Bamboozle Festival, the annual three-day music extravaganza scheduled for April 29, 30 The and May 1 at the New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, has announced additional main
Atmosphere, the preeminent independent hip-hop duo comprised MC Slug and producer Ant, will be releasing their most realized, streamlined effort to date, The Family Sign, due April 12th on Rhymesayers
American music fans have an unprecedented opportunity to hear two masterful groups explore the common ground where bluegrass and jazz meet when the Del McCoury Band and the Preservation Hall
It may have been a cold night on the streets of New Orleans but inside the legendary Howlin’ Wolf, it was hot with the sounds of the soulful rocking of Devon Allman’s Honeytribe. Traveling approximately twenty-two hours just to rock Louisiana, you couldn’t tell that these guys were actually on the verge of exhaustion. Playing with an uninhibited fire, this is what rock & roll is all about. If this band didn’t cause a jolt of energy in your bones, you weren’t listening.
Where previous releases found the band plodding along with ten to twelve minute meditations about murderous butchers, mysterious fowl, and shape-shifting lovers, The King Is Dead hearkens back to the earlier days of the band where Colin Meloy and company littered albums like Castaways and Cutouts with compact, yet charitably worded, pastoral folk rock. Boosted with appearances by alt-country superstars Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, and graced with guitar stylings courtesy of the legendary Peter Buck, this album gallops along like a pleasant country breeze, projecting an aura of calmness and satisfaction and providing a concise rejoinder to the stylized grandeur of releases like The Tain EP and The Hazards of Love.
Let England Shake continues where PJ Harvey's White Chalk let off– not in sound but in aesthetic endeavor. It’s a daring step forward for Harvey. Dissenters may cite alienation as their key grievance for this new era in Harvey’s career, wishing for a return to the lower register singing and gripping guitar playing that characterized much of her 90’s work. In many ways, they’re not wrong to feel frustrated at Harvey’s new sound; however, reinvention is central to her artistic process, and to deny expansion is limiting and hampers potentially new avenues for Harvey’s self expression.
While the Packers take on the Steelers in the Super Bowl, our thoughts at Hidden Track headquarters turn to April 2nd thanks to two big announcements that came down this
LCD Soundsystem have announced they will retire after playing a final gig later this year. James Murphy's band will play at New York's Madison Square Garden on April 2, after
Bassist Mike Gordon and the rest of his five-piece solo band will be Jimmy Fallon’s musical guest on the Friday, February 11th episode of NBC’s Late Night. This will mark
You can look at a number of different periods between 1994 and 2001 as Widespread Panic’s best, but for our money 1996 was the Georgia-based band’s most consistent era. The
