November 2008

Another week, another new contributor. Please welcome Kevin Smallwood to the team. Kevin will cover the Washington D.C. area for us.

The tie-dye shirts over the merchandise table dated most fans rolling into the State Theater in Falls Church, Virginia on Monday night. Over the course of their 21 year history, Blues Traveler has remained uniquely relevant yet sometimes an abstemious participant in a music scene it helped cultivate.

As the driving force behind the H.O.R.D.E. Tour, Blues Traveler helped carve out a niche for all the bands that followed the fan-based model of the Grateful Dead. The tour bridged a gap for a community birthing its second generation and ultimately allowed for the early exposure and success of scene powerhouses: Phish, Widespread Panic, Gov’t Mule and others.

Through mainstream success, a tragedy and random touring hiatuses Blues Traveler has its fair share of battle scars. But like a well worn warrior or perhaps even a fine wine, the years of experience have made them a formidable force. READ ON for more from Traveler in Falls Church…

moe. scared their fans earlier this year when they announced they’d be taking indefinate hiatus after moe. down, but it turns out their hiatus will only last a little more

Phil Lesh and Friends’ Nokia run is just getting started, by all accounts with one clunker and one smoker, but before we get too caught up in the present, let’s

In one of the worst kept secrets in recent memory, Gov’t Mule treated their fans to a second set filled with Pink Floyd classics at the Orpheum Theater in Boston

Before Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers caught on the States, they were huge in Europe. In 1978 the group flew to England to film an episode of the BBC’s Old