Trey Anastasio will not be performing at this year's edition of the 10,000 Lakes Festival due to circumstances beyond control. String Cheese Incident have been added to the festival making 10K Lakes their only Minnesota stop on their summer tour. Updated artist schedule information along with event ...view article
I’ve written about Red Rocks Amphitheater before and the magical feeling you get when you’re there. This visit was fun because I brought along a Red Rocks first-timer. It was great to see the look on his face when he caught his first glimpse of the famous venue. There’s so much musical ...view article
Umphrey’s McGee stopped by the House of Blues in Dallas on Friday on their way to Austin for their annual 4/20 show at Stubb’s BBQ. The Dallas gig also has become an annual event, either coming the day before or the day after the Austin show. I’ve been seeing UM in Dallas for several years ...view article
The Saturday following Thanksgiving was certainly one to be grateful for as Cornmeal gathered their devoted fans in the windy city. The city being home base for this band for they have grown over the past years, touring cities east to west. The band still brings it back home for the family, the close ...view article
Phish Archivist Kevin Shapiro will appear on "Gone Phishin" with Jon Schwartz tomorrow (Friday, November 9) on Sirius Satellite Radio's Jam On channel. Beginning at 7pm EST, Jon and Kevin will preview tracks from Phish's upcoming release "Vegas 96". At the end of the program Kevin will take calls ...view article
Bluegrass music is one genre which sends a sense of goodness into the souls of those who embrace it. Over the weekend of Harvest Festival there was a lot of good that was spread. Located in the homely state of Arkansas, tucked away on Mulberry Mountain strings took over the echoes for Yonder Mountain ...view article
A studio album from a band that thrives on live performances can cut both ways. On the one hand, they’re chock-full of tight, compact songs that benefit (for good or bad) from multi-layered studio production values. (What would the Grateful Dead’s “Terrapin Station” be without its eerie, ...view article
Vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Dann Ottemiller has been a staple of central Pennsylvania’s fertile music scene for over twenty years. In the late 1980’s, he co-founded Once Fish, a jam-band that attained considerable cult-status, embarked on a grueling self-financed cross-country tour as far west ...view article
Last night I caught the Little Feat show at the Granada Theater in Dallas, TX, and at the same time took a time machine back 34 years, to one of my very first concerts. The last time I saw Little Feat was May 15, 1977, and I was a 16 year old living in Baltimore. I hadn’t even seen my first Grateful ...view article