Scott Bernstein

We’ve got another answer to the Where’s Cactus query? Former Phish bassist Mike Gordon returned to the stage on Saturday night to sit in with Gov’t Mule at Burlington’s Memorial Auditorium. The artist formerly known as Cactus played a crazy looking bass during covers of the Grateful Dead’s Loser and JJ Cale’s After Midnight with Warren and the boys. You can buy the official audio recording of the show shortly over at Mule Tracks.

Ace provided us with plenty of coverage from the Austin City Limits festival this weekend, but a few other stories came our way…behold:

• Beirut’s second album is due to be released next month
• What’s up with all the moe. references on SportsCenter?
• Listen up, Deer Creek gate-crashers: A man was impaled on a fence while trying to sneak into a concert to avoid the $5 admission fee
• The members of Animal Collective may live separate lives off the road, but on stage they come together as one
• Ultimate Guitar lists 8 guitar solos that turned a song into a classic
  
• Sony’s Legacy imprint has put together some amazing podcasts featuring the likes of Elvis Presley and Sly & The Family Stone
• Sales of music DVDs fell an alarming 16 percent over the past year
• The Guardian lists 50 songs for 50 states
• David Lee Roth looks really old in these high-quality photos from Van Halen’s rehearsal
• Peter Bogdanovich’s four-hour documentary on Tom Petty will make its broadcast debut October 29th on Sundance

And as always on Mondays, read on after the jump for a full slate of setlists from the weekend in music…and hit us up with any cool links we didn’t see.

There are a bunch of amazing performances and documentaries airing this weekend, and as usual we clue you in on the best of the best: Friday [all times Eastern]: Classic

Prince is fed up with people stealing his music, and he isn’t taking it anymore. The artist formerly known as a symbol has hired the anti-piracy firm Web Sheriff to

From their moniker to their setlists to their personalities everything about Give Us The Money Lebowski comes in the name of having fun. These guys just want everyone (including themselves) to have a good time at their shows. Consider the mission accomplished: GUTML jammed for three hours on a batch of amazing covers and one audacious original during a late August Rocks Off cruise around the bottom of Manhattan.

Wanting to make sure they got to play as much music as possible, Lebowski started their rendition of the Velvet Underground’s Rock N Roll as soon as the boat pulled away from the pier at East 23rd. The boys jammed the hell out of the tune for nearly 20 minutes before they worked their way into Also Sprach Zarathustra. The song commonly referred to as 2001 started with guitarist Chris Cartelli adding a unique pattern to the familiar theme. Lead guitarist Nick Setteducato and bass player Mike Sojkowski quickly picked up what Cartelli was layin’ down, and they proceeded to accentuate the phrase nicely for the next 10 minutes. Now that’s fuckin’ teamwork!

Read on after the jump for much more on the GUTML Good Times Cruise…

My sister just gave birth to her second son. One of the first things she said to me about having two sons was “now they can form a band.” Over the course of rock history there have been many pairs of brothers that have achieved major success. So this week’s B List looks at our 10 favorite pairs of brothers who jam together.

10. The Evans Brothers [Soulive]

The Evans brothers with band mate Eric Krasno

Neal [organ] and Alan [drums] Evans make up two thirds of the soulful trio known as Soulive. The Evans boys cut their teeth by playing with Moon Boot Lover in the mid ’90s before forming Soulive with Eric Krasno in 1999. Neal is an incredibly percussive musician who plays organ with one hand and a bass keyboard with the other. Alan is the king of inventive fills, always thinking of new ways to push the music. Soulive recently released No Place Like Soul on the revamped Stax label.

Read on after the jump for nine more pairs of musical brothers, sans Smothers…

Most MP3 blogs post bootlegs one at a time, but our friends at the music-hole have little patience. This week’s music-hole post contains 11 worthwhile downloads, including Pink Floyd at

Have you ever sat down with an instrument and tried to write a song? Needless to say, that shit ain’t easy (much like pimpin’). This week’s edition of Grousing The Aisles looks at gigs from four of our favorite songwriters of all-time. We begin with a recent show from Stevie Wonder’s first tour since Bill Clinton was in office. Next we check out what Jeff Tweedy and the boys of Wilco did with their summer vacation. Then we go back to the heady days of the ’90s to pay tribute to the extremely underrated Matthew Sweet. Finally, we finish with a just released soundboard from the legendary Paul McCartney. Less set-up, more grousing…

Stevie Wonder 09/04/2007 DAUD [FLAC, MP3]

Stevie Wonder has returned to the road with a career-spanning show after an absence of nearly a decade. A buncha recordings from the tour have surfaced, but this bootleg from last week’s show in Saratoga, California sounds the best. Wonder gives the people what they want by sprinkling a generous portion of hits throughout the 130-minute set, including Higher Ground, Sir Duke and I Wish.

Little Stevie isn’t a guy that just comes out to play his greatest hits without addressing his audience. Wonder opened the show with an anecdote about why he decided to return to the road, and he proceeded to chat with the crowd throughout the concert. The stories are great, but the music is even better. My favorite part of this show is the relentless sequence of Signed Sealed Delivered (I’m Yours), Memphis and Boogie On Reggae Woman. Wonder’s 11-piece band is so tight that it sounds like they’ve been on the road together for years. Hopefully Stevie enjoyed his brief return to the road and will book a full tour for 2008 so that we can all have a chance to see him own the stage.

Read on after the jump for three more sweet-ass-sweet GTA downloads…

It’s time to fire up the Random Jamband Festival Lineup Generator once again: Umphrey’s McGee, Little Feat, Perpetual Groove and Rose Hill Drive have been tabbed to headline the Bear

The Ryan Montbleau Band has spent the last few weeks in the recording studio where it was in control of all the variables. But when the band returned to the stage on the last day of August for a gig on Rocks Off’s Half Moon cruise ship, it didn’t control a thing, including the setlist.

Photos courtesy of Tara Raymond

The band eschewed the use of a planned setlist on this night, choosing instead to embrace the moment and fly by the seat of their pants. Great bands know how to please the audience under any conditions, and the Ryan Montbleau Band showed what they are made of by putting on one helluva show.

Read on after the jump for a full review of Scotty’s trip aboard the Half Moon and a Live Music Archive download/stream of the 8/31 show on the Hudson…

Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth have officially shared a stage for the first time in 22 years. Van Halen, which kicks off a reunion tour on September 27th, performed at a rehearsal in L.A. and the details have leaked. A friend of a crew member posted spoilers on a popular VH message board about the stage setup and setlist — said friend also posted some photos from the rehearsal, just in case anyone declared shenanigans on his tale. We’re not gonna spill the details, but the setlist looks awesome. Now, let’s see what else is goin’ on today…

• Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood has been tapped to score Paul Thomas Anderson’s lastest film entitled There Will Be Blood
• The second season of Bob Dylan’s XM radio show will debut on 9/19
• NY Press raves about both Patti Smith’s performance and the new Music Hall of Williamsburg
• Led Zeppelin likely to announce details of a reunion gig on Wednesday
  
• Rodrigo Y Gabriela performed Metallica’s Orion on the Tonight Show
• Hits From The Blog has an update on the rumored Wilco/Billy Bragg gig
• Genesis kicked off their North American tour with an impressive stage and unimpressive performance
• The new iPods will not allow you to download MP3s off of blogs
• Paul McCartney, the king of mashed potatoes, will make a rare appearance in the UK on October 25th
• Sweetwater’s in Marin County is on its last legs
• Death Cab For Cutie is entering the studio for an early 2008 release
• Stevie Nicks has lived a majorly fucked up life
• Mike Gordon and Jon Fishman of Phish took in their first Midnight Ramble at Levon Helm’s studio in Woodstock
• Perpetual Groove has started their own YouTube channel

And as always on Mondays, read on after the jump for a full slate of setlists from the weekend, including all the acts from Farm Aid, Bonerama, Genesis, Gov’t Mule, Rilo Kiley, Smashing Pumpkins, Tea Leaf Green and many more…