Cake has announced their first album of new material since 2004’s Pressure Chief. They’ll release Showroom Of Compassion, their 6th studio album, January 11th 2011 on their own label, Upbeat
Minneapolis band Tapes ‘n Tapes is pleased to announce the upcoming release of their new album, Outside, this January on their original label, ibid Records. This is the band’s third
Bob Dylan and his band will be playing a three night stand at New York City’s Terminal 5. With a 3,000 capacity it marks one of the small shows Dylan
Widespread Panic will return to the Pepsi Center in Denver, CO for a two-night New Years Eve celebration December 30th & 31st with special guest G. Love and Special Sauce.
We covered tons of ground this week on Hidden Track and before we get back to the grind we wanted to recap some of the things we learned…
The new White House Chief of Staff is a Deadhead…
Pete Rouse, the gentleman President Obama tapped this afternoon as his interim Chief of Staff upon the departure of Rahm Emanuel is a Deadhead. He’s the guy who helped get The Dead back together to play a benefit for the then candidate’s campaign according to a New York Times profile. [READ MORE]
Built to Spill has started covering Ripple…
“The New Grateful Dead” has been tossed about in the past describing Built To Spill, it’s a comparison that a lot of Deadheads completely don’t understand – but I think it has some merit once you get past the obvious differences in overall sound. Well this tour, which is massive by the way with very few days off, they have been playing Ripple. The cover starts off slow and somewhat true to the original, but by the end it is a full-on rocker. [READ MORE]
Dark Star Orchestra is experimenting with original material…
JM: Right. We started working on that a little bit, as you said, it’s not going to replace what we do. But everybody also has this itch to be creative, so there’s no reason we can’t write songs and find a place to place them. I don’t think anyone should worry that we’re going to stop playing the Dead – that would upset a lot of people – but that doesn’t make it wrong for us to write and record together. Maybe we, I don’t know, maybe we open for ourselves some time playing original music. So, no one gets cheated out of [his or her] Grateful Dead experience, that’s still happening. But original music is a fairly new development for us. [READ MORE]
READ ON for more things we learned this week…
David Bowie is publishing a new book featuring images from his personal archive. Titled ‘Bowie: Object’, the book was confirmed by Bowie‘s official website Davidbowie.com, though a release date has
The Who could be set to record a new album. In an interview on the band’s official website – TheWho.com, frontman Roger Daltrey revealed that guitarist Pete Townshend is working
Wilco are going to begin writing a new album later this month. Set to be the follow-up to 2009’s ‘Wilco (The Album)’, the Chicago-based group are currently taking some time
For this week’s Friday Mix Tape we scoured the Live Music Archive for six bands covering Ween and after a few bouts with the advance search feature we came up
Pete Rouse, the gentleman President Obama tapped this afternoon as his interim Chief of Staff upon the departure of Rahm Emanuel is a Deadhead. He’s the guy who helped get
