July 22, 2010

Preview: Newport Folk Festival

Jeffrey Greenblatt July 22, 2010 No Comments

Next weekend the granddaddy of all music fests – the Newport Folk Festival – will kick off with three days of roots, folk and Americana music that this year will open on Friday night with a night of “banjo and bluegrass” at the International Tennis Hall Of Fame, before moving to the festival grounds at the historic Fort Adams State Park for two days full of music.

Founded in 1959 by George Wein as an offshoot of his already highly successful and well-established Jazz Festival, and possibly most famous as the site that saw Bob Dylan shun the folk world when he went electric in 1965, the fest fell on hard times and was forced into taking a 14 year hiatus starting in 1971 before it was revived in 1985 – and has been thriving ever since with its diverse lineups.

Over the years the iconic fest has hosted a veritable who’s who of musicians from Joan Baez to Johnny Cash to Muddy Waters in its classic years, and more recently has seen the likes of Iron & Wine, Fleet Foxes, Neko Case and even Trey Anastasio log time at the tents and stages.

This year’s lineup is no slouch either. A quick glance reads like my iPod on shuffle on any given day featuring HT faves like Levon Helm, The Felice Brothers, Dawes, The Low Anthem, The Avett Brothers and Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings. With so many bands that I’m genuinely excited about seeing over the course of the weekend, I thought I’d focus on six, three from each day and each stage, that I’ve got my eye on…

Day One

A.A. Bondy (Quad Stage, 12:50 PM)

I can’t think of a better way to ease into Newport than with a an early afternoon set from folkie A.A. Bondy. Armed with an acoustic guitar, harmonica and endearingly crackling vocals, the singer-songwriter just seems to evoke the spirit of the festival both past and present with his slow paced meandering folk songs. Bondy, who has two excellent albums to his name, may not be the sexy pick with his set scheduled against Blitzen Trapper and local heroes The Low Anthem – but you should carve some time out to stop by even just for a song or two.

READ ON for more of my picks for this year’s Newport Folk Fest…

David Byrne Sits In With Crowded House For a Couple of Talking Heads Classics

Scott Bernstein July 22, 2010 1 Comment

As if I wasn’t kicking myself enough for missing Crowded House’s three-night stand at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City, I will now start punching myself in the face.

Gorillaz Announce World Tour

Scott Bernstein July 22, 2010 No Comments

Gorillaz’s latest album, Plastic Beach, has been getting plenty of spins at HT headquarters, so we’ve been waiting to see how the disc translates live. We’ll finally get our chance

Last Week’s Sauce: July 12th – 18th, 2000??

DaveO July 22, 2010 2 Comments

Whoops! Looks like we have entered into some type of wormhole because something seems funny about this edition of Last Week’s Sauce. Our President is William Jefferson Clinton and Elian Gonzales has been recently returned to his native Cuba. Gas prices are continuing to rise, we’re currently looking at $1.46 a gallon up 25% from last summer’s average of $1.17. And of course, there is a jamband show on every block. Let’s have a listen in!

[Thanks to kb for this week’s photo]

And we continue to take all the selected tracks, normalize them, create some simple fades and put it into one easy to download MP3 for you.

Click here to download the Last Week’s Sauce Podcast
NOTE: This one clocks in at over two hours.

Artist & Title: Derek Trucks Band – Rastaman Chant
Date & Venue: 2000-07-16 Pittsburgh Blues Festival – Pittsburgh, PA
Taper & Show Download: Unknown

21 year-old guitarist Derek Trucks continues to be a musical force to be reckoned with. Trucks was officially made a member of The Allman Brothers Band last summer and in between playing Red Rocks earlier this month and picking up the second leg of ABB tour now, Derek snuck in a few gigs with his solo band.

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Susan Tedeschi joins the Derek Trucks Band for Valentine’s Day earlier this year. Call me crazy but I think she might have a thing for young Derek:

READ ON for tracks from Agents of Good Roots, Billy Bragg, the Disco Biscuits, Living Daylights, Phil Lesh, Phish, SCI, Soulive, Kimock and Ween…

Feature: POP Rocks! Rocks Baltimore

Hidden Track Staff July 22, 2010 No Comments

Words: JR Hevron

POP Rocks! is an art and music performance series organized by psychedelic artist Jess Pfohl. The next installment of the music and art series takes place this weekend at the Baltimore Hard Rock Café. In addition to an exhibition of collaborative artwork by Jess and photographer Michael Weintrob, attendees can expect performances by Some Cat From Japan, Eric McFadden, Wyllys, Tom Hamilton’s American Babies and a showcase of Baltimore bands.

I talked to Jess about pulling the show together, the future of the POP Rocks! series and painting a Rocks Off! cruise boat in 2011…

J.R. Hevron: You started the POP Rocks! Series last December with a show at Sullivan Hall in New York City with Scott Metzger’s Heroin. How did that come about?

Jess Pfohl: I wish I could take credit for the whole premise of what I’m doing, but it’s inspired by what Andy Warhol had with the Velvet Underground. Andy had an appreciation for the relationships between rock and roll and pop culture and powerful artwork. He wanted to create a marriage between the three and make it into a lifestyle. When I finally decided to show my work, it felt appropriate to do it in the most Andy fashion—and that’s why I asked Scott to put together the band Heroin [which played the music of the Velvet Underground].

JH: What is your artwork like for this installment?

JP: For this exhibit, photographer Michael Weintrob and I teamed up. It’s exciting because he’s such a wonderful photographer. Over the past couple of months, He sent me over 200 images to pick from. I took those images, blew them up, took all of the color out of them, and then painted my day glo on top of the images.

It’s all inspired by Warhol’s screen printing. I think that if Andy were alive today, he would have progressed into high-res printing, enlarging images, layering images and things like that.

READ ON for more of J.R.’s chat with artist Jess Pfohl…

Video: Gogol Bordello – Pala Tute

Scott Bernstein July 22, 2010 1 Comment

In one of the better pairings we’ve seen this year, Gogol Bordello heads out on a two week tour with Primus starting on July 29th in Essex Junction, VT. Gogol

Boot Camp: SCI Fidelity Sampler

Scott Bernstein July 22, 2010 No Comments

Usually for MP3 Boot Camp we wind up ignoring the MP3 part of the column’s title and focus on bootlegs of all file formats, but this week we’ll go the

The XX – w/ Nosaj Thing, JJ – 4.12.10

July 22, 2010 No Comments

All photos by Nate Watters

Gorillaz Playing MSG & North America

July 22, 2010 No Comments

Gorillaz are set to take their Plastic Beach around the world later this year. The band have today confirmed they will play 20 shows in North America (including their first

Big Boi: Sir Lucious Left Foot…The Son Of Chico Dusty

Shawn Donohue July 22, 2010 No Comments

Collective wisdom has always been that Andre 3000 was the freak and Big Boi was the street when it came to OutKast, but Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty, could slightly shift that view. Big Boi has mastered the microphone and allows his purple freak flag to fly with bass lines, beats, and various musical styles. Caribbean, classical, new wave and syrupy southern soul all seep into the sound.

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