Archive: 2012

Death Cab For Cutie made news last year recording the music video for You Are A Tourist in one take and letting everyone watch the live recording on USTREAM to prove it. The Shepard Fairey street-art take on Home Is a Fire was pretty damn cool too. The new video for Underneath The Sycamore is […]

Last Spring, LCD Soundsystem decided to call it quits, going out in style by with a series of instantly sold out hometown farewell concerts at New York’s Terminal 5, with their swan song gig taking place at Madison Square Garden. Yesterday the indie-dance-rock act posted a status update on their Facebook page informing fans that […]

The 2012 incarnation (and 20th Anniversary) of San Francisco’s Noise Pop Festival is shaping up to be one of its best. Today, the festival announced two major headlining acts, as well as a fantastic group of supporting acts. The Flaming Lips will grace the Bimbo’s 365 stage on 2/21 to perform their seminal album The […]

2011 saw the release of Björk’s latest studio record, Biophilia, but the ten songs comprising the record were in many ways just the tip of the iceberg for the Biophilia project.

Given the names involved, it stands to reason this is a hard-hitting session

Glide Magazine’s Jeff DeMars recently spoke with drummer Janet Weiss, touching on her background with Brownstein in Sleater-Kinney, her own role as a musician before coming to Wild Flag, the group’s future sights and why she would love to add the title “Janitor” to her business card.

The SF MusicTech Summit brings together visionaries in the music/technology space, along with the best and brightest developers, entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians and organizations who work with them at the convergence of culture and commerce. The Summit seeks to discuss the evolving music/business/technology ecosystem in a proactive, conducive to deal-making environment. Now just […]

The Decemberists have announced the March 13 release of We All Raise Our Voices To The Air (Live Songs 04.11-08.11), a 20-track live double-album (and triple-vinyl set) culled from the band’s 2011 tour supporting their chart-topping, Grammy-nominated album The King Is Dead. With songs spanning their entire first decade as a band—from their debut EP […]

Aaron Freeman, better known as Gene Ween of Ween, has stepped out from behind his pseudonym to record his first-ever solo record, ‘Marvelous Clouds’ (Partisan Records). Out April 10, the album features 13 heartfelt interpretations of songs written by 20th century poet/songwriter, Rod McKuen. ‘Marvelous Clouds’ reunites Freeman with Ben Vaughn, who produced Ween’s classic […]

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks will be hitting the road again next month in support of their latest album Mirror Traffic. Most of the tickets on sale this weekend.   Tour Dates  Mon Feb 13, 2012 Salt Lake City, UT | Urban Lounge Wed Feb 15, 2012 Boulder, CO | Fox Theater Fri Feb 17, […]

Drive By Truckers have announced a run of West Coast shows kicking off March 9th in Denver and running through March 22nd in Vancouver.  Fri Mar 09 Denver CO OGDEN THEATER Sat Mar 10 Boulder CO FOX THEATER Sun Mar 11 Aspen CO BELLY UP ASPEN Tue Mar 13 Phoenix AZ CRESCENT BALLROOM Wed Mar […]

Checking in from Day Two of Jam Cruise

Umphrey’s McGee challenged their crew members to a game of football

I have to hand it to the Hidden Track team. I feel like we really nailed our goal of conveying the collective voice in this year’s best albums from 2011 list. For being a site that doesn’t focus on album reviews, we’ve gotten positive feedback on our selections from folks who appreciate a site that […]

Today, we’ll wrap up our exhaustive holiday run coverage with the tradition we started back during the southern run of summer 2010 – the A to Z analysis. In this segment, we evaluate all aspects of a tour by touching on all the bases from beginning to end with a bullet for every letter in the alphabet. The […]

The Polyphonic Spree will tour the U.S. for the first time in more than four years in the coming months, kicking off with a Southeastern run in February. The "You + Me" tour will see the band, whose membership currently numbers 21 musicians and choir members, return to the intimate venues that they started out […]

Five bands, one ticket price: Now that is the way to enjoy a Friday night; especially in today’s messed-up economy. And on this night a quinary of bands from the harder-rocking sector of music came out to play for a house full of fans, young and old. It is always good to see music not having an age limit and I’d like to think when I am 60, bands will still lure me into the bowels of a mosh pit. As Todd Kerns told me last year, "we are just now experiencing our rock & roll idols growing older, and as they age so does the majority of their long-time fans. And those fans are the ones bringing not only their children but their grandchildren to concerts now. With this kind of die-hard loyalty, rock & roll will never die."

The trio of Dan McCurry, Nick Jenkins and Ash Hopkins comprise the Charleston, South Carolina group Run Dan Run and their newest album Normal is a slice of danceable white indie rock.  Songs run long with hazy/lazy intros each containing a light airy vibe even when the lyrics border on vengeful.   

Due to an overwhelming response, Fred Armisen (Saturday Night Live) and Carrie Brownstein (Wild Flag, Sleater-Kinney) from IFC’s hit original comedy Portlandia have just added a third week to their sold out live tour hitting six new cities. The second season of Portlandia premiered last Friday and is one of the most talked about series […]

Mascot Label Group has announced a March 27 release date for the debut from Flying Colors (available the day prior overseas) on their Music Theories Label. The formation of the ensemble began with a simple idea: virtuoso musicians and a pop singer joining together to make new-fashioned music the old fashioned way.  Refreshing, classic, old […]