after-show from Friday night that includes a terrific cameo by Amy Winehouse. Finally we travel back to 1967 for a look at the beginnings of Traffic. As usual we’ve included a link to MP3 files for all of the torrents we’ve reviewed.
Ryan Adams 09/21/2007 SBD Matrix [FLAC, MP3, STREAM]
Ryan Adams is currently in the middle of a lengthy tour with The Cardinals, and we’ve gotta give Adams some major kudos for allowing tapers to patch in to the soundboard during many gigs on the run (there are soundboards of nearly every recent show on the Live Music Archive). It’s good to see Adams learned something from Phil Lesh about how circulating free soundboards actually drives ticket sales. After scouring some of Adams’ fan sites, we got a recommendation that Friday’s show in Toronto was the best of the batch. If only finding soundboards of the best recent shows from every live band was this easy.
Both the crowd and Adams seem extremely happy to be in each other’s company throughout every song played at this show. I’ve heard so many negative things about Adams’ demenor and stage presence, but this bootleg shows Adams to be engaging in his personality and his musicianship. Many audience members shout requests throughout the night, and Adams’ playfully jokes “You all sound like cavemen grunting from up here.” Musically, the highlights were numerous, including the band’s incredible harmonies on Peaceful Valley and its jamming on Magnolia Mountain. Read on for three more downloads…
We made an impassioned plea at the bottom of Monday night’s One More Cup of Coffee post for video of the epic Meet Me In The Morning collaboration between Bob
Bonnaroo seems like forever ago, and ‘forever ago’ seems like the worst turn of phrase I’ve ever used in a Hidden Track post. So, um, there we go. In any
