photo via Brooklyn Vegan Celebrating his fantastic new album My Finest Work Yet, Andrew Bird took to the intimate National Sawdust last night for the first of two Brooklyn shows. The performance was a 90-minute masterclass of Bird’s witty folk stylings, complete with whistles, loops, instrument changes, and a really great backing band. After a swift rendition of Chet Baker’s …
Suwannee Rising Music Festival: Lettuce, moe., Oteil & Friends, more at the Inaugural Suwannee Festival
A new Suwannee festival is here: Suwannee Rising! While Wanee & Spring Fest are no longer on the grounds, it’s nice to see a brand new festival carry on the tradition of funk / jam bands blessing the sacred Suwannee music grounds. Lettuce, moe., and Oteil & Friends will headline the inaugural event, with Dumpstaphunk, The New Mastersounds, Ghost-Note, and …
Dopapod Announces Return Show at The Capitol Theatre
After taking 2018 off – with the exception of a mini-reunion at Brooklyn Comes Alive – Dopapod has announced their return to the stage with an April 27th performance at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY. “We’re all incredibly excited to bring the band back together to usher in the next chapter of Dopapod,” keyboardist Eli Winderman shares. “We’ve …
Lotus releases brand new 19-track album ‘Frames Per Second’, announces 2019 tour dates!
Lotus has surprise-released a brand new album called Frames Per Second, a 19-song follow up to 2016’s Eat the Light. The 90-minute album is now available to stream on Spotify, so what are you waiting for!? (Stream also embedded at the bottom here!) While I haven’t heard the entire thing yet, the first handful of tracks would indicate that this is a …
Dead & Company Announce 2019 Summer Tour
Dead & Company have announced their 2019 Summer Tour dates. The group – which features founding Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart joined by John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti – played their best tour yet in Summer 2018, and the 19-dates penned for next summer are sure to be a series of incredible evenings …
Ghost Light Announces Phish After-Show on 12/30
Ghost Light – the growing project featuring Holly Bowling, Tom Hamilton, Steve Lyons, Raina Mullen and Scotty Zwang – has just announced a late-night, post-Phish show on 12/30. Taking place at the newly-opened Sony Hall in Times Square, the nearby after-show will go super late for anyone who is celebrating the New Year a day early. The 1000-person venue looks …
Bob Weir & Wolf Bros end fall tour in spectacular fashion at NYC’s Beacon Theatre
Bob Weir & Wolf Bros ended their 19-date fall tour in great form at the Beacon Theatre in New York City with a pair of unique shows that showcased the Grateful Dead catalogue and beyond. With a Sunday night show bearing no special guests, Bobby showcased his ability to lead the trio through two compelling sets, while on Monday’s tour finale …
The Infamous Stringdusters heat up NYC with Thursday snow show
The Infamous Stringdusters timed their late-fall trip into New York City with the first snow of the season. Throughout Thursday afternoon it snowed considerably, but the show must go on! Although some Stringdusters fans no doubt got stuck in New Jersey and Long Island, the Gramercy Theatre was packed with music fans eager to warm up with some progressive bluegrass …
Jim James shines at New York City’s Town Hall show
Photos courtesy of Dan Salimbene | www.northfieldproductions.com Jim James continued his solo acoustic tour last night at New York City’s Town Hall. Despite its location in the heart of midtown, on a side street of the bustling Times Square, the 97-year-old venue fell totally silent when Jim James hit the stage and kicked things off with 2008’s “I’m Amazed”. The …
Bob Weir & Wolf Bros dazzle at The Capitol Theatre before last week of tour
Photo by Marc Millman Bob Weir & Wolf Bros is the latest touring band from the Grateful Dead singer-songwriter. Joined by Jay Lane (drums; Ratdog, Primus) & Don Was (bass; all-star record producer), the band has been breaking new ground in the Grateful Dead songbook and beyond with the stripped-down instrumentation of guitar-bass-drums and often inviting special guests to the …
The Adventure Awaits at Seventy-Seven
Hamilton Ontario, home of the Hamilton Ticats football team and also known as the “Waterfall Capital of the World”. Considered a small city because of its low 500,000 population. It is also home to one of the best dance clubs in the GTA, packing a crazy production and some of the most fire electronic events Hamilton has ever come to …
Freakout Halloween 2018
(Toronto) – Pouring rain and eventually snow wasn’t enough to stop hundreds of partygoers from dressing up in their spookiest, funniest, most outrageous costumes and huddling together in tents gathering whatever body heat they could to enjoy some premium bass music courtesy of a top-notch lineup including the bass music duo Dirtyphonics, techno and house music icon Deko-ze, Rusko (who also …
Suwannee Hulaween makes its sold-out sixth year the best one yet!
It just keeps getting better! In its sixth year, Suwannee Hulaween continued to grow upon the momentum of previous installments, constantly curating the best of what music festival culture has to offer. Spirit Lake takes exponential leaps each year to create a completely alien world of art installations and experiential areas, while the musical programming rivals just about any other …
Umphrey’s McGee deliver a Sunday night heater at The Capitol Theatre, announce 3 nights at Brooklyn Steel
Photos by Scott Harris It seems as if Chicago band Umphrey’s McGee just can’t be stopped right now. The sextet released not one, but two pretty awesome albums this year, and they continue to shred the theater circuit on a nightly basis, packing rooms to the brim to showcase their incredible genre scope all packaged up the nicest, neatest box imaginable. …
Tedeschi Trucks Band continues to blow the Beacon Theatre away nightly
Photo credit: Stuart Levine Photography Tedeschi Trucks Band delivered their penultimate Beacon Theatre residency show last night, with an astonishing display of rock ‘n’ soul, jazz, blues, and beyond. The massive band has fully settled into their role as Beacon-residency torch-bearers following the end of the Allman Brothers Band, and judging by the amount of Allman shirts in the audience …