Blog: Hidden Track

The iconography of a rock and roll band being mythologized as a rebellious pack of outlaws living by their own set of rules dates back to the '50s, the image originating as something between a snarling, defiant Elvis Presley and a sullen, brooding Marlon Brando. As time passed, the rock and roll outlaw would take many forms: the government persecution complex of The Rolling Stones, the shamanistic rabble-rousing of Jim Morrison, the peanut-butter smearing defiance of Iggy Pop, the corporate-magazine abhorrence of Kurt Cobain, the scenery-climbing petulance of Tim Commerford and the trailer-park decadence of Kid Rock. Never has the [...]