Band stories from the floorboards up.
HiddenTracks brings musicians into long, friendly conversations about songs, bands, and the moments that stick after a set ends. The tone is loose and affectionate, with room for bad-gig confessions, old-scene lore, and sincere excitement about music.
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HiddenTracks is a music-interview show with a local-scene heart and a collector's appetite for band stories. Its conversations are casual, direct, and full of affection for people who keep making songs because they cannot quite stop. The show spends time with musicians in the middle of real creative lives. That means album talk, old band names, venues, and the kinds of live-show memories that only become funny with distance. The Dead Wrong episode carries the charge of a band being watched closely as it grows. The conversation turns quickly from excitement over a record to stories about terrible performances, human mistakes, and the strange relief of knowing a future show probably cannot be worse. The Tommy Gunn episode has a different shape. It follows musical history through earlier bands, acoustic beginnings, New Brunswick nights, the Court Tavern, and the reliable chemistry of writing with another player. HiddenTracks is at its best in those long connective passages. One project leads to another. One venue opens a door. One friend becomes part of a musical life. The show rarely sounds detached from its subjects. It sounds invested. That enthusiasm can get blunt and rowdy, but the function is camaraderie rather than shock. Guests are encouraged to tell stories with the edges still on. The pacing favors memory, tangents, and lived-in detail over quick promotional answers. For listeners, that creates a practical kind of discovery. A band arrives not just as a name or a genre tag, but as people with old rooms, bad nights, favorite songs, and unfinished momentum behind them. HiddenTracks suits anyone who wants music introduced through the stories that made it, especially fans who still believe a good conversation can send them looking for a record.
Made for: HiddenTracks is for listeners who follow bands, local scenes, and musician origin stories. It especially suits people who enjoy informal interviews with room for tangents, affection, and rough-edged live-show memories.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by making discovery feel personal: guests are framed through scenes, friendships, embarrassing gigs, and the practical realities of keeping music moving. Its strength is not polish; it is access to the stories around the songs.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Matt's account of an onstage mistake gives this easygoing Dead Wrong conversation its most candid moment.
Hidden Tracks hosts Matt, Rob, and Dan of Philadelphia band Dead Wrong for a conversation that sounds grounded in the host's affection for their music.
Tommy Gunn remembers playing with Rob and finding fellow musicians in New Brunswick.
Tommy Gunn's memories of New Brunswick run through the people he played with. He recalls joining Rob in Advantage to Crush, then carrying a song or two into Communication Red Light, with Rob still beside him.
Joe Wong interviews drummers and musicians about craft, history, and the working musician's life.
Records, careers and arguments, weighed by people who listen closely.
["Hidden Tracks talks with Matt, Rob, and Dan from Dead Wrong about The Extent, and Rob says the album took about three years to finish.", "Rob calls the release surreal after roughly two and a half years of songs, and Matt says his wife recognized the band's sound as soon as he played the record at home.", "The band traces its start from Matt's 2021 solo recording, Stephen's added parts, and a Craigslist search that brought Dan in after he covered a Four Year Strong song.", "The interview moves through first musical memories, first albums, first bands, and live-show mistakes like the Zoe/Chloe benefit-show mix-up and the Duke University rainstorm."]
HiddenTracks #295 with Tommy Gunn centers on how music, from Phil Collins and Tracy Chapman in his mother’s car to The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and The Clash, shaped his friendships and bands.
Hidden Tracks interviews Eric Sanderson about producing a Tiny Cities record from raw iPhone demos while preserving Melissa's distinctive voice.
Hidden Tracks interviews Fever Sleep members John Drislane and Matt Farrell about a band that began as a COVID-era project after Matt's former group dissolved.
Hidden Tracks #288 features Jennica Best and Digo Degorio of Colatura discussing a month-long European tour, including venues that provided housing and meals and a first show where their in-ear equipment failed.
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Hidden Tracks Records is preparing Tiny Cities' EP, with Dennis King and Melissa Anthony describing how Eric Sanderson expanded their earlier demos at Harbor Studios in Brooklyn.
Luke Murphy describes Brutalligators' Still Here as an album begun in March 2023 and shaped by acceptance and self-understanding.
A weekly podcast where the host talks to musicians and everyday people about the impact of music across all genres.