On April 29th, Razor & Tie Entertainment will release ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA on DVD. The DVD features the astounding music of Frank Zappa played by an expert ensemble led by
The Northwest’s premier acoustic music festival returns for its seventh year to beautiful Horning’s Hideout in North Plains, Oregon, on July 18-20. The event boasts three days of nearly all-acoustic
Beck, Stone Temple Pilots, Lucinda Williams and Neko Case are among the first acts confirmed for the 2008 Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival, Billboard.com can reveal. The event will be
A film about The National is set to be released in May, and it will be packaged with a bonus CD – ‘The Virgina EP’. ‘A Skin, A Night’ was
To celebrate the 2008 Jammys nomination for eMusic Download of the Year, The Disco Biscuits are now releasing the Tractorbeam show from the Chameleon Club in Lancaster, PA on June
Prince will make what is believed to be his first U.S. festival appearance ever at Coachella later this month. Organizers confirmed today that the artist will headline the Saturday (April
We know this is kind of last minute, but if you don’t have any plans tonight we highly suggest you stopping by the Virgin Megastore in Union Square as Tapes
Today, we’re introducing another new sporadic feature around here called Hidden Track: At The Barbecue. This is a chance to get a little loose with the Dead Guy Ales, suck down a variety of tube steaks, and shoot the shit with the gang.
Basically, this is an opportunity for the various HT contributors to talk about the germane on goings in the music world or just chat about who likes what.
So, for this first barbecue, we thought we’d kick it off with a little icebreaker: What was your very first favorite song?
Big Papi: For somebody who grew up in the ’80s, a very first favorite song can easily be Eye of the Tiger or Jump. However, the choices are broad, so favorite song needs to be expanded to the first song that you memorized all the lyrics to, which in my case would be The Beastie Boys’ Paul Revere. Perhaps nothing rolled off the tongue of a pre-puberty fifth grader better than repeating the lines:
The sheriff’s after me for what I did to his daughter
I did it like this, I did it like that I did it with a wiffleball bat
So I’m on the run the cop’s got my gun
And right about now it’s time to have some fun
The King Adrock that is my name
And I know the fly spot where they got the champagne.
Read on to see what your favorite HT’ers got down to as young ‘ens…
Well they’ve done it again, Phish has walked away victorious for the second time in Cover Wars. Phish has actually claimed a mandate in both its first (Boogie On) and more recent (Good Times Bad Times) victories. In honor of this, I’ve selected one of the larger Phish compositions as the focus of this week’s edition.
Also, some quick housekeeping, we’re calling the Cover Wars from 2 weeks ago (Space Oddity) for The Breakfast.
First off, the raw basics: Trey wrote You Enjoy Myself in Europe in 1986…you know what…if you’re reading this blog and you’re not familiar with the history of YEM, just ring your call button, and Tommy Scotty will come back there and hit you on the head with a tack hammer because you are a retard.
The dorky shit: YEM is the most played Phish song…by a lot. 472 times. 39% of all Phish shows featured it. Read on for this week’s contestants…
No, there isn’t a typo in the title of our latest search for obscure film gems. This week, we take a look at Breakfast with Hunter, a landmark cinematic achievement from award-winning documentary filmmaker Wayne Ewing.
For many years, Ewing had the distinct pleasure (and occasional nuisance) of being the next door neighbor to literary giant and the King of Gonzo Journalism, Hunter S. Thompson. Ewing managed to capture Thompson during many wild escapades in Hollywood, Louisville, and Manhattan but, more importantly, he was also able to film the legendary scribe at home in Woody Creek, Colorado, during long passages of peaceful, endearing moments that give strong evidence that Thompson’s public persona was just a mere smokescreen that often hid his much larger skills on the page and, in the end, betrayed and besmirched his historical record.
Read on for more about Wayne Ewing’s Breakfast With Hunter…
