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Briefly: Meet Bob Weir & moe. in Atlanta

HeadCount’s latest online auction is a doozy featuring a meet and greet with Bob Weir & RatDog along with openers moe. at Masquerade Music Park in Atlanta, Georgia on July

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The B List: Ten ABC In Concert Clips

Live music and network television haven’t exactly mixed very well over the years. You can only find bands playing on late night and even then it’s only for a song or two. ABC’s In Concert series was the rare network television program that actually showed most of a rock band’s performance in concert.

The series debuted in 1972 by airing 90 minute shows – produced by impresario Don Kirchner – and ran until 1974. ABC revived the series in 1991 and it ran until 1998. Let’s take a B List look at ten fantastic videos from ABC In Concert that have been posted on YouTube…

10. Man In A Box – Alice In Chains

READ ON for videos from The Dead, the Allmans, Hole and more…

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Blips: Three Under The Radar Bands

In our never-ending quest to dig up some great bands that cost less than a corned beef sandwich at Katz’s Deli, we bring you another round of Blips. Blips highlights some great bands that are largely still in their larvae stage, but will soon morph into their beautiful butterfly. In this edition, we have some really cool new music, so take a sec, poke around their various websites, and see what you think of these three under the radar musical groups…

Hoots & Hellmouth

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Generally, one would look somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon line for spirited gospel-infused Americana, but contrary to conventional wisdom it’s the City Of Brotherly Love that the roots-revival act Hoots & Hellmouth calls home. The band combines its plaintive lyrics with high and lonesome bluegrass harmonies, fire and brimstone playing and folkie-acoustic ballads that will make it almost impossible to keep your feet from stomping along.

If you’re a fan of OCMS or YMSB then this band’s latest disc The Holy Open Secret should fit nicely into your collection of contemporary old-time music. Hoots & Hellmouth kick off their summer tour tonight, with an album release party an New York City’s Joe’s Pub.

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READ ON for two more Blips-worthy acts including Lissy Trullie…

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Preview: Phish Visits Bust Out City Tonight

Phish will visit Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, a city with under 2,000 residents, tonight to play a venue – now called Post Gazette Pavilion – that has seen more than its share of bust outs and stellar performances over the years. There seems to be something about those pine trees at the back of the lawn that makes Phish want to deliver something special at this shed.

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Having already pulled out Destiny Unbound and Curtis Loew at Fenway Park, When the Cactus is in Bloom in Asheville and Highway to Hell and oh yeah, Bruce Springsteen at Bonnaroo, one has to assume that something rare or new altogether will find a spot in the setlist tonight.

Phish’s first show at the then-Star Lake Amphitheatre was on 8/13/97 and they wasted no time in giving fans something rare with the only performance to date of Elton John’s Amoreena. That show also featured the third-ever Izabella, the fifth-ever Crosseyed and Painless and one of the funkiest Gumbos ever played.

READ ON for a look at the other Burgettstown Phish shows…

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Jennifer Hartswick

Most recently  Jennifer Hartswick has been playing as a member of Van Ghost,  the brainchild of Chicago indie promoter Mike Berg.  Self-described as “classic or folk rock,” the heart of Van Ghost’s songs lie in the interaction between Berg and Hartswick, as her powerful vocals and elastic trumpet phrasing leave the audience intrigued and captivated. In anticipation of a sparkling "Jennifer Hartswick" billed performance at Burlington Vermont’s Discover JazzFest, Glide caught up with Hartswick..

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God Street Wednesday: The Reunion

More A/V goodness from the May 30th God Street Wine reunion shows has surfaced and I’m surprised at how good the band sounded. As we mentioned a few weeks ago,

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Two White Horses Come to America

When Jake Szufnarowski (Tragedy) and Paul Green (School of Rock) – two of the most hard-to-impress men in the music industry – tell you to check out a new band,

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