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 ...

Cleaners From Venus Reissues Captured Tracks Records [2012] Fire Note Says: Lo-fi tales of Swinging London from 80’s cult legends Cleaners from Venus! Album Review: The Cleaners from Venus are a pioneering lo-fi recording project featuring the talents of Martin Newell and Lol Elliott on the first three albums, issued here by Captured Tracks for the very first time on cd and vinyl.  The three albums presented here, Blow Away Your Troubles , On Any Normal Monday , and Midnight Cleaners , were originally recorded at home and distributed by cassette only and thru mail order, totally bypassing the music industry machine ...

Released in 1967 on Verve Records, just one year after ‘Freak Out’, the Mothers’ feral, audaciously progressive debut, ‘Absolutely Free’ expanded impressively on their already extraordinary multi-genre output. Incorporating the very best of blues and R&B; alongside intricate orchestration, its improvisations and explosive post-modern cut ‘n’ paste techniques piloted a whole new genre of rock which was fiercely intelligent and simultaneously humorous. As Zappa demonstrated throughout his inexhaustible career, he had an unprecedented touch in appropriating and subjugating musical forms. Like a mischievous magpie he mashed up garage rock with cheesy radio jingles, experimental jazz, doo-wop and dissonant symphonic forms ...

Celebrities are used to having things like sandwiches,  streets or drinking games named in their honor, but there have only been a chosen few that have had a spider named for them. Today news surfaced that a new genus of the velvet spider has recently been named Loureedia, “in recognition of the fact that this velvet spider lives underground,” in honor of the Velvet Underground front man Lou Reed. The  spider, which is described as having a “dark and shiny” appearance and is known to live in Africa, Asia, Europe and Brazil. Reed joins both Frank Zappa and Neil Young ...

Lou Reed has officially joined Neil Young and Frank Zappa as musicians that've had spiders named after them. ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/lou-reeds-gets-new-genus-of-velvet-spider-named-af/65644/

Filed under: News , Holy Hell , News Today, Oh Boy! Jemal Countess, Getty Although he hasn't had a constellation named after him, Lou Reed has joined the late Frank Zappa and Neil Young as rock stars who have had newly discovered spiders named after them. According to Sci-News.com , a new genus of velvet spider has been recently named Loureedia "in recognition of the fact that this velvet spider lives underground." Obviously in reference to Reed's time in the Velvet Underground , Loureedia was chosen by an international group of biologists and representatives of institutions from the U.S., Hungary ...

May 2012 marks the 30th anniversary of the release of drummer Chad Wackerman’s studio debut with Frank Zappa on Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch. Wackerman would eventually appear on some two dozen Zappa recordings in a tenure that lasted from 1981-88. But Ship Arriving Too Late was special for another reason, in that it was also [...]

Bring in the noise, bring in the fun! The perfect prelude for a jam-packed weekend is presented by Symptomatic and provided by the intensely bubbly and enthusiastic Library Voices, on a balmy Friday night. This seven-piece from Canada are so overly and overtly enthusiastic that it’s almost surreal, especially when in the midst of a London crowd, in Hoxton. Nothing comes between this band and their crowd though – Library Voices don’t understand or allow personal space – they get in each other’s space and the audience’s, with total unapologetic elation and ear to ear Cheshire cat grins ...

Für alle, die noch die neue Mars-Volta -Platte im Ohr haben, reicht Omar Rodriguez-Lopez gleich mal ein weiteres Soloalbum nach. Business as usual im Hause Lopez? Ja und traurigerweise nein. "Un Corazón De Nadie" erschien auf seinem eigenen Label und ist einerseits ein weiteres Exempel seiner elektronischen Ambitionen. Andererseits ist es die erste Ode, die der Künstler seiner im März verstorbenen Mutter reicht. Es darf gemutmaßt werden, dass auf dem neuen Cover, Mutter Francis mit ihrem Sohn zu sehen ist. Mit flirrenden Rhythmen, rudimentären Gitarreneinschlägen und haufenweise halluzinogener Vocal- und Synth-Ekstasen mäandert der Frank Zappa des 21. Jahrunderts abermals in ...

Crossfire Publications have set a May 28, 2012 release date for a 5-CD set of recordings from the pre-Mothers era, with many tracks making their CD debuts.

Read part three of Kris Needs Fifty Outiders list for Clash magazine's Outsider issue with appearances by George Clinton, Can, Suicide, Patti Smith and more. 21. TIM ROSE Drunken bad boy of the Greenwich Village folk scene, known for the version of ‘Hey Joe’ which blueprinted Hendrix’s first hit. During 1967’s summer of love, the alcoholic Rose roared murder ballads and desperate love laments, taking folk to new levels of intensity, but blowing his career with drunken behaviour and patchy albums until resurrected by Nick Cave in the ’90s. 22. GEORGE CLINTON George Clinton and his Parliafunkadelicment ...

spiel \SPEEL\ noun a voluble line of often extravagant talk : a speech delivered especially to sell or promote something iPause iPause: The period of time between when the light turns green and the driver in the front of the line of cars looks up from his iPod or iPhone and pulls away from the light. This is usually preceded by the person behind them honking their horn. I cannot believe the amount of iPause time I waste on a typical commute. Trivia . History Las Vegas : the glitzy "entertainment capital of the world" was founded (1905) Standard Oil Company: in a ...

Crossfire Publications will release a series of rare pre-Mothers of Invention era Frank Zappa recordings on May 28 in a new box set titled Paul Buff Presents Highlights From The Pal And Original Sound Studio Archives. Paul Buff served as owner of Pal Recordi...

A new 5-CD set will focus on Frank Zappa’s pre-Mothers of Invention era, with many tracks making their debut on compact disc. Paul Buff Presents Highlights From The Pal And Original Sound Studio Archives is due on May 28, 2012 from Crossfire Publications. This 156-track collection features 58 early masters by the late Frank Zappa, recorded at Pal and Original [...]