April 2007

Summer tour dates are flooding the Hidden Track Headquarters at a furious pace. Blues Traveler started adding dates after a long layoff. Squeeze returns to the road following a longer layoff, touring the first time in nine years for a string of 11 U.S. dates. George Clinton and P-Funk will play a number of festivals this summer, including a spot at Gathering of the Vibes. And, finally, the Drive-By Truckers aren’t letting Jason Isbell’s departure stop them from adding more shows. But there’s plenty of other linkage to peruse, so let’s do it to it:

• The NY Times covers the unfortunate Closing of Tonic (Damn, how bad-ass is Marc Ribot, getting arrested?)
• Justin Kreutzmann recounts the meeting of Lennon and Garcia
• Every awesome hair-metal band ever is playing at the Rock Fever festie in Pryor, Oklahoma — er, Rocklahoma (via Terry)
• The real reason Gore invented the Internets: Smack My Hippie Up
• Yonder Mountain changes it up
• Nashville Musicians play tribute to great classic rock albums
• IGN lists the 25 best live albums
• New podcasts from Umphrey’s McGee and Everyday Companion
• Ernest goes to court
• Jefitoblog shares a classic Sinatra concert
• IckMusic kicks down a heady Springsteen show from ’73
• Neddy fills us in on the shows of the week
• Dark Star Orchestra will recreate the Grateful Dead’s legendary 5/8/77 show in Ithaca on the 30th anniversary of the show
• Page McConnell sits for an interview with NPR

And make sure to read on after the jump for a sampling of setlists from this weekend, including the Wanee Festival down in Florida…

If you’re among the luxurious Americans taking advantage of cheap, imported, enormous flat-screen televisions, turn on InHD right now for a showing of Sam Jones’ wonderful documentary about Wilco’s road

I’m all jacked up on mimosa, frittata and lox, and to paraphrase John Lennon, I’m just sittin’ here watchin’ the rain come down and down. Who knew this would be