July 2008

AfterNews: SubPop/UnLed-ed/Guns N’ Roses

Grunge pioneers Green River gave the adoring crowd exactly what they were looking for last night at the Sub Pop 20th Anniversary Party at Seattle’s Marymoor Park. The reunited sextet

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Yet Another List: Albums To Last A Lifetime

If Hidden Track is just one of many music blogs you read than you’ve probably seen a bunch of bloggers listing their favorite albums from each year they were alive. Before the weekend started, we asked a number of our contributors and JRoxx of Runaway Dinosaur to come up with lists of their own to share.

Everyone we asked to make this list came back and told us how much fun they had putting it together. To join in the fun just leave your list as a comment on the bottom of this post. If you need help determining what album came from what year you can use Wikipedia’s list of album releases or Robert Christgau’s Pazz and Jop rundowns. Here’s what we came up with…

Scotty’s List:

1977 – Steely Dan – Aja
1978 – Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy
1979 – Frank Zappa – Joe’s Garage
1980 – Talking Heads – Remain In Light
1981 – The Police – Ghost In The Machine
1982 – Michael Jackson – Thriller
1983 – The Police – Synchronicity
1984 – Van Halen – 1984
1985 – Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms
1986 – Paul Simon – Graceland
1987 – Guns N Roses – Appetite for Destruction
1988 – R.E.M. – Green
1989 – Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique
1990 – Depeche Mode – Violator
1991 – Pearl Jam – Ten

READ ON for six lists full of incredible albums from each year…

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Monday’s Hors d’Oeuvres: The Dead in Egypt

After an extremely slow start, Rhino Records has finally started unveiling new Grateful Dead archival releases at a decent pace. Rhino’s next release–Rocking The Cradle – Egypt 1978–contains 2 CDs

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Volume 10: Mason Jennings

A few days before I went to my first Mason Jennings concert at the now defunct Mississippi Nights, my mom came to visit me in Saint Louis. We had lunch at the famous Blueberry Hill, and we may or may not have had a few too many Bloody Marys with our hamburgers and fries. I knew that Jennings was playing an in-store set later that day up the street at Vintage Vinyl, and I dragged my mother along to check it out.

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Tim Reynolds – Ace in the Hole

 After years of solo tours and spot projects, Tim Reynolds is not only back in the spotlight with DMB but has revived TR3 (if not former members) in a new configuration. 

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Cold War Kids Reveal New Album Details

Cold War Kids have revealed the details of their highly anticipated second album. The band’s follow-up to 2006’s ‘Robbers And Cowards’ will be called ‘Loyalty To Loyalty’ and is due

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The Faces Likely To Reunite

The Faces, the ’70s rock band most famous for hits including ‘Stay With Me’ and ‘Ooh La La’, could be set to reunite in the near future. The group, which

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