July 23, 2008

Warren Haynes is easily the hardest working man in jam. Between splitting time in the Allman Brothers and Gov’t Mule, the guitar-slinger is also the default go-to guy if you’re looking for a sit-in. I’m convinced that much like a Shazzan, if you shout his name at a show he’s obligated to appear. In addition to his on-stage work, each year the affable Haynes puts together his X-Mas Jam to benefit Habitat For Humanity.

So why am I telling you all of this? Well for our latest installment of Everybody Wins When We Plug Something And In Return They Offer Us Free Shit To Give Away we’ve got two copies of Warren’s XMas Jam benefit concert DVD up for grabs. Just follow the rules below:

• To enter the contest leave a comment below telling us about your favorite Warren Haynes sit-in in 50 words of less
• Your comment must be left by 11:59 PM EST on Sunday July 27th
• Don’t be greedy, only one entry per person
• Two winners will be selected at random from entries that follow the rules
• Winners receive a copy of Warren Haynes Presents: The Benefit Concert, Volume 8

More info on the DVDs after the jump…

We started Grousing The Aisles week with Billy Joel and the Grateful Dead, but now we’re gonna make a left turn towards the Heartland. Today, we’ve got a top-notch recording

With Sound Tribe Sector 9 and Umphrey’s McGee set to kickoff the Northeast leg of their co-bill tour tomorrow we figured we’d preview the shows with a review of last week’s Midwest run by Reuben of Partyin’ Peeps. You can catch the STUM9 tour at the Roseland Ballroom in NYC tomorrow night, Philadelphia’s Festival Pier on Friday and in Boston at the Bank of America Pavilion on Sunday.

It is 4:06 a.m. on Sunday here in the windy city and we just got back from STS9’s late night show at the House of Blues. I just want to start out by saying what a fantastic time these last five days have been. I don’t know about you guys, but I spend most of the year stuck inside boring law school classrooms counting down the days until Summer and daydreaming about weeks like the one I’ve just had…

…It is now Wednesday and I think that I’ve recovered enough to share some thoughts about the last week. Our run consisted of five days, five shows, nine sets, 1085 miles, and only one encore. We saw Umphrey’s McGee and STS9 in an amusement park in Cincinnati, a state park in Indianapolis, an old airport in Chicago, and a White Castle in Columbus. Over the course of the week I was not only impressed every single night at the level that Umphrey’s McGee is playing at, but I also was made a believer by STS9, a band that I had always secretly thought was only slightly above average. READ ON for more about STS9/UM tour…

We have some unfortunate news for all you Dr. Dog fans out there that picked up your copies of the band’s fantastic new album Fate yesterday and were listening to

JRoxx of Runaway Dinosaur, one of our favorite bloggers, enters a whole new dimension this afternoon when he premieres his new weekly show on Radio Johnson. You can count on