It was difficult to tear myself away from the Wii-B-Q. Brats and Italian sausages and burgers and marinated chicken consumed, most of us, including the women, headed inside to pop
Sure you’ve got the Sopranos to look forward to this weekend, but we endorse setting the DVR or TiVo to record these choice programs as well… Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double
Usually in this space we try to dig up videos that fly far under the radar or ones that are brand new to the clusterfuck that is the world wide web.
moe. today released the final lineup for their eighth-annual moe.down festival in Turin, NY. The Roots, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals and Medeski, Martin, Scofield and Wood are the big names on the increasingly diverse lineup. And now that The Roots are on board, organizers can trumpet more than just musical diversity…
moe.down takes place the weekend of September 1st at the beautiful Snow Ridge ski area near Utica. Other major acts appearing this year include the Meat Puppets, the Ryan Montbleau Band, and Strangefolk. Early bird tickets are currently on sale for an extremely reasonable and worthwhile $95.
I went to last year’s moe.down and had an absolute blast — the great lineup and performances made me forget that it was pouring all weekend. I’m accustomed to Phish festivals, and it was very cool to attend a festival that had none of the hassles of the big boys. Everything was easy, plus they actually have working indoor bathrooms! The full lineup follows after the jump…
It’s Uncle Neddy‘s mix tape time, so let’s all gather ’round and listen up… Let’s finish the week with a nice random batch of live music from this year, with a
After what seemed like 10 years of e-construction, the Grateful Dead’s new website finally went live to announce the presale of Three From The Vault. Some of the great new features
The questionably-titled Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival added some serious reinforcements to an otherwise lackluster initial lineup yesterday. Organizers bolstered the festival’s foundation of The Shins, Wu-Tang Clan, Panic! at
The Chemical Brothers have announced the virtual world premiere for their new video "Do It Again" in Second Life. The video will air at Illusion Factory Concert Pavilion in Second
Amid all the hullabaloo surrounding the new Beastie Boys instrumental album, let’s skip the usual wordy introduction and just jump right into a lyrical mike attack: Here are the Beastie
We’re about to hit the 15th anniversary of the first H.O.R.D.E. tour, so we wanted to celebrate the occasion with a B List.
The Horizons of Rock Developing Everywhere festival was started in 1992 by Widespread Panic, the Spin Doctors, Phish, ARU and Blues Traveler as a way to present a new style of music to the masses. Each of the bands on that inaugural tour had big followings, but not big enough for them to break into the sheds for a summer tour. John Popper and Blues Traveler manager Dave Frey took the H.O.R.D.E. ball and ran with it for seven consecutive summers, offering different lineups each year. Many big artists rocked the festival, as well as many small acts that have grown into major players.
This week’s B List looks at the best bands to ever play at the H.O.R.D.E. during the traveling festival’s seven-year run. We’re going to assume you know all about these bands — so we’ll give you some background on their participation in the H.O.R.D.E. tour and tell you where they are now:
10. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones: The Flecktones joined the inaugural H.O.R.D.E. tour at a time when both the band and the festival didn’t have much name recognition. Phish was unable to play the second leg of dates on that first tour, so festival organizers called upon Bela to take their spot. The band played a brief four night-four show run that exposed the H.O.R.D.E. festival to the south. Fourteen years later the band is still going strong with the 2006 release of the Grammy-winning, The Hidden Land. Bela Fleck and The Flecktones kick off a full summer tour in a few weeks.
Read on after the jump for the remaining nine bands on this week’s B List…
