April 2009

Last Week’s Sauce is a recurring piece featuring recordings of shows that took place the previous week. Thanks to Distant Jay for this week’s photo.

Artist & Title: The Dead – Dupree’s Diamond Blues
Date & Venue: 2009-04-18 – DCU Center, Worcester MA
Taper & Show Download: Chris LaPorte

Sorting through the large amount of tapes pulled from the first week of Dead tour, I felt it appropriate that we lead this week off with the same song that was the focus of last week’s Cover Wars. The Dead continue their tour tonight in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.

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Bonus Video:

READ ON for tracks from DMB, MMW, Widespread Panic and Wilco…

I caught the last show of Umphrey’s McGee’s recently completed Northeast run at the Nokia and I was blown away by how good the lights were. Lighting director Jeff Waful

Axe slinger Steve Kimock’s a most curious musical creature, and the only thing I know for sure is that I’ll follow him anywhere. A slight man with an ostensibly unassuming, almost chameleonic way about him, he speaks “guitar” – speaks it fluently, lyrically and intensely, but without the ostentatious stage presence that looks as if, by merely playing a few notes or progressions, he’s trying to wrangle a crazed wolverine or perform emergency surgery. He’s unhurried as hell; you listen on his time, not the other way around, and if you’re patient about things, you get a tremendous reward in the end.

Maybe what’s most appealing about Kimock is that no matter what the context or how spacey his licks, tender or corrosive his tones, or protracted his solos, he somehow exudes a warmth and texture in what he does that prevents it from sounding clinical. Cerebral, yet warm? To these ears, not even Derek Trucks can manage that all the time – virtuosity with candor, dazzling skills with palpable comfort.

Since more or less putting the Steve Kimock Band on hold a few years ago, Kimock’s been doing a little bit of this and that, lending his talents to bands in need (RatDog, for one), forming ad hoc ensembles with old friends and new sparring partners alike, and not quite committing to one thing or another for very long. READ ON for more of Chad’s Steve Kimock Crazy Engine review…

Now that most of the music fans that attended last weekend’s Coachella Festival are back in the real world there have been over a thousand videos of the festival uploaded to YouTube. Unfortunately, most of them are 30 seconds long and sound horrible, but we did find about 100 watchable clips including a number of AT&T Music webcast captures. In what’s become a Hidden Track tradition, here’s a list of the best Coachella clips on YouTube…

Airborne Toxic Event: Gasoline, Sometime Around Midnight,

Antony and the Johnsons: Kiss My Name,

Atmosphere: Shrapnel, God Loves Ugly,

Beirut: Nantes, My Night With The Prostitute From Marseilles, Cocek / Scenic World,

Conor Oberst: Cape Canaveral,

Dr. Dog: The Ark,

Etienne De Crecy: Snake Cube, Hypercube,

Fleet Foxes: White Winter Hymnal / Ragged Wood, English House,

Franz Ferdinand: Dark of the Matinee, This Fire, Playing No You Girls, Ulysses, Take Me Out,

Ghostland Observatory: Sad Sad City,

Glass Candy: Digital Versicolor, Beatific, Miss Broadway,

READ ON for over 100 good videos from Coachella 2009…

I’m going to start this week’s edition off by quoting a little bit of a 2004 Chuck Klosterman article from Spin Magazine where he makes a list of ten bands that are “accurately rated”. You can also find this in his book Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas.

3. Blue Öyster Cult: The BÖC song everyone pays attention to is the suicide anthem “Don’t Fear the Reaper.” However, that song is stupid and doesn’t use enough cowbell. The BÖC song almost no one pays attention to is the pro-monster plod-athon “Godzilla,” and that song is spine- crushingly great. So, in the final analysis, Blue Öyster Cult is accurately rated—by accident. This happens on occasion; look at Scottie Pippen.

Granted, that was written before the days of Guitar Hero and I do believe the song has been made much more popular, at least among the youth, due to that video game sensation. Checking in on last week’s Dupree’s Diamond Blues edition of Cover Wars, The Waybacks have emerged victorious.

The Contestants:

Give Us The Money Lebowski: Leading off this week we’ve got out our friends GUTML who will be hosting the second annual Awesometown next month on May 8th and 9th (turns out these guys do roll on Shabbas). The stage schedule was released yesterday, so start planning your course of attack now. Appropriately, this clip is from last year’s Awesometown. Be on the lookout for some Karate Kid quotes. Source: 5-10-2008
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READ ON for three more entries in this week’s Cover Wars…