Archive: 2009

After lying in a private collection for over 40 years, some extremely rare footage of Syd Barrett performing with Pink Floyd has been unearthed and restored and will be screened as part of the British Film Institute’s annual Missing Believed Wiped event next month in London. The found footage is from the seminal psychedelic band’s […]

The band’s combustible mixture of Malian tradition, highlife style, chunky grooves and amped-up rock kept the dance floor hot, and the frequent interjections on kora and soku grounded the proceedings in the earthy, raw sounds of West Africa.

Outkast’s Big Boi has said the band are planning to release a new album in 2010. The rapper explained that both he and bandmate Andre 3000 will release solo albums next year and, if both are well-received, Outkast will also release a new record. Big Boi added that his solo album – called ‘Sir Luscious […]

Elvis Costello has announced plans to release the second in his ‘The Costello Show’ live performance series. Entitled ‘Live At Hollywood High’, the 20-song album is taken from Costello‘s gig at the school in Los Angeles in June 1978. Released on January 11, the record will include songs from early albums ‘My Aim Is True’, […]

Michael Dorf announced today the first artists confirmed to play a special tribute concert to take place March 2, 2010, at CarnegieHall, celebrating the anthemic, insurgent music of The Who. The initial group of artists honoring the group’s unparalleled repertoire include: Frank Black (of thePixies), Bobby McFerrin, Bob Mould (of Husker Du), Gaslight Anthem, Matt […]

It’s always tough to come up with just the right gift for a jam fan, so we thought we’d tell you about two incredible charity auctions for once-in-a-lifetime experiences – a brunch with Phil Lesh and a behind the scenes look at what goes into running a Phish show down in Miami. Our friends at […]

Each day this week we’ll share a new installment of our geekiest column, The Number Line, where we analyze the setlists from Phish’s recently completed Fall Tour. On Monday we examined the Fall Tour one-timers and yesterday we looked at the songs played on the tour by studio album. Today, we’ll look at the covers the quartet performed on the 13-show run.

[Photo by Adam Kaufman]

187 – Show Gap From Last Peaches Until MSG1 [via m.phish.net]
39 – Total Instances of a Cover Being Performed on Fall Tour
31 – Different Covers Performed At Least Once on Fall Tour
25 – Total Covers Played Only One Time on Fall Tour (doesn’t include Crimes)
16:52 – Length of Longest Cover According to LivePhish (Cincy Rock & Roll)
8 – Shows With Cover Song Encores (12/5, 12/4, 12/2, 11/29, 11/27, 11/25, 11/24, 11/22)
8 – Songs From Albums Phish Covered on Halloween Performed on Fall Tour (Torn & Frayed, Sweet Virginia, Shine a Light, Loving Cup, Drowned, Rock and Roll, Cool It Down, Oh! Sweet Nuthin’)

READ ON for more Phish Fall Tour Stats geekery…

Last Week’s Sauce features recordings of shows from the previous week.

[Thanks to tgakidis for this week’s photo]

Artist & Title: Derek Trucks Band – Young Funk
Date & Venue: 2009-12-03 Variety Playhouse, Atlanta GA
Taper & Show Download: mrsoul

The Derek Trucks Band put on a special show down in Atlanta, welcoming a slew of guests to the stage, including: Susan Tedeschi, Jeff Sipe, and Col. Bruce Hampton amongst others. This track, which comes off DTB’s 1998 album Out Of The Madness, features Jimmy Herring on additional guitar. The Trucks/Herring combination is one for the ages, I’ve seen these two go at it in Phil Lesh & Friends as well as the Allman Brothers Band. Derek and the band play tomorrow night at Skirball Center For The Performing Arts.

READ ON after the jump for more stellar tracks from Mountain Goats, Phish, Ryan Montbleau Band and Steve Kimock’s Crazy Engine…

Over the past six months, every time I’ve searched “God Street Wine” on YouTube I never find any new GSW videos. That all changed last week when former GSW crew member – and friend of HT – Michael Weiss uploaded two entire shows to the site. For this week’s God Street Wednesday I put together […]

During their recent stop at Bowery Ballroom, HT faves Blind Pilot busted out a cover of folkie Gillian Welch’s Look At Miss Ohio – the lead track from her Soul Journey album. BP front man Israel Nebeker cited seeing Welch play the song at a fest over the summer as the inspiration, saying he couldn’t […]

The Phil Lesh / Bob Weir-led Furthur kicked off a quick jaunt through the Tri-State Region last night at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City where they played the first of two shows at the venue. [Photo by TaperRob] The sextet tackled some of the more well-known material in the canon including Truckin’, Touch […]

Pretty Lights plan to close out the year a day early with a special show on December 30th in Atlanta, GA.  Tickets for the King Plow Art Center show are on-sale now.  http://www.gallerygroupatlanta.com/eventlist.htm

Los Angeles-based quartet Silversun Pickups have been nominated for the Best New Artist Grammy Award. For a fully independent band to win this award is incredibly rare, and less than 10 in the history of the Grammys have been nominated overall. No one is taking this for granted, least of all the band. Lead singer […]

She & Him will release their sophomore album, Volume Two, on March 23rd, 2010 via Merge Records.  Written by Zooey Deschanel (She) and produced by M. Ward (Him), Volume Two is the highly anticipated follow up to the duo’s critically acclaimed debut, Volume One. Volume Two makes good on Volume One’s musical promise and then […]

Tours, art and boys aside, this Southern California band wants to chill in your living room. When I met Nick Schutz last year, I never knew he was in a band.  The night before our date, he was en route to the Knitting Factory in Hollywood for business matters. I asked him what his band sounded like.

  Earlier this year, Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon teamed up with Eau Claire Memorial High School‘s high school jazz band, performing an eight-song set which featured renditions of a few Bon Iver tracks. Now, Bon Iver has announced that he will be featuring the set on a CD, A Decade with Duke. The CD […]

As we mentioned yesterday, each day this week we’ll be sharing a new installment of our geekiest column, The Number Line, in which we analyze the setlists from Phish’s recently completed Fall Tour. Today’s TNL column looks at the songs played by album. One thing you’ll notice is the lack of songs from the group’s two post-hiatus albums, Round Room and Undermind.

[Photo by Jake Krolick]

Junta (1989): Played 10 songs, Did Not Play 4 (Fee, Contact, Union Federal, Icculus)

Lawn Boy (1990): Played 7 songs, Did Not Play 2 (My Sweet One, Oh Kee Pa Ceremony)

A Picture of Nectar (1992): Played 8 songs, Did Not Play 8 (Llama, Eliza, Manteca, Guelah Papyrus, Magilla, The Landlady, Faht, Catapult)

Rift (1993): Played 10 songs, Did Not Play 5 (Rift, Lengthwise, All Things Reconsidered, Mound, Lengthwise #2)

Hoist (1994): Played 5 songs, Did Not Play 6 (Riker’s Mailbox, Axilla [Part II], Lifeboy, Scent Of A Mule, Dog Faced Boy, Demand)

Billy Breathes (1996): Played 7 songs, Did Not Play 6 (Cars Trucks Buses, Talk, Bliss, Billy Breathes, Swept Away, Steep)

READ ON for the rest of our list of songs played by album…

There are many moments of brilliance on the Smashing Pumpkins’ debut album, Gish, but one track stands out from the rest – the slow, plodding Rhinoceros. Here’s the music video for the tune from 1991… Smashing Pumpkins – Rhinoceros

Not being a Christian—or a Clausian, for that matter—some of the holiday film imagery is totally lost on me. I don’t always get all of the players, either, or WHO was who, and WHEN they did WHAT, and whether John the Baptist was beheaded upside down, or Moses played for the Rockets, or Brian was really the Messiah, or if that spaceship that he rode in during the Monty Python film PROVED the existence of extraterrestrials.

I also don’t get what role this old Jerry Garcia wannabe plays. Is his name St. Nick, or Kringle, or Claus? What the fuck? And how did this fat ass that parties with elves become a saint? Answer me this—in the Lord of the Rings, the elves were normal-sized pseudo-humans, who also happened to look like Aryan wanktards who have pointy ears, and were all conceived by Johnny Winter and Spock. In Santa’s Frat House up north, elves are these little mutant munchkins who are either nerds with goatees, or gay (uhh…Hermie, the blonde kid, who wants to be a dentist in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Drunkard? HELL-LOW. Red flag). Jesus, get me a Tylenol, will ya?

Well, enough of that. It’s the holiday season, and THIS time, we’ve got ourselves a bit of a minor masterpiece, which then morphed into a cheesy 70s television series about a family with 174 kids. Uh…birth control, people! This week’s little holiday Hidden Flick charmer is The Homecoming, and it starred Patricia Neal (a sublime actress who survived cancer and being married to the great eccentric author Roald Dahl).

READ ON for more on this week’s Hidden Flick – The Homecoming…

The Flaming Lips are no strangers to concert theatrics – an average Lips shows features everything from Wayne in a bubble to hand puppets to confetti cannons. For their upcoming New Year’s Eve Freakout gig at the Cox Convention Center in their hometown of Oklahoma City, the psychedelic-rock band have have decided to up the […]