Pullin’ ‘Tubes: Filing A Field Report
Over the last few weeks I’ve been fairly obsessed with the self-titled debut from Field Report, which will hit stores via Partisan Records on September 11. Hailing from Milwaukee, any story that you’re...
View ArticleReview: 7 Walkers / Steve Kimock / Yarn @ Beekman
7 Walkers, Steve Kimock and Yarn @ Beekman Beer Garden, August 1 It’s been almost two years since the eponymous debut album from 7 Walkers arrived, and boy, does it hold up well to repeat listens: a...
View ArticleTechnology Tuesday: Phiaton PS 300 NC Noise Cancelling Headphones – Luxury...
Quick! Name a brand of superior quality noise cancelling headphones. What did you come up with? BOSE? While BOSE most certainly gets much of the press when it comes to this category of headphone, I put...
View ArticleTour Dates: Trampled By Turtles Keep Truckin’
It doesn’t look as if Trampled By Turtles have any plans of staying off the road for the immediate future as they support their highly recommended sixth studio album Stars and Satellites. With a summer...
View ArticleThe Weekly RecommNeds: Floratone / The Touré-Raichel Collective / Get The...
My eight-year-old son once asked me if I liked jazz. “Sure,” I said (because I do). “WHY!? It’s so BORING?” I agreed to disagree and hopefully you will too after listening to these, not-so-boring, in...
View ArticleVideo: Hurray For The Riff Raff – Look Out Mama
Alynda Lee Segarra has a back story that sounds like it could be found in the pages of a Jack Kerouac novel. At the age of 17, she left her home in the Bronx and criss-crossed the country by hopping...
View ArticleHT Giveaway: Jomeokee Music & Arts Festival
From September 14 – 16 a vast array of jam, bluegrass and Americana acts including HT faves The Del McCoury Band, Yonder Mountain String Band, the Jimmy Herring Band, Lettuce, Keller Williams with The...
View ArticlePreviously Unreleased Wilco @ Farm Aid ’98 Videos Surface
While most of our readers may think of Farm Aid 1998 as the event where Neil Young and Phish came together, there were plenty of other acts on the bill at Tinley Park’s World Music Theatre including HT...
View ArticleTweetings from Umphrey’s McGee sUMmer School
No strangers to innovative fan-interaction, Umphrey’s McGee (@umphreysmcgee) is currently hosting the first session of sUMmer school at the Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, New York. Deep in the...
View ArticleLCD Soundsystem Documentary AND Entire MSG Finale Set For October 9th Release...
The LCD Soundsystem documentary Shut Up and Play The Hits lived up to the hype surrounding the band’s final 2011 MSG finale. As we mentioned, the DVD / Bluray release of the film will be accompanied by...
View ArticleVideo: Kid Koala – 8 Bit Blues (Chicago to LA to NY)
Kid Koala isn’t your typical turntablist. Sure he can hold his own with the likes of DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist, but he’s always found interesting and inventive ways to fuses his studio releases and...
View ArticleWake Up With Warren Haynes @ Peach Music Festival
One of the particularly cool offerings at this past weekend’s inaugural Peach Music Festival at Montage Mountain in Scranton, Penn. was a Sunday morning set dubbed “Wake Up With Warren Haynes”...
View ArticleTour Dates: Los Lobos To Celebrate Kiko At 20
I’d venture to guess that a certain percentage of people only really know Los Lobos from their contributions to the soundtrack to the 1987 film La Bamba, where they famously covered a handful of Richie...
View ArticleVideo: Dawes w/ Marcus Mumford – When My Time Comes + Mumford and Sons w/...
Last Saturday in Bristol on the border on Virginia and Tennessee, Mumford and Sons held their latest Gentlemen Of The Road Stopover festival. Dawes played just before the headliners took the stage and...
View ArticleAsk Deaner: Ween Guitarist Will Answer Your Questions
Earlier today Ween guitarist Mickey “Dean Ween” Melchiondo launched a website called AskDeaner.com in which he will answer questions posed by fans about “fishing, music, relationships, etc.” The...
View ArticleGov’t Mule Launches Bootleg Series with Georgia Bootleg Box
In 1996 Gov’t Mule was starting to feel their oats after the trio of Warren Haynes, Matt Abts and Allen Woody had three years worth of shows under their belts to hone their blues-rock sound. The first...
View ArticleWidespread Panic Sports Wood – New Double-Live Album and Box Set From...
HT faves Widespread Panic embarked on their first-ever all-acoustic tour earlier this year before heading off for an indefinite hiatus. The band has collected highlights from the Wood Tour for a new...
View ArticlePostcards From Page Side: Phish Leg Two Preview
It’s been only five weeks since Phish capped off an outstanding first portion of their summer tour (which I called their “best in a decade“), but is it just me or does it seem like it’s been forever...
View ArticleTrey Anastasio Fall Tour and New Album Announced
Phish front man Trey Anastasio will take his solo band on the road this fall to hit a number of choice venues across the Midwest and Northeast according to dates posted on his website. The New York...
View ArticleTechnology Tuesday: Samsung WB150F Camera
I know, I know. You have a great camera in your phone and don’t need a point-and-shoot. Or you already have a great camera phone AND a fantastic DSLR. Why in the world would you possibly need to shell...
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