Grace Potter and the Nocturnals put out an impressive album earlier this week when The Lion, The Beast, The Beat hit stores. Tonight, the longtime HT faves will celebrate the release of the LP in their hometown of Burlington at Higher Ground. This evening’s performance, which is scheduled to start around 9PM ET, will be webcast live on this Livestream channel.

Here’s six other stories of note to help you kill time this hump day…

• Drummer Neil Peart discusses Rush’s new album and more
• Patti Smith performed the title track of her new LP for The Late Show
• Cover Alert: Listen to Iron & Wine tackle Trouble by Little Feat
• A Bonnaroo veteran describes how Bonnaroo caters to older crowd
• The Grammys have added three new awards after passionate protests
• Easy Star All-Stars have announced a Michael Jackson Tribute album

Finally, Eddie Van Halen gave a rare interview to USA Today that was published today and in it, EVH tells the paper that his band will “do something special” in the New Year leading to speculation that Van Halen will perform at halftime of next year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans.  We’d rather see the NFL lean back towards the aging rocker choices of the late ’00s as opposed to the more pop-oriented choices of 2011 (Black-Eyed Peas) and 2012 (Madonna). Stay tuned…

Scott Bernstein

Scott Bernstein co-founded Hidden Track in October 2006 and was managing editor until taking over as EiC in January 2008. Scotty also writes for Relix Magazine and curates YEMblog.com.

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