As the lucrative holiday season approaches, many gift-worthy reissue and archival releases are starting to be announced. Ween revealed the details of At The Cat’s Cradle, 1992, the band’s first live album from the days when Gene and Dean toured the country accompanied by only a DAT machine. This full show CD and bonus DVD will be available on November 11.
Also, the Zappa Family Trust made Joe’s Menage, which features highlights from a previously unreleased recording of a concert at Williamsburg, Virginia on November 1, 1975, available for purchase online. [via Jambands]
Before you even think about doing any work, check this shit out…
Paul McCartney’s solo work has never been thought of as innovative, but then he released an out-of-left field ambient album with Youth of the Killing Joke called Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest under the pseudonym Fireman that was way ahead of its time. 1998’s Rushes wasn’t as good, but ten years later the pair returns with Electric Arguments on November 17.
As we mentioned yesterday, NYC’s Beacon Theatre is currently undergoing a much needed major renovation. This storied venue has seen a ton of amazing shows in its day, but sadly only a small fraction are represented on YouTube. For this week’s B List we picked out our ten favorite videos filmed at the Beacon.
10. Radiohead - True Love Waits
On June 5, 2003, Thom Yorke and the boys taped a special edition of MTV’s 2 Dollar Bill at the Beacon. There have been some tough tickets to Beacon events, but this show probably takes the cake. We found a video of True Love Waits from that evening which we’re sharing with you.
READ ON for nine more stupendous videos from the magical Beacon Theatre…
Our good friend Scott Gordon taped Radiohead’s mind-blowing performances at the Hollywood Bowl on August 24 and 25 and has given us the go ahead to share them with our loyal readers. We’ve uploaded the tracks to Imeem for those of you who want to stream, but we’ve also got FLAC and 320kbps MP3 downloads for those of you who want to add these stellar recordings to your collection. As always, be sure to login/register at Imeem to stream the tracks in their entirety.
Night One:
READ ON to stream Night Two and to download the MP3s and FLACs…
The summer concert season has kept the HT gang busy for the last couple of months hitting amphitheaters, clubs, boats and festies in order to catch great live music. Since we haven’t seen each other in quite awhile, we thought we’d round up crew to crack open some Sea Hag IPA’s for one last summertime cook out and another rousing edition of At The Barbecue - that’s bound to ruffle a few feathers.
This time around we’re going with bands that all your friends love, but no matter how hard you try they still leave you scratching your head wondering just what the fuss is all about…
“Generic.” “Ordinary.” “Plain.” These words could be used to describe The Band’s name. But I also enjoy using them to describe The Band’s music. Before you go all “Oh man…The Last Waltz…best doc EVAR…Scorsese…blah blah” Let me tell you: Yes, I’ve watched The Last Waltz. And it’s not all bad. It’s just the parts when The Band are playing their songs that I usually find myself dozing off.
READ ON for more Head Scratchers from the Hidden Track Staff…
The Radiohead crew shared a piece of advice this morning on Dead Air Space:
Might come in handy.
If you’ve got a mac, download flip4mac for your quicktime player, or download VLC.
If you’re on windows, make sure your windows media player is working or download VLC.
Sounds like they’re gonna webcast tonight’s show from the Santa Barbara Bowl on Radiohead.tv. Ticket time is listed as 6:30, so be sure to tune in around 7PM PDT.
The fall beckons the romantic in all of us. Most any music fan you talk to will have a list of albums that remind them of the fall. There is an emotional attachment to the scenery around you, the climate change, and the music you were listening to that time of year. I’m not going to wax poetic about the autumn, as we all know the myriad of emotions the fall conjures. Rather, I would love to have your list of fall albums speak for those emotions. Sound off in the comments if you are feeling inspired and if your team is hunting for the Wild Card spot as well, god bless ‘em.
10. John Mayer - Heavier Things
On his second major label outing, Mayer sounds composed, more mature, and well produced. With Jack Joseph Puig at the helm and Matt Chamberlain and Steve Jordan sharing time behind the kit, you can hardly go wrong. This sonic milkshake pours from loop to horn line without spoiling the stomach and is just sweet enough to please the ladies, while maintaining an aura of professional gloss the guys can get behind. Kudos, John. Unfortunately, his next best accomplishment would be Jennifer Aniston. Fall Mix Disc Track: Something’s Missing
READ ON for the rest of Wade’s list of favorite albums for the fall…
Last night, Radiohead treated the crowd at the Hollywood Bowl to a terrific cover of Neil Young’s Tell Me Why. The rhythm section sat this one out as it was just Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood performing the tune on their acoustics. Check out a clip of their performance below:
Providence’s Badfish, Ron Jeremy’s favorite cover band, returns to NYC for a just announced gig at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Saturday night for an evening chock full of Sublime favorites. These guys got together in 2001 and have gone on to sell out venues across the country thanks to their faithful renditions of Bradley Nowell’s classic tunes. Tickets for this show are currently available at Ticketmaster. Check out Badfish.com for a full list of tour dates.
It’s been a while since we’ve heard any news out of the Led Zeppelin camp, but this story’s a doozy. Jason Bonham, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones recently entered the studio to record a batch of songs destined for a new Led Zeppelin album. Robert Plant, who has been busy touring with Alison Krauss, hasn’t been involved in any of the sessions. No tour dates yet.
Sometime around 1 PM today the initial installment of the All Points West gets underway in Jersey City, NJ. It’s the first major music festival here in the Northeast, and while it’s may not be jammed to the gills with stages and acts like some its other brethren they’re still bringing in a fantastic line up over the course of the three days. With that in mind, this week’s Mix Tape offers up a couple of acts that will grace the Blue Comet, Bullet and Queen Of The Valley stages this weekend.
We’ll kick things off with some indie-pop from The New Porngraphers who give us My Slow Descent Into Alcoholism off their debut album. Next, we’ll go with a song that you’re pretty much guaranteed not to hear on either night from headliners and festie favorite Radiohead with a live version of Creep from Glastonbury in ‘97. From their we’ve got some straight ahead dirty, trashy rock first with The Virgins doing Rich Girls and then Kings Of Leon give us Happy Alone. Sunday sees the major public return of Ernie and Classic TAB, let’s head back to July of ‘01 at Alpine Valley for this version of Drifting that features John Medeski on keys. Finally, mellow surf-rocker Jack Johnson, who closes the festie, closes the mix with Bubble Toes from Bonnaroo 2002.
I’m hitting up the festie tomorrow, while Scotty is heading out on Sunday so make sure to check out our Twitter feed for updates over the course of the weekend.
Over the course of the seven year existence of Bonnaroo the folks at Superfly Productions and AC Entertainment have had their fair share of impressive bookings - including grabbing Pearl Jam and Metallica this year. I doubt that anyone would argue with the fact that their biggest booking took place in ‘06 when they nabbed the world’s biggest indie-rock band, Radiohead, to headline.
Thom Yorke and Co. penciled in a stop at Manchester during a run of shows at smaller venues, where they were testing out new material that would come to comprise In Rainbows. On the night of June 17, they rocked the packed What Stage field with a lengthy 28 song set that included two encores…
If you’re looking for a complete overload of golf/rockstar metaphors, check out the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s article about hitting the links with Widespread Panic’s John Bell. While registration is required for the article you can view a slide show of photos from JB’s round of golf without having to turn over your personal information. [Hat Tip to Rook]
[Photo by Rich Addicks for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
Prince’s rabid team of lawyers may have been overly zealous when they took down videos of the purple one performing Radiohead’s Creep at Coachella. Thom Yorke would like to remind Prince that Radiohead owns the right to that one. Unblock that shit, my man.
Now that everyone and his brother has heard My Morning Jacket’s Evil Urges, we can turn our attention to the long-awaited new album from that other band we can’t stop fluffing: Apollo Sunshine. The boys from Boston will release the CD of Shall Noise Upon on September 2, but you’ll be able to purchase the album digitally on August 5. We can’t wait to hear what they came up with, and hopefully they’ll get back on the road for an extended jaunt over the next few months after a long layoff. Bring it, fellas.
