2011

Best of Cover Wars: Star Spangled Banner

DaveO July 5, 2011 13 Comments

[Originally Published: 7/1/08] In celebration of our Independence Day I have selected the Star Spangled Banner as our cover of choice this week. Those not familiar with the history of our nation’s National Anthem should click the link above and learn how a poem from 1814 was set to the tune of a popular drinking song and became our Nation’s #1 theme song.

I’m not going to have a vote this week (wouldn’t everyone vote for Hendrix?), so I guess this is more of a B List than a Cover Wars. There have been a lot of amazing performances of the Star Spangled Banner and I have compiled a variety of videos selecting some of my favorites (while giving preferential treatment to the artists most frequently covered here on Hidden Track) but also including a few mainstream artists as well.

Marvin Gaye (1983 NBA All Star Game):

READ ON after the jump for many more performances of the Anthem….

Tour Dates: Pitchfork Paris

Jeffrey Greenblatt July 5, 2011 No Comments

We keep our eyes peeled for new tour dates announcements each week and compile them on Tuesdays for this handy column… For the last seven years, including 2011, influential music

Video: Electric Forest Recaps

Scott Bernstein July 5, 2011 No Comments

The Electric Forest festival debuted this past weekend at the Double JJ Ranch in Rothbury, MI with performances by the likes of headliners the String Cheese Incident, Railroad Earth, Skrillex,

Phish Super Ball IX: Photos – Day Three

Hidden Track Staff July 5, 2011 No Comments

Photographer Andy Hill was on site at Watkins Glen race track to cover Phish’s Super Ball IX. Here’s a look at his shots from Day Three…

[All photos by Andy Hill]

READ ON for a full gallery of Andy’s fantastic photos…

This is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography & Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx

Leslie Michele Derrough July 5, 2011 No Comments

Every once in awhile, you come across someone who knows exactly what Jim Marshall was talking about and becomes inspired by his images to pick up a camera and seek out the soul. You wouldn’t think that person would be a tattooed former smack-addicted rock star, who still commands the stage with loud music and tales of past belly-of-the-beast adventures. But for awhile now, Motley Crue bassist and primary songwriter Nikki Sixx has taken his photography very seriously

Jay Blakesberg

Melissa Brodeur July 5, 2011 No Comments

From iconic album covers, short form videos, full length concert films, video directorial/production, live concert photography and a plethora of musical portrait photography, Jay Blakesberg finds himself in the top percentile of rock music’s most renowned photographers. Glide recently had a chance to find out about his beginnings, photographing from the “pit,” and what it takes to make it as a music photographer.

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