Archive: 2011

The Jimi Hendrix Experience Winterland single CD, just released by Legacy Recordings through its affiliation with Experience Hendrix, is not the same music as originally put out through RykoDisc in 1987. It is, instead, a distillation of the four CD deluxe package available the same day as this new release, which is, in turn, a condensed representation of recordings made over three nights in October of 1968 at the now defunct San Francisco venue once overseen by the late impresario extraordinaire Bill Graham.

Marketa Irglova storybook rise to fame began at the age of 17 with her starring role as “Girl”, alongside Glen Hansard, front man of Irish folk-rockers The Frames, in the 2007 musical-drama Once. The unexpected runaway success of the movie, which cost only $160,000 to make, and has grossed over $20 million world worldwide, garnered […]

Hall of Fame rocker Sting sure knows how to throw a party. To celebrate his 60th birthday, the former Police front man welcomed a cavalcade of legendary performers to rock with him at the Beacon Theatre in New York City this past Saturday night including Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Lady Gaga, Chris Botti and Branford […]

Back on Wednesday, at Wilco’s first of two shows at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center near Atlanta, guitarist Nels Cline used Duane Allman’s famed 1957 Les Paul for a few songs at the gig. One of the tunes that Nels utilized the historic instrument on was Impossible Germany, a song which features a solo […]

Jam titans Widespread Panic teamed up with jamgrass faves Yonder Mountain String Band for a three shows down south this weekend spawned some fine collaboration between the two bands. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIuAsTvmoZA[/youtube] Widespread Panic w/ Jeff Austin – Fixin’ To Die The action started on Friday night in Tuscaloosa, Alabama where Panic dusted off the Rev. Gary […]

The names Brad and Andrew Barr should be familiar to most that frequent this site, as the pair made up two-thirds of jam favorites The Slip, which over the last few years has seemingly become more of a side project than a full-time commitment. The duo’s latest musical endeavor comes in the way of the aptly named Barr […]

Phish front man Trey Anastasio kicked off a six-week period in which his solo band will play ten shows scattered about the East Coast with a special Vermont Flood Recovery Benefit show at Higher Ground in South Burlington, Vermont on Saturday. While Phish only debuted one Trey-penned original in 2011 (Steam), his septet doubled that […]

It was announced last Thursday that Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, fresh off two crushing nights at NYC’s Roseland Ballroom, will visit Jimmy Fallon tonight to perform Give up the Ghost from their latest album King of Limbs. At first it was rumored to be a full-band appearance but reps for the show confirmed […]

In the three days just before hitting the Orpheum Theatre in Boston last Thursday, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews was busy.  His band’s new album, For True was released 9/13, he kicked off the night prior with a release party at the venerable Tipitina’s in his hometown New Orleans, and then followed the next night by a industry type showcase set at The Box in New York, later to be followed with a  Late Night With Jimmy Fallon appearance with The Roots.

Bobby Schneck has been playing guitar alongside Slash, helping the man do what he does best. George Potsos is the bass player in Devon Allman’s Honeytribe, a great up & coming band with the strong potential to break big any day now. Both men have been musicians since their teens and know what it’s like to be famous and not-so-famous.

The sweet closing tracks are punctuated by the crowning final minute of “Held My Head,” a gorgeous blending of instrumentation. Throughout the album, precise musicianship, appealing song-craft and intertwining waves of melancholy and joy create a balanced collection of ten songs, an excellent early-morning album to accompany the rising sun.

Puscifer, the eclectic music-meets-comedy troupe helmed by Maynard James Keenan (Tool, A Perfect Circle), kick off their first North American tour in support of the band’s sophomore release, Conditions of My Parole (Oct. 18, Puscifer Entertainment), on Nov. 7 in Seattle.  Additional dates will be announced shortly. Puscifer will make their television debut on Halloween with […]

The Flaming Lips have recorded a brand new song titled  "Found A Star On The Ground," which is undoubtedly the longest single piece of music ever recorded clocking in at a generous 360 minutes. That’s six hours of continuous psychedeliscized music with a view to raise 100% of the proceeds to benefit local Oklahoma concerns: […]

BIRDS OF AVALON has spent the better part of the past four years on the road with the likes of The Racontuers, The Flaming Lips, Black Mountain, Ted Leo, Mudhoney, Monotonix and more. The band will be supporting this year’s self-titled release with an upcoming tour with Thrill Jockey recording artists, Wooden Shjips. BIRDS OF AVALON’S […]

Great American Taxi marks its sixth year as one of the best-known headliners on the Americana music scene with a new release, Paradise Lost, produced by critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Todd Snider. The band also enlisted master folk musicians Tim O’Brien, Barry Sless, and Elizabeth Cook to tackle songs about working class, blue-collar issues while maintaining […]

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon finished Pink Floyd Week on Friday by welcoming Pearl Jam for their version of Mother. When Eddie Vedder covers other artists, he generally doesn’t try to imitate their tone or phrasing as much as the PJ lead singer tries to add his own spin. For Mother, Vedder does seem to go for […]

Of the hundreds of outdoor venues Phil Lesh has played over the past 50 years, the Grateful Dead/Furthur bassist ranks Red Rocks in the top two along with The Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. In fact, there’s a plaque at the Morrison, Colorado venue that says as much, so you knew last night’s Furthur show at Red Rocks had the makings of something special.

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For the start of the second set, Phil and Bobby’s band welcomed Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes and Chris Robinson Brotherhood to lead them through classic Pigpen-sung tunes The Stranger (Two Souls in Communion) and Hard To Handle as well as the Furthur debut of Bob Dylan’s You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere. Robinson has a long history with Weir and Lesh dating back to the Crowes opening for the Dead in Tampa on April 7, 1995. More recently, Chris did a few tours with Phil and Friends and performed back in August with Weir and Jackie Greene at the Folks Festival in Lyons, Colorado. Back on March 12, 2010, Robinson first sat in with Furthur at Phil Lesh’s 70th Birthday Bash, where he sung a number of songs including The Stranger.

Chris Robinson w/ Furthur – The Stranger (Two Souls in Communion)

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The Decemberists are having a busy release year– in January they put out a full-length, The King is Dead, and in August they released an iTunes session EP. Now, they’ve announced a six-track EP to follow up The King is Dead, appropriately titled Long Live the King, out November 1 via Capitol Records. It’ll include […]

On the whole, the Earth Division EP works structurally, serving an image of a classically-informed sandwich with some meaty sounds left in the middle to savor.

This is one spark-plug of a new artist we got right here.  Lydia Loveless Bloodshot Records debut Indestructible Machine kicks ass, leaving a a scattered wake of creepy stalkers, shot glasses and bibles as it blows by.  Loveless was reared on country twang, but came of age in the adolescent rage of punk rock and both can be felt wrestling with the singer/songwriter throughout the release.