2011

Widespread Panic 25th Anniversary Shows

Jam titans Widespread Panic will celebrate 25 years together in 2011. The group starts the year with three shows billed as 25th Anniversary Shows. On February 10th and 11th, Widespread

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Pullin’ ‘Tubes: Those Beady Eyes

Given their well documented dislike for each other, and public bickering, it’s pretty remarkable that Liam and Noel Gallagher managed to make Oasis last as long as it did. Over

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Review: Phish New Year’s Eve @ MSG

Glide’s Eric Ward penned a review of Phish’s insane New Year’s Show for Hidden Track and the main site. Check out the beginning of Eric’s review here and then click

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Stormy Mondays: Trane and Miles

As we do every year at Stormy Mondays, we celebrate the arrival of the new year with the music of John Coltrane. This time around we’re looking back to Trane’s

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Video: Tennis – Cape Dory

As we shake off the last effects of our New Year’s Eve weekend hangovers, I thought we’d ease into the week with some hazy indie-pop from a band that you’ll

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Review: Gov’t Mule NYE @ Beacon

Gov’t Mule @ Beacon Theatre, December 31

Last night was one of the wildest, weirdest Mule shows ever. On the one hand, they played with as much intensity and firepower as I’ve seen in the last five years. On the other, they played like a band definitely ready for a break — haphazard, slapdash at times, randomly explosive — and after the first set, pretty much threw any concept of show pacing out the window.


First set and the first part of the second set was greatest hits Mule: a combination of classic (and overplayed) Mule songs, I think about 2-3 from each of the studio albums, performed ably to extraordinarily. Highs were many, especially a ripsnorting Time to Confess, a wrenching, emotional No Need to Suffer, and a volcanic Game Face with a gooey, psychedelic middle, each tonal shift flavored with impressive work from Jorgen Carlsson.

Gov’t Mule – Beacon Theatre, New York, NY
I: Mule with Kirk West Introduction, Painted Silver Light, Gameface, Blind Man In The Dark, Bad Little Doggie, No Need To Suffer, Beautifully Broken, Banks Of The Deep End, Trying Not To Fall, Time To Confess with Get Up, Stand Up Tease, Thorazine Shuffle

II: Slackjaw Jezebel, Brand New Angel, Steppin’ Lightly, Broke Down On The Brazos, New Years Countdown, Achilles Last Stand * , Bridge Of Sighs * , Nantucket Sleighride * with Corky Laing, Bad Company * , Yer Blues *

Shakedown Street *, Sugaree with Jon Herington & Bill Evans, Sco-Mule with Jon Herington & Bill Evans, Oye Como Va Tease & Dance To The Music Lyrics, Afro Blue with Bill Evans & Oz Noy, Norwegian Wood Tease
* First Time Played

Source: JamBase via  mule.net & nokin in the comments

After the New Year’s Countdown came the fan-voted covers, and Warren said from the stage that Zeppelin’s Achilles Last Stand and Mountain’s Nantucket Sleighride were the No. 1 and No. 2 voted selections (really?). Achilles was a blast — a rip roaring, mindfucking blast — and the band then moved into slow-marinating, colder-toned territory with Bridge of Sighs. Mountain’s own Corky Laing did what basically amounted to a walk-on — Hi Corky, good to see you! — sitting in for that coursing Sleighride, and then the band summoned two more: a decent Bad Company, and then a nasty, nasty Yer Blues that found Warren howling at the top of his lungs and some guitar acrobatics from both the man himself and Dastardly Danny Louis.

READ ON for more of Chad’s thoughts from Mule NYE…

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Video: The Ultimate Meatstick

Last night at Madison Square Garden, Phish threw down for three magical sets in front of their fans both at the show and at home watching the webcast. This year’s

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Dispatch Returns With 2011 Tour Dates

Dispatch, the band who drew more than 110,000 people to their most recent hometown appearance at Boston’s Hatch Shell and was the first independent band ever to sell out New

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