Throughout this gorgeous collection of music Sykes’ voice crisscrosses the paper-thin rift between deep pain and true bliss, enabling songs to drift into the ether in between. Slower moments build with a creepy, meandering flow before bursts of swirling psychedelic rock attack that would make Comets on Fire proud. This is heavy.
It was a bit disappointing to only hear two songs from the band’s older album Progress and the many compilations and EPs the band has recorded over the years. All in all, it was a good show. Not the best from the Bandits, but the crowd was good, the venue was good, and it’s always fun reliving the glory days through yet another band that provided the soundtrack to the drunken youth of so many.
One of the bands who impressed me most back in January on Jam Cruise 9 was none other than Michigan’s Greensky Bluegrass. This motley five-piece has been honing their original
On October 21 PBS’s American Masters series will premiere Cameron Crowe’s highly anticipated documentary Pearl Jam Twenty. Crowe recently sat for a panel at the Television Critics Association press tour in
Each year when the calendar turns from July to August, along with countless others, I turn my attention to one man: Jerry Garcia. With August 1 being the birthday of the Grateful Dead guitarist and August 9 the anniversary of his death, the first weeks of August tend to be filled with memories of Jerry. Last Monday, on what would have been his 69th birthday, we asked the @Hidden_Track followers on Twitter to share their favorite Garcia moment of all-time as part of the #htconvo.
My favorite moment came from the storied Oregon State Prison show with John Kahn (no relation) in May of 1982 – sorry about the typo (*Cherise).
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The schedule for next weekend’s Outside Lands festival has finally come out and the event’s main stage, Lands End, will feature a dream sequence of The Original Meters followed by
The Cave Singers emerged as one of the big winners at the Newport Folk Festival this past weekend, as they delivered a terrific set which was featured live on NPR
Old 97’s @ Lincoln Hall, July 19
It’s unfair, when you think about it, but I’m also kind of glad the Old 97’s aren’t as beloved as many of their musical peers. Then, they’d be your band, in addition to my band.
We all have “my” bands. The band you hold tight and celebrate for your depth of knowledge and their consistently winning live experience. The band for which you’re more of an apologist than you should be when they don’t deliver. The band you spend a hell of a lot of time evangelizing and dragging less enthused pals to see in concert just because then they might finally get it.
Most “my” bands seem to have certain characteristics: a critical darling, perhaps, languishing in that concert space between rock clubs and theaters, too big for the former and not quite ever ready for the latter. You spend less time worried about whether they’ll ever make it over that hump, however, and just enjoy that they are. Rare do “my bands” ever seem to get there, anyway, unless, of course — like the band most often discussed on Hidden Track — they ascended on grassroots popularity and the wondrously shared experience of a whole lot of people who saw a true “my band” in formative years in Vermont.
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There is an air of authenticity lent to Field Songs, William Elliott Whitmore’s second full-length release. Growing up and residing on a farm in rural Iowa, Whitmore has worked on and reaped the benefits of the land that he praises and exults throughout the album’s eight tracks.
What may come as a surprise is that Cinderella have been touring successfully most summers with no new album to promote. But they love this and love to play for their fans. “You know, we don’t have all the fancy tricks and stuff,” said LaBar. “We just rely on our playing and we take a lot of pride in our actual playing and putting on a good show … If we were doing an arena tour, we’d have some pyro or something. We’d blow up some stuff (laughs). But we’re more into the music and the playing and putting on a show with our actual bodies.”
