2007

Michael Franti and Spearhead will be playing a special show for the prisoners at San Quentin on May 19. Hopefully Franti won’t get shanked by an inmate who gets asked “How you feelin’?” one time too many times. Franti also gets heady points for recently visiting and performing for wounded soldiers at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. Kudos bar. Elsewhere from the interweb:

• Genesis has added more dates to their upcoming tour
• A review of Bjork’s recent concert at Radio City Music Hall
• U2 to release a DVD from 1997’s PopMart tour
• Who woulda thunk Rick James and Neil Young had a history together?
• Large Hearted Boy is compiling a list of Coachella Festival downloads
• Bob Weir speaks with Rolling Stone
• Chicago Trib looks at the new trend of bands performing classic albums
• The New York Times defends nostalgia
• A new podcast chock full of Widespread Panic from Everyday Companion
• Some rare The Who MP3s
• Bridgeport is excited to get the Gathering of the Vibes back
• Tool adds a few more late July gigs
• Neddy lists the shows of the week
• Jefitoblog shares a sicky sicky Van Halen show from 1977
• Ace & Co. head to Yankee Stadium for Cinco de Mayo, Jerk-style

And make sure to read on to check out setlists from the weekend — this batch includes Arcade Fire, Gov’t Mule, moe., RAQ, TLG, Umphrey’s and many more…

The Derby, The Fight of the Century, The Near Perfect Game from Wanger in the Bronx…with a Sports Saturday like that, it’s hard to think about live music. But I

Let’s start the weekend off right — here’s a video so recently uploaded to YouTube that it’s gotten only 109 views. This needs some well-deserved pub. The revolutionary Billy Preston dabbled in

As you may remember from last week’s edition, our resident mixologist Dan Alford is taking his downloadable act to Mondays. This line change left a gaping void in the authorship of

Shit. We’re 10 months away, and already next year’s March is filling up fast. We’ve got the annual pilgrimage to Langerado, a fantasy baseball draft in a city to be named later, and now…uh

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival kicks into high gear today for its second weekend of greatness. And thanks to the AT&T Blueroom webcast, we can share in the fun from far distances.