Bob Mould has announced today’s premiere of The Ocean, a new EP featuring three solo acoustic live performances and available now via Merge Records at all DSPs and streaming services HERE.
Originally recorded for NPR’s World Café at Mould’s Granary Music home studio in San Francisco, CA, The ...view article
Bobby Weir and Mickey Hart are high steppin’ into town for a very special double bill alongside their respective troupes, Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros and Hart‘s Planet Drum, at Stanford University’s Frost Amphitheater this Sunday, May 1. In what is sure to be a vibrational and quintessential homecoming ...view article
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Trey Anastasio Band returns in May with a pair of shows at Boston’s newest venue Roadrunner on May 7th and 8th. On May 21st, TAB heads west to play the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail, CO before heading to Red Rocks Amphitheatre on May 22nd for their first performance at the legendary venue since ...view article
The Mimi Fishman Foundation is once again hosting a WaterWheel Foundation on-line charity auction. The auction features tickets for Phish’s 2022 Spring/Summer tour. Included are upgraded “Foundation” tickets for each of the Atlantic City dates.
Welcome back to all of you!! We are glad to see you back as we had to take a bit of a hiatus for a few years to regroup. Then COVID hit and it really took a lot out of us, so we are now just getting back after a while.
We have completely redesigned our website and centered it more on social networking ...view article
With a clear, and factual, end to the election, resulting in Joe Biden becoming the President-Elect, it is now time for kindness. We have endured 4-years of hateful speech and vile behavior from the top, while the top encouraged this same behavior from American citizens. This is not a ...view article
The special recipe of the Grateful Dead was that there were 5 (at times) members of the band with very different musical backgrounds. Jerry had a bluegrass background that came through in his guitar stylings. Currently, John Mayer and Bob Weir both possess the slow blues styling and they are lacking ...view article
The Infamous Stringdusters joined Chicago on this St. Patrick’s day of 2017 and made the day merrier than it already was with their bluegrass tunes, while people sported their St. Patrick’s Day Hats, beads, stickers and colors of green. They played songs of old and new, with a fantastic light ...view article
Rare is it in traditional folk music to encounter an artist so overtly involved in the activity of structured teaching. But Evie Ladin is a teacher, a teacher offering beginning banjo lessons on the internet. She has also studied African dance and, according to her website, created ...view article
For the past five years, Umphrey’s McGee has performed a block of shows in Texas in mid-April. This year’s Texas run began in Dallas on April 16th. The New Orleans Brass ensemble, Soul Rebels, has been supporting Umphrey’s for this part of the Winter Tour. They opened the show ...view article
Umphreys McGee arrived early in St. Petersburg fresh off their Miami performance and were spotted at The Mandarin Hide bar in downtown St. Pete sampling some of their “Nothing Too Fancy Everyday Ale” and giving out free koozies to their fans. The Umphrey’s McGee beer is a session American Wheat ...view article
Jud Conway reviews…
Swarme of Beese
Backwoods of My Mind
2022 Backwoods Modern Recordings BWM 1670
Out of the vibrant, diverse and fertile music community of Austin, Texas, comes BACKWOODS OF MY MIND, the full-length debut of indie-folk trio, Swarme of Beese.
“Lately, I’ve been knowin’ ...view article
