The Widetrack Chronicles 93: Monoliths now available!
We are exceedingly pleased to announce that our fifth album, Monoliths, is now available!
It's be a two and a half year journey to this point. We put everything we had into…
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The Widetrack Chronicles 92: The new album is finished!!
Our new album is finished! To say we're relieved would be a major understatement... From January 2021 to July 2023, we lived, ate and breathed these songs (as well as a few others that didn't make the cut)... You could… Read more

Widetrack Chronicles 91: Official announcement of our new album
We’re immensely pleased to announce the impending release of our fifth album, Monoliths, coming this summer!
Tracklisting:
1. Illumination
2. Symptoms
3. Unlived
4. Virtue
5. Pendulum
6. The Departure
7. Serpents
8. Mirage
Zach Tippin: Guitars, bass, keyboards
Ron…

The Widetrack Chronicles 89: 2021 in Review
The Widetrack Chronicles 89: 2021 in Review
Happy New Year! We hope 2022 is a great year for you!
We're looking forward to the a fine one ourselves... But first, let's look back at some of the highlights of the…
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The Widetrack Chronicles 87: Our Driving Motivation
The Widetrack Chronicles 87: Our Driving Motivation
At some point in our lives, each of us is asked, “What positive contribution(s) are you making/did you make to the world? How did you, in your own small way, leave it a…
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The Widetrack Chronicles 86: Update (November 2021)
The Widetrack Chronicles 86: Update (November 2021)
Ron here... A couple new updates to report in the world of Widetrack...
Packing all the activity he can into his senior year of high school, Zach has been busy young man... But…

The Widetrack Chronicles 85: Update (October 2021)
The Widetrack Chronicles 85: Update (October 2021)
Having a musical partnership of one band member attending his senior year in high school, with a demanding scholastic and social activities schedule, and the other working a demanding day job, presents certain…
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The Widetrack Chronicles 84: Our opening slot for Last In Line was a blast!
The Widetrack Chronicles 84:
Our opening slot for Last In Line was a blast!
Last Sunday, August 22, we played our second live show last together, in this present incarnation of Widetrack as a two-piece entity... and what a blast…
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The Widetrack Chronicles 83: Crofoot show a smashing success!
The Widetrack Chronicles 83:
Crofoot show a smashing success!
A live show... FINALLY!
This show was supposed to happen in April of 2020... To say that it was worth the wait would be an understatement... We had an absolute blast!!…

The Widetrack Chronicles 82: Current Highlights
The Widetrack Chronicles 82: Current Highlights
Things have been moving at a pretty rapid pace for us in these newly-post-pandemic times... Which is a good thing, as there's never time to waste these days...
As previously announced, we've been…
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The Widetrack Chronicles 81: The Ticking Clock
The Widetrack Chronicles 81: The Ticking Clock
Time is a crafty illusionist... At the risk of veering into the cliche, it seems like only yesterday that Zach played his first show with Widetrack...
At the young age of 12, he…
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The Widetrack Chronicles 76: Activism of Consciousness
The Widetrack Chronicles 76: Activism of Consciousness
2020’s been a game-changer year thus far... Many plans come to naught, much uncertainty taken root... The good, the bad, the ugly...
Looking at the world today, it's hard to remain positive about…
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The Widetrack Chronicles 73: The Process
The Widetrack Chronicles 73: The Process
With the completion of each new album cycle, there are a wealth of important lessons learned that we apply to the making of the next one...
To us, creating music is a continuous process…
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The Widetrack Chronicles 68: What is "Alterna-Prog"?
The Widetrack Chronicles 68: What is "Alterna-Prog"?
Wihile preparing for the release of our new album, we’re now at the stage of figuring out how to promote it...
This phase is always the most challenging, as expertise…
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The Widetrack Chronicles 67: Official Video for 'Tribal'
The Widetrack Chronicles 67: Official Video for Tribal
We are most pleased to present to you the first official video from our forthcoming new album, The Unwakening...
Tribal
The clip was filmed and directed…
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Widetrack Chronicles 65: Tribute to Neil Peart (by Ron Tippin)
The Widetrack Chronicles 65: Tribute to Neil Peart (by Ron Tippin)
Neil Peart passed away on January 7, 2020 at the age of 67... He is survived by his second wife and his 10 year old daughter...
For most of…
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The Widetrack Chronicles 66: The New Album: Post-Creation/Pre-Release Thoughts
The Widetrack Chronicles 66: The New Album: Post-Creation/Pre-Release Thoughts
The final step before sending a completed album to the digital distributor is the mastering process, which is, basically, getting all the songs the same volume, EQ, etc. so they all…
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Widetrack Chronicles 64: The Fourth Album (full details and artwork)
The Widetrack Chronicles 64: The Fourth Album (full details and artwork)
It pleases us greatly to announce the official release details of our fourth album...
Widetrack
The Unwakening
Zach Tippin: bass and guitar
Ron Tippin:…

The Widetrack Chronicles 63: Oblivion
The Widetrack Chronicles 63: Oblivion
At last we come to the final track of our 2019 monthly songs...
Oblivion
We’ve been excited about this one ever since its humble origins in late 2018… A ton of hard work went into…
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The Widetrack Chronicles 62: Cursed
The Widetrack Chronicles 62: Cursed
Our 2019 monthly song for November is called Cursed and will be track 11 on the forthcoming fourth Widetrack album (title TBA)... (One more to go... ?)
This song came together…
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The Widetrack Chronicles 59: Terra
The Widetrack Chronicles 59: Terra
For an overview of the entire album storyline, click here:
"The usage of 'Terra' as a name for the planet Earth is particularly common among English-language science fiction writers. 'Terra' had been the official…
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The Widetrack Chronicles 58: The Rift
The Widetrack Chronicles 58: The Rift
For an overview of the entire album storyline, click here:
https://widetrackband.com/home/blog/the-widetrack-chronicles-56-the-concept-of-the-new-album-revealed
All too often, we find ourselves breaking off from friends and family, telling ourselves “I don’t need that person in my life” in…
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The Widetrack Chronicles 51: Tribal
The Widetrack Chronicles 51: Tribal
For an overview of the entire album storyline, click here:
https://widetrackband.com/home/blog/the-widetrack-chronicles-56-the-concept-of-the-new-album-revealed
Tribal was one of the first songs Zach and I wrote together... It came together rather quickly... Basically, I sat down at the drums,…
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The Widetrack Chronicles 50: Unveiled
Here it is... The premier of our second new monthly song of 2019!
For an overview of the entire album storyline, click here:
https://widetrackband.com/home/blog/the-widetrack-chronicles-56-the-concept-of-the-new-album-revealed
~Story behind the song~
A few years back, I had a friend who was a pretty…
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