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Intermezzo: Kickstart Barika’s Second Studio Album
HT faves Barika, the Vermont-based band who blend Craig Myers’ Kamel N’Goni work with Western influences, are currently working on their second album. The group has launched a Kickstarter campaign to...
View ArticleBriefly: Jeff Tweedy Plots Hometown Solo Acoustic Shows
Wilco front man Jeff Tweedy hasn’t been playing too many solo shows lately, and usually when he does they’re in his current hometown of Chicago. That trend will continue this March when Tweedy will...
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Alabama Shakes To Make Saturday Night Live Debut
The February 16th episode of NBC’s Saturday Night Live will feature a host and musical guest who both have never appeared on the show. Actor Christoph Waltz of Django Unchained fame will host, while HT...
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Charlie Miller Turns His Transferring Sights On Phish
If you’re a hardcore Deadhead that seeks out the best recordings of that band, odds are you’re familiar with the work of Charlie Miller. Over the years Miller has taped and transferred thousands of...
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Bloggy Goodness: Rodriguez To Record New Music
We’ve been enthusiastically touting the music of Rodriguez since his lost classic debut Cold Fact was re-released by Light In The Attic back in 2008. Last year, the singer-songwriter’s remarkable story...
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Video: Grateful Dead on Saturday Night Live – 1980
In the early days of Saturday Night Live, the Grateful Dead were no strangers to the program. It didn’t hurt that two of the show’s main writers, Tom Davis and Al Franken, were big Deadheads. One of...
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Review: Femi Kuti and the Positive Force @ Paradise
Femi Kuti and the Positive Force @ Paradise Rock Club – January 23 Words: Andrew Bruss Femi Kuti and the Positive Force vamped through a nearly two hour set at Boston’s Paradise Rock Club that was so...
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Best of The B List: Nine Phish Song Title Swaps
[Originally Published: October 6, 2011] On Saturday night at Higher Ground [2013 ed. note - this took place on October 1, 2011], Trey Anastasio and his solo band debuted a song written by Trey and Tom...
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Weird Al Will Help Announce Bonnaroo 2013 Lineup
Since its humble beginnings in 2002, Bonnaroo organizers have found all sorts of ways to announce the festival’s lineup. This year, they have enlisted Weird Al Yankovic to host a one-hour event on...
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Introducing The Ratdog Quartet: Weir, Wilson, Sylvester and Lane
Bob Weir has formed a new band which features two members of his long-running RatDog troupe. Dubbed “The RatDog Quartet,” the group will feature Weir performing with RatDog mainstays Jay Lane on drums...
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Ready To RAQ: The Other Vermont Quartet Returns Soon
’00s jam favorites RAQ have only played a handful of shows since they stopped touring in 2008, the latest of which took place in 2011. Guitarist Chris Michetti, bassist Jay Burwick, drummer Greg Stukey...
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Televised Tune: Zooey on Ferguson / Jim James on Fallon
Televised Tune favorite Zooey Deschanel will visit The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson tonight fresh off the announcement of a forthcoming She & Him album – Volume 3 (May 7) – and a summer tour....
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Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires Of The City: Band Shares Tour Dates and...
New York City’s Vampire Weekend came up with quite the original way to reveal the name of their third studio album. The band placed an ad in the lost and found section of the New York Times’...
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Audio: Iron & Wine – Lovers’ Revolution
Over the course of four studio albums Iron & Wine have gone from an intimate bedroom project to a full on folk-rock ensemble, replete with string and horn sections and back up singers. Last week it...
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Love For Levon CD / DVD / Blu-Ray Set For March Release
[UPDATE 2/4: A Tracklisting For The Love For Levon Release Is Now Available] Back on October 3rd, an unbelievable array of star power and musician’s musicians came together at the Izod Center in East...
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Stormy Mondays: Club d’Elf with John Medeski
One of the best kept secrets in improv music is hidden in Boston: the huge rotating cast of characters performing under the guidance of bassist Mike Rivard, the collective known as Club d’Elf. The...
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Pullin’ ‘Tubes: The History Of The Eagles
While there are certainly many out there who would whole-hardheartedly agree with The Dude about the Eagles, the fact still remains that they are one of the most successful bands of the last 50 years,...
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Twenty Years Later: Phish Teases Ween in Providence
Twenty years ago tonight Phish played the Providence Performing Arts Center in Providence, Rhode Island as the second stop of their cross-country Spring Tour. It’s a show that I’ve listened to often...
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Umphrey’s McGee Announces UMBowl IV
UPDATE 2/4 @ 4:15PM ET: Umphrey’s has just revealed that UMBowl IV will take place at Park West. Tickets will cost $99 (+ $3 fee donated to Rock The Earth) and will be available Friday, Feb. 8th at...
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Summer Camp Late Nights: STS9, moe., Big Gigantic
Each year the organizers of the Summer Camp Music Festival hold “Late Nights” at the Red Barn on the Three Sisters Park property. These concerts are ticketed separately from the rest of the festival...
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