Jam Cruise Journal: This Ain’t Your Typical Wednesday
It isn’t often I think about reality while on Jam Cruise, but I couldn’t help but smile on Wednesday afternoon when I thought about what I’d be doing on any other work week Wednesday. Instead of...
View ArticleTelevised Tune: Bruno Mars on Kimmel
Bruno Mars will visit Jimmy Kimmel on Friday to wrap up Kimmel’s first week at his new 11:35PM time slot. Saturday Night Live will re-run an epsiode featuring Passion Pit (and the awesome Christina...
View ArticleAudio: Tom Waits & Keith Richards – Shenandoah
Tom Waits and Keith Richards recording together to contribute a track to an album of pirate ballads, sea songs and chanteys just seems to make sense on so many levels. The duo are no strangers to...
View ArticleFull Show Friday: Jerry Garcia Band with Bruce Hornsby
[Originally Published: August 31, 2012] Happy Friday everybody. Congrats on making it through a tough work week, but now it’s time to relax, kick your feet up and enjoy a long holiday weekend. For this...
View ArticleJam Cruise Journal: Cirque Du Funk
For each night of Jam Cruise there’s a theme that dictates how many cruisers will dress. Past theme nights included Super Hero Night, Green Night and Disco Party. Thursday’s theme was “Cirque Du Funk”...
View ArticleVideo: Foxygen – San Francisco
At last fall’s installment of the annual CMJ Music Marathon, one of the band’s that seemingly played every venue around town, and generated a healthy dose of buzz was the Los Angeles-band act Foxygen....
View ArticleGrateful Dead Dave’s Picks Volume 6 – 12/20/69 & 2/2/70
While the latest installment of the Grateful Dead’s Dave’s Picks live archival series – Volume 5 – isn’t expected to ship until February 1st, the band has just announced details of Volume 6, due to...
View ArticleHidden Track Interview: The Revivalists
“Spot the buzz band” is a favorite pastime in our scene, and right now, you could do a lot worse that put your marker next to the Revivalists, one of the best breakout New Orleans bands since...
View ArticleVideo: Touchpants – Jesus Had A Baby…
After Phish’s three-set New Year’s Eve extravaganza at Madison Square Garden, drummer Jon Fishman headed over to NYC jazz club The Iridium for a special late-night show with his musical comedy troupe...
View ArticlePullin’ ‘Tubes: Get To Know The Lone Bellow
While some would like to call it the Mumford-ization of rock, there is no denying that over the last handful of years folk, roots and Americana music has crossed over into the mainstream with bands...
View ArticlePhish Aims To Make Lemonade Out of Lemons on New Album
In 2012 Phish didn’t debut any new original material, not a great sign for a band that has always thrived on evolving. Recently, both Page McConnell and Trey Anastasio had mentioned the band will soon...
View ArticleJam Cruise Journal: The Final Countdown, Pt. 1
The worst part about Jam Cruise is that it eventually ends. That’s not to say that five jam-packed five days of music isn’t enough, because it was, but the music stopped at 6AM on Saturday morning and...
View ArticleCouch Tour Alert: Webcasts of All Four Furthur Sweetwater Shows
On Wednesday night Furthur kicks off a four-night stand at the recently (kinda) reopened and intimate Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley, Calif. that marks the first shows of the year for the Phil...
View ArticleTour Dates: Soulive Brings Bowlive Back To Brooklyn Bowl
As a music fan in the New York City area there are two things you can essentially count on each March. One is Allman Brothers’ Beacon Theatre run, while the other is a much newer tradition – Bowlive:...
View ArticlePerpetual Groove Announces Hiatus: Suttle, McDonald and Perry Form Ghost Owl...
In what must’ve been a heart-breaking decision and a longtime coming, the members of the Perpetual Groove organization have just announced that starting on April 6th they will be taking an indefinite...
View ArticleCamp Barefoot 2013: TLG, Jennifer Hartswick, Nigel Hall
While the organizers of Camp Barefoot, a mid-size festival that will take place at a campground in Bartow, West Virginia on Aug. 22 – 24, will announce its full initial lineup on February 12th, today...
View ArticlePhish Releases 5/3/93 New Brunswick Show As Sandy Benefit
Towards the end of a transformative Spring Tour that took Phish across the country and back in 1993, the Vermonters pulled in to the State Theatre in New Brunswick, New Jersey on May 3rd, 1993 for a...
View ArticleTechnology Tuesday: Discovering New Music with DeliRadio
There’s tons of ways to discover new music and we’ve highlighted a bunch of them here on Technology Tuesday. These include checking out what your friends are listening to on This Is My Jam, what bands...
View ArticleJam Cruise Journal: The Final Countdown, Pt. 2
Yesterday I started to recap my adventures on the final day of Jam Cruise 11, so today I’ll pick up from where we left off. For the final evening, the Pool Deck was taken over by three outstanding...
View ArticleWeekly RecommNeds: Melody’s Echo Chamber / Astra
Space is the place… Melody’s Echo Chamber: Melody’s Echo Chamber See, that’s why album art is still an art. Has an album ever screamed “mysterious woman peering through beaded curtain in daydream...
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