March 2010

Back in 1995, hell, even 2005, you would’ve never pegged the Disco Biscuits for an act to get one of their videos in rotation on one of MTV’s music channels. Yet, if you tuned into MTV2 or MTVU at the top of any hour yesterday, you caught an airing of the Philadelphia-based quartet’s video for On Time. To celebrate the band’s accomplishment, we’re devoting this month’s Through The Years column to the Disco Biscuits.

The earliest Disco Biscuits video on YouTube was shot in 1998, so we started our playlist with a clip from ’98 and included one video from each year through 2009. We finish with the Hidden Track premiere of On Time.

Disco Biscuits Through The Years Playlist

READ ON for a listing of the tracks we used for this playlist…

Longtime Hidden Track readers might recall watching me fall in love with the music of Crowded House after catching the power popsters at the Masonic Lodge in NYC way back

Just as quickly as it started, HT’s Cover Wars March Madness tournament is racing towards the end as we’re down to the final four contestants. In the last round, PGroove put a beating on Give Us The Money Lebowski, Trey Anastasio and Phish won by slim margins over YARN and Pearl Jam respectively. Also, Umphrey’s won big over Built to Spill. In each matchup, our readers came out in large numbers to vote so we thank you for that.

For today’s semi-finals, we made Phish face off against Trey while PGroove goes up against Umphrey’s. Regardless, it’s clear a HT Favorite will take this year’s title.

Let’s take a look at this year’s semifinal matchups…

1. PGroove – This Must Be The Place vs. UM – Can’t You Hear Me…
2. Phish – Curtis Loew vs. Trey Anastasio – Sultans of Swing

Our first bout finds Perpetual Groove’s cover of This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) by the Talking Heads squaring off against Umphrey’s McGee’s version of the Rolling Stones’ Can’t You Hear Me Knocking…

Perpetual Groove – This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
Audio: 2-10-2007
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Video: 12-13-2009

Umphrey’s McGee – Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
Audio: 12-30-2007
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Video: 12-30-2007

READ ON to place your vote on this week’s bouts…

[Originally Published: September 29, 2009]

One of my favorite bands was, is, and always shall be Pink Floyd if you haven’t noticed. And like the psychedelic pioneers of space rock, I never met an idea I couldn’t use more than once or thrice. So, here, this week, we present an amalgamation of several Hidden Flick thought patterns as we continue our thesis study on “What is Cinema?” Why are the alleged great films usually bores, while the weird flicks are the post-everything gems?

And yes…a mixture of patterns sleeping in the dirt outside the Hidden Theatre as we wait to get inside to start an evening of unexpected fun and heady pre-Halloween no-goodery. Press replay, repeat, and then play the new stuff, please (“thesis” is used in jest, brah).

Well…time for more popcorn, Red Vines, Raisinettes, and a refill of that 97-ounce soda. We take a break from our regular look at obscure films with another edition of Intermission, which means another look at a cinematic chestnut that may have been lauded or groundbreaking in the past, but has since been forgotten in history’s hourglass.

READ ON for more of this week’s installment of Hidden Flick…