The fine folks at Bowery Presents have been a staple of NYC’s live music scene booking shows around town since the mid ’90s. The concert promoters, who own and book
Metallica are planning a tour in 2011 which their manager claims will rival Pink Floyd‘s 1980-1981 ‘The Wall’ tour, it has been revealed. Manager Peter Mensch revealed that the band
Native to South Africa, Civil Twilight is a three-piece rock band consisting of two brothers Steven (vocal, bass, piano) and Andrew McKellar (guitar) and their friend Richard Wouters (drums) who they met during grade school in Cape Town. Their sound displays direct influences of British and American rock bands such as The Police, Radiohead and Oasis, though their lyrics are deeply rooted in the humanism that exists within.
RJD2 takes his varied material, funk, jazz, hip-hop, electronic and all in between, and slashes it apart to rebuild it live. Production laden DJ numbers are changed and thrown to full band instrumentation, and vice versa, for a motley and unrestrained take on his material.
Alex Chilton, singer and guitarist of Big Star, one of the most influential rock groups to emerge from the early 1970s, has passed away at the age of 59. Chilton
Though their debut album Manners was released less than a year ago, Passion Pit are treating their fans to a deluxe reissue, out April 13 via Frenchkiss/Columbia. The reissue will
Last week, we launched the first-ever Podcast to accompany this weekly feature and I was happy to see that a bunch of you downloaded it. We’re going to continue doing this every week. For those who missed it last week, it’s just one MP3 that you can download and take with you, it’s got all the selections that are embedded in the piece with a few extra fades to give it that real Podcast feel. This week, we’ve got relatively short compositions as our bookends with the jams sandwiched in the middle. Hope you enjoy it.
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[Thanks to OtheroneK for this week’s photo]
Artist & Title: The Duke & The King – Union Street
Date & Venue: 2010-03-12 Wellmont Theater, Montclair NJ
Taper & Show Download: edtyre
HT favorites The Duke & The King had the honor of opening for Levon Helm last week. This is a very nice recording and a nice lead-in for the jams to follow in this week’s edition. The Duke & The King next play April 2nd in Brooklyn.
[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/datksauce.mp3]Thought not from last week, here’s some video from a gig in Paris:
READ ON for tracks from Furthur, Mike Gordon, Tropical Jam 5 and UM…
It’s been a three years since the Zach Braff-approved, indie-darlings The Shins put out their third full-length album Wincing the Night Away. Since its release and support tour, the Portland
In an effort to focus our attention on something besides Phish for a change, we’ve decided at HT headquarters to (hopefully) drum up some good chatter about the final season
We recently introduced you to the music of the UK folk act Mumford & Sons – who channel traditional English folk music through American bluegrass. During a recent appearance on
