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Photo by Dean Budnick To celebrate the birthday of the late Harris Wittels, we offer this piece which he contributed to our 40th Anniversary issue. Wittels drew on his experience as the creator of the Analyze Phish podcast to share the techniques that nearly converted Scott Aukerman and Adam Scott into Phish fans.…
Ahead of their “first and only appearance” of 2021, Grateful Shred have shared a teaser of their 4/20 special, debuting tonight on FANS.live. Explains bassist Dan Horne, “It was important for us to include ’They Love Each Other’ in the set because though we all can’t be together right now – dancing, singing, hugging –…
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Bob Weir recently welcomed Bert Keely into his home studio to record a special duet of John Lennon’s classic “Imagine.” Weir supplies guitar and vocals on the pensive track, while Keely assists on bass, and it will appear on Keely’s upcoming box set Circle Back! (out June 4). According to the musicians, it was recorded in…
Dumpstaphunk “United Nations Stomp From the album Where Do We Go From Here Mascot-Provogue BV Over its past 17 years, Dumpstaphunk has earned a reputation as the most well-regarded, next-generation New Orleans live powerhouse. The founding members have built upon their family’s iconic NOLA legacy as they’ve transformed Dumpstaphunk into the city’s preeminent 21st-century funk-fusion…
After COVID-19 brought their psych-rock coronation to a halt, the festival scene’s favorite Turkish-folk reconstructionists have unlocked a whole new digital world. In some alternate universe, Altin Gün were 2020’s psych-rock royalty. During the months building up to the pandemic, the Amsterdam sextet opened a North American tour for Tame Impala, landed a Best World…
In 2019, Peter Frampton revealed that he had contracted a rare muscular disease and began what he unflinchingly called his Finale—The Farewell Tour. COVID, of course, put that on hold, but Frampton wasn’t about to sit around and just let the clock run out. Frampton Forgets the Words—which, like 2019’s self-descriptive All Blues, is credited…
Tonight – Friday April 16 – Circles Around The Sun are going intergalactic, with a special “CATS in Space” pay-per-view broadcast on FANS. “3… 2… 1… Circles Around The Sun is ready to blast off into truly out-of-this-world territory,” reads an official description. “The band, which features guitarist Scott Metzger, keyboardist Adam MacDougall, drummer Mark…
From Jan 3-11, 2022, Innovative Giving Enhancement (IGE) will host ‘Grateful Aloha,’ a nine-day, eight-night immersive festival experience in Kaua’i, Hawai’i. The festival will feature music from artists such as Eric Krasno, Vince Herman, Jennifer Hartswick, Natalie Cressman and many more. “Following the significant success of IGE’s 2017 Grateful Aloha Concert for the benefit of Kaua’i Hospice,…
Years ago, Mike Tamburo had an epiphany while tuning a guitar: it’s possible to use the “beating” of two strings, with slightly different frequencies, to adjust the tuning to the same pitch. Those slight differences in frequency between two almost-equal tones can create a mini universe of pulsations and rhythms, shifting, overlapping patterns and fluttering…
Photo by Henry Diltz Rusty Young, the co-founder and longtime multi-instrumentalist for West Coast country-rock band Poco, has died. He was 75. Young was born in 1946 and, after rising to prominence in the late ’60s, he founded Poco alongside Richie Furay and Jim Messina of the recently disbanded Buffalo Springfield. Over time, the band…
Preservation Hall Jazz Band is teaming up with The Relix Channel on Twitch to broadcast their special ‘Round Midnight Preserves show, live on April 30 and May 1. The shows are sure to be a a lively affair, as the Pres Hall Jazz Band welcome Durand Jones on night one and Ivan Neville on night…
Last fall, Spotify announced its virtual events listing page, featuring partnerships with Songkick and Ticketmaster. This week, Spotify revealed four new virtual event partnerships with StageIt, Mandolin, NoCap and nugs.net, all of which have been hosting numerous livestream concerts since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last spring. According to a blog post on the…
Photos by Jake Silco via @TreyAnastasio on FB After raising over $1.2 million during his crowdless Beacon Jams run, Trey Anastasio has shared new images of his forthcoming non-profit substance use disorder treatment center in Ludlow, Vt. The center is being spearheaded by the Divided Sky Foundation, which Anastasio founded last year, and it hopes…
Photo by James Freeman Singer-songwriter and harmonica player The Reverend Shawn Amos is gearing up for the May 21 release of The Cause of It All, an album of blues classics created during quarantine with guitarist Chris “Doctor” Roberts. Ahead of the release, we are premiering a track from the upcoming record “I’m Ready.” “I’m…
After selling out on alumni presale alone, Dead & Company have officially expanded their Playing in the Sand event in Mexico to two weekends in 2022. “We are so excited to announce that Playing In The Sand will expand to two separate event weekends next year!” reads an official announcement. “As always, each weekend consists…
Photo by Vic Brazen Pigeons Playing Ping Pong will celebrate the smokiest day of the year with a special 4/20 Harvest Party via The Relix Channel on Twitch. According to the jam-funk quartet, they will perform live from CULTA’s expansive cannabis grow field on Maryland’s eastern shore. CULTA is “Maryland’s premier craft quality producer of…
Strings & Sol is back. The twangy destination event has locked down Dec. 9-13, 2021 in Puerto Morelos, Mexico as its return to the festival scene, and booked artists include Greensky Bluegrass, Yonder Mountain String Band, Trampled By Turtles, Railroad Earth, The Infamous Stringdusters, Leftover Salmon, The Lil Smokies, Broke Mountain Bluegrass Band and Lindsay…
Celebrate 4/20 this year on The Relix Channel on Twitch with DJead Night, the psychedelic tribute to the Grateful Dead. As always, the festivities will be led by the DJ duo of Conrad Doucette (Garden of the Ark, Day of the Dead) and Scott Devendorf (The National, LNZNDRF, Day of the Dead). And Devendorf’s friends…
photo credit: Henry Diltz I felt like I was in a fog for a while. I couldn’t really concentrate. A dear friend of mine, who came through Hurricane Katrina, said it was like a trauma—first the tornado and then having that segue immediately into the pandemic,” Gillian Welch says of the events that prompted a…
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Phish’s Farmhouse, JamBase assembled a slew of musicians to recreate the LP in a new project dubbed The Cluster Flies. According to a press release, “The limited-edition 3LP release features custom artwork and a poster designed by Phish collaborator Jim Pollock. Phish covers were recorded by Umphrey’s McGee’s Brendan Bayliss,…
Mick Jagger has surprise released a new song, “Eazy Sleazy.” The track features Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl on drums, guitar and base. Jagger wrote the song during lockdown, and he adds guitar work in addition to his vocals. “Eazy Sleazy” was released along with a performance video, showing Grohl and Jagger playing their parts remotely.…
On Saturday April 24, Bob Weir will reassemble his Wolf Bros band – bassist Don Was, drummer Jay Lane and special auxiliary players Jeff Chimenti and Greg Leisz – for yet another livestream, straight from TRI Studios in San Rafael, Calif. This marks Weir’s third TRI livestream with FANS, previously celebrating Chinese New Year and St.…
On April 22 – aka Earth Day – eco-conscious shoemaker Keen will team up with the Jerry Garcia family for a free rainforest benefit concert, streaming live on FANS. The event aims to capture the “spirit of the Grateful Dead’s Rainforest Benefit Concert, held at Madison Square Garden on September 24, 1988,” and, today, organizers have dropped the…
SummerStage NYC has announced that in-person performances will return this coming summer. The concert series will hold events at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park and at the Richard Rodgers Amphitheater at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem. According to a press release, “Pending adjustments to current NYC restrictions, free music and dance performances will return…this summer.…
MerleFest has confirmed dates for this coming September 2021. The festival will occur on Sept. 16-19 on the campus of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, N.C. The festival is typically held on the last weekend of April; according to a press release, organizers “stressed that this would be a one-time-only move to this fall” and…
credit: Indira Dominici “We’re all visual people and we often talk about music in a visual way too. Sometimes we’ll refer to music as a color or a type of fog or use visual metaphors for what’s happening in the music,” bassist Scott Devendorf explains, as the former professional graphic design artist contemplates the impact…
When Max Turnbull decided to retire from making music under the name Slim Twig, his future was murky. Years in the indie spotlight had instilled a desire in him to retreat a bit, but still perform—so he started playing guitar in U.S. Girls’ touring band, his partner Meg Remy’s main musical project. But quietly, at…
Demand for Dead & Company’s 2022 Mexico destination event, Playing in the Sand, is so high that it has sold out before general onsale. Tickets – which include room and board – were snapped up by the event’s initial alumni pre-sale, and organizers are currently “exploring options that would allow [them] to satisfy as much…
Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band will release their new album Dance Songs For Hard Times on April 9 and, as the title reveals, its music is intended to help people break from the stresses of these unprecedented times we’re living through. “At the beginning of the pandemic, no one really knew how bad things might…