
Tracklist: 01 – Treat Me Right (iTunes Session) 02 – Apologies (iTunes Session) 03 – Dear Prudence (iTunes Session) 04 – Like a Prayer (iTunes Session) 05 – Ragged Company (iTunes Session) 06 – Elvis Presley Blues (iTunes Session) 07 – Big White Gate (iTunes Session) 08 – Low Road (iTunes Session) 09 – Paris (Ooh La La) [iTunes Session] 10 – Interview (iTunes Session) Check out Grace Potter and The Nocturnal 's newly released songs from last summer's touring, including The Beatles "Dear Prudence", Madonna's "Like [...]
10. The Shivers – More More reads like a series of vignettes with a common theme of love. Or, more specifically, lost love. A musically diverse batch of songs that draws on soul, garage and a little electro-pop, but all with a gritty NYC edge. The Shivers - Irrational Love [...]
Vandaveer – Dig Deep DownDownload "Concerning Past & Future Conquests" Chad VanGaalen – Diaper IslandDownload "Sara" Vetiver – The Errant CharmDownload "Can't You Tell" and "Wonder Why" Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for My HaloDownload " Jesus Fever" and "In...

With Christmas out of the way, and the year almost over, it's time I finally get around to compiling my Top 20 albums of the year of 2011 (in fact, there are 21 entries). Each album is represented on the mix with a song, and each entry has a link to the artist's homepage or other outlet where the album can be ordered from. Because this list is intended not only to show off my impeccable taste, but also to showcase artists, all data files in the mix have been downscaled to 128kbps. This is not really a chart, but [...]
Here at Hidden Track, compiling our end of the year list of the 25 best albums has been eerily similar to the process of devising another top 25 list - the college football top 25. When we started four years ago, we attempted to devise a quantitative methodology that systematized the rankings and took the individual biases out of the equation, while still incorporating the collective views of everyone involved at HT. Well, that was sort of our BCS. This year we're going back to the old school and running it AP Top 25 style. In other words, every writer [...]

Welcome to FWBA's best-of 2011. This has been such a meaningful year in music to me that it's tough to represent in one post. I'm going to be honest, this took me quite a long time. I wanted to do this year justice because personally, it was a total dream: living in San Diego working with some of my favorite artists, going to SXSW and Lollapalooza, seeing Dave Bazan in stranger's living rooms, Feist play a hometown show, saw tune-yards electrified show at Soda Bar clocking in as one of my favorite performances, watching Zach Rogue and my boyfriend playing [...]

It's safe to say that a majority of our readers are quite familiar with the musical history of Port Chester, New York's Capitol Theatre . Built in 1926 and designed by the architect Thomas W. Lamb, who also designed the United Palace Theater in Upper Manhattan, the theater may be most famous for hosting the Grateful Dead an astonishing 18 times during an 11-month period, but also saw just about every major and influential music act grace its stage from Pink Floyd, Traffic, Joe Cocker and Janis Joplin (who played her next-to-last show there) in the early 19702s to [...]

This year's list of favorites is fairly sedate (even for me), with just a little ruckus here and there. Lots of morning-coffee music, which I guess says something about my 2011. But music's strength is its pliability. It can be whatever you need it to be at the moment, especially when we have instant access to virtually any song ever recorded, often for free . Judging by this list, I needed music to be a salve more than a release valve this year. I also never expected my favorite album to come from someone who held the [...]

Baltimore - Every couple of years, like slides in a powerpoint presentation, I like to change the backdrop. But I have always struggled with first years. By that I refer to my relationships with changes in scenery rather than with hormone-effervescing fresh-women (to be politically correct as George Carlin suggested). I am constantly, and embarrassingly, surprised each time how woefully unprepared I still am. Incidentally, 2011 has also been a tumultuous year on many fronts. So with everything concerned, I present to you my Pests vs. Bests of 2011 - both bad and good things that have been on my mind [...]

50 The year-end albums list is the greatest challenge any music publication faces. It is not only an effort to encapsulate an entire year's worth of music: it is an effort to convey the entire musical philosophy of a site in one rather gimmicky column. Of course, it is also a lot of fun. It allows the opportunity to go through our favorite music all over again; it provides for spirited debate between editors and staffers; and it is ultimately a lesson in compromise and inclusion. Which is, of course, precisely the philosophy of [...]

40. Gillian Welch - The Harrow & The Harvest Gillian Welch - The Way It Goes.mp3 39. The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck The Mountain Goats - Damn These Vampires.mp3 38. Dodos - No Color Dodos - Companions.mp3 37. Small Sur - Tones [...]

Good afternoon and thank you for reading. You have many choices to make for your web reading and I'm thankful that you chose to spend these next few minutes with me. Blah, blah, blah... I'm as big a fan of three guitar and a life of crime or the old sad songs as anyone around nine bullets but sometimes I need something a little different. Maybe it's a Sunday morning where I just don't want to get out of bed or a Tuesday evening when work has been too much and I'm exhausted and want [...]

Fue una noche importante la del martes en el programa de Jools Holland . Björk , Red Hot Chilly Peppers , Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds y Gillian Welch y David Rawlings compartieron escenario el martes por la noche en el programa inglés Later...with Jools Holland . A pesar del poco espacio, la cantante islandesa fue la que llevó el show más extravagante, como era de esperarse. Entre pianos que se tocan solos, un coro de niños acompañantes [...]

Jools Holland had a pretty stacked lineup of guests on his most recent show featuring Björk, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. There can't have been much space, especially since Björk brought a whole choir with her and expanded her hair out to five times the reasonable size for any human being. She made up for it by having pianos that played themselves though, no use wasting space on auxiliary musicians when they can do that... Check out the performances from these four acts below.
Scotland on Sunday interviews singer-songwriter Gillian Welch . Welch's music has always been peopled by drifters, down-and-outs and lost souls but new songs such as Hard Times are directly informed by what she witnessed on the road. "It's really hard times in this country right now. You wouldn't believe it driving around. I'm seeing stuff that looks like 1930s WPA [Works Progress Administration] photographs. Whole towns boarded up, people out of work, parking a car on the corner with a sign that says they'll give you haircuts out of their car for $5. [...]

Emmylou Harris : Wrecking Ball [ purchase ] Gillian Welch w Old Crow Medicine Show : Wrecking Ball [ unavailable, purchase studio version ] I suspect that we are going to see this week how certain metaphors strike different songwriters. A wrecking ball is a fine example to start with. Emmylou Harris makes a pun on the word ball, and her narrator invites a boy to a dance. The danger is implied rather than stated, and the song [...]
The Voodoo Experience is now in the rearview and the relentless fall concert schedule is starting to slow down (although one could easily keep themselves busy on the live circuit until NYE) and therefore it's time to start speculating about the 2012 Jazz Fest lineup. Hard to say who will be at the top of [...]