Archive: 2011

It’s Official: Phish will return to Madison Square Garden on December 29 – 31.

Parker Harrington examines Laytr, a service to help you remember important e-mails.

The String Cheese Incident has just added a Pittsburgh date to their upcoming Roots Run Deep tour.

Lauren Ober leaves Burlington paper Seven Days a month after bashing Phish and fans.

Want a movie to add to your NetFlix Queue? Randy Ray tells you why Vanishing of the Bees is your huckleberry.

Rich Pagano of the Fab Faux gives us a taste of his second solo album.

We keep our eyes peeled for new tour dates announcements each week and compile them on Tuesdays.

 Chickenfoot III is a hint that the band is skipping through the second chapter, but if a quad level wants to be reached successfully, the collective might need to further define the musical mesh.  

Kudos to Life Is Good for putting together what has to be the best run outdoor event on the calendar.

Phish will close out 2011 by playing four consecutive nights – December 28, 29, 30 and 31 – at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. The band has played 19 shows to date at the legendary venue, beginning with its December 30, 1994 concert and including last year’s three-night stand, which concluded on New Year’s […]

Singer/songwriter Ryan Adams was looking forward to his recent chat with LA Weekly writer Drew Fortune. Adams is a big fan of two of the publication’s scribes and expected to talk about his new album, Ashes and Fire. Instead, the conversation went south after Fortune asked about Adams’ sobriety, his wife (Mandy Moore) and the […]

Two years ago, the Disco Biscuits were smack dab in the middle of their busiest year of touring in a decade and seemed to be gaining fans at an impressive rate. 2010 and 2011 have been much slower years for the group leaving tDB fans hoping that 2012 would mark a return to extensive tours. From the responses given in a new interview with Disco Biscuits/Conspirator keyboardist Aron Magner about the Biscuits’ future, those fans shouldn’t hold their breath.

[Photo by Jeremy Gordon]

Magner spoke with scribe Travis Newbill of South Florida’s New Times for a preview of this past Saturday night’s Conspirator gig in Fort Lauderdale and made it clear not all is well in the Disco Biscuits world. There’s no doubt Aron loves touring and that Conspirator fills that void for him. The keyboardist is very frank in his response about what lies ahead for the Biscuits…

The members of the band just aren’t seeing eye to eye with what we need to do in order to take the current band to the next level. And I don’t know whether that’s going to involve taking a little breather for a few months or really what’s around the corner from there, to be quite honest with you.

READ ON for more on the Disco Biscuits’ future…

Post-Jerry act Furthur was scheduled to perform at the Bryce Jordan Center on the campus of Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania on November 15. That show has been cancelled due to what Furthur.net calls “unforeseen production complications,” leading the band to add a new gig that night at the Times-Union Center in Albany, […]

HT fave Marco Benevento has a full dance card for the next few months as he takes his trio up and down the East and West Coasts this fall. The run includes residencies at both Radio Bean in Burlington, Vermont and at the Red Door in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and a House of Usher Halloween show on October 29 at Burlington’s FlynnSpace.

Marco’s band for the East Coast swing features Dave Dreiwitz of Ween on bass and drummer Andy Borger (Tom Waits, Norah Jones). For the West Coast dates, Marco will perform with Borger and Tea Leaf Green’s Reed Mathis on bass/guitar. In addition to his trio shows, Benevento will also play a pair of solo piano shows in November; one opening for Bela Fleck and the Flecktones in Philadelphia and another along with Superhuman Happiness in NYC. Tickets for every show are on sale now, so head over to Royal Potato Family’s blog for info for more details.

We’ve teamed up with Marco for the latest installment of our Everybody Wins When We Plug Something And In Return They Offer Us Free Shit To Give Away program. We’re giving away a copy of the Radio Bean poster above AND a copy of the Live in NYC: The Sullivan Hall Residency DVD to a lucky reader. To enter, simply leave a comment below detailing a song you think would make a great cover for Marco’s trio. Enter a second time by leaving your song request on our Facebook wall.

Here’s the fine print…

• To enter the contest, leave a comment below telling us which song you’d like to see Marco Benevento cover
• You can enter a second time by leaving a similar comment on the wall of the Hidden Track Facebook Page
• Your comment(s) must be left by 11:59 AM EST on October 11
• Anybody entering more than once on Facebook or at the bottom of this post will be disqualified, tarred and feathered
• One winner will be selected at random from all entries
• HT staff members are not eligible to win

READ ON for a full list of Marco’s tour dates…

Over the last few years, the music world has been taken over by a new wave of “British Invasion” bands that have brought a diverse swath of styles and sounds across the Atlantic to captivate American audiences. Acts such as Adele, Mumford & Sons and Foals have all found big audiences in the U.S. Any […]

It’s been 40+ years since the heyday of San Francisco’s influential psychedelic rock scene, when bands like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Quicksilver Messenger Service provided the soundtrack. In the last handful of years, the City by the Bay has seen a new generation of bands embrace the acid-drenched sounds that it was once synonymous with. […]

The early birds (or late-nighters) got the worm this morning as Groupon – Chicago unveiled a deal at 12:06AM offering their users a pair of tickets to see HT faves Umphrey’s McGee at the intimate Lincoln Hall in their hometown of Chicago on October 19, along with a copy of the group’s recently released Death […]

It’s another good week for late night music with Ryan Adams on Conan (Monday), Cake on Craig Ferguson (Wednesday), Portugal.The Man on Carson Daly (Wednesday) and The Moody Blues on Jimmy Fallon (Thursday). Monday, October 10 [All times ET] Christina Aguilera: Behind the Music [VH1 3PM] Film: The Doors [VH1 Classic 5PM] Ryan Adams on […]

Carefully selected by archivist David Lemieux from various tour stops on the Grateful Dead’s first trip abroad, this package is deliberately conceived as a companion piece to the original Europe ’72. As such, Volume 2 functions brilliantly as a complement to that seminal inclusion in the Grateful Dead discography.

Welcome to the world of Art Of Dying, a band out of Canada, that has been killing it on the recent Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival Tour and gaining new fans by the thousands. With their Vices & Virtues CD a strong success and a new single, “Get Thru This”, just hitting the charts, the band is on a meteoric rise.