Archive: 2009

The Band – Complete Last Waltz [FLAC, MP3]

Most folks don’t realize that the Capitol release of the Last Waltz isn’t an accurate representation of what went down at The Band’s last concert on November 25, 1976 at the Winterland Ballroom. Robbie Robertson took the tapes of the concert into the studio where most of the vocals and some of the music were overdubbed. Not only that, a number of tunes from the show – including a Richard Manuel-sung cover of Georgia On My Mind – were left on the cutting room floor.

Luckily, the master tapes have circulated completely unadulterated. What we’ve got for you today is the complete, dub-free, raw soundboard of the entire Thanksgiving evening show from 1976 at Winterland, running about 241 minutes. Robbie Robertson can save his version, this recording makes you feel as if you are at the show. We especially dig the urgent vocals on King Harvest and the powerful original take of Rag Mama Rag.

READ ON for a full list of the 17 tracks omitted from the official Capitol release, as found on The Trader’s Den website…

Tickets for most of Phish’s summer tour go onsale this morning and hopefully you’ve taken a few moments to familarize yourself with Live Nation’s ticketing system. Head to livenation.com at 10AM EST for Jones Beach, Camden, Burgettstown and Deer Creek ducats. Asheville goes onsale at 10AM through ticketmaster.com and the remaining tickets for the Fabulous […]

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After days of false alarms, the lineup for April 17-19’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has finally been released. READ ON after the jump for the full press release including all the details on this year’s event…

Grammy recipients and longtime HT favorites The Swell Season make their Austin City Limits debut this weekend in an episode that also features Englishman Nick Lowe. Lowe’s best known for his production work with Elvis Costello, but he’s been writing and performing for over 40 years. Friday [all times Eastern]: David Letterman: The Gaslight Anthem […]

John Scofield will be releasing his 36th solo album, Piety Street, which will be available March 31 on Emarcy. It’s a blues inflected album with an adapted gospel repertoire. Joining Scofield on Piety Street are musicians, Jon Cleary (piano, keyboards and vocals), George Porter Jr. (bass), Ricky Fataar (drums), John Boutt・(vocals) and Shannon Powell (percussion). […]

Veteran alt rockers, Superdrag, will hit the road this March to support the upcoming release of their new record.  It all kicks with a hometown show on the 13th, with a few SXSW dates in the mix.  From there the band will hit the east coast and make their way home again. Industry Giants, drops […]

Dave Matthews Band are releasing Leroi Moore’s last concert performance as the next Live Trax volume. LeRoi performed his last Dave Matthews Band show on June 28, 2008 at Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, VA, not far from his Charlottesville home. Proceeds from the sales will be donated by Dave Matthews Band in LeRoi’s memory to […]

The lineup for April 17-19’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has finally been released.  Headliners Paul McCartney, The Killers and The Cure are among the 130-plus acts set for the tenth COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL at the beautiful Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA, the same grounds where the COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC […]

Last Friday, Brooklyn fans welcomed Tea Leaf Green for their first-ever performance at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Of course many of the faithful had been with the band from the last two nights at Mexicali Blues. They were grinning from ear to ear as they spoke of shows that brought the magic back, Reed Mathis singing, Josh Clark playing harmonica and the reintroduction of favorite songs that had fallen by the wayside during the band’s new transition. Filling the venue with their faces painted and bouncing balloons from the upper decks, it felt more like a re-birth than a rock show.

[All words by Carla Danca, photos by Jeremy Gordon]

The band has always had the strong musical personalities of Trevor Garrod and Josh Clark moving it forward, but it’s been Reed Mathis that has been the fan focus of late. Many understood that it would take time to integrate his magical gifts and diverse abilities to push the band to new heights, however this didn’t eliminate some of the frustration fans felt. During this run, it was apparent that the Reed they had been waiting for had arrived.

Looking more comfortable on stage (in his dapper hat) his body language showed off the new dynamic. Instead of standing on the side following, Reed was seizing the moment and showing off his immense skills. Leading the band into funky jams, taking Josh Clark’s challenges and throwing them back – with a smile – and joining in on harmonies with Trevor, the band has a rich new blend that sounds energetic and exciting again.

READ ON for more of Carla’s words and Jeremy’s photos from TLG…

While mega-coffee chain Starbucks expects to make layoffs and close a number of stores this year, they still seem to knock it out of the park with their custom-made compilation albums. Their latest mix, Sweetheart: Our Favorite Artists Sing Their Favorite Love Song, hits stores tomorrow. The fourteen track disc features the likes of She […]

One of the most popular series of B Lists, Digging Deep, has gone missing since I took the reigns of Hidden Track. It’s been nearly two years since the last time we scoured YouTube for fun covers of popular songs.

This time around we’ll be breaking up our list of ten videos into two parts to help speed up your load times. Better late than never, here’s part one of the fifth edition of The B List – Digging Deep…

1. Arcade Fire treated President Barack Obama’s campaign staff to a private concert last week in Washington D.C. The Canadian group offered their take on Bruce Springsteen’s Born In The U.S.A. for the staffers…

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READ ON for four more great covers including U-Melt doin’ Paul Simon, Panic rockin’ out some Marley and Jason Mraz pressing the Peg Button…

This is a new idea around HT, where we’re gonna try to work with some of our favorite up-and-coming bands in a you scratch our back, we’ll scratch yours format where we’ll aim to exclusively release pro-quality, mixed recordings of some stellar shows that might fly under the radar.

Steve Neary, Andrzej Benkowitz, Chris Sell of Steez

By “exclusive,” we certainly don’t aim to prevent the show from making it’s way to the archive or anything like that, but rather just to let it out here first for a little publicity. Basically, it just makes us feel cool. Anyway, this is an experiment in progress, so any thoughts are welcome.

Band: Steez
Date: December 12, 2008
Location: High Noon Saloon, Madison, WI
Download: Click Here

READ ON for more details on this fantastic Steez recording…

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSpHmHABiyM Thin Lizzy – Whiskey In A Jar (Live 1973)

You wouldn’t expect a jazz show at the Highline Ballroom to be packed on a Wednesday night with people fighting over tables, but that was exactly what happened at Joshua Redman’s Double Trio performance last week.

The concert featured little more than a horn player backed by a monster rhythm section, and that was enough. In fact, he was brave just to stand on that stage, framed by a pair of young, in-demand bassists; Larry Grenadier, with his broad movements and low end, on his right, and Reuben Rogers, with his elastic responsiveness and tightly tucked peaks, on his left; and beyond that, a pair of the best drummers of a generation, Gregory Hutchinson, with his versatility and locked-up grooves, and Brian Blade, with his dynamic rolls and crashes.

Even late in the set during Little Ditty, when the music was quiet, almost moody, the symmetry was striking: Redman cascading brightly down the middle of dramatic rhythmic soundscape. He is a bit of a regal lion when it comes to the tenor sax, a strong, confident player whose clean tone is comfortable in any variety of settings, from his recent “real jazz” trio (to use Scofield’s term) to Chicago’s jam titans Umphrey’s McGee, although it’s fair to say that his jazz work has at times relied too heavily on precision and sharp edges. READ ON for more on Joshua Redman’s Double Trio…

The fine folks at Phish Inc. have kindly shared a video of It’s Ice and an MP3 of Harry Hood from the upcoming Clifford Ball boxset with us, so we thought we’d share it with you. Let’s take a look… [dailymotion]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x86o0m_its-ice_music[/dailymotion] Clifford Ball MP3: Harry Hood Previously on HT: A Slew of Clifford Ball Videos […]

Modest Mouse will be hitting the road for a brief late winter tour. The group will feature Grandaddy guitarist Jim Fairchild on guitar for this tour, kicks off the jaunt Feb. 22 in Oakland, CA, and will hit 12 cities on the outing, which concludes with a March 8 slot at Miami’s Langerado Festival. Dates […]

Kingdom of Rust is the Dove’s 4th studio album, their first since Some Cities debuted at # 1 on the U.K. album charts in February, 2005.  The Doves, comprised of Jez Williams, Andy Williams and Jimi Goodwin are offering fans a sneak peak by offering album track "Jetstream" as a free download for two weeks […]

Ray LaMontagne announced his first North American tour dates of 2009 today starting April 2 at the Wellmont in Montclair, NJ  and ending April 30 in Miami at the Fillmore @ Jackie Gleason. The tour is LaMontagne’s second in support of his latest album Gossip In The Grain which achieved the Maine singer-songwriter’s highest chart […]

METRIC will release their fourth full length studio album, Fantasy in the United States and Canada. Fans will be able to pre-order the record directly from the band starting March 2, 2009 at www.ilovemetric.com in one of several possible product configurations. Fans who pre-order the album will immediately get an MP3 of the album’s first […]