Archive: 2008

Former Grateful Dead bass player Phil Lesh and his Friends head to Rockefeller Center on Wednesday afternoon for a taping of NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien. The 2nd annual Philathon continues this evening at the Nokia Theater and continues through November 18. [via the_rick] [youtube]7uhphRf16pE[/youtube] Phil Lesh and Friends – 10/31/2008 – Frankenstein As […]

For the first time in their long and storied careers two of New Orleans most recognizable acts – Dr. John and The Neville Brothers – will head out together for a US tour. The two acts will hit road starting on January 31 of next year for a cross-country run that brings their brand of […]

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 than four months as moe. will hit Denver (Fillmore), New York (Terminal 5) and Chicago (Riviera) with 2-night stands in each city beginning January 30, […]

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 roll back to last year. The first NYC Philathon was the time the current band (sans Barry Sless, who is always a welcome addition) really […]

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 for Halloween. Our own Chad Berndston was on the scene and left this comment about the show in our Halloween Setlist Post… [Photo by Chris […]

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 Grey Whistle Test. VH-1 Classic airs the Heartbreakers’ memorable performance, which featured many of the best songs on their first two albums, as part of […]

The Emmitt-Nershi Band performing at the Emerald Lounge in Asheville, NY on October 2, 2008.

With a number one album, a Rock Band video game, and a cover of Rolling Stone magazine, 35 years later AC/DC  have hit their popularity peak. Although their creativity might have peaked after 1980’s Black in Black, Black Ice, their 15th studio album proves you can rock almost as hard in your fifties as you did in your early twenties.

Guitarist George McConnell has been playing guitar since the age of fifteen.  He learned the ways of the world under the tutelage of Lulu— Mississippi’s first black female beer-truck driver. At the tender age of ten, McConnell traveled the back roads of Mississippi with Lulu, delivering delicious Falstaff beer to patrons of juke joints, honky […]