Fresh off a spectacular five-night run of shows in New York’s Times Square, including a legendary New Year’s Eve blowout, The Disco Biscuits will be hitting the road throughout February,
Beth Orton is happy to announce two special solo performances in New York in January. On January 17th at the City Winery and on January 18th at The Bell House,
Detroit Female Punks unite with the formation of Gorevette. The group is a linking up of Nikki Corvette and Amy Gore from the Gore Gore Girls, bringing together some powerful pop punk chops crafted into a bouncy sing-along worthy effort titled, The Lustfully Yours EP.
Passion Pit have mapped out dates for a U.S. Spring tour. Following three previously announced sold-out shows in the Big Apple and dates in Australia, Japan, and Europe, the indie
I’d like to start my recap of Day Four of Jam Cruise 8 with the tale of Laurence Scudder of the Ryan Montbleau Band. Back in 1995, I headed up to Saratoga Springs, NY to start school at Skidmore College. The second night of school I met Laurence and we instantly bonded. Within a few days we were nearly inseparable and Larry has been one of my best friends since that second day of Skidmore.
When Laurence and I first hung, he showed me his viola – an instrument I was completely unfamiliar with. Laurence had played in youth orchestras but when I asked him if he jammed he gave me a puzzled look. Laurence was into the Beastie Boys, Tribe Called Quest and other hip-hop acts, yet I saw an opening with his love for Bob Marley. We bonded over some Marley and soon-there-after I played the Harry Hood from Phish’s April 18, 1992 show as his introduction to jam music and he took to it like a fish to water.
We saw all sorts of great jam shows together and more importantly jammed out on our instruments nearly everyday. Laurence has followed his passion for music by joining the Ryan Montbleau Band – a nationally recognized touring act that won the Vote For The Boat contest this year. Day Four was the day of Laurence as he made his presence felt across the boat.
READ ON for more on Laurence’s big day…
This year at Hidden Track, we concocted a little experiment for our year-end Best Albums of 2009 list. Instead of picking the old fashioned way – subjectively – we opted for something a little different: a collaborative, collective list that incorporates the opinions of everybody here at HT.
To begin, we devised an all-encompassing list of around 100 nominees and populated it in a Google spreadsheet – essentially anything that anybody who writes for Hidden Track liked at all, made the list. Then we invited our crew of writers to independently vote on the whole list (omitting anything unfamiliar) on a scale of 1 to 20 (20 = five stars). We ended up with 33 voters with varying degrees of familiarity with the nominees; some folks voted on just about everything, while some just a few. From there, we eliminated anything that did not receive at least three votes, calculated the average scores, and sorted it. We took the top 25 scores and presto: the Hidden Track 25 Best Albums of 2009. No bullshit, no big opinions; just the results.
Let’s check out numbers 10 through 6 and see what made the cut…
Key Tracks: Good Morning Midnight, The Walls Are Coming Down, Comets
Sounds Like: Arcade Fire, Frightened Rabbit, Andrew Bird
Skinny: Reservoir showed in Fanfarlo a number of immensely talented musicians who swap instruments, successfully incorporate unconventional tackle like the clarinet, trumpet, violin, melodica, even the saw, and write some amazing orchestral indie rock/pop songs. While all of the material comes across easy and beautiful, perhaps the best indication of what’s to come from this young juggernaut band is the album’s instrumental closing lullaby, Good Morning Midnight, which in a mere 1:26, could put both mom and baby to sleep.
READ ON for the next four album in our week long countdown…
Words by Carla Danca
Photos by Jeremy Gordon
After an amazing year on the road the Disco Biscuits returned to New York City’s Nokia Theater for the 2nd year for their New Year’s Holiday Run. Memories of the chaos and cold from last year couldn’t keep people away as the show was again sold out much in advance. With a light wet snow falling outside, the theater staff was much better prepared to greet the masses of fans going into the show, and the smooth entry process allowed everyone to get inside before the first notes of M.E.P.H.I.S rang out. The night started early. Though the curfew at the Nokia was extended for the NYE festivities, tDB went on without an opener and hit the stage promptly at 9:30 much to my surprise.
The past year has been a big one for the Disco Biscuits. From creating their own festival at Red Rocks, to their big sets at Rothbury and High Sierra Music Festival, to a new video on mtvU, the signing with Red Light Management, and the constant teasing of the long awaited album Planet Anthem. The quartet has been in high gear with no signs of stopping. While the entire holiday run is getting rave reviews (especially 12/30/09), this NYE show was one for the records.
Overall just a great collection of shows from start to finish that showed off how tight and together these guys have become.
READ ON to read more about tDB’s New Year’s run and Jeremy’s photos.
Photos of Furthur performing at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on December 8th and 9th, 2009.
Santigold has revealed that she is producing new material by DEVO. The singer, real name Santi White, didn’t reveal how the two parties hooked up but said that the collaboration
Last Week’s Sauce features recordings of shows from the previous week. This week we’ll look at almost exclusively shows that took place on New Year’s Eve.
[Thanks to sonicsound for this week’s photo]
Artist & Title: Assembly Of Dust – Brown Sugar
Date & Venue: 2009-12-31 Tupelo Music Hall, Salisbury MA
Taper & Show Download: SmokinJoe
“You should have heard him just around midnight”. A few covers, an acoustic section and a fan requested bustout of Strangefolk’s Far From Yourself round out this New Year’s show from Reid Genauer and Assembly of Dust. Reid hits the road again solo for a few shows to start 2010. Catching him solo is highly recommended, I’ve said it before, Reid is one of the best screamers of our generation.
[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/aodsauce.mp3]READ ON to hear highlights from many other bands New Year’s Eve shows.
