Blog: Hidden Track

Having just finished Greg Kot's fantastic (though outdated) book on Wilco called Learning How To Die , I've got Tweedy and Co. on the brain. For this week's Mix Tape I put together a mix featuring the original versions of six songs Wilco covers. We start off with a song that hit Tweedy hard following 9/11 - Bill Fay's Be Not So Fearful and continue with I Love My Label by Nick Lowe - a song Wilco recorded as the B-Side for their first self-released single. Next [...]

EOTO @ House of Blues - Boston, February 9 Photos : Mark Davidson Jamtronica act EOTO debuted a new stage setup last night dubbed the "Lotus Stage" - a fully interactive 3-D mapped stage with video crews filming the show - at the House of Blues in Boston. [All Photos by Mark Davidson ] The band recently shared a video discussing how the Lotus Stage came together. EOTO brings the Lotus Stage out west starting [...]

Hosting good eats on Super Bowl Sunday has been a tradition in our household for many years. It all started when we raided Trader Joe's about ten years ago, realizing how much fun it was to eat a variety of foods-not just the typical chips and wings. Since we moved to Brooklyn, Chris and I spent many a night pondering our Super Bowl spread, as we finally had some room to prepare and serve a large quantity of food. He volunteered to spend the weekend slicing and dicing for the main [...]

OK, we're admittedly a few days late on this, but earlier this week the internet was abuzz as the Alabama Shakes stopped by TBS's Conan to make their late-night debut. The band, which you're going to be hearing about a lot in the coming weeks and months, will release their debut album Boys & Girls on April 10 via ATO Records. Fronted by the charismatic and booming voiced Brittany Howard, the Shakes play a fiery blend of vintage Southern soul that sounds something like Janis Joplin meets Aretha Franklin as backed by Booker T. & [...]

Phish front man Trey Anastasio kicked off his first-ever orchestral tour at the Atlanta Symphony Hall last night backed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Big Red worked through material which he's performed at past orchestral shows over the past decade and a few newcomers to the symphonic repertoire in Goodbye Head, Stash and a cover of the Golden Slumbers > Carry That Weight > The End suite from The Beatles' Abbey Road LP. [via @TreyAnastasio ] A special moment came before You Enjoy Myself when an audience [...]

Flecktones bassist Victor Wooten will get plenty of airtime this weekend as he'll perform on two very different television shows. Tonight, Wooten will sit in with Jimmy Fallon's house band The Roots on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Tomorrow, Wooten will perform on the Fox News program Huckabee. You can catch Wooten on Huckabee at 8PM this Saturday and Sunday. Friday, February 10 [All Times ET] Cee-Lo Green on Jay Leno [NBC 11:35PM] Goyte on Jimmy Kimmel [ABC Midnight] [...]

Jane's Addiction has been added as a headliner to this May's Summer Camp Music Festival , which is scheduled to take place at Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe, Illinois on May 25 - 27. Other headliners include Umphrey's McGee and moe., who are each set to play on each day of the festival, as well as Pretty Lights, Primus, Gov't Mule and the Weir, Robinson, Greene acoustic trio. Not So Early Bird passes are currently available through the festival's website for $160. Yesterday, Summer Camp organizers announced [...]

Panic en la Playa @ Now Sapphire Resort, Jan. 31 - Feb. 4 Images : Dave Vann From January 31 - February 4 Widespread Panic fans descended upon two resorts in Mexico's Mayan Riviera for the inaugural Panic en la Playa event thrown by Cloud 9 Adventures . The jam titans played a total of four electric shows on the beach smack dab in the middle of their all-acoustic Wood Tour. These shows marked Panic's last electric performances before they head off for an indefinite hiatus [...]

As reported yesterday , today Gorillaz announced OutKast's Andre 3000 and LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy as guest collaborators as part of Converse's 3 Artists – 1 Song series. The song, DoYaThing, will be released for free on the Converse website on February 23. Oh is that?....YES! It is..It's... Andre 'Outkast' 3000 and James Murphy. Mr. LCD Soundsystem. Alongside Gorillaz! Wow! What a line-up! about 7 hours ago via TweetDeck [...]

In a surprise announcement , Bruce Springsteen revealed that the E Street Band will expand for its upcoming tour. Singers Cindy Mizelle and Curtis King, trombonist Clark Gayton and trumpeter Curt Ramm, all of whom have toured with Springsteen in some form previously will join the tour along with Clarence Clemons' nephew Jake Clemons, who will share his uncle's role with Sessions Band sax player Ed Manion. Newcomer Barry Danielian on trumpet is also part of the touring band. Jake Clemons on Jungle Land w/ a Tribute Act [...]

Yesterday Bonnaroo organizers AC Entertainment and Superfly unveiled a redesigned bonnaroo.com featuring all-new graphics in preparation for this year's lineup announcement, which is due next week according to a note on the event's website. Shortly after the new design went up, a regular at the Inforoo.org message boards who uses the handle Alberto Balsalm posted an image featuring a lineup utilizing the new graphics that he claimed he found on the "Roo website shortly after they updated it with the new theme." The Inforoo community has been slowly figuring out the 2012 [...]

Just one day after the release of Be The Void , which is winning raves around HT headquarters, Dr. Dog visited Conan for a performance of That Old Black Hole on the TBS late night show. This take is getting us excited for the band's current tour , which kicked off last week and runs through the end of March. If you missed it, here's the clip...

Last spring Mumford & Sons, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros embarked on the Railroad Revival Tour , which saw the three bands traverse the country together via vintage train cars. The throwback tour, which got its inspiration from the famed 1970 Festival Express tour that transported the likes of the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and The Band across Canada, began in Oakland and ended in New Orleans, stopped in six cities along the cross-country route where the bands performed at unique outdoor venues. The entire [...]

Brooklyn's Sleigh Bells will make their Network Television Debut on February 18 when the duo are featured as the musical guest on NBC's Saturday Night Live. Former cast member Maya Rudolph will host the episode. Let's hope Sleigh Bells' appearance goes better than the much maligned one by Lana Del Rey earlier this year. Sleigh Bells' debut album scored the #25 slot on our Best Albums of 2010 list.

Earlier this afternoon organizers of the Summer Camp Music Festival announced the late night acts for this year's event. Les Claypool and the Dead Kenny G's will perform in the barn on the Friday night of the festival. Gigantic Underground Conspiracy, featuring members of the Disco Biscuits, Big Gigantic, Conspirator and the Underground Orchestra will play a late night set on the Saturday night of the festival, while Pretty Lights will be performing the late night show on Sunday. The 2012 Summer Camp Music Festival is set to take place at [...]

Each day for the past week or so Soulive has been revealing the names of the special guests who will join them at Bowlive III which begins on Feb. 28 and runs through March 10 at Brooklyn Bowl. While two more announcements remain, here's what we know thus far: 2/28 = John Scofield 2/29 = John Scofield 3/1 = Rahzel + ?uestlove 3/2 = Jennifer Hartswick 3/3 = Marco Benevento & Jennifer Hartswick 3/6 = Skerik, Zach Deputy & [...]

Mmmm...what I need is a nice long bath, a chilled Brompton Cocktail and a playback of my new Gorillaz track. "3 Artists - 1 Song"? Could work Monday, January 30, 2012 11:12 am via TweetDeck Reply Retweet Favorite [...]

When Hangout Music Fest promoters revealed the initial lineup for the 2012 event in the middle of the night on Tuesday morning, they finished by promising one more headliner would be revealed this week. Today, we know that headliner - the Red Hot Chili Peppers . The Chili Peppers join Jack White, String Cheese Incident and the Dave Matthews Band a top the bill for the third annual Hangout Music Fest which is set to take place on the sandy beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama on May 18 - 20. See our post on the [...]

Kung Fu @ Sullivan Hall, February 4 Words and Images : Nick Irving This past Friday, Connecticut rockers and jam legends in their own rights, Kung Fu , headlined a marathon six-hour, five-band bill at Sullivan Hall in New York City's West Village. The homecoming was the icing on the cake of a week-long excursion through Colorado labeled "Occupy Colorado" that ended in a blizzard-riddled headlining show at Boulder's Fox Theatre. Though they had just flown into NYC a few hours earlier, the band took the stage with [...]

While the McLovins garnered all sorts of internet love for their ability to tackle complex material, another band of talented youngsters called Lead Heads have quietly gotten quite good as well. As opposed to the McLovins who made a name for themselves playing Phish, Lead Heads focus much more on the Grateful Dead. The band already plays full shows and digs deep into the catalog while mixing in other challenging material like King Crimson and the Allman Brothers. Check out this performance of Franklin's, which includes some nice Chameleon teases and nails Jerry's tone on a Steve Irwin replica guitar. [...]