The summer concert season is upon us and the Hidden Track staff knows that it’s virtually impossible for us to afford every show we want to hit, and still be able to pay our insanely expensive New York City rents. Luckily for us, there are a plethora of fantastic free concerts throughout the summer that don’t cost a dime. We decided to weed through all the listings and present to you our 5th Annual NYC Free Summer Concert Picks. Let’s take a look… HT Recommends: Laura Marling / Michael Kiwanuka / Willy Mason Where: Celebrate Brooklyn! – Prospect Park Bandshell ...

Black Dice member Eric Copeland 's new solo LP, Limbo , is out June 5 via Underwater Peoples . You've heard "Louie, Louie, Louie" , and now here's another cut from the album, "Tarzan and the Dizzy Devils". Eric Copeland: "Tarzan and the Dizzy Devils" on SoundCloud .

Just a month and change after the release of Mr. Impossible , Black Dice's Eric Copeland is readying another release of his own: Limbo , full-length follow-up to last year's Waco Taco Combo ...

Urgh! A Music War exists as one of those concert films that could never be replicated today. Filmed in London and Los Angeles in 1980 and released in 1982, it was bankrolled by Miles Copeland, brother of Police drummer Stewart and founder of I.R.S. Records, and thus includes opening and closing s...

The official release (though you can stream the entire thing for free here ) of Laurel Halo’s debut album Quarantine next week should temporarily satisfy our desire for experimental pop mixtures of the Hyperdub-ian variety. But while that album seems almost impossible to pin down stylistically (same goes for Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland’s Black Is Beautiful ), what about Hyperdub’s more danceable roots? Besides Burial (who wouldn’t be tasked with so public a responsibility anyway), who else is carrying the flag for the label these days? I knew I’d heard the name Cooly G before, and it wasn’t through an erroneous belief that she was the sister of a Sacha Baron Cohen character. She’s appeared on several acclaimed mixes, including the Kode9 edition of DJ-Kicks , Martyn’s Fabric 50 , and the massive label undertaking 5: Five Years of Hyperdub , released in 2009. On July 17, Cooly G a.k.a. Merrisa Campbell will be releasing her debut album Playin Me on Hyperdub. Initial impressions suggest a unique and soulful take on the burgeoning UK funky sub-genre; as a press release notes, “[o]n Playin Me she displays the full spectrum of her sound, plummeting from her sometimes melancholy, sometimes romantic songs through to her more menacing, trackier sound.” Indeed, corroborating the “romantic” aspect of things is the inclusion of the track “Trouble,” a cover of ...

“Postmodernism as an aesthetic ideology may have fallen out of favour in the past decade or so, but the unstable, fragmentary, mocking-yet-deadly-serious schizo-aesthetic of Blunt and partner in crime Inga Copeland still seems to fascinate and surprise. What does that say about us, their fans and admirers? Probably, to be honest, that we’re a good few years behind the times. Regardless, the success of Hype Williams lends weight to a rapidly crystallising truism: that the cut’n’paste logic at work in “postmodern” art is now – thanks to the internet – just a fact of everyday existence. Blunt and Copeland ...

A few months ago, in some office somewhere in the middle of Brooklyn, Syd Butler was trying to figure out how to grow. He had a pretty decent office, running his label Frenchkiss Records with some debonair, and had a few employees under his wing, doing everything but band publicity (that was outsourced to some pigeon that hits windows in Manhattan). But he had no idea what to do from there. He sat down and had a brainstorming session with his subordinates, subordinating them to think of something. “Think, my lovelies, think!” Syd admonished. “We’ve been at this for ...

Fact : We asked Black Dice co-founder Eric Copeland (pictured above, centre, with Aaron Warren and Björn Copeland) to pick, and tell us about, five records that have significantly impacted on the band and its creative stance. From “scumbag rock” and Californian ska-punk to pulsating proto-darkwave, it’s quite a selection. Read and comment. From factmag.com.

A Night of Musical Adventure Sat 5/12/12 at Radio Bar 21+ 8pm - just $8 RSVP Two of Boston's Brightest and Chicago's Filligar! original design by Nicole Anguish Filligar!!! ON THE ROAD WITH COUNTING CROWS - Beginning on June 9th, Filligar will be on The Outlaw Roadshow National Tour with Counting Crows . The reason: simply put - this is absolutely one of THE BEST live shows in America right now. And we have them tonight at Radio in Union Square! The same act that tens of thousands of folks across America will be seeing will be playing a simple ...

Black Is Beautiful is the fourth "studio" album from Lisbon/Estonia based art music duo Hype Williams, this time recorded under their Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland aliases. At crux, they make the sort of music that...

Die experimentellen Noise-Spezialisten Black Dice verbildlichen nach " Pigs " den nächsten Titel vom aktuellen Album " Mr. Impossible " in einer psychedelischen Collage. Der Titel "Rodriguez" schließt sich musikalisch seiner Bildersprache in allen Belangen an und präsentiert sich als verfrickeltes wie rauschhaftes Stück. Für alle, denen ein Flimmern im Auge nichts ausmacht und jene, die denken, das unterschwellige Botschaften an ihnen abtropfen, hier das neue Musikvideo der New Yorker Sound-Dekonstrukteure: Black Dice - "Rodriguez" Black Dice aus New York machen seit nunmehr gut 15 Jahren Noise-Rock. Bis jetzt hat sich außerdem eine Diskographie von acht Alben und vier EPs angehäuft. Nicht mitgezählt das Minialbum ...

Insound are really pumping out the free digital mixes lately. Hot on the heels of their recent free Vinyl News mixtape now comes their free May mix. The sampler has thirteen great tracks from A Place to Bury Strangers, Alexander Tucker, Dunes, Edie Sedgwick, Eric Copeland, Exitmusic, Here We Go Magic, Tuff">King Tuff, S. Carey and more! But [...]

A Night of Musical Adventure Sat 5/12/12 at Radio Bar 21+ 8pm - just $8 RSVP Two of Boston's Brightest and a MYSTERY Third! original design by Nicole Anguish MYSTERY BAND - One of my favorite bands. Most of you have never seen them play live before. We can't tell you anything yet. Well worth the price of admission on their own (and more) and then there's the matter of two exceptional Boston acts... The Region's Best Rock & Soul... "Take a Bow" is new and an OldJack original. The track was produced by Will Dailey & recorded ...

Even though Black Dice is fresh off the release of Mr. Impossible , the group's Eric Copeland ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/black-dices-eric-copeland-to-drop-solo-lp-limbo/64775/

Back in the day my old college roommate and I were all like, “Yeah, Collective">Animal Collective! Cool! We get that.” And, then we both kind of went our separate ways in life. Now and again we’ll share music that may have spawned from some relation to the previous connection we had over liking the same band. Circa 2007 – Me: Dude, you should check out this Eric Copeland album, Hermaphrodite . It’s nothing like Collective">Animal Collective, but it’s on their label and they’re like bros so you’ll have to like it. OCR: Well… I listened ...