September 2008

The first dates for Trey Anastasio’s Classic TAB Fall Tour have leaked, leading us to believe an announcement of the entire run is imminent. The Palace Theatre in Albany posted

The summer concert season has kept the HT gang busy for the last couple of months hitting amphitheaters, clubs, boats and festies in order to catch great live music. Since we haven’t seen each other in quite awhile, we thought we’d round up crew to crack open some Sea Hag IPA’s for one last summertime cook out and another rousing edition of At The Barbecue – that’s bound to ruffle a few feathers.

This time around we’re going with bands that all your friends love, but no matter how hard you try they still leave you scratching your head wondering just what the fuss is all about…

Chilly Jackwater:

“Generic.” “Ordinary.” “Plain.” These words could be used to describe The Band’s name. But I also enjoy using them to describe The Band’s music. Before you go all “Oh man…The Last Waltz…best doc EVAR…Scorsese…blah blah” Let me tell you: Yes, I’ve watched The Last Waltz. And it’s not all bad. It’s just the parts when The Band are playing their songs that I usually find myself dozing off.

READ ON for more Head Scratchers from the Hidden Track Staff…

Last week’s Radiohead Cover Wars was one of the most popular to date. Eleven of the 16 artists received votes, but Gov’t Mule by a large margin received the most for their renditions of Lucky and Creep. In 2nd place was the Benevento Russo Duo and their four contributions. It was a fun one to put together.

This week, I take a look at another Jimi Hendrix classic that has been performed by an interesting collection of artists. I believe this edition features more pop artists than any of my prior pieces. A few solo performances and a couple of very original arrangements of this 1967 single from Jimi are below.

As always, be sure to register/login to IMEEM so the playlist below loads full-length clips and not 30-second snippets.

READ ON for the tale of the tape on this week’s competitors…

Upstate New York’s moe. gave their fanbase one final treat before heading off into the sunset for a well deserved hiatus of undetermined length this past weekend at moe.down 9 at Snow Ridge in Turin, New York. Over the course of three days, The indie-jam rockers busted out a number of rarities including Funky Reuben – a tune that hadn’t been played in over 1500 shows. moe. concluded their six sets of music with typical humor by performing Always Look on the Bright Side of Life from Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Let’s take a look…

We’ll have much more on moe.down from Jeremy and Carla soon, but in the meantime here are a buncha webcast captures from throughout the weekend:

Levon Helm Band: 08/31/2008

moe.

08/29/2008

08/30/2008: Set I, Set II, Set III

08/31/2008: Set I, Set II, Audio Files

YMSB: 08/30/2008

READ ON after the jump for moe.’s setlists from moe.down 9…

Last week, Oasis kicked off their brief, mostly Canadian-centric North American tour with Ryan Adams & The Cardinals. Before the Brit-rockers head back across the pond for a lengthy UK