Archive: 2009

We’ve been big fans of Carrie Brownstein’s Monitor Mix blog on NPR.com ever since she started, so we’re a bit verklempt to see that the former Sleater-Kinney guitarist is trying to embrace our favorite band – the Phish. Back on Friday, Carrie asked readers to justify their love for a band that is not-so-popular and […]

A few years back the freak-folk scene seemed to be all the rage with acts like Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom and Sufjan Stevens helping to cultivate a new brand of  “Cosmic American Music”. With the former helping to pave the way, a new crop of acts – that includes Woods, Megafaun and Papercuts – are […]

Ween’s first tour in quite some time has gotten off to a smashing start. Here’s a clip of the boys performing Billy Joel’s Honesty sans Deaner…

Ween – Honesty (Billy Joel Cover From Soundcheck)

READ ON for the setlists from the beginning of Ween tour as well as a video of the tune Laura shot at Lupo’s in Providence last Thursday night…

More than 1.5 million people were glued to their televisions on July 13, 1985 as some of the music world’s biggest stars took to stages in London and Philadelphia to help fight famine in Africa. VH1 Classic will air a special on Live Aid today, 24 years to the day after the event. The one-hour […]

The Rothbury Festival, held in Rothbury, Michigan from July 2nd to July 5th, 2009.

With the third installment in their archival release series, Widespread Panic has given their fans Christmas in June with what many consider one of, if not the best, performance of their career.  This multi-track recording has been professionally mastered and contains a three disc set recorded at Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama on April 2, 2006.  Huntsville 96 captures the band coming off their infamous “Sit-n-Ski Tour” through the Rockies which gave the boys time to relax, ski and play some tunes in an acoustic setting. 

For those looking for a smaller more community based festival, aside from today’s 50,000+capacity events, Liberate offers 20+ live bands and electronic music until sunrise, two nights of free camping, yoga, healing arts,a children’s tent, bonfires, fire dancers, Artists Market, art demonstrations, organic food and local beer, Eco and Nutrition Workshops, nature trails, and more good stuff.   This year’s lineup includes: The New Deal (two sets), Ryan Montbleau Band, Orchard Lounge, Rubblebucket Orchestra, The Brew, Nate Wilson Group, Spiritual Rez, Ded Sessions, Roots of Creation, Twiddle, Strength in Numbers, Jeff Bujak, Greyspoke, DJ Monaco, WAGAN, The Human Canvas, and Band of Gypsies (the Jimi Hendrix Tribute. 

AM, the New Orleans-raised, singer/songwriter brings a hefty brew of twinkling folk-rock-pop mixed with hints of Americana.  He does all this with an acute, finessing ear for the ancient art of real and truthful songwriting. AM is set to embark on a handful of US tour dates in support of his upcoming album, Future Sons […]

Living Colour will release their first new studio album in five years entitled The Chair In The Doorway on September 15 via Megaforce Records. The legendary downtown NYC rock band, who exploded out of CBGB’s in the late ’80s, landing all over MTV, the cover of Rolling Stone and stadium stages around the world with […]

Indie-jam rockers moe. have finalized the lineup for the 10th Annual moe.down which takes place at Snow Ridge in Turin, NY on September 4 – 6. Prog-jammers Umphrey’s McGee and innovative alt-rock act Cake have been added to a bill that already included Method Man and Redman, Ani DiFranco, Matthew Sweet, Sam Bush, The New […]

In what’s sure to be an interesting competition, the folks at JamCruise have teamed up with our friends at Relix to offer fans a chance to get their favorite group aboard Jam Cruise 8 when it sets sail from Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, FL on January 3. Between July 15 and September 15 fans […]

When iClips announced their “Couch Tour” we were bummed to see All Good wasn’t on the list of festivals the company would be webcasting. This week, the iClips crew turned our frown upside down by letting us know they had indeed struck a deal to cover all three days of All Good 2009. As of […]

Former Band drummer Levon Helm performed Tennessee Jed off his new album, Electric Dirt, on The Late Show last night… Levon Helm – Tennessee Jed

The pride of New England, Ray LaMontagne, makes his first visit to Conan O’Brien’s Tonight Show this evening on NBC. Ray will be in Los Angeles for a concert at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday, where he’ll be joined by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra with Jenny Lewis and Blitzen Trapper opening. Friday, July 10 [all […]

Ziggy Marley performing at the House of Blues in Chicago, IL on June 14th, 2009.

Fronted by David Nelson on guitar and vocals with Buddy Cage on pedal steel, the chemistry of the current NRPS goes further than just the band personnel. Robert Hunter collaborates with Nelson on a half dozen cuts and the long-time Grateful Dead lyricist demonstrates an elegant command of language on the title song, while the band's playing on a close to eight minute track is articulate in its own way

So the title is throwing you off huh?  This is not a greatest hits package, it is a scrapbook of the first 16 years (all ready?!!?) that the Donnas have been together.  It gathers unreleased B-sides, live cuts of their better tunes, remix’s, 2009 versions of older jams, and even new material; it is a hodgepodge effort all around.

For more than a decade, as keyboardist for Colorado’s beloved String Cheese Incident, Kyle Hollingsworth has consistently proven one of the most innovative and virtuosic musicians on the American jamband scene. Now, with the Sept. 15th release of Then There’s Now (SCI Fidelity Records), his first album since the band announced a hiatus in 2007, […]

Dolores O’Riordan, lead singer and songwriter of The Cranberries, will release the solo album, No Baggage on August 25th via Zoë/Rounder Records.  With No Baggage, O’Riordan’s unforgettable, distinguished voice is back and better than ever.  O’Riordan co-produced and wrote all the tracks on the album with Ontario-based Dan Brodbeck, resulting in a bright, clean sound […]

Paul McCartney will conclude his upcoming  tour with two new dates that have been dubbed his "final" US performances of the summer. McCartney, who is preparing to launch his 10 show tour Saturday (7/11) in Halifax, will now conclude the US swing with an Aug. 17 concert in Tulsa, OK, and an Aug. 19 gig […]