As we’ve repeatedly touted, Bonnaroo isn’t just about all the great bands that are playing amongst the tents and stages. There are a plethora of activities to keep you busy while
It’s one thing for a band to break up on the downside of their career, but after releasing what was by far their best album, National Bohemian, earlier this year, we’re sad to see that the pride of Baltimore, The Bridge, are calling it quits after a Thanksgiving Eve performance in their hometown. The economy is terrible, the music industry is in shambles and we can only imagine how difficult it must be for smaller acts to make ends meet.
The members of The Bridge announced their forthcoming breakup via a letter to their fans on the band’s website…
Dear Family and Friends,
This next Thanksgiving will mark the 10-year anniversary of The Bridge. It has been an amazing ride that we have shared with you all. It is therefore with a heavy heart that we announce that this year will mark the end of The Bridge. After ten years and thousands of miles, the harsh realities of life on the road have led us to a point where we can no longer sustain ourselves as a band. We fought on to continue for as long as we could, because we truly believed in our music and cherished the deeply special connection that we have built with our audiences throughout the years. But at the end of the day, the economy won, and we are forced to close up shop.
What started as a show for our friends on one Thanksgiving Eve has led us on a wild, beautiful journey beyond our expectations. The long van rides, smoky bars, sleepless nights, wicked hangovers, cheap motels, and flat tires were all worth it for the chance to play music for you all and create those special moments that we live for. It has been the most rewarding experience of our lives. In true Bridge fashion, we will be giving you everything we have left for the rest of our shows. We will be playing our final residency at 8×10, the house that built The Bridge, in the coming weeks, as well as our beloved All Good Festival, our favorite day of the year for the last 7 years. And as if it was meant to be, we will be closing out our run as a band on our 10-year anniversary, Thanksgiving Eve, at Rams Head Live. We plan on cherishing every last moment we have with you as The Bridge.
As chapters end and new ones begin, we will continue to pursue other musical endeavors, and hope to keep the spirit of this community alive. We are forever grateful to you all, the people who we have gotten to know so well through the years, as well as those who have worked so hard and given so much of themselves for the band. And lastly we want to thank each other, the members of the band both past and present, for sweating out the tough times and celebrating the high times together to try and live the dream. We are truly brothers for life. As sad as we feel that this experience is ending, we have no regrets. We feel we have achieved what we set out to do, which is to make people happy through our music. We humbly thank you, from the absolute bottom of our hearts, for your love, support, and inspiration that has given us this opportunity. It has been an honor and a privilege.
Sincerely,
Cris, Kenny, Dave, Mike, Patrick, and Mark
The Bridge
We’ll miss The Bridge and hope they each go on to bigger and better things in the future. READ ON for a list of The Bridge’s current tour dates…
Noise-jammers Garage A Trois featuring Marco Benevento, Skerik, Stanton Moore & Mike Dillon finished a run of shows in support of Always Be Happy, But Stay Evil on Saturday at
Christopher Chu (formerly @ohchu now @chrischu), lead singer and multi-instrumentalist of The Morning Benders, was one of the artists included in our B List of 20 Twitter Feeds to Follow. Not long after, the band launched its own official Twitter feed, @morningbenders to coincide with Chu’s personal tweets.
We highly recommend giving the band a follow as they’ve already been letting fans into their recording process by live tweeting from the studio as they record the follow-up to last year’s stellar album, Big Echo.
READ ON to see what the first day looked like:
Peter Bjorn and John are giving their fans some more this fall when they kick off their “All You Can Eat Tour” – a six week trek that finds the
Luther Dickinson is a man who needs no introduction. He is a well-respected musician, known to many as being so naturally talented on guitar that he can blow anyone off the stage with the subtlest of notes.
iClips.net’s Streaming Is Believing series of free webcasts continues this weekend with three days worth of action from Summer Camp. All in all, iClips will treat us to three sets
Harry Hood is definitive of the type of song structure Phish became known for in the early days. The song meanders through a number of distinctive sections beginning with a simple minor key reggae groove, which sets the tone with a darker color. From there, the song weaves in and out of a catchy chord progression, moves to a powerfully haunting lead riff and resolves with a long improvisational section based on an uplifting major key progression. The song concludes with a hair-raising crescendo and the celebratory mantra, “I feel good!”
Over the course of Hidden Track’s lifespan, we’ve taken a couple different stabs at making a list of favorite Hoods, and it felt like a good time for the next iteration. It will remain a perpetual work in progress as the band plays new renditions and old gems get discovered, but nevertheless, it’s coming along. This time, we have a meticulously organized, iPod-ready download for your enjoyment as well as a stream at the bottom of the post. While these are mostly audience recordings or soundboards that are not part of official releases, but we tried to normalize the levels and made sure the volume is plenty loud. Without further ado, here is the list…
#1) 1993-12-31 – The Centrum, Worcester, MA – It’s only fitting: arguably the best show of them all should have the best Hood. Ten years from the start of their career, Phish held nothing back and delivered a handful of all-time favorites. The improvisational portion of this New Years Eve Hood perfectly exemplifies the climb from the tranquil beginning to the towering climax. This is my desert island song.
#2) 1994-11-12 – MAC Center, Kent State University – Kent, OH – This gem, like so many others from the era, exhibits very tight improvisation across the board and Trey forgoing his Languedoc in favor of an M-16.
- DOWNLOAD: Fifteen Favorite Harry Hoods
READ ON for 13 more outstanding Hoods and to stream them…
Last Friday night four out of the five members of God Street Wine – birthday boy Lo Faber, guitarist Aaron Maxwell, bassist Dan Pifer and keyboardist Jon Bevo returned to
Over the past few weeks the My Morning Jacket Vevo channel has been filling up with cool promos for the group’s upcoming UNSTAGED webcast, which airs live on Tuesday, May
