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REVIEW: Peach Festival recaptures Allmans’ spirit after tragedies of last year
The Peach Festival, if nothing else, is a communal event, a shared experience of the masses (about 20,000 strong) consisting of both young and old. The Allman Brothers circle had an extremely tragic year in 2017, losing both Gregg Allman and Butch Trucks just months before the Allmans-curated Peach Festival returned for a sixth year…
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Phish Announces Free San Francisco Webcast
Phish’s West Coast leg of their summer tour is officially in full swing. On Wednesday, Phish will perform the second of two consecutive shows at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. If you won’t be in the Bay Area to attend the concert in person, there’s a free option to watch along live…
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Ask Trey Anastasio Anything On SiriusXM
Do you have any burning questions that you are DYING to ask Trey? Jam band icon and Phish guitarist and front mank, Trey Anastasio will take the stage tonight in Lake Tahoe, Nevada for the opening night of Phish’s 2018 West Coast Summer Tour. In celebration of the first day of Phish tour, Anastasio has…
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Dead & Company Raises $1.1 Million in an LA Backyard Benefit For Oceana
On Saturday night, July 7, Dead & Company finished their West Coast Summer Tour and played to 30,000 fans at Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium. Less than 24 hours later, they played to 200 wealthy philanthropic fans at a benefit Sunday night in a backyard in the Hollywood Hills for Oceana, an environmental organization dedicated to…
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23 Years Ago The Grateful Dead & Jerry Garcia played the final show
The Grateful Dead’s final show with Jerry Garcia marked the end of an era—for music lovers and acid trippers alike. Twenty-three years ago, on this date, July 9, 1995, The Grateful Dead performed its last show with original lead singer, founder and guitarist, Jerry Garcia. The concert took place at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois…
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Dave Matthews Band Announces Launch of SiriusXM Channel
The GRAMMY Award-winning Dave Matthews Band front man Dave Matthews appeared and performed on Monday’s episode of the Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM satellite radio. Stern revealed SiriusXM will soon launch the Dave Matthews Band Radio channel during Dave’s visit to his show.
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Paul McCartney brings James Corden to tears on “Carpool Karaoke”
After doing 44 Carpool Karaoke segments on CBS for “The Late Late Show,” host James Corden must have thought he was ready for anything and had seen it all. However, Corden, who is Brittish, no doubt was surprised in segment No. 45 when, Paul McCartney, the former Beatle, joined him in the Carpool Karaoke Range Rover, the two took a…
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Dead & Company Debuts “The Eleven” On Summer Tour’s 11th Night In NYC At Citi Field
One More Saturday Night! On Saturday night, Dead & Company returned to The New York’ Mets baseball stadium in Queens, Citi Field for their second night and the third year in a row. Grateful Dead members, rhythm guitarist/vocalist Bob Weir and drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, with bassist Oteil Burbridge, keyboardist Jeff Chimenti and lead guitarist/vocalist John Mayer treated fans gathered at the home of the Mets to another tour debut and much more in NYC.
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Finally! Details about Widespread Panic’s Panic En La Playa 8
Just today, one of the original and most beloved jam band elder statesman, Widespread Panic, officially announced the initial details for the 2019 version of Panic En La Playa, their annual winter beach festival. This is the 8th edition of Panic En La Playa will take place on January 25th through 29th, 2019, at the Hard Rock Hotel in Riviera Maya, Mexico.
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Dead & Company Delivers a Barn Burner in NYC & Honors Chris Charucki
On Friday night, Dead & Company brought their summer tour to Flushing Meadows, Queens to kick off a two-night stand at Citi Field (baseball stadium and home to the NY Mets Stadium). After exclusively playing amphitheaters through the first stellar nine dates of their tour, the six-piece ensemble played their first stadium show of the tour, returning to the home…
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Dead & Company Bust Out 5 More Tour Debuts in Hartford
Dead & Company‘s summer tour trucked on to Hartford, Connecticut, on Wednesday night. The six-piece performed at a mid-week, one night stop at the XFINITY Theatre ahead of the band’s huge upcoming two-night stand at the New York Mets stadium in Queens Citi Field this weekend. The venue has a capacity of 30,000 and it appeared that the amphitheater was packed to…
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Dead & Company Premiers 5 Tour Debuts Songs at SPAC
On Monday night, Dead & Company brought their summer tour to one of the east coasts beloved ampitheaters, the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, nesseled in the Saratoga Spa State Park in Saratoga Springs, NY. The band is eight shows into their immersive and robust Summer Tour. The band has managed to keep things fresh and…
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Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies 2018 details announced
For the eighth consecutive year, theaters across the country will take part in the Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies, with 500 theaters across the country participating through Fathom’s Digital Broadcast Network screening of a classic Dead performance Wednesday, Aug 1. This summer’s event will mark the fifth Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies to feature a concert from 1989.…
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Dead & Company Played their Best Show Ever in Camden
Since 2015, Dead and Company has united a trio of classic Grateful Dead members — Bob Weir, plus drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann — with the relatively young guns of Mayer, Burbridge and keyboard player Jeff Chimenti. I saw the Friday and Saturday show of Dead & Company in Camden, NJ at BB&T Pavillion. To me, Friday (and the first set…
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John Mayer pens Heartfelt Note about Dead & Company Tour Opener Tonight
Dead & Company, the offshoot of the Grateful Dead featuring original members Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart and amazing new additions John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, and Jeff Chimenti, is starting their summer tour tonight. Deadheads everywhere are rejoicing like today is Christmas! Any time we have been able to have a summer tour with the band we love at all, especially…
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Watch Full Video of The Disco Biscuits Colorado Run Including Red Rocks
The Disco Biscuits played its annual four-night run dubbed “Bisco Inferno” in Colorado this past long weekend, kicking off three nights at Denver’s Ogden Theatre and rounding out with a soldout show at the famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO. As they have been doing as of late, the band offered a free stream…
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Attn Wooks: Widespread Panic Vegas & Phish Halloween Vegas are Back to Back
Phish will hit the road in October for a 14-date Fall Tour beginning October 16 with two nights in Albany, NY and concluding with a four-night Halloween Run (beginning October 31) at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. In an awesome twist of fate, if you check out the Las Vegas calendar any wook can plainly see…
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Jim James Announces Intimate “Uniform Distortion” shows in NYC & LA
My Morning Jacket front man Jim James is releasing his new solo album Uniform Distortion on June 29 via ATO (pre-order). This morning, Jim James has announced he will be performing two intimate concerts at venues in Brooklyn, New York and Los Angeles, California. Jim James (or Yim Yames) is the My Morning Jacket front man who will perform his new solo album, Uniform Distortion, with…
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Grateful Dead Teams With Kollectico To Launch Bobblehead Line
Steal Your Face: You now can order a custom Grateful Dead bobblehead doll featuring your own likeness! The Grateful Dead and Rhino Entertainment have partnered with the Kollectico toy company to create a limited-edition line of themed bobbleheads dolls, inspired by the iconography of the Grateful Dead, including figures depicting variations of the group’s famous Dancing Bears. In addition, fans will also be…
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This Is Your Bike Lane On Drugs
Unless you’re stuck in a time machine, the consensus has it that most rational residents of New York City can clearly see the upside of the new bike lanes that the city has commandeered from our roads (or uber parking lanes) since 2011. Every statistic in the world admits that they make the city safer for cyclists and…