Josh Ritter hits the road hard to start 2013 plus more tour announcements from the past week.
Watch 10 official videos from the 2012 Gathering of the Vibes festival featuring the likes of Keller Williams, Kung Fu, DSO, Conspirator and Lettuce.
The initial lineup for the 2012 edition of Gathering of the Vibes has been announced.
Ben Harper, STS9 and Railroad Earth top the lineup for the 2012 edition of High Sierra.
The summer isn’t even over but bands are already looking ahead towards the end of the year and making their New Year’s Eve plans known to fans including jam faves
Over the last couple of years, West London’s folk scene has been churning out a number of much buzzed about bands, with Mumford & Sons leading the charge. The other
The setting sun behind the rolling hills of West Virginia provided a fittingly bucolic backdrop for the opening performances of the 15th Annual All Good Music Festival. The mountaintop festival site was already well filled in when we rolled in just before noon, and by the time dusk approached, the party was in full swing.
Opening the weekend’s long roster of festival favorites was the West Coast’s Hot Buttered Rum. At most festivals I’ve been to, the audience attendance at opening act is somewhat lacking. Luckily, this was not the case at this year’s All Good, a festival that sold out their 4-day festival passes almost a week in advance of the event. Estimates of attendance at Thursday night are approximately 18,000. According to festival sources, last year’s festival was capped at an attendance of 25,000, and there’s some expectation that this year should approach or surpass last year’s total attendance.
This was only the second time I had seen HBR since their transition from Hot Buttered Rum String Band a few years, and I continue to be impressed with their direction from the straight-up bluegrass roots to a rhythm infused act more in line with Railroad Earth or String Cheese Incident of many years ago. Notable highlights from Hot Buttered Rum’s set included a hot cover of New Minglewood Blues, an enthusiastic and well received Limbs Akimbo, and Busted in Utah. In betweet sets, DJ Who laid down some beats and kept the party going while the main stage was cleared and set up for Beats Antique – a trio act merging members of Yard Dogs Road Show, Aphrodesia, with dance and drums for a mutli-instrumental, rhythm and heavy bass laden performance.
READ ON for more from Andrew about Day One of All Good…
Shortly after the Bonnaroo lineup gets announced each year comes the debates about which acts will earn coveted late night slots from the festival’s organizers. In years past, these sets
Back in 2002, the large-scale music festival landscape in the United States was virtually nonexistent. So when Superfly Presents and AC Entertainment announced plans for a multi-day, jam-friendly fest, named
As we reported last week, STS9 bassist David Murphy was diagnosed with cancer and recently underwent surgery to remove a tumor from his sinus cavity. The band shared an update
