April 4, 2008

Televised Tune: On the Tube This Weekend

Forty years ago James Brown played a concert at the Boston Garden that helped the city heal after learning of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. VH-1’s Rock Docs takes a

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Land of Confusion: Nothin’ But An N Thang?

Throughout history, politics has had a significant impact on music. Likewise music has had a significant impact on politics (thanks, Tipper). With that in mind, I thought it would be a good idea to create a dialog with you, the Hidden Track readers. I hope to address issues concerning the campaign trail, current hot button issues and candidates and then contrast them with artists, occurrences in the music business, lyrics and perhaps even a little music history.


Recently, there has been a lot of discussion on the Umphrey’s McGee fan message board about a recent podcast released by the band. Over the years, Umphrey’s has done several cover songs, including several hip-hop songs such as Regulate, Gin & Juice and Xxplosive. The podcast mentioned features a cover of Snoop Dogg’s Ain’t No Fun.

UM guitarist Brendan Bayliss keeps to the original by performing all the lyrics to the song. The specific lyric that caused controversy over on the message board is the “N-word.” Indeed, many rap artists have embraced this term to simply take on the meaning of a person. But does this not perpetuate the racial problems in our country? On the other hand, Widespread Panic changes the same lyric in question when they cover Curtis Mayfield’s Pusher Man.

Read on for more of Land of Confusion, and be sure to tell us your opinion…

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Friday’s Leftovers: Choose or Lose

Now’s your chance to put our “my band can beat up your band” mantra to good use. That’s because voting for the 7th kinda-annual Jammy Awards has just started over

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Lollapalooza Headliners Confirmed

While C3 Presents doesn’t plan to announce the Lollapalooza 2008 headliners until Monday, Jim DeRogatis doesn’t have the patience to wait on the Texas-based promoters. DeRo and his Chicago Sun-Times

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