Posts by Dave Goodwich

Disco Biscuits guitarist, Jon Gutwillig, along with longtime New Yorker journalist and noted author Nicholas Schmidle, have announced a second showing of their highly-anticipated debut of The Very Moon: A Steampunk Musical on Sunday, 5/14. After selling out the originally scheduled 5/13 performance in a matter of minutes, the pair added a subsequent Mother’s Day […]

Jon Gutwillig has been a busy man. Recently, when he’s not touring the country with his Philadelphia-based trancefusion band, The Disco Biscuits, the affable guitarist has been working on a pair of formidable musical endeavors. In addition to Revolution In Motion, his yet-to-be-debuted space-themed rock opera, Gutwillig, along with author and longtime New Yorker journalist […]

From the opening strains of Dan Horne’s debut full-length studio effort, Count The Clouds, it’s obvious the L.A.-based musician is entering some uncharted musical territory. 

“Once you get it, you can’t forget it.” Robbie Robertson’s lyric, from The Band’s iconic 1970 track “The W.S. Wolcott Medicine Show”, a song which has often been interpreted as an allegorical commentary on the music business as a whole, as well as the slippery-slope-laden lifestyle that accompanies being a rock star, has apparently found […]

For more than forty years, The 8×10 has been at the forefront of Baltimore’s rich & eclectic live-music scene

The Disco Biscuits have always been something of an enigma. Even now, just two years shy of their thirtieth anniversary, the Philadelphia-based quartet continues to carve their own path in the jamband world’s increasingly homogenous musical landscape with their innovative “trancefusion” sound.

The Dirty Grass Players brought their unique brand of progressive bluegrass to the Recher Theatre, in Towson, MD, on Friday (1/20) with an adventurous set teeming with a choice blend of the group’s jamgrass-infused originals and some surprising covers. 

Among the more highly-anticipated stops on Strings’ European tour was his return to London this past Wednesday evening (12/7) at the O2 Forum Kentish Town, an ornate theater dating back to the 1930s located in an otherwise non-descript residential area slightly north of the city.

In April 1999, Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh shocked the jam band world when he invited Phish members Trey Anastasio and Page McConnell to join his mercurial ensemble Phil and Friends for a brief run of shows at San Fransisco’s Warfield Theater. Prior to that fortuitous occasion, the idea of any sort of formal collaboration […]

Dad/and/Me, out November 18 on Rounder Records, offers up an intimate look at Billy String’s traditional roots with some raw and emotive renditions of bluegrass and country music’s most time-honored material.

“Good things come to those who wait.” That old adage came to fruition this past Sunday evening (10/30) in Baltimore, MD as the highly esteemed psych/jazz rock pioneers Zero returned to Charm City for the first time since 1996 to deliver a pair of memorable sets rife with their usual brand of top-shelf musicianship and […]

2022 has been a remarkably busy year for Scott Metzger. In addition to maintaining an assiduous touring schedule with vaunted Grateful Dead revivalists Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, the Brooklyn-based guitarist released his first solo album, Too Close to Reason, and has now followed that up with the third studio effort from his enigmatic “Telecaster rock trio”, Wolf!.

When we published the first iteration of this article in 2019, Billy Strings was on the cusp of becoming a household name, having recently graduated to headlining slots at first-rate bluegrass festivals and selling out clubs and theaters across the country. It’s no surprise then, given his generational songwriting and guitar pickin’ abilities, that the […]

Phish closed out an impressive two-night stand at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD on Sunday evening (7/31) with a pair of inspiring sets that mixed a healthy dose of older material along with some more recent compositions and was littered with a surplus of exploratory instrumental odysseys that oozed psychedelia, proving that, even after […]

Dead & Company stopped by Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia this past Sunday, July 10th, to deliver a pair of standout sets that focused primarily on relatively early-era material from the Grateful Dead’s expansive catalog. Marking only their second trip to the cavernous home of the Philadelphia Phillies since their 2015 formation – the group […]

Billy Strings was joined by Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio on Wednesday night at New York’s relatively-new rooftop venue, Pier 17, to help close out a rousing performance with a diverse selection of songs that mixed Strings’ original material with some bluegrass standards as well as a pair of Phish classics. Prior to Anastasio’s appearance, Strings […]

Since their formation in 2014, the Norwalk, CT-based jam-outfit Goose has never been able to rest on its collective laurels. Shortly after their debut, they joined forces with multi-instrumentalist Peter Anspach, a move that helped solidify their unique sound thanks to his uncanny Shohei Ohtani-esque two-way abilities on guitar and keyboards, and followed that up […]

When legendary singer-songwriter Peter Rowan was developing ideas for his next studio project in 2019, he turned to none other than country music legend Hank Williams, or rather his quixotic alter ego “Luke the Drifter” for inspiration. “When I left Nashville in 1990,” Rowan explains, “the only country music album I had, besides one Ernest […]

As the rest of civilization began to suddenly grind to a halt due to the pandemic-related lockdowns in 2020, the keyboard-toting virtuoso retreated to the familiar confines of his Woodstock, NY residence, with wife & kids in-tow, to hunker down and wait out what seemed to be the end of the world at that time […]

“Del Yeah!” Since 2008, that rallying cry of exaltation has been echoing around the picturesque hills of Cumberland, Maryland every Memorial Day weekend as thousands of live-music fans descend upon the cozy confines of the Allegany County Fairgrounds for four days of live music featuring some of the most talented bluegrass musicians in the world […]