Archive: 2012

Tammy Wetzel shares her incredible photos from Umphrey’s New Year’s Run.

The Head and The Heart join Gomez on an indie-centric episode of Austin City Limits.

Check out the latest video from Iron & Wine.

Van Halen is back and set to embark on a massive tour.

The Barr Brothers made their American late-night television debut last night.

Van Halen has announced that they will kick off a U.S. tour on Feb. 18 in Louisville, Kentucky. Taking the stage at New York’s Cafe Wha?, the band also revealed the title to their forthcoming album, the first to feature original frontman David Lee Roth since 1984: A Different Kind Of Truth. Tickets and V.I.P. […]

Ken Will Morton is a singer songwriter from Georgia. To stand out in that crowded field one has to have the humility to sit back and let the song take center stage. Morton successfully walks the fine line between playing the music and letting the music play him on his latest disc, Contenders.

Gov’t Mule concerts are always rife with surprises so why think the tenth anniversary of New Year’s celebrations at New York’s Beacon Theatre would be any different? Well, for one thing because the quartet had made only few select appearances in 2011–ABB’s Wanee festival and their own Mountain/Christmas Jams–as titular leader Warren Haynes spent the better part of his time touring with his own band in support of his Stax solo album Man in Motion.

Don’t Know How to Party and Question the Answers were probably the high point of ska’s third wave.  They mixed the fun and soul (something oddly missing with most third wave bands) with a hardcore edge and a dose of serious honesty.  In a decade of ponderous self-consciousness the Bosstones were refreshing.  However, if you want a rehash of “The Impression That I Get,” pick up a copy of one of the older albums.  The Bosstones have grown.

The final US tour with the original lineup of the Bela Fleck & the Flecktones launches on March 1st in Madison, WI and rolls across the country through the end of April, culminating with a performance at the W. L. Lyons Brown Theatre in Louisville, which is the city where the band played their first […]

News about a long-in-the-works Woody Guthrie tribute, a Brian Eno tribute and more.

David Schultz kicks off a new column called Hitting The Trunk Road with a refreshing perspective on Phish.

A new documentary about Jerry Garcia will come out this year.

Pretty Lights, G. Love and Bob Weir/Chris Robinson/Jackie Greene among Wakarusa 2012 performers.

A Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company show recorded by Bear is coming out in March.

Pictures and thoughts from Ween’s New Year’s Run in Denver.

Perpetual Groove rung in the New Year with an Arcade Fire cover.

Outkast Rapper tweets link to Touch of Grey to honor late grandmother.

Phish performing the first of four sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden on December 28th, 2011.

Overall God Bless Ozzy Osbourne takes a little while to warm to, but the second half is well worth the wait. Jack says he wanted people to get to know the man from the documentary. He was primarily successful.