Friday’s Leftovers: A Cactus in Costa Rica

Mike Gordon and Bill Kreutzmann will continue their trend of playing in lush tropical locales on January 5th in Costa Rica. Steve Kimock will be busy sailing the seas on Jam Cruise, so the former members of Phish and the Grateful Dead picked Max Creek’s Scott Murawski to join them on guitar. Kreutzmann first played with Gordon as part of SerialPod in December 2005, while Murawski was a member of the Phish bass player’s solo band in 2003. No word yet on whether Trey and Phil will continue their trend of playing crappy old arenas in New York State.

Now let’s celebrate the end of the week with a batch of linkage:

• Billboard runs down the 25 Best Rock Posters of All Time
• Help save drummer Johnny Vidacovich’s house
• Garth Hudson talks to Anthony DeCurtis about Dylan and The Band
• Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks reveal the track list for their upcoming album Emotional Trash, due in March
• Early rumors suggest Rage Against The Machine will headline Vineland
• Ronnie Wood wants to collaborate with Band of Horses
• The Sex Pistols plot their return to the road
• Journey finds a new lead singer via YouTube
• Fresh Bread took some amazing photos of the beautiful Grace Potter
• Our good friends over at the sports blog Ghosts of Wayne Fontes count down their Top 10 favorite Harry Hoods of all time (no 6/22/00?!)

Finally, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle found humor in three things near and dear to my heart: New Jersey, Asian stoners and those delicious little sliders. The boys are back, and this time they’re fucked. Check out the NSFW trailer for Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, in theaters April 25th.