While this weekly feature is normally a good way to recap what touring bands were up to by way of choosing audio and video to embed for our readers, this week we’re also going to give you a recap of last week’s shenanigans involving the Disco Biscuits and this publication, Hidden Track.

At around 2PM last Thursday afternoon, Disco Biscuits bassist Marc Brownstein simply tweeted the URL www.planetanthem.com. With no real fanfare, tDB had launched a fun, and somewhat hilarious, pre-order site for their first studio release in eight years, Planet Anthem. While some of the items available for purchase were pretty standard (i.e. signed CD’s, a copy of the CD plus entry to the record release shows at the TLA in Philly), some were much more interesting (i.e. for $500 you and four friends get to sing the “Oooooooo” part of tDB epic Basis For A Day at Camp Bisco or $250 to get the Disco Biscuits to remix a song for you).

At 2:40pm EST, I sent ScottyB an email to ask a) if he had seen the Pre-Order page and b) if this situation was ripe for satire. With a little help from tDB guru Matt Quinn we went live with a B List at 5pm titled 10 Rejected Planet Anthem Pre-Order Items.

The post was well received with a few of our readers joining in on the comment section to offer up their own entries of funny would-be pre-order items. I also got a couple of emails from friends saying they enjoyed the piece and we were all happy with the way it went. Fast forward to 8:06am the following morning when I got a text message informing me that a number of the jokes listed in our B List had magically appeared on the actual pre-order page! While some of the Hidden-Track inspired items have been purchased, fans still haven’t been able to pool together the $1 million to get tDB to make their triumphant return to the Pacific Northwest.

READ ON for more on this highlight in Hidden Track history and for LWS selections from tDB, Trey, Wilco, George Clinton & P-Funk and MMW…

Funkadelic – I Got A Thing

Earlier this week, people around the country came out in record numbers to elect Barack Obama the 44th President Of The United States in a landslide. While the President-elect doesn’t get sworn in until January 20 of next year that won’t stop us from celebrating the victory around here. So with that in mind, this week’s Mix Tape is dedicated to the former Junior Senator from Illinois. Just a warning though folks: things are going to get funky…

We kick things off with Cody ChessnuTT’s afro-funk, pro-Obama anthem – Afrobama – which makes its second Mix Tape appearance. From there, we’ve got George Clinton and Funkadelic with their seven plus minute unifying jam One Nation Under A Groove. After that, we’ve got back to back covers. First up is Sharon Jones with a funkified version of Woody Guthrie’s This Land Is Your Land, then we’ve got Solomon Burke tackling Sam Cooke’s poignant classic A Change Is Gonna Come. Next, we’ll revisit a song that we featured earlier this week: Bob Dylan’s The Times They Are A-Changin’. This version comes from Zimmy’s Live at Budokan album. Finally we close things out with one from some of President Obama’s biggest supporters and an act hails from his current hometown of Chicago, we’ve got Wilco with Wishful Thinking. As always, enjoy…