Ratdog Opens Sweetwater w/ Hagar and Harrison
Sweetwater Music Hall, a new venue for which Bob Weir is a partner, had its official opening last night in the Bay Area’s Mill Valley. The same Ratdog ensemble that performed at TRI Studios on...
View ArticleAllie’s Adventures in Eating: Talde
Chris and I have been watching the tv show Top Chef for the last five years. Being the culinary adventurists that we are, we get a kick out of seeing rising star chefs take each other on in wild...
View ArticleHidden Track Giveaway: Disco Biscuits – Bisco Inferno Video Release – Pt. 5 –...
Last May the Disco Biscuits descended upon Colorado for their third annual Bisco Inferno weekend. The jamtronica pioneers kicked off the action on the 26th and 27th with a pair of performances at...
View ArticleFriday Mix Tape: The Art of Dancing Alone
They say dancing is the language of the soul. They also say that musicians are artists who paint their pictures on a canvas of silence. So I guess if you put those two idioms together, you might...
View ArticleTwo Tribute Concerts in NYC – Clapton / Beck / Trucks Honor Sumlin @ Apollo –...
Tribute concerts honoring two incredible blues guitarists who passed away last year will be held in New York City next month, when drummer Steve Jordan (Eric Clapton, John Mayer Trio) assembles an...
View ArticleWidespread Panic – The Ballad of John & Yoko, Fixin’ To Die (w/ Col. Bruce...
Before heading off for an “indefinite hiatus,” jam titans Widespread Panic have two pieces of business to attend to – an 11-show all-acoustic Wood Tour at small venues in four cities and a trip to...
View Articlemoe. Plays Suck A Lemon on iPads / Jams w/ Allie Kral
Jam stalwarts moe. are hitting the road hard this winter in support of their recently released WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LA LAs album. The tour kicked off with an album release party at NYC’s Hiro Ballroom...
View ArticleMembers of R.E.M., Drive-By Truckers and Widespread Panic Team Up to Protect...
The city of Athens, Georgia has always been known for its beauty and vibrant musical heritage. A plan by an Atlanta-based developer to build a massive mixed-use development anchored by a Wal-Mart has...
View ArticleVideo: Onward, Soldiers – Telling Nobody
Onward, Soldiers from Wilmington, North Carolina is a new band on the HT radar, but if the first single off their latest album is any indication, they are worth a closer look. The band celebrates the...
View ArticleHubert Sumlin Memorial Update: Beck & Levon Out / Keith Richards, Robert...
Late last week we told you about the Hubert Sumlin Tribute Concert that’s set to take place at the Apollo Theater in Harlem on February 24. Today, ticketing information and a number of changes to the...
View ArticleBruce Springsteen @ Apollo for SiriusXM Concert
From one story about a concert at Harlem’s Apollo Theater to another as SiriusXM has just announced that they will celebrate 10 years of satellite radio by bringing Bruce Springsteen and the E Street...
View ArticleTwitter Reacts to Don Cornelius Death
Don Cornelius, the founder and former host of Soul Train, was discovered dead in his Los Angeles home Wednesday morning as first reported by TMZ. According to Los Angeles police, Cornelius died of a...
View ArticleHitting The Trunk Road: Full Album Shows = Mixed Results
Big Head Todd and the Monsters may not be one of the names that leap to mind when discussing the early history of the modern jamband festival scene. Yet, when you look back on the old, grainy, Zapruder...
View ArticleRolling Stones Archival Release: Hampton Coliseum ’81
The Rolling Stones have announced the second live archival release that will (eventually) be available through Stones Archive – a performance from December 18, 1981 at Hampton Coliseum in Hampton,...
View ArticleRex-A-Vision: Travelin’ McCourys’ Bluegrass Ball
We’d like to welcome Rex Thomson, aka Rex-A-Vision, a senior contributing writer for our friends at Honest Tune, to review a recent The Bluegrass Ball performance as well as share his photos and video....
View ArticleElectric Forest 2012: String Cheese, Bassnectar, STS9
Once again The String Cheese Incident will host and headline the Electric Forest festival, which returns to Rothbury, Michigan on June 28 – July 1. Joining SCI a top the bill will be Bassnectar, STS9,...
View ArticleGod Street Wednesdays: Jon Bevo Love Orchestra
Three out of the five members of God Street Wine came together with a few of their friends for a Jon Bevo’s Love Orchestra performance this past Saturday night at Mexicali Live in Teaneck, New Jersey....
View ArticleMarc’s Musings: Freakin’ At The Freakers Ball
Jam bands can noodle an awful lot. I know that’s stereotyping. But isn’t that sort of the definition by name alone? In the wake of the bands that started that “revolution,” bands like Blues Traveler,...
View ArticleB List: Umphrey’s McGee’s Musical Tributes
In an interview with Revolutions Live back in May 2002, Umphrey’s McGee noted that several musicians were dying while they were on tour, and there was only one thing they could do in response: play one...
View ArticleBriefly: The Return of Tenacious D – Rize Of The Fenix
UPDATE: Tenacious D has announced that the album will come out in May and have shared the first single, Rize Of The Fenix, which shares a name with the forthcoming album. Tenacious D, the...
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