The Purple One stopped by TBS’s Lopez Tonight last night to preview his 21-night residency at The Forum near Los Angeles which kicks off this evening. Prince played a pair
Parisian band Phoenix was riding high on the success of Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix when they pulled into the House of Blues in Chicago for a Lollapalooza late night show last
Cut Copy at the Trocadero, Philadelphia PA 3.31.11.
She is probably rock’s most talented undiscovered gem. This woman with the confident voice, pin-point lyrics and effortless guitar playing has actually been around for years. Yet, if you ask the average music fan, they look at you with a sort of blank expression. And this is a shame because Shannon McNally can rock your socks off at the same time she is hitting you over the head with words that actually make sense.
The web is growing increasingly mobile and it’s time Hidden Track caught up. On the heels of officially launching our official Twitter feed, we have now optimized our site for a superior reading experience for anyone viewing Hidden Track on a smartphone. A quick look at our traffic analytics shows us that in March of 2010, 4% of our traffic came from mobile devices. That number is up by a multiple of three as 12% of our traffic came from mobile devices in March of this year.
We are using a great plugin for Wordpress called WPtouch Pro. For bloggers out there using Wordpress, we highly recommend both the free version, WPtouch, and also think it is absolutely worth the $39 to buy the Pro version of this package that we found out-of-the-box very easy to configure.
Now that we’ve got a mobile interface up and running, we hope you are now more likely to check in on the latest Hidden Track stories on your mobile device while you’re commuting, at a bar, waiting for the band to go on at your next show or wherever you may be. There is no URL to bookmark, just navigate to Hidden Track or any article from your smartphone or tablet and the page will automatically render in a format suitable for your device.
And here is where we need your help. We can’t decide how to display the mobile version of our homepage. We laid out the two options and in true Hidden Track fashion we’re letting our readers decide which one to go with.
READ ON for the two options and to vote…
Way back in January 2010 Neil Young was honored as the Person Of The Year by MusicCares, an organization that gives musicians in need financial and medical assistance. A veritable
Record Store Day (@recordstoreday) is this Saturday and I’m more excited than a kid waiting for Christmas. I’ve got a list of must haves and maybes, checked it twice, and with the prospect of securing live Phish on wax (albeit just a 7 inch soundcheck) Saturday can’t come soon enough.
In Seattle I’ll be hitting up Sonic Boom (@sonicboomnation), Easy Street Records (@EasyStRecords) and Jive Time (@jivetimerecords) and following those Twitter accounts for updates and insights on all things Record Store Day.
There are plenty of other great record stores all across the country, like Amoeba in San Francisco (@AmoebaSF) and L.A. (@AmoebaLA), Reckless Records (@RecklessRecords) in Chicago, Other Music (@othermusic) in New York City, Waterloo Records (@WaterlooRecords) in Austin, Twist and Shout (@twistDenver) in Denver and Newbury Comics (@newburycomics) in Boston, but that’s just a few. Our Tuesday @Hidden_Track conversation, #htconvo, asked our followers about their favorite record stores, past or present. READ ON to see how some of our followers responded…
If you purchased the Wanee Festival webcast package from Moogis, you might want to make other plans this weekend. Yesterday, a scant three days before the festival kicks off, Moogis sent subscribers, who already paid for the event, a note saying the company will not be webcasting Wanee…
Webcasts are extremely expensive events to produce and bring to the viewer. Moogis uses the same equipment as a high definition television production in order to bring the highest possible production values to our subscribers.
Moogis priced subscriptions for the 2011 Beacon run and Wanee Festival so that we could webcast both events based on the assumption that we would have the same number of subscriptions as last year. Unfortunately, we fell 300 subscriptions short of the number necessary. As a result, we have to regretfully notify you that Moogis is not going to be able to webcast Wanee this year. We have explored every possibility to see if there was any way to make this happen but we have run out of options and time.
At the moment, Moogis is in a negative financial position. But once we get new funding, we will either refund the cost of Wanee to subscribers who want a refund or apply their Wanee payment to the next Moogis pay per view event.
For those who leave their payments with us, you will get a 20% discount on all future Moogis pay per view events.
We are very sorry that we have to do this, but we have no other choice at this time.
Considering webcasts from nearly all the major festivals this summer are available for free, this announcement is a hard pill to swallow for those who shelled out money months ago to watch Wanee on Moogis. Not only will subscribers miss out on watching Wanee as it happens, but they aren’t even getting an immediate refund.
Angry fans lashed out at Allman Brothers Band drummer and Moogis founder Butch Trucks on various forums leading him to respond on the Moogis.com message boards. READ ON for Butch’s response…
On Monday, Rolling Stone sparked excitement amongst Kinks fans, stating that a reunion looks promising as both Ray and Dave Davies have now mentioned publicly that they would be open
The Foo Fighters aren’t normally a band that we talk too much about around these parts. It’s not that we don’t love the witty charm of lead singer Dave Grohl,
