Saturday sees two HT faves appear nationwide as Wilco make their triumphant return to Austin City Limits and Bon Iver make their Saturday Night Live debut. Channing Tatum is set to host Saturday Night Live which airs at 11:30PM ET/PT on NBC.

Friday, February 3 [All Times ET]

• Ziggy Marley on David Letterman [CBS 11:35PM]
• Bush on Jay Leno [NBC 11:35PM]
• Young the Giant on Jimmy Kimmel [ABC Midnight]
• Fitz and the Tantrums on Jimmy Fallon [NBC 12:35AM]
• M83 on Carson Daly [NBC 1:37AM]

Saturday, February 4

• Wilco on Austin City Limits [PBS]
• David Gilmour – Live in Gdansk [Palladia 2PM]
• Nirvana – Live at the Paramount [VH1 Classic 5:30PM]
• Bon Iver on Saturday Night Live [NBC 11:30PM]

Sunday, February 5

• Elton John & Leon Russell – The Union [HBO 2:30PM]
• Sting - Live in Berlin [HDNet 4:15PM]
• Neil Young – MusicCares Person of the Year [Palladia 6PM]
• The Rolling Stones – At The Max [HDNet 10:05PM]

The organizers of the 2012 Sasquatch! Music Festival announced the lineup for the event, which will be held at The Gorge in George, Wash. over Memorial Day Weekend (May 25-28). We get two Jacks, as Jack White will appear as a solo artist and Jack Black will perform with Tenacious D. Also a top the diverse bill are HT faves Beck, Bon Iver, Pretty Lights, The Roots and The Head & The Heart.

The Shins, Girl Talk, Portlandia (!!), Feist, Silversun Pickups, Metric and Explosions In The Sky will also join in the Sasquatch! fun as well as a few dozen other acts. Here’s the full initial lineup announcement…

Jack White, Beck, Bon Iver, Pretty Lights, Tenacious D, The Shins, Beirut, Girl Talk, The Roots, The Head & The Heart, Portlandia, Feist, Silversun Pickups, Metric, Explosions In The Sky, The Joy Formidable, Mogwai, Nero (DJ), M. Ward, John Reilly & Friends, Childish Gambino, St. Vincent, The Civil Wars, Jamey Johnson, Little Dragon, Tune-Yards, Wild Flag, Blind Pilot, Wolfgang Gartner, Beats Antique, Apparat, The Walkmen, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Mark Lanegan Band, Spiritualized, Blitzen Trapper, The Cave Singers, Shabazz Palaces, Fun., Grouplove, Tycho, Sbtrkt, Strfkr, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Deer Tick, Imelda May, Alabama Shakes, Dum Dum Girls, The Helio Sequence, Kurt Vile, Cloud Cult, We Are Augustines, Ben Howard, Here We Go Magic, Zola Jesus, The War On Drugs, Shearwater, Cass McCombs, Active Child, Trampled By Turtles, Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires, Araabmuzik, Star Slinger, L.A. Riots, Com Truise, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, I Break Horses, Walk The Moon, Dry The River, Allen Stone, Pickwick, Hey Marseilles, Gary Clark Jr., Purity Ring, Electric Guest, Yellow Ostrich, Nobody Beats The Drum, Coeur De Pirate, Lord Huron, Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside, Beat Connection, The Sheepdogs, Hey Rosetta!, Said The Whale, Howlin Rain, Gardens & Villa, Felix Cartal, Craft Spells, Vintage Trouble, Poor Moon, Black Whales, Gold Leaves, Greylag, Awesome Tapes From Africa
Thee Satisfaction, Dyme Def, Fresh Espresso, The Physics, Sol, Metal Chocolates, Grynch, Spac3man, Don’t Talk To The Cops, Scribes, Fatal Lucciauno, Fly Moon Royalty, Katie Kate

Comedy: Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Todd Barry, Beardyman, Rob Delaney, Pete Holmes, Howard Kremer, and more!

Tickets go on sale next Saturday, Feb. 11, at 10AM PT.

Last night Chicago-based sextet Umphrey’s McGee kicked off their first full tour of 2012 with not one but two performances. In addition to a full two-set show at First Avenue in Minneapolis, the band also played a show billed as “All Night Wrong” at the nearby, and tiny, 7th Street Entry.

[via @JeffersonWaful]

Fans attending the All Night Wrong performance were given ballots in advance and told to pick six covers from a lengthy list. Here’s the covers from Umphrey’s vast repertoire that made the cut…

Set: YYZ, Breathe (dub), Waiting Room, Billie Jean, Immigrant Song, Cocaine, Comfortably Numb, Moby Dick*, All Night Long, Making Flippy Floppy

Encore: Burning Down The House

* – w/ Jake Cinninger on drums

[via The Bort]

LD Jefferson Waful had fun with the All Night Wrong pun and tweeted punny titles for each tune the band played…

Set: Why, YZ?, Sneeze (dub), Weight Room, Billy Beane, Immigrant Schlong, Novocain, Comfortably Dumb, Moby’s Dick*, All Night Wrong, Making Flippy’s Posse

Encore: Byrning Down The Blouse

*Drake Cinninger on drums

Umphrey’s McGee returns to First Avenue this evening.

UPDATE: Tenacious D has announced that the album will come out in May and have shared the first single, Rize Of The Fenix, which shares a name with the forthcoming album.

Tenacious D, the self-proclaimed “greatest band on earth,” are set to release their long-awaited third album, entitled Rize of the Fenix, later this year. Details have been sparse, but that should change at 4PM PST when they will make an announcement of some sort, according to the new album’s website. The full-band version of The D recently made a surprise appearance at one of drummer Brooks Wackerman’s sets in L.A. As of now there are two planned festival performances scheduled for Jack Black, Kyle Gass and the rest of their band mates this June – one at the Download Festival in the U.K. and another at Rock am Ring in Germany. Let’s hope a full tour is in the group’s future.

HT faves Widespread Panic are taking a break from unplugging as they are in the midst of a four-show Panic en la Playa on the Mayan Riviera in Mexico. These will be the band’s last electric shows before taking a hiatus, but when they return to the states they’ll still have five more acoustic Wood Tour performances out in Colorado that lead up to the break. At Saturday’s Wood Tour gig in Atlanta, the jam titans debuted a cover of Jimmy Cliff’s Many Rivers To Cross. A new video on the band’s official YouTube channel shows footage from rehearsal as well as the actual performance…

Widespread Panic – Many Rivers To Cross

To keep tabs on this last batch of Panic shows, be sure to visit our friend Burnthday’s blog.

Once again The String Cheese Incident will host and headline the Electric Forest festival, which returns to Rothbury, Michigan on June 28 – July 1. Joining SCI a top the bill will be Bassnectar, STS9, Thievery Corportation and Girl Talk. STS9 will play two shows, while String Cheese will play a total of three.

Electric Forest organizers have put together an electronica-heavy lineup, but there are a few rock/funk/bluegrass acts on the bill as well, namely The Travelin’ McCourys featuring Keller Williams, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk and Gary Clark Jr. There’s no shockers similar to REO Speedwagon booked this time around, though Das Racist and comedian Reggie Watts are a bit of a surprise. Tickets for the event are currently available through the Electric Forest website. Here’s the full initial lineup…

The String Cheese Incident (3 Shows), Bassnectar, STS9 (2 Shows), Thievery Corporation, Girl Talk, Santigold, Steve Aoki, Ghostland Observatory, Richie Hawtin, Wolfgang Gartner, Major Lazer, The Travelin’ McCourys featuring Keller Williams, Dada Life, Big Gigantic, Datsik Zeds, Dead Rob Garza (Of Thievery Corporation), 12th Planet, Borgore, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Midnite MiMosa, EOTO, Das Racist, Reggie Watts, Paper Diamond, Felix Cartal, Gary Clark Jr., Balkan Beat Box, Big Freedia, Nit GriT, The Infamous Stringdusters, Nickodemus, Chali 2na & the House of Vibe, Alvin Risk, The Soul Rebels, See-I, Glass Candy, Battles, Gramatik, Elephant Revival, Ursula, 1000 Minnesota, Nobody Beats The Drum, Congo Sanchez, Fruit Bats, The M Machine, Chromatics, Pictureplane, AutoErotique, Nathaniel Rateliff, Adventure Club, Afrolicious, Virtual Boy, The Funk Ark, Franki Chan, Brothers Past, Crizzly, HOTTUB, Zoogma, Cherub, Frank Mitchell Jr., The Knocks, Vau de Vire Society, Morning Teleportation, DrFameus, Robert Rich, Quixotic, Chuck Flask & Keith Kemp, DJ SOLO, Ataxia, The Crane Wives, Secrets, WALA, Human Agency

The Rolling Stones have announced the second live archival release that will (eventually) be available through Stones Archive – a performance from December 18, 1981 at Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia. You can purchase the 26-track set through Android Market for $4.99 (320kbps MP3).

Just as with the first release in the series, Brussels Affair ’73, the Stones have picked one of the most bootlegged performances in their history as the entire Tattoo You Tour show from Hampton was broadcast live on Pay-Per-View television leading to a slew of videos and recordings of high-quality that circulate among collectors.  The 26-song set contains many songs from Tattoo You as well as hits from earlier in their career and a few choice covers. Presumably, the show will be available through Stones Archive soon for international purchasers.

From one story about a concert at Harlem’s Apollo Theater to another as SiriusXM has just announced that they will celebrate 10 years of satellite radio by bringing Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band to the Apollo for their first-ever concert at the famed venue. The concert will take place on March 9 and will be broadcast nationwide on E Street Radio.

SiriusXM subscribers will have a chance to win through this web-based contest as well as various call-in promotions. This concert is only open to SiriusXM subscribers who have been active subscribers since January 24. As of press time, this show at the Apollo will be the first of the tour for the Boss and his Big Man-less band. Springsteen will not replace Clemons for this tour.

Late last week we told you about the Hubert Sumlin Tribute Concert that’s set to take place at the Apollo Theater in Harlem on February 24. Today, ticketing information and a number of changes to the lineup have been announced.

Jeff Beck and Levon Helm have pulled out of the event, but they’ve been replaced on the bill by other musical legends – namely Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones and blues guitarist Buddy Guy. “Big Head” Todd Mohr, Robert Randolph, Susan Tedeschi, Jimmy Vaughan and David Johansen have also joined the already formidable lineup that includes Eric Clapton, Derek Trucks, Gary Clark Jr., Dr. John, Kenny Wayne Shepard and Keb Mo. The house band will consist of Ivan Neville, Billy Flynn, Barrelhouse Chuck Goering, Steve Jordan, Danny Korchmar, Larry Taylor, Willie Weeks and Kim Wilson.

An American Express pre-sale starts tomorrow, February 2, at 10AM via Ticketmaster. The general on-sale will take place on February 6 at 10AM. You’re going to need to dig deep in your wallet for this one, as this Jazz Foundation of America benefit will set you back at least $150 with the valuable ducats topping out at $5,000.

[via Where's Eric]

The city of Athens, Georgia has always been known for its beauty and vibrant musical heritage. A plan by an Atlanta-based developer to build a massive mixed-use development anchored by a Wal-Mart has threatened to cut into the beauty and vibe that makes the city special. Patterson Hood has fought back by writing a song about the threat of a Walmart in the heart of the downtown that nurtured the band’s career and assembled the Downtown 13, a musical collective made up of some of Athens’ finest musicians to record and film a video for the tune, named After It’s Gone.

R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, members of DBT and Todd Nance and John Bell of Widespread Panic all participated in the making of After It’s Gone along with members of Futurebirds, Hope For Agoldensummer, Lera Lynn, Justified True Belief and The Quick Hooks to draw attention to this matter. “This Atlanta developer wants to clog our cultural heart and build a bunker the size of three city blocks next to the vibrant downtown scene,” says Hood in a press release. “They hit The Easy Button: a big box store in our downtown district is clearly misguided and a somewhat ridiculous notion. Downtown Athens is a dynamic network of local businesses–Athens already has a meaningful brand and we are extremely protective of it.”

Head over to protectdowntownathens.com to download the song and to read more about how the proposed development will hurt Athens.

For those wondering what went into the “gag” that Phish pulled off as the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve, there’s a great article you need to read from Live Design. Author Marian Sandberg spoke with both the man behind the stunt, Tony Award-winning scenic designer David Gallo, in Part One of his two-piece feature, and Phish LD Chris Kuroda in the forthcoming second installment in a revealing look at how it all went down.

Phish – Steam > Auld Lang Syne > Down With Disease

The band threw down for custom jetpacks with RGB LEDs, foggers and wireless controls to make the stunt look realistic according to the article and surprisingly the gag was pulled off without the use radio or headsets. Gallo has worked with the band in 2009 for the “Sarah” gag and again in 2010 for the “Meatstick Musical” stunt. Be sure to read the entire article for a revealing look at what many fans consider the best part of Phish’s recent New Year’s Run.

Between working with Trey Anastasio, Wyllys and the New York Hustler Ensemble and Van Ghost, our friend and longtime HT supporter Jennifer Hartswick has spent the majority of the past few years playing other peoples’ music. Somewhere along the line she found some time to pour into her own work and the result is her long-in-the-making third album Ocean Floor, which is currently available through iTunes, CD Baby, Amazon.com and a variety of other outlets. We recently spoke with Hartswick about the making of what she calls a “a true JHB [Jennifer Hartswick Band] record” in a wide-ranging series of conversations.

[Photo by Jeremy Smith]

For Ocean Floor, which combines some of the funk sensibilities of 2003′s Fuse with the more jazz-oriented approach of 2007′s True, Jennifer was joined by longtime collaborators Nick Cassarino (guitar), Dezron Douglas (bass), Joe Davidian (keys) and Cory Healey (drums) as well as Russ Lawton, Bruce Sklar and Tony Barba. Hartswick’s relationships with Cassarino and Douglas go back over a decade. “I met Nick 11 years ago, I’ve known and been playing with him since he was 14. He was a brilliant student of Dave Grippo. I was judging a battle of the bands when he was a freshman in high school and obviously he won – all the girls were screaming his name,” Jennifer told us. “I went to college with Dezron and I’ve known him for 11 years. We’ve been playing together constantly throughout that time. Great spirit, great player, we just sort of understand each other. I was really psyched that he was available,” she concluded.

This album was a year and a half in the making, though Hartswick had other intentions when she first started to record. “We started in Chicago in April of 2010. At first I was just going to do an EP, so I recorded half of it in Chicago and then I got really busy and started writing a bunch more and thought why not just make it a full album? We recorded the other half of it in Vermont with a couple of different musicians,” Jennifer said. Even though a year and a half went by between the first recording session and the release of Ocean Floor, it wasn’t as if Hartswick spent all that time in the studio. “In total we spent four days in the studio making this record, the recording was actually done really quickly because that’s the way I like to do things. I can’t see spending weeks and weeks and weeks in a studio on eight songs or ten songs, I got distracted as I often do,” she finished.

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Ever since YouTube upped the time limit for videos you can upload to its site, more full shows from a wide variety of artists have appeared on the video portal. There’s plenty of full Phish and Grateful Dead performances on YouTube, but today we wanted to point you in the direction of JGB. On November 13, 1991, the Jerry Garcia Band rolled into Worcester’s Centrum during a tour that found Garcia laying down some of his best work of the era. YouTuber HappyCalif has uploaded over two glorious hours worth of footage from that night, put together by Less Than Face Productions, including transcendent versions of Dear Prudence, Shining Star and Midnight Moonlight. Take a look…

Jerry Garcia Band – November 13, 1991 Entire Show

Setlist:

Set One: How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You, They Love Each Other, When The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game, Dear Prudence, Like a Road, Money Honey, Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power), Deal

Set Two: The The Way You Do The Things You Do , You Never Can Tell (C’est La Vie), Waiting For A Miracle, Shining Star, Ain’t No Bread In The Breadbox, My Sisters And Brothers, Midnight Moonlight

Band:

Jerry Garcia, John Kahn, David Kemper, Melvin Seals, Gloria Jones, Jackie La Branch

Source Info:

Courtesy of Less Than Face Productions
Video: Two Camera Mix 720 x 480, NTSC, cbr: 7 m/s
Source 1: Panasonic 3240 (tripod) — JVCS20U — Master VHS — canopus ADVC1394 — avi — Vegas 5.0 –Architect 2.0 ; Source 2: JVCGXN8U (tripod) — JVCS20U — Master VHS –canopus ADVC1394 –avi — Vegas 5.0 –Architect 2.0.
Audio Source: LPCM 1536 k/s FOB Schoeps CMC 44 blue dot cards with 90 degree capsule offsets — 6′ Monster M1000 cable — Oade PS– 1′ Monster M1000 — Oade mod’d Panasonic Sv-255.

Last May the Disco Biscuits descended upon Colorado for their third annual Bisco Inferno weekend. The jamtronica pioneers kicked off the action on the 26th and 27th with a pair of performances at Denver’s Ogden Theatre before heading to the world-renowned Red Rocks Amphitheatre for a headlining set on the 28th. All three complete performances will be available on DVD, Blu-Ray and in a variety of downloadable formats on January 31 and we gave away a copy a day to a lucky reader each day last week and conclude our giveaway with today’s contest.

For this video release, the Disco Biscuits have teamed up with TourGigs, who have provided fans a full range of purchase options including DVD ($25 per show), Blu-Ray ($30 per show), 480p Standard Definition video files ($15 per show), 1080p High Definition video files ($22 per show) and 1080p “Ultra Quality” video files ($30 per show). There’s a 15% discount for those who buy the same format of all three shows.

As part of our Everybody Wins When We Plug Something And In Return They Offer Us Free Shit To Give Away program, we teamed up with the band and TourGigs to premiere video of one full song each day from this release and we’ve also given away a copy of all three shows in DVD or Blu-Ray format. To enter our contest, simply leave a comment below telling us about the first Disco Biscuits song you ever heard. You can enter a second time by leaving a similar comment on the wall of the HT Facebook Page and a third time by following @hidden_track and tweeting the name of the first tDB song you ever heard(be sure to include both “@hidden_track” and #tdbferno” at the end of your tweet so that we see it). Since this is the last Bisco Inferno giveaway post, we’re giving you a few days to enter. The contest entry period closes on Sunday at 11:59AM EST. After that, we’ll tally all the entries from our comments section, Facebook and Twitter and pick one winner at random.

Here’s the fine print…

• To enter the contest, leave a comment below telling us about the first Disco Biscuits song you ever heard
• You can enter a second time by leaving a similar comment on the wall of the Hidden Track Facebook Page
• You can enter a third time by following @hidden_track and tweeting about the first Disco Biscuits song you ever heard (be sure to include both “@hidden_track” and #tdbferno” at the end of your tweet so that we see it)
• Your comment(s) must be left by 11:59 AM EST on February 5
• Anybody entering more than once a piece on Facebook, Twitter and at the bottom of this post will be disqualified, tarred and feathered
• One winner will get a copy of all three shows (5/26, 27 or 28) in the format of their choice (DVD or Blu-Ray)
• HT staff members are not eligible to win
• You can enter all six HT/Bisco Inferno DVD/Blu-Ray contests, but can only win once

Now, we present the premiere of Spraypaint from the Disco Biscuits’ May 28, 2011 concert…

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In a surprise development, Jack White (White Stripes, The Raconteurs) has just announced that he will release his debut solo album, entitled Blunderbuss, on April 24. The album’s first single, Love Interruption, is available for your listening pleasure right now…

You can pre-order a 7″ of the track, along with B-Side Machine Gun Silhouette now in advance of its February 7th release date. The digital single goes on sale tonight.

What do you think of Jack’s new song?