For those of us who get to review live music, every once in a while we get slapped upside our head with a reminder of why we love what we do. For me, the inaugural Hyperion Music and Arts Festival was such an occasion. My initiation into Hyperion began ...view article
SAN FRANCISCO, CA- The Mickey Hart Band announces their first tour of 2013 with special guests, The African Showboyz from Ghana. The African Showboyz are four brothers from the northern part of Ghana who fuse a unique blend of West African rhythm, dance, and raw energy. Originally discovered by Grammy-winning ...view article
Rothbury, Mich. – Today, Electric Forest announces that tickets to the 4th annual event at Double JJ Resort in Rothbury, Mich. on June 26-29, 2014 are sold out. News of the sell out comes just two days after the festival released its final round of artists for the 2014 ...view article
July 18, 2012 (Pinnacle, NC) - Jomeokee Music and Arts Festival is pleased to announce additional artists to its first annual festival lineup. Patterson Hood & the Downtown Rumblers, the Captain Midnight Band, and The Danberrys have joined the ...view article
David Gans is, arguably, the quintessential journeyman on the jamband scene. Best-known as long-time host and producer of the widely-syndicated Grateful Dead Hour radio show, Gans is also a respected music journalist and the author of several books, including Playing in the Band: An Oral History ...view article
Massena, NY (September 9, 2009) Native Folk Singer-Songwriter Atsiaktonkie (ah-jeeak-doon-gee-ay) and his current CD Four Wolves Prophecy (Strong Wind Records) has just been nominated for Best Folk Recording at the 11th Annual Native American Music Awards (NAMA) by The Native American Music Association ...view article
Just added to the Big Up Music & Arts Festival lineup are: Zoogma, The Werks, Consider the Source, Cosmic Dust Bunnies, Moses & the Electric Company, Normal Instruments, Otis Grove, Insignya, Lespecial, Split Phase, Wobblesauce, Auto Orbit, Dirty Paris, Rogue Chimp, Outlet, The Edd, ...view article
After a patient and long 2-year search Cornmeal is thrilled to officially welcome fiddler Phillip Roach into the family. Phil has been a long time friend of the band and as his tenure with The Giving Tree Band came to a close in early 2014, it only made sense to bring him aboard for some sit ins ...view article
SAN RAFAEL, CA – Bob Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, will perform with members of Brooklyn, NY-based The National in “The Bridge Session,” a free live concert to be broadcast on Yahoo! Music (http://music.yahoo.com) originating from Weir’s TRI Studios on Saturday, March 24th.
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