2009

Mountain Jam Festival Adds Some Umph

As if the initial lineup for this year’s Mountain Jam festival wasn’t killer enough on its own, the promoters have added a slew of impressive acts including Umphrey’s McGee, Gomez,

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Tour Dates: A Taste of Rare Wine

On May 17, Sub Pop will release a 2 disc/3 LP collection of rarities, including out-of-print and unreleased tracks from Iron & Wine called Around The Well. In conjunction with

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Keane: Perfect Symmetry

Keane, much like several other contemporary British acts have the terrible luck of getting record deals around the time Coldplay and David Gray became world-renowned acts – and unfortunately to the untrained, American ear, there’s almost very little sonic difference between Keane, South and others.

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Toubab Krewe: Live at the Orange Peel

Like their adopted African roots, Toubab Krewe’s music is meant to be shared, not locked behind soundproof glass, so while Orange Peel does at times lose some bite beneath the club’s high ceilings and constant white noise, it captures the band better than their 2005 studio debut.  

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Coventry To Hampton: Mike Gordon

Welcome to Coventry To Hampton, a five part series filling you in on the four members of Phish and what they’ve been up to these past five years or so. We’re starting with Mike and we’ll do one on each of the other three band members and cap it off on Friday with a summary of what the Phish organization has been up to. These will publish at 3pm every day this week.

Part Two = Coventry To Hampton – Page McConnell
Part Three = Coventry To Hampton – Trey Anastasio
Part Four = Coventry To Hampton – Jon Fishman

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A compilation of MOST of the Post-Phish Gordon compositions:

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Mike’s first show after Coventry was just a few weeks later at moe.down 5 in Turin, NY, where he first performed a full show with the Benevento/Russo Duo. This trio would perform their first string of shows later that year for a New Year’s Run in 2004. It was fitting that Mike, the only member of the band who voiced his disagreement with the bands decision to break up, brought a number of Phish originals to the stage the first night of the run including Lengthwise (Fishman), Foam (Anastasio) , Mike’s Song (Gordon) & Cars, Trucks Buses (McConnell).

Studio Pic

READ ON for more about what Mike’s been up to over the past five years including a full list of shows that Mike played and much more audio & video…

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Pullin’ ‘Tubes: Detroit Rock City

As we’ve previously mentioned, Sam Roberts Band are sort of a big deal north of the border – having racked up Juno awards, top selling albums as well as scoring

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Televised Tune: On The Tube This Week

VH1 Classic will air U2’s rockumentary Rattle and Hum on Wednesday at Noon and if you haven’t seen it recently, it’s worth a viewing. We catch a glimpse of the

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